Mobile tyre repair brings the tools to you: a van with a compressor, jacks, repair materials and often a tyre changer and balancer, sent to your home, office, farm, depot or the roadside. It saves you changing a wheel on a busy road in the rain or driving on a spare that may also be soft. Tell us where you are, the vehicle and the tyre size, and we pass your request to independent mobile tyre services that work in your area. They quote you directly, free.
What can be done on site
- Swapping to your spare and checking its pressure
- Puncture repairs, including an inside patch-plug where the van carries a tyre changer (see tyre repair)
- Fitting new tyres you ordered, with balancing if the van has a balancer (see tyre fitment)
- Replacing a broken valve or a lost locknut key's nut with a removal socket
- Inflating and checking all tyres on a parked fleet
Not everything can be done at the roadside. A tyre driven flat, a bent rim or a cracked wheel needs a workshop, and an alignment needs a lift.
Call-outs at home, work, the farm or the depot
Many people book a mobile service because it is simply easier: the car is parked at the office all day, or a farm bakkie is 40 km from the nearest town on a gravel road. Fleets use mobile services to repair and rotate tyres in the depot yard after hours so vehicles are not off the road. Say exactly where the vehicle is, how to get in past security or a farm gate, whether there is level, firm ground to jack on, and whether someone will be there with the keys and the locknut key.
24 hour and emergency call-outs
Some services run around the clock and cover national roads; a call-out at night, on a weekend or far from town usually costs more, and a service may ask for part payment before it drives out. When you ask for a quote, say whether it is an emergency, the nearest landmark or kilometre marker, and the size on the tyre sidewall. For a truck or bus, use truck tyre repair instead, as it needs heavier equipment.
Staying safe at the roadside
Pull as far off the road as you can, on firm ground, with hazards on and the handbrake up. Place your warning triangle well behind the car. On a highway or a narrow road with no shoulder, wait behind the barrier rather than in the car if it is safe to do so. Do not drive far on a flat: it can destroy the tyre and damage the rim, turning a cheap repair into a new tyre.
What to put in your request
- The exact location or nearest landmark
- Vehicle type and the tyre size
- What happened: flat, nail, valve, no spare
- Emergency now or a booked time
- Whether you have the locknut key
Mobile Tyre Repair for drivers, fleets and workshops
- Private car owners: a flat in the driveway before work, or a puncture on the way home with no spare
- Enthusiasts, 4x4 and performance drivers: new tyres fitted at home on a car that is too low to drive to a shop comfortably
- Company and rental fleets: tyres checked, repaired and rotated in the depot yard overnight
- Dealers, panel shops and insurers: punctures and soft tyres sorted on the lot without moving stock cars
- Tyre shops and wheel workshops: panel shops and mechanics calling a mobile service to their yard for tyre work
- Truck, bus and taxi operators: minibus taxis and light delivery vans repaired at the rank or the loading bay
- Farms: bakkie and trailer tyres fixed in the farm yard far from the nearest town
- Mines and construction sites: light site vehicles repaired at the gate or the workshop yard on site
Frequently asked questions
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Mobile Tyre Repair by province and city
- Johannesburg
- Pretoria
- Centurion
- Midrand
- Sandton
- Randburg
- Roodepoort
- Krugersdorp
- Randfontein
- Germiston
- Boksburg
- Benoni
- Kempton Park
- Alberton
- Vanderbijlpark
- Vereeniging
- Durban
- Pinetown
- Pietermaritzburg
- Richards Bay
- Newcastle
- Ladysmith
- Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
- East London
- Kariega (Uitenhage)
- Mthatha
- Cape Town
- Bellville
- Paarl
- Stellenbosch
- George
- Worcester
- eMalahleni (Witbank)
- Middelburg
- Secunda
- Mbombela (Nelspruit)
- Rustenburg
- Brits
- Klerksdorp
- Potchefstroom
- Mahikeng
- Polokwane
- Tzaneen
- Kimberley
- Upington
- Bloemfontein
- Welkom
- Sasolburg