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Offline Jay

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #10 on: 26 November 2008, 15:40 »
BlackCircles.com and find a friend that works in the NHS  :wink: :grin: £79 for 2 Toyo Proxes fitted in my town, ahhh the car feels so much better now, I can see why campaigners want the tread limit changed to 3mm, less than 3mm and the tyres feel  :sick:
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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #11 on: 26 November 2008, 16:16 »
fiver a wheel local for a swapsie, 2 quid for a balance -

no need for new valves if the old ones are working is there?
also no need to balance the rears unless the tyres are shockingly made?



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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #12 on: 26 November 2008, 16:17 »
I've been quoted £5 per wheel to fit and balance, getting some done next week  :smiley:

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #13 on: 26 November 2008, 16:23 »
venture?

Ya think?

Camskill have a special offer on at the moment on T1-Rs - £32.45, oh plus £4 delivery for one, so £36.45 if I wanted one.  Venture are £41 fitted.

If I want 2 it'll be £64.90, or from Venture £82, but that's fitted and balanced.  From what people have posted early in this thread it's very easy to spend that £17 on getting a pair of tyres fitted, plus there's the inconvenience of dealing with the tyres when they show up at your work or home.

I'll be keeping the money in local businesses with prices as close as that.
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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #14 on: 26 November 2008, 16:28 »
I'm getting them done through a friend for £20 for all four. not bad

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #15 on: 27 November 2008, 10:52 »
I know a fitter that lives local that will do it for a fiver a wheel  :smug:
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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #16 on: 27 November 2008, 17:14 »
BlackCircles.com and find a friend that works in the NHS  :wink: :grin:

Hmm, interesting. Any idea how the friend went about ordering them with the NHS discount?

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #17 on: 27 November 2008, 17:19 »
I'm getting them done through a friend for £20 for all four. not bad

which is exactly what i aim to pay when i get mine on too. it's ok for some people that happen to have proxes in their size cheap at a local tyre place, but for me, the only way i can get proxes or any reasonably performance-orientated tyres is getting them from mytyres or camskill and paying a local fitter to slap them on. (not kwik fit or any franchised place as it will be more like 40 than 20)

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #18 on: 27 November 2008, 17:26 »
£5 a wheel for me, not bad really. sometimes cheaper for a whole car if he's a happy chappy.

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Re: Tyre fitting prices
« Reply #19 on: 29 November 2008, 12:38 »

Tru tings but a lot of the time Camskill is so shockingly cheap that even 10 quid a corner to fit makes them a steal.
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I dont find any internet tyre place cheaper than where i get my tyres. buy the time i bought and paid postage and fitting etc its usually about 10 quid more than if i went to the tyre centre and bought them direct from them.