Please help - Affordable tyres

What is the best option to source affordable tyres for the Ulysse?

Today the garage ordered some for me(£68 per tyre), but as they began fitting them they noticed that I needed a "high load bearing" tyre instead.

Should I just go for pirelli P6 (that came with the car)?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give

Richard

what size you need?

By far the best tyre we found is the Michelin HX MXM High Load, they are more expensive at around £100 each but they last a lot longer than Pirelli. They are the standard fit from Fiat to reduce the uneven wear on the 2002 onwards as well. We got over 30K miles out of out first set and we are now on a second set. Bearing in mind reports of 18K or less for some of the other brands it is worth the extra.

www.mytyres.co.uk

or black circles.

once oyu get the best online price then haggle with oyur local tyre places.fitting really costs them nothing and a small profit is better than none!

Mine are 205/65/V 15 From Big City Tyres in Nottingham they are called Cooper Premium Steel radial. I get between 25 to 30K from them on the front, twice that on the rear. They give good grip both wet and dry and they are quite. You should be paying about £140 for two fitted all in, because I do a lot of mileage I can't justify paying £200 plus for other makes, Pirelli or Michelin it doesn't make sense! they are not that much better.
Cheers

I totally agree - we had P6s on as standard, and the Ulysse ate through them like there was no tomorrow. The dealership even recommended the Michelins, and I now have 4 on - wear is excellent.

I was going to put a claim in against FIAT, for fitting original tyres that weren't up for the purpose, but seemed like a futile exercise, etc.

thanks for the info so far,

most garages i speak to don't seem to be able to get hold of the tyre size

215/60 16

one that did get some for me then refused to fit them as Load index was too low (91). Would these have been ok?

That is the problem, you have to have high load tyres to stop the side walls deforming under load. That is why they went for the Michelin tyres as some cars were fitted with non reinforcement versions. I paid about £100 per tyre.

Thanks for all the advice,

I've ordered some of these from mytyres.co.uk

Vredestein QUATRAC 2 215/60 R16 99H XL NEW

Any ideas what sort of price should I try to get from a local garage for fitting them?

About £10 to £15 per corner, fitted and balanced.

my tyres lists local fitters on there site

unfortunately the local fitters it suggested for me were 30 miles away (I'm near central Milton Keynes)

My local tyre man got me tyres rated at 100H for only £45 including fitting and balancing.
He even whistled a tune while he put them on.

Not that cheap tyres aren't good, but I would want to see a test on tyres at £45.00. There was a good comparison in Auto Express last week and some of the low cost were in the top three, but others were terrible in wet and dry.

After all it is the only thing in contact with the road.