Aldan is 2.6 miles from Philadelphia Tire Shop at 6821 Woodland Ave, and the job that makes that drive worthwhile is a full mount-and-balance rather than a single patch — mounting a new set needs a tire changer and a balancer, equipment a roadside fix can't replace, and it's what the shop is set up to do well.
A full set of new tires is the job most worth the trip from Aldan — mounting and balancing four wheels properly takes a machine that centers and spins each tire to find the light spot, then adds weights to correct it. Skip that step and a car humming at highway speed is the result, not a defect in the tire itself.
Two of Philadelphia Tire Shop's other covered stops sit closer to Aldan than the shop itself does: Lansdowne, 1.4 miles off, and Glenolden, another 1.5 miles past that. Aldan is 2.6 miles from the shop at 6821 Woodland Ave, which is the number that matters for how long the actual trip takes.
Is it worth the drive for one tire, or better to wait for a full set?
A single tire swap is a smaller job and doesn't need the full mount-and-balance process to the same degree — matching the diameter to the other three still matters, but there's less to gain from timing it around a shop visit. A full set replacement is where the equipment actually pays off: all four tires balanced together keeps the ride even instead of hunting for a match on worn ones.
Uneven wear from a bad alignment shows up faster on a set that wasn't balanced evenly in the first place, so a full-set job is also a decent moment to ask about alignment if the old tires wore unevenly on one edge.
What's actually near Aldan, if not the shop itself?
Lansdowne and Glenolden are both closer to Aldan than Philadelphia Tire Shop's own address is, which sometimes confuses people searching by neighborhood name. All three are the same shop and the same phone number — the distinction is which name matches the address, not which one gets better service.
Can a full set of tires be mounted and balanced from Aldan?
Yes — that's the job Aldan trips are most often for. Bring the vehicle in and expect the shop to balance all four together rather than one at a time, since matched balancing is what keeps the ride smooth.
Is Lansdowne or Glenolden closer to Aldan?
Lansdowne is 1.4 miles from Aldan; Glenolden is 1.5 miles, just a tenth of a mile farther. Both are close enough that either could describe the same address.
How far is Aldan from the shop?
Aldan is 2.6 miles from Philadelphia Tire Shop at 6821 Woodland Ave.