I've been on the look for for a new set of offroad oriented tyres to suit a 14" rim and found suppliers here in WA of little use. After endless non returned phone calls and responses of "yeah we can get em,but not for another 3 months" (I mean what if I needed another one pronto?) I was left with 2 new tyre options, both of which would be over $200ea and well out of my desired spend. Of course to contact manufacturers direct is near on pointless.
After viewing a previous thread on the topic , I decided to follow up on Motorway tyres ( they are based in Stawell country Victoria) and their winter tread remoulds.
First I did a google and found quite a number of very positive reports on a number OZ 4wd forums. Impressed I contacted the company to find where my nearest distributor was.
Sadly they informed me that their WA distributor had unexpectadely closed shop and were woking on estabishing another, but were more than happy to do whatever they could to help me out if I could find a cost effective way of getting a small volume across the Nullabor. A quick call to Jayde transport here in Perth confirmed I could get 5 of them shipped from their Melbourne depot to perth for $82.
A call back to Motorway tyres confirmed that they would be more than happy to redirect their delivery truck to the melbourne depot to drop a package of 5 tyres, recieve payment direct to their company and co-ordinate with my freight company for the drop off and redirection.
All along I've been informed of progress of my small request by email and the service has been a refreshing experience.
In total its costing me a total $285.75 for the 5 tyres plus the $82 for freight
Thats only $73 per tyre. My tyres are now in transit.
Motorway tyres if your product delivers half of the service your sales team does I will be more than impressed.
Any one else used these tyres?
Cheers,
Aspro.
PS, these guy do a monoform tyre called "the mongrel". It won the warn outback challenge. Looks awesome... wonder if they would ever consider doing it in a 27" tyre
