Is true tire price comparison finally here
Price comparison websites are big news online, with sites like Kelkoo and Pricerunner generating hundreds of millions of pounds worth of business for their retailers each year.Despite the success of these ??shopping engines??, none have been able to feature tires particularly well. This is partly due to the infancy of tire retail online, and partly down to the very unique nature of tire selling.
Recently typepriceadvisor.co.uk has made a good attempt at offering this service but with their results just driven by tire size, not tire models it's not quite there. Thankfully things have just changed.
Tire Searcher has recently launched in beta and seems to tick all the boxes. Developed by a friend of tirereviews, it allows full tire comparisons right down to the tire model (eg Michelin Primacy HP). As the site goes through it's beta program more tire retailers will be included making it an extremely useful tool for finding the right tire at the right price online.
Whether these sort of ??shopping engines?? are good for the tire industry or not is another debate, but for now this is a small step towards making tire buying online a little easier.
If you have any thoughts on the website please share them below :)
Tire Price Comparison at Tire Searcher
Seems like the searcher is down.
I've just checked and it seems to be fine?
I love my Cooper tires and found it difficult to get them on line through any of the afore mentioned search sites. I finally found this site
http://www.tirespec.co.uk/
they offer a good range of tires, not just the usual brands, might be worth a look if you know what you want and cant find it anywhere else, also I found them very competitive on price.
I got 4 185/65R14's for my Peugeot 306 for £130 add another £28 for fitting, £158 for four Cooper CS2's, adds up to quite good value in my opinion.