Mobile tire service in Baker, Denver

Denver does not publish pothole complaints by neighbourhood. It does publish them by council district, and Baker's district leads the city on both kinds. Over the five full years 2019 to 2023, District 7 filed 2,860 street pothole requests to Denver 311, the most of the eleven council districts. It also filed 485 alley pothole requests, again the most of the eleven, out of 2,273 alley requests citywide.

That second number is the Baker one. Baker's older grid is served by alleys, with a detached garage behind about a quarter of the housing, while the South Broadway frontage has none. If your car lives off the alley, that alley sits in the district that files more alley pothole complaints than any other in Denver.

6,604 people live here in 3,750 occupied units, 62.8% of them rented. We supply the tires and fit them where the car is parked, in Baker and across Denver. The price is on screen before you book, and there is no call-out fee.

Two pothole seasons, and the alley's is in summer

Across the whole city, street pothole requests over 2019 to 2023 peak in March, at 4,563, and bottom out in November, at 1,108. February to May carries 47.5% of the year. That lines up with Denver's freeze-thaw months and with March, its snowiest month.

Alley pothole requests do something else. They peak in August, at 299, and bottom out in January, at 93, with June to September carrying 45.4% of the year. The alley season arrives five months after the street season.

We do not know why. We looked for a city statement on how Denver's alleys are surfaced and found none, so we are not going to give you a reason. What the data does support is a calendar. The alley complaints climb through the summer, when the street complaints are falling.

What Denver does publish is how fast it fills potholes once they are reported. Across 9,363 repair tasks logged from December 2023 to September 2026, the median wait was 1.0 day and 92.4% closed within a week. That is fast. It does not straighten a bent rim afterwards.

Working off a Baker alley

We can often work at a garage apron off the alley, when it is level and paved and the van is not in anyone's way. Denver's parking fine schedule, dated 1 February 2022, lists "54-460 Alley parking" at $35.00 and "54-458 (2) Within 5-feet Alley/Driveway" at $35.00. We read that schedule, not the full ordinance text, so we will not tell you exactly what either line covers. We keep the alley clear and a neighbour's garage open, and if that is not possible, we ask you to bring the car round to the street for the slot.

The housing is a mix. 48.6% of units are in buildings of twenty or more, 23.7% are single family detached, 11.9% single family attached, 9.9% in two-to-four-unit buildings and 5.3% in buildings of five to nineteen. So a Baker job may be at a house, on the apron behind it, at the kerb, or in an apartment garage off Broadway. Tell us which.

Baker Area (BA) is one of Denver's 22 residential permit areas, with 32 designated street segments. We did not source its rules or prices, so if your block is signed for permit parking, tell us at booking and we will agree the space with you first.

The streets and the car

Denver DOTI's asset layer scores 215 street segments in Baker, averaging 70.5, with a worst of 36 and a best of 93. The layer publishes no survey date, so read it as a relative picture.

41.2% of working residents drive alone and 40.3% work at home. 13.9% of households keep no car, 48.6% keep one, 28.1% keep two and 9.5% keep three or more. Those who commute average 22.1 minutes.

A hard strike, in the alley or on the street, can damage a tire in ways a patch cannot fix. C.R.S. 42-4-228 lists "any bump, bulge, or knot affecting the tire structure" and "a break which exposes a tire body cord or is repaired with a boot or patch" among the conditions that make a tire unsafe in Colorado. We do not patch either. A bulge in the sidewall shows what to look for.

Where we are not the right answer

We supply the tires we fit, so a set bought elsewhere is out. We withdrew that service on 2026-09-20. No alignment, no rotation on its own, no balancing on its own, no brakes and no emergency roadside. We will not work on a gravel or broken alley surface or in a spot that blocks the alley. The street is fine instead.

What it costs

A mobile puncture repair is $145 for the first tire and $50 for each additional tire in the same visit, with no separate call-out fee. Wheel off, tire demounted and inspected from the inside, a plug and patch to the industry method, remount, rebalance, TPMS reset where the car supports it, and the wheel back on. If the tire cannot be repaired safely, we tell you there and you are not charged for the repair.

When a tire has to be replaced, installation is $400 for one visit covering one to four tires, with mounting, balancing and disposal included and the tires priced on the same screen. A seasonal changeover is $350 for a set on its own wheels and $390 for loose tires.

Questions people ask

• Can you work in the alley behind my house? On a level, paved apron that keeps the alley clear, usually yes. Otherwise at the kerb.
• I hit something in the alley and the tire is flat. Leave it parked: pothole damage in Denver and flat tire in your Denver driveway.
• The tire keeps losing air and I cannot see why. A slow leak in Denver.
• What does a repair cost in Denver? Tire repair cost in Denver.
• Is Civic Center covered? Yes: Civic Center and the Golden Triangle.
• Washington Park and Capitol Hill? Both covered: Washington Park and Capitol Hill.
• One tire or the pair? Repair or replace.

Figures on this page come from sources read on 2026-09-20. The page was written and checked against that research on 2026-09-21.