Toyo Proxies price increase?

Johno please?

Johno please?

Johno please?

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Just checked on mytyres for 205/50/16 V and I swear they used to be £37ish now they are £66.

£29 increase... must be some kind of joke :(

Can anyone recommend anything else with some grip but wont cost the earth?
 
they are called proxes, and yes, Falken FK452. There are more tyre outfits than you can shake a stick at, remove the mytyres blinkers and look around.
HTH.
 
Only problem with Toyo's (the proxes anyway) are that they dont last all that long, the corners seem to wear rather rapidly too.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
The rear tyres on mine are £100 a pop.

I have to agree with Fox in that I have never seen Toyo's for £37 or that price range.
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I think they are around the £35/£36 mark in 195/50/15, or they were last time i bougth some, that was a good couple of years ago though.
 
Phil W said:
Only problem with Toyo's (the proxes anyway) are that they dont last all that long, the corners seem to wear rather rapidly too.
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They did 12k and 2 track days on the back of my S2000, had to replace with about 3mm left after hitting a rock

Wouldn't say they were that bad.
 
Its always worth ringing your local tyre places too, most of the time these guys arent that much more expensive and it saves the hassle of carting the tyres round to the tyre bod and paying extra for tyre swap and balancing.
 
I must have entered the wrong size last time I checked or something, cheers guys will probably just pay the price after I get some quotes from local places.

I shouldnt complain really £66 isnt an awful lot for a decent tyre. I refuse to buy cheapos.
 
I think I paid £75 per corner inc mobile fitting when buying some tyres for my sister's car a couple of months back. Be grateful that they're 205s and not 225s or more, in which case the price begins to rocket.
 
clv101 said:
Tires are made of oil... and oil's increased in price ~45% this year, it's over $90 at the moment.
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Nice try to bring more dull oil chat into a thread but we established at the beginning of the thread that they've not actually increased in price at all.
 
[TW]Fox;10359449 said:
Nice try to bring more dull oil chat into a thread but we established at the beginning of the thread that they've not actually increased in price at all.
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ROFL.
 
[TW]Fox;10359449 said:
Nice try to bring more dull oil chat into a thread but we established at the beginning of the thread that they've not actually increased in price at all.
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:D
 
Goodyear said back in 2005 that a $1 increase in the per-barrel price of oil causes a $20M hit to their bottom line, they announced a price increase of 5-8% then.

"If you look at it from a tire manufacturer's perspective, an oil price increase is a triple whammy for us," said Jim Davis, a spokesman for the world's largest tire maker, based in Ohio. "Oil is a major ingredient in the production of tires. It affects the cost to make tires, it affects the cost to heat or cool the plant where we make tires and of course the trucking cost to ship the tires." link
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