I know, I know, if I was a real contractor that wouldnt put one tyre on my Lambo or Ferrari but even so. £600 quid for 4 tyres. Arse.
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£600 for fecking tyres!
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£600 for fecking tyres!
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife. -
The key is to shop around, tyre prices can vary by 100% for the same make.
Also buy them in a city, they will be cheaper as all the big boys rig their prices to the amount of competition.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.” -
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Originally posted by DaveBI know, I know, if I was a real contractor that wouldnt put one tyre on my Lambo or Ferrari but even so. £600 quid for 4 tyres. Arse.
Millions of motorists preparing to head off on their summer holidays are facing the prospect of petrol breaking through the £1-a-litre barrier and the cost of tyres soaring.
Families with cars, who are already paying on average £20 a month more on fuel than at the start of the year, are to be hit even harder thanks to the turmoil in the Middle East and rising demand in developing countries.
Experts say it is not so much 'if but when' petrol will hit £1 a litre
If that is not bad enough, a doubling in demand for rubber means that tyres are also expected to increase in price by 30 per cent over the same period. That means it will cost an average £50 more a set.
A report by the motoring magazine Auto Express said that the cost of rubber has nearly doubled in the past 12 months because of a poor harvest in Asia and an increase in the cost of oil-derived chemicals used in the production process.
Richard Edy, the director of the National Tyre Distributors Association, confirmed that "significant" price rises were on the way. He said: "There have been big increases in the price of raw materials because of shortages in some parts of the world.
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Originally posted by DaveBI know, I know, if I was a real contractor that wouldnt put one tyre on my Lambo or Ferrari but even so. £600 quid for 4 tyres. Arse.
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That's rather expensive for remouldsThe court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Originally posted by sasguruWhy do you have a car? That's sooooo 20th Century.
Thank goodness I dont have one either !Comment
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Originally posted by BagpussThat's rather expensive for remouldsComment
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Tyres have never been particularly cheap and now that price of oil is on the up they get more expensive.Comment
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Apparently the wunderkind in Brussels have come up with a bright idea:
Take the carbon black out of tyres coz it is alleged to be carcinogenic.
Result: instead of lasting 6 or 7 years, they'll now last about 2... and this is supposed to reduce the 100 million tyres a year that end up in landfill...Comment
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