I just dropped $1100 on a set of Michelin Tires with a 60K mile rating
This is for my wife's car and I wanted something I would feel good about her driving but damn...I remember the days of $60 tires and this bites. I'm still in that mindset when I go get tires from a real tire place.
For my car, I made the mistake of getting some off brand name called Vercelli. I read the reviews on it and they were supposedly good all season tires but the common complaint was they were loud
JFC, loud is an understatement - people get in the car that ride with me and think I'm driving around in second gear - its a roar.
There is no shortage of cheap chinese brand tires out there. I could get a set of 40K mile rating tires with some crazy name like Lionheart or GMax for about $600 (or Vercelli) out the door. Good enough for me - but its worth the extra $500 for piece of mind. This will be (I hope) the last set of tires I put on this car so its a buy once, cry once situation.
Dag, tires are a serious hit to the pocket book.
I hear ya... What you spent is only 40% of what's it's gonna cost me to replace the tires on my F-450..
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I'm a fan of General Altimax RT43 tires. Head to head comparisons show them to be the best of any tire in their price range. In some cases it shows them to be better than tires that cost much more than them.
I went shopping for those Michelin's myself a few weeks back and was getting those same four number quotes for 255/55R/20's. Then I tried our local Fleet Farm automotive store and scored a very good deal. $689.76 for four Defender LTX tires plus tax $37.94, mounting and balancing $138.54. I happened to hit their December 20% off tire sale. Then the lady said that if I applied for their Fleet Farm Visa card that I'd get another 10% off. All good so far and then Michelin is sending me a $70.00 Visa card for their Winter Promotion. Because I'd spent more than $500.00 on my new Fleet Farm credit card, they are mailing me a $25.00 store credit thank me gift. Instead of paying them another $12.00 for disposal of my old tires, I took them with and sold them to a used tire dealer in town for $80.00. They ride and stop a whole bench better than the Bridgestone Dueler OEM tires. Michelin tires are the #1 rated tire for SUV's according to Consumer Reports.
My other auto is a .45
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory
yea I feel that way too, but it is what it is. That's the going price for a set of brand name tires that have some road life. At least in my neck of the woods. I've been checking tires prices for 2 months at different places. This is 245/45/20's
20's?
Hahahaha!
Gotta get a new car because the old one was nickel and dimeing us to death!
4 michelin latitudes on the '13 highlander with alignment with credit card was $1700. The installer met tireracks price and included balance and installation (which tirerack doesn't)
4 michelin latitudes on the '13 highlander with alignment with credit card was $1700. The installer met tireracks price and included balance and installation (which tirerack doesn't)
Schitt, how much for an alignment?
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I also run Michelin Defenders on my Highlander. They were $200 a tire when I got them two years ago. They're the best tires I've ever run.
Anyone who thinks $1000 or so for four tires is outrageous hasn't priced a Rem 870 lately.
The set of Michelin’s on my 2004 Dodge, have 80,000 miles on them, still lots of tread. I don’t buy anything else.
Copy that... I have run lots of the 123/120 Michelins and gotten crazy miles out of them (pushed one set to 105k miles... granted they were nasty bald when replaced). For the money I will ALWAYS pick Nokians (since discovering them). Granted my driving is far more harsh than Texas.
Good luck in whatever you pick.
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When I need to replace tires on my PU or wife’s Tahoe, I buy Michelin’s and have for more than 10 years. They last longer, give decent traction and are quieter than many others.
They weren’t in stock so it took almost a month and only three came in. Some a-hole must have stolen one in shipment and it was almost another month for the last one. 😡
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