New Tyres - cheapest place to get them in Dublin

M007

I need to get 4 new tyres for my car - VW Polo - any suggestions for the cheapest place to purchase them in Dublin?

kerten

First you should decide what you want to buy.

If you want cheapest possible tyres for your car, most of the tyre places have cheap and worst quality tyres in their stock always. just start asking prices in places close to you. Probably difference between cheapest place and others won't be more than 5 euro per tyre.

If you are on budget but wise enough to avoid cheapest and dangerous tyres for your car, then you should decide which mid-range brands and probably models you are after. In general brands like Hankook, Kumho, Firestone, Uniroyal, Falken,Vredestein are good value. They are probably gonna be 10-15 euro more expensive than your cheapest/dangerous tyres in shop.


You can use prices in link below as a reference for premium, mid-range and budget brands
http://discounttyres.ie/offers.html

ted1

Shouldn't really go for poor quality on the only thing keeping you on the road, as above spend the few extra euros

Rowley Birkin QC

Www.tyreland.ie have good quality part worns.

Mycroft H

Do your research. Some cheap tyres made by premium companies aren't too bad. Kormoran tyres are Michelans budget brand and are not half bad. I paid 75 a corner for 195/60/15 tyres for my xantia and they are grand.

swoofer

how old is the polo? what make and size of tyres are on it already? and how much max do you want to pay?

M007

2004 1.2 polo. Its current tyres are 165/70 R 14 81T.

I presume i just get the same or is there a difference getting 175?

Nissan doctor

You need to decide/research what tyres you want....then find the place selling them the cheapest.

stimpson

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Www.tyreland.ie have good quality part worns.

+1 for tyreland. I picked up a nail in a fairly new tyre on the old car. The tyre place beside work said it couldn't be fixed - too close to the sidewall. €140 for a new tyre. I went to tyreland for a part worn. They looked at the tyre and said they could fix it. €10 and good as new. Nice to see a company not trying to screw the customer.

17" part worn premium tyre was €45 I think.

kirving

I don't think you can really get a 175. If it fit on the wheel, it would bulge out the sides.

eg; Tyre size: 165 60 R15

165 means 165mm - the width of the tyre.

60 means 60% - the height of the tyre sidewall as a percentage of it's width. (165mm * 60% = 99mm high)

R means Radial - the direction of steel bands in the tyre to increase strength.

15 means 15 inches, the radius of the wheel.

Nissan doctor

stimpson wrote: »

+1 for tyreland. I picked up a nail in a fairly new tyre on the old car. The tyre place beside work said it couldn't be fixed - too close to the sidewall. €140 for a new tyre. I went to tyreland for a part worn. They looked at the tyre and said they could fix it. €10 and good as new. Nice to see a company not trying to screw the customer.

17" part worn premium tyre was €45 I think.

Why are you assuming that tyreland are correct and the other place wasn't?

Just because they were 'able' to repair it doesn't mean it was correct practice to do so.

stimpson

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Why are you assuming that tyreland are correct and the other place wasn't?

Just because they were 'able' to repair it doesn't mean it was correct practice to do so.

The guy in tyreland said it couldn't be done if it was in the outer third of the thread as the patch wouldn't stick. Nail was bang on a third of the way in. The tyre did another 10,000 km without issue.

Nissan doctor

stimpson wrote: »

The guy in tyreland said it couldn't be done if it was in the outer third of the thread as the patch wouldn't stick. Nail was bang on a third of the way in. The tyre did another 10,000 km without issue.

If it was 'bang on a third'(which of course is an opinion, and not the correct way of deciding if its repairable) then obviously the first place was equally correct no?






Anyway...apologies for off topic.

Merch

what a part of Dublin are you at?
I'd personally avoid the cheapest new tyres, I'd even go for second hand part worns, but it depends on the type of driving you do, if its just pottering around locally and not on the motorway then even remoulds could be ok, but I havent seen remoulds in a while as I wouldn't go for them myself.

Few places selling part worns (which when i went to look had a lot of tread on them, looked new) at from 25 euro, probably depends on tyre size.

Voodoomelon

M007 wrote: »

I need to get 4 new tyres for my car - VW Polo - any suggestions for the cheapest place to purchase them in Dublin?

The only site you need:

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/

stimpson

Nissan doctor wrote: »

If it was 'bang on a third'(which of course is an opinion, and not the correct way of deciding if its repairable) then obviously the first place was equally correct no?

Bang on a third was my opinion, not his. Based on that diagram it was well within the repairable area.