What is the ideal price for buying and fitting two front tyres of garage is it around 100GBP? Thanks
Pick up phone and ring several local tyre retailers and ask them for prices of several different brands.
You choice may be limited by your funds but I generally buy mid range tyres such as Uniroyal, Kumho, Toyo which offer 99% of the performance of the expensive better known brands and none of the dangerous characteristics of the cheap Chinese ditchfinders.
Then go along to your chosen supplier and let them sort it.
Simples.
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I'd probably start at about £75 upwards. Try some of the online supply-and-fit websites such as black circles and tyres on the drive, then ring your local fitting place to see if they can better the online quote. I recently put two Bridgestone Turanza tyres on my Mazda for £85 each and the local kwik fit was able to better the online quote from the above two websites for exactly the same tyres.
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Welcome but this is a U.K. site. However the same general advice already given still applies. Get several local prices and make your choice from those.
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Welcome but this is a U.K. site. However the same general advice already given still applies. Get several local prices and make your choice from those.
Still might be some national variation though. Part worns are much more a thing (and much cheaper) in The Yook than they are in Taiwan, for example, perhaps partly due to its proximity to Germany, a significant source of global supply.
Maybe they are more expensive/less available post-Brexit?
In Taiwan they don’t really make sense if you typically wear your tyres out. I don’t so they just about still make sense for me.
I’d say the OP would be better served asking in his home market.
Edited by edlithgow on 06/12/2022 at 08:44
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<< Part worns are much more a thing (and much cheaper) in The Yook than they are in Taiwan ... >>
Ed, you are talking about this mythical Yook again :-). Some on here may still be unsure where it is, and I suspect any Stateside ones may be really confused ?
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Yook, You Kay, UK
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Yook, You Kay, UK
See? Travel does broaden the mind
(At least if you travel to Germany).
Apologies to the OP for confusing him with an American.
(And vice versa, of course)
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Incidentally, this really isn't a very technical thread.
Simultaneously, there is quite an active and long running thread at the top of the Discussion forum that is quite technical and potentially could get very technical.
Seems to happen all the time. but perhaps it doesn't really matter.
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Apologies to the OP for confusing him with an American.
Well the thread was revived by someone wanting to pay $800 for their 'tires' so probably not too far off the mark.
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Yook, You Kay, UK
Yes, I worked it out a long time ago. I just wondered why there seems to be only one contributor who likes to refer to it this way - especially as he seems to hail from there. :-)
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Yook, You Kay, UK
Yes, I worked it out a long time ago. I just wondered why there seems to be only one contributor who likes to refer to it this way - especially as he seems to hail from there. :-)
And why, seeing as Took is 4 characters as opposed to 2.
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Yook, You Kay, UK
Yes, I worked it out a long time ago. I just wondered why there seems to be only one contributor who likes to refer to it this way - especially as he seems to hail from there. :-)
And why, seeing as Took is 4 characters as opposed to 2.
I find Eds posts amusing and light hearted tbh, crack on mate!
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Oh I'm not bothered, just joining in a light hearted ribbing
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Yook, You Kay, UK
Yes, I worked it out a long time ago. I just wondered why there seems to be only one contributor who likes to refer to it this way - especially as he seems to hail from there. :-)
And why, seeing as Took is 4 characters as opposed to 2.
IIRC its an old established Hobbit family name, but AFAIK Tolkien only developed one character bearing it, not 4.
He did write a lot of other stuff beside The Lord of The Rings, though, which I mostly havn't read, and anyway its a long time since I read the Ring trilogy, so I could well be wrong.
Edited by edlithgow on 07/12/2022 at 20:12
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IIRC its an old established Hobbit family name, but AFAIK Tolkien only developed one character bearing it, not 4.
He did write a lot of other stuff
Indeed he did. I've a copy of The Silmarilian somewhere. Gave up on it as unreadable, as did the other two people I know who tried.
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IIRC its an old established Hobbit family name, but AFAIK Tolkien only developed one character bearing it, not 4.
He did write a lot of other stuff
Indeed he did. I've a copy of The Silmarilian somewhere. Gave up on it as unreadable, as did the other two people I know who tried.
My brother had that, and I assume had read it, though he may have been bluffing. He was into runes though, so a bit weird.
I maybe had the weirdness but lacked the stamina.
Edited by edlithgow on 08/12/2022 at 12:22
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I have had several goes at reading the Silmarrilion but have given up on every attempt. I read LOTR fairly regularly but skip all the poetry.
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Yook, You Kay, UK
Yes, I worked it out a long time ago. I just wondered why there seems to be only one contributor who likes to refer to it this way - especially as he seems to hail from there. :-)
I 'm afraid I didn't originate the term. Not sure, but I think I got it from the Taiwan expats forum Forumosa.
I suspect it is/was a satire of the pronunciation of unfamiliar terms by geographically challenged Americans, in the time of George Dubbya Bush's presidency (cf Yurrap. No prizes), though whether it was a p***take of Americans by other Americans, Americans of themselves, self-deprecating stylee, or Americans by Brits or other (at that time) Europeans I'm not sure.
Taking the p*** out of Americans is much less fun post-Brexit, but its kind of a habit.
(Not hobbit)
Edited by edlithgow on 08/12/2022 at 12:26
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, and I suspect any Stateside ones may be really confused ?
Goes with the territory.
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