[Shop-talk] Buying tires online (or is it Tyres?)

[Wayne]

On 12/20/2011 10:31 AM, eric at megageek.com wrote:
> I needed to buy a bunch of truck tires for different vehicles.
> Does anyone have any recommendations for places to buy them online that
> are cheap?

I can not say enough good stuff about Tire Rack, and have ordered 
probably over a dozen sets or pairs of tires from them in the last 20 
years.  OTOH, with a little haggling, you may be able to get a local 
place to price match, and I do like to keep my business local.

Getting them mounted can be a pain.  Some tire vendors are very adverse 
to mounting carry-ins.  what I've found to work well is go on really 
slow days, like Tues or Thurs;  they probably have guys they're p[aying 
by the hour standing around doing nothing, and at that point they're 
more than happy to take your money and mount & balance.  Fridays and 
Saturdays are probably the most busy, and they're likely to tell you to 
piss off.

-Wayne