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Cracked Alloy Wheel - Alloy Wheel Repair in Bognor Regis and Surrounding Areas
We often attend customers who originally come to us with a suspected puncture. This week in West Sussex, we've had two jobs where the customer thought they had a puncture, only for me to check and find that it was actually a...
Electric car tyres (Tesla, Polestar, BMW i, Porsche Taycan, Audi ETron, VW ID, Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq, Mustang Mach-E, Skoda Enyaq, etc)
Choose the right tyres for an electric vehicle. One of the most important parts of any vehicle is the tyres. These four round bits of rubber only touch the road on an area approximately the size of a post card, yet they are responsible for...
Vibration at 65 to 70mph when driving
If when you drive at higher speeds you feel vibration through the steering wheel of your car, this can be due to the front wheels being out of balance. If you feel vibration through the seat of the car, then that is often the rear wheels...
A puncture repair on a Tesla car
A new customer called into Hometyre to ask us to attend to his Tesla Model 3 as he had a flat tyre. He needed the car doing immediately as he was going out on a business trip that afternoon. Normally we would always bring a tyre...
Do I have runflat tyres? Check the terminology used by some manufacturers...
Run Flat Tyres in West Sussex A number of cars namely BMW, Mini and some Mercedes have run flat tyres from new. These tyres have thicker sidewalls than a normal tyre, the idea being that in the case of a deflation the tyre is self supporting...
Mobile Seasonal Winter Tyre Swap Over in West Sussex | Hometyre Mobile Tyre Swapping Service
It that time of the year again when the weather snaps and turns instantly. Across our network we are already experiencing heavy flooding, downed trees and accidents! One of the best ways to...
Electric car Polestar2 having a new tyre fitted
One of my repeat customers called to say he had a flat tyre on his Polestar 2 and could we repair it. We took a spare tyre with us just in case it wasn't repairable. Because this is an...
Installing Tyrepal pressure sensors in caravan wheels
Last month one of the jobs I had was to fit tyres to a caravan which was also fitted with Tyron safety bands and Tyre Pressure sensors. At the time the customer told me that the Pressure sensors had stopped working. This is often the...
Have I got Tyron bands fitted to my Caravan?
Before answering that question, I will explain what Tyron bands are….. They are two semi circular metal bands that are joined together and fitted between your wheel rim and tyre. They fill up the well in the rim making a...
Goodwood Festival of Speed, Track day support.
One of the services Hometyre supply is tyre support at track day events. In 2018 I was asked by Redbull if I could support Mad Mike a leading drift driver from New Zealand with his 'Radbull' Mazda MX5, as he was making...
Track day support at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
One of the services Hometyre supply is tyre support at track day events. In 2018 I was asked by Redbull if I could support Mad Mike a leading drift driver from New Zealand with his 'Radbull' Mazda MX5, as he was making...
Wire Wheel Balancing | Wheel Balancing on Classic and Vintage Cars
One of this weeks jobs was a Jaguar E type with wire wheels. The owner had bought the car a year ago, the body was in excellent condition having been restored, but there were problems with the engine. He took it to a Jaguar specialist, who after...
All Terrain Maxxis Van tyres
One of the jobs this week was a VWLT35 van, the owner had bought the van a couple of weeks ago as a 'project' he was going to modify it and turn it into a camper van. The van had already been into a garage and had some work done to the...
Tyres with Inner Tubes | Inner Tubes Mobile Tyre Fitting West Sussex
Its not often that I get a job where there are tyres with inner tubes but in the last week I had four of them! The first of which was an MGTC from 1942, it had 19" wire wheels with very narrow tyres. The customer had bought the car...
Locking Wheel Nut Removals in Bognor-Regis
Much like trying to find your keys in the morning, locking wheel nuts have a habit of wondering off into the depths of the car. Nowadays most cars are equipped with locking wheel nuts but these tend to vanish after a visit to a...
Caravan, Campervan and Motorhome tyres
2020 was the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic across the entire World, thousands of people had their holidays abroad cancelled and #Staycations gradually became extremely popular. It looks like this is going to continue in 2021, many people have...
Road legal track tyres
Today I had a customer with a BMW M6 who wanted very specific tyres. The rear tyres on the car are 285/35R19 to get good grip he wanted Pirelli Corsa tyres. They are similar to Michelin Sports cup, these are also street legal track...
Caravan Tyres with Tyronâ„¢ Safety Bands fitted INCORRECTLY
I was called out to what should have been a simple job, change two tyres on a Bailey caravan that is also fitted with Tyron safety bands and Tyre Pressure Sensors, but unfortunately it ended up becoming one of the worst jobs I have had in over 10...
Vauxhall Corsa TPMS problem
Today we attended a job in Chichester for an elderly couple who need their car as they live out of town and with the covid pandemic it is their only means of getting around. They have a 2016 Vauxhall Corsa which is fitted with direct...Buy Tyres Online Here
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