etyres fitting, anyone tried ?
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Its time for new rears on the chim, etyres are offering Dunlop SP9000's for 191.80 inc vat and they come to you and fit them. Has anyone tried them ? I'm always nervous about letting tyre places near the chim with their jacks !
Edited to add: changed my mind falken are doing FK452's for £127.20 inc vat and shipping and my local garage will stick them on for £10 each when I get my MOT next week.
Edited to add: changed my mind falken are doing FK452's for £127.20 inc vat and shipping and my local garage will stick them on for £10 each when I get my MOT next week.
Edited by bigdods on Friday 2nd March 10:50
Edited by bigdods on Friday 2nd March 10:56
bigdods said:
Its time for new rears on the chim, etyres are offering Dunlop SP9000's for 191.80 inc vat and they come to you and fit them. Has anyone tried them ? I'm always nervous about letting tyre places near the chim with their jacks!
£191.80 - That's for the pair right?
How they gonna balance 'em - I assume they have equipment on-board some kind of van/truck. Re-fitting tyres onto the Chim was a small (but not insurmountable) job for my local Elite Garage. Apparently the rims on the standard Chimaera wheels are a bit of a pain to get a tyre onto - or so they said. They ended up using a machine that they wouldn't usually use to get it onto the wheel and plenty of grease.
Make sure they get the Jack on the (tubular) chassis - or BIG problems. Took Elite 5 minutes to find a place - scrambling around on the floor under the car with a lamp whilst plenty of worrying head scratching going on.
Also, if your wheels are pristine, watch them like a hawk as all that levering-off of tyres with an iron bar can mark 'em up. They'll deny it was them given half a chance.
I paid £200 for a pair of SO2's fitted 2 weeks ago so £191 seems fair if they do a good job.
I had both a new battery and new tyres fitted on my Alfa by etyres. The service when I got the battery was great. However I was less impressed with the tyre service. First of all, Toyos although listed on the website as available were on back order. When they came round to fit the tyres, the fitter couldn't get the jack under the sideskirt thingies (what do you call them?) and had to use the car's spear wheel jack. And he wouldn't beleive me when I told him the manual suggested a few more psi for doing long-distance runs, so I had to go round and pump the tyres a bit more. Given the level of service I got on nothing more unusual than an Alfa, I might just use them again for that, but I'm not sure I'd trust them with a TVR.
bigdods said:
Its time for new rears on the chim, etyres are offering Dunlop SP9000's for 191.80 inc vat and they come to you and fit them. Has anyone tried them ? I'm always nervous about letting tyre places near the chim with their jacks !
Yep - had all 4 replaced for SP9000 by etyres end of last year. No problems at all, they came to my work, treated the car well, fully balanced the wheels etc (all the kit is in the van), correct torque settings for the nuts, correct tyre pressure etc.
Took him about 1.5 hrs in total - so he didn't rush.
Very impressed with them.
Blimmey...your not kidding! Took Elite about 40 mins max for the pair. He must be paid by the hour! FunkyGibbon said:
bigdods said:
Its time for new rears on the chim, etyres are offering Dunlop SP9000's for 191.80 inc vat and they come to you and fit them. Has anyone tried them ? I'm always nervous about letting tyre places near the chim with their jacks !
Yep - had all 4 replaced for SP9000 by etyres end of last year. No problems at all, they came to my work, treated the car well, fully balanced the wheels etc (all the kit is in the van), correct torque settings for the nuts, correct tyre pressure etc.
Took him about 1.5 hrs in total - so he didn't rush.
Very impressed with them.
Agreed, used etyres for the Zafira last November. They arrived at the agreed time and did a good job.
BatleyBoy said:
Special offer on FK452's
www.falkentyres.co.uk/
www.falkentyres.co.uk/
Thats where I bought them from this morning. Shame the special offer doesnt stretch to the size of my rears *sigh*
I've got Toyo Proxes T1-R's on mine. A fantastic tyre on the Chimaera IMHO.
www.toyo.co.uk/productdetail.php?identity=products&product_id=2
If memory serves, I paid about £70 for each the fronts and £100 for each of the rears.
www.toyo.co.uk/productdetail.php?identity=products&product_id=2
If memory serves, I paid about £70 for each the fronts and £100 for each of the rears.
Looks about the same to me; twenty minutes a corner plus ten minutes to unpack and reload the van. 
I've fitted the falken FK452 215/45-17 front and 245/40-18 rear.
Pleased with the grip but I've got the impression they look far smaller/narrower then the same sized Toyo's . . .
I even think of selling them and fitting a size wider.
As I live in Belgium I suppose you guys are not interested.
They are brand new. (+/- 250km)
Filip
Pleased with the grip but I've got the impression they look far smaller/narrower then the same sized Toyo's . . .
I even think of selling them and fitting a size wider.
As I live in Belgium I suppose you guys are not interested.
They are brand new. (+/- 250km)
Filip
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