Tyres - Cheapest I Found......

scoobyturbz

tyredrop . com has by far the cheapest tyres.

They saved me £800 on four tyres for my wifes bmw.

Delivered the next day.

They have live chat so you can speak through the website and they guided me to the tyres i needed.

They accept paypal as payment which i think is alot better than entering my creditcard detail over the internet.

10/10 for service, speed and price

Inactive

^^

Do they do a good deal on SPAM?

bigjl

Price was OK, but then you had to pay £10 for delivery, I then assume I would have to have them fitted and balanced.

4 Toyo Proxes for £264 delivered, then say another £40 to have them fitted and balanced, though some places down south charge £15 for customer supplied tyres, or they give you the old tyre to get rid of.

This makes them more expensive than my usual places.

4 Michelin Primacy £304 plus fitting at £40 to £60. Again my usual places are cheaper, along with the advantage of same day as you wait service.


Nice try at SPAM, but all these online places work out cheaper than my usual places, even though Elite have now put an extra £5 per tyre on Toyos in my usual size, I think my next tyres will indeed be Michelin.

Wig

scoobyturbz wrote: »

tyredrop . com has by far the cheapest tyres.

They saved me £800 on four tyres for my wifes bmw.

Delivered the next day.

They have live chat so you can speak through the website and they guided me to the tyres i needed.

They accept paypal as payment which i think is alot better than entering my creditcard detail over the internet.

10/10 for service, speed and price

My local fitter beats them handsdown for prices inc fitting. << this part is true BTW

I could save £2000 by going local that's more than the car is worth.

mikey72

Wasn't he spamming a few days ago, pretending to be a customer, but used his own name, and as it's the owner on his website, it was a bit obvious.

bigjl

Not sure how you could save £800 on any set of tyres, unless he was using the highest KwikFit price he could find.

Since every tyre I have compared seems to be almost identical to Blackcircles and my local places undercut them on a like for like tyre basis, I would suspect I would lose money using tyrestop, and waste time.


One person did try and say I was wrong saying Elite and Costco where cheaper, then he compared the cheapest two tyres on offer, which I don't think where actually the same anyway. Again, I will reiterate they are cheaper for the tyres I want, in the sizes I want.

Though why I would look to save £20 per corner when it meant fitting inferior tyres that may wear out quicker and not be as good the I reckon that is false economy, if I needed tyres to get a car I was selling through an MOT then I would go for some decent brand used tyres, in matched axle sets obviously.

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mikey72 wrote: »

Wasn't he spamming a few days ago, pretending to be a customer, but used his own name, and as it's the owner on his website, it was a bit obvious.

Indeed, I have reported his latest post as SPAM, I hope you have as well.;)

davidjwest

Limey wrote: »

Please, please, please avoid budget tyres for the sake of saving pennies. They are the most important component in making your car stop!

Personally I think driving safely is the most important thing - if he'd left a reasonable gap he wouldn't have run into you, regardless of what tyres he had.

jase1

davidjwest wrote: »

Personally I think driving safely is the most important thing - if he'd left a reasonable gap he wouldn't have run into you, regardless of what tyres he had.

Exactly.

Show me a single manufacturer of tyres which, when fitted to an average modern family hatchback (say an Astra) won't manage to better the stopping distances in the HC, wet or dry.

Andytyre

I read with interest (being in the trade and all) the coments posted on searching for cheap tyres. One point does stick out though, when searching using the registration look up tools 'never' trust the information given from the registration as this is only a guide to what may have been fitted. 'Always' look at the actual tyre size written on the sidewall of your tyres front and back as there are many vehicles that have different sizes front and rear.
As an aside, give your local independant a try, if he's like me he will try his damdest to compete and will not try to sting you with 'extras' you dont need.
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