Buying tires online vs Direct store purchasing

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01-20-2010, 07:27 AM

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Pohanka has the free coffee, bottle water and soda's. When I went in there in other morning to get my car back, they also had donuts, bigger than softball size donuts, I wish I was hungry then.

(Homer Simpson voice) "mmmmm donuts mmmmm"

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01-20-2010, 09:26 AM

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Great Tire/good reveiws!

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....el=Grabber+HTS

Treadepot is cheaper.

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01-20-2010, 10:10 AM

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Tire isn't made in the size I need, so it's irrelevant.

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01-20-2010, 10:33 AM

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Tire isn't made in the size I need, so it's irrelevant.

what size?

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01-20-2010, 11:23 AM

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205/70-15. I know I could oversize a bit, but I'm not going to with only replacing two. Four, absolutely.

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01-20-2010, 11:30 AM

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Those are pretty narrow..

They have a wide range of choices for that size including Toyo Extensa A/S for $53 / tire. They're a 620 rating with 65k mile warranty and a comparable GT Altimax RT's for $52 / tire. Both are decent tires.

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01-20-2010, 08:20 PM

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Store price match? Not my experience either.

I did a 4-tire swap once from Tire Rack - very good experience.

I also did a 4-tire swap at Costco - very good experience and reasonable $$

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01-20-2010, 09:22 PM

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surprisingly wal-mart is one of the cheapest and pretty good at balancing. I go to the one in york and it costs $40 to mount and balance all 4 tires. Valve stems are a bit more, prob $10 for all 4 .

They have done a decent job everytime i have gone in. I bought a set of 4 avid h4 from jack williams and had them balanced 6 times and each time it shook like hell. I took it to wally world and it was done right the 1st time.

my local wal-mart sux! heard nothing but bad reviews. if they had the tires i wanted i'd buy them but never let them install

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01-22-2010, 11:45 AM

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I did this with Town Fair Tire. They matched the tire rack price, plus shipping. I paid $20 more for each tire than Tire rack, but I got my wheels aligned, balanced and mounted.