Tire Shop & Auto Repair, New Westminster
New Westminster

Same-day tire installation is a service where the shop stocks your exact tire size, load rating, and speed rating on the premises, so mounting, balancing, and fitting are all completed in a single visit.

Finding the right rubber for your vehicle should not take all day. Tire Point Automotive keeps more than 7,000 all-season, all-weather, and winter tires on the premises — one of the largest in-house inventories in the Lower Mainland. From subcompact city cars and crossover SUVs to full-size pickup trucks and motorhomes, we carry the right size and load rating to fit your exact make and model on the spot.

Every purchase includes professional mounting, computerised balancing, and a visual alignment check. If you are shopping for four new tires, ask about our buy-four deal that bundles installation at no extra charge. Our team can also advise on tread compound differences — soft-compound winter tires for icy Burnaby hills versus harder all-season options for highway commuters headed to Vancouver or Surrey. Note that B.C.'s winter tire regulations require tires marked M+S or with the 3-peak mountain snowflake symbol on most highways from October 1 to April 30.

Brake repair is the inspection, measurement, and replacement of worn pads, rotors, callipers, and hydraulic fluid to restore a vehicle's full stopping power.

Squealing, grinding, or a mushy pedal are clear signals your braking system needs a professional look. At Tire Point Automotive we begin every brake appointment by physically examining pads, rotors, callipers, hoses, and fluid quality. We mic-measure each rotor for remaining material and check lateral run-out, then walk you through whether machining the disc will return firm, confident stops or whether fitting new hardware is the more cost-effective path forward.

Pad choice matters: quieter ceramic sets suit stop-and-go city commuting, while harder semi-metallic compounds hold up better under towing and heavy loads — and we keep both on the shelf. A full brake job at our shop includes fresh hydraulic fluid as well: brake fluid gradually soaks up moisture, and wet fluid boils sooner under sustained hard braking — something we watch for closely given the long grades our customers descend out of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.

An oil change is the scheduled replacement of engine oil and the oil filter, which protects internal engine components from friction, heat, and wear.

Regular oil changes are the single most effective step you can take to extend engine life. We offer both conventional and full-synthetic options, selected to match your manufacturer's specifications. Full-synthetic lubricants handle extreme temperature swings better, which matters during BC's cold snaps and summer highway drives alike.

Every oil change includes a new filter plus a fluid-level check on power steering, engine coolant, and windshield wash — along with a visual scan of belts and hoses for cracking or wear. Most vehicles are back on the road within 30 minutes. For city driving around New Westminster, we typically recommend a 5,000–8,000 km interval, since frequent braking and idling breaks down lubricants faster than steady highway cruising. Natural Resources Canada confirms that regular oil and filter maintenance keeps an engine running efficiently and reduces fuel consumption.

An out-of-province inspection is a provincially mandated safety examination that a vehicle from another province or country must pass before it can be registered and insured in British Columbia.

Registering an out-of-province car with ICBC, signing up to drive Uber, or importing a Japanese domestic-market vehicle? British Columbia requires a provincial safety inspection before any of those can happen. Our New Westminster facility holds BC-designated authority for Out-of-Province, Uber/Taxi, Commercial, JDM import, and Pre-Purchase certificates — every report is signed and issued in-house.

Each evaluation follows the guidelines published by the BC Ministry of Transportation. Our checklist runs through the braking system, steering linkages, suspension components, every exterior lamp, tailpipe emissions, frame and chassis soundness, and windshield glass. If the inspection flags a problem — a perished brake hose, play developing in a ball joint, or a tie-rod end past its tolerance — we walk you out to the hoist, show you the exact part with your own eyes, and put a firm number on the repair before a single bolt is turned. Give us the go-ahead and we carry out the repair the same visit, then re-test it against the certificate standard so you leave with the pass in hand.

Engine diagnostics is the process of reading a vehicle's on-board computer (OBD-II) fault codes and tracing them to a root cause, rather than simply clearing the warning light.

That amber check-engine warning could flag something as minor as a loose fuel cap or as serious as a deteriorating catalytic converter. Putting it off often turns a small fix into a major bill. Our shop connects factory-grade OBD-II scanners that pull every stored trouble code from your vehicle’s ECU — spanning the powertrain, gearbox, anti-lock brake, and emissions control modules.

We do more than read codes and reset the dashboard light. Each fault is traced to a root cause through live data streams, freeze-frame readings, and physical component testing. Day-to-day, that means tracking down rough idles and cylinder misfires, lazy O2 sensors, leaky EVAP charcoal canisters, and faulty MAF readings. When a vehicle refuses to crank, we walk the entire cranking circuit as well — drained batteries, corroded cable lugs, worn-out starter motors, and fuel pumps that have lost pressure.

A flat tire repair is a permanent inside-the-tire patch-plug that seals punctures in the tread area and returns the tire to full highway-speed service.

A flat never picks a good moment. Pick up a screw on Columbia Street or clip a winter pothole on the Pattullo on-ramp and you can roll straight in — if the hole sits in the tread, we dismount the tire and seal it from the inside with a combined patch-and-plug repair while you wait, instead of the throwaway string plugs used at the roadside. Before the wheel goes back on, we gauge tread depth and check the sidewall for hidden flex damage so the repair holds at highway speed on Highway 1.

Some flats are beyond a safe repair. Sidewall punctures, bead damage, and tread worn past the 1.6 mm limit referenced in Transport Canada's tire safety standards all mean the tire has to come off for good — and when that happens, a replacement is usually sitting on our own racks, since we keep more than 7,000 tires on site. Because we stock all-season, all-weather, and winter sizes for passenger cars, SUVs, and light trucks, you can drive away on a brand-new tire the same visit — no ordering or second appointment needed.