Street sweeping decides when we can work on your street

Every mobile tire business says it comes to you. Very few of them say what happens when the place you keep the car is a kerb with a sign on it, and in Los Angeles that is the whole operational question.

So here it is in plain terms: we check the posted street-sweeping schedule for your block before we confirm a slot. If the window you asked for is a sweeping window, we will say so and offer you one that is not.

The number behind that sentence

The City of Los Angeles publishes its parking citations as an open dataset. In calendar 2025 the city issued 2,036,629 parking citations. The largest single category, by a wide margin, was "NO PARK/STREET CLEAN" at 524,709 — 25.8 percent of everything written in the year (DERIVED: 524,709 divided by 2,036,629).

The rest of the top of that list, for scale: red zone 252,940, expired meter 244,440, preferential parking 131,535, display of plates 129,255, exclusive for buses 110,398.

More than half a million times last year, somebody in this city left a car at a kerb that was about to be swept. A van parked beside that car for forty-five minutes sits in exactly the same posted window.

That is why this page exists, and why the sweeping question is asked in the booking flow rather than left to the technician on the day.

Why it is not just your ticket at stake

Three separate things go wrong when a sweeping window is missed on a tire visit.

Your car gets a ticket. The obvious one, and the one you would have had anyway.

Our van gets a ticket. We are a second vehicle standing at the same kerb for the length of the job, and there is no exemption that covers us.

The job gets abandoned halfway. This is the expensive one. A wheel off the car is not a state you can drive out of. If a sweeper is coming and the tire is on the ground next to the jack, nobody involved has a good option. That is why we resolve the window before the appointment exists, not when the technician arrives.

What we need from the space itself

Level, paved, legal ground with room to work at one corner of the car. Not the whole car — one corner at a time, with enough clearance to swing a wheel out and get a machine alongside.

That rules out a few things people ask about:

• A sloped street where the car will not sit safely on a jack. Los Angeles has plenty of those and we will tell you if yours is one. We do not have a gradient figure for any neighbourhood and we are not going to invent one; the technician's judgement on the day is the test.
• A subterranean garage with a height bar the van cannot clear, or a building that does not allow work in the structure.
• A red zone, a bus zone, a loading zone during its hours, or a permit space we cannot legally occupy.

If we arrive and the space is not safe or legal to work in, that visit is not charged. How to prepare for a mobile tire visit is the checklist, and it is short.

Nobody knows how many Los Angeles homes have a driveway

You would expect this to be answerable and it is not. The American Community Survey has no garage or off-street-parking variable, and the City of Los Angeles publishes no garage count. On top of that, the city has spent years permitting garage conversions into accessory dwelling units, so even a historical count would overstate what survives.

So we will not tell you what share of this city parks off-street. Anybody who gives you that figure has made it up.

What the Census does measure is the housing stock, and it is a proxy and nothing more. Citywide, of 1,439,097 occupied housing units, 36.1 percent are one-unit detached, 5.9 percent one-unit attached and 16.6 percent sit in buildings of 50 units or more. 36.0 percent are owner-occupied and 64.0 percent renter-occupied. That tells you the shape of the city. It does not tell you whether there is a driveway behind your building, which is why we ask you.

And there are a lot of cars per kerb

Citywide, 16.3 percent of households keep three or more vehicles. In 91331, Pacoima and Arleta, it is 44.2 percent — 4,727 households with three plus 5,531 with four or more, out of 23,227 (DERIVED) — with 23.8 percent keeping four or more.

Those cars have to stand somewhere, and in much of the San Fernando Valley the answer is the street. That is the practical reason a Valley booking and a Westside booking are different jobs even when the service is identical. See Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Venice, Koreatown and Downtown for what a visit looks like in each.

The road they stand on is often not in great shape either. The StreetsLA street inventory, cut dated 1 June 2026, grades 19.3 percent of the city's 6,575.04 centreline miles as Poor (DERIVED: 1,266.34 divided by 6,575.04). A nail in the tire has the neighbourhood-level version of that, and it is not the ranking you would guess.

What the visit looks like once the window is agreed

1. We confirm the address, the space and the sweeping window when you book.
2. The technician arrives inside the agreed window with the tires already on board.
3. Pressures measured against the door placard on all four tires, before anything else. California's 17 CCR 95550 requires that check and inflate at the time of any maintenance or repair service, requires the measured pressures on the invoice, and requires a gauge accurate to within 2 psi.
4. One corner at a time: wheel off, work done, wheel back on, torqued.
5. TPMS reset where the vehicle supports it at the roadside, pressures set to the placard and recorded on the invoice.

For a repair, the tire comes off the rim and the inner liner is inspected before anything is charged for fixing it — tread area only, nothing wider than a quarter of an inch, plug and patch together, which is the US Tire Manufacturers Association standard. For a replacement, we supply the tires we fit. We do not fit tires bought elsewhere and we do not sell used tires.

Our price: $145

A mobile puncture repair is $145 for the first tire and $50 for each additional tire in the same visit. Replacement is priced on screen before you give us a phone number. Either way there is no separate call-out fee: the visit is inside the number you saw, not added afterwards. If the space turns out not to be workable, that visit is not charged.

More Los Angeles pages: mobile tire repair, flat tire repair, who is open now, what repair costs, tire age, the California tread law, Valley against coastal heat, and our Los Angeles service area.

Questions people ask

• Will you park in my street-sweeping window? No. We check the posted schedule for your block before confirming the slot and offer you a window that is not a sweeping window.
• Can you work at the kerb at all? Yes, where the space is legal, level, paved and has room at one corner of the car. Kerbside is a normal Los Angeles booking for us; the sign is the thing we check first.
• What if my building's garage is too low for the van? Then we work outside it. Tell us when you book so we plan the space rather than discovering it.
• Do I get charged if you turn up and cannot work? No. If we arrive and the space is not safe or legal to work in, that visit is not charged.
• How common are sweeping tickets really? 524,709 of the 2,036,629 parking citations the city issued in 2025 were for street cleaning — 25.8 percent, and the largest single category that year.
• Does my neighbourhood have off-street parking? We cannot tell you from data, and neither can anyone else: the Census has no garage variable and the city publishes no garage count. Tell us what your building actually has and we will plan around it.