Vulcanizados Lanzas

Vulcanizados Lanzas is the tyre workshop of Torre del Mar, on Carrera de las Angustias, selling, fitting and repairing. Its 4.8 over 329 reviews is the largest base of opinion of any workshop in the town and one of the largest of any trade here.

Tyres are bought by everybody and remembered by nobody, which makes that number unusual. It is the profile of a place that does a quick job well, over and over, for twenty years.

Two things about tyres on this coast

Heat and standing still. Tarmac in August is punishing, and an underinflated tyre at forty degrees is how a holiday drive ends on the hard shoulder of the motorway to Málaga. Check the pressures before a long trip rather than after.

And if your car sits unused for months while you are abroad, the tyres develop flat spots and the rubber ages regardless of the tread depth. A tyre with plenty of tread and eight years on it is not a good tyre. The date is stamped on the sidewall, and any workshop will read it for you in a minute.