About Tyres UK

Tyres.net is a comparison site rather than a shop of its own: you search by tyre size, it shows what the online tyre dealers are charging for that size, and the order is placed with whichever of those dealers you choose.

What can be compared here

The search runs on the three figures moulded into the sidewall, width then profile then rim diameter, with filters for summer, winter and all-season rubber and for the type of vehicle underneath it. Cars, vans, motorcycles, off-roaders, trucks, bicycles and retreads all have their own listings. Alloy wheels, engine oils and general car accessories sit beside the tyres. The brand list reaches from Michelin, Continental, Bridgestone, Pirelli, Goodyear and Dunlop down through the budget names that fill the lower half of most size results.

Where a discount code actually goes

This is the part worth grasping before hunting for one. Because the site hands you over to a partner shop to finish the order, there is no basket and no code box on the comparison pages themselves. A voucher belongs to the retailer you are sent to, and it is entered in that retailer's own checkout at the payment stage. The order of operations is therefore: compare here, click through, then apply the code on the far side and confirm the revised total before committing. A code that simply refuses to work has usually been issued by a different dealer than the one you landed on.

Reading the listings properly

Sorting by price rarely puts the cheapest outcome at the top, because fitting is the hidden variable. Some listed dealers post the tyres to your door, some deliver them to a garage, and some quote for rubber alone while balancing, new valves and disposal of the old casings are charged separately by the fitter. The tyre label is worth as much attention as the price: it grades wet grip, rolling resistance and noise, and two tyres at identical money can sit a full grade apart on braking in the wet.

Timing, and one thing to check

Winter patterns are cheapest in spring, when the demand has gone but the stock has not, and the same logic works in reverse for summer tyres bought in October. Sizes fitted to common hatchbacks are discounted far more often than unusual ones, simply because more dealers stock them. Whatever the price, a tyre more than about six years past its moulded date code is worth passing over however deep the tread, and that code lives on the sidewall rather than in the listing, so it is a question to put to the seller first.