Rescue Tyres fits, repairs and replaces car and van tyres at the car: on a driveway, a side street or a car park where the owner allows it. Coventry is about 79 miles in a straight line from our only base at Brent Cross, NW2 (further by road). We have no base or van stationed nearby. Call and we will tell you straight away whether we can take the job; if we can, the arrival time is given on the call. If the car is unsafe where it is, your breakdown cover may reach you sooner.
CV1, CV2, CV3, CV4, CV5, CV6: Earlsdon, Foleshill, Walsgrave, Tile Hill
A job this far from our base is a long trip for one of our vans, so whether we can take it depends on the diary that day. We would rather tell you no on the first call than keep you waiting, so you can ring someone closer straight away.
Every Coventry job starts at Brent Cross, so a visit takes up a large part of a working day for one van. Work that can be planned suits the distance best: worn tyres replaced on a drive, a set fitted while the car is parked at work, or a slow puncture that still holds air after topping up.
A car that cannot be moved, or one stopped somewhere unsafe, is different. We tell you honestly on the call whether we can take it. The price is given on the call.
Our registered office in Solihull is a registered office only, not a service location: no fitter works from it, and there is nowhere in the Midlands to bring the car.
| Postcode districts | CV1, CV2, CV3, CV4, CV5, CV6 |
|---|---|
| Areas | City centre, Earlsdon, Foleshill, Walsgrave, Tile Hill, Binley, Radford, Stoke, Wyken, Cheylesmore, Holbrooks, Longford, Canley, Coundon, Allesley, Finham, Styvechale, Bell Green, Whoberley |
| Landmarks | Coventry Cathedral |
| Distance from our base | About 79 miles in a straight line from Brent Cross, NW2 |
Call or WhatsApp with where the car is, the registration and the tyre size from the sidewall.
You hear what the job involves and the options for your car. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
The fitter comes to your home, your workplace or a safe place to park, raises the car on a jack and does the job beside it.
Before the fitter leaves, the wheel is checked for security and the tyre pressure is set to the maker's figure.
The fitter brings the tools to the car, so there is no need to drive on a damaged tyre to a garage.
The fitter brings the new tyre to your home, your workplace or a safe place to park, fits it, balances the wheel and sets the pressure.
Tell us the size from the sidewall and we can talk through budget, mid-range and premium options for it.
A nail or screw in the main tread can often be repaired. The fitter takes the tyre off the rim and looks at the inside before deciding, because a small hole can hide bigger damage.
Damage in the shoulder or the sidewall, or a tyre that has been driven flat, cannot be repaired safely, and you are told why before anything else is done.
A flat tyre does not always mean a new tyre. Whether it can be repaired depends on where the damage is and how far the car was driven flat.
If the spare is missing, flat or a space saver you would rather not rely on, the repair or the new tyre is brought to the car.
A burst tyre, a bulge in the sidewall or a deep cut from a kerb or pothole cannot be repaired. The fitter replaces the tyre at the car and checks the wheel while the tyre is off.
Send a photo of the damage and the size on the sidewall so the right replacement can be found.
We work evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays when the diary allows, at the same price as a weekday job.
Out of normal working hours, where the car waits matters more: somewhere lit, legally parked and away from passing traffic.
Lost, broken or rounded key? The nuts are removed at the car with extraction sockets made for locking nuts.
Plain nuts or a new locking set go back on, and the tyre can be sorted on the same visit.
A vibration through the steering wheel at a steady speed is often a wheel out of balance. Balancing spins the wheel and adds small weights to even it out.
A wheel is balanced each time a new tyre is fitted to it, and it can be done on its own when a weight has come off.
Van tyres carry heavier loads and are marked with a C after the rim size and a higher load index. The replacement has to match both.
Fitting at a yard, a business car park or the kerb outside the job keeps the van working.
Run-flats keep the car moving for a limited distance after losing pressure, but they still need sorting properly afterwards.
The correct run-flat is sourced for your car, including maker-approved fitments, and fitted at the car.
We fit tyres only. We do not sell part-worn tyres and we do not do batteries, brakes or wheel alignment.
The size is the string of figures on the tyre wall, such as 205/55 R16 91V. The first number is the width in millimetres, the second is the sidewall height as a percentage of that width, R means radial construction and the last number is the rim diameter in inches.
The part after the size, 91V in that example, is the load index and speed rating. A replacement should match or exceed both, and the two tyres on one axle should be the same size and pattern.
Tyres fall roughly into three tiers. Premium brands usually stop shorter in the wet and often last longer; budget tyres cost less up front but vary more in quality.
The label on most new car tyres grades wet grip, fuel efficiency and outside noise, which is a fairer guide than the brand name alone. For a car doing high mileage or plenty of motorway driving, look at the wet grip grade first.
BS AU 159 is the British Standard for repairing car and van tyres. For car tyres it allows a repair only in the central part of the tread, known as the minor repair area, and only for damage up to 6 mm across. How wide that area is depends on the tyre.
Anything in the outer shoulder or the sidewall is outside the repair zone, because those parts flex too much for a patch to hold. Two repairs too close together, or an earlier poor repair, also rule a repair out.
The sealant kit supplied with many new cars is a temporary measure to get you moving. The kit sets its own low speed and distance limits, printed on the bottle or in the handbook.
If you have used sealant, say so on the call. The inside of the tyre has to be cleaned before it can be inspected, and some sealants leave it unfit for a repair.
The A4053 ring road loops tight around the city centre, the M6 passes the north of the city at junctions 2 and 3, the M69 heads off towards Leicester, and the A45 and A46 carry traffic round the south and east, meeting at Tollbar End.
We never work on the carriageway of a motorway or main road, on a hard shoulder, in a smart motorway emergency area or on a slip road. That includes the ring road and its slip roads: if a tyre fails there and the car can be driven slowly and safely, leave at the next junction and stop in a side street or a car park outside the loop, then tell us which junction you came off.
Retail parks, station car parks and hospital car parks are private ground, so we need the owner's or operator's permission to work there. That covers places such as Central Six Retail Park, Warwickshire Shopping Park and Alvis Retail Park, the car parks at Coventry and Canley stations, and University Hospital Coventry at Walsgrave.
The same applies to the Coventry Building Society Arena and Arena Park at Longford, the University of Warwick at Gibbet Hill and Coventry University, and to industrial and business parks such as Binley Industrial Estate or Fletchamstead Highway Industrial Estate. Check with the site office or security, or tell us where the car is and we will say what is needed.
“Had two tyres replaced and was really impressed. Friendly and efficient, job completed quickly. Highly recommend!”
“From start to finish, Hiwad was incredibly professional and helpful.”
“A pleasure having them come down and save me. Big shout out to Hiwad, really responsive, recommend him to anybody.”
There is no fixed figure that suits every car, so the price is built from a few things and told to you before you decide.
The price is the same at any hour. Asking for a price does not commit you to anything.
When you compare prices, compare like with like: the same brand and pattern, the same load index and speed rating, and whether balancing and a new valve are part of the job.
Cars and light vans need at least 1.6 mm of tread across the central three-quarters of the tyre, around the whole circumference.
For a car, each illegal tyre can bring a fine of up to £2,500 and three penalty points; the maximum fine for a van is higher.
Push a 20p coin into the main grooves at several points around the tyre. If the outer band of the coin is visible, the tread may be close to the limit and should be measured properly.
A tyre is also illegal with a cut longer than 25 mm or a tenth of its section width, whichever is greater, that reaches the ply or cord, a lump or bulge, exposed cords, or the wrong size or type for the car.
The last four digits of the DOT code on the sidewall give the week and year of manufacture, so 2319 means the 23rd week of 2019.
Rubber hardens and cracks with age even on a tyre that has done few miles, and many tyre makers advise replacing any tyre ten years old or more.
Sources: the tread and tyre rules are in the Highway Code, annex 6 on GOV.UK; TyreSafe publishes tyre safety advice.
Yes, if the site allows it. Supermarket, retail park and station car parks are private ground, so the owner's permission comes first. Places of this kind in this area include:
If the car stops on one of the roads below and can still be driven safely, leave at the next exit or turn into a side street, then call:
The same terms apply across the city, from the city centre inside the ring road out to Keresley and Allesley in the north and west, Walsgrave on Sowe and Binley to the east, and Finham and Stivichall to the south. Western estates such as Eastern Green, Mount Nod, Tile Hill and Canley, and the streets of Earlsdon, Whoberley and Brownshill Green are covered on the same basis.
Wherever the car is in the city, the distance from Brent Cross is much the same, so the answer you get on the call is the honest guide to whether and when we can come.
Rescue Tyres is a mobile service run from one base at Brent Cross, London NW2. The map shows the Coventry area so you can check where your car is: it is not an address of ours.
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Tell us where the car is, the tyre size and what has happened, and the options are explained on the call.
