Where to get good price for tyres in Melbourne?

miatalim · Postby **miatalim** » Mon May 09, 2011 3:39 pm

I was in Malaysia for a holiday and noticed that they were selling big brand name tyres for 1/3 the price we are selling them. Models like Michelin Sport 195 15 inch were going for AUD$400 fitted and aligned and many other big brands. Our cheapest tyres seem to be from $100 each ?? And it looks like the better tyres start from $165 each ! I am sure we will be given the same arguement of tyranny of distance from other countries, relatively small population and wide geographic transportation cost. I believe the answer closer to the truth would be that we don't have a choice but to buy locally as we can't order these from Amazon nor Ebay.

Anyway, enough of my ranting and back to the question since I have received superb advice from this forum. Since its a MX5 forum where we have sports car aspirations but not willing to part with sportcar level prices for parts, does anyone know of a source of competitive pricing tyres? What do most people use for tyres on their Miatas ? Kumhos..michellins etc.

At the moment, my car came with some BobJane branded tyres. To be honest, I can't fault them as they seem to grip well in the wet and do break progressively when it losses traction. Dry traction could be better but its a case of you don't know what you are missing in my case as I only had BobJane's on my NB. Dean from Motorsport Essentials strongly recommended that I change the tyres to better ones or R spec tyres whatever that means. My car is mainly used on the weekends for hillclimb and short backroad blasts.

All opinions welcome.

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:32 pm

I got a great price on Yoko's for my NC and Chrish also did for his NB from Associated tyres in Cheltenham.he also has Kumho's at good prices.Ask for Michael and say Peter from Geelong sent you.
Peter.

miatalim · Postby **miatalim** » Mon May 09, 2011 7:43 pm

Thanks Peter. I will check it out ! Still loving my exhaust note by the way...really transformed the car from a sewing machine to real roadster !!!!!!!!!!

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:06 pm

miatalim wrote:Thanks Peter. I will check it out ! Still loving my exhaust note by the way...really transformed the car from a sewing machine to real roadster !!!!!!!!!!

Great to hear!

Peter.