Mobile Tyre Fitting in Hamble-le-Rice, 24 Hours a Day
A flat on Hamble Lane leaves you almost nowhere to pull in, and the village lanes below it are narrower still. We come out to you in Hamble-le-Rice, day or night, and fit the tyre where the car is standing.
A Village at the End of One Road
Hamble-le-Rice sits at the end of a peninsula between Southampton Water and the River Hamble, and it has one road in and one road out. Hamble Lane, the B3397, runs a little over two miles south from the Windhover roundabout just below M27 junction 8 down into the village, and there is no alternative route. Everything that comes to Hamble comes down that lane, and if something is blocking it, nothing gets past. That is worth knowing before you decide to limp home on a deflating tyre.
The pinch point is about half a mile below the Windhover, where Hamble Lane crosses Portsmouth Road at Bursledon. Portsmouth Road is the A3025 running west into Southampton, and it meets the lane as a priority crossroads rather than a set of lights, so traffic waiting to turn right across the oncoming flow has no proper lane to sit in.
At the school run and again at going-home time the queue backs up the northern stretch past the Tesco towards the Windhover and the motorway slip road. Hampshire County Council has consulted more than once on widening that end and putting signals in, and the whole of Hamble Lane from Portsmouth Road up to the Windhover roundabout sits inside a declared air quality management area for nitrogen dioxide, which tells you plainly enough how long vehicles spend stationary on it.
South of the fire station the character changes completely. Satchell Lane leaves Hamble Lane by The Hamble School and runs down the river side, past Mercury Yacht Harbour on Badnam Creek, to Port Hamble at the village end. Copse Lane cuts west off Hamble Lane into School Lane, which drops south from the High Street towards Hamble Point Marina at the very tip.
The High Street itself narrows as it falls to the Square and the quay. These are lanes with high kerbs, cars parked along both sides and no verge worth the name. A tyre that goes down here does not leave you a lay-by to sort it out in.
Then there is the water. Three marinas, the boatyards, the Royal Southern Yacht Club on Rope Walk and the little pink ferry that carries foot passengers across to Warsash: a fair proportion of what is parked in Hamble on any given day came for the boat rather than the house. A car that stands in a marina or boatyard car park for weeks between trips is losing pressure the whole time it sits there, because tyres do that whether anybody drives them or not, and the morning you want to leave is when you find out.
Keep going south and the road simply stops at Hamble Common, where the river meets Southampton Water at Hamble Point.
Getting In and Out of Hamble
Every approach to Hamble ends up on the same lane, which is really the whole story. From the motorway you come off the M27 at junction 8, round the Windhover roundabout and head south. From Southampton there are two ways over: Portsmouth Road, which joins Hamble Lane at Bursledon just below the Windhover, or the coastal run out through Woolston, Weston and Netley, which comes in lower down at Butlocks Heath and skips the top of the lane altogether.
None of them has a bypass, and once you are on Hamble Lane there is no hard shoulder and very little verge.
The A27 crosses the River Hamble upriver of the village at Bursledon Bridge, which is why Warsash sits a few hundred yards away across the water and the better part of a detour away by car: all the way back up Hamble Lane to the Windhover, out along the A27 through Bursledon, over the bridge to Lower Swanwick and south again down the far bank.
The railway tells a similar story. Hamble station is about a mile north of the Square, sitting on Hamble Lane by The Hamble School, between Netley and Bursledon on the coastal line out of Southampton Central towards Fareham and Portsmouth. Handy for commuters, and no help whatever when the car is the thing that will not move.
The roads we run on to reach you
- Hamble Lane
- B3397
- M27 J8
How We Reach You Here
We are based on Millbrook Road East in Southampton, and the response window for this area is the one shown at the top of this page. It is set for Hamble rather than stretched across everywhere we cover, because the run down the peninsula is not the run out to Chichester. What nobody should pretend is that Hamble Lane behaves the same at every hour of the day.
At two in the morning it is a clear run. At half past eight on a weekday it is not, and the honest answer is that traffic on the one road in affects anybody driving towards you, ourselves included.
It helps enormously if you can tell us exactly where the car is. Hamble Lane near the fire station and the bottom of the High Street by the Square are two very different jobs to arrive at. If there is no safe room to work around the vehicle, say so on the call. Where the car can be got into a marina or boatyard car park at Hamble Point, Port Hamble or Mercury, that is usually a far better place to change a wheel than a village lane with traffic squeezing past.
We run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and we come to the roadside, the driveway or the workplace car park, whichever the car happens to be sitting in.
Hamble-le-Rice and the roads around it
Hamble-le-Rice
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What We Can Do at the Kerbside in Hamble
Everything below happens at the vehicle, wherever it is standing, whether that is the verge of Hamble Lane, a driveway off Satchell Lane or a berth holder car park down at one of the marinas: assessing and repairing a puncture where that is safe and legal to do, supplying and fitting a replacement, balancing the wheel dynamically on the van, extracting a locking nut when the key has gone, and commercial van work. Pick whichever matches what you are looking at.
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24/7 Emergency Tyre Fitting
Had a blowout on the M27? Our rapid-response vans will deliver and fit a brand-new tyre right at the roadside, getting you and your family out of danger and back on your journey in no time.
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Mobile Puncture Repair
Not every flat tyre needs replacing. If you have picked up a nail or screw, our technicians will assess the damage. If it is safe to do so, we will perform a professional, permanent puncture repair on the spot, saving you the cost of a new tyre.
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Mobile Wheel Repair
Hit a bad pothole? If you are dealing with a buckled, dented, or cracked alloy wheel, our mobile service can assess and provide emergency wheel repair solutions to get your vehicle rolling safely again.
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Locking Wheel Nut Removal
Lost your key or dealing with a rounded-off nut? We carry heavy-duty, specialist extraction tools that standard garages don't have. We will safely remove the stubborn nut without damaging your alloy wheels.
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Commercial Van & Fleet Tyres
Time is money. If your delivery van or commercial vehicle is off the road with a flat, we have the heavy-duty jacks and commercial-grade tyres required to get your business moving again fast.
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EV Tyre Fitting
An electric car is heavier than it looks and has to be lifted in exactly the right place. We carry low-profile, EV-safe jacking equipment and tyres rated for the weight and the torque, so it goes back on the road properly rather than carefully.
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Mobile Wheel Balancing
A steering wheel that shakes once you are up to speed usually means a wheel is out of balance rather than a tyre being at fault. There is dynamic balancing equipment on the van, so it is measured and corrected wherever the car happens to be parked.
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Questions from Hamble Drivers
My car is at one of the Hamble marinas and the tyre has gone down. Can you come to it there?
Yes. A marina or boatyard car park is often an easier place to work than the road, because there is room around the vehicle and nothing squeezing past it. Tell us which site when you call, because Hamble Point at the bottom of School Lane, Port Hamble at the village end of Satchell Lane and Mercury Yacht Harbour further up the same lane on Badnam Creek are separate places with separate entrances, and give us the car and roughly where in the car park it is standing. If the boat has had more use than the car lately, mention it, and the valve and the pressures on the other three are worth a look while the van is with you.
I have a flat halfway down Hamble Lane and there is nowhere to pull in. What should I do?
Get as far off the carriageway as the kerb allows, put the hazards on, and where you can, get out on the passenger side and stand behind a fence or a hedge rather than on the verge. Then call and stay put. The temptation on Hamble Lane is to keep rolling to the next side road because the queue behind you is building, but driving on a flat is what turns a repairable puncture into a new tyre, and it can damage the wheel as well. Give us the nearest landmark you can see, the fire station, the Portsmouth Road crossroads, the Tesco up at Bursledon, and that puts us on the right part of the lane straight away.
Do you come out to the village overnight, when everything is shut?
We run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so a flat at three in the morning in the Square is the same job as one at three in the afternoon. Overnight is the easiest time of all to get down the peninsula, because the queue at the Portsmouth Road crossroads has gone and the lane is clear the whole way from the Windhover. The response window for this area is shown further up the page.
How do I pay, and is anything due before you set off?
Nothing is due before we arrive. You pay once the work is finished and the car is ready to drive away. There is a card terminal in the van taking contactless, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Visa and Mastercard, and bank transfer or cash are both fine. One thing to flag on the call: if your wheels have locking nuts and the key is lost or damaged, getting the nut off is extra work and a charge may apply for it. We quote that before we set off, rather than adding it at the end.
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Flat Tyre in Hamble? Leave the Car Where It Is
Tell us your registration, your tyre size if you can read it off the sidewall, and where in the village the car is standing. A fully equipped van heads down Hamble Lane, and the tyre gets repaired or replaced where it sits, on the roadside, on the driveway or in the marina car park.
24/7 Urgent Roadside Dispatch Aiming to arrive within 45–60 minutes