Mail order tyres - anyone cheaper than Camskill?

[Marf]

otolith said:

Marf said:

AD08 you mean?

Camskill will also price match any online supplier who has stock of a given tyre.`

No, AD07, the current officially Lotus sanctioned tyre for the S2 Elise

Of course, forgot they were OEM on some lotus models

[dylan0451]

i've been searching for 235/35 R17's for my E36 for sometime - none of these companies or anyone else seem to stock them anymore. is it really that low a demand tyre size?!

[Karlos69]

Have a look at http://www.bestbuytyres.co.uk/

I was looking for some Uniroyal Rainsport 2 tyres for my Focus, and with fitting, they're the cheapest I could find.

[otolith]

Marf said:

Of course, forgot they were OEM on some lotus models

And sadly somewhat more expensive than the AD08 - the pair of rears I bought a couple of weeks ago would have cost me about 80 quid less.

[agxster]

You could try Oponeo, based in Poland and free delivery:

you don't mention speed or load rating but they do have these in the right size £68:

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyres/kumho-tyres-215-45-r...

[voicey]

What's needed is an engine like confused.com for tyre websites. You'd put your size (or even car reg for simpletons) and it'd search for the best deal - fitted or supply only.

[V8mate]

OP: Call your local independent tyre garage; they'll often match web prices and sometimes improve on them and it means that a small local business gets the profit without you losing out.

I've built up a relationship with a garage in my town; always get a quote from them. With the exception of R888s which they can't get hold of through their wholesalers, they get my business 4 out of 5 times.

[garycat]

bigdods said:

personally I would avoid 912's, FK452 is their good tyre. The 912 is AFAIK designed for motorway cruising in middle size cars. All the Falken tyres seem to suit lighter cars TBH

I do mostly motorway cruising in an Impreza WRX (1380kg?), about 16000 miles per year, so would the 912s be OK?

[jon-]

voicey said:

What's needed is an engine like confused.com for tyre websites. You'd put your size (or even car reg for simpletons) and it'd search for the best deal - fitted or supply only.

You mean like www.tyresearcher.com ?

[bigdods]

garycat said:

I do mostly motorway cruising in an Impreza WRX (1380kg?), about 16000 miles per year, so would the 912s be OK?

IME my Omega took longer to stop in the wet was average going round corners in the dry and just plain scary in the wet. Turns out Omegas like a harder sidewall.

At 1380kg the 452's would probably be a good bet , I think my Golf weighs about the same. I would never go back to 912's on anything purely on their performance in the wet.

I would suggest that if you are driving a performance car then you really need to get some decent rubber, there WILL be times you are tempted to give it some beans and on cheap tyres you may end up in a hedge....

[margerison]

jon- said:

voicey said:

What's needed is an engine like confused.com for tyre websites. You'd put your size (or even car reg for simpletons) and it'd search for the best deal - fitted or supply only.

You mean like www.tyresearcher.com ?

No, because it's crap. It doesn't even find the cheapest tyres on the sites that it lists on its own site!

[philmots]

clickontyres by far the cheapest on Vredestin. Bad spelling.

[Patrick Bateman]

craig7584 said:

a couple of sites i usually try are

http://www.blackcircles.com

and

http://www.mytyres.co.uk

These.

Look around though as I've found they do vary between each other.