New Tyres - Will anywhere fit if I buy online?

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I need a couple of new tyres.
As I have a couple of Falken 452's on the rear with plenty of tread I thought I'd replace my fronts with the same.
Online I find that Camskill do them for £72 each.
Elsewhere I'm seeing £105 fitted.

If I buy from Camskill, will most places fit them (obviously for a charge)?
Or do most places only really want to fit what they have sold?

I've only ever bought online from a "fully fitted" company, and not somewhere where you just buy the tyres.

Cheers.
 
Rock up with your tyres and most places will fit and balance for about £5-£10 a corner depending on how busy they are.

At the end of the day it's gonna be £20-£40 for them spending 15-30 minutes on your car, who can argue at that.
 
Most places do do fitting near me, but it works out to be about the same usually as if you got them from them.
 
more agro in my experience and not worth the chasing about for the miniscule saving.

just go to a decent place, theyll fit it properly too and be competative.
 
Not sure why its Agro, i order tyres online, they turn up at my door next day, i pop down the local tyre place, they charge me £11 per tyre, do the work, i then drive home £60 better off.

Hardship / Agro ++
 
Lots of tyre places won't fit customer supplied tyres - I've certainly had problems in the past!
 
OllyM said:
Lots of tyre places won't fit customer supplied tyres - I've certainly had problems in the past!
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Same i did find a nice place to do it for me eventually (cash in hand to a guy who did it after hours)

Nearly every place I went said no they wouldn't do it
 
Matt82 said:
more agro in my experience and not worth the chasing about for the miniscule saving.

just go to a decent place, theyll fit it properly too and be competative.
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My local tyre place charged me £30 for fitting and balancing after I got mine from camskill.

I saved £140, so yeah, I real ballache :rolleyes:
 
I saved about £30 a tyre recently doing this but only paid £10 for the lot to be fitted and balanced as a friend works in a garage.

I'll be doing it from now on anyway as it saves money and means you get exactly the tyres you want.
 
Thanks for the reply.
I just called one of the local tyre places (Huntingdon Performance Tyres).
He's going to do me 2x 452's for £90 per corner fully fitted, balanced, tyre disposal etc.
So OK I could have bought from Camskill for £72 a corner.
Even if I'd then got away with £15 per corner fitting I wouldn't have been that much better off.

He's gonna get them in for me for tomorrow - so I'll have them sorted by lunchtime.
 
If you have a competitive tyre place it's easier - you phone up, they get the tyres in, you pop down and they put them on and you pay.

I only buy online if the tyre place can't get in what I want (their range can be quite limited and they aren't always keen on chasing round to find what you want).
 
Many local places will match web prices anyway

The grief in getting them form my house to a tyre fitters just wouldn't be worth thinking about unless the saving was massive
 
maybe im just lucky to have, or know of, decent tyre places near to me which are so close to interweb prices anyway but do carry out a spot on service

ive had tyres fitted cheaply before and ended up with imbalanced wheels, slow punctures, scores on the wheels from a monkey fitting them in a hurrry.

ill just stick with elite or pro tyre round here. fantastic prices and fitting
 
saved about £60 by buying my tyres from camskill but then had a bit of a problem finding a garage to fit them, lots wanted me to buy their tyres if they were fitting them.
Bush tyres only charged £10 a corner for fitting, balancing ect. . only got rear tyres at the time but now have a nail in the front passengers tyre:(
 
I've always found National Tyres and Exhausts to be good with customer supplied tyres.

Tried two branches and not had any problems.
 
agw_01 said:
I've always found National Tyres and Exhausts to be good with customer supplied tyres.

Tried two branches and not had any problems.
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That's a little surprising as National are effectively tyre-shopper who are trying hard to gain a bit of momentum online.
 
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