Serving: Te Puke Last updated: Free North Island delivery

Tyres in Te Puke

31 Station RdThe workshop itself
$35Fitted and balanced, per tyre
15,000+Tyres on the floor, here
The short answer

This is the place itself, not a page about serving somewhere else. The warehouse, the hoist and the three people who run it are all at 31 Station Road. That is why the tyres are cheap: no shopfront, no mall rent, and 15,000 of them bought by the container.

If you searched for a tyre shop near me and you are anywhere in the western Bay, this is it. 31 Station Road, walk in, no appointment for most sizes.

Road sign for the Tyre Dispatch workshop in Te Puke, where tyres are fitted while you wait
31 Station Road, Te Puke. Walk in, no appointment for most sizes.
Coming in

Visiting the workshop

31 Station Road, Te Puke 3119. Off-street parking at the door, and the main street is a two minute walk if you would rather not sit and wait. Monday to Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm, Saturday 9:00am to 1:00pm.

Booking means the tyres are on the hoist when you arrive rather than after whoever is ahead of you. Local delivery is free to urban Te Puke addresses if coming in is not convenient.

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What we see

Orchard country is hard on tyres

Te Puke driving is gravel, load and distance, and each one damages a tyre somewhere different.

🌱 Gravel and orchard access

Unsealed tracks chip sidewalls and cut shoulders. It is the damage most often missed, because it looks like nothing until the tyre is off the rim.

🚚 Loaded work vehicles

Utes and trailers running near their load rating flatten centres and build heat. Load decides the pressure, not the sticker on the door.

🌿 Long rural runs

Higher average speeds on SH2 and the back roads mean heat, and heat is what turns a small defect into a failure.

From our own order records

What Te Puke actually buys

Taken from our own order records rather than national figures, and the mix is unmistakably rural.

Size Typically fits In stock
205/55R16 Corolla, Golf, Mazda3 Yes
225/40R18 Sports and performance passenger Yes
225/55R18 Tucson, ASX, Outlander Yes
195/65R15 Corolla, Golf, small hatch Yes
245/35R20 Larger passenger, low profile Yes
Yours not here? 300+ sizes listed, 15,000 on the floor Check your size
Experience

Cheap tyres, chosen properly

The workshop has been on Station Road since 2007, first supplying tyre shops around the North Island and, since 2019, selling to the public as well. Everything on this website was built here, including a photographed inspection record of every tyre that crosses the hoist, which now runs past 1,600 tyres and 45,000 images. It is why our guides can say what happens to tyres in New Zealand rather than repeating a brochure.

Cheap does not have to mean unknown. Tyres start at $70, and every budget brand on the floor was picked on factory accreditation and independent test data before it was picked on price. There is no discount code and no sale week, it is the same price every day.

Coverage

Where we deliver around Te Puke

We deliver to any address in Te Puke. Your house, your workplace, a depot, or straight to whichever mechanic or tyre shop is going to fit them. Put their address in at checkout and give them a call so they know it is coming.

Free local delivery includes Te Puke, Maketu, Paengaroa, Pukehina, Te Puke West and Rangiuru, and that list is examples rather than a boundary. Rural and RD addresses right through the orchard country are covered too, at a flat rate shown before you pay rather than added at the end.

SH2 runs straight past us, and SH33 to Rotorua leaves from Paengaroa a few minutes east.

One question we get

Can I just walk in?

Yes. Booking simply means the tyres are on the hoist when you arrive rather than after whoever is ahead of you, and the booking page shows the real workshop diary rather than an enquiry form.

Fitting prices and what is included: fitting terms. Delivery rates, rural addresses and timeframes: shipping policy.

Nearby

We also deliver to

We deliver anywhere in New Zealand. These are simply the areas closest to Te Puke.

Come and see us at 31 Station Road

Tyre Dispatch is the trading name of Traction Tyres Limited, NZBN 9429033075297, 31 Station Road, Te Puke.

About the author
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Taylor Houghton

Manager, Tyre Dispatch · Warehouse Manager, Traction Tyres

Petitioner to Parliament · tyre labelling Tyrewise launch video Te Puke, Bay of Plenty workshop

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.

1,700+Documented inspections
45,000+Workshop photos
130+Brands catalogued
25+Free tools & guides

Looking for tyre training data? The imagery and structured inspection dataset are available to licence. Contact email@tyredispatch.co.nz.

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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.