If it’s a truck, you can often get stock truck tires on FBM with almost no miles on them, if you live in a pickup truck heavy area. Often, owners will buy bigger tires to replace those that came with their new truck.
Juuuunk yard tires are the best. Someone out there totaled their car and the tires that survived are sitting there waiting for you to find. The guy who has em doesnt want em. He wants the shelf for more valuable stuff.
Plug for Discount Tire. I've seen people come in with a flat on a good tire and they offer to patch it for free. Also had them work with me when I couldn't afford all four tires and was just going to get two in the front, they did some discounting and stuff and for a little more than the two tire cost gave me four. Caveat - it could be just the few stores I've been in, management can make or break any place, no matter how good the product or employees are.
I try to do business with mom and pop shops as much as possible. All the local mom and pop tire shops have been bought out over the years and become trash.
I went back to DT after a 20+ year hiatus and found their service, pricing, and willingness to work with me delightful.
For example my car uses a very specific tire and I got a flat on the side wall. They just happened to keep a set from a previous driver in near new condition to replace that one tire for labor only until the very specific tire could be brought in 3 weeks later!
Then they discounted the original labor off the new tire purchase price.
That's not what anti-cannabis policies are. It means that you can get fired for using cannabis when you aren't at work. It's normal to get home after work and crack open a beer. Some people want to sit down with a bowl after work instead.
Once I was discussing with a friend, and he was telling me when he visited some local sight in Indonesia (where he was working at that time) he couldn't find his way back because there we no bus after a certain time of day, so he had to call a taxi to get back to his appartment and was annoyed that no information was easily available
I kept thinking that I could NEVER get into this kind of situation, I'm not rich enough to afford this kind of lightheaded mistake 'oh oh guess I gotta pay a taxi', if I'm traveling you bet your ass I'm going to plan every single commute
Depends on the AWD system. If there's a center diff or a clutch in the center, the speed differences where the front axle and the rear axle meet can cause excessive wear and heat. Subarus are the most common vehicle for this, but some high end German stuff I know can have issues as well. But generally economy cars and midrange cars disconnect the extra axle or have a loose coupling to it, so only two tires replaced are fine.
Every certified Subaru mechanic and mechanics working directly for Subaru have always said I only needed two when one tire needed complete replacement for my Forester.
Subarus are actually one of the worst-case vehicles for this. I really don't understand the love for those things.
My partner has one and with the 'need to replace every tire if you replace one' thing, ads showing up in the infotainment center, the battery dying if the key fob is stored too close to the car (real stuff, it's legit written in the manual not to store the key near the car because of this, ask me how we know), she's so fed up with it.
Edit: To clarify the 'one of the worst case', other AWD/4WD vehicles have higher tolerances for size mismatch than Subarus. Like, I think literally every other major manufacturer is better about this.
Yup, having only ever driven Subarus, this is what I have always been told. The ever-so-slightly different diameter of a worn VS new tire can cost you way more money than a three additional tires in the long run.
This is something I would justify putting on a credit card. If all four tires are badly worn it can become both a safety issue as well as an increasingly more expensive issue later on.
im not sure I would do credit card but I would certainly do this over niceties. like I don't go out or do a lot of things other people do so I can do things like this.
I mean if it’s really bad it’s better to cough up $500 now than replace your transmission in a couple months.
Non drive tires, who cares, just don’t rotate it to the drive tires.
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Motherfucker my checking account wears unevenly
If it’s a truck, you can often get stock truck tires on FBM with almost no miles on them, if you live in a pickup truck heavy area. Often, owners will buy bigger tires to replace those that came with their new truck.
Juuuunk yard tires are the best. Someone out there totaled their car and the tires that survived are sitting there waiting for you to find. The guy who has em doesnt want em. He wants the shelf for more valuable stuff.
Happy hunting.
Junk yards in general are great. Just pick up spares of literally anything you need
Plug for Discount Tire. I've seen people come in with a flat on a good tire and they offer to patch it for free. Also had them work with me when I couldn't afford all four tires and was just going to get two in the front, they did some discounting and stuff and for a little more than the two tire cost gave me four. Caveat - it could be just the few stores I've been in, management can make or break any place, no matter how good the product or employees are.
I try to do business with mom and pop shops as much as possible. All the local mom and pop tire shops have been bought out over the years and become trash.
I went back to DT after a 20+ year hiatus and found their service, pricing, and willingness to work with me delightful.
For example my car uses a very specific tire and I got a flat on the side wall. They just happened to keep a set from a previous driver in near new condition to replace that one tire for labor only until the very specific tire could be brought in 3 weeks later!
Then they discounted the original labor off the new tire purchase price.
My only beef with discount tire is their anti-weed policy for their employees.
Why would you want some dude stoned out of his mind changing your tyres?
That's not what anti-cannabis policies are. It means that you can get fired for using cannabis when you aren't at work. It's normal to get home after work and crack open a beer. Some people want to sit down with a bowl after work instead.
Okay, but that's not the policy. The policy is they're never allowed to smoke, even in the evening after work
Last time I needed multiple tires, they wanted about $150 note fir the tires, and wanted to charge $35 per tire changed.
I went elsewhere with slightly cheaper tires and the change was included in the service.
When I lived in NJ for a couple of years, the nearest Discount was in Ohio. I strongly considered the drive.
For many AWD cars you have to replace them all as the new tire is bigger as it has all its tread and screws w/ the transmission.
I hate it as an AWD car operator...
I’ve read that you can often buy a single replacement and they’ll “shave” it down to match the tread of the existing tires.
Never heard about that but it makes total sense. If I cut a single tire I will go that route, thank you!
Once I was discussing with a friend, and he was telling me when he visited some local sight in Indonesia (where he was working at that time) he couldn't find his way back because there we no bus after a certain time of day, so he had to call a taxi to get back to his appartment and was annoyed that no information was easily available
I kept thinking that I could NEVER get into this kind of situation, I'm not rich enough to afford this kind of lightheaded mistake 'oh oh guess I gotta pay a taxi', if I'm traveling you bet your ass I'm going to plan every single commute
All that replacing is a little tiring
For an all time AWD system like what Subaru offers, you will need to do this if the replacement tire is worn, or shave it to match.
You just need to replace 2, not all 4.
Depends on the AWD system. If there's a center diff or a clutch in the center, the speed differences where the front axle and the rear axle meet can cause excessive wear and heat. Subarus are the most common vehicle for this, but some high end German stuff I know can have issues as well. But generally economy cars and midrange cars disconnect the extra axle or have a loose coupling to it, so only two tires replaced are fine.
Every certified Subaru mechanic and mechanics working directly for Subaru have always said I only needed two when one tire needed complete replacement for my Forester.
Subarus are actually one of the worst-case vehicles for this. I really don't understand the love for those things.
My partner has one and with the 'need to replace every tire if you replace one' thing, ads showing up in the infotainment center, the battery dying if the key fob is stored too close to the car (real stuff, it's legit written in the manual not to store the key near the car because of this, ask me how we know), she's so fed up with it.
Edit: To clarify the 'one of the worst case', other AWD/4WD vehicles have higher tolerances for size mismatch than Subarus. Like, I think literally every other major manufacturer is better about this.
Yup, having only ever driven Subarus, this is what I have always been told. The ever-so-slightly different diameter of a worn VS new tire can cost you way more money than a three additional tires in the long run.
This is something I would justify putting on a credit card. If all four tires are badly worn it can become both a safety issue as well as an increasingly more expensive issue later on.
im not sure I would do credit card but I would certainly do this over niceties. like I don't go out or do a lot of things other people do so I can do things like this.
And who are these billionaire friends of yours that didn’t offer to replace all your tires for you?
I mean if it’s really bad it’s better to cough up $500 now than replace your transmission in a couple months. Non drive tires, who cares, just don’t rotate it to the drive tires.
I’m looking at $1,200 :(. That’s what I get for getting a limited car with “upgraded” wheels. Gave me a weird tire size
Why would you do that anyway if the tires are otherwise still in good condition ? Appart from throwing money out the window, it is just so wasteful...
having differently worn tires on the same axle is dangerous
I don't have four tires on the same axle.
Do you?
How dangerous can it be? I am going to research.
This article mostly agrees, except if it is less than 30 percent worn, you can just replace one. https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tires/should-you-always-replace-car-tires-in-pairs-a1061792056/
Why put the new tires on the rear axle though? I thought the front was more important for braking and front wheel drive, which i have.
that's why you move the odd tires to the rear, it matters less that they're asymmetrical
Ah, OK. But if you are buying a pair of new tires, put them on the front
Why not just... get the tire patched? No need to change the whole wheel just because you drove over a nail. Shouldn't cost more than $15 anyway.
You can’t patch all damage. Presumably if they’re broke they already explored the largely free option.
And you don't have to use always use the most expensive option. Presumably, the rich friend didn't think of the cheaper options.
After all, the post only explores the friends pov (or the OOPs opinion of that friends pov), and not the OOPs.