According to a recent survey carried out by Sainsbury’s Finance, increased insurance and motoring taxes have added 11% to the cost of motoring since 2007; just imagine what could this could have been without a recession…

Thanks to a Club member based in West Sussex sharing some foxy feedback, we now have a useful comparison of tyre prices to help women drivers when shopping in the Worthing/Littlehampton area, including service levels and fitting arrangements.

To begin with the member knew the specific tyre to buy, all these introductions were made via the members area of FOXY Lady Drivers Club website and whilst Black Circles was the cheapest deal by a small margin, it is clear that National Tyres and Autocare in Worthing would have matched this and the choice would then have been down to one of personal convenience ie where to drive to have these fitted.

“Here’s the result of my comparisons for the supply/fit of four tyres – Yokohama S306 205/55 R16 91V. All prices include VAT.

1) Micheldever – based in Winchester. Although they do a mobile service, they won’t come to Worthing.

2) www.etyres.co.uk – £298.80

3) National Tyres (Worthing).

Spoke to Danny and with the FOXY  discount the price would be £275. He then offered to price match any figure I got; fitting is in the centre of Worthing.

4) www.blackcircles.co.uk (via the Foxy members affiliate link)

Using the FOXY discount code the total price would be £246.04 and fitted in Littlehampton (by  Littlehampton Tyres)

5) I then phoned ‘Corbetts Tyre & Exhaust’ a local business in Rustington

He didn’t have that specific tyre on his pricelist, so called me back in 10 mins with a price. Total price would be £260 – very close to the normal blackcircles price.

Finally I called Littlehampton Tyres direct and quoted the price I was going to get via Black Circles, with them doing the fitting. But they couldn’t do the price for cheaper so I’ll be placing my order via Black Circles soon – and fitting will be in Littlehampton.”

Needless to say we like to keep on top of prices and to be sure that FOXY Lady members get a fair deal so it’s good to have this feedback to post in our ‘members only’ forum.

If anyone knows better than this in terms of price deals (all things being equal) please let us know. We are not called FOXY for nothing and like to live up to the meaning of the word as in being shrewd, canny and astute; clearly you can negotiate on tyre prices so women drivers need to know where and how to go about this to get better motoring deals in future.

It’s good to share local shopping experiences with other women drivers too as clearly female friendly service levels are often equally as important as the price (within reason…)..

FOXY Steph