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Hi Guys,

Can anyone recommend somewhere on the Gold Coast to get a set of tyres fitted. I am thinking of getting some tyres from TireRack.com but I'm not sure where to get them fitted. I'm thinking Jax or BobJane etc wouldn't be to keen fitting imported tyres.

I've never found any tyre shop that refused to fit tyres I bought with me.

Just call around, they'll probably charge somewhere between $10 to $20 per tyre for fitting and balancing.

I just paid $15 per wheel to have a bridgestone store remove tyres from 1 set of rims, installed and balanced to another set.
$60 total!

Just ask and they shall provide!

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exactly.

I've had tyres swapped at independnt shops, bob jane, bridgestone, and beaurepairs.

Most of them are just a franchise anyway, they're happy to have made $60 of beer money for doing relatively little work.

Action Tyres & More http://www.actiontyres.com.au
12 Price St
SOUTHPORT
Phone: 07 5532 4599

They did an alignment to my specs (however the person did disagree with my rear camber setting) as well as weight balanced my MX5. Very professional and know their stuff. I will be going back there.

I bought up the subject of parallel import tyres with one place yesterday and he ranted on about not being legal and not to Australian standards. I just assumed it was a sore point and local companies wouldn't be keen to fit my tyres.

Thanks for the replies. I feel a bit more confidant now.

I had my other hald take 2 sets of rims/tyres to Bridgestone at Helensvale to swap the R888's on to my 6UL rims and she was informed that the R888's are not legal for road use. They swapped them anyway....

rvlovell wrote:I bought up the subject of parallel import tyres with one place yesterday and he ranted on about not being legal and not to Australian standards. I just assumed it was a sore point and local companies wouldn't be keen to fit my tyres.

Thanks for the replies. I feel a bit more confidant now.

Parrallel imports are the same product. They are just as legal as any other import. They just have a different warrenty system in place, (or none).

Some tyre places will tell you to walk out the door you just came through. But you'd be lucky to walk into one. Very rare a business is gonna turn away $60-80 in sales.

Magpie wrote:I had my other hald take 2 sets of rims/tyres to Bridgestone at Helensvale to swap the R888's on to my 6UL rims and she was informed that the R888's are not legal for road use. They swapped them anyway....

Goes to show you that even some tyre shops have no idea regard legalities also. lol

Most places will do this, but make sure you ring around and get some prices first. I did that and was quoted up to $30 a corner from a couple of independents. JAXQuickfit quoted $16.50/corner. Big difference between $66 and $120 total costs!

After ringing round a few tyre shops I have found a distinct lack of knowledge on tyres in general and whats legal. One crowd even tried to tell me that triangle tyres were a mid range product.

I suspect tyre shops depend on people not researching or shopping around.