Tyre Prices

[simongt]

Need a new pair of front tyres for our Kia pre MOT time, so instead of doing the 'obvious thing' and sitting at our PC, I jumped on my bike and had a check round various tyre dealers in the area.
Very enjoyable morning out and very informative too - !
With the national chains, it's cheaper to buy online and choose a depot for the fitting, than go into said local depot and ask there; one firm quoting about £40 less online than their depot prices.
One national outfit quoted me £170 for the tyre make & model I preferred and recommended a budget brand for £105, but made by the same company as the one I was looking at.
However, a local firm with no national chain quoted me £105 for my preferred tyre and the likelyhood of a £30 cashback offer from the tyre maker - !
Even more of a reason to support your local trader and get off your backside onto your bike - !

 

[alicat]

I always go to a local independent firm after a national chain whose initials are an anagram of SAT fitted some premium winter-rated tyres and the fitter made a point of showing them to me on the car before I paid. That must have registered as a bit odd somewhere deep in my psyche since unusually for me I glanced at the tyres a couple of days later and was shocked to see that the tyres on my car were by then a budget brand that I had never heard of.

Unluckily for the national chain, I happened to be invited the next day to a pensions briefing. Sitting on the same table was a high up bod from the national chain. The 'mix up' got sorted pretty quickly. According to the local newspaper, a manager from the same branch had already been imprisoned for pocketing the takings so it seems that the fraud problems were quite deep-seated at least at that particular branch.

 

[Drago]

I used to go through Black Circles way but decided to use the local firm for 4 tyres on the Volvo, only for them to damage one of the freshly refurbished alloys.

Shoot happens and had they fessed up and offered to make good id have been happy, but they said nothing - It was only besause I'm annoyingly anal that I checked all the wheels before going in to pay and they didnt say anything until I mentioned it, then they tried to deny it until I showed them the photos I'd taken when I'd dropped the car off.

Back to Black Circles and the place across town for me next time, sadly.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Driving home from tyre fitters with two new fronts, and car started bonging with a low pressure warning. Checked pressures at home and found both were 10 psi below the recommended, at 25 psi instead of 35 😲. Not impressed.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We get ours supplied and fitted by our local ETB which I think are a chain. Last set were I think £74 each fitted

 

[fossyant]

Used Black Circles last time for the Aygo - the fitter was great. Sorted out a couple of dents in the steel wheels (he just did them, didn't even mention them), and fitted valves with a longer stem to make it easy to check tyre pressures with the wheel trims on. Last time I went to ATS, they snapped the wheel bolts off in the hub on the Aygo, which meant two new hubs.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Try comparing Blackcircles, Asda Tyres and Protyre online services. They're all pretty much the same, get the brand of tyres you want with which is cheapest.

 

[gbb]

This 'it's made by Dunlop so it's the same' thing I've heard so often is swallowed by so many people but (iMHO) is nonsense. I think it's a sales tactics by the retailer.

Ok, so the factory is in (insert obscure country here) but was brought by (insert major tyre.manufacturer here) so it's good?

Unless ots the same tyre, same manufacturing, same compounds, it's not the same tyre. A budget tyre is a budget tyre. I can accept that, I've used them, i accept their limitations, tyre.life, grip etc etc..but dressing it up as something its not.. its just marketing

 

[Drago]

In more recent times India tyres, for example, were made to older Dunlop patterns but used god knows only what ply structure and a compound that the big manufacturers discarded in the Sixties for being too hard.

Yet Fred in a Shed tried to tell me they were the same thing!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

SAT

They used to be the tyre of choice, for Land-Rovers, before BF Goodrich & General Grabber became widely availlable!!
Damned fine too, but a cross-ply
A lot got fitted to Range Rovers & Discovery Tdi's too, but they weren't speed-rated for those
(that said, in the early 70's. the factory fitted them to RR's for the Hill-Rallys, then entered at the time)


Made by Firestone!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just got these budget tyres. Should give good economy on motorway according to guy at garage.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Just got these budget tyres. Should give good economy on motorway according to guy at garage.

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I assumed you'd purchased an electric fat bike?