[TR] Buying tires on-line at Tire Rack

[Brad Kahler]

Geo & All,

Thanks for the info, most of the responses were positive pertaining to
online purchases with only Hugh having reported issues.  I was actually
surprised there was only one reply reporting a bad experience, I would have
expected more.  Based on the majority having providing positive feedback
I'm going to go ahead and order online.  Hopefully I won't be the second
one to report on a bad experience!

I will definitely ask up front what the mounting and balancing prices are
before selecting someone to mount them.  I too have noticed that those
services seem to be escalating in price over the last few years.

I compared the tires-easy.com prices and they were slightly more than
TireRack.

Thanks!

Brad



On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Geo Hahn <ahwahneetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Every tire on every car I have (with one exception) was purchased online.
> Never had a problem, but I mounted and balanced them myself.
>
> The one exception was when I stopped in at Discount Tire to see their
> price and I showed them the on-line quote.  They promptly beat that price.
> That was a cash & carry sale (i.e. I still chose to mount them at home) but
> you might see what your local dealer (or Discount Tire if you have them in
> your area) would do with an online quote.
>
> BTW - most of my on-line purchases were with these guys:
> http://www.tires-easy.com/
>
> Geo
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Brad Kahler <bkahler1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The local tire store wants $550 for a set of four Kumho 205/70R15 tires
>> mounted and balanced.  So, I'm considering buying four of them from Tire
>> Rack for a delivered cost of $331.  Quite a difference in price.
>>
>> My question is have any of you ever had regrets buying tires online and
>> having them mounted locally?
>>
>> Brad
>> 63 TR4
>> 72 TR6
>>
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