Cheap tyres delivered?

[speedy88]

Hello lovely people, I've heard theres some decent websites where you can get tyres delivered to your door which vastly undercut your local kwik fit. I found these guys:

www.blackcircles.com/order/tyres/search

But I have no idea how reputable they are. Can someone recommend me some sites?

[Mystery Machine]

Camskill.

[Mike D]

www.mytyres.co.uk

I find between them and camskill they seem to be unbeatable

[Campbell]

Second for Camskill

[waveman1500]

How do you then fit and balance them? Do you take them down to tyre shops? I've never had any problems with my local tyre shops, I have a particular favourite which I always go back to and they look after me pretty well with discounts and the odd free tyre swap. How much savings are we talking about here?

[gouldygtr]

i just bought 4 15" toyos, came to 126 quid delivered, bargain!

[stealthstylz]

I found a local Asian owned tyre shop that were cheaper than mytyres and camskill even with fitting. Only place i've ever managed to get tyres cheaper than there.

Matt

[EmDee]

another vote for www.camskill.co.uk/ here

they are the cheapest I've found but remember to factor in fitting if you cant do it yourself

[speedy88]

Cheers all!

[cobblers]

Camskill are absolutely blinding (195/50/15 Toyo proxes for £28.50 for example) and deliver upsettingly fast. I ordered just before 4pm one day and got them at 7:04AM the following morning, or something like that.


Mytyres.co.uk are alright, sometimes stock sizes that I can't get from camskill (185/45/15s for example)
If you buy from them through willtheyfit.com (see sig) I get a tiny bit of commission. It's very exciting really.

[Mystery Machine]

Nov 9, 2010 14:15:07 GMT cobblers said:

Mytyres.co.uk are alright, sometimes stock sizes that I can't get from camskill (185/45/15s for example)

I found that with my 155/55/14's. I often check on both Mytyres & Camskill...it's usually Camskill that win, but as you say, Mytyres sometimes stock the slightly more unusual sizes.

Nov 9, 2010 14:15:07 GMT cobblers said:

If you buy from them through willtheyfit.com (see sig) I get a tiny bit of commission. It's very exciting really.

Now I'll remember that if I do buy any tyres from them in the future.

I think it might be a good time to start looking for a tyre fitting machine and a balancer for Area 52. ;D

[stealthstylz]

It still annoys me that if you google Camskill the first result under the actual company website is a thread complaining about them. Must put a lot of people off buying from them which is a shame as they're very good.

Matt

[trevorbrady]

fitting tyres is the easy part. If the profile is big enough you can fit tyres without ANY tools. Just by stomping on them with stout boots. Sounds a bit agricultural but it works!! Low profile tyres are harder.

getting the old tyres off is the problem. I bought one of those manual tyre changers from machine mart/ebay but had to make a few modifications to overcome some weaknesses in it. I had been looking out for an eletric tyre machine but most of them are three phase and expensive to boot. The old style "bubble" balancers are also hard to find.

I buy and fit my own tyres out of cheapskateness (or the quest for increased self-reliance, whichever you prefer ), I got a set of tyres recently that were too low profile (165/50R15) and the wheels too delicate (brand new fully polished alloys) to have a go at my agri-fitting technique. I called around the local tyre shops and prices varied from €8 to €20 per tyre for a fitting service. Since both wheels and tyres were new there was no disposal fee for old tyres.

I think tyre shops deliberately inflate the fitting cost if you bring your own tyres in a bid to deter people from buyuing tyres online. Can't blame them I suppose but it makes life difficult for me and my budget...

I have yet to figure out a DIY way of balancing them though. Any thoughts?

[incarsolutions]

We have tyre fitting facilities here and to be honest, the internet prices on tyres to the public aren't that different to the trade in prices unless your buying in bulk. the money is made on the fitting. So when you factor in that a tyre machine and balancer is going to cost over 2k and a box of weights is best part £30, £10-15 for fitting your own tyres is pretty good going. Even with all the right gear some can still be a complete 'mare to fit, or remove!

[PandaSelecta]

best to try some of your local tyre fitters, as we use one local to us who charges £32.81 fully fitted for my panda tyres (155/70R13), which isnt bad as they are Vredenstein T-tracs

[kabman]

I once ordered a pair of tyres from, I think, Blackcircle and their website gives you the option of fitting at one of their agents. I chose a handy local garage from the list. The tyres were delivered straight to the garage to be fitted whenever I went in. Worked out the cheapest for me and a much more pleasant experience than Kwikfit.

Since then I've bought a manual tyre changer and do my own but if they were low profile and/or expensive wheels I'd use the same garage again.

[claypole]

Mytyres gives you a list of local fitters.

My nearest is the same place I used to buy tyres from... I've take a few sets now and never had any problems.

[ontheedge]

I had a flyer came the other week. prices inc. fitting at your address:
www.etyres.co.uk/

[waveman1500]

Nov 9, 2010 14:35:10 GMT trevorbrady said:

I have yet to figure out a DIY way of balancing them though. Any thoughts?

You can probably get close enough using only static balancing, which basically only requires putting them on a free rotating shaft (like the car hub) and then spinning them a few times and marking where they stop to work out where the heavy part of the tyre is. Then apply a weight opposite this point.

[akku]

Oddly my local tyre place beats all the online ones every time. That's Big City Tyres in Nottingham.