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

motorguy

looby-loo wrote: »

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:

Proving that good tyres on nice cars cost a lot of money?

miyazu

James_N wrote: »

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.

The only problem with this is, do you know if the tyres you bought were new or old stock, also were they designed for the UK market? As there were a lot of cheap imports brought into the UK from the middle east, that arn't designed for our uk weather.

James_N

miyazu wrote: »

The only problem with this is, do you know if the tyres you bought were new or old stock, also were they designed for the UK market? As there were a lot of cheap imports brought into the UK from the middle east, that arn't designed for our uk weather.

Top Quality branded recent mud and snow rated.

Not an innocent!

Alias_Omega

Being tight, i got mine from a local car breakers. They were a vauxhall place,and funny enough the vauxhall vectra 5 stud spare wheel was the same size tyre as mine.

I found 4 nearly new cars with unused spare wheels, asked them how much. £25 each for the wheels, or £30 each for tyres removed and fitted to my car. Unused as had the red & green stripes on the tread.

They were firestone firehawks which are a low energy tyre & a full set for £120 fitted.

I was impressed..

chunkytfg

pgilc1 wrote: »

Proving that good tyres on nice cars cost a lot of money?

pretty much yes. Nice cars tend to have lower profile tyres or maybe wider or larger dia or maybe all three so the prices tend to go up.

I spend about £400 a set for my fabia which are 205/45/16 goodyear eagle f1's and the missus on her 4x4 Toyota hilux spends around the same for bridgestone somethingorother! Not cheap but then I have done the whole 'ditchfinder special' remoulds in the past and dont ever want to go back there

ailuro2

alastairq wrote: »

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

No,that's true, but speaking as someone who has worked for one of the largest tyre manufacturers in the world for over 20 years, I know how tough the quality checks are at my place of work, and how tight all the limits are - to use layman's terms - drift off/conicity, out of round, balance, and not forgetting the tyre harmonics- I'm not going to try to explain that last one! That's not even starting to look at how to keep air, water, contaminants out of the products during manufacture, or getting enough rubber into the shoulder area etc.

Knowing that we have tight controls in place to stop defects, I'd not trust my child's life (cos that's what we're talking about here!) to a budget or second hand tyre. Yes, every manufacturer will have the one that got away, but some lesser manufacturers will have the thousands that get away.;)


For the OP - the big manufacturers make cheaper tyres under different brands - do a bit of Googling and you'll find which brands they are no problem.
They might not have the latest energy saving design but they will have the same quality control, which is the most important aspect for me.;)

There's a new standard coming out soon which will mean consumers will be able to look at a tyre and tell what grade it i on energy saving, safety etc. That will make things clearer for everyone.:D


And to answer OP's question - I get my tyres supplied and fitted at work,for free, it's one of my employee benefits along with free cycle tyres.

motorguy

chunkytfg wrote: »

pretty much yes. Nice cars tend to have lower profile tyres or maybe wider or larger dia or maybe all three so the prices tend to go up.

I spend about £400 a set for my fabia which are 205/45/16 goodyear eagle f1's and the missus on her 4x4 Toyota hilux spends around the same for bridgestone somethingorother! Not cheap but then I have done the whole 'ditchfinder special' remoulds in the past and dont ever want to go back there

Totally agree.

Altarf

ailuro2 wrote: »

I'd not trust my child's life (cos that's what we're talking about here!) to a ... second hand tyre.

So do you only buy brand new cars with zero miles on them, or if you buy a secondhand car do you get it delivered to a tyre fitter who replaces all the tyres before you use it?

before_hollywood

a local garage that would fit them the day after i phoned them and were cheaper than the garage on blackcircles that would make me wait a week to order them in

continental premium sport 2

ailuro2

Altarf wrote: »

So do you only buy brand new cars with zero miles on them, or if you buy a secondhand car do you get it delivered to a tyre fitter who replaces all the tyres before you use it?

Just had 4 new tyres fitted, 2 weeks after we bought the car, it has not been on the motorway yet.:p

but yes, I did give the tyres a good look over - probably much closer than most folk I know would, but that's what being in the job does to you.:rotfl: