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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Walsgrave
Walsgrave, the hospital and junction 2 — 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.
Walsgrave on Sowe was a village on the river long before the city reached it, and the old core round the church is still recognisable. Everything else about driving here is governed by two things built since: University Hospital on Clifford Bridge Road, and M6 junction 2, where the M69 ends.
Between them sits the A4600 Ansty Road, the dual carriageway that runs from the motorway into Coventry, and the roundabout where the A46 crosses it — currently being rebuilt, with overnight closures and temporary accesses while the work lasts.
Roads we get called to around Walsgrave
- Clifford Bridge Road and the hospital site.
- Ansty Road (A4600) between the city and the motorway.
- M6 junction 2 and the M69.
- The A46 at the Walsgrave roundabout.
- Woodway Lane, Hinckley Road and the old village.
The hospital is a town of its own
This is one of the biggest hospitals in the country and it works like a small district rather than a building. It has an internal road system with its own junctions and one-way sections, several public car parks on different loops, separate drop-off points at the main and the women and children's entrances, and a maternity and emergency traffic pattern that runs all night.
The car parks read number plates on the way in rather than issuing a ticket at a barrier, which matters more than it sounds: there is no ticket to produce and no barrier to hold, so the car simply has to be gone within whatever it is charged for. A flat tyre at the end of a twelve-hour shift is therefore a clock problem as well as a tyre problem, and the answer is to ring while you are walking out rather than after you have tried the pump.
To find you we need the car park and the entrance it serves, and the level or row if it has them. Staff parking, visitor parking and the drop-offs are on different parts of the site and the signage inside uses building names rather than road names.
Junction 2 and the A4600
Junction 2 is where the M69 from Leicester ends and traffic transfers onto the M6 and into the city, which puts a lot of vehicles onto a short length of road with drivers who do not know it. The A4600 into Coventry is dual carriageway with limited places to pull clear.
On the motorway itself, what places you is which junction you have just gone past and which way you were heading. With two motorways meeting each other here, everything else is ambiguous.
The old village
The lanes round the church are narrow and on a slope down to the Sowe, with the newer estates of Walsgrave and Potters Green spread out either side. Most of those have driveways and are straightforward.
We also cover Binley south of the A46 and Longford across to the north-west.
What we can do in Walsgrave
- 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 Walsgrave 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.
Common questions in Walsgrave
- My car is in a hospital car park with a flat.
- Ring as you walk out rather than later. The car parks read your plate on the way in, so the charge keeps running whether the car can move or not.
- Which car park should I tell you?
- The one by name or number, plus the entrance it serves and the row. The site is large, signed by building rather than by road, and staff and visitor parking are in different places.
- Can you come at three in the morning after a night shift?
- Yes. The hospital runs all night and so do we, and an empty car park at that hour is the easiest kind of job.
- The A46 roundabout is dug up and the layout keeps changing.
- It is being rebuilt, so take the temporary signs rather than the satnav. If you have stopped near it, tell us the road you came off, not the junction.
- Do you cover Potters Green, Wyken and Ansty?
- Yes, across CV2 and CV7.
Not in Walsgrave?
We cover the rest of West Midlands and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Acocks Green
- Mobile tyre fitting in Aldridge
- Mobile tyre fitting in Allesley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Alum Rock
- Mobile tyre fitting in Amblecote
- Mobile tyre fitting in Aston
- Mobile tyre fitting in Balsall Common
- Mobile tyre fitting in Balsall Heath
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bartley Green
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bearwood
- Mobile tyre fitting in Billesley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bilston
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.
