Digger tyres question

[Rick]

I don't know too much about tyres, but I did find that fitting them was not easy. I thought any local tyre place would do tractor types - but alas I was wrong.

Rick

[Holly in France]

Hi all, I'm in the middle of googling and making slow progress, hope someone here might beat google to it! Have also asked on uk.bus.agriculture so we might find out which is best group to ask for digger questions :-)

I need to find one, preferably two, new front tyres for out CASE 580G digger, JCB size machine. Tyres are marked 9.00 x 16, local garage calls this 900 x 16 and want 296 euros per tyre. The only ones I have found online in France so far are at

. Ohero 3RIB 10PR 78 euro

What is 10PR please, ply-rating?? (I'm just googling this subject now) Would these be suitable for a JCB? They look about right in the picture :-)) They are so much cheaper than the original quote, I can't believe they would be any good. I'm about to ring up and ask but I'm not sure I'm going to trust the salesman. Our digger doesn't do an awful lot, we don't need the very best quality long-lasting tyres but obviously we need something that is up to the job. Any thoughts anyone please?

[RedOnRed]

You seriously expected Kwik Fit and the rest of their competition to have the same facilities to cope with changing a tractor tyre? Have you ever seen tractor tyres on display their?

Kwik Fit couldn't even balance my old Peugeot 306 Hdi alloy wheels because they didn't even have the tool for that, let alone a tractor one.

I should imagine that you need some sort of agricultural tractor tyre specialist. For trucks and big tyres that should involve a mobile visit. Try asking a local farmer or a tractor manufacturer.

[Holly in France]

Just about every garage around here will do them, but I guess that is because it is a rural community. They don't all sell them but will all change tyres and fix punctures.

This is France, not the UK, so I accept that things are different, but everywhere seems to have facilities to change them. Our local garage in Ireland did them too, again in a rural area though. Actually, I have now found a place which will do them on site at a reasonable price, and it is part of the PointS network, which is a smaller but similar kind of outfit to Kwik-Fit AFAIK.

Don't remember ever seeing many tractor tyres on display anywhere, even in specialist tractor places, they usually get them to order. I imagine that the numbers sold would be too few and the range of sizes would be too great for them to keep them in stock.

[Rick]

Nope, not Kick Fit, but "XXXXX tyres - tyres for all vehicules", in a framing market town, I did expect to be able to do it.

Mine were for the bobcat, so are similar in size to a 4x4.

Rick