Used car tyres in Melbourne typically sell for A$57 to A$575 (about $40 to $405). Be careful with this one: selling part-worn tyres is a regulated activity with specific legal requirements, and tyres near the legal minimum are not worth selling at all.
Selling car tyres in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Melbourne, in Victoria, has around 5.1 million people, which means a buyer pool big enough that almost anything finds someone, and close enough together that collection is rarely the obstacle. Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Melbourne
Australia Post covers everywhere, but distance pricing is real and interstate parcels cost meaningfully more than local ones.
What car tyres are worth
What lifts the price
- Matching sets of four in the same size
- Recognised brands with no repairs
What pulls it down
- Tyres more than several years old, whatever the tread
- Sidewall damage, bulges or cracking
Working out what yours is worth
- Measure the tread depth and state it in millimetres
- Photograph the sidewall including size and date
Getting it ready
- Measure the tread depth across the whole width with a gauge, not by eye, and record the figure.
- Inspect both sidewalls for bulges, cuts, cracking and any previous repair. Any of these means the tyre should be scrapped rather than sold.
Photograph
- The sidewall markings, including size, load and speed rating and the date code
- Both sidewalls in full, showing there is no bulge, cut or crack
Put in the description
- The four-digit date code from the sidewall
- Whether ever repaired, and confirmation there is no bulge, cut or sidewall cracking
Size, brand, tread and quantity: “225/45 R17 Michelin, 6mm Tread, Pair, 2022 Date Code”. The size is the search. State the actual millimetre tread depth and the date code — sellers who leave these out get endless questions and lower offers.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Victoria)
Common questions
Where can I sell car tyres in Melbourne?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Have they been repaired?
Disclose any plug or patch. A correctly done repair within the permitted area is acceptable to many buyers, but it must never be concealed.
How much are car tyres worth in Melbourne?
Most used car tyres change hands for A$57 to A$575 (about $40 to $405). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling car tyres across Australia, what car tyres are worth, everything second hand in Melbourne, or Vehicles in Melbourne.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.