What tire repair costs in Los Angeles

Fitting prices in this city are published. Repair prices largely are not, and we are going to be precise about that gap rather than paper over it.

Below is every Los Angeles figure we could read at source on 2026-09-20, with the arithmetic shown. Where we could not get a number, the page says so.

The state fee your invoice has to show separately

Start with the one line California legislates.

Public Resources Code 42885, the California Tire Recycling Act, puts a $1.75 fee on each new tire:

(b)(1) A person who purchases a new tire, as defined in subdivision (g), shall pay a California tire fee of one dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75) per tire. (2) The retail seller shall charge the retail purchaser the amount of the California tire fee as a charge that is separate from, and not included in, any other fee, charge, or other amount paid by the retail purchaser.

And then the part that makes it a useful tool for checking a quote — subdivision (d):

The California tire fee imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be separately stated by the retail seller on the invoice given to the customer at the time of sale. Any other disposal or transaction fee charged by the retail seller related to the tire purchase shall be identified separately from the California tire fee.

Two things follow. First, a Los Angeles tire invoice that rolls disposal into a single vague "shop fee" is not doing what the statute asks. Second, if a quote shows a large "tire fee", ask which part of it is the statutory $1.75 and which part is the seller's own disposal charge, because the statute requires them to be shown apart.

The fee applies to a new tire, including the spare, and does not include "retreaded, reused, or recycled tires". It does not apply to a puncture repair at all — the fee is on the sale of a tire, and a repair does not sell you one. The current version was amended by SB 175 in 2024 and remains in effect until 1 January 2034.

The mobile fitting market, same job, same day

All three mobile installers in Tire Rack's Los Angeles directory were quoted for the identical job on 2026-09-20: four Michelin CrossClimate2 in 225/65R17 fitted to a 2020 Toyota RAV4 AWD LE at an address in the Los Angeles area, tires supplied by Tire Rack, California sales tax excluded. These are fitting prices. The tires are extra.

Mobile installer	Displayed total, four tires	How it is built
The Mobile Tire Shop, Granada Hills	$197.00	4 × $35.00 mount and balance by 17-inch wheel diameter, + 4 × $3.00 disposal, + $45.00 mobile service fee
ZIPTIRE Mobile, Glassell Park	$229.00	4 × $40.00 mount and balance, + 4 × $3.50 disposal, + $55.00 mobile service fee
Tire Rack Mobile Installation, Santa Fe Springs	$240.00	4 × $60.00 mount and balance, disposal free, no separate service fee

Each displayed total reconciles exactly to its own itemised card. The spread from cheapest to dearest is $43.00, or 1.22 times (DERIVED: 240 − 197 = 43; 240 ÷ 197 = 1.218).

Four caveats travel with that table and none of them is optional. The $197.00 is only purchasable in the San Fernando Valley: The Mobile Tire Shop appears in the Tire Rack directory for 91331 and 91367 and does not appear for 90015, 90291 or 90731. None of the three figures includes California sales tax. None includes a TPMS relearn where a vehicle needs one. And Tire Rack Mobile Installation's own page is registered in Santa Fe Springs, which is Los Angeles County and not the City of Los Angeles, though it quoted $240.00 in all five Los Angeles ZIP lists we read.

Do not add Tire Rack's $120 to anything

This one is worth a heading because it is the easiest $120 error in the city to make.

Tire Rack Mobile Installation's rate card begins "Minimum Charge (per visit) $120.00". That is a floor, not an additive fee. Its own itemised quote for the four-tire job reads "Standard Installation Costs - Size 60 and Higher Tires (qty 4) $240.00 - TPMS Rebuild Kit Free - Disposal Fee Free" and then "Installation Total for 4 Items $240.00". Four tires at $60 is $240 and nothing is added.

Where the minimum actually bites is a small visit. One tire at $60 or two at $120 would fall at or below the floor, so a one-tire call costs $120 rather than $60. ZIPTIRE publishes a $125.00 minimum that behaves the same way — its four-tire total of $229.00 has no minimum applied, because $160 + $14 + $55 already clears it. The Mobile Tire Shop publishes no minimum-charge line at all.

If you are having one tire fitted rather than four, that floor is the number to ask about.

Tire Rack's own advertised price against its own Los Angeles card

Tire Rack's national mobile-installation page, read on 2026-09-20, says under the heading AFFORDABLE:

Mobile installation may feel like a luxury, but our prices won't break the bank. On-site tire installation prices start at just $40 a tire.

Its Los Angeles rate card, read the same day, charges $60.00 a tire at every sidewall aspect-ratio band — 0-35, 40-45, 50-55 and 60-plus. That is 1.50 times the advertised starting price (DERIVED: 60 ÷ 40 = 1.50).

We are publishing both figures with the date and leaving it there. We have checked two of Tire Rack's markets and not all of them, so we do not know where the $40 card rate is charged, and we are not going to claim it exists nowhere.

The same national page describes what the service includes — "Full Tire Inspection, Premium Brand Tire Delivery, Tire Recycling or Disposal, Tire Mounting and Balancing" — and states "Our trained technicians can install each tire in about 15 minutes". Our Tire Rack comparison is the national version of this.

What the fixed shops charge, and the real floor

The same five Los Angeles directory lists price fixed shops for the same job. Across the 100 installer entries in those five lists, the cheapest displayed total is Jiffy Lube #2772 in Woodland Hills at $72.00, and the next cheapest is Pep Boys at $110.00, appearing at that figure at fourteen distinct store numbers. That is 34.5 percent below the next entry (DERIVED: 1 − 72 ÷ 110 = 0.345), ranked over those 100 entries and nothing wider.

Above them the spread is wide and fairly uniform inside each brand: LA Auto Center $115.96; Liberty Tires and America's Tire $116.00; Mountain View Tire and The Tire Choice $118.74; American Tire Depot and Big Brand Tire $135.96; Firestone Complete Auto Care $145.20; Meineke, Hank's Tire Service and Supersport Tires $160.00; Tirefella $176.00; Byron Woodley Tire $180.00; West Coast Tire $216.00; P Zero World $229.80; Davis Bros Tire $240.00; Ray Deeter Tire Town $273.00. From cheapest to dearest entry in those five lists that is a factor of 3.8 (DERIVED: 273 ÷ 72 = 3.79).

So the mobile premium in this city, at the published extremes of the 90015 list: ZIPTIRE at $229.00 against Pep Boys at $110.00 is $119.00 more, or 2.08 times (DERIVED: 229 − 110 = 119; 229 ÷ 110 = 2.08). Measured against the cheapest mobile total anywhere in the five lists, The Mobile Tire Shop's $197.00 in the Valley, the premium over Pep Boys is $87.00, or 1.79 times.

Two published restrictions worth carrying, quoted from the listings: Supersport Tires, "TPMS Initialization and relearn service fees are not included in mount and balance quotations"; Liberty Tires, "Tire installations for LT equipped Trucks and SUVs are $40 each. Please call for specifics."

Repair prices, and the honest size of the gap

None of the three mobile installers above publishes a price for a mobile puncture repair. Two of them — ZIPTIRE and The Mobile Tire Shop — list "TIRE REPAIR" under other services offered and put no figure against it. Tire Rack Mobile Installation does not offer repair.

The one published Los Angeles-area mobile repair price we found is from 24-7 Mobile Tire Repair Service West Hollywood, whose services page reads:

TIRE REPAIR STARTING AT $120 - Got a nail or a screw? Our mobile tire repair services are here to help!

and, a few lines down, qualifies all of its prices: "PLEASE NOTE THE PRICING DEPENDS ON AVAILABILTY AND YOUR LOCATION" (their spelling). The same page lists "NEW TIRE REPLACEMENT STARTING AT $280" for one tire delivered and fitted, and gives the firm's service area as "West Hollywood and its surrounding areas ... Beverly Hills, Hollywood, West LA, and the greater Los Angeles region".

Use that number carefully and we will too. It is a starting price, not a quote. It carries the company's own availability-and-location caveat. And West Hollywood is a separate incorporated city inside Los Angeles County rather than a neighbourhood of the City of Los Angeles. It is one published figure from one operator, and it is not a Los Angeles market rate.

The free option nobody mentions

A realistic alternative to paying for a repair in Los Angeles is not another van. Discount Tire trades here as America's Tire, and its mobile-installation page states, verbatim and nationally:

Does America's Tire offer mobile tire repair near me? We don't offer mobile tire repair at this time. However, as our mobile tire services grow and expand, we may offer mobile tire repair in the future. That said, we offer free flat tire repairs at every single one of our 1,200-plus stores!

That free counter repair is available at America's Tire stores across Los Angeles. What is not available anywhere in this state is their mobile programme: the same page publishes its full participating-store list, which on 2026-09-20 held 84 stores across eight states — Texas 39, Arizona 19, Illinois 14, Florida 4, Minnesota 3, Missouri 2, South Carolina 2, North Carolina 1 — with no California store on it. The page separately describes the mobile fee nationally as "as low as $50 extra for most stores offering this service", adding that "This price is in addition to the regular Installation & Life of Tire Maintenance fee in cart". None of that is purchasable in Los Angeles.

If you can get the car to a counter and wait, that free repair is a genuinely good option and we would rather say so. Free flat tire repair covers what those offers include, and mobile fitting against driving to a shop covers what the trip costs you. Our Discount Tire comparison is the national page.

What actually sits inside a repair price

A mobile puncture repair has to cover travelling to the car, taking the wheel off, demounting the tire, inspecting the inner liner, fitting a plug and a patch together, remounting, rebalancing that wheel, resetting the TPMS where supported, and setting the pressure to the door placard. Under the US Tire Manufacturers Association standard the inspection is part of the repair, not an extra: tread area only, nothing wider than a quarter of an inch, tire off the wheel.

Press any quote on that inspection. A repair price that assumes the tire stays on the wheel is not a repair price.

Our price: $145

A mobile puncture repair is $145 for the first tire and $50 for each additional tire in the same visit. That is a price, not a range and not a starting point, and there is no separate call-out fee added afterwards. It buys the trip out, the wheel off, the tire off the rim, an inspection of the inner liner, a plug and patch fitted to the industry standard, remounting, rebalancing, a TPMS reset where the vehicle supports it, and the pressure set to the placard and written on the invoice.

If the tire cannot be repaired safely, you pay for the inspection and not for the repair. Establishing repairability means coming to the car, taking the wheel off and getting the tire off the rim, and that work happens either way. You then decide whether to replace, and we can supply and fit on the same visit. We do not fit tires bought elsewhere and we do not sell used tires.

One honest comparison note. The fitting totals above are installation-only prices for tires bought from Tire Rack. We sell the tire and fit it in one price, so our replacement number is not the same kind of number as a $197 or a $240 rate card and we are not going to line them up as though it were. What mobile tire replacement costs and the tire quote checker are the tools for that side.

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

Questions people ask

• What is the California tire fee? $1.75 per new tire under Public Resources Code 42885. The statute requires it to be stated separately on your invoice, and requires any other disposal or transaction fee to be identified separately from it.
• Does the tire fee apply to a repair? No. It is charged on the purchase of a new tire, including a spare. A puncture repair does not carry it.
• Is Tire Rack's $120 minimum added to the price of four tires? No. Its own quote for four tires totals $240.00, which is 4 × $60.00 with disposal free. The $120.00 is a per-visit floor that only bites on a one- or two-tire visit.
• What is the cheapest mobile fitting in Los Angeles? Of the three mobile installers in Tire Rack's Los Angeles directory, The Mobile Tire Shop at $197.00 for four was the cheapest on 2026-09-20 — and it appeared only in the San Fernando Valley ZIP lists we read, not the Westside, Downtown or Harbor ones.
• Why will nobody quote me a repair price over the phone? Because repairability is decided by the inside of the tire. Most Los Angeles mobile operators do not publish a repair price at all. We publish ours, and we charge for the inspection rather than for a repair we could not do.
• Can I get a flat repaired free in Los Angeles? America's Tire's own page says it offers free flat tire repairs at every one of its 1,200-plus stores. That is at the counter, not at your kerb — its mobile programme has no California store on its published list.