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Cheap Tyres

Budget brands, online quotes and the line between a sensible save and a tyre that will cost you on the Gateway.

4 long-form articles in this hub.

The quiet middle shelf — Hankook, Falken, Kumho, Dunlop, Continental’s cheaper lines — is where a lot of Brisbane kilometres should be spent.

24 May 2025

A cheap tyre sold here still has to come through the gate. What that gate actually means, and which budget names have earned a boring reputation.

6 May 2025

Four prices are not four comparable offers. A method for lining up size, date, extras and warranty before you pick a bay.

26 February 2025

The old cheap-tyres page told you not to panic-pay a mechanic. It did not tell you to buy the softest import in the shed. Where a bargain is real.

22 January 2025