Book tyre fitting and balancing — pick a real slot
The calendar below is our actual workshop diary, so what you see is what is open and nothing double-books. Bring your own tyres, or choose from 300+ in stock and have them fitted at the same appointment. 31 Station Road, Te Puke — about twenty minutes from Tauranga.
Live availability
These are the actual open slots in our workshop diary, not a request form. Bringing your own tyres? Pick a time and drive in. Need tyres as well? Choose them here and the fitting comes with them, at the same appointment.
What are we fitting? Same workshop, same guarantee, either way
Which tyre? Live from our shop — 300+ sizes
Not sure of your size? It is on the sidewall — the size guide shows you where. Prices shown are fitted and balanced, per tyre, GST included.
How many tyres? Sets the length of your slot
Which day? Next four weeks
Which time? Workshop time, New Zealand
Estimate at the standard fit-and-balance rate of $35 a tyre. Larger 4WD and commercial sizes are $40 a tyre — we will tell you before we start, not after. Fitting only is $15–$20. Nothing is charged online; you pay at the workshop.
Your details So we know whose car is coming in
The live calendar is not loading right now. Book on our booking page, call (07) 573 9090, or send us a message and we will find you a time.
What you are booking
Professional fitting and computer balancing at our Te Puke workshop, on any tyres — bought from us or anywhere else, same price either way. Around 15 minutes a tyre, so a set of four is about an hour, and you are welcome to wait.
| Service | Standard sizes | 4WD & commercial |
|---|---|---|
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Fitting only Mounting, new valve, safety check, disposal |
$15–$20 per tyre | $20 per tyre |
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Fitting + balancing Everything above, plus computer balancing |
$35 per tyre | $40 per tyre |
Every fitting includes the old tyre off with the rim inspected while it is bare, the new tyre machine-mounted with directional markings the right way round, a new rubber valve, a safety check of pressures and wheel-nut torque, and the old tyres recycled through Tyrewise at no charge. All prices include GST — the number in the table is the number you pay, at the workshop, when the job is done.
12-month workmanship guarantee
Vibration or a balance problem after we have fitted your tyres? Come back inside twelve months and we re-balance it free — whether or not the tyres came from us. If you bought them from us, we also handle any product warranty claim on your behalf.
The full story — why balancing matters, drive times from around the Bay, what the guarantee covers and twelve common questions — is on the fitting & balancing services page. Terms: fitting and balancing T&Cs.
Four things worth knowing
Bring your wheel lock key
If any wheel has a locking nut we need the matching key — without it the wheels stay on the car and we have to rebook you. Usually in the glovebox or under the boot floor with the jack.
Where and when
31 Station Road, Te Puke — off SH2, parking on site. Monday to Friday 8am–4:30pm, Saturday 9am–1pm, closed Sunday.
Free to cancel or move
No fee, ever. Just give us as much notice as you can so the slot can go to someone else.
What we do not do
Fitting and balancing only — no mobile callouts, no puncture repairs, no wheel alignments. Dropping just the wheels off is fine; book for the number of tyres.
Want the full picture first?Pricing detail, what is included, why balancing matters, drive times, the guarantee and the FAQ all live on the service page.
Fitting & balancing →Taylor Houghton
Manager, Tyre Dispatch · Warehouse Manager, Traction Tyres
Taylor Houghton has spent his working life in the tyre trade, beginning in his father's tyre business at the age of five and handling import containers through his school years. He developed Tyre Dispatch, the retail arm of Traction Tyres, and now manages it alongside the Traction Tyres warehouse in Te Puke, with responsibility for buying and brand selection. He holds no ownership interest in either business.
Both brands the company distributes exclusively in New Zealand, Anchee and Predator, were his selections, each assessed on factory accreditation, compound composition and independent test data rather than name recognition. More than 100,000 Anchee tyres have since been sold here, and both brands hold five star review averages.
The guides, calculators and tools on this site are his own work, as is the workshop dataset behind them, which covers 1,700+ documented tyre inspections and 45,000+ photographs and represents more than a thousand hours, the majority outside business hours. He is the petitioner to Parliament for mandatory tyre performance labelling and minimum wet-grip standards in New Zealand, and appeared in the launch video for Tyrewise, the national tyre stewardship scheme.
Photography, measurements and advice on this site are first-hand; where a figure comes from elsewhere, it is attributed.
Looking for tyre training data? The imagery and structured inspection dataset are available to licence. Contact email@tyredispatch.co.nz.
General guidance based on published standards and our own workshop data — reliable but hand-compiled and not guaranteed error-free. Spot something wrong? Email email@tyredispatch.co.nz and we'll fix it.





