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The Michelins are $50 more per tire for a 640 A A rating vs the cheaper tires with the 800 A B rating. The reviewers say the Continentals are quieter.
Now I've already noticed (a tire gurus almost insistence on) a 5,000 miles rotation is much more gentle & way more even on tread wear. I asked myself the question because tire rotation is included in the price, why would my tire guru want to rotate the tires twice as much during the lifetime ?
I do have Continentals on 2009 VW Jetta TDI, & 2012 VW Touareg TDI.
The Sandman
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2015 Golf TSI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
Wife immediately notices the car doesn't grip as well as before.
When they got worn(and really NOISY) at around 35K, I went back to the Michelin, same model tire as OEM.
After that, every time wife comes home from our daughter's place, she comments "I really like my tires"...
Note that the road to/from daughter's is very much like "Tail of the dragon".
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Not to mention it's a pain filing away your receipts and digging them out to use the warranty.
Guess I should write an app for that....
You see the complaints where something takes multiple visits, or even multiple shops before someone either gets lucky with a guess or they actually find someone that has walked a different career path and really knows how to figure the high tech stuff out. The only thing that has been missing is for someone to put the ying and yang together and when someone has that problem child car answer their plea for help by telling them, "But I got my tires rotated there for free!"
Hm, have to think about that, if I worked it right, I could get rotations done and do my grocery shopping instead of waiting around some rubber smelling waiting room drinking dank coffee. Instead I can push a cart around and enjoy the people of Walmart.
Back in my Anchorage days, for a few years I'd have the tire shop swap out the studs for summer tires, so 2 visits to the shop every year just for tires. Made it easy to rotate them at least.
Once they broke a stud and once they didn't put a hubcap back on snugly and they wound up buying me a new one. And there was that whole bead issue before I got a set of winter rims.
We have a Walmart in town, but a ways away. The procedures take way more time! They are rated 2 stars.
@PF_Flyer has a tire store like yours too. His is so good, Sneakers goes over there just to hang out and chitchat.
People wind up working for chains because of the benefits - even lowly Walmart offers a stock purchase plan and decent 401k benefits. Their health insurance has gotten a lot worse with high deductibles though. Still probably a better deal than 90% of the indys and lots of dealerships.
Painting with a wide brush is what leads people to assume that all car mechanics are crooks.
Pretty bogus for the consumer; but typical for insurance to be "low-value."
Then again, when I've price-checked Costco the last couple years they seem to be whipping up on Tire Rack, and making Tire Rack look greedy.
The real estate industry is one of the last few market black holes that has resisted the internet bringing down prices via information and education made available to the consumer.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Zillow has hurt Realtors, but hasn't affected their commission rates. Yet. Blockchain technology will pretty much ruin that industry (and title companies) when it catches on.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Hm, since I'm probably not taking this van to Newfoundland, maybe I should cheap out on some "town" tires. A set of 4 Falken Sincera Touring 94T SN211 are on sale for $240.00. I'm hoping to dial the miles back on this one to ~5,000 a year "soon".
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You would have to change a lot of tires when you are only grossing ten to twenty dollars profit per tire. (if that)
Besides, they are out of stock everywhere.
This happened to me at Discount/America's Tires, they frowned at me for buying them from Tire Rack and weren't helpful. I told Continental what happened and they took action. Since they sell Continental tires, they MUST SERVICE them at discount Tire for warranty issues, regardless of where they were bought, at least in Continental's view (and the consumer). Discount Tire did a quick turnaround as I'm sure they didn't want all their tire orders cancelled. I got my warranty pro-rated service. They stood behind the defected product. The tire shop makes money too, I had to pay the pro-ration and installation.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
The last set I got were a year old, and I figured that was good enough.
Good question....
That means my tires were made during Thanksgiving week last year. I hope the folks laying up the tires weren't half asleep on L-tryptophan.
ZZZZzzzzzzz.....
On the plus side, the value of the minivan just doubled.