Are mobile tyre fitters more expensive than garages?Are mobile tyre fitters more expensive than garages?
Mobile tyre fitting involves a highly trained tyre fitter travelling to your home, work, or directly to where you are standard at the roadside to repair or replace your tyres and get you back out on the road.
With none of the inconvenience that comes with taking your car into the garage, you would probably be surprised at how affordable mobile tyre fitting can be.
At mobiletyres.co.uk we are one of Scotland’s leading mobile tyre fitters so you could say that we are a little biased towards this route but the fact is that evidence shows time after time that mobile tyre fitting is more convenient, less stressful, and often cheaper than physically journeying to your local garage.
That said, all of our team have worked in garages in their time and are well aware that there are still many benefits to visiting a garage in person and that in some instances it is certainly the cheaper option.
In this article we will look at the differences in cost between a mobile tyre fitting service and a garage visit.
This will give you all the information that you need to make a more informed decision the next time you have an issue with your tyres or need to have them changed.
Are garages cheaper than mobile tyre fitting?
On average, mobile tyre fitting is not much that more expensive than a visit to your local garage, and sometimes can even work out cheaper!
What you need to remember is that it is not only the cost of repairing or replacing your tyres in itself that needs to be taken into consideration but also the travel to the garage and the cost of the inconvenience to your day.
On the other hand, there will almost certainly be some sort of call-out charge when you use a mobile tyre fitting company and a premium charged for out of hour call outs. That said, garages aren’t open in the middle of the night anyway so if you do break down with a punctured tyre mobile tyre fitting is not only your cheapest option but is also your only option.
Why else would you choose mobile tyre fitting?
Apart from being available around the clock, there are many other benefits to choosing a mobile tyre fitting service.
Have you ever been to the garage only to be told that they didn’t actually have the part that you needed and ended up having to go back again or leave your car their overnight? If you take your car in for a puncture repair and it turns out the tyre needs to be replaced, this is exactly what can happen.
Mobile tyre fitters on the other hand, usually carry everything in their fitting vans to deal with all eventualities including tyre installation, tyre repair, and tyre replacement.
They will also be able to give you valuable safety advice about whether the car is roadworthy once again and how to protect your tyres.