Can anyone advise me the best way to sell a set of winter wheels and tyres? I thought of e-bay, but because of weight has to be collection so maybe rules out most buyers. What about Gumtree, never used it but heard it’s more local. Anyone any experience of it?

I find the BRISKODA Forum quite good, in the For Sales,

there are Skoda owners that look at this time of year for members selling winter tyres and wheels.

Costs £5 to get Freedom to sell if not a Freedom member.

 

Good if they need to be sold to buyers / members further afield.

http://paisleyfreight.com

 

Edited 30 September, 20196 yr by Roottootemoot

I've tried both gumtree and various local selling groups on Facebook to sell tyres. The former was useless: one reply, from someone offering me 50% of my asking price. From FB on the other hand I had people biting my arm off and they sold very quickly, for the asking price, and without bother.

Now a Freedom member and posted the wheels, winter tyres & trims for collection at £80 on For Sale section. 

& an absolute bargain, surprised they have not been bagsed yet.

Hi Expatman

Your Winter Tyres & Rims are they 17" ?? And if so what Brand etc

Regards

Guy

Welcome to the forum.

Here is the advert. 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/472618-yeti-4-x-16"-skoda-steel-wheels-nokia-winter-tyres

There are others selling in the For sale section.

Absolute bargain, if I had not just agreed a deal on another set on here I would bite your arm off, thankfully you are far enough away for it to be impractical so I dont feel quite so sick as a parrot 😀

Still available!

39 minutes ago, Expatman said:

Still available!

Not now!

 

Just sent you a message, I'll take them 😉

OracleMuppet is buying my winter wheels/tyres, I am replacing with Goodyear Vector Gen2 all season tyres to avoid having to change wheels twice a year (getting older!) and also to release some storage space! 

The All Season tyres will replace my existing Goodyear EfficientGrips 215/60 R16 95H that were original equipment on my 2017 Yeti. There is over 6mm of tread on all 4 tyres and wondered if it is worth trying to sell them or should I just dump them when the dealer puts on the Vector All Seasons?

Edited 11 October, 20196 yr by Expatman

^^^ A very fair question.

 

Trouble might be though ....  to send four tyres by courier company looks like it could be between £ 40 and £50 for the four.  (I did send some small size tyres this way once and it was OK  -  I recall I had to package them two at a time and send separately though).

 

And then the recipient would have to pay another £50 to have them fitted.

 

But it seems an awful shame not to be able to find a good home for them.

 

By way of comparison - if someone was looking for that particular size tyre but wasn't wanting to spend too much they could look at Firestone Roadhawk ( an apparently half decent mid budget tyre) and pay around £70 per tyre to have them delivered (delivery cost included in those figures) and then pay the fitting cost - and finish up paying ----- 4 x £70 = £280 plus fitting at £50 = £330.   Or go to a high street tyre shop and pay around £360 for them - fitted.

 

So it looks like yours would be a bargain for someone  - all depending how much you was hoping to get after accounting for the delivery and fitting costs.

 

As it happens I have steel wheels of that size with winter tyres on and am now fed up with swapping them over twice a year and could ponder whether I could fit your tyres on the steelies and just abandon the winter tyre idea completely. My OE alloys still have the original summer tyres on and are stored in the garage and I'm running the winter wheels and tyres all year round now - all without any dreadful outcome.

 

Food for thought .....

 

 

 

 

Edited 12 October, 20196 yr by oldstan

7 hours ago, oldstan said:

^^^ A very fair question.

 

Trouble might be though ....  to send four tyres by courier company looks like it could be between £ 40 and £50 for the four.  (I did send some small size tyres this way once and it was OK  -  I recall I had to package them two at a time and send separately though).

 

And then the recipient would have to pay another £50 to have them fitted.

 

But it seems an awful shame not to be able to find a good home for them.

 

By way of comparison - if someone was looking for that particular size tyre but wasn't wanting to spend too much they could look at Firestone Roadhawk ( an apparently half decent mid budget tyre) and pay around £70 per tyre to have them delivered (delivery cost included in those figures) and then pay the fitting cost - and finish up paying ----- 4 x £70 = £280 plus fitting at £50 = £330.   Or go to a high street tyre shop and pay around £360 for them - fitted.

 

So it looks like yours would be a bargain for someone  - all depending how much you was hoping to get after accounting for the delivery and fitting costs.

 

As it happens I have steel wheels of that size with winter tyres on and am now fed up with swapping them over twice a year and could ponder whether I could fit your tyres on the steelies and just abandon the winter tyre idea completely. My OE alloys still have the original summer tyres on and are stored in the garage and I'm running the winter wheels and tyres all year round now - all without any dreadful outcome.

 

Food for thought .....

 

 

 

 

Trouble is you are in the West Country and I live in North Yorkshire! I guess it only works if someone could pick them up but, like you say, it seems an awful pity to just scrap them. Sadly it seems that’s the most likely outcome unless someone who lives close by wants them.

I would put them on Gumtree. Costs nothing and items tend to be seen by people who are local to the advertiser. There's a garage not far away from me that sells used (guaranteed) tyres. Not something I would buy but I know they have a thriving trade.

I'm currently on 17s. If it's a straight swop? I'll buy them and collect today or next week if they are available still. I'm in Beverley so not that far away

36 minutes ago, pkyyyy said:

I'm currently on 17s. If it's a straight swop? I'll buy them and collect today or next week if they are available still. I'm in Beverley so not that far away

 

But these are 16".

 

If yours are 17", then ... well, ...... they're not gonna fit.

3 minutes ago, oldstan said:

 

But these are 16".

 

If yours are 17", then ... well, ...... they're not gonna fit.

Hence my question mark (?) 

 

I was hoping that as the spare wheel is a 16" across the whole Yeti range. Any Yeti could take 17" or 16" wheels, obviously if you are swopping all 4. 

 

That is what I'm hoping anyway.... So... Thanks...

I think your confusion is caused by terminology.  People refer to wheels meaning the round thing bolted to their car, but they get mixed up with what that actually is.  It is two parts that make the whole, a metal rim that bolts to the car, and a rubber tyre that is just a tight fit on the rim and held firm by air pressure when blown up.

 

In simplistic terms, the Yeti spare wheel is a 16" rim and a 16" tyre.  It has 1" greater sidewall depth on the rubber tyre than on a standard Yeti 17" tyre to compensate for the 1" less rim size.  Open the boot and compare the height of the rubber on the spare with the height of the rubber on your 17's and you'll soon see what I mean.

 

You can run a set of 17" rims with 17" tyres or 16" rims with 16" tyres.  But a 16" tyre will not fit on a 17" rim, and a 17" tyre will not fit a 16" rim. 

Well regardless of confusion. I was hoping that those 16" steel wheels and winter tyres been sold by Expatman would go straight on to a TDI 140 which came with factory 17" wheels.

They will, thats what I have 17"  original wheels and tyres for summer, and 16" with 16" winter tyres for winter. 

 

And the speedo  digital display stays exactly the same to within 1km/hr at a true calibrated 70mph using a speed app so the rolling radius must be nearly identical.

 

Only proviso is that you must tell the insurance company

Edited 13 October, 20196 yr by kenfowler3966

yes they will!

Just to clarify. The 16" wheels fitted with 16" winter tyres have been sold already.

What I will have is four 16" Goodyear Efficientgrip tyres (215/60 R16 95H). these are NOT fitted to wheels so will need to be fitted to 16" rims (wheels).

 

1 hour ago, pkyyyy said:

Well regardless of confusion. I was hoping that those 16" steel wheels and winter tyres been sold by Expatman would go straight on to a TDI 140 which came with factory 17" wheels.

If you are buying 16" tyres and 16" rims they will fit fine on your car in place of your 17" tyres and rims.  There is an excellent  guide here on all the various permutations which will tell you all you could possibly need to know about tyres for your yeti. 

 

You just can't mix and match 16 and 17 rims and tyres together to make one wheel, it's one or the other.

4 minutes ago, Expatman said:

Just to clarify. The 16" wheels fitted with 16" winter tyres have been sold already.

What I will have is four 16" Goodyear Efficientgrip tyres (215/60 R16 95H). these are NOT fitted to wheels so will need to be fitted to 16" rims (wheels).

 

I created the confusion then 🥴. I had thought the sale had fell through. That's what you get for replying without reading properly!

1 minute ago, widdershins said:

If you are buying 16" tyres and 16" rims they will fit fine on your car in place of your 17" tyres and rims.  There is an excellent  guide here on all the various permutations which will tell you all you could possibly need to know about tyres for your yeti. 

 

You just can't mix and match 16 and 17 rims and tyres together to make one wheel, it's one or the other.

Aware of that. See above. I thought the sale for the steels and winter tyres had fell through so was always refering and meaning those. I now see you guys where thinking I meant the tyres that will be just for sale.

 

That was the confusions.