Fair price for swapping summer for winter tyres?

Croatoan

Been quoted £40 to remove my summer tyres and fit my winter ones plus £15 for tracking if needed - and I guess it will be.

Anyone know if that's a fair price?
thx

phill99

£10 a tyre seems cheap to me.

Bollox2em

If that's to remove the summer tyres from the rims and fit the winter ones balance and refit its what you would expect. How much did you think it would be?

Croatoan

Cheers people.
Someone at the garage told me six months' ago they'd do it for £30, but I'm not a regular and didn't buy the tyres from them so just wanted to check.
If it's fair I'll go with them.

redux

It sounds reasonable. I was quoted £15 per wheel, and £8 + VAT per wheel

I've recently had them done and it came to a bit less than that, perhaps as it didn't actually involve any removing and replacing wheels on the car (I brought in 10 loose wheels)

Rather than fork out for this twice a year, you might look for a set of secondhand wheels.

forgotmyname

get a spare set of wheels and save youself that cost twice a year?

photome

If balancing is included it seems cheap to me

ventureuk

£7.50 swapped, fitted and balanced per wheel at my local tyre merchant.

£10 as above plus bead sealant to stop air leaking on older alloys.

Swapped mine last month and another four today on a relatives 4wd.

Tyres came from Germany with mytyres.co.uk, much cheaper than a UK garage would charge, four large Barum Polaris 3 SUV (made by Conti) delivered and fitted for £360. Great reviews without spending £500+ on one of the big brands.

Don't really understand people who buy cars with ABS, airbags, tensioners, crumple zones, EBD and the rest, talk about safety then leave slippy summer tyres on when the weather gets cold. Maybe they want to see if all the safety features will work in a bump.

sheslookinhot

When did it become fashionable to swap tyres over summer/winter. I can never recall this being deemed necessary in all the decades I've been driving.

Is it just the next thing to make us part with our hard earned ?

ventureuk

sheslookinhot wrote: »

When did it become fashionable to swap tyres over summer/winter. I can never recall this being deemed necessary in all the decades I've been driving.

Is it just the next thing to make us part with our hard earned ?

It's about one of the best MSE things you can do in winter for your car for good reason.

Starting with safety, watch the video and in addition to working well on snow and ice, winter tyres are much better at temperatures below 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elP_34ltdWI

Then when you realise owning two sets of tyres could very well save you some money in the long term as each set is only getting used 50% of the time, you are likely to make savings as the cost of tyres increases over time.

Factor in money lost from the odd day you can't get to work, the possibility of an accident repair and lost NCD, buying winter tyres is a sound long term MSE move.

vikingaero

sheslookinhot wrote: »

When did it become fashionable to swap tyres over summer/winter. I can never recall this being deemed necessary in all the decades I've been driving.

Is it just the next thing to make us part with our hard earned ?

When I were a lad in the Hovis adverts, most people lived and worked in the same village. These days people commute sometimes hundred mile plus round trips.

In Hovis times you could argue that car tyres were not dissimilar to the Mud and Snow tyres we have today in terms of construction and grip. These days it's all about 20 inch bling bling rims to impress the neighbours and the ultra high performance summer tyres that have no grip in the snow.

Cars in Hovis times were much lighter and could be pushed out of trouble. In these safety driven times we have fat lardy 2 tonne boxes. Same with the drivers. In ye olden times drivers were prepared and the roads were quieter. These days preparedness is having a can of Red Bull to go with your flat soled leather shoes that above all must look good.