Jaguar Tyres Fitted at Your Door

205/55 R17 on the entry car, 225/45 R18 on the middle of the range, and 225/40 R19 on the front with 255/35 R19 on the rear of the sportier trims. The 19 inch car has different sizes front and back.

The plate in the driver door shut lists the size and pressure for the wheel the car left the factory on. That is the figure we work from, because a second owner may have changed the wheels.

Send the registration and tell us which corner is flat. See tyre sizes.

Because the XE, XF and F-Type are rear wheel drive and Jaguar fits a staggered setup from 19 inch upward to put more rubber under the driven axle. The rears carry the power and the weight transfer under acceleration.

It means the rears wear faster than the fronts and cannot be swapped front to rear to even that out, so the rear pair comes up for replacement on its own.

If one rear is going much faster than the other, or wearing on the inner edge, the alignment wants checking. See uneven tyre wear.

Most do. The F-Pace was generally supplied with a space saver under the boot floor, though some trims and years came with a sealant kit instead, and a previous owner may have removed it. Lift the floor and look before you need it.

The I-Pace has no spare at all, because the battery takes the space, and the XE and XF usually have a space saver. A space saver is limited to 50 mph and to getting you home.

A 24 hour mobile fitter makes the question academic. See no spare wheel, what to do.

235/65 R18, 245/50 R20 or 255/40 R22 by wheel, and always in the load index on the plate. The I-Pace weighs well over two tonnes and puts electric torque through all four wheels, so a tyre with a lower load index than specified is not an option.

EV specific tyres with a stiffer construction and lower rolling resistance are what the car was developed on, and they hold the range better than a conventional tyre in the same size.

See EV tyres explained for what the difference is.

Almost always a dead sensor. Every Jaguar has a battery powered sensor in each wheel, the battery is sealed and lasts roughly five to ten years, and on a car over about seven years old they start failing one at a time.

The dashboard will usually show a pressure for three wheels and a blank or a fault for the fourth, which tells you which sensor has gone.

A replacement sensor is a part cost rather than labour. See TPMS sensor replacement for what the job involves.

Jaguar did not fit run flats as standard, and the suspension was not set up for them, so we would not recommend adding them. The car was tuned around a conventional tyre and a run flat makes it ride noticeably harder.

If the concern is being stranded without a spare, a 24 hour mobile fitter solves that without changing how the car drives.

If you do have run flats on a used car, check the plate, because the size and load index still need to match. See tyre sizes.

In the tool tray under the boot floor on most XE, XF and F-Pace, sometimes in the glovebox, and it is a coded key with a number on it. Find it before you book, because a missing key is what stops a mobile job.

Jaguar keys round off when a previous fitter has used an impact gun on them. If yours looks chewed, tell us when you book so we arrive prepared.

If the key is lost, the code lets a dealer supply a new one. See locking wheel nut removal for what we can do in the meantime.

It should not, and it can if the job is rushed. Jaguar has a sensor inside every wheel, and a sensor sits exactly where a tyre machine works. That is true of every Jaguar in the current parc, from the XE to the I-Pace, and the dashboard shows a real pressure for each wheel.

The sensors also have a non-replaceable battery that typically lasts five to ten years, so on an older car one may already be dead before we touch it. We check and tell you first.

A valve service kit at each tyre change is cheap insurance. See TPMS sensor replacement.

Yes. The plate in the driver's door shut gives two sets of figures, one for normal use and a higher one for a fully laden car, and the gap between them is not trivial.

On a Jaguar carrying weight, running the unladen figure builds heat in the tyre, and heat is what destroys tyres rather than mileage.

If you load and unload regularly, it is usually easier to set to the laden figure and accept a slightly firmer ride. See tyre pressures explained.

Usually the glovebox, the boot well alongside the jack, or under the parcel shelf. Have a look before you book rather than when we arrive.

This is genuinely the commonest reason a mobile job stops halfway. The key is made softer than the nut on purpose, so it rounds off if somebody has previously tightened the nuts with an impact gun.

Tell us if yours looks chewed and we will come prepared. See seized and locking wheel nuts.

In our core area we average around 32 minutes. Outside it, or on an unusual size that has to be ordered, we will give you an honest time rather than an optimistic one.

We work every hour of every day, including Sundays and the middle of the night, which is when a flat tyre is least convenient and most garages are shut.

Send your postcode with the size on WhatsApp and we will tell you realistically when we can be there.

Because it would be wrong within a month. Tyre prices move with the market and with the size, and a figure printed here would end up misleading somebody.

What we will commit to is what the figure includes: the tyre, the fitting, a new valve, balancing, setting the pressures and disposal, with no call-out fee.

Send the size and you get a real number for your actual car in a few minutes rather than a range.

The rears on a rear wheel drive XE, XF or F-Type often go in 12,000 to 18,000 miles, with the fronts lasting roughly twice that. On an F-Pace or I-Pace the weight and the wide 20 inch tyre bring the whole set down together.

Because the staggered cars cannot rotate front to rear, expect to buy rear pairs more often than full sets. Alignment and pressure decide more of it than the brand.

See how long tyres last and wheel balancing for the vibration that appears on a big wheel.