One van, one town, and a phone that rings at night

Tyres pick their moment. They go on the way home from a late shift, on a Sunday when nothing is open, or at six on a Monday when the car has to be somewhere by half past. The whole idea here is that none of those needs to cost you a day — the van finds the car, and the car stays where it is.

The work is unglamorous and it wants doing carefully. Replacements, punctures where the casing will honestly take a repair, a nut nobody has the key for, a battery that has stopped holding, and a tow when none of that is the answer. Every one of those has a right way and a quick way, and at two in the morning the difference matters more, not less.

Sevenoaks is the base and there is no second one. Everything else is a drive from TN13, and how long a drive gets said out loud before you book rather than after you have waited. The reach page lists every district by name, out through the Weald, up to the Bromley and Dartford side, east into Medway and on towards the coast.

No fleet, no franchise, no script. If the honest answer is that somebody nearer should be doing your job, you will get that answer instead of a quote.

Open 24 hours. Ring 020 4572 5579 or write to help@midnighttyrerescue.co.uk.