205: width
The width of the tyre in millimetres.
24/7 mobile tyre fitting · Greater London
Mobile Tyre Fitting London: We Come to Your Car or Van
We fit tyres at home, at work or at the roadside across all 32 London boroughs and the City of London, with the price agreed on the phone before we set off.
- Price agreed before we set off
- We come to you
- Phone lines open 24 hours
£140Mobile tyre change from
33London boroughs, including the City
24/7Every day of the year
Send your tyre details on WhatsApp
Answer these 5 quick questions and we will have everything we need the moment you message us, no back and forth. On a motorway, follow the Highway Code rule 277 steps further down this page first, and call 999 if you cannot reach a place of relative safety and cannot get out safely. Use this form once you are safe.
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CityGrip Recovery provides mobile tyre fitting across Greater London. We fit the tyre where your car or van is: at home, at work, in a car park or at the roadside. Call 07960 200253 or message us on WhatsApp with your location and tyre size. Fitting on an ordinary road is from £140, and the price is agreed on the phone before we set off.
This page is the London-wide overview of our mobile tyre fitting service. For your part of the city, see mobile tyre fitting East London, North London, South London or West London, or the pages for Hackney E8, Canary Wharf E14, Walthamstow E17 and Westminster SW1A. Outside Greater London, see mobile tyre fitting Essex or mobile tyre fitting UK.
What a mobile tyre fitting visit covers
What you can ask for when you book a mobile tyre fitter in London.
A replacement tyre, fitted where the vehicle is
Home, work, a car park or the roadside. You do not need to drive on a damaged tyre or take the car to a garage. Give us your tyre size or registration so the right tyre comes with us.
Puncture assessment against BS AU 159
We assess a puncture against BS AU 159, the British Standard for tyre repairs. If the damage is outside the limits, we tell you the tyre needs replacing and agree the price of a replacement on the phone before we set off. The limits are explained under When a puncture can be repaired and when it needs a new tyre below.
Lost locking wheel nut key
Say so on the call. We try a master key set first, which removes the nut undamaged. If that does not work, an extractor socket removes it, and the nut then needs replacing.
Run-flat, reinforced and TPMS-fitted cars
Run-flat and reinforced tyres are priced on the call. If your tyre pressure warning light is on, tell us when you call. On a car first used on or after 1 January 2012, a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) that is malfunctioning or obviously not working is a Major MOT defect.
More than one tyre
Additional tyres fitted in the same visit are priced on the call, so mention it if another tyre is worn or damaged.
How mobile tyre fitting works, in four steps
1. Call or send the WhatsApp details
Call 07960 200253, or send the five WhatsApp answers: your location, whether you are on a motorway, your tyre size, whether you have the locking wheel nut key, and when you need us.
2. Agree the price on the phone
The price depends on tyre size, brand and specification, and how many tyres you need. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off.
3. We fit the tyre where the vehicle is
At home, at work, in a car park or at the roadside. Wheel nuts and bolts go back to the vehicle manufacturer’s torque figure with a calibrated torque wrench.
4. If a roadside fit is not safe, we say so
If working beside live traffic is not safe, or the right tyre cannot be sourced, we tell you on the phone and arrange car recovery in London instead.
While you wait: staying safe at the roadside
The advice is different on an ordinary road and on a motorway.
On an ordinary road
Highway Code rules 275 and 276 say to keep well away from the vehicle and moving traffic, to get the vehicle off the road if you can, to use your hazard lights if it is causing an obstruction, and never to stand, or let anybody else stand, between the vehicle and oncoming traffic. Once you are safe, call 07960 200253 and tell us where you are and which road you are on. These are ordinary-road steps: on a motorway, follow the Highway Code rule 277 steps below.
On a motorway
Highway Code rule 277 says to leave the motorway at the next exit or pull into a service area if you can. If you cannot, move into the left lane (into an emergency area if you can reach one), stop as far to the left as possible and switch your hazard lights on. If it is safe and possible, leave by the side furthest from traffic and wait well away from the vehicle, behind the safety barrier where there is one. Only if you cannot get your vehicle to the left lane or a place of relative safety, and cannot get out safely and well away from the vehicle and moving traffic, stay in the vehicle with your seat belt and hazard lights on and call 999 immediately and ask for the police (or press your SOS button if your vehicle has one and ask for the police). Do not try repairs, do not place a warning triangle on the carriageway and do not go back to the vehicle once you have left it. Once you are safe, call us on 07960 200253. Some motorways have no hard shoulder because every lane is a running lane (all lane running). The M25 between Junctions 23 and 27 is one example.
Mobile tyre fitting by area and road
These pages cover individual regions, roads and postcodes in London. If yours is not named, we still cover it: call 07960 200253 with your postcode.
London regions, main roads and Ilford postcodes
North LondonSouth LondonEast LondonWest LondonA406 Mobile Tyre FittingA13 Mobile Tyre FittingA12 Mobile Tyre FittingIlford IG1 Mobile TyreGants Hill IG2 Mobile TyreSeven Kings IG3 Mobile Tyre
East London postcodes
Spitalfields E1Whitechapel E1Bethnal Green E2Bow E3Chingford E4Clapton E5East Ham E6Forest Gate E7Hackney E8Leyton E10Leytonstone & WansteadManor Park E12Plaistow & West Ham E13Canary Wharf E14Stratford E15 & E20Canning Town E16Walthamstow E17South Woodford E18
Central London postcodes
Aldgate EC3NBarbican EC2YBelgravia SW1WBishopsgate EC2MBloomsbury WC1Carnaby Street W1FChancery Lane WC2ACharing Cross WC2NClerkenwell EC1Covent Garden WC2EFarringdon EC1MFenchurch Street EC3MFitzrovia W1TFleet Street EC4Bloomsbury WC1EHigh Holborn WC1VKnightsbridge SW1XLeicester Square WC2HLiverpool Street EC2MMarylebone W1UMayfair W1KMonument EC3RMoorgate EC2Piccadilly W1JPimlico SW1VShoreditch EC2ASmithfield EC1ASoho W1DSt James’s SW1YStrand WC2RBloomsbury WC1HTemple EC4YTower Hill EC3NVictoria SW1EWestminster SW1A
Mobile tyre fitting prices in London
Mobile tyre fitting on an ordinary road is from £140. The price depends on your tyre size, the tyre brand and specification (run-flat and reinforced tyres can cost more than standard ones) and how many tyres you need. On a motorway or hard shoulder it is £250 to £750, because the work is done alongside live traffic and takes more time, more equipment and more care. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off, so give us your registration and tyre size when you call.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Mobile tyre fitting, ordinary road | from £140 |
| Motorway or hard shoulder | £250 to £750 |
| Run-flat or reinforced tyre, or additional tyres in the same visit | priced on the call |
When a puncture can be repaired and when it needs a new tyre
Not every flat tyre can be repaired. We assess the damage against BS AU 159, the British Standard for repairs to tyres for motor vehicles used on the public highway, and we assess tread against Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. If the tyre falls outside those limits we tell you it needs replacing rather than patch it and hand it back.
The repairable area is measured, not guessed
BS AU 159 sets a repairable band across the tread as a percentage of the tyre’s nominal section width: 60% up to and including 155mm, 65% over 155mm up to 200mm, and 70% over 200mm. On a 205 section tyre that is a 144mm band; on a 225 it is 158mm. Damage outside that band is not repairable.
Maximum injury size, and why the tyre comes off the wheel
Measured at the base of the injury after preparation, the maximum diameter of penetration damage is 6mm. The standard requires the tyre to be removed from the wheel and inspected both internally and externally before any repair. A plug applied from outside to a tyre that is still on the wheel is not a repair the standard recognises.
What the standard does not accept
Liquid sealants, externally applied plugs, an inner tube fitted into a tubeless tyre and temporary repairs all sit outside BS AU 159. Sidewall damage beyond cosmetic scuffing is not approved for repair at all. There is no limit on the number of minor repairs inside the repairable band provided the patches do not overlap, and a tyre repaired correctly keeps its original speed and load capabilities.
Tread depth and the law
Regulation 27 requires at least 1.6mm of tread depth throughout a continuous band covering the central three quarters of the breadth of tread, right round the tyre. A cut over 25mm, or 10% of the section width if that is greater, deep enough to reach the ply or cord makes the tyre illegal, as does any lump, bulge or tear caused by separation, or any exposed cord. In the MOT, tread below the requirement is recorded as a Dangerous defect.
Run-flat tyres
Run-flat tyres are designed to keep working after a loss of pressure, so the car needs a working tyre pressure monitoring system to warn you. Once a run-flat has been driven on while flat it is replaced, not repaired: damage from running deflated is one of the conditions that rules out a repair under BS AU 159.
When we will not repair, and when we recover the vehicle instead
- Any position on a live carriageway where working alongside traffic is not safe. We recover the vehicle to somewhere safe and fit it there instead.
- Damage outside the repairable band, or a penetration larger than 6mm measured at the base after preparation.
- Sidewall damage beyond cosmetic scuffing, and any tyre with exposed cords, a lump, bulge or tear from separation, or belt separation.
- Any tyre that has been driven on while flat, run-flats included, because deflation damage rules out a repair.
- Tread already below 1.6mm across the legal band, a broken bead core, liner deterioration, solvent contamination, or an earlier repair that falls outside the standard.
If a tyre cannot be repaired and we do not carry the right size for your vehicle, we say so on the phone before setting off rather than after arriving. Where a roadside fit is not safe, we recover the vehicle to somewhere safe instead. See our roadside assistance service.
Regulation 27, tyre condition
MOT manual, section 5
BTMA repair guidance
BS AU 159G:2013
TyreSafe tread depth
Questions before you book: 07960 200253. The standards quoted on this page come from the sources listed above.
Finding your tyre size
The size is printed on the sidewall, for example 205/55 R16 91V. Here is what each part means.
55: aspect ratio
The height of the sidewall as a percentage of the width.
R16: wheel size
The rim diameter in inches. R means radial construction.
91: load index
The maximum weight the tyre can carry when correctly inflated. A load index of 91 is 615kg.
V: speed rating
The maximum speed the tyre is certified for. V is 149mph (240km/h).
If the size is worn off, check your vehicle handbook or the sticker inside the driver’s door frame or fuel cap cover, or give us your registration when you call.
Red routes and main roads in London
TfL says red routes make up 5% of London’s roads but carry up to 30% of its traffic. Signs and road markings tell you what you can and cannot do on them, and a penalty charge notice is £160, reduced to £80 if paid within 14 days. If you have stopped on a red route, tell us when you call, so we can say whether we can fit the tyre where the vehicle is.
The main roads in and out of London each have their own page:
What to tell us when you call
Having these to hand keeps the call short and helps us agree the price on the phone.
- Where you are: a road name, the nearest junction or a landmark. If you are on a motorway or the North Circular, say which direction you are travelling and the nearest junction or marker post.
- The vehicle: make, model and registration, and whether it is petrol, diesel, hybrid or electric.
- The tyre: the size printed on the sidewall (for example 205/55 R16 91V) or just your registration, whether it is flat, worn or damaged, and whether it is a run-flat.
- Your locking wheel nut key: whether you have it with you. If you have lost it, say so on the call.
- Your safety: on a motorway, follow the Highway Code rule 277 steps and call 999 immediately and ask for the police if you cannot reach a place of relative safety and cannot get out safely, then call us once you are safe. On an ordinary road, follow Highway Code rules 275 and 276: get the vehicle off the road if you can, keep well away from it and from moving traffic, and call us from there.
- If it is in a car park: the car park name, the level and the bay.
Need a tyre fitted at the roadside?
The price is agreed on the phone before we set off.
Mobile tyre fitting London FAQs
Do you do mobile tyre fitting anywhere in London?
Yes. We cover the whole of Greater London: all 32 boroughs plus the City of London, 33 local authorities in total. We fit tyres at your home, workplace, a car park or the roadside. Call 07960 200253 with your location, registration and tyre size to book.
How much does mobile tyre fitting cost in London?
Mobile tyre fitting on an ordinary road is from £140. On a motorway or hard shoulder it is £250 to £750. The final price depends on tyre size, brand and specification, and how many tyres you need; run-flat, reinforced and additional tyres are priced on the call. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off.
Can I drive on a flat tyre to get somewhere safer?
Only as far as you need to reach a safe place. On an ordinary road, Highway Code rules 275 and 276 say to get the vehicle off the road if you can and to keep well away from the vehicle and moving traffic. Driving on a deflated tyre can damage it beyond repair, and that damage rules out a repair under BS AU 159. Run-flat tyres are the exception: they are designed to keep working for a limited distance and at a limited speed after a loss of pressure, and the car needs a working tyre pressure monitoring system to warn you, so check your vehicle handbook for the limits. On a motorway, follow the Highway Code rule 277 steps and call 999 if you cannot reach safety and cannot get out safely, then call us once you are safe.
What is the legal minimum tread depth, and what is the 20p test?
For cars, light vans and light trailers the legal minimum is 1.6mm across the central three quarters of the tread, all the way round the tyre. Driving on tyres below the minimum can bring a fine of up to £2,500 and three penalty points per tyre. For the 20p test, put a 20p coin in the main grooves: if you cannot see the coin’s outer band, the tyre is above the legal limit. TyreSafe says 3mm is the minimum depth commonly advised by tyre and safety experts.
Can you help if my car has no spare wheel?
Yes, we fit a replacement tyre where the car is. Give us your tyre size or registration when you call, and we confirm on the phone that we can supply it before we set off. RAC research published on 20 November 2023 reviewed 313 new car models from 28 brands and found that only 3% are sold with a spare wheel as standard.
Is it OK to stop on a TfL red route if I get a flat tyre?
It depends on the signs and road markings where you have stopped. They tell you what you can and cannot do on a TfL red route, and a penalty charge notice can follow if you do not follow them. If you have broken down, Highway Code rules 275 and 276 say to get the vehicle off the road if you can and to keep well away from it and from moving traffic. Then call us and say you are on a red route. If working beside the traffic is not safe, we recover the vehicle instead. On a motorway, follow the Highway Code rule 277 steps and call 999 if you cannot reach safety and cannot get out safely, then call us once you are safe.
Can a mobile tyre fitter repair a puncture?
Sometimes. Under BS AU 159 a repair is only allowed in the tread band, which is 60%, 65% or 70% of the section width depending on tyre size, with a maximum injury of 6mm measured at the base after preparation. The tyre has to be taken off the wheel and inspected inside and out. Liquid sealants, plugs applied from outside, inner tubes in tubeless tyres and temporary repairs are not accepted, and sidewall damage means a new tyre. If your tyre cannot be repaired, we tell you and agree the price of a replacement on the phone before we set off.
Do you fit tyres at night and at weekends?
Our lines are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Call 07960 200253 at any hour, tell us where you are, your tyre size and when you need us, and we will confirm whether we can reach you. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off. You can also send the five WhatsApp answers from the form at the top of this page.
Can you fit a tyre if I have lost my locking wheel nut key?
Yes. Tell us on the call that you do not have the key. We try a master key set first, which removes the nut undamaged. If the nut is rounded or the pattern is unknown, a reverse-threaded extractor socket grips and removes it, but the nut is destroyed in the process and needs replacing. If you do have the key, have it ready when we arrive.
Can you change a tyre on the M25 or a motorway hard shoulder?
Yes, where it can be done safely. Motorway fitting is priced at £250 to £750 because the work is done alongside live traffic. If you break down on a motorway, Highway Code rule 277 says to leave the motorway at the next exit or pull into a service area if you can. If you cannot, move into the left lane (into an emergency area if you can reach one), stop as far to the left as possible and switch your hazard lights on. If it is safe and possible, leave by the side furthest from traffic and wait well away from the vehicle, behind the safety barrier where there is one. Only if you cannot get your vehicle to the left lane or a place of relative safety, and cannot get out safely and well away from the vehicle and moving traffic, stay in the vehicle with your seat belt and hazard lights on and call 999 immediately and ask for the police (or press your SOS button if your vehicle has one and ask for the police). Do not try repairs, do not place a warning triangle on the carriageway and do not go back to the vehicle once you have left it. Once you are safe, call us on 07960 200253. Some motorways have no hard shoulder because every lane is a running lane (all lane running); the M25 between Junctions 23 and 27 is one example. Where working beside traffic is not safe, we recover the vehicle instead.
Is it safe to drive on a tyre with a bulge or a deep cut?
No. Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 says a tyre must not have any lump, bulge or tear caused by separation or partial failure of its structure, or any ply or cord exposed. It also bars a cut of more than 25mm, or 10% of the section width if that is greater, that is deep enough to reach the ply or cord. Separation also rules out repair under BS AU 159, so the tyre is replaced. Call us and we will assess it; if it needs replacing, we agree the price on the phone before we set off.
Can you fit tyres on vans as well as cars?
Yes, we fit tyres on cars and vans. Give us the tyre size from the sidewall, or your registration, when you call. The replacement must meet the vehicle manufacturer's specification: in the MOT, a tyre load capacity or speed rating below the minimum is a Major defect, and a load capacity insufficient for the axle weight is a Dangerous one. That is why we source the correct tyre rather than fit the nearest one.
Lines open 24 hours. Call 07960 200253 for a mobile tyre fitter anywhere in London.
Mobile tyre fitter near you in London
If you are searching for a mobile tyre fitter near you in London, call 07960 200253 or contact us with your postcode and tyre size. We will confirm whether we can reach you, and agree the price on the phone before we set off.
Flat or worn tyre in London? Call or message us.
Mobile tyre fitting across London, at home, at work or at the roadside. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off.