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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Wadebridge
Wadebridge, the Camel and the A39 — 24 hours a day.
Maximum 60 minute response. We have drivers across England and Wales, so a call gets a fitter to the vehicle rather than you moving a car that is not safe to move. Call 07989 606060 with your tyre size and location.
Wadebridge stands where the A39 meets the River Camel, at the point the estuary stops being tidal water and starts being a river. The long bridge in the middle of the town was built in the fifteenth century, has been widened three times since — last in 1963 — and still carries the only crossing in the town itself.
Through traffic left in 1991, when the Wadebridge and Egloshayle bypasses opened and Molesworth Street was given over to pedestrians. That leaves a quiet middle with a fast road wrapped round the outside of it, and a job in one is nothing like a job in the other.
Roads we get called to around Wadebridge
- The A39 on the bypass, north-east towards Camelford and south-west towards St Columb.
- The A389 down to Padstow one way and across to Bodmin the other.
- The B3314 over the river towards St Minver, Rock and Polzeath.
- The showground entrances at Whitecross and the parking fields behind them.
- Eddystone Road and the car parks on the old station site.
- The Camel Trail itself, which is not a road and which we do not drive on.
Show week at Whitecross
The Royal Cornwall Showground sits on the south side of the A39 between St Breock and Whitecross. For three days in early June the show puts something in the order of a hundred and twenty thousand people through it, nearly all of them by car, and nearly all of those cars go onto grass.
That is our busiest week out here, and the tyre is rarely the difficult part. The difficult part is finding one particular vehicle among several thousand in a field, and reaching it while the field is still full. Give us the entrance you came in at, the row the marshals put you in if you noted it, and the colour of the car.
The trail car parks
The Camel Trail runs on the bed of the old Bodmin and Wadebridge railway, out to Padstow in one direction and up the valley towards Bodmin in the other, and no vehicles use any of it. Wadebridge is where most people start, so the car parks nearest the trail head fill first and stay full until dusk through the school holidays.
Cars there stand for five or six hours with bike racks hanging off the back. A rack does not stop us, but it decides where the van has to sit, and on a full row that can be the difference between working alongside the car and asking for it to be backed out first. Mention the rack on the phone.
The bridge and the bypass
Local traffic still funnels over the old bridge, because in the town there is nothing else. When something halts on it — a delivery, a breakdown, temporary lights — the only alternative is the bypass, which adds a couple of miles and puts you out at the roundabouts on either side. Which bank of the Camel you are on therefore matters more here than the distance does.
Beyond Wadebridge we work in Padstow at the end of the A389, Bodmin up the valley, and Newquay down the A39.
What we can do in Wadebridge
- Mobile tyre fitting — supply and fit a replacement at your home, workplace or the roadside, including balancing and disposal of the old casing.
- Mobile puncture repair — where the damage is inside the repairable area of the tread, a repair is cheaper and quicker than replacement.
- Commercial tyre fitting — vans, minibuses and other light commercial vehicles.
Stuck in Wadebridge right now? Call 07989 606060 and we will tell you what we can do and what it will cost before we set off.
Before we arrive
- Find your locking wheel nut key. Without it the wheel cannot come off. It is usually in the glovebox, the boot well, or with the spare.
- Read your tyre size off the sidewall, for example 205/55 R16 91V, so we arrive with the right tyre rather than making a second trip.
- If you are on a motorway or dual carriageway, get as far left as you can or into a refuge, then everyone out through the passenger doors, over the barrier and well back from the carriageway — not in the car. Ring with the junction number and your direction of travel.
- Describe where you are, not just your postcode. A junction number, a bay number, a farm, a pub or a bridge puts us on the spot far faster — rural postcodes can cover a mile of near-identical lane. We bring our own lighting, so darkness is not a problem.
More detail in our guides on what to do with a flat tyre on the motorway and checking your tread depth.
Repair or replace
Whether a tyre can be repaired is decided by where the damage is, not by how big the hole looks. Damage inside the central three-quarters of the tread, up to 6mm across, is repairable under BS AU 159. Damage in the shoulder or the sidewall is not, at any size — there is no way to reinforce a sidewall that flexes on every revolution.
The other thing that rules out a repair is having driven on the tyre flat. A short distance is enough: the sidewall folds under the rim and the internal cords break. That often does not deflate the tyre at the time — it shows up days later as a soft rounded bulge, and a tyre in that condition has to be replaced whatever the original puncture looked like.
How the damage was made matters as much as where it is. A nail or a screw pierces, leaving a neat hole that is usually well within the limit. Flint, crushed stone, quarry aggregate and dropped stainless fixings cut instead — a gouge or a tear rather than a puncture — and a cut frequently exceeds the repairable size even when it lands squarely in the middle of the tread. That is why we take the tyre off and look inside before telling you either way, rather than judging it from the outside.
Impact damage behaves the same way. A pothole or a kerb taken at speed compresses the suspension fully and pinches the sidewall between the rim and the obstacle. If that has happened, check both tyres on that side — the rear takes the same hit a fraction of a second after the front — and look for a bulge rather than for a hole.
We carry both outcomes to every job, so a repair that turns out not to be safe does not become a second visit.
Age and wear
Tread depth is not the only thing that retires a tyre. Rubber hardens as it ages whatever the mileage, which is why a caravan, motorhome, trailer or second car can carry almost full tread on a casing that is well past useful life. The four-digit date code on the sidewall gives the week and year it was made — our guide on how long tyres last covers where the line falls.
Depth matters most in standing water. The legal minimum is 1.6mm across the central three-quarters, but a tyre's ability to clear water falls off well above that — by about 3mm you are losing it noticeably, and aquaplaning starts at lower speeds than most drivers expect. Our tread depth guide covers checking it with a 20p coin in about a minute.
Wear patterns are worth reading too. Both outer shoulders going before the middle usually means underinflation, or a lot of cornering and hill descent; one edge alone is more often alignment. We will tell you which it looks like when we are there — see uneven tyre wear for the full picture.
Vans and light commercials
A van needs a tyre carrying the C marking and the correct load index. That is not interchangeable with a passenger tyre of the same nominal size, whatever may have been fitted before — the casing is built to carry more, and a loaded van on passenger-rated tyres is running outside the rating.
Tell us whether the van is loaded when you ring, and we will bring the right fitment first time. Details of what we carry are on the commercial tyres page.
How the repair is done
The wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim, and the inside of the casing is inspected before anything else happens. The puncture is then repaired from within using a combined plug and patch, and the wheel is balanced before it goes back on.
That inspection is the part that matters. An external plug pushed into the tread without removing the tyre is a get-you-home measure: it can seal the hole while leaving damage inside the casing entirely undetected, and that damage is what causes tyres to fail later at speed. It is the same job a garage does, done where the vehicle already is.
A slow leak with no puncture to find
A tyre that loses air over days with nothing in the tread has usually failed at the seal rather than the surface — a corroded alloy bead seat, or a perished valve stem. Neither can be found with the tyre still on the rim, and neither is fixed by topping the pressure up.
It typically announces itself on the first cold morning of the year. Cold air contracts, dropping the pressure a few PSI, and a leak that was tolerable through mild weather is a visibly flat tyre by the time you come out to the car. The fix is the tyre off the rim, the sealing face cleaned back to sound metal, and a new valve.
Working conditions around Wadebridge
Soft ground. A jack lifts by pushing down, so it needs something solid to push against. On turf, verge, gravel or a farm track the foot sinks instead of lifting, and on wet ground it can slide sideways as the weight comes on — which is how a car ends up off a jack. We carry base plates that spread the load, but they have to be on the van before we set off, so mention the surface when you ring and say whether it is wet.
After heavy rain the honest answer is sometimes that the ground will not take a jack at all and the vehicle needs to come onto hard standing first. If the tyre is completely flat that is not possible, which changes the plan again — far better established on the phone than discovered in a field.
Common questions in Wadebridge
- I am parked in a field at the show and I cannot describe where.
- Entrance first, then the row if the marshals gave you one, then the make and colour. We work the fields from the gate inwards and that is enough to find you.
- My car is in the trail car park with bikes on the back.
- Not a problem, but say so. It changes the side the van parks on and whether we need the space in front of you rather than beside you.
- Should I say which side of the bridge I am on?
- Yes, always. Egloshayle side or town side. If the bridge is blocked the two are several minutes apart by the bypass rather than fifty yards apart on foot.
- Do you cover Rock, St Minver and Polzeath?
- Yes, over the B3314 and out to the coast, along with St Breock, Egloshayle and the villages either side of the A39.
- Can you come out to a car parked on the showground when there is no event on?
- Yes. Outside show week the site is quiet and access is straightforward — tell us which entrance is open.
Not in Wadebridge?
We cover the rest of Cornwall and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bodmin
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bude
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bugle
- Mobile tyre fitting in Callington
- Mobile tyre fitting in Camborne
- Mobile tyre fitting in Camelford
- Mobile tyre fitting in Chacewater
- Mobile tyre fitting in Delabole
- Mobile tyre fitting in Devoran
- Mobile tyre fitting in Falmouth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Fowey
- Mobile tyre fitting in Grampound
Why use a mobile fitter?
You do not have to move a vehicle that is not safe to move. No limping to a garage on a space-saver, no waiting room, and no second trip to collect the car.
We bring the same equipment a garage would use, wheel balancing included, to wherever the vehicle already is.
Tyre brands we supply
We stock across three tiers so you can balance cost against tread life and wet-weather performance. If you tell us your budget, we will say honestly which tier makes sense for the mileage you do.
Budget and mid-range
- Farroad
- Hifly
- Churchill
- RoadX
- Infinity
Premium
- Michelin
- Pirelli
- Bridgestone
- Goodyear
- Continental
Need a brand that is not listed? Call us and we will check availability for your size, or see how mobile tyre fitting works.
