reasonable CAR tyre shop?

[Badcat]

ok- i know it's off topic - but i'm in need.
i need to find a car tyre place that will fit some race tyres for me.
all the ones i've spoken to want $150 to fit and balance four new tyres i supply.
does anyone have suggestions or work somewhere that won't charge that much?
thanks

ken

[Blakamin]

Tell them to get stuffed... will only take 20 minutes for any good tyrefitter... you got a tony's up there?

[Devil]

ok- i know it's off topic - but i'm in need.
i need to find a car tyre place that will fit some race tyres for me.
all the ones i've spoken to want $150 to fit and balance four new tyres i supply.
does anyone have suggestions or work somewhere that won't charge that much?
thanks

ken
Ive always had damn good service from Mike @ Beaurepaires in Barrys Point Rd. Not sure what he'd charge though :)

[White trash]

Tell them to get stuffed... will only take 20 minutes for any good tyrefitter... you got a tony's up there?

No they don't. Yet.

Couple of stories to tell you about Tonys one day.

[Blakamin]

No they don't. Yet.

Couple of stories to tell you about Tonys one day.

that was the first big chain that popped into me head...
after bob jane which aint over here... they woulda charged $20 for the set

you can tell me tomorrow!

[Motu]

Try Rowes in Rosebank rd - while you are waiting...take your own food into the local restraunt and snap your fingers for service.

[Badcat]

Try Rowes in Rosebank rd - while you are waiting...take your own food into the local restraunt and snap your fingers for service.

sorry - is that humour ?
the tyres are not available through retail dealers otherwise i would have bought them from a tyre shop - they are race tyres and only available by phone and courier from the distributor.
is $150 for 30 mins work reasonable?
if so - i'm in the wrong game...
thanks for your feedback motu.
nice to have some rational input from the trade.

[gav]

LOL, pulled up to Cycletreads the other Sat afternoon to get a front tyre fitted to a rim and they were closed. There was this other guy standing there ranting and raving, he asks me if there is anywhere else to go? I was going to try Budgets but Street & Sports m/cs sign was out so wandered in and guy I know is behind counter. Hi, can you fit a tyre for me? Sure man, bring it in. So I go back to my car to grab wheel and tyre and this other guy ducks in ahead of me with two Ducati Paso wheels and wanted one tyre swapped from one rim to the other . God knows why they both looked as bald as each other, I just let him butt in and was chatting with Chris, and then this guy leaves and mumbles something and pisses off, didnt even ask if there was any charge or anything !! Chris and I just looked at each other like WTF? Hell, I was more than happy to pay $5 for fit and balance!!! :headbang:

[Posh Tourer :P]

I hear Drury Tyres are good

[Kickaha]

ok- i know it's off topic - but i'm in need.
i need to find a car tyre place that will fit some race tyres for me.
all the ones i've spoken to want $150 to fit and balance four new tyres i supply.
does anyone have suggestions or work somewhere that won't charge that much?
thanks

ken

A lot of tyre shops will charge extra for tyres not bought off then to be fitted but that still sounds excessive, a few minutes with a telephone book should find someone more reasonable

Sometimes the cost will also depend on the method being used to balance them and gear used and whether they are using a clip on weight or stick on

If you'd like to bring them to Chch I will do it for a bottle of coke and some choccie biscuits ;)

[rettun]

porana road off wairau road, theres a lil shop down by american alloys called JP tyres, good bunch cheep tyres and he'd prob do it for cheep :cool:

I brought two second hand tyres, with 7mm tread, $60 and he didnt even charge me to get them fitted + balanced :spudbooge

[geoffm]

ok- i know it's off topic - but i'm in need.
i need to find a car tyre place that will fit some race tyres for me.
all the ones i've spoken to want $150 to fit and balance four new tyres i supply.
does anyone have suggestions or work somewhere that won't charge that much?
thanks

ken

Most tyre shops shoudl do it -last time I had some tyres fitted to my rims ti was $10/tyre. How much is a puncture repair - there is more work in that than swapping some tyres over.
geoff

[Mongoose]

Are you sure someone didn't make an Oooops with the calculater, like move the decimal point? Noooo, four into 15 dont go. Mind you, $37.50 seems an odd number too.
Keep us posted, out of my own curiousity, as to what deal you end up with

[Holy Roller]

I hear Drury Tyres are good
They always saw me right, the only place to go being a student at the time and living just up the road helped.
Try phoning around from the yellow pages for the best deal thats what I usually do when needing something.

[Badcat]

porana road off wairau road, theres a lil shop down by american alloys called JP tyres, good bunch cheep tyres and he'd prob do it for cheep :cool:

I brought two second hand tyres, with 7mm tread, $60 and he didnt even charge me to get them fitted + balanced :spudbooge

called them this morning - they quoted $17.50 a wheel fitting and balancing. thats more like it!!
i'll be going there this morning. thanks a bunch rettun - i knew someone on kiwibiker would come through!!!
ken

[Badcat]

porana road off wairau road, theres a lil shop down by american alloys called JP tyres, good bunch cheep tyres and he'd prob do it for cheep :cool:

I brought two second hand tyres, with 7mm tread, $60 and he didnt even charge me to get them fitted + balanced :spudbooge

tyres on - all up $70.
pressures were all different - between 28 and 35 psi - and all the nuts were all more than 30 footpounds overtightened, but the tyres seem well fitted and balanced - and i'm a fussy son of a bitch.
so all up pretty happy and the new tyres seem great!
thanks again rettun.

ken

[rettun]

Who'd you get, the young guy with dreads? or the old asian fellow?
I've only ever had work done by the young guy(can't remember his name) but he was good

[Badcat]

the younger guy.
he was friendly - and took a real interest in my much massaged mx5.
ken