aggravation! (tax, price, warehouse) - Charlotte - North Carolina (NC) - Page 3 - City-Data Forum

CharlotteCharlotte · 08-18-2009, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by NC~Mom

Note to self...another reason not to buy a car that takes so much $$$ for maintenence.
Love that I can buy 4 new tires for $160.

160 for all 4? Thats kind of hard to believe. Are you sure you don't mean 160 for 2?

mullman · 08-18-2009, 07:20 PM

Y, I would have to see a receipt to believe $160 for 4 tires installed (mounted, balanced, new stems).
And how long to they last? 30-40K+ miles?

If true, this shop will have my unconditional business for the family car (van).

gkleoni1 · 08-18-2009, 07:24 PM

Maybe just a business name and phone number so we can call for a quote?

ZnGuy · 08-18-2009, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by himain

So this is the second time that I've gotten a large construction bolt in the tire of the MB in my own community!!! I really DO NOT feel like dropping $400 on a new tire as its just on the edge of the sidewall and more than likely not be able to be patched!! Aggravation occurring..

Just smile smile smile smile and breathe!

Nice wheels, I'm sure nice ride. Probably low profiles. I just sold my wife's SLK32AMG (on ebay), I buy all my tires at TireRack -save $100s on tires www.tirerack.com.

sophialee · 08-18-2009, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ZnGuy

Nice wheels, I'm sure nice ride. Probably low profiles. I just sold my wife's SLK32AMG (on ebay), I buy all my tires at TireRack -save $100s on tires www.tirerack.com.

This place deffo has the best prices.

ZnGuy · 08-18-2009, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by flexysteve

My wife's car has 3 of the 4 tires plugged since last year. I had to fix 2 of them within a month of each other. I've never seen as many screws and nails in the roads as I have down here. I'm with Ani, I've had alot of luck with cheaper Kuhmo tires on sports cars. Unless you're really getting on and hammering the corners, you most likely won't use tires to their fullest. Less expensive tires are quickly catching up to big name tires and you are just paying for the name (unless they don't make your size).

And we don't really have to worry about snow here which lets us get a harder compound which lasts longer.

Ditto on the Kuhmos. On certain cars these tires are the best value you can find, sometimes 1/2 the price on comparable tires.

himain · 08-19-2009, 07:59 AM

Thank you so much for the ideas. I'll go by discount tire with the original and see if they can patch it. IF not, i'll get a quote.

NC-mom--This car already comes with the high performance tires on it from MB with the option I chose.

Whytewulf · 08-19-2009, 12:32 PM

Good luck himain.

$160 for 4 does sound cheap, however, I see $50 tires for 40K miles. Even Discount has $70 tires installed with $100 coupons. Though of course mine were $900

mayday30 · 08-19-2009, 01:39 PM

I just purchased 2 tires for a small cargo trailer and it was 212.00. I should have put caravan wheels on my trailer. In all seriousness I used Tirerack.com and purchased 4 Pirelli PZeros for my Jaguar and Got each tire 110.00 cheaper then the lowest price in Charlotte. It was great.

himain · 08-19-2009, 02:05 PM

I just went to Discount tire. Of course tire can't be plugged and to replace almost exact same was $297 but Kumo's were $197. They have different load capacities or some crap like that. Letting the bf handle..Im done.