24/7 emergency tyre repair & roadside call-out

What to do first, before you ring anyone

Getting this bit right is worth more than any price we could quote you. If the tyre has gone at speed, don’t brake hard. Hold the wheel firmly, come off the accelerator and let the car slow itself before steering gently off the road.

Once you have stopped: hazards on, everyone out through the doors on the side away from traffic, and stand well back from the carriageway. On a motorway that means behind the safety barrier, up the bank, never in the vehicle and never on the hard shoulder itself. Then call the police or Highways England before you call us. A live hard shoulder is their scene first, and we work alongside them.

On an ordinary road, get as far onto the verge or into a lay-by as you can and put a warning triangle out if you carry one and the road is safe enough to walk it.

Do not drive on it, even a short distance

This is the single most expensive mistake we see. A tyre that could have been repaired for £35 becomes a new tyre the moment it’s driven on flat, because the sidewall folds under the rim and the internal structure shreds. A mile of limping to a garage will do it. So will a few hundred yards.

It also costs you more than the tyre. Running on a flat can buckle the alloy, damage the wheel bearing and take out the TPMS sensor inside the wheel. We photograph these regularly. The difference between a screw in the tread and a destroyed carcass is often nothing more than the driver deciding to press on.

What we bring, and what we can finish at the roadside

The van is a full workshop rather than a car with a jack in the boot. It carries a tyre changing machine, a wheel balancer, a compressor, a torque wrench, locking wheel nut extractors and TPMS programming kit, along with stock in the common sizes and same-day access to almost anything else.

That means the great majority of emergency call-outs finish where you’re standing: tyre off, new one on, balanced, valve replaced, torqued to the manufacturer’s figure and the old tyre taken away. Recovery is our last resort, never our opening offer.

What it costs at 3am

The same as it costs at 3pm, plus a small out-of-hours element between roughly 10pm and 6am, and you’re told that figure on the phone before the van moves. There’s no call-out fee anywhere inside our 50-mile area, and nothing is added on arrival.

That matters because the standard complaint about emergency tyre call-outs is the price going up once the fitter is standing next to a driver who has no other option. We quote before we set off and we hold it.

Where we do this

Saffron Walden and 50 miles around it, covering Cambridge, Bishop's Stortford, Haverhill, Great Dunmow, Stansted, Royston, Harlow, Braintree, Newmarket, Chelmsford and every village between them. See the full coverage area.