Where to buy tyres from?

mikeh501

mikeh501

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Just wondering where you guys get competitive deals on tyres? I want to do a little shopping around for prices before I ring the stealer.

The current fitment is:

245/40/ZR18 Michelin Pilot Sport

Not sure you need this, but the car is an Audi A6 Avant 3.0TDI
 
Rotty said:
my local place is always cheaper than all the web sellers, have a ring around
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Agreed.

A few months ago I was looking for some Falken 452's.
I did all of the online places and found the lowest price.
Phones up a local place to us (Huntingdon Performance Tyres).
They quoted me, I told them I'd found cheaper, they undercut the online place by £5 a corner, job done.
 
Thanks all. Choices choices. So its linglong at £58 vs good branded at £250 nice.

So am I really going to see much diff between uniroyal/dunlop/goodyear @ £150 versus bridgestone/michelin at £250?

Ive got this car for the next 12 months (Jan12) and the current set have lasted 2yrs and 22k so Im not sure I want to spend £1000 on tyres on it tbh. Just want safe, reliable tyres. Any ideas, or just splurge for the current fitment which happen to be the most expensive?
 
Rotty said:
my local place is always cheaper than all the web sellers, have a ring around
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This is probably true for most people. The problem I find is that it is such a hassle to get a quote for the tyres you actually want. I just get cheesed off with conversations that go-

"can I get a quote to supply and fit two "x" tyres please"
"how many miles do you do?"
"err... about 14,000 but.."
"oh for that sort of mileage you want "y" "
"thanks for the suggestion but I'm happy with "x", they are what I currently have"
"no, for that sort of mileage you really want a "y" or a "z" "
[cue getting annoyed] "so what about me doing 14,000 miles as opposed to 6,000 miles makes a worse tyre that costs more better for me"
"well, if you only did low mileage there isn't much point spending the money on tyres but as you do high mileage..."

Puts phone down as moron detector goes into meltdown.

Anyway I find that Blackcircles gives a pretty decent all in price with plenty of fitting centres and without all the messing about.
 
lordrobs said:
Anyway I find that Blackcircles gives a pretty decent all in price with plenty of fitting centres and without all the messing about.
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I always found this, but as Rotty said, i've just found a local guy who's smashed Blackcircles. BC wanted £720 for 4 CS3's, the local guy wants £650. Couldn't believe it as i had always believed BC was the best on price. Although having said this, when i pricing up Potenza RE050A's, the local guy couldn't even come close to the BC price.

My advice, shop around and call up SMALL, independent tyre places as well as looking online.
 
I have never, ever found BC to be even half way competitive on price. I am always able to smash the BC price by often hundreds of pounds.
 
[TW]Fox;18280364 said:
I have never, ever found BC to be even half way competitive on price. I am always able to smash the BC price by often hundreds of pounds.
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Where from out of interest? I'm due a set of backs for the MR2 soon which from BC are £110 each for Toyo's in 225/50/15.
 
Oh is that fitted? Good price then, fox is probably referring to more expensive rubber tbh, its harder to find the discrepancy in the cheaper stuff.
 
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