Tyre Fitting Quotes
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A few years ago tyre fitting was a fiver. Now suddenly to get 4 tyres fitted and balanced is approaching £80-£100 for what, 5-10 minutes work, I really dont understand 
Especially as most places will sell you some Wan Li Super Skid Pro's for £19 for your 106 diesel - cheaper than fitting alone!
Especially as most places will sell you some Wan Li Super Skid Pro's for £19 for your 106 diesel - cheaper than fitting alone!
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£15-£18 per tyre fitting is ridiculous. Guess it depends how much you love your "balancing".
Personally i'd get em all fitted for a quick tenner somewhere dodgy.
And "tracking" was a tenner down my local tyre place anyway.
Personally i'd get em all fitted for a quick tenner somewhere dodgy.
And "tracking" was a tenner down my local tyre place anyway.
My mate owns a Tyre/Exhaust place & when i say own i mean it in the literal sense so it costs me next to nothing but then I do send a lot of people down there on recommendation & get on with All the family.
I'd say a tenner a corner is fair but then you guys with Flash motors I would say pay whatever makes them happy so they are kind to your alloys. I've seen many a decent alloy mashed up by some monkey whilst balancing or fitting tyres.
I'd say a tenner a corner is fair but then you guys with Flash motors I would say pay whatever makes them happy so they are kind to your alloys. I've seen many a decent alloy mashed up by some monkey whilst balancing or fitting tyres.
Depends on the car - some cars are particularly affected by not 100% perfect wheel balance.
Full allignment on the E39 for example is circa £90.
After a lot of research in my area (Henley-on-Thames/Reading/Newbury) i found a few places which offered cash in hand style fitting for around £20 all in. Work your way through the yellow pages calling the small places who will likely do a cash deal.
The mainstream places i phoned either wouldnt fit user supplied tyres, or were £20 a corner as youve found.
The mainstream places i phoned either wouldnt fit user supplied tyres, or were £20 a corner as youve found.
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The increase in fitting and balacing costs is probably down to the web based tyre retailers cutting margins on tyres. Everyone has to make a living and if they can't make their money on the product they'll bump up the cost of the service.
The other factor is probably down to cars having much bigger wheels than they ever did in the past, and most cars now have alloys which means you need to decent equipment maintained to a good standard to prevent damage to the rims - if you bent an old steel rim fitting a tyre you could simply hammer it back into shape which you can't do with an alloy.
The other factor is probably down to cars having much bigger wheels than they ever did in the past, and most cars now have alloys which means you need to decent equipment maintained to a good standard to prevent damage to the rims - if you bent an old steel rim fitting a tyre you could simply hammer it back into shape which you can't do with an alloy.
[TW]Fox;11647126 said:A few years ago tyre fitting was a fiver. Now suddenly to get 4 tyres fitted and balanced is approaching £80-£100 for what, 5-10 minutes work, I really dont understand
Especially as most places will sell you some Wan Li Super Skid Pro's for £19 for your 106 diesel - cheaper than fitting alone!
Because the rise in the use of online tyre supply places has altered the market and pricing structures have altered accordingly.
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where?
a small place in the north east of scotland called Laurencekirk
Got the tyres for our sprint car done for £10 each cash in hand and he only did that rate because I was having 8 fitted at once. Could probably have got them cheaper but I needed them doing at quite short notice and didn't have time to chase around.
if you're talking to me then it sure does
Sorry no it was to OP, but that is a good price you got.
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i got 4 put on our dads jag for £30. £15-18 seems a big rip off
It used to take them about 30 minutes a tyre on my M3 rears, not least because I watched over them to ensure they didn't scratch them and they were REALLY hard to take off. My GT3 used to take even longer because they could never find a jack that would go low enough and it would not fit on a normal ramp, so I used to end up driving onto a lid from a big barrel to raise it an inch so they could get a jack under it!
The cheapest so far:- (incl VAT)
£12 - fitting
£4 - wheel balancing
£2 - tyre disposal
£30 tracking
The tyres (4 x Falken 452) cost me £264 from Camskill. There isn't much difference between the above and the higher quotes.
My main concern is that I don't want to end up with gashed alloys.