Tyre fitting costs
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Soldato
I find a lot of places just don't want to fit tyres they didn't supply themselves, around these parts at least so yeah if you can find somewhere to do it for £20 a corner seems alright.
Soldato
I pay £8 a corner at the fitter I've been using for years. Don't know if that's cheaper than he charges other people though, but it's never gone up since I started using him.
£20/corner is about what the rate is around here. I did find one place who do it for £15 cash to the fitter himself, i used him a few times.
No help but luckily my local village garage (2 man band, single unit thing) who gets all of my car work and has done for years, they bought a tyre fitting and balancing machine. Absolutely ideal and just add a tenner here and there onto whatever it next goes in for. Really is pot luck sometimes with stuff like this.
No help but luckily my local village garage (2 man band, single unit thing) who gets all of my car work and has done for years, they bought a tyre fitting and balancing machine. Absolutely ideal and just add a tenner here and there onto whatever it next goes in for. Really is pot luck sometimes with stuff like this.
Associate
I usually call up and ask how much they charge per corner, then ask if they'll do it for £10, they usually just do it.
£40 for them is better than me going elsewhere
£40 for them is better than me going elsewhere
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You've surely wasted more than £20 of your time going to and leaving two places and you still don't have your tyres fitted?
I'd focus on finding somewhere good and that will take care of your car and/or wheels. You won't care about £20 once a cheap place has damaged a rim, or broken a locking wheel nut with an impact gun.
I'd focus on finding somewhere good and that will take care of your car and/or wheels. You won't care about £20 once a cheap place has damaged a rim, or broken a locking wheel nut with an impact gun.
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Still just over £10 a corner around here - think I paid £48 total for fitting 4 wheels last time - but their balancing was shocking - I ended up going back to my main dealer and getting them to redo it even though it cost me another £40 rather than let the fitter have another go :s
Tyre disposal costs have gone through the roof in the last 4 months so that is one thing to take into account.
The fitting place will also have a duty of care witht the tyres fitted and if there is a problem could be held liable. if they tyre are purchased from the garage they have the comeback on their supplier.
are they also fitting them to the vehicle as well? if so there is extra time and machine maintaince cost involved in that.
Alex
The fitting place will also have a duty of care witht the tyres fitted and if there is a problem could be held liable. if they tyre are purchased from the garage they have the comeback on their supplier.
are they also fitting them to the vehicle as well? if so there is extra time and machine maintaince cost involved in that.
Alex
Soldato
Seems to be pot luck in my experience - I had a supercar specialist severely damage my wheels and shrug his shoulders about it, whereas the cheap backstreet place I used for years never put a single mark on them.
Soldato
How much did you pay for the Tyre's ?
Is the lesson here, that these £10+/corner costs are not, just, the corollary to buying tyres online ?
if, instead, you are buying the tyres price-matched at Kwik-fit(or Halfords), say, with install included, then KF get the revenue, and profit on the tyre, that they can offset against the installation cost.
if, instead, you are buying the tyres price-matched at Kwik-fit(or Halfords), say, with install included, then KF get the revenue, and profit on the tyre, that they can offset against the installation cost.
Soldato
Typically fitters close to me use a rule of £1 per wheel inch + £2, so 17" wheels are £19, 19" = £21, etc.