Mobile tire service in Hollywood

Of the eighteen Los Angeles ZIP areas we profiled, Hollywood's 90028 has the lowest owner-occupancy: 3.4% of its 18,807 occupied units are owned and 96.6% are rented. 44.0% of the housing sits in buildings of fifty units or more and another 27.7% in buildings of twenty to forty-nine. This is Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset and the apartment blocks behind them, and the car almost always lives in a building's garage or at the kerb.

We supply the tires and fit them where the car is parked, here and across Los Angeles. One price up front, no separate call-out fee.

The pavement, from the city's own grades

Los Angeles publishes no pothole count. Its 311 system has no road-surface request type at all. What it does publish is better: StreetsLA grades every street segment Good, Fair or Poor, in an inventory cut dated June 2026.

Hollywood falls across two neighbourhood councils and they are very different. Central Hollywood has 26.7% of its 27.4 centreline miles rated Poor, rank 14 of the 100 named councils in the layer. The Hollywood Studio District has 15.8% of its 23.6 miles rated Poor, rank 62. Citywide the figure is 19.3% of 6,575.0 centreline miles. (The 100 includes one catch-all label, "Unincorporated Neighborhood", which the city's layer carries as if it were a council.) None of that is frost: Los Angeles's normals show no days at all that stay below freezing. It is simply the condition of the street.

The boulevard grid is flat. North of Franklin the ground climbs sharply into the Hollywood Hills. We have no slope figure for any Los Angeles street and will not print one; what we need is level ground at the car, and on the flat grid that is the easy part.

A renter's car usually sits

25.8% of working residents here work from home, 10.2% take public transport and 9.8% walk or cycle; 44.7% drive alone. 56.0% of households keep one car and 26.4% keep none. A car that is driven a few days a week does not wear its tread out. It ages.

The registration data says the same. At 31 December 2025 the California DMV recorded 16,877 light-duty vehicles registered in 90028. 63.2% were model year 2020 or older, which is six model years or more in 2026, and 21.3% sat in the DMV's oldest bucket, before 2012. That is younger than the state, where 72.1% are 2020 or older, but a 2019 car still on its factory set is running on tires made in 2019 or before. 9.4% of the ZIP's light-duty registrations are battery-electric, against 5.9% statewide.

The federal rule that lets you check is 49 CFR 574.5: the last four digits of the code on the sidewall are the week and year the tire was made, so "0120" is the first full week of 2020. When a Los Angeles tire is too old has the rest.

California's tread law is not the one you think

California's minimum for a passenger car is 1/32 of an inch, not 2/32. Vehicle Code 27465(b)(1) sets "One thirty-second (1/32) of an inch tread depth in any two adjacent grooves at any location of the tire". A tire that fails the penny test may still be legal here. It may also be unsafe: Vehicle Code 24002 separately makes it unlawful to operate a vehicle "in an unsafe condition" that "presents an immediate safety hazard". California's 1/32 tread law explains both.

The garage question and the street-sweeping question

In a 96.6% renter ZIP, whether we can work in your building's garage is the building's decision. Ask the manager first and tell us the answer at booking. If the car is at the kerb, the rule that bites in this city is street sweeping. Los Angeles issued 524,709 "NO PARK/STREET CLEAN" citations in 2025, 25.8% of its 2,036,629 parking citations that year. We check the posted sweeping sign before we book a kerbside slot, and so should you. Street sweeping and a tire job covers it.

Who fits tires in 90028

Tire Rack's directory for Los Angeles 90015 listed two shops with Hollywood 90028 addresses on 2026-09-20: American Tire Depot #1131 at 5801 Sunset Blvd and Big Brand Tire & Service #1039 at 1301 N Highland Ave, each at $135.96 to fit four Michelin CrossClimate2 in 225/65R17 on a 2020 Toyota RAV4 AWD LE, tires bought through Tire Rack, tax excluded. Those are fitting prices for tires bought online. We no longer fit tires bought elsewhere; we supply them.

For repair, one mobile operator publishes a figure. 24-7 Mobile Tire Repair Service, based in West Hollywood, a separate incorporated city, lists "TIRE REPAIR STARTING AT $120" and names Hollywood in its service area, then adds "PRICING DEPENDS ON AVAILABILTY AND YOUR LOCATION" (their spelling). That is a starting price, not a quote.

What we do not do

We supply the tires we fit. Fitting tires bought elsewhere was withdrawn on 2026-09-20. No alignment, no rotation on its own, no balancing on its own, no brakes, no emergency roadside. No work in a red zone, a bus lane or a traffic lane on the boulevard.

Our price

A mobile puncture repair is $145 for the first tire and $50 for each extra tire on the same visit, subject to inspection on site. Wheel off, tire demounted and inspected from the inside, plug and patch to the industry method, remount, rebalance, TPMS reset where supported, refit. Not repairable, no repair charge. Fitting new tires we supply is $400 a visit for one to four tires, mounting, balancing and disposal included; the tires are priced on top. No separate call-out fee.

Questions people ask

• Can you work in my building's garage? If the building agrees and there is room at one corner of the car.
• Slow leak on a car that barely moves? Slow leak tire repair in Los Angeles and a tire losing air with no nail.
• Nail in the tread? A nail in a tire in Los Angeles.
• Electric car? EV and run-flat tires.
• Nearby? Echo Park and Silver Lake, Koreatown and West Los Angeles and Sawtelle.
• Flat now? Flat tire repair in Los Angeles and mobile tire repair in Los Angeles.
• What does it cost elsewhere? Tire repair cost in Los Angeles.

Figures on this page were checked on 2026-09-20.