Tyres.net Review: What 750 Prices for One Tyre Size Leave Out

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Search Tyres.net for a 205/55 R16, the size on more British family cars than any other, and it returns 750 separate offers running from £35.58 to £150.11 a corner. Figures checked on 20 September 2026 against the site's own search pages. It is a price comparison platform rather than a tyre shop: it gathers what other retailers are charging, sorts it, and hands you over to them.

The engine belongs to TyresNET GmbH, registered at Franz-Joseph-Straße 11 in Munich under HRB 221425 at the Amtsgericht München, VAT number DE301419717, with Andreas Prüfer and Nina Andree as managing directors. The same platform runs in 64 countries and 12 languages off a product feed of more than 10,000 items, and its UK callers get an 0330 number rather than a German one.

What it does well is show you the same tyre at several sellers on one line. Ask for a Continental ContiEcoContact 5 in 205/55 R16 91H and three shops come back at £70.48, £70.60 and £71.41 — a spread of 93p that would take three browser tabs to find anywhere else. Every listing also carries the tyre label grades: fuel efficiency, wet grip and the external noise figure in decibels, so a Bridgestone Turanza 6 in that size shows as B, A and 69 dB before you click anything.

750 offers in one size, and who is actually behind them

The breadth is real. A 205/55 R16 search runs to 38 pages at roughly 20 products a page, and the budget end goes a long way below what a fitting chain will quote: Dovroad Zyphira at £35.58, Comforser PureSpeed at £36.19, Lanvigator Comfort 1 at £36.31, Tracmax F-109 at £36.75 and Saferich FRC16 at £37.65, all 91V or 94V and all from the same seller, tyresdirect. Move up to the names most drivers recognise and the ladder runs Continental ContiEcoContact 5 at £70.48, Continental UltraContact at £76.72, Continental PremiumContact 7 at £78.91, Bridgestone Turanza T005 at £83.24, Pirelli Cinturato P1 at £85.61, Bridgestone Turanza 6 at £88.96 and Michelin Primacy 5 Energy at £95.16. Continental alone accounts for 53 of the offers in that one size.

The seller names repeat: onlinecarparts.co.uk, tyres-outlet.co.uk, mytyres.co.uk and tyresdirect carry most of the listings on the front pages. Mytyres.co.uk is worth knowing about, because it is not an independent shop. It belongs to Delticom AG of Hedwig-Kohn-Straße 1, Sehnde, which by its own account runs over 300 online stores in more than 70 countries, carries 600-plus tyre brands and over 40,000 tyre models, and has served more than 17 million customers. A German platform comparing prices is therefore partly comparing the prices of another German group that sells the same tyres under a dozen different shopfronts. Nobody hides this — both companies publish it — but it is worth understanding that the number of shop names on a results page is larger than the number of businesses behind them.

The charge that never appears on the results page

A tyre bought this way arrives at your door. Getting it onto the car is a separate transaction with a separate business, and that is where a large part of the real cost sits. Kwik Fit publishes the number on its own site: all tyre discounts 'apply to the cost of the tyre only and exclude charges for fitting, balancing, valve and disposal', quoted at £20.00 per tyre in its tyre FAQ and at £20.50 in the footnote on the same page. Take the lower figure and a set of four is £80 before anyone touches a tyre; take the higher one and it is £82.

Run that against the headline. The £35.58 tyre becomes roughly £56 on the car if a fitter charges what Kwik Fit charges, and four of them come to about £222 rather than £142 — a 56% increase on the number that won the comparison. The £70.48 Continental goes to about £90. The gap narrows as the tyre gets dearer, which is why the saving on a premium tyre bought this way is usually genuine and the saving on the cheapest one on the page is usually a good deal smaller than it looks. Tyres.net does not raise fitting anywhere. Its FAQ covers searching, delivery, who the contract is with and how to contact a seller, and the word does not appear.

Delivery is the other absentee. Listings show a tyre price and nothing else; the site says only that 'each shop listed on Tyres.net has different delivery options' and that it 'does not carry the transport risk. The retailer is always responsible.' Since 6 April 2025, section 230 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 has required a trader inviting a UK consumer to purchase to give the total price, meaning 'any fees, taxes, charges or other payments that the consumer will necessarily incur', and either to state any freight, delivery or postal charges not included in it or to say that such charges may apply. A comparison layer that passes you to a checkout where the carriage is finally revealed is exactly the shape that provision was written about, and a reader is entitled to treat the ranked price as incomplete until the basket confirms it.

Whose customer are you?

The general terms are blunt about it. Clause by clause they place Tyres.net outside the sale: 'the contracts about the products or services on the websites are concluded solely between the customers and the listed online shops', and 'TyresNET in this case is not representative of one contracting parties'. Liability is excluded 'regardless of the legal basis' apart from death or personal injury, product liability, intent or gross negligence, and breach of what the terms call cardinal duties. Warranty questions are pushed to the partner shop's own conditions, cancellation rights to 'the GTC of the online shops (including their cancellation policies)'. German law applies under clause 8.3.

Set that beside the site's return policy and the picture stops being consistent. That document is written in the first person by the platform itself: 'You are entitled to cancel this contract within fourteen days without having to state your reasons', addressed to 'TyresNET GmbH, Franz-Joseph-Str. 11, 80801 Munich Germany'; refunds 'without delay and no later than within fourteen days from the date of our receipt of your cancellation notice', by the same means of payment, with no extra charges; and, unusually generous, 'We collect the goods from you. We bear the cost of returning the goods.' Those are a seller's obligations, not an introducer's. The FAQ explains why both can be true — buyers either click through to a retailer or 'purchase directly via the marketplace' — but no page tells you which set of rules is governing the order you are about to place, and the difference decides who you chase when four tyres turn up in the wrong size.

What British law gives you here, whatever the terms say

A German choice-of-law clause does not strip a UK buyer of UK protection. Section 74 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 says that where the law of another country 'is chosen by the parties to be applicable to a consumer contract, but the consumer contract has a close connection with the United Kingdom, this Part applies despite that choice'. A platform trading at uk.tyres.net in sterling, with an 0330 phone number and a product feed of British sellers, is about as close a connection as a website gets. The 14 days in the return policy also match what the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 would give a UK buyer anyway.

The weak point is what happens when a complaint goes nowhere. Clause 10.1 of the terms directs unhappy customers to the European Commission's online dispute resolution portal at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. That portal stopped operating on 20 July 2025; the Commission has redirected the address and the underlying regulation has been repealed. It had not been open to UK consumers since Brexit in any case. No UK alternative dispute resolution scheme is named anywhere on the site, and there is no UK-registered company to complain to — the registered office, the commercial register entry, the VAT number and the bank account are all German. What is left is the seller's own complaints process, a card chargeback, or section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, which makes a credit card provider jointly liable on a single purchase of more than £100 and up to £30,000. Four tyres at £70 clears that bar comfortably; one budget tyre at £35.58 does not.

The label data is there, and it is doing more work than it looks

Credit where it is due: the grades are on every row, and that is a legal duty rather than a courtesy. The government's guidance for tyre suppliers and distributors tells anyone selling where the customer cannot see the tyre before buying to 'give the information on the fuel efficiency, wet grip (where applicable) and external noise during the buying process'. Tyres.net does exactly that — the Bridgestone Turanza 6 in 205/55 R16 94V shows B for fuel, A for wet grip and 69 dB for noise before you leave the results page, which is more than several high-street sellers manage on a quotation. The guidance also expects the downloadable product information sheet to be available on a website selling tyres; whether the platform offers that, as opposed to the three grades, could not be confirmed and is worth checking on the product page before ordering.

One caution on the letters themselves. The government's own guidance page describes Great Britain as grading car tyres A to G while Northern Ireland uses A to E, which is not how the assimilated tyre labelling regulation reads, and the two have not been reconciled publicly. Treat the relative position as reliable — an A wet grip really does stop shorter than a C — and do not read anything into the letter at the bottom of whichever scale a given page is using.

How the site is paid, and why it does not say so

Nothing on Tyres.net explains its revenue. The FAQ covers searching, retailers, delivery and contact, and stops short of the commercial arrangement. The Awin affiliate network fills the gap: programme 12715, listed as Tyres UK, pays publishers 4% of a sale and 10p for a clickout, with a 30-day cookie and an average transaction value of about £115 net, across 64 countries and 12 languages. That is an ordinary arrangement and there is nothing improper in it — a comparison site has to be funded somehow, and this one is funded per click and per sale.

It does mean two things worth holding in mind as you read a results page. The platform earns whether or not you get the best tyre, provided you click; and a shop that is not part of the commercial arrangement has no obvious route onto the page at all, so 'the cheapest price' is the cheapest among participating sellers rather than the cheapest in Britain. Neither the ranking method nor the participation rules are published. Compare100 is itself an affiliate of this programme, which is the same disclosure being asked of them.

Figures were taken from each provider's own published terms on 20 September 2026. Variable rates can change at any time — confirm the current rate with the provider before applying.