Cheap Tyres! (And tracking)

[Nonnie]

MY example: two Pirelli P6000 185/60R15 H. Supplied and fitted.

Kwik fit: £94 each
Vauxhall dealer: £68 each
www.tyre-shopper.com £64 each
www.blackcircles.com £58.57 each

black circles also do a 5% NHS discount, Airmiles or Shell plus points
tyre-shopper does Tesco club card points.

What they do is ship your tyres for a pre-arranged date and tyre to a centre local to you. You turn up, present your order confirmation email and voila.

And secondly...

Vauxhall tracking : £65

National Tyres: £22 with a free re-tracking at 30 days.

So in all... a potential transaction of £253 for only £131 (I also had three quid knocked off the tracking on presentation of my MOD ID card!)

[saintjanet]

I am constantly amazed at the vast difference in prices for the same thing.

I must be getting old but i can remember a time when things cost a similar price at most outlets.Sorry for the rant thanks for the info:D

[cwcw]

Have you tried http://www.tyrefitdirect.co.uk/index.php ?

They actually come out to your house or place of work and do them for you there and then. You can arrange the date and whether AM/PM. My girlfriend used them for her tyres and they were nearly half the price quoted at the local garage, plus much more convenient.

[MarkyMarkD]

Their prices don't look particularly good to me, cwcw. :(

[cwcw]

Their prices don't look particularly good to me, cwcw. :(

I suppose it depends on the tyre. My gf was quoted £80 a tyre for her Nissan Micra, compared to just under £50 a tyre on that website (including home delivery and fitting).

However, other sites I came across while shopping around for her included:

http://www.valuetyres.co.uk/default.php?gsl=1

http://www.bestbuytyres.co.uk/

http://ssl.delti.com/mytires/start.html

http://www.tyretraders.com/default.aspx

http://www.tyres-online.co.uk/


I remember some of the above being cheaper than Tyre Fit Direct, but not doing home delivery and fitting.

[highguyuk]

Need to use www.blackcircles.com/msn for BlackCircles.com. You can get a £5 voucher each time you use it, and therefore if you order each tyre individually and use a voucher off each one it can work out even cheaper :) ;)

[Altarf]

Cheap, but you can get cheaper. The Michelin Pilot Exalto 2 195/50 15 tyres I needed recently were £79.50 at Kwik-Fit, £56.68 Blackcircles, but £35.80 (including VAT, fitting, valve, balance, etc) at Costco.

[elantan]

dont know if this is ny help to anyone ...but ...we used to be £120 a tyre. and at costco £80a tyre...but just didnt have the money anymore ..nephew suggested we try a local brakers yard we tried it got brand new tyres with tracking for £50 might be worth a look if you dont have much money but need a new tyre

[Llyllyll]

Also mytyres.co.uk are very good. Using the OP's example of tyres these are £51.60 each inc. delivery (direct link (http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/reifendirekt.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=9740035.8970&typ=R-103566&dsco=10&ranzahl=4&nichtweiter=1)).

HTH

[Spankplanker]

After reading this thread, I booked a pair of tyres from http://www.tyrefitdirect.co.uk (http://www.tyrefitdirect.co.uk/index.php)

For 2 Firehawks + fitting, balancing, valve & disposal of old tyres, I was quoted £106.22, (£15 cheaper than the nearest quote, not to mention the convenience of mobile fitting).

However, on the day of fitting, as I'm waiting at home for them to come, I get a call to say that "their fitter's van has broken down & their nearest alternative will cost me an additional £30 call out fee!"

Sounds just bit dodgy to me; wonder if they've tried that on anyone else?

Well, no way I was paying for that, so I went to Farmer's who had the same tyres in stock for £20 cheaper than their internet quoted price!

[hewhoisnotintheknow]

kwik fit and the like are useless how there are still in business amazes me

[Ionkontrol]

http://www.event-tyres.co.uk/quotation/

[styloa]

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Sounds just bit dodgy to me; wonder if they've tried that on anyone else?
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I've used tyrefitdirect.co.uk in the past and had a pretty poor experience.

They fitted 4 tyres to our family car. All four keep going down and need pumping up every 2 to 3 weeks. Clearly a problem with the way they were fitted. Old tyres never needed pumping up.

The phone number in their email doesn't work. Eventually got their number of the web and called them up - four months after the tyres were fitted.

The response - "must be a problem with your rims". I pushed a bit more - "you took too long to let us know, we can't help you". A bit more of a push - "we would have to charge you to come out and fix that".

I spent nearly 800 quid with them. Never again. A crap job done the first time and rubbish customer service to top it all off.

[harveybobbles]

Erm, maybe it is your rims... As they get rusty/mucky and your old tyres will have moulded to the rims

[styloa]

Erm, maybe it is your rims... As they get rusty/mucky and your old tyres will have moulded to the rims

It is pretty new car - 54 reg, and all rims are alloy and in very good condition. I'll take the car into a local tyre fitting place to have things sorted out.....

[Rallydriver]

It is pretty new car - 54 reg, and all rims are alloy and in very good condition. I'll take the car into a local tyre fitting place to have things sorted out.....

I'd say write to them stating that they must come out and refit the tyres properly. If they do not you will take the car to an independent tyre specialist to have them re-fitted and will then bill them for that cost.

They must by law have their main business address on the website and also, if you can purchase through the website, an operational email address I believe. (e-commerce regs?).

If you then have to go to an independent tyre fitter you can get their opinion as to whether the rim is the problem or the tyre or tyre fitting. If you are lucky they might do this in writing (if you can find one that can read and write). Or ask if you can photograph each rim while the tyre is off.

It would then come down to presenting them with the evidence or lodging a small claim, although it only costs me £40 to swap 4 tyres so you might decide its not worth it.

I don't think I'd use a mobile tyre fitter anyway, I can't see how a wheel balancing machine can work as accurately on the back of a van that could move during the balancing operation as a machine thats bolted to the floor.

[Rallydriver]

Erm, maybe it is your rims... As they get rusty/mucky and your old tyres will have moulded to the rims

If it was then the fitter should have cleaned them up before fitting the tyre or pointed it out to the customer that the rims were corroded. Surely?

[goldspanners]

It is pretty new car - 54 reg, and all rims are alloy and in very good condition. I'll take the car into a local tyre fitting place to have things sorted out.....

alloys can go porous in tht time.
i know of a guy who had a honda accord and his were constantly going flat. his was an 05 plate.

[austin]

Cheap, but you can get cheaper. The Michelin Pilot Exalto 2 195/50 15 tyres I needed recently were £79.50 at Kwik-Fit, £56.68 Blackcircles, but £35.80 (including VAT, fitting, valve, balance, etc) at Costco.
costco is trade only, thats why theyre cheaper.

[Altarf]

No it isn't. It does have restrictions on who can become a member, but it includes a fairly wide range of employers.