Tyres On Line

A_Doonhamer

Fitting a new tyre to a rim not attached to the car should take about 5 minutes or so to fit the new tyre, blow up to correct pressure and finally balance. Anymore than £10 a tyre and your being ripped off and I would expect to pay less usually.

loobs40

Thanks.

In the end I decided to buy a budget tyre from blackcircles.com and and get it fitted at one of 'their' places close to where we live. We both work long hours and can do without the hassle frankly. The price for tyre and fitting is £50, which is as low as I'm going to get without a load more investigation.

Oh and we're also going to buy a locking device for the spare tyre to make it harder for any lowlife who wants another of our spare tyres

Jay_Cee_Ooh

Hi All,

Bit of a daft question, but here goes. When you have tyres fitted at home / work by eTyres etc, is the norm to tip the fitter?

Thanks,

ArsenalFC

Thumbs up to mytyres.co.uk aswell.

You are paying for the fitting, no need to tip the fitter unless you are loaded or the fitter is a gorgeous girl

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Just bought a tyre from https://www.Pneus-Online.co.uk can't comment yet as it hasn't arrived. Said delivery should be within 3 to 7 working days. Just checked my account with them, and it's still stating order being processed still I'm well within their delivery time limit, so no panic yet.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Tyre arrived today :beer:

chris73

Just used E-Tyres yesterday and what a fiasco - NEVER AGAIN!. I placed the order well within the advertised working hours and paid online. Within 30 mins I got a confirmation through confirming my purchase, payment and the fitting window which was for today.

No phone call was made to me either by the fitter or head office so I assumed that the fitting would go ahead as per the confirmation, and so I pumped up the (punctured) tyre, added some tyre weld (Which many manufacturers seem to think replaces a spare wheel) and gingerly drove into work.

I took a phone call at 9.15 from Etyres head office stating that there had been a !!!! up with the job sheet, and that the fitter would no longer be able to fit the tyres today!.

Wait 48 hours for a new tyre to be fitted? - Hmmm no thanks, This is 2006 not 1946! if this is considered a good level of service they can shove it!.

5 mins later I found http://www.event-tyres.co.uk one of E-Tyres online competitors. Within 3 mins of requesting a call back on their website, the E-Tyres fitter was on the phone to me, confirming that he had the tyre in stock and given my situation would squeeze in the fitting the same afternoon!, now that is service and worthy of praise and continued business!

I can't recommend Event-Tyres highly enough, for (pardon the pun) going the extra mile to provide a service which others may promise and advertise but in my case failed to deliver!.

I wonder what the situation could have been, had the tyre been approaching illegal. "Yes, officer E-Tyres were supposed to be fitting a new tyre today but they've let me down and it'll be another day whilst they faff around".

Etyres - Avoid!. Go to Event Tyres instead where the price is the same but the service is 100% better!