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

John McGaw wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
1010tires.com sell the Falken ZIEX 912's in 185/60/14 for CAN$64.99 each.

Stuart H.