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Mobile Tyre Fitting in Wem
Wem, Aston Street and the three B roads — 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.
Wem is a small market town on the north Shropshire plain, nine miles north of Shrewsbury and nine south of Whitchurch. Three B roads meet in it — the B5476, the B5063 and the B5065 — and the A49 runs about two miles east of the town, so traffic that wants the trunk road leaves Wem to find it rather than passing through.
The Crewe and Shrewsbury railway was finished in 1858 and runs along the eastern side of the town. The road over it is the single fact that shapes journeys here, and it is where most of what we are told on the phone needs to start.
Roads and places we get called to around Wem
- The B5476 — Whitchurch Road north out of the town, Mill Street through it.
- The B5063 south-east towards Shawbury and the B5065 west towards Loppington.
- Aston Street, Aston Road and the barriers between the two.
- The High Street and Noble Street.
- Wem station and the ground beside it.
- The lanes out to Prees, Edstaston and Soulton.
The barriers where Aston Street becomes Aston Road
The crossing sits at the north end of the station platform, and it has been worked from the control centre in Cardiff since 2013 rather than from the box that used to stand beside it. That box was pulled down in 2015.
Two things follow from being operated remotely. The barriers are down for longer on each train than a signaller standing at the window would have needed, and the tailback on a two-hourly service builds far enough back to reach the middle of the town. In March 2015 they did the opposite and stayed up while the lights flashed for an approaching train, which is worth remembering: the lights are the instruction, not the barrier arm.
The station footbridge has also gone, so this crossing is the only way over the line at that point for pedestrians as well as for vehicles. A car stopped near it is not simply inconvenient — it is standing in the only route there is.
What the fire of 1677 left behind
On 3 March 1677 a servant named Jane Churm set a candle into the thatch of a house here, and the town burned. The church, the steeple, the market house and seven score dwelling houses went, and the bells were left so badly melted that they had to be recast.
Wem was rebuilt in brick and rebuilt on exactly the same plot lines. That is why the fronts along the High Street stand straight onto the footway with nothing behind them and no set-back in front, and why the working room in the centre is a question of what else is kerbside at the time rather than of which street you name. Ring and tell us the hour as well as the address and we will give you a straight answer about width.
The show weekend in July
Henry Eckford moved here in 1888 and bred the sweet peas that turned a modest annual into a show flower. The Eckford Sweet Pea Society still runs its show over a weekend in July, at and around the town hall, with a whole division of classes kept for the old pre-1910 varieties.
It draws people from a long way off for those two days and the parking pushes well out of the centre into the residential streets. If that is when you are ringing, we need the street — the town hall is the one address that narrows nothing down that weekend.
We also cover Whitchurch up the B5476, Shawbury down the B5063 and Ellesmere away to the west.
What we can do in Wem
- 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 Wem 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 Wem
Level crossings. A vehicle stopped on a crossing is an emergency, not a breakdown. Get everybody out and well clear on the far side from the barriers, then use the railway telephone at the crossing, or ring 999 and ask for the railway, before you ring anybody else. Only the signaller can stop a train, and that has to happen before anything else does.
Common questions in Wem
- Why are the barriers down so long?
- They are operated from a control centre in Cardiff rather than from the box that used to sit beside them, and remote working is less precise than a signaller with the crossing in front of him. Say which side of the line you are on.
- Is there another way over the railway at the station?
- No. The footbridge was taken away, so Aston Street is the only crossing there. That is why a vehicle stuck on it stops everything rather than just delaying it.
- Have the barriers ever failed here?
- Yes — in March 2015 they stayed up with the lights flashing for a train that was on its way. Treat the lights and the alarm as the instruction and never the barrier position.
- Is there room beside a parked car in the middle of Wem?
- Often, though it comes down to the width where you happen to be rather than to the street name. The brick fronts here were rebuilt on seventeenth-century plots and come right out to the footway, so there is no recess to borrow.
- Do you cover Prees, Loppington and Edstaston?
- Yes, across SY4 and out along the lanes towards Soulton and Aston.
Not in Wem?
We cover the rest of Shropshire and beyond. If you are closer to one of these, the same service and the same number applies:
- Mobile tyre fitting in Albrighton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bayston Hill
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bishops Castle
- Mobile tyre fitting in Bridgnorth
- Mobile tyre fitting in Broseley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Church Stretton
- Mobile tyre fitting in Cleobury Mortimer
- Mobile tyre fitting in Craven Arms
- Mobile tyre fitting in Dawley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ellesmere
- Mobile tyre fitting in Highley
- Mobile tyre fitting in Ludlow
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.
