New Tyres

nobbysn*ts

forgotmyname wrote: »

My local independent tyre shop is cheaper than the online prices.

Dont assume online is cheaper.

You probably don't look well enough I'm afraid. If you do search properly, it's very rare a local place can beat the best price from an online warehouse, (well, not unless they manage to talk you into cheap ditch finders instead). Don't stop at the first online price you find. Tyretraders, camskill, mytyres, among others.

hgotsparkle

Check to see if etyres will come to you. They curerntly have £25 off when you buy 4 and I've actually found them a hell of a lot cheaper than other tyre places!

arcon5

baby_frogmella wrote: »

My local tyre shops charge £10 per tyre fitted + balanced.

If you already know the tyre you want then buy it from Reifen in Germany...even with delivery charges to UK, they easily beat all UK online retailers and delivery from Germany is within a week.
http://www.reifen.com/en

Well if I buy 2 Nexen tyres from thereI pay £111.70 (based on todays conversion rate). Whereas I can buy similar tyres in the UK for £103.02 all in - like for like.
And if searching for the cheapest of options their cheapest versus what I can get from a UK seller are about £94 versus £75 delivered and inc VAT.

So I wouldn't go as far as saying they easily beat all UK retailers. Maybe a select few, but not by far all.

nobbysn*ts

arcon5 wrote: »

Well if I buy 2 Nexen tyres from thereI pay £111.70 (based on todays conversion rate). Whereas I can buy similar tyres in the UK for £103.02 all in - like for like.
And if searching for the cheapest of options their cheapest versus what I can get from a UK seller are about £94 versus £75 delivered and inc VAT.

So I wouldn't go as far as saying they easily beat all UK retailers. Maybe a select few, but not by far all.

You're still paying way too much, £86 fitted from tyretraders for Nexan.

arcon5

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

You're still paying way too much, £86 fitted from tyretraders for Nexan.

That's for 205 55 16

Ultrasonic

There is no one place that is consistently cheapest, it depends exactly what tyres you are after. The 'trick' is to try several places.

nobbysn*ts

arcon5 wrote: »

That's for 205 55 16

Guess you're not good on the searches either I'm afraid. NEXEN 255/65R17 £86.12, fully fitted.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Nexen????

Our OP is trying to keep his lad out of the scenery not stuff him into it.

nobbysn*ts

True .

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

If you can find them, how about a set of allseason tyres, following from your other thread. Dunlop Grandtek, 255/60/17 on mytyres, £136, all season, with the snowflake symbol. Mytyres don't seem to list it on all, as the vredstein Quatrac is marked, but not listed as marked, it's £158 though. None on the 65 profile are listed as marked, doesn't always mean you can't get a set of allseasons marked with the symbol though.

force_ten

Stonker wrote: »

I need 255/65 R17 tyres. I was looking at the Michelin Latitude Cross. Camskill are doing tthese for £130 + delivery. That's a total of £533 for 4. Next best price I could find was over £150 and the best fitted price is over £170. Reifen seem to have no tyres in this size at all. I did also look at f1autocenter and they don't do these particular tyres either

Have a look at Asda Tyres, order on-line and fitted locally not as cheap as camskill but is a fully fitted price and fitted locally

the one thing with tyres on line is many of the bigger tyre depots wont fit them, they will only fir tyres that they supply

so make sure you can find somebody to fit them for you before you buy on-line