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My sister needs new tyres for her ford KA. Any reccomendations fro online retailers that include a fitiing and balancing service as i really do not rate my local tyre fitter who charged her £45 for a budget range tyre that did not last at all. Looking to spend around £35 per tyre.
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  • wdw2003
    wdw2003 Posts: 235 Forumite
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    I've used www.blackcircles.com a few times and you also get 2.5% cashback from Quidco. You can choose from a list of fitters, depending where you live. Kwikfit online prices are comparable, but no cashback. Mind you, my car has very small tyres and the cheapest at Blackcircles is £43, so you might struggle to pay £35. There are quite a few online dealers who let you choose your fitter, so try to balance lowest price for the tyre you want with a decent reputation for fitting.
  • laurel7172
    laurel7172 Posts: 2,071 Forumite
    I've used these people, who came highly recommended to me:

    http://www.mytyres.co.uk

    They don't fit, but they do have approved partners to whom the tyres can be delivered-and those partners carry customer reviews. I was very happy.
    import this
  • wba31
    wba31 Posts: 2,189 Forumite
    I too use Blackcircles. They are a great website
  • jase1
    jase1 Posts: 2,308 Forumite
    Yes, I think mytyres is a great site -- you may find a local supplier who is prepared to fit the tyres for £5-8.

    Before you buy, you can do some research on the best tyres to buy -- some of the very cheap tyres are pretty poor but you should be able to get some good ones for £40-45 this way.
  • flyingscotno1
    flyingscotno1 Posts: 1,679 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I prefer My Tyres. I don't think Black Circles is that good value to be honest, my local independent garage isn't usually around the same for price and overall for me the best combination is MyTyres and them to fit for £9. It is great to get Nokian tyres on too for a good price as they are usually a good match for Scottish climates
  • jase1
    jase1 Posts: 2,308 Forumite
    You can get Uniroyal Rain Experts in the Ka's size for £37. These are a very good tyre. Remoulds start at £25 (German remoulds, seem to be reasonable) and reasonable budgets (Marshall) at £31, but you may as well pay the bit extra for good rubber. Toyos are £33 and that's the cheapest I'd buy on there at present.

    You can also get 3.03% cashback at TCB :)
  • You cannot buy tyres starting with "I'm only going to spend £XX" ! You need to spend for safety, mine if you don't care about yours.
  • p1tse
    p1tse Posts: 980 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    i've just put some falkens via blackcircles for wife ford KA
    easy and quick service and not bad prices including fitting
  • jackieb
    jackieb Posts: 27,605 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I looked on mytyres and the exact same tyre as I got fitted locally for £126, was £134 minus the fitting on there.
  • BenL
    BenL Posts: 3,189 Forumite
    I use http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ they are part of National Tyres so you get the fitting done at their depot.

    Ben
    I beep for Robins - Beep Beep
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