Cost of Tyres for Skoda Octavia Saloon.

Western Pomise

OH's Skoda Octavia 2008 saloon needs two new front tyres,she will have to get them tomorrow morning as is going on a journey,current Tyres on it are 'Federal',as time is an issue she will only be able to go to a local garage to get tyres and the fella there has bit of a rep for plucking his prices out of the sky!....so what roughly would two decent safe tyres be for this car,mention brands if you like,I am not a car person!:)
Thanks for any replies.

bazz26

You will have to be a bit more specific and tell us what size tyre is on the car.

Western Pomise

bazz26 wrote: »

You will have to be a bit more specific and tell us what size tyre is on the car.

Sorry...how many nos typically would be in the size or in what format would it be written,
Thanks.

For Forks Sake

Western Pomise wrote: »

Sorry...how many nos typically would be in the size or in what format would it be written,
Thanks.

Example: 235/45 R17. Be on the sidewall of the tyres.

Western Pomise

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Example: 235/45 R17. Be on the sidewall of the tyres.

205/60R15 91H

Western Pomise

Western Pomise wrote: »

205/60R15 91H

Think the 91H part may not be needed,
Would really appreciate if anyone could get back tonight with a costing for tyres.

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Western Pomise wrote: »

Think the 91H part may not be needed,
Would really appreciate if anyone could get back tonight with a costing for tyres.

I got Firestone for my Octavia recently for 70 euro.

George Dalton

Anton Drab Mint wrote: »

I got Firestone for my Octavia recently for 70 euro.

I am guessing those were 195/65 15 though?

I very much doubt you'd get a 205/60 15 Firestone for €70.

Foxhole Norman

Western Pomise wrote: »

Think the 91H part may not be needed,
Would really appreciate if anyone could get back tonight with a costing for tyres.

Oponeo's great for tyres, you can add about €10-15 per tyre extra for fitting/balancing in a garage. I'd look for something like a Hankook, Vredstein or Uniroyal, all of those make good tyres for not a lot of money.

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George Dalton wrote: »

I am guessing those were 195/65 15 though?

I very much doubt you'd get a 205/60 15 Firestone for €70.

Just checked. They are 195's

Western Pomise

George Dalton wrote: »

I am guessing those were 195/65 15 though?

I very much doubt you'd get a 205/60 15 Firestone for €70.

Hi George,roughly how much would Firestone 205/60 15 be for the Skoda?...... Thanks.

Western Pomise

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Oponeo's great for tyres, you can add about €10-15 per tyre extra for fitting/balancing in a garage. I'd look for something like a Hankook, Vredstein or Uniroyal, all of those make good tyres for not a lot of money.

Thanks....so ballpark figure wise what would it be for size tyres needed by the OH tomorrow,say in Hankook or any of other makes you mentioned?

endacl

Western Pomise wrote: »

Hi George,roughly how much would Firestone 205/60 15 be for the Skoda?...... Thanks.

Same price as they'd be for any car...?

Just google them. You'll see what places are charging.

Stheno

Western Pomise wrote: »

Hi George,roughly how much would Firestone 205/60 15 be for the Skoda?...... Thanks.

If you'd checked the link above for Oponeo, you'd know they are 70

That's the marvellous thing about websites, they don't work 9-5 and you can search lots of options

George Dalton

I would say around €100 each.

You'll get cheap Chinese brands from €70 or so upwards but you would want to be spending close to €100 to get something half decent.

It's not a common size so I reckon you will struggle to find anybody with a decent brand in stock as most people are only interested in the cheapest tyre available, hence that's what tyre retailers stock.

Stheno

George Dalton wrote: »

I would say around €100 each.

You'll get cheap Chinese brands from €70 or so upwards but you would want to be spending close to €100 to get something half decent.

It's not a common size so I reckon you will struggle to find anybody with a decent brand in stock as most people are only interested in the cheapest tyre available, hence that's what tyre retailers stock.

Oponeo have them at 70 a corner George and in stock for Firestone

They Hankooks at the same!

power pants

id say you would get 4 cheap tyres for 160 eur.

George Dalton

Stheno wrote: »

Oponeo have them at 70 a corner George and in stock for Firestone

They Hankooks at the same!

That's not the same thing though. The OP asked me what they would expect to pay in a bricks and mortar tyre shop (remember that they want to get tyres fitted tomorrow). I doubt you'll get many places quoting any less than €100.

On a slightly unrelated note, in my opinion it is only a matter of time before tyre retailers increase their prices for fitting tyres that they haven't supplied.

Stheno

George Dalton wrote: »

That's not the same thing though. The OP asked me what they would expect to pay in a bricks and mortar tyre shop (remember that they want to get tyres fitted tomorrow). I doubt you'll get many places quoting any less than €100.

On a slightly unrelated note, in my opinion it is only a matter of time before tyre retailers increase their prices for fitting tyres that they haven't supplied.

True, I'd go with 100 min from a bricks and mortar store.

166man

yeah closer to €100 fitted for something decent.

If they tell you that all the taxi drivers are using them I'd be avoiding whatever they suggest..!

Odyssey 2005

George Dalton wrote: »

It's not a common size so I reckon you will struggle to find anybody with a decent brand in stock as most people are only interested in the cheapest tyre available, hence that's what tyre retailers stock.

Was in a tyre centre last week getting tyres on my car. A service van from a well known haulage company came in and got 4 " cheap as chips" tyres fitted. Couldn't believe it. Makes you wonder what they fit on their lorries.

endacl

power pants wrote: »

id say you would get 4 cheap tyres for 160 eur.

You would. But if you'd any sense you wouldn't drive on them. Best use they can be put to is to stop tugboats bumping against the pier. They're really good for that.

Western Pomise

166man wrote: »

yeah closer to €100 fitted for something decent.

If they tell you that all the taxi drivers are using them I'd be avoiding whatever they suggest..!

OH got two 'Kingstar' tyres this am...
As someone mentioned here the tyre size is awkward,he told her they are made by sister co of Hankook,were best tyres he had of that size in stock,80 euro fitted...does that sound ok or a bit steep?
Thanks for any replies.

jimgoose

Semperit 205/60/R15 91H €88 fitted at my local tyre place. 195/65/R15 91H listed at €74.

Oh, and for what it's worth, the Behemoth is on Semperit since about 2008, when I finally decided to give up being buggered by Pirelli!

bazz26

Kingstar are a budget tyre brand owned by Hankook. They are not as bad as Wan Li, Ling Longs or Sunny plastic tyres but then again being better than that lot doesn't mean they are good either.

power pants

I cant recommend budget tyres enough but Im in the minority
Never had a bad experience in all the years with them on my car protecting me

have 4 zetex or something like that on at the moment. nice cheap and reliable

Voodoomelon

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh, and for what it's worth, the Behemoth is on Semperit since about 2008, when I finally decided to give up being buggered by Pirelli!

Do you notice any appreciable difference? Aside from the heavier wallet.

Western Pomise

bazz26 wrote: »

Kingstar are a budget tyre brand owned by Hankook. They are not as bad as Wan Li, Ling Longs or Sunny plastic tyres but then again being better than that lot doesn't mean they are good either.

So is €80 fitted a bit steep for them?....was a necessary evil for OH to get them today but don't need to be making up the local tyre man:)
.......and roughly speaking how many km or miles should tyres do?....combination of main roads and country roads driving,about 200km a week.

George Dalton

€80 was a fair price IMO.

jimgoose

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Do you notice any appreciable difference? Aside from the heavier wallet.

No. And €50 per-corner less is not to be sneezed at.

Popoutman

jimgoose wrote: »

No. And €50 per-corner less is not to be sneezed at.

Until you need to stop in the cold and wet in a hurry.... An extra few quid per corner for tyres that actually work when needed (not just supporting the weight of the car) is a hell of a lot cheaper then either a lot NCB or the mental anguish from knocking someone down.

The typical Irish gombeen attitude to buying "chape tyres" always annoys me as I have to share the road with these idiots that cannot physically stop in a hurry due to having crap tyres under their cars.

Moral of this post? Save up and get proper trusted tyres that are safe for the rest of us road users.

power pants

what a load of nonsense

semperit are decent tyres. Ive had them before and drove in the wet (classic example :rolleyes: ) and they were just fine

jimgoose

Popoutman wrote: »

Until you need to stop in the cold and wet in a hurry.... An extra few quid per corner for tyres that actually work when needed (not just supporting the weight of the car) is a hell of a lot cheaper then either a lot NCB or the mental anguish from knocking someone down.

The typical Irish gombeen attitude to buying "chape tyres" always annoys me as I have to share the road with these idiots that cannot physically stop in a hurry due to having crap tyres under their cars.

Moral of this post? Save up and get proper trusted tyres that are safe for the rest of us road users.

Shtall the digger there, chief! We're talking Semperit 225/55/R16 at ~€130 per corner, not Cheng Slime Plastic Specials. The equivalent Pirelli P6s were €180, and didn't so much wear out as unroll. You could do British Touring Car with 'em, but I don't need to! :pac:

Tea 1000

power pants wrote: »

I cant recommend budget tyres enough but Im in the minority
Never had a bad experience in all the years with them on my car protecting me

have 4 zetex or something like that on at the moment. nice cheap and reliable

Respectfully, that's because you haven't a clue about driving.

power pants

Respectfully how would you know?

Never crashed my car, been driving for years and years.

What a silly remark to make.

Dont attack the poster if you have nothing sensible to say

Tea 1000

Don't back seat moderate! I didn't attack the poster, I attacked the poster's driving knowledge.

power pants

Ill ask again as you seem to have difficulty understanding the question

"that's because you haven't a clue about driving."

is what you said. I am asking how would/do you know?

Hope you are able to understand this time around

H3llR4iser

jimgoose wrote: »

Shtall the digger there, chief! We're talking Semperit 225/55/R16 at ~€130 per corner, not Cheng Slime Plastic Specials. The equivalent Pirelli P6s were €180, and didn't so much wear out as unroll. You could do British Touring Car with 'em, but I don't need to! :pac:

Just as to reinforce how completely nuts/pulling prices out of an arse Irish "brick and mortar" tire shops are, I paid the PZero's I have right now 135 each (225/50 R17 94W). Semperit, quoted from three different shops, were never below the 170 mark. Then you go somewhere else, and the prices swap around

jimgoose

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Just as to reinforce how completely nuts/pulling prices out of an arse Irish "brick and mortar" tire shops are, I paid the PZero's I have right now 135 each (225/50 R17 94W). Semperit, quoted from three different shops, were never below the 170 mark. Then you go somewhere else, and the prices swap around

Jaysis! :pac:

166man

Tea 1000 wrote: »

Don't back seat moderate! I didn't attack the poster, I attacked the poster's driving knowledge.

I wouldn't bother entertaining it tbh man...! Chinese tyres are wonderful apparently so no arguing there!

Zetexs would probably work well on a child's go kart though.

Odyssey 2005

power pants wrote: »

I cant recommend budget tyres enough but Im in the minority
Never had a bad experience in all the years with them on my car protecting me

have 4 zetex or something like that on at the moment. nice cheap and reliable

Do they even stay black when they get wet ?:eek:

power pants

166man wrote: »

I wouldn't bother entertaining it tbh man...! Chinese tyres are wonderful apparently so no arguing there!

Zetexs would probably work well on a child's go kart though.

what a silly statement to make. ignorance is bliss

Popoutman

power pants wrote: »

what a load of nonsense

semperit are decent tyres. Ive had them before and drove in the wet (classic example :rolleyes: ) and they were just fine

Some Semperit are good, and some are really terrible, based both on personal experience and based on reviews. My point wasn's specific to your choice of tyre, more to the attitude of so much per corner cheaper, when it's obvious that most Irish drivers cannot do a good cost-benefit analysis, it's only the shortsighted view of the weight of the wallet after the transaction being the only criteria.

Pretty much all tyres will stop a car's rims touching the ground - which is what I read it as when you state "they were just fine". However, it's when you're on the edge of that tyres performance envelope when you see the real difference between cheap tyres and real tyres. And, no matter what you may think, drive long enough and you will have to reach the edge of that envelope when you have to brake in a hurry to save some idiot's life when they make a mistake. That's when you'll be really glad of having spent a few pennies extra to get decent tyre performance.

My recommendation for the OP's car? Get a decent set of top brand all-season tyres, and enjoy the longevity and grip in all Irish conditions.

166man

power pants wrote: »

what a silly statement to make. ignorance is bliss

Can't say I have tried Chinese tyres on a go kart alright....

Have driven many a car with them though of varying degrees, triangles, wanli, blacklion etc. all utterly crap in the wet, more or less fine in the dry, but dire when it rains, of which it does a lot here in case you weren't aware..:)

power pants

fair enough.

Just find it quite interesting that the following conclusions arise from cheap tyres

1) everyone has driven them, never bought themselves but the car they purchased had them.


This would lead me to believe they are very popular with the majority of irish motorists other than forum users ( of course)


2) Everyone has had a near death experience in them but never actually crashed or killed themselves

no comment :rolleyes:

3)stopping distance in the rain will be the make or break point when potentially plowing through an innocent bystander or stopping in time with 0.001mm to spare.

Perhaps just drive accordingly for the conditions and you will be able to brake just fine.

Tea 1000

power pants wrote: »

fair enough.

Just find it quite interesting that the following conclusions arise from cheap tyres

1) everyone has driven them, never bought themselves but the car they purchased had them.


This would lead me to believe they are very popular with the majority of irish motorists other than forum users ( of course)

Popularity is nothing to do with quality. There are countless testaments to that.

power pants wrote: »

2) Everyone has had a near death experience in them but never actually crashed or killed themselves

no comment :rolleyes:

So in order for one of us to have the opinion that brand x tyres are terrible, we must first have been killed in an accident caused by them?
I see...
An old rust-bucket Morris Marina with no brake fluid would be a death-trap.. I don't need to crash it to know that!

power pants wrote: »

3)stopping distance in the rain will be the make or break point when potentially plowing through an innocent bystander or stopping in time with 0.001mm to spare.

Perhaps just drive accordingly for the conditions and you will be able to brake just fine.

Driving according to some conditions with some brands of plastic-fantastic tyres would mean driving everywhere at 50km/h. That's not good progress on national primary routes.
Look, you clearly don't understand the dynamic properties of tyres and the way a car performs with them. That's fine. But don't try to p!ss on the arguements of others who might actually have a good idea of what they're talking about.
The vast majority of drivers really don't have a proper clue what they're doing. A mate of mine (artic driver), was driving his car to work one morning in winter a couple of years ago. He said the roads were lethal, and was driving accordingly. Some young one in a fairly new car sailed out by him driving as normal. It was only pure luck that she was getting to where she was going, not that she might just happen to be Michelle Mouton. She had no clue of the conditions beneath her. Most people don't. They point the car in the general direction of intended travel and concentrate on something else until the destination arrives.

power pants

The first point I was making is if the cheap tyres are so popular then how come all these drivers are not skidding out of control all the time unlike the forummers who have experienced them?

Point 2, well taking it to the extreme a little but a minor crash would be enough to demonstrate


point 3 nothing whatsoever to back up your post, " the vast majority of drivers dont really have a proper clue"

yet you do, forummers do? I think that is a little bit patronising to other drivers.

Mc Love

Special Circumstances

To be honest Mc Love, this should have been a straight to video release. The previous 10 installments have really devalued the original movie's legacy.

Mc Love

Indeed - same old irish mentality and I know I posted on another thread looking for cheaper tyres but still being sensible

power pants

It is an irish mentality? Only people in ireland buy Cheap tyres? :eek:

More like fools and their money if we are going to go to the other extreme