Tirerack banned from sendig Yokohama's/Advans overseas

[260BC]

I have bought (or been quoted on) tyres from various places in the US and UK and nowhere has been even close to Tirerack on shipping costs.

eg
4x 18" tyres from Tirerack - $280 shipping
2x 17" tyres from Demontweeks - $215 shipping
4x 17" tyres from Discounttires via PriceUSA - $617 shipping...

Having said that, even from Tirerack freight charges can be a bit of a lottery

As can Discountires. I gota set of NTO1's from them a couple of years ago, around $1200 all upfrom memory

[trent from punchy]

He said affordable.

Are there any tyres that are more expensive than these?

[neil_se]

The AD08s seem quite reasonable from Demon-tweeks, $1100 posted for 4x245/40/17s. There doesn't seem to be a lot of options from the US for motorsport tyres, my last set cost $400 for postage (incl freight forward fees).

[Skitza]

He said affordable.

Are there any tyres that are more expensive than these?

245/17's are 300-330 a tyre fitted. I find that quite reasonable. And yes id say there are more expensive if not the same (within Aus) from other companys but the tyres are THE SHIT for the price. Will buy again.... locally... cause I'm impatient. :D

[womblesti]

What's the go with tyre shops fitting personally imported tyres? Do they get shitty about it and charge a fortune?

I need to replace the tyres on my road bike soon and I can get a front and rear from the US for the price of a front here...

[trent from punchy]

RE11s seem to do better in most tests, they are about the same price as the AD08s from tirerack.

[Coffin]

we ran re11's on the 930T and they were awesome

[frozenchook]

What's the go with tyre shops fitting personally imported tyres? Do they get shitty about it and charge a fortune?

I need to replace the tyres on my road bike soon and I can get a front and rear from the US for the price of a front here...

We dont generally do it if its a 20" rim, but motorsport stuff is no worries - we usually charge $25 a rim to strip, fit and balance

Best to just call around and ask in the local area

[Rorz de Puniet]

Thinking about these for $923.58 landed:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....omCompare1=yes

Treadwear is not great but that's seriously cheap.

[seedyrom]

The link is much more expensive than the price you list?


http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....GSD3&tab=Sizes <-- not the size you want, but man that's cheap for F1 GS's

[Rorz de Puniet]

The link is much more expensive than the price you list?


http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....GSD3&tab=Sizes <-- not the size you want, but man that's cheap for F1 GS's

Wrong link, fixed now.

[Mike the headless chicken]

That sucks - was planning for my next set of hoops to come from tirerack. Hope its not the thin edge of the wedge and other tyre companies following suit.

Agree it would suck to be an Aussie retailer - however its up to them to collectively pressure the distributors in this country to get a better deal. Distribution in Australia seems to collectively rape the retailers

Oh yeah, it totally sucks to be a poor Aussie tyre retailer. Real battlers they are! We struggle to make $20-30/tyre on most sizes, and in some cases (common stuff, 175/70R13, 205/65R15, etc) even $10, whereas a shop will whack at least 80% markup on the tyre and sell it to you. Most new tyre distributors go bust after a few years because you simply cannot make a business profitable with such low margins.

Aust distributors are always pushing for this bullshit, its hardly news. Just freight forward the shit.

Fuck the cunts.

Actually, Yokohama do their own distribution in Australia, so this would be Yokohama (ie. the manufacturer) doing the ass-raping, not us.

Yup, we're the bad guys...

Honestly, good on Yokohama!

[morerevsm3]

Oh yeah, it totally sucks to be a poor Aussie tyre retailer. Real battlers they are! We struggle to make $20-30/tyre on most sizes, and in some cases (common stuff, 175/70R13, 205/65R15, etc) even $10, whereas a shop will whack at least 80% markup on the tyre and sell it to you. Most new tyre distributors go bust after a few years because you simply cannot make a business profitable with such low margins.

but as a wholesaler, you supply say 100 retail outlets, if each of those outlets averaged 10 sets of tyres per week, 5 of your brand and 5 from another wholesaler, they have to live on sales of those 40 tyres X $80- $3200, you get 100 outlets x 5 sets of tyres, so 2000 tyres X $20 = $40,000 gee that is tough...

[Rorz de Puniet]

Personally, if I was a local retailer and was buying tyres from a distributor which I had to sell for $2500 a set to make $30 a tyre when I know for a fact companies in the US are selling the same tyre for $1200 yet still turning a profit I'd be asking them "What the fuck?" If they didn't want to play ball I'd get onto tirerack which welcomes trade enquires then start bringing in containers of the most popular sizes. Imagine the pirce you could get buying hundreds of tyres at a time through tirerack. Then sell them for a couple hundred less than the RRP in Australia and you'd be making more like $600 a set on the bigger sizes.

[rowdytoot]

Actually, Yokohama do their own distribution in Australia, so this would be Yokohama (ie. the manufacturer) doing the ass-raping, not us.

Yup, we're the bad guys...

Honestly, good on Yokohama!

in that case, fuck Yokohama entirely...