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motorguy

fred246 wrote: »

For me buying tyres is a two stage process:
1)Buy the tyre. Choose the exact one you want and buy it for the cheapest price on the internet. This allows you to inspect it and check the date of manufacture. You don't want to be fitting old rubber. My car needs reinforced tyres and I once found a garage trying to fit one with a normal weight rating. I used to ask to inspect tyres before they were fitted but garages were always snotty about it.
2)Take your wheel off and take it to a garage with the new tyre and get them to fit it. Taking the wheel in a different car will avoid the embarrassing situation where they try and insist on putting the wheel back on your car.
This avoids:
Damage to your car caused by incorrect jacking at the garage. My sills are all bent from incorrect jacking by garages when having tyres changed.
Damage caused by not tightening the wheel nuts to the correct specification. You can do it properly with your torque wrench.
You can then inflate your tyres to the correct specification. I have never found a garage that has done this for me. Mine need 40 psi and they always put 30 in.
So that's how you do it. New tyres without getting your car damaged at the garage.

You are lucky you have so much free time to give away to take such a long winded approach.

Also, i replace my tyres in pairs across an axle.

fred246

Changing 2 tyres is easy as long as you have another car. Just put the spare wheel on one side and leave the other side jacked up. Then take the 2 wheels and 2 new tyres to the garage. It's well worth it for the peace of mind knowing you can get new tyres and your car won't be damaged.

khcomp

Just had two little tyres replaced on my current wife's Suzuki: My usual local independent friendly tyre place, £68.40 fitted, balanced, tracked, old ones disposed of, all in about twenty minutes...
I've looked at Blackcircles, Asda, etc., but my local place is always as cheap or cheaper than them on any size.