Got tyres from the internet and now no-one will fit them

junii

Who will fit them now though? I rang one or two places and they don't do it unless you buy their tyres. One place quoted me extra but the price they gave means I will not save any money having bought on the net.

Anybody know anywhere in the Mayo/Galway region that will do this?

Thanks.

cpoh1

Unfortunately because tyre suppliers in ireland like to charge outrageous prices for tyres, and dont like internet sites like www.eiretyres.com undercutting them they wont normally fit tyres they dont supply themselves. The site above has a list of approved tyre fitters in ireland. Im sure there's one in your locality.

louie

If you were in Dublin there is a place I know that does it and the guy is very decent as well. I had a similar problem myself and I went nuts over the situation. Running a business of my own I found it very hard to believe how others are creating their own rules. OK, I do understand the situation, and charging a little bit extra to make up is fine, but giving you a blunt answer like "we only fit our products", I think is stupid and ignorant.

kleefarr

check the eiretyres.com fitters page here.. Fitters
You may well find that someone near you on their list will fit them.

I recently bought tyres from them and got them fitted valves and balanced €10 each tyre. Was very happy.

wyndham

louie wrote:

but giving you a blunt answer like "we only fit our products", I think is stupid and ignorant.

Next time you go to the pub, bring your own keg and ask the publician how much it would be to serve it.

Avns1s

cpoh1 wrote:

Unfortunately because tyre suppliers in ireland like to charge outrageous prices for tyres, and dont like internet sites like www.eiretyres.com undercutting them they wont normally fit tyres they dont supply themselves. The site above has a list of approved tyre fitters in ireland. Im sure there's one in your locality.

The last set of four tyres I bought, including fitting, balancing, and new valves were significantly cheaper than the prices quoted on eire tyres website. Small bit of haggling but so what.

JohnCleary

Clonboo Tyres - his number is on eiretyres.com

Hotwheels

Clonboo Tyres - his number is on eiretyres.com

Was going to say the same, number is at the bottom of my sig...

Anan1

wyndham wrote:

Next time you go to the pub, bring your own keg and ask the publician how much it would be to serve it.

Fortunately for us, not all tyre fitters are as bitter as your good self - the ones on the eiretyres list will do it for €10 a tyre and still doubtless turn a profit.

louie

wyndham wrote:

Next time you go to the pub, bring your own keg and ask the publician how much it would be to serve it.

I don't think you are making any sense here. Obviously it never happened to you, so were the sarcasm comes from.

Fey!

louie wrote:

...but giving you a blunt answer like "we only fit our products", I think is stupid and ignorant.

Probably not as bad in the tyre industry, but with some business' you don't want to deal with other peoples goods in case the goods aren't up to scratch; if you work on them, the customer will blame you if/when the goods fail.

I hope that that makes sense. And I'm speaking from experience.

louie

Fey! wrote:

Probably not as bad in the tyre industry, but with some business' you don't want to deal with other peoples goods in case the goods aren't up to scratch; if you work on them, the customer will blame you if/when the goods fail.

I hope that that makes sense. And I'm speaking from experience.

Yes indeed, I agreed with you there.
Explaining to the customer/s why the negative attitude toward the job, doesn't get you any black-balls (bad remarks, reputation, etc).
When I had the same problem, as above, I asked the fitter for an answer to why not, and he said: "Cause I don't want to". Honestly he was doing nothing else, but smoking and drinking his coffee or tea or whatever...

saobh_ie

I recently bought a set of tires for the car and for the bike. It was an Extremly unlucky week, two tires and a rim destroyed in the car and a giant plug (i didn't know I had) in the bikes rear destroyed when I accidentally did a burnout.

I don't buy tires and stuff off the internet, I support my local shops. For the bike I went to blakestown motorcycle tires, got recommendations on a couple of different tires, he didn't have the ones that would suit me the best so he did a brilliant repair job on the holed one and set me away for two days. Came back and got a front and rear (needed a winter focused front tire), fitted and balanced, chain and brakes looked at, ultraseal all for 300 quid. Bargin.

For the car I went to Airside Pitstop near Swords, decided to buy a set of wheels as well. Asked him to throw the best remaining tire in the boot as spare. Dropped the car in the next day, again asked that he throw the best tire into the boot as spare. 'No bother'. So he goes and fits and balances the four tires. But uses different sized nuts on them than my tire iron and doesn't tell me, and throws all five tires into the boot.

'We always give the customers back thier tires'. Yeah well for 550 quid you could have told me that in advance. So to hell with small local businesse's from now on.

Fey!

I got tyres of the internet last year and saved a lot - cost me €50 to get them put on. Last week I prices new tyres, and found that I could now get the same tyres locally cheaper fitted than I could on the net.

BTW, I use Ballybrit Exhaust & Tyres in Oldenway, Ballybrit, Galway.

Dilbert75

cpoh1 wrote:

Unfortunately because tyre suppliers in ireland like to charge outrageous prices for tyres, and dont like internet sites like www.eiretyres.com undercutting them they wont normally fit tyres they dont supply themselves. The site above has a list of approved tyre fitters in ireland. Im sure there's one in your locality.

I recently bought 2x BF Goodrich Profiler 2 195/65R15's from my local tyre shop (Adamstown Tyres) for €70 each incl new valve, fitting & balancing. Eiretyres are doing the same tyre for €62.50 each without fitting - think I did OK.

junii

Cheers. Will check out that fitters page. Cloonboo would be handy enough.

Anan1

The list of fitters on the eiretyres website was missing for the past week or so, but it's back now.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

louie wrote:

but giving you a blunt answer like "we only fit our products", I think is stupid and ignorant.

that doesnt sound stupid and ignorant, it sounds completely fair.

would you bring a stake to a restaurant and ask them to cook it... no.
would you bring a drink into a bar and ask them to pore it ...no
would you bring your own medicine to a doctor and ask them to administer it...no

i see no problem with his answer...

kdevitt

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

would you bring a stake to a restaurant and ask them to cook it... no.

Probably wouldn't taste great anyway, being wooden and all that...

Anyhoo - people bring bottles of wine to a restaurant and get charged corkage, this is the same. Its a service they're meant to provide, if their prices were competitive in the first place people wouldn't be buying off the internet.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

kdevitt wrote:

Probably wouldn't taste great anyway, being wooden and all that...

Anyhoo - people bring bottles of wine to a restaurant and get charged corkage, this is the same. Its a service they're meant to provide, if their prices were competitive in the first place people wouldn't be buying off the internet.

hehe good one....

people bring bottles of wine to a certain restaurant that provide that service... not all,

its a service they are meant to provide when supplying the tyres. nothing else.

you seen to have left out parts of the sentences to suite your aurgment

Alun

At the end of the day it's up to an individual businessman to decide what services and/or products they do or don't want to provide to any given customer.

But, if they aren't bogged down with other, potentially more profitable, work at the time and are able to do it, then why the hell shouldn't they? Business is business however small, and who knows, they might be so impressed by your friendly, helpful service they might buy their tyres from you next time.

peasant

What you do is this:

You look up the tyres you want on eiretyres and note their price (excluding fitting cost) and then you ring around the tyre people and get a quote for the same tyres.

In some cases you fill find that once you add the fitting costs to eiretyres prices you pay the same (or a few euro more) at the fitters.

Having the fitters do it plus having a comeback with them in case something goes wrong with the tyres in my opinion is worth a few euro extra ...plus you don't have the hassle of the tyres being dumped in your front yard and having to load and drive them somewhere to get fitted.

In case the tyre people come back with ridiculous prices you just tell them that you could get them for such and such a price off the internet but you'd rather get them off them ...worked wonders in my case. After fitting and disposal of old tyres I even got them 5 euro cheaper than off eiretyres and had no hassle.

louie

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

that doesnt sound stupid and ignorant, it sounds completely fair.

would you bring a stake to a restaurant and ask them to cook it... no.
would you bring a drink into a bar and ask them to pore it ...no
would you bring your own medicine to a doctor and ask them to administer it...no

i see no problem with his answer...

First you all compare drink and food with tyres. From my opinion they are not the same thing.

You go to Atlantic Home care and get yourself a self-Assembly wardrobe.
Trying to do the job you realise you are not as good as you thought, so you call a specialist. What would you say if you can not get one to finish the job?

So the point is - you are not making any sense either.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Alun wrote:

then why the hell shouldn't they?

because as somebody pointed out earlier...

what if you get a blow out and crash... who's to blame... the tyre manufacturer or the fitter.... i think most insurance companies and solicitor would advise you go after the fitter rather than to tyre company...

so it makes good business sense not to fit self supplied tyres,


and as somebody else said its up to the individual fitter as to what service he supplies. as far as i know they are not obliged to provide a fitting only service.

Savman

As tempting as sites like EireTyres are, the hassle involved would put me right off. I use DR Tyres on the airport road, small place but friendly and helpful enough, reasonably priced etc. I just drive in and drive out. They're always busy prolly cos they've built up a good rep.

I'm all for DIY where possible as it keeps vichles in top order when they're looked after but although there's many things on a car that you can fix yourself, I don't think tyres are one of those "everyday" kinda things. Its the only contact between your car and the road surface, so I'll leave that one those in the know...

adunis

Ok Try Jeep tyres 205/80-16's €68 a corner Marshalls,(or €48 no names)from Eire tyres versus €95 for some no name aisan yokes from anybody,probably ain't as dramatic with car tyres fitting balancing and tracking €100 local small guy he cannot understand how they do it either but was still damm glad of my €100

Anan1

adunis wrote: »

Ok Try Jeep tyres 205/80-16's €68 a corner Marshalls,(or €48 no names)from Eire tyres versus €95 for some no name aisan yokes from anybody,probably ain't as dramatic with car tyres fitting balancing and tracking €100 local small guy he cannot understand how they do it either but was still damm glad of my €100

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