Roadside tyre help on the Riviera
Flat tyre in Nice? We'll come up the hill or down the coast road.
Whether it happened outside a hotel on the Promenade des Anglais, in a car park after landing at the airport, or halfway up a hillside street toward Cimiez, a fully equipped van reaches you around the clock and repairs or fits a replacement tyre where the car actually is. Nothing gets towed. Prices start from €79.
Call anytime, day or night
Appeler le 04 22 13 24 11From abroad: dial +33422132411 — the French country code is +33
Landing at the airport, then straight into traffic
Nice Côte d'Azur is the busiest airport on the French Riviera, and plenty of visitors pick up a hire car there before joining the coast road into town. A flat discovered in the rental car park, or a slow puncture that only shows up a mile down the Promenade, is one of the more common calls we get from people who've just landed. The technician meets you wherever the car is sitting, including on a multi-storey parking level.
Once you're through the airport traffic and into the older parts of town, the streets around the flower market and the base of the Château hill narrow quickly — one reason the workshop van is kept deliberately compact.
The corniche roads and the hills above town
Three roads run along the cliffs between Nice and Monaco — the lower corniche at sea level, the middle corniche cut into the rock, and the upper corniche higher still, all hairpin bends, short tunnels and almost nowhere wide enough to pull over safely. The residential hills inside Nice itself, around Mont Boron and Cimiez, aren't much gentler. If a tyre gives out on one of these roads, the technician comes to wherever you've managed to stop rather than asking you to limp back down to flatter ground first.
What's included, and where the road rules stop us
Fixing a puncture, fitting new tyres (always in pairs on the same axle), swapping a dead 12V battery, mounting a spare wheel — all of it happens wherever your car, hired or your own, is actually parked around Nice. Two things stay off the table: towing, and touching a wheel on the tarmac of the A8 itself. Stopped in a live lane or on the safety strip, French law hands that job exclusively to licensed highway patrols — call 112 or use one of the roadside SOS posts along the barrier. Roll off at the next junction, or into a car park just past the toll gate, and we take over as normal.
Calling from outside France
Dial +33422132411 (the country code +33 followed by the number without its leading zero) on an international line, or 04 22 13 24 11 with a French SIM or Wi-Fi calling. Calls are answered in French, but English is generally understood well enough to sort out where you are and what's wrong. Have the hotel name, street, or car park level ready, plus the tyre size from the sidewall if you can read it.
A puncture repair runs from €79, fitting a tyre you've sourced yourself is €35 per wheel, and swapping a dead battery is €149. Any surcharge for night work, a Sunday or a public holiday is always named on the phone first — never sprung on you afterwards. Full details in French are on our pricing page and the Nice service page.
FAQ
Questions from visitors
We're staying in a villa up in the hills, past a private gate — is that a problem?
Not usually. Most residential roads above Nice, gated or not, are wide enough for the van. Give the entry code or the caretaker's contact when you call, and mention if the last stretch is a steep, narrow driveway — that helps the technician bring the right kit up on the first attempt rather than walking back for it.
It's a hire car and due back at the airport desk in a few hours — can you still sort it in time?
Usually, yes, if you call as soon as you notice the problem rather than after trying to reach the airport on a damaged tyre. Tell us the return deadline straight away; we'll give you an honest estimate on the phone rather than a guess, and repairing or fitting a replacement on the spot is normally faster than queuing at a rental counter.
I've broken down on the A8 near Nice, do you come onto the motorway?
By law, no — not in a live lane, on a ramp, or on the safety strip; that stretch belongs to the licensed highway patrol, reachable on 112 or from an SOS post along the barrier. Get the car off the A8 — onto the next exit toward Monaco, say, or into a car park just beyond it — and we come to you exactly as we would anywhere else around Nice.