Mobile Tyre Fitting in Oxford & Oxfordshire

Which tyres we fit

We fit premium, mid-range and budget tyres, and we are honest about the difference. Premium brands such as Michelin, Continental, Pirelli, Bridgestone and Goodyear generally give you shorter wet braking distances, better tread life and lower noise — which is why they are worth the money on a car you keep. Mid-range brands sit sensibly in between. Budget tyres are a legitimate choice on an older car or a low-mileage second vehicle, and we would rather fit you a good budget tyre today than leave you driving on something illegal.

Whatever the tier, every tyre we fit is new, road legal and E-marked, and we will tell you its EU label ratings for wet grip, fuel efficiency and noise before you commit. We do not fit part-worn tyres.

If your car runs staggered sizes front to rear, has run-flats, or uses TPMS sensors, tell us when you call — it changes what we need to bring.

Where we can work

Almost anywhere with firm, level ground and enough room to get the jack in and the wheel off safely. In practice that means driveways, residential streets, business and supermarket car parks, farm tracks, and the hard shoulder or a lay-by where it is safe for us to stop.

There are a few places we will not work, and it is worth knowing before you call. We cannot jack a car on a steep slope, on soft ground that will not take the jack, or in a live traffic lane. On a motorway or a fast A-road we will always ask you to get behind the barrier first, and if the position is genuinely unsafe we will tell you to call the police or Highways England for a recovery to a safe spot, then we will meet you there.

• Driveways and residential parking
• Workplace and supermarket car parks
• Lay-bys and safe verges on the A34, A40, A44 and A420
• Roadside and hard shoulder, once you are safely behind the barrier

One tyre or a full set

There is no minimum. Plenty of our work is a single replacement after a pothole or a kerb strike. If you are replacing a pair, we will always fit the new tyres to the rear axle regardless of whether the car is front or rear wheel drive — the deeper tread belongs at the back, because a rear axle that loses grip first is far harder to recover than a front one that does.

If you are replacing all four, we can usually do the set in one visit of around an hour to an hour and a quarter. It is also the moment to talk about whether the car is due an alignment check: if the old tyres wore unevenly across the tread, new rubber will do exactly the same thing unless the geometry is looked at.

When you should not wait

The UK legal minimum tread depth for cars is 1.6 mm across the central three quarters of the tread, around the complete circumference. Below that you are looking at a fine of up to £2,500 and three penalty points per tyre, and an MOT failure. Most tyre engineers would tell you to replace at around 3 mm, because wet braking distances lengthen sharply below that.

Replace without waiting if you can see cords or steel belts, if there is a bulge or an egg in the sidewall, if the tyre has a cut deep enough to expose the carcass, or if the rubber has gone hard and crazed with age. Any of those can let go without warning at speed.