A tyre sitting on its rim outside a Bournville house or in a car park by Moor Street station should stay exactly where it is until someone who knows tyres has looked at it.
Flat tyres in Birmingham are usually discovered rather than felt. You step out to a driveway in Acocks Green and one front corner has sunk, or return from the Bullring to a car slumped in its bay. The temptation is to crawl to a petrol station or pump it up and hope, but a few hundred yards along the A41 with no air grinds the sidewall apart and makes a simple repair into a full replacement.
Leave the car, note exactly where it is, and call 07473 720871 with the size printed on the sidewall. The fitter arrives, takes the wheel off and finds the cause: a nail in the tread that BS AU 159 allows to be repaired, a leaking valve, or a casing too damaged to save. Both prices are given to you on the phone beforehand, so the decision at the car in Stechford or Yardley is simply whichever one the tyre permits.
On run-flat tyres? They behave differently once deflated, so check the handbook's limits and read our page on run-flat tyres; we fit replacement run-flat tyres at the car in Birmingham as well.
Not quite this? Read about broken tyre replacement in Birmingham or new tyres fitted in Birmingham instead.
A home drive in Acocks Green or Shard End, a residents' bay covered by your permit in Balsall Heath, or a retail park at Stechford are all fine. A car left on a city-centre loading bay or bus lane is harder, so describe precisely where it stands.
| Main roads | A4540 Middleway; A38(M) Aston Expressway and M6 J6; M42 J3 to J6 |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
Flat tyre: the first steps →Flat tyre help on the Birmingham page
Feel the steering pull on Stratford Road (A34) near Greet and your first task is leaving the main road: indicate, slow right down and turn into the next residential street, keeping clear of any bus lane. Put the hazard lights on and get passengers onto the pavement. Then message us the car's position, say the street beside Small Heath station or off Haden Way (A435), plus a photo of the tyre.
Walk round the car first: if more than one tyre is down on your Sparkbrook street, say so, as it changes what the fitter loads. On the flat one, scan the tread for a nail head, see whether the valve has lost its cap or bent over, and trace the sidewall for a kerb scuff. Crawling to a garage along the A45 shreds it. A space-saver spare suits only short, slow journeys, and plenty of cars carry none. A Hodge Hill drive or a residents' bay suits the wait.
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