[Closed] deals on car tyres?

I would get a rough idea online (black circles etc.) and then try a local tyre place you may be surprised, I was earlier in the year.

£62.50 a corner seems pretty reasonable... What size and is that a budget or premium tyre?

Take a look online at Event Tyres if you are in the north west.

205 55 r16 91v, for a semi premium tyre (hankook or similar)

prices must have rocketed in the last couple of years

[i]I need 4 for my civic and i'm looking at £250+, which seems crazy[/i]

that seems reasonable to me, I got 2 fitted this morning, £229 through kwik fit mobile fitter.

But that was on 205/50/17 and goodyear tyres. Think the cheapo tyres were about £90 each. Black circles was about £3 cheaper but they don't do mobile fitting, mytyres was about £40 more expensive.

Just paid £440 for four Hankook all season 235/45/17 tyres . That's fitted . I got them through Black Circles and collected 880 clubcard points and got a discount with the tyre fitter so fairly happy with that.

Blackcircles are on Topcash back so you can get 3% back that way.

If you buy them online (Camskill, Black Circles, etc) and take them to get fitted, you might get cheaper, but the price seems fairly reasonable to me. The thing is these days, most small cars now come with big wheels, which is the biggest reason there's no such thing as cheap tyres anymore.

Camskill has Nankang NS2 for £37.50 a corner. Not the world's greatest, but they're the best of the budget brands by a country mile.

I'd be paying the £250-odd though.

I stuck 4 maxxis MAZ1 ones on mine, seem petty good, 55 quid for 17's. You'll do well to get anything for less than 50.

You could get 4 Matador mp44's for £180 from Camskill. They are great tyres. I've used them and mp46's for a few years now.
But once you've paid for postage and fitting you won't be much under £250.

Four for £250? Bargain! I'm going to be looking for two new fronts after c10000 miles and they're going to be nearly that... 🙁

joolsburger - Member

I stuck 4 maxxis MAZ1 ones on mine, seem petty good, 55 quid for 17's. You'll do well to get anything for less than 50.

I was so tempted to go with Maxxis, just so I could colour in the logos yellow.

I use Black Circles, they're not the cheapest but they're the easiest and my favourite garage doesn't like fitting tyres they didn't supply themselves, which is fair enough. Having said that, every time I go to get them fitted, the garage always says "You should have called us, we'd have done it for cheaper" so maybe I'm a mug.

Try ASDA, believe it or not.

Falken any good?

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyres/falken/ziex-ze-914/205-55-r16-91v-401944

It will cost me £250.00 for two if I go for a premium brand such as Continental. Michelin or Pirelli would be even more expensive.

Asda and Tyreleader are the cheapest places ive found recently.

Asda were cheapest for me too but when I went to the fitting centre the bloke said 'get a quote off Asda then ring me, I can sometimes do them cheaper anyway'
So I will.

The joy of having sensible cars.

Just a thought though, we moan about car tyres but spend £30-50 on a tyre for a mountain bike?

The tyres on my Jeep are £125 plus each and the rears on my wife's care are £225 plus each!

Don't do what I did and buy some cheap tyres off eBay. It turns out that although unused they had been stored for a couple of years. The result is hard rubber and very noisy tyres.

How do you get the Tyreleader site to quote a fully fitted price?

All I can get is the price of the tyres confirmed and a note to say fitting will be from .......

It seems you have to buy the tyres, get them delivered to the local garage and then pay and undisclosed price for fitting, balancing, disposal etc.

Pete : what I did was first click the "Fitting" tab, enter a postcode then check the fitting price, the click "Select this garage": all this before selecting the tyres. The fitting charge is paid locally: it doesn't end up in your basket.

In Edinburgh it works out at about £12 a corner for fitting.

I've used them a few times. Ime bigger sizes and more premium tyres CAN be a lot cheaper (40% for me recently). Smaller sizes and more budget brands are probably not worth it in comparison to your local tyre seller.

I used tyreleader for the same size. £263 delivered, £48 fitting at local garage (listed on their site). That was for Michelin Primacys, was a bargain. I'd use them again