I haven't had to purchase a set of tires in a while, luckily, but man are they expensive. I do understand EVERYTHING is high $$ but geez. Tires for my Honda Civic work car are $160 each!! I've ate donuts bigger than those tires are. 4 tires installed $745!!!
Bought a set of Michelin defenders for wife’s Honda CRV , and front alignment from Tire Discounters was $1300. It’s good piece of mind though.
I got 2 Hankooks for my Civic a month or two ago for $220 out the door. I got four tires for my Ram 1500 last summer for just under $1000. I probably could have gotten them cheaper somewhere else, but my truck was already at the mechanic for something else, so I paid for the convenience of having it done while it was there.
Stealerships sometime run buy 3 get 1 free. We just did it on some high dollar tires for the Mustang GT.
If professionals who's careers depend on catching fish use FFS then that's what I'm using. Might be too simple of a philosophy but makes sense to me.
Prices won't be going down soon, either.....I mean ever!
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All goes to the rising coost if inflation. This is what happens when Uncle Sam prints trillions out of thin air and pumps it into peoples pockets who are told to stay home from work.
Check out Hercules Tires---great tire at a good price.
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Wait until you check out the prices of tuck tires
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I'm wondering where the up sizing on tires will stop. The first PU's I had were 15's. Then it went to 16's, 17's, 18's and now 20's on my 19 model, all with an upcharge in the replacement price.
Back last November of '23 I purchased Continental Extreme Contact DWS 60 PLUS for our 2020 Toyota Camry. IIRC it was $1014 out the door. No alignment or anything else. GREAT tires that tell you if still good for Snow / Wet /Dry but very expensive IMHO.
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It seems that all the professional bass fishermen have seriously upsized their tires...Originally Posted by retiredmechanic
Discount tire wanted about $2200 to replace a set of ridge grapplers on my Ram 2500.
saved $400 ordering from Amazon on my business account and paying to have them installed and balanced.
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I'm a bass fisherman and I still don't see the need for the huge tires. I've towed race cars, travel trailers etc just fine with 15 inch tires. It just seems that every time I get a newer PU the tire size has changed. If I happened to have spare tires or wheels can't use them on the new PU.
daughters tesla tires worn out at 30k $500 each usually
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Yep absolutely no reason to have 20in tires on a half ton truck other than they look cool .
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1990 Johnson 150GT
My kid works at discount tire. Tesla tires $500 apiece is no joke. Most of the time those tires don’t make 30k miles. He told me he has replaced them at 10k miles many times. Those teslas have a lot of torque and the tesla drivers with lead feet don’t get 30k on tires. Cracks me up
20" tires are not all that big and cone stock on sone trucks from the dealer. I like the 20" better personally.
It was almost $1200 for a set of middle of the road a/t tires for my Ram a couple years ago. That was for 17's also. Glad I don't have 20's on this truck. Four years before that a set of middle of the road tires cost between $700 and $800 for this truck.
2023 Xpress H18 with 115 SHO that's optioned to fit my wants and pulled by a little Ram.
Treat others like you want to be treated when on the water EVEN WHEN IN A TOURNAMENT! No fish is worth having a confrontation because you cut someone off or came in on top of someone.
Around 1600 a year ago for E range 18”
Just put new tires on my 18 1500 Denali that came stock with with 22" rims. A new set of replacement 22" tires was going to cost $1600. Decided I wanted more sidewall and a new look so I bought a set of aftermarket custom 20" rims. The 20" tires were less expensive so everything ended up costing around $1900. Sold the removed wheels and tires for $1200 so ended up with new rims and tires for $700. The big plus, the little bit of annoying vibration that I've had around 65mph and complained to the dealership about since taking deliver of the truck is gone. Just too much going on with those 22" rims and skinny sidewall tires to ever get a good balance on them I guess
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