New start up ideas

tyres are a pretty cut throat industry with poor margins and the internet sales/mobile fitting lark has been done to death-e tyres for instance.as for stock most of em operate by ordering online,delivering to a local shop/warehouse/customers home and they get fitted by a mobile guy from there,unless you wanna rent/insure/buy/alarm etc a unit of your own(cos tyres take up a fair bit of space and are relatively valuable and easily stolen and you are gonna need to have your next days work ready to go for the morning)i dont see that you could earn enuff to make it worth it-certainly not as self employed-as costings are driven by online prices which you are never gonna be able to compete with as a 1 man band.also keep in mind that an ever growing part of the market are leasing vehicles(and with leccy vehicle prices this is gonna increase)and they are typically limited to the major nationals for getting tyres as the firms concerned own big chunks of the lease firms-think ats/kwik fit etc-so you need to find a niche of some sort maybe focussing on one of the few growing segments like disability/elderly drivers for instance or perhaps nights if you are determined on this as a trade.

Probably the best advise once covid-19 settles down would be to set up a food business. At least its a guaranteed income and everyone needs food. 

Crapfit have motability contract sewn up like the lease cars they use fast fits we do use a lad Ian does mobile good lad to know when stuck  he gets his tyres off Debbie ( used to be called Derek had the operation ) no money in fitting tyres with the part worn etc to many at it and we have a tyre shop down the road and they do pick up s

There is no chance of everybody coming out of this with the same job they went in with, if they have a job at all. The help from the government has helped (and no more), but I fear that a lot of businesses that were on the cusp of survival, and not only in the motor trade, won't make it.