Welcome to Safari Tyres
Safari tyres has been selling tyres since 1973, making it one of the oldest independent tyre retail outlets in South Africa.
Our core business is the manufacture, wholesale and retail of bead to bead remoulded tyres and normal top cap retreaded tyres.
Our Mission Statement
To provide our customers with a quality product at a fair and reasonable price.
What is a remoulded tyre and how does it differ from a retreaded tyre?
We are the only manufactures of bead to bead remoulded tyres in South Africa (see our FAQ section). The manufacturing side falls under the business of ECONOTREADS, which is our sister company.
The retail of the tyres is done through our own 2 fitting shops, situated in Hancock Street, North End and Kempston road.
Our Products & Services
We manufacture a full range of passenger, bakkie and 4/4 remoulded tyres, which come with a full guarantee.
We also sell new tyres and are retailers of Dixon batteries.
We additionally provide an electronic wheel alignment service at our North End branch.
We utilise state of the art remoulding equipment that we have sourced from all over the world over the last 5 years.
The managers of the fitting shops Gardiol (North End) and Keith (Kempston Road) will make sure that you get fast efficient service and tyres at very good prices from the staff at both shops.
If you are not sure about what size tyres your vehicle is fitted with, contact us via email or telephone and we will gladly help with whatever questions you may have, ensuring that when you walk in to our premises you know what to expect and what you are going to pay.
Hover your mouse over our collection of available commercial tyres for sizes and click for more info:
Breaking News!
Now available:
Powertread Comfort HP
Tyre features: Latest Tread Pattern very low road noise
- only casings with no patches or nail holes used
- best quality rubber available
Price only R499 each or buy 4 for R1750
Our new compressor
We have just installed a brand new 13 bar 50kw compressor to supply air to our moulds.
This new higher air pressure will give a better bond between the new rubber and existing casings making for a better export quality remoulded and retreaded tyre.
New Uitenhage Stockists!
Our Port Elizabeth Branches
Address: 10 Hancock Street, North End, PE
Phone/Fax: 041 484 2657/8
eMail: sales@safarityres.co.za
Address: 313 Kempston Road (Corner of Juta & Kempston), PE
Phone/Fax: 041 453 3686 / 041 453 7832
eMail: sales@safarityres.co.za
Our Bulldog Tyre
The design and manufacture of the Bulldog mould was done with the help of an Australian company, Elastech, and manufactured by a New Zealand company.
This tyre has proved very popular with hunters, farmers and 4/4 enthusiasts alike.
Wholesale Tyres
The wholesale side of our business is handled by Econotreads.
If you are a tyre dealer wanting to stock our tyres or a farmer wanting to try our tyres, we will either sell you the tyres and then ship via courier to you or put you onto our agents in Gauteng, Vastrap Bande. Please contact us and we will do our best to get you your tyres.
Why buy remoulded tyres?
- Remoulded tyres look and perform like new tyres,
- Remoulding is recycling,
- Remoulded tyres create employment - full and part time - currently for about 25 people in Port Elizabeth, and
- Remoulded tyres cost a lot less than a new tyre; eg: our Bulldog tyre retails in our shops at an incredibly affordable price, well below the cheapest new MT pattern tyres available on the market, and you run the risk of damaging the tyre if you go "offroad" with the new tyre
Who buys remoulded tyres?
Our tyres are not manufactured to take the place of a new tyre, our tyres are an alternative to costly new tyres and as we all know, the majority of the population is currently feeling the pressure of financial constraints.
We are always open and honest with our customers and advise them not to fit remoulded tyres on their vehicles if they are doing continous high speed driving.
Our customers encompass a large section of the market whose cars are used to travel to work, or university, and back home. Our customers typically also drive off for the odd trip out of town, once or twice a year.
Commercially, companies with delivery cars and bakkies used around town fit our tyres. We also have a lot of customers that do regular long distance trips with our tyres, who experience no problems doing so.
Our tyres are very popular with hunters, farmers, game farm owners (see our Gallery section here) and 4/4 enthusiasts - all of whom generally make use of our tyres offroad and therefore want a tyre that can withstand punctures. Our Bulldog 4/4 tyre is especially popular in this sector.
If you are considering buying new tyres and are concerned about the price of the tyres, while you know that you drive your vehicle in a reasonable manner, then you should consider trying a set of remoulded tyres.
Unsure about your tyre size?
Then contact us! Please feel free to contact us about any questions you might have on any size tyres that you might be interested in.
OUR GUARANTEE
All our tyres are sold with a full pro rata 6 month guarantee.
All remoulded and retreaded tyres are speed limited 120kmh.
All retreaded and remoulded tyres are NOT recomended for continuous high speed high way use.
The basic guarantee works like this, if you have a problem with one of our tyres we will after inspection, either replace the tyre at no charge or replace the tyre and charge you for the tread that you have used or replace the problem tyre with a tyre of similar tread.
Please note that slight sidewall cracks or blistering sometimes occur with a remoulded tyre. This is due to the flexing of the new sidewall rubber that we apply in our production process, this is normal wear and tear, and does not affect the safety of the tyre.
What we believe
We believe that the speed limit on South African roads should be reduced from 120 km/h to 110 km/h, as it is in Australia. This would help to reduce the carnage which takes place on our roads every year, due to speeding, bad roads, unroadwothy vehicles and driver errors.
