Re: Time for New Tires on the NC. Ideas?

XS11E wrote:
> "Iva" <ivaf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> You might want to take a few moments to look at tirerack.com -
>> they'll give you a *lot* of suggestions for new tires.
> 
> I'd like to add a comment about Tirerack.  If you want a wheel/tire 
> package, they're hard to beat, if you want just tires and plan on 
> mounting and balancing them yourself, they're pretty good, if you want 
> tires and plan on paying for mounting and balancing their price is 
> higher than you can get locally, at least here in Phoenix it is for the 
> tires I've checked.
> 
> 

That last set of Michelin Pilots I bought were from TireRack and I found 
that the overall price having them drop-****pped to my local approved 
installer were at least $30 less per tire than any local dealer offered
me. 
This is with everything included -- tires, road hazard insurance,
****pping, 
balance, installation, et al. Not the saving I would like to see but since

I don't have a mounting machine or balancer at my disposal I take what I 
can get. Of course it is possible that with other brands of tires the 
situation might well be reversed.

The Falken ZE-912 tires that Lanny mentioned come out to $469 all
inclusive 
from my local dealer. Of course TireRack doesn't seem to sell that brand 
(from studying their list this might be the only brand they _don't_ sell) 
so I can't do a comparison.


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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
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