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NEW TYRES -----where to buy?

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  • Bear in mind that you are paying for quality. I have 4x Michelin Energy on my car. The front 2 have literally JUST been replaced (by lovely Costco, for £81!) and they had 29,000 miles on them and were getting to the stage where I wanted to replace them. On the flipside, my old car had Kormorans. They hardly lasted 18,000 and one of them got the most ridiculous puncture within 2 weeks (something which I reckon a better tyre would have had no problems with).

    Costco now include everything in the tyre price, including new valve stem and balancing. What they tend to do is put the new tyres on the back and then put the back ones on the front. This is because it makes it safer, apparently!
    It is not the bullet with your name on it, rather the one addressed "to whom it may concern" that should worry you!
  • CrazyChemist_2
    CrazyChemist_2 Posts: 1,565 Forumite
    What is costco and where are they based? How do you get work done there? Anything in Worcester, by any chance?
  • Sheel
    Sheel Posts: 45,671 Forumite
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    Costco

    .............
    Same old same old since 2008

  • CrazyChemist_2
    CrazyChemist_2 Posts: 1,565 Forumite
    Thanks, but I'm not a trader - can I still get these offers?
  • avantra
    avantra Posts: 1,331 Forumite
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    In the last two and a half years I have a set of Cheap Debika tyres on my Almera,
    after 20,000 they still look like they will be good for another 5000 miles.
    I get them from Formula 1 (F1) autocentre in Harlow.They charge £12.75 a pop and about a fiver for balancing each, that's £71 in my language.
    Over let's say 20,000 mile it is £0.00355 a mile. This are completly new not recycled or anything.
    I use my car for transport and these tyres are adequate in my experience for winter and summer.
    Five exclamation marks the sure sign of an insane mind!!!!!

    Terry Pratchett.
  • N_R
    N_R Posts: 76 Forumite
    I rang around all the usual suspects yesterday for the price of a new Michelin Primacy tyre for my wife’s Golf.
    Kwikfit - £95 excluding swapping the spare onto an Alloy and putting the best of the two coming off in the boot as a spare.
    Local independent garages £80 including the tyre swapping that was from Tyrespot, usually the cheapest in the NE.

    CostCo - £64.61. Including putting the spare onto an alloy (£2 of the cost. How can they change and balance it for £2?).

    They only do michelin tyres, and you can't fault them on customer service. Put the two new tyres on the back and the back ones on the front as good garages good. Balancing is my nemesis, but its my wifes car and only drove it back from costco but seems spot on.
  • So basically if I'm not part of a company then I can't use them? :(

    No fair!

    And what's this about different tyres wearing faster? I've done about 3000 miles since I got 4 Dunlop SP30 tyres fitted by Kwik Fit and they've worn by just over 1mm already. I didn't realise there were different rates of wear. :o What are Dunlops like in your experiences?

    So if I got some Arrowspeed (budget brand) next time would the grip and tyre wear be around the same as the Dunlops?
  • Sheel
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    Thanks, but I'm not a trader - can I still get these offers?

    Sorry , I meant to answer this ages ago , got sidetracked and forgot icon11.gif

    You don't have to be a trader , it tells you HERE which businesses qualify. My husband qualified as he works in the Health Service and my elder daughter used to be a member and qualified as she worked for a bank.
    Same old same old since 2008

  • ffs
    ffs Posts: 295 Forumite
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    Tyre Wear: Yes tyres wear at vastly different rates, you will find a wear index on the side of each tyre. Bear in mind that wear correlates with grip, and you may well save money on a tyre that lasts fifty percent longer, but if it takes just an extra few feet of braking distance your saving could easily be swallowed up by losing your no claims bonus, or worse still by injuring a pedestrian.
  • ffs
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    Here's some info copied from the Yokohama website about tyre markings:

    The treadwear grade is a comparative rating based on the wear rate of the tyre when tested under controlled conditions. A tyre graded 150 would wear one and a half times as well under the same controlled conditions as a tyre graded 100. The relative performance of tyres depends upon the actual conditions of their use, however, and may depart significantly from the norm due to variations in driving habits, service practices and differences in road characteristics and climate.
    The traction grades, from highest to lowest, are A, B, andC, and they represent the tyre's ability to stop on wet pavement as measured under controlled conditions and surfaces. A tyre marked C may have poor traction performance. The traction grade 'assigned is based on braking (straight ahead) traction tests and does not include cornering (turning) traction.
    The temperature grades are A (the highest), B, and C, representing the tyre's resistance to the generation of heat and its ability to dissipate heat when tested under controlled indoor conditions. Sustained high temperatures can cause the tyre materials to degenerate and reduce tyre life. Excessive temperatures can lead to sudden tyre failure.
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