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Offline Horney

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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #10 on: 28 November 2009, 09:59 »
Quote from: Diamond Hell on 28 November 2009, 08:22
Quote from: Paul86S2 on 27 November 2009, 23:38
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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #11 on: 08 March 2010, 12:58 »
Damn I should have bought a pair of these ages ago. Now £102 each!!!!!!!!!
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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #12 on: 08 March 2010, 13:06 »
 :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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #13 on: 08 March 2010, 13:08 »
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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #14 on: 08 March 2010, 13:51 »
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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #15 on: 09 March 2010, 17:53 »
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 !

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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #16 on: 09 March 2010, 19:26 »
I looked on there and they only list the SG compound ones which are just too soft for regular trackday use.

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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #17 on: 09 March 2010, 19:33 »
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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #18 on: 09 March 2010, 19:38 »
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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Re: R888's seem to have gone up in price!
« Reply #19 on: 09 March 2010, 20:22 »
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.

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