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Austria (St Anton Area ) - Cheap used Tyres - where?
 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi,

I'm heading out to St Anton next week for a few months. I picked up a Honda CR V today but I need winter tyres I understand this time of the year.

A set of 4 if I was to fit them here would be £320 that's new winter tyres

Can you just rock up to a garage in Austria and ask do you have a set of .... in this case 205/70/15?

Do garages do second hand tires?

OR will I order on line like from this website: http://www.reifenleader.at/ it seems you can get them delivered to the local garage (KFZ-TECH PRIELER near Fließ in my case). Looks like a total cost of £183 fitted. Fitting in Austria makes much more sense because I can keep the existing tyres for the summer.

Any locals know if the garages do cheap second hand tires? That would be cheaper then £183 that I can order from reifenleader.at?

Thanks in advance.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Loads of places import part used winters from Germany. Google is your friend here. look to pay about £30 each fitted.
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@cameronphillips2000, THanks Cameron: That's great. Looks like I might need to get the tyres before I go over with the snow forcast over the weekend and beyond. Much appreciated.
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@jamtastx, Garages often do have second hand tyres, but you have far more chance of scoring them in November - when everyone changes over.

You can just rock up and ask if you have them in that size, but there's no guarantee that they will - lots of places seem to prefer you to visit, order, then come back in a couple of days. Other big places hold more stock, but again, more around November and April when most people change over.
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@clarky999, Cheers, I'm travelling down next Wednesday or Thursday looking at the forecast I think I might order and fit here. Much appreciated.
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Don't know if I've misunderstood the question, however. If you get them over there and plan to keep your summer tyres have you got room to bring them back to UK or are you staying in Austria? If you were carrying them remember they will smell really strong inside a car! My car always smells from carrying motorcycle tyres.
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