Recommend a place to get new car tyres

thewiseowl12

Hi,

Looking to get two new back tyres for a car, can anyone recommend a place where I'll get a decent pair of tyres for reasonable money?

Recommendations on brand of tyre and price welcome.

Thanks.

brianregan09

Ballysimon Tyres are very good , they'll talk you through prices and brands etc

h3000

My usual recommendation for this question https://www.victorytyres.ie/ Paul won't mess you about.

As for brands it will really depend on your budget but if you can at all don't go for the a budget brand tyre. For the sake saving of a couple of quid they could really let you down during evasive maneuver. This site https://www.tyrereviews.com/ is actually good to steer (pun intended) you in the right direction on what's good and what's not.

thewiseowl12

h3000 wrote: »

My usual recommendation for this question https://www.victorytyres.ie/ Paul won't mess you about.

As for brands it will really depend on your budget but if you can at all don't go for the a budget brand tyre. For the sake saving of a couple of quid they could really let you down during evasive maneuver. This site https://www.tyrereviews.com/ is actually good to steer (pun intended) you in the right direction on what's good and what's not.

Thanks for that - Any particular brand recommended - any garage I have rang quote debici, hankook etc.

Thanks

h3000

thewiseowl12 wrote: »

Thanks for that - Any particular brand recommended - any garage I have rang quote debici, hankook etc.

Thanks

I'm not familiar with debici (debica?) tyres but Hankook are a reasonably decent tyre again it can depend on the model of tyre within the brand too.

bazz26

Hankook are a good mid range reasonably priced brand. Got them many times for my father's car. If you want premium brands then look at the likes of Goodyear or Michelin. What you want to do is avoid the cheap Chinese type crap that alot of tyre centres sell to people who just want the cheapest tyres possible. These cheap never heard of brands tend to be terrible especially in the wet when you need them the most. Never skimp on tyres or brakes, they are the only things that keep you between the ditches.

thewiseowl12

bazz26 wrote: »

Hankook are a good mid range reasonably priced brand. Got them many times for my father's car. If you want premium brands then look at the likes of Goodyear or Michelin. What you want to do is avoid the cheap Chinese type crap that alot of tyre centres sell to people who just want the cheapest tyres possible. These cheap never heard of brands tend to be terrible especially in the wet when you need them the most. Never skimp on tyres or brakes, they are the only things that keep you between the ditches.

I'd be thinking the same, just don't want to be paying top dollar for poor tyres.

Nearly sure I replaced a tyre with a new one 2 years ago from somewhere in Limerick but recent NCT flagged it as >6 years old and never heard of the brand so not too impressed. Think it was €80.

Hence trying to do some research and appreciate the comments.

FobleAsNuck

https://www.oponeo.ie/fitting-stations

bazz26

Plenty of margin in the cheap tyres for tyre centres so they tend to try pushing them more.

If you know your exact tyre size then best ring around the different tyre centres and price the exact brand in that size to compare.

Gallee

Victory Tyres too in Leila St. . Paul very nice fellow

theblackstuff

I'd second Ballysimon Tyres, have used them for years, no problems,

colm_mcm

I’ve used Mid West tyres in Parkway for the last few years.
Victory tyres are good too.

Any of the Mid West tyre places are highly recommended.

colm_mcm

What size tyre are you looking at?

tweek84

Ryan's Tyres Patrickswell is a very helpful crowd aswell as Mid west tyres in Raheen

chicorytip

Modern Tyres Tipperary Rd.
Kuhmo is an excellent mid price brand.
Ballysimon Tyres has a very limited range of brands to choose from so I would avoid them.

moby2101

Brendan Walsh Tyres gets my vote.
I’ve been dealing with Brendan for over 20 years, he managed Mid West Tyres before he went out on his own 7 or 8 years ago.
Top class

phog

h3000 wrote: »

My usual recommendation for this question https://www.victorytyres.ie/ Paul won't mess you about.

As for brands it will really depend on your budget but if you can at all don't go for the a budget brand tyre. For the sake saving of a couple of quid they could really let you down during evasive maneuver. This site https://www.tyrereviews.com/ is actually good to steer (pun intended) you in the right direction on what's good and what's not.

+1 for Paul.

Can't go wrong with him.

thewiseowl12

Cheers all for all the feedback - went with Brendan Walsh in the end as he is nearby and he was a gent. Tyres seemed fairly priced based on what he quoted me and checking the brand online.

Happy customer

h3000

thewiseowl12 wrote: »

Cheers all for all the feedback - went with Brendan Walsh in the end as he is nearby and he was a gent. Tyres seemed fairly priced based on what he quoted me and checking the brand online.

Happy customer

What tyres did you go for?

thewiseowl12

Uniroyal Rain Expert 3

h3000

thewiseowl12 wrote: »

Uniroyal Rain Expert 3

Well done. They are a good tyre particularly in our crappy weather.

tweek84

thewiseowl12 wrote: »

Uniroyal Rain Expert 3

A great tyre i got them for wifey a few years back and the only tyre that came close was a Falken ZIEX but it didn't have the same mileage as the Uniroyal.

Potential-Monke

I'm a bit late, but for future reference I've used Ger Pickford and he was spot on. Sold me a set of Toyo Proxes P1's for about €90 a corner, very impressed as most other places at the time were looking for north of €120 a corner for the same tyres (they're cheaper in general now, but at the time it was an excellent saving). Ger is a lovely chap too.

orm0nd

phog wrote: »

+1 for Paul.

Can't go wrong with him.

I was a customer of victory tyres for decades going back to his parents time.

A few years ago one of his workers fooked up the mechanism on my car while tracking it. Called over sweet talking Paul and they had a confab. Comes over to me and tells me there is a serious issue.

I goes over and can see that the damage is fresh, rest of the car is covered in mud from the country roads.

He hadn't the balls to admit they made a fook up.

I wonder how many people who wouldn't be mechanical savvy has sweet talking Paul fobbed off.

3 cars and a jeep in the family here and he had them all.

Needless to say not one of them had darkened his door since.

masterboy123

I use Goodyear eagle F1 asymmetric. Next time try it. Happy to recommend this tyre.

thewiseowl12 wrote: »

Uniroyal Rain Expert 3

Eoinbmw

orm0nd wrote: »

I was a customer of victory tyres for decades going back to his parents time.

A few years ago one of his workers fooked up the mechanism on my car while tracking it. Called over sweet talking Paul and they had a confab. Comes over to me and tells me there is a serious issue.

I goes over and can see that the damage is fresh, rest of the car is covered in mud from the country roads.

He hadn't the balls to admit they made a fook up.

I wonder how many people who wouldn't be mechanical savvy has sweet talking Paul fobbed off.

3 cars and a jeep in the family here and he had them all.

Needless to say not one of them had darkened his door since.

What mechanism?

Jmccoy1

Brendan Walsh up in Roxboro gets my business all the time. A pleasure to deal with, always a good job done by his lads, and fairly priced. Usually get the Uniroyal Rain Sports off him, great for our weather.

Eoinbmw

Eoinbmw wrote: »

What mechanism?

For a fella who’s “mechanical savvy” I’d expect him to have described the “mechanism” correctly.

If the tracking was off, damage to a rod or end might have been expected also, or a steering rack, linkage, control arm or whatever.

And in decades of custom, with 4 cars in the family and all that, it’s more likely IMO that Paul (leaving out the “sweet talking” nonsense) would have been telling it like it was to the “mechanical savvy” poster.

Sometimes a customer is just plain wrong in blaming a fitter or mechanic for something they had nothing to do with causing. So I’d be more inclined to take those decades of service to that poster and his family as the measure of Victory and Paul’s service than that time a guy thought they’d damaged his car, when it also happened to need tracking.