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Tyre Prices???

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Is it me or have the price of tyres shot up??

Current prices on black circles;

Toyo Proxes T1-R £115.88
Yokohama Parada Spec 2 £116.07
Bridgestone RE040 £113.82

Most of these were under £100 last time i replaced my tyres, some were even under £90!!

Can anyone suggest anywhere cheaper or a cheaper tyre?? :evil::(
 
Cheers for that.

I've just had a look and they generaly seem to be the same prces as blackcircles although they are doing Toyo Proxes for £79.95 each with same day dispatch!!

Does anyone know how much i should be looking at paying to have my tyres fitted??

Cheers
 
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can confirm got garage specialising in tyres prices through the roof anf due to go up some more from what i hear if u holding off dont
 
I've bought at least 5 times off camskill, never got anything but a great service to be honest. :D
 
I have two on the back, and two in the post, I am happy enough with them!
Cant be worse than the bald potenzas they are replacing! and for under £70 a corner!
 
You can get tyres that will fit for a damn sight less than what your looking at, but banging 200 bhp through them and trying to hold on in bends and bad weather, well, I would rather you than me! To be honest, I can't afford to put top flight tyres on either, but you can find decent ones in the 60 to 80 quid bracket. Toyo are good tyres, as are the parada spec 2's (though im sure others will have their opinions!) look for peoples reviews on the forum and go from there!
 
I've had T1R's on a couple of previous cars and thought they were good tyres. I don't think you can go too far wrong for that money.

Remember you should budget £5-10 per tyre to fit, balance and dispose of the old tyre.
 
Some places charge more than that, I was quoted £20 a tyre once! I now know someone in the trade, so its not a problem for me, but even with a fitting cost I think online is the way forward.
 
That's very expensive. I can get tyres fitted and balanced for £5 a wheel, but of course a few places will try it on and charge a small fortune...

Not too many years ago, 3 maybe, I bought two part worn tyres from a local tyre shop, they fitted and balanced them and disposed of the old ones all for £30. :lol:
 
Has anyone had the falcons, speaking to a guy at work who had some on an m3 and thought they were good. Im hearing the toyos dont last long at all as they are very soft!
 
Never heard of falcons and TBH they sound like a remould (no reason for that other than it is the kind of name remould companies use). Your right in that toyos dont last very well, i struggled to get more than 8k miles out of them when i had them on my previous EP3. Same goes for yoko pradas. They are both very good tyres for both wet and dry grip (but then nothing can be worse in the wet than the bridgestones) but the trade off with the price is the life of them. The other end of the scale is the michelins which are very expensive ( like £141 a tyre expensive) but i have just had to swap the fronts after over 26k miles on them. So in the long run the actually work out cheaper than toyo's or yoko's.

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After googling falcon it looks like they are cheap crappy copy indian tyres. If anyone hasn't seen the fake britian thing with everyones favourite slaphead where they tested a continental tyre (i think it was) and a cheap indian copy of the same tyre you will NEVER go near them.
 
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Never heard of falcons and TBH they sound like a remould (no reason for that other than it is the kind of name remould companies use). Your right in that toyos dont last very well, i struggled to get more than 8k miles out of them when i had them on my previous EP3. Same goes for yoko pradas. They are both very good tyres for both wet and dry grip (but then nothing can be worse in the wet than the bridgestones) but the trade off with the price is the life of them. The other end of the scale is the michelins which are very expensive ( like £141 a tyre expensive) but i have just had to swap the fronts after over 26k miles on them. So in the long run the actually work out cheaper than toyo's or yoko's.

Edit:

After googling falcon it looks like they are cheap crappy copy indian tyres. If anyone hasn't seen the fake britian thing with everyones favourite slaphead where they tested a continental tyre (i think it was) and a cheap indian copy of the same tyre you will NEVER go near them.

oh ok, thanks for that. I will keep looking then. Avons are looking tempting.
 
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