Just bought some new wheels and want to have my old but good tyres fitted to them. Local tyre place has qouted £100 for 4 tyres changed and balanced now that's shocking I thought.
Tyre swap price
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That's a bit steep especially as they haven't got to dispose of any old tyres.
I paid my local independent £40 to transfer all 4 tyres on my father-in-law's T5 about 2yrs ago - though based on a couple of recent puncture repairs this would probably be a bit more now. I would consider the £15 each that @DXX has suggested to be a good benchmark.
We have used the local independent exclusively for well over a decade with all of our vehicles which will probably have helped, though they were still a bit squittish about doing it until I reassured them as to the provenance of the tyres.
We have used the local independent exclusively for well over a decade with all of our vehicles which will probably have helped, though they were still a bit squittish about doing it until I reassured them as to the provenance of the tyres.
I managed to get them done for £60 all in. Not a bad profit for the price of some balancing weights is it
How much £ would a suitable machine cost that only removes and replaced the tyre? Then pop along some where to have them balanced.
The machine would be taking up space and doing nothing useful for 364 days a year.
A couple of years ago I bought a new tyre online for my spare wheel. I fitted it myself at home then drove to a tyre depot to get it balanced.
I used old style tyre levers, it was bloody hard work and by the time I'd finished I was wishing I'd just bought the tyre from them in the first place.
It was a very tough way to save a tenner!
Lesson learned.
Powered ones start at about £900 and upwards.
Manual ones are about £60, but it's chuffing hard work with risk of injury to the operator and damage to finish on the rim. Trust me, nothing worse than a chipped rim.
£15-20 a corner is about the normal for a swap, new valve, balance, and dispose of the old valve, but you may find some smaller less corporate outfits will do it for lesson a Q day.
I got a guy who come to the house and charges £20 a wheel. He's super careful and it's worth it for me as i know he won't mark a wheel ......personally it's not worth the risk taking it to a grease monkey who's used to doing taxis for the sake of saving a few ££.
Wages need paid, they aren't going to do it for 50p
I'm happy to pay £15 a corner that's fair. £25 is not !!!!
When you take into account the machinery needed, premises, wages and skill/experience to do the job then it’s understandable why a “simple” job appears expensive. I suppose it’s worth what you as an as individual considers to be a fair price. Someone once damaged one of my wheels doing a tyre change. The hassle getting them to admit it and then getting it repaired was a right PITA. Lesson learnt trying to do it on the cheap.
Yes it get that. But why pay over the odds. I'm happy to pay a fair price
Yes I have done that with LR's not much fun, certainty aint doing that these days! However I do have the space.
I think that I will eventually change over completely to steel rims off road tyres are on those now. Its almost pointless buying tyres at a discount only to loose that having them fitted which takes up the gap probably why we have just gone the usual big on street tyre outlets though one can occasionally buy tyres of one choice on the rim the last case BGG KO2 on steel rims. I think that I have been occasionally lucky in the past with local garages but I think those days are past. The nearest town used to have a whole street practically devoted to tyres so competition was high then , but now Halford has bought out or made arrangement with some tyre depots and at first cheap then other outlets started practically closing and I suspect may well do and the Halford type will just elevate prices once the competition has gone. Thanks anyway just curious how many tyres would it take to break even. I guess if one had quite a few vehicles and other family members etc.
