Tyres Online
There are a few online tyre shops around now, and they offer huge discounts over the normal garage price of tyres.
This works by buying the tyres online, and then booking your car in with a registered fitter in one of the thousands of locations around the country.
Here is an example:

A £40.50 saving per tyre over the normal price
That’s a saving of £162.00 for all 4 tyres
Check out: tyre-shopper.co.uk
You can expect to change all 4 tyres on a taxi 2 or 3 times a year, so this is a real money saver and remember all that cash goes in your pocket.
Ask the garage to do the tracking too.
If your tracking is out, you could scrub a brand new set of tyres in under 10,000 miles.
A well tracked car could go 30,000 – 40,000 miles without needing a tyre change.
It’s worth the investment getting your tracking done every time you change a tyre
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