Tyreleader, Camskill, Blackcircles et al - tyre age?

[Durzel]

Hi,

Quick one this - was looking to buy some tyres online and been visiting all the usual suspects. Tyreleader is by far the cheapest (some £50 cheaper than Camskill), but have heard conflicting reviews of them - though they do have an overall good reputation it seems. Camskill, Blackcircles and MyTyres seem well regarded but are more expensive as stated.

What concerns me though is the tyre age. I know it ought not to matter unless it's extremes, but frankly I don't want to pay £800 odd for tyres and find they are from 2011 or something. None of the sites appear to guarantee a current-year DOT thingy.

Thanks in advance for input

[HustleRussell]

Any tyre which was manufactured within the past two years is considered 'new' for the purposes of retailers. Any older and they'd be obligated to indicate the DOT.

Edited by HustleRussell on Wednesday 27th January 15:26

[MDMA .]

I have always used camskill. when the tyres have arrived, all been made in the last few months. they have been rainsport 3 though so not likely to be much more than 6 months old at the time. if you are buying a current ( new release ) tyre, I wouldn't have thought the manufacture date would be so old.

I doubt they could give you dates as they would probably come direct from the distributor, if they don't have the stock ( drop ship ).

[A.J.M]

I got a set of Goodyear Duratracs from camskill last March.
The maker date on the tyres was from January last year.

[Durzel]

Cheers all.

[rallycross]

Tyre leader seem to be very good have used them 4 times in past 12 months.
Delivery takes 3 days and is tracked.
Tyre age was less than year on the ones Inhave received ( bridgestones and Avons)
Prices are great usually a fair bit cheaper than same tyres in UK ( even cheaper Than cam-skill who au used to before).

[Digitalize]

Think all the tyres I got from Tyreleader last year were less than a year old, and were matching pairs etc, no problems at all.

[MDMA .]

what I have found is once you add the delivery on, then the cost for fitting, its not much cheaper, if any, to not just get them from you local tyre place. last set I had fitted, the tyre guy said he would match the price of camskill and fit them cheaper than if bringing my own.

for future, just going to order from the local tyre and pop in when ready. saves messing about.

[trickywoo]

MDMA . said:

what I have found is once you add the delivery on, then the cost for fitting, its not much cheaper, if any, to not just get them from you local tyre place. last set I had fitted, the tyre guy said he would match the price of camskill and fit them cheaper than if bringing my own.

for future, just going to order from the local tyre and pop in when ready. saves messing about.

Agree its well worth checking your local supplier but it depends a lot on size and brand. I still save a decent wedge going elsewhere.

[mmm-five]

MDMA . said:

...the tyre guy said he would match the price of camskill and fit them cheaper than if bringing my own.

The last time I trusted my fitter - who'd been happy just to charge £10/corner for fitting/balancing/disposal for years - on the strength of their word, I ended up paying about 30% more than if I'd bought from Camskill/Lovetyres/et al, as he'd forgot about the VAT, and the prices had shot up, and he'd priced up the wrong tyre (PS2 instead of the newer PSS)! £210/corner instead of £160.

If I hadn't been desperate for them after a trackday (which is why I'd ordered them in the first place) then I'd have told him to stuff it. Haven't been back since and just use Lovetyres as they seem to be competitive with other online sellers, and they've got a place on my route home.

[Durzel]

MDMA . said:

what I have found is once you add the delivery on, then the cost for fitting, its not much cheaper, if any, to not just get them from you local tyre place. last set I had fitted, the tyre guy said he would match the price of camskill and fit them cheaper than if bringing my own.

for future, just going to order from the local tyre and pop in when ready. saves messing about.

Local tyre places I've spoken to are either miles away (in a couple of cases circa £200 more expensive) or can't even find them on their system. Another told me that they wouldn't be able to get the rears until late March?

Interestingly none of them were willing to fit supplied tyres at all (a seperate conversation after I'd already established their supply & fitting price)

[Searider]

Look after your local businesses - or they will be gone.

You can do this and still save money however.

I bought 4 new tyres just before Christmas. Priced them up on Blackcircles (I think) and then went to see my local tyre fitter, who I ALWAYS use.
Showed him the prices and he admitted he couldn't match the fitted price. I asked him how much to fit if I supplied and he suggested £50. So that's what we did and it still worked out cheaper than me opting for the fully fitted price online.

By ALWAYS using this guy I get good service and even had a free puncture repair or two along the line.

Look after your local businesses.

[0000]

MDMA . said:

what I have found is once you add the delivery on, then the cost for fitting, its not much cheaper, if any, to not just get them from you local tyre place. last set I had fitted, the tyre guy said he would match the price of camskill and fit them cheaper than if bringing my own.

for future, just going to order from the local tyre and pop in when ready. saves messing about.

Lucky you, that's not been my experience. If I'm feeling lazy though I do find that Event Tyres are often not that much more expensive than the Camskill route but with mobile fitting rather than finding a local shop to fit them.

[griffdude]

Just this morning put a set of Conti Sport 5s on my Alpina, rears are stamped 1414 & fronts 3415. Not over the moon about the date of the rears TBH. From Camskill.

[jwilliamsm3]

ive used camskill, tyre leader and oponeo. all my tyres have been about a year old max

[Jaguar steve]

Pick and mix selection of oldish date codes on last set of 4 from Camskill and a distinct whiff of a fkuc you Sir attitude when I queried it.

Sure, get a price from web suppliers then get your local indy to see if he can match or better it. That way you can check and challenge manufacturing dates before beer tokens change hands, you won't get raped for excessive fitting charges on tyres supplied by somebody else and most importantly one person takes total responsibility for supply and fit.

[HustleRussell]

griffdude said:

rears are stamped 1414 & fronts 3415. Not over the moon about the date of the rears TBH. From Camskill.

Seriously? Why?

Jaguar steve said:

you can check and challenge manufacturing dates before beer tokens change hands

Are people actually doing this?

[Ken Figenus]

I think you should probably mention 'no tyres more than 2 years old' as a condition of sale, but the variations in prices are absolutely staggering - its a weird retail animal this one. And why on earth can a nationwide main dealer, servicing tens of thousands of cars a year, not get remotely near the online prices?

I use a backstreet garage for my DD (they cant even spell 'no frills'!) and they always beat every single online price! So the DD is now on Michelin PSS for less than the cost of Hankooks at Kwik Fit! Mad.

[WarnieV6GT]

Cheaptyres.Com

Paid just £70 each for my 17 inch goodyear F1 AS2'S fitted.

[MattS3]

I've used our local place 3 times for full sets in the past 2 years.
Always happy to match online prices, they reckon they make no money out of the tyres but the fitting keeps the guts busy and pays there hourly rates comfortably, so at least it is helping in that way.
However, more importantly they have certain volumes of business they have to drive with their wholesaler to reach certain discount levels, thus they might not make out of my tyres but sure as hell they will from the customers who don't shop around as hard as I do.

It's a win win really and it's good to keep it local.