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I have just wound myself up trying to buy new tyres for my 2010 GTR from our local rip off merchants.

Tire Rack in the US has the Dunlop fronts for $420 a tyre and the rears for $468. But they say, they can not sell them to us in OZ because Dunlop said so?

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Our dollar is now worth the same and we are expected to pay MORE THAN TWICE THE FN PRICE!!!!

I would like to shove my old tyres fair up the Dunlop and Bridgestone cartels 'where the god dam sun don't shine'.

Why hasn't anybody on this site suggested bringing in a bulk buy from the US via our fellow GTR website club members in the US and show these god dam FN cartel mongrel FCKRS that there is a thing called free trade. They say the USA is the land of the free, sounds more like the land of bullshit to me!!!!!

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I have just wound myself up trying to buy new tyres for my 2010 GTR from our local rip off merchants.

Tire Rack in the US has the Dunlop fronts for $420 a tyre and the rears for $468. But they say, they can not sell them to us in OZ because Dunlop said so?

WTFrant.gif

Our dollar is now worth the same and we are expected to pay MORE THAN TWICE THE FN PRICE!!!!

I would like to shove my old tyres fair up the Dunlop and Bridgestone cartels 'where the god dam sun don't shine'.

Why hasn't anybody on this site suggested bringing in a bulk buy from the US via our fellow GTR website club members in the US and show these god dam FN cartel mongrel FCKRS that there is a thing called free trade. They say the USA is the land of the free, sounds more like the land of bullshit to me!!!!!

Tempe Tyres in Sydney have new R35 bridgestones for $650ea.

After you pay shipping and taxes, plus fitting as well (price above includes fitting) i dare say the savings may not be worth it.

Tempe Tyres in Sydney have new R35 bridgestones for $650ea.

After you pay shipping and taxes, plus fitting as well (price above includes fitting) i dare say the savings may not be worth it.

Shipping yes, taxes no as he would be bringing in 2 at a time which is under $1000 attracting no import charges or GST. Thats a saving of $824, then subtract the shipping and fitting which would not even come close to that figure. He would be getting a tyre and a half for free compared to buying them locally.

I buy stuff from the States all the time and it saves me plenty of money.

you own a car worth nearly 200 large and you're whinging about the price of tyres?

find someone other than tire rack perhaps?

When you have to buy a set every 10 to 12 months, price does become important.

I just bought 2 Bridgestones (fronts) from Tire Rack and they were about $450 each including shipping etc. That was MUCH cheaper than I could find them anywhere in Australia.

Can you PM me who organised the shipping? cheers.

failing that try Taleb Tyres in sydney (just down the road from tempe tyres funnily enough). They have sorted me out with R35 tyres long ago when it was an effort to even buy any in aus at all. prices are very competitive too. I buy tyres for all my cars there (and yes I currently own 7 cars so it adds up fast!).

Has anybody tried NON Run Flat tyres on there R35 GTR. By comparison to the Dunlop/Bridgestone RFT cartel on R35 GTR's, It would open up a whole world of grippy extreme performance tyres, without the price fixing?

The softer side walls would give a better ride, more compliance to the road surface and therefore possibly more grip?

Just carry a can of the pump up tyre sealer as per all the M3, M5 & M6 BMW's, if you get a flat.

Any comments????

maybe buying fronts for $400ea US will work out well (+say $100 for shipping) but i doubt you'll get the rears here for under $1000/pair.

where did $824 saving come from?

If he buys 4 from the US for his quotes price vs buying 4 locally at your quoted price he is saving $824. My point was that if he splits the purchase into 2 packages each package is less that $1000au attracting no extra charges. I just read my post again and yes it wasn't that clear what I was saying :)

If he buys 4 from the US for his quotes price vs buying 4 locally at your quoted price he is saving $824. My point was that if he splits the purchase into 2 packages each package is less that $1000au attracting no extra charges. I just read my post again and yes it wasn't that clear what I was saying :)

I still don't see how you can get a pair of rears here for less than $1000. I think it will be more than that, and attract taxes and duties etc, adding a couple of hundred. Based on this i don't see the saving any more than $300 in total, and even then you have to pay for fitting and balancing (say $100 at best, for all four) so i see the real saving about $200. Not really worth it IMO, considering you can get them fitted tomorrow in Sydney. Unless local availability is an issue, in which case i have bought from tirerack a few times too. FWIW, tempe is $100/tyre cheaper than telebs atm.

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Has anybody tried NON Run Flat tyres on there R35 GTR. By comparison to the Dunlop/Bridgestone RFT cartel on R35 GTR's, It would open up a whole world of grippy extreme performance tyres, without the price fixing?

The softer side walls would give a better ride, more compliance to the road surface and therefore possibly more grip?

Just carry a can of the pump up tyre sealer as per all the M3, M5 & M6 BMW's, if you get a flat.

Any comments????

Ask Domino as I think this is exactly what he is doing when he changes to his new wheels and tyres.

I don't think you could import a set of rears from tire rack at the moment for less than $1000 landed. Are shipping charges used in the calculation to determine if GST is to be applied? Or is GST applied only if the goods exceed $1000?

GST is only payable if the price of the goods EXCLUDING shipping is over $1000. If so then GST applies to the price INCLUDING shipping....

Has anybody tried NON Run Flat tyres on there R35 GTR. By comparison to the Dunlop/Bridgestone RFT cartel on R35 GTR's, It would open up a whole world of grippy extreme performance tyres, without the price fixing?

The softer side walls would give a better ride, more compliance to the road surface and therefore possibly more grip?

Just carry a can of the pump up tyre sealer as per all the M3, M5 & M6 BMW's, if you get a flat.

Any comments????

I'm running non run flats at the moment. Definitely a smoother ride but forget the idea of extra grip unless you spend just as much as the RFTs. Mind you when you do 25,000 kms a year the savings are significant.....

And as for us in SA it pays to use the TIRERACK. We dont have discount suppliers like you guys in Sydney so we'd have to pay for freight from NSW plus still have to pay someone else here to fit them.Locally we still pay more than $1000 a tyre. Dealing with the TIRERACK has been a dream. A friend just bought some 17" Advan semi slicks from them and saved a bundle so it's not just on very expensive tyres that savings can be had, . I'm totally pissed off Dunlop is fighting to save their monopoly. They'll be joining Gerry Harvey soon and having a right old whinge about GST next..... Time to look at getting a container load in guys....

Oh and its not just Tyres, musical instrument manufacturers have been cracking down on internet trade as well in the past 18 months because we were getting in stuff at half the price of what we pay here........ I thought we had a FTA?

And in reply to Zebra, have you ever considered that the reason the OP can afford a $200,000 car is because he looks for savings in everything he spends money on?

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