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General => Shows, events, track days, motorsport => Topic started by: Horney on 26 November 2009, 19:10
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Having a browse as I need 2 new ones for next year and when I looked earlier in the year they seemed to be about £60 each, now they seem to be over £70 each.
Places like Camskill etc are no longer even listing prices, just POA. :angry:
Nick
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Two price hikes in 6 months.
Exchange-rate sh*ttiness.
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It's weird though as T1R's have tumbled in price. You can get a set of 4 delivered for £116!
Nick
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No they haven't
Not delivered and fitted. They're still around £42-45 fitted and balanced.
There are some special offers about, but with carriage and fitting they come out pretty much the same, in my experience.
And before some clever c*nt swings in - I know if you have mates in the trade you can do it lots cheaper, but that depends on having tyre-bay-based mates.
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Well I can get 4 T1R's delivered for £116 and the local independent tyre fitters do fitting and balancing for £25 for 4 wheels. So that's £35.25 each delivered, fitted, balanced and with new valves.
nick
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clever cnut haha
do you have the link? for that price i may be tempted to repace the ceats and firehawks on the corrado
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Well I can get 4 T1R's delivered for £116 and the local independent tyre fitters do fitting and balancing for £25 for 4 wheels. So that's £35.25 each delivered, fitted, balanced and with new valves.
nick
Lucky you, the local tyre robbers around here charge £10 minimum for fitting and balancing and thats on a wheel thats already off the car.
Have you tried Ears motorsport for a price on the R888's, they are usualy very cheap on tyres.
Paul
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The £25 is for wheels that are not fitted to a car. I'll look up Ears Motorsport, cheers for the tip.
Mark PM on it's way shortly!
nick
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Well I can get 4 T1R's delivered for £116 and the local independent tyre fitters do fitting and balancing for £25 for 4 wheels. So that's £35.25 each delivered, fitted,
Lucky you, the local tyre robbers around here charge £10 minimum for fitting and balancing and thats on a wheel thats already off the car.
If the price of living somewhere as nice as the IOW, or Bristol is £10 each to fit tyres then it's a price I'm willing to pay every day :grin:
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you mean you have to pay to get tyres fitted and balanced :shocked: :lipsrsealed: :tongue:
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Well I can get 4 T1R's delivered for £116 and the local independent tyre fitters do fitting and balancing for £25 for 4 wheels. So that's £35.25 each delivered, fitted,
Lucky you, the local tyre robbers around here charge £10 minimum for fitting and balancing and thats on a wheel thats already off the car.
If the price of living somewhere as nice as the IOW, or Bristol is £10 each to fit tyres then it's a price I'm willing to pay every day :grin:
So would I mate, it's the house not tyre fitting prices that are stopping us!
Nick
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Damn I should have bought a pair of these ages ago. Now £102 each!!!!!!!!!
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:shocked:
Worth looking for an alternative at that price - they WERE the track day bargain until this year.
Trawl through Northloop - there's a lot of alternative recommendations on there.
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Eye watering isn't it. I've had a look at Yoko's and stuff on EAR motorsport but they're all £120+ each with the Toyos still being the cheapest.
I'll check out northloop and see what's going down.
Nick
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Cheers for the adive on Northloop DH. Found a discount code that gets them down to a shade over £180 delivered for a pair. Still bloomin pricey though. Going to have a good internet search tonight and see what other prices I can rustle up but I suspect this will be the best.
nick
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I looked for ages for a good deal on 195/50/15 R888's as all the prices had shot up, i paid £247 incl delivery from Tyretraders in February (x4 R888's) i can't believe i got them so cheap they were £59 each inc vat !!! . My track car isn't even finished yet so have no need for the R888's yet but thought i had to get them at that price !
Simon.
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I looked on there and they only list the SG compound ones which are just too soft for regular trackday use.
nick
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It seems there is a shortage of the medium compound ones at the moment. Also Toyo have reduced the amount of dealers selling them to inflate the prices.
Paul
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Humm I'm proper kicking myself for not buying a pair before christmas but as I knew I wouldn't be hitting the track till the spring at the earliest I thought I'd wait till I had the spare cash set aside.
Nick
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Do you need them to be road legal?
If not have a look at the Indysport TR pattern tyres at Ears Motorsport. They are about £65 each. I've got a set and they are awesome in the dry, reportedly good in the damp / wet but I've not tried them in the damp or wet. They may be road legal but I'm not 100% sure, the Maxsport TR tyres are road legal. As far as I know they are German remoulds and the tarmac rally guys give them a good write up.
I got mine off ebay brand new for under £100 so it was worth me trying them.
Paul
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Interesting stuff Paul I'll look them up as I don't need them to be road legal as I have a 2nd set of wheels with T1R's for very wet trackdays and road use.
nick
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Interesting, looked up the Indysport TR's on eBay and the seller says they're road legal as well. Will have to do some research into these but they could be a goer. Just not sure how mixing them on the front and R888's on the rear will work.
Nick
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It's weird though as T1R's have tumbled in price. You can get a set of 4 delivered for £116!
Nick
do you have a link mate? :smiley:
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Gone up a bit now but not much £125:
http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m53b0s99p1667
Nick
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Gone up a bit now but not much £125:
http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m53b0s99p1667
Nick
thanks :smiley: