Where do you get your tyres and how much do you pay?

madkats

I had a Budget tyre fitted to my car about 6 moths ago. Although this was my second car and was a run around I wasn't particularly bothered. However i was travelling at around 60 miles an hour down a dual carriageway and the steering started to feel juddery. Before i knew it the tyre had blown out, ripped half my front bumper off, smashed my indicator lens, completely knackered my wing and severed the brake line!!

Fortunately there wasn't many cars around and i managed to slow, using gear changes and the handbrake before slowing into a ditch with not 1 lay-by in sight.

I had 2x 205/55-15 part worns, fully fitted balanced and checked vigilantly and cost me £50!! They were Pirelli p6000's and they are best tyres ive had. Handle brilliantly in the wet or dry

alastairq

the only issue with part-worn tyres I can see is, how old are they?

Remoulds are a good budget bet as well....these days , UK remould manufacturers subject their products to far more stringent testing , than many of the lesser known 'budget' new tyres.

I have had experience of Vredestein tyres....currently available online via Tyremen..these tyres a good quality Dutch manufacture, and I don't think around £40 for a 175/80x13 , new, tyre to be too far out, pricewise.

The only issue is fitment.....probably around a fiver a wheel at one's local tyre dealers?

Regarding the issue of so-called 'safety', we have to be less dramatic here.

Buying a famous-make, [and likley expensive] tyre is no guarentee that a problem [mild or severe] wont arise.

Paying a lot more attention to one's wheels and tyres, than modern driver ethos would dictate, helps to minimise the risk of adverse effects.....

which for modern drivers is an incredibly boring prospect.....better to rely on the apparent integrety of a famous manufacturer?


or what?

Better to drive within the law, and show due sympathy for vehicle and its equipment, than place faith on a paper guarentee.

for the record, I recently changed a pair of Colway remoulds, snow tyres as it happened.....at 37000 miles. No pressure issues.....but needed quite a bit of lead around the wheel rims...balancing is a bit of an issue with remoulds...since I paid less than £20 each.....and subsequently rarely saw snow....I feel I have had a good deal out of them. [185/70x14, on a big old volvo, which often tows heavy trailers, with the car otherwise driven well, but within the law]....

Pretty much all budget tyres sold by major chains will be perfectly adequate for normal motoring needs......such needs falling well within the designed capabilities of all correctly sold, fitted, and serviced tyres.


Of course, much depends on driving style......if you refer to ''fit and forget'' then....where do we start??

miyazu

I had 185/55 R15s Avon ZV5 fitted by Hometyre for about £60 a tyre, they also had Maxxis and nexen for around the £48 mark. The good thing is that they are mobile and come to you at no extra cost, they also torqued the nuts to the correct settings rather than using air guns.
The problem I have with blackcircle is that they just supply the tyres to a local independant, and they don't have any way of making sure that fitter is any good, and follows fitting instructions, or even if they torque the nuts.

looby-loo_2

I put my car out for sale on the front of the house this morning - £635. About 1/2 an hour later my neighbour came round with a reciept for 4 new tyres for her sporty car. The total was more then my car was for sale for:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

James_N

I had tyres delivered from an internet firm. They were 40% cheaper for the top-quality I bought. I had them delivered by coourier, and took them to a local guy for fitting for £15 for both. I was worried I would select the wrong tyre and that I wouldn't get anyone to fit them, but the whole process was dead easy.

harveybobbles

pgilc1 wrote: »

No way i'd trust a second hand tyre.

Decent places that supply part worns will also pressure test them to make sure they are fit to be sold.

debtfreein4years

i get my types from oh's granddads friends garage and pay £80 per tyre. 11K miles and still have plenty of tred left on them.

oliturnill

Had my tyres changed by Hometyre on my vauxhall vectra, they fitted them for approx £46 each for 195/65/R15 this included valves, balancing and VAT.

Very convenient as they replaced the tyres whilst at work and were much cheaper than kwik-fit.

alastairq

worth remembering...a tyre can only be ''pressure tested' up to the maximum pressure the maker specifies.....inscribed on the tyre wall.

So, a pressure test simply ensures the tyre is airtight....and the wheel, for that matter.

It wont indicate if the tyre has sustained internal carcass damage...for exmple, if teh tyre has been left, at some point, totally deflated on a vehicle...the weight of the vehicle, or that corner, may well have created a ''crease'' within the steel internal structure [or nylon]....which wont entirely become straightened out upon inflation....leaving a''potential'' wekness.

Over-tightened ratchet straps during transportation can achive a similar result.

One can but surmise...if the tyre is already fitted.

peachyprice

I usually use Blackcircles.com but used etyres this time as they worked out slightly cheaper, with the added convenience of them being fitted at home, and you also get a free puncture repair on any family members car, which my OH is about to use!