Best place for tyres?

[Piepiepie]

N/S/F is pretty much illegal now. Need a tyre, maybe with fitting. My uncle can fit tyres but has a habit of marking the wheel itself...

Dont need none of that winter bks, just black, and round will do for me

225 40 18 Y if it matters

It seems to be average brand is about £100, cheap and nasty are about £80 and the top stuff is £150+

[DanielC4GP]

Camskill are the cheapest I've come across but they only deliver. The cheapest I've seen that do fitting are Blackcircles.

[andy665]

Event tyres are superb, used them 6-7 times now, consistently the cheapest who do mobile fitting and the standard of service is fantastic

[T16OLE]

My tyres I paid £155 for two fallen 452' s which are considered to have a mid / budget price with premium performance all round! Best tyres I've ever had bar Michelin pilot sport's which are more than double the price in that size, but only marginally better

[The Kraken]

Have you looked at My Tyres? Got my winters from them and they were the cheapest for the tyre only. I think they can recommend local fitters too.

Also if you are feeling brave Kwik Fit apparently have a 25% off all tyres sale.

Bugger! Must type quicker!

Edited by The Kraken on Sunday 9th October 09:12

[Piepiepie]

Are kiwk fit all that bad?

[chris1roll]

To be fair to Kwik-Fit, our leasing company switched to them at the start of 2010.
Every time I have been in to my local branch(a few times at 33k/yr), they have been polite, friendly and efficient; the only delay being getting authorisation from the leasing co.
(I've only got steel wheels though, so no alloys to damage!)
Had the MOT done there a couple weeks ago, they changed the blown numberplate lamp during the test.

[Patrick Bateman]

Mytyres are almost always the cheapest I can find, Lovetyres looks good as well tough- just recently stumbled upon that one the other day.

Oh and with mytyres, it'll probably be cheaper to buy the tyres and pay for the fitting separately. Paying for the tyres as 'fully fitted' would have cost me about 20 quid more.

[Piepiepie]

Patrick Bateman said:

Mytyres are almost always the cheapest I can find, Lovetyres looks good as well tough- just recently stumbled upon that one the other day.

Oh and with mytyres, it'll probably be cheaper to buy the tyres and pay for the fitting separately. Paying for the tyres as 'fully fitted' would have cost me about 20 quid more.

Thats what i was thinking. I'm paranoid about my wheels getting damaged. They were refurbed last year and the one that needs changing, doesnt have a single mark on it.

If i bought a tyre from the web, i wouldnt know who to trust with the fitting of it

[wackojacko]

Try Camskill.....I have nothing but good things to say about Camskill, very good prices and always top notch delivery times.

[Egbert Nobacon]

wackojacko said:

Try Camskill.....I have nothing but good things to say about Camskill, very good prices and always top notch delivery times.

I concur.

Just got tyres from them this week. Couldn't fault the service or the price.

[JQ]

Piepiepie said:

Are kiwk fit all that bad?

Nope, they were the cheapest for me not so long ago for a pair of Michelin PE2's, beating Camskill, Blackcircles, Event Tyres and My Tyres. However, you do need to book and pay online - drive in off the street and they'll bend you over.

The chap who did my tyres was a very young YTS type bod who was ultra careful with my alloys, so I was a happy bunny.

[wackojacko]

Egbert Nobacon said:

wackojacko said:

Try Camskill.....I have nothing but good things to say about Camskill, very good prices and always top notch delivery times.

I concur.

Just got tyres from them this week. Couldn't fault the service or the price.

I also rate their parts dept, bought a set of braided lines from them recently for the MR2, they quoted upto 2 weeks ........ BANG they were on my doorstep the next day !

Edited by wackojacko on Friday 14th October 21:47

[PumpkinSteve]

Tyre Traders and Camskill are both very good and usually amongst the cheapest. Don't be put off by Tyre Traders' dodgy-looking website.

[falkster]

It's a toss up between camskill and mytyres. Depending on brand, one might beat the other.

[Piepiepie]

Any idea why my car has Y rated tyres on? Dont think my mondeo will do 186mph somehow....

[bazking69]

Used camskill numerous times. Great prices and great service.

[JQ]

If using Camskill how much are people paying to get them fitted? When I last asked my local Inde what the fitting charge was, it made using Camkskill too expensive in comparison to the likes of Blackcircles. I can't remember what they quoted but it was something like £10 or £15 per tyre.

[12gauge]

Try your local fitters. I usually go to etyres or somesuch, and get quoted about £45 per. Tried a local shop not online and they did them for £35 apiece. Not going to cost you anything in fuel, the nearest place, afterall.

[Vulgar LS2]

I've just bought a couple of tyres for the monaro from http://www.tyretraders.com/ they were quite a bit cheaper than camskill, but camskill were cheaper for my range rovers tyres.