The scene we get called into is always the same. Four boxed tyres stacked against a hall radiator in a Glasgow flat, a car parked on the street outside, and a delivery note with no fitting appointment anywhere on it.
Yes, we fit them. If you are asking can you fit tyres I bought online, the answer is yes from any retailer, and because the service is mobile, nothing has to be transported anywhere. The van comes to the tyres and the car, wherever they both are, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week across Glasgow and the Central Belt.
One piece of advice before you book anyone, us included: check the boxes first. Five minutes with the label and your door placard catches the wrong order while it can still go back, and this page shows you exactly what to look at.
The Short Answer: Yes, We Fit Tyres You Bought Online
Yes. We fit tyres bought from any online retailer, at your home, your work or the roadside across Glasgow. Before fitting we check each tyre against your vehicle placard for size, load index and speed rating, and inspect it for transit damage. The fitting only price is agreed on the call.
We also read the DOT date on each casing and look over the beads and sidewalls, because a tyre that has been through a courier network deserves a once-over before it goes near a rim. We cannot confirm a delivered tyre is fit to fit until we have seen it, so the final check happens at your vehicle.
How Buying Tyres Online Actually Works
For anyone who has only done this once, the model is worth spelling out.
You enter a registration or a tyre size, the site returns a list by brand and price tier, and you pick. At checkout there are usually two routes: book a fitting slot in the retailer’s partner network, or take delivery to an address.
Delivery only means exactly that. The tyres arrive by courier, boxed or strapped, sometimes on a pallet, and nothing about the delivery includes a fitter. That is the gap this page exists for.
The tiers help you place what you bought. Budget names such as Landsail and Triangle, mid-range such as Falken, Hankook, Yokohama and Toyo, premium such as Michelin, Continental, Bridgestone and Pirelli. Our guide to how budget tyres compare with premium covers the differences properly.
A Retailer’s Fitting Network Versus an Independent Mobile Fitter
Both routes are legitimate, so here is the honest comparison. There is more on the wider choice in mobile tyre fitting versus garage tyre fitting.
| Retailer fitting network | Independent mobile fitter | |
| Where the work happens | Partner garage or partner van | At your home, work or roadside |
| Slot choice | Allocated from what partners offer | Agreed with you on the call |
| Coverage | Varies by postcode | Glasgow and the Central Belt, then by arrangement |
| Who you speak to | The retailer, then the partner | The people doing the work |
| Payment | Usually at checkout | Card at the vehicle, after the work |
What a Retailer’s Fitting Network Gives You
A pre-arranged slot at a partner garage or with a partner mobile fitter, usually paid at checkout, with the retailer coordinating both halves. The practical constraints are worth knowing: partner coverage varies by postcode, slots are allocated rather than chosen, and the person fitting the tyre is not the person who sold it.
What an Independent Mobile Fitter Gives You
You choose the time and the place, and you speak directly to the people doing the work. Our version runs the same way on every job: quick questions on the call confirming size, location and the job, a clear arrival time rather than a vague estimate, a fully equipped van, inspection on arrival, fitting including balancing and pressure checks, and a full safety check with wheel torque verification before the van leaves.
When Each One Makes More Sense
If the retailer’s network has a convenient slot at a fair price and you are happy driving to a depot, that is a reasonable route. An independent mobile fitter makes more sense when there is no local partner, when the slots do not work around your job, when the car is not safe to drive on the tyre it is wearing, or when you would rather not lose half a day to a waiting room. Fitting at home is built around exactly that.
Why So Many People End Up With Tyres in the Hall and No Way to Fit Them
Four routes bring almost everyone here. Buying on price alone and skipping the fitting option at checkout. A partner network with no convenient Glasgow slot. A car not safe to drive to a depot on the tyre it is on. And the simple physics that four tyres do not fit in most cars, especially with seats in use.
Glasgow adds its own layer. Tenement flats where four boxes swallow a hallway. No garage to store them. On-street parking in Dennistoun or Maryhill, and no way to leave the car anywhere for a day. The tyres sit against the radiator, the car sits at the kerb, and the two need someone to bring them together. That is precisely the job a mobile fitter in Glasgow exists for.
What to Check on the Box the Moment It Arrives
Five minutes with the delivery note saves a wasted appointment, and the label on the box tells you almost everything. Eight checks, in order.
1. The Size Against the Placard
The size reads like 205/55 R16 91V. The 205 is the width in millimetres, 55 the sidewall height as a percentage of width, R radial construction, 16 the rim diameter in inches, 91 the load index and V the speed rating. Compare it, character by character, against the vehicle placard in the driver’s door shut, the fuel filler flap or the handbook. Our guide to decoding tyre sidewall markings runs through every character if you want it in full.
2. The Load Index and Speed Rating
The rule: both must be equal to or higher than the placard figure. Fitting lower is a compliance and insurance problem, not a saving. Reference points to read the label with: load index 91 carries 615kg, and for speed, H is 130mph, V is 149mph, W is 168mph and Y is 186mph.
3. XL, Reinforced and the C Rating
XL or Reinforced means an extra load casing. A C after the size, such as 225/75 R16C, means a commercial casing built for heavier loads at higher pressures. These are different systems and not interchangeable, and fitting a car tyre where the plate calls for a commercial rating leaves the casing under-engineered, risking overheating and failure.
Van owners, two more details. A dual load index like 104/102 gives twin-wheel and single-wheel figures, and single-wheel vans use the higher one. Ply ratings such as 6PR, 8PR and 10PR are equivalent-strength ratings, not a literal count of layers.
4. The Run-Flat Marking
Run-flats are marked by brand: RSC, ROF, RFT, DSST, ZP or SSR. Check it both ways. A car built around run-flats, usually with no spare, should not quietly end up on standard casings, and a standard car does not need run-flats it was never set up for. If a run-flat needs supplying instead, replacement runs £130 to £280, confirmed on the call.
5. The Manufacturer Approval Mark
Some cars leave the factory on tyres approved for that exact model: MO for Mercedes, AO or RO1 for Audi, a star marking for BMW, N0 to N6 for Porsche, VOL for Volvo, AMV for VW Group. Check whether your car came with one and whether the delivered tyre carries it, because online listings do not always make it obvious.
6. The DOT Date Code
The last four digits of the DOT code give the week and year of manufacture, so 2523 means week 25 of 2023. A brand new online order can still arrive as old stock that sat in a warehouse, and it is worth knowing the age before it goes on the car, because rubber ages whether it is used or not.
7. Damage in Transit
A casing that has crossed a courier network deserves a look. Check the bead area, the edge that grips the rim, for scuffing and gouging, because bead damage is one of the reasons a new tyre keeps losing air. Check the sidewalls for kerbing-style marks and tears, the tread for anything driven into it, and the whole casing for deformation from being crushed under a stack. We have seen beads that were clearly dragged across a warehouse floor. Photograph anything you find before the driver leaves.
8. The Right Quantity, and All the Same
Confirm four means four. Confirm all four match in size, brand and pattern where you intended a full set, and that a staggered car has the correct front and rear sizes. One rule of law worth knowing here: a car must not carry tyres of different construction on the same axle, and mixing patterns or brands across an axle is poor practice even where it is not itself an offence.
When the Website’s Reg Lookup Returns the Wrong Size
It happens more than the checkout flow suggests. The lookup returns the size the car left the factory with, and three situations make that the wrong answer.
Staggered Fitments
Some cars leave the factory with different front and rear sizes. A lookup returning a single size gives you half the answer, and a set of four identical tyres will not suit the car at all.
Aftermarket Wheels and Plus Sizing
A wheel change alters the rim diameter and usually the profile. The lookup keeps returning the factory size while the car wears something else entirely. We have seen full sets arrive for the wheels a car no longer had.
A Previous Owner Fitting the Wrong Size
Used cars regularly arrive wearing a size that was never on the placard. The sidewall on the car, read against the placard in the door shut, is what settles it.
What to Do About It
Stop before opening or fitting anything. Photograph the box label and your placard. Contact the retailer while the tyres are unfitted and unused, and check the returns window on your order against your rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013.
The honest operator line, learned the hard way by customers rather than by us: once a tyre has been mounted on a rim, most retailers will treat it as used. The check happens before the van comes out, not after.
Returns and Warranty When an Independent Fits a Retailer’s Tyre
The responsibilities split cleanly, and knowing the split saves arguments later.
The Tyre Itself
The retailer sold it and the manufacturer made it. A manufacturing fault, a wrong item or a damaged delivery goes back to the retailer under their returns policy and the manufacturer’s warranty. Returns windows and warranty terms vary between retailers, so check the terms on your own order before anything is fitted. Keep the order confirmation and note the DOT code of each tyre, because a claim needs both.
The Fitting Work
That is ours, and it is the same standard as any tyre from our own stock: mounting, balancing on the van’s on-board balancer, a new valve or TPMS service kit, torquing to manufacturer specification, and the full safety check with wheel torque verification before the van leaves. Where we supply the tyre instead, the manufacturer warranty comes with it.
Once It Is Fitted, It Is Yours
Said plainly, because it is the sentence that matters. A mounted tyre is a used tyre in almost every retailer’s returns policy. That is exactly why the eight box checks above exist, and why we do not guess; we diagnose the problem and provide the safest and most cost-effective solution.
What Happens When the Courier Date Slips
Three timing problems come up constantly. The delivery that misses its promised day. The part delivery, two boxes of four. And the delivery that arrives while everyone is out.
Our answer to all three is the same: we book the fitting around your tyres actually being there and checked, so if the courier moves the date we move with it. A job is confirmed once the boxes are physically present, not off a tracking page.
The late delivery is less of a problem than it looks. A set that lands at four in the afternoon can be fitted the same evening, because the service runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Across Glasgow and the Central Belt the average arrival is 30 to 45 minutes, and most customers are back on the road within 20 to 40 minutes of the van arriving.
How Fitting Only Is Priced for Online Tyres
Your fitting only price is quoted on the call once we know the size, the vehicle, how many tyres and where you are. No fixed figure is published, because those four things genuinely move the number.
For the market picture before you call: mobile tyre fitting labour generally runs £15 to £35 per tyre, with garages at £10 to £25. That is the going rate across the trade rather than a quoted offer, and it is worth setting against whatever the retailer’s checkout quoted for their network.
What moves the figure is short and predictable: the number of tyres, rims over 18 inches, run-flats, TPMS work, locking wheel nut removal at £45 to £60 if the key is missing, and where the vehicle is.
The mechanic stays the same as every job we do. One total on the call before the van moves, nothing added at the roadside, and payment by card at the vehicle, contactless included, after the work is finished.
Already Own the Tyres But Did Not Buy Them Online?
A spare set in the garage, tyres that came with a used car, a set from a friend, stored winter tyres, a sale purchase or second-hand tyres someone handed you: each of those has its own checks, and they are different from the delivery checks above. We cover all of them in our guide to fitting tyres you have already bought, so this page stays with the online journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you fit tyres I bought online from another retailer?
Yes, from any online retailer, at your home, work or the roadside. Each tyre is checked against your vehicle placard and inspected for transit damage before mounting, and your fitting only price is agreed on the call before the van moves.
Do I have to use the retailer’s fitting centre?
No. The purchase and the fitting are separate arrangements, and an independent fitter is a straightforward alternative. The retailer’s network suits some people; a mobile fitter suits anyone who wants the work done at home or cannot get a convenient slot.
How much does it cost to fit tyres bought online?
The fitting only price is quoted on the call once we know the size, vehicle, quantity and location. As market context, mobile tyre fitting labour generally runs £15 to £35 per tyre, with garages at £10 to £25. Rims over 18 inches and run-flats move the figure.
What should I check on the box when my tyres are delivered?
Eight things: the size against your placard, the load index and speed rating, XL or C markings, run-flat markings, any manufacturer approval mark, the DOT date, transit damage around the beads and sidewalls, and the right quantity in matching sizes.
What if the tyres I ordered online are the wrong size?
Stop before anything is fitted. Photograph the box label and your door placard, contact the retailer while the tyres are unused, and check your returns window. Reg lookups return the factory size, which staggered fitments, aftermarket wheels and previous owners can all make wrong.
Who deals with a warranty claim on tyres bought online?
The retailer and the tyre manufacturer cover the tyre itself, so faults and wrong items go back to them. Our responsibility is the fitting work: balancing, the valve or TPMS service kit, torquing and the safety check. Keep the order confirmation and the DOT codes.
Can I return tyres once they have been fitted?
Usually not. Once a tyre has been mounted on a rim, most retailers will treat it as used, so returns realistically end at the point of fitting. That is why every check on this page happens before the van comes out.
Can I get online tyres fitted at home in Glasgow?
Yes, across the whole city and the Central Belt, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Average arrival in Glasgow is 30 to 45 minutes, most customers are back on the road within 20 to 40 minutes of the van arriving, and evening slots suit late deliveries.
Get Your Tyres Fitted
One message does it. Send to 07955 533000 on phone or WhatsApp:
A photo of the label on one of the boxes. Your postcode, the vehicle and how many tyres need fitting.
You get one total on the call, before the van moves, with nothing added at the roadside. We are 24/7 Mobile Tyre Services, family run for over 20 years with fully certified technicians, based at 100 Jessie St, Polmadie, Glasgow G42 0PG, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in all weather, covering the City Centre, Southside, West End, Partick and Govan plus Paisley, Rutherglen, Clydebank and East Kilbride.
