Doctor Olds
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3 edits | reply to catric69
Re: [Help] What do you think of these tires?
Question for you (or anyone in this thread that bought from Tire Rack).
Did you actually save any money using Tire Rack?
I tried on two vehicles and did not save a single bit worth mentioning. I opted to just have a local tire store handle the whole thing (order tires, mount and balance with lifetime re-balancing and rotation for free, dispose of old tires) and if there are any problems I can go right to the local shop instead of having to ship tires back to someone for any problems.
Here is one example on my son's car:
4] 215/60TR14 Kumho Touring Plus 732 Blackwall Tires
$288.00 out the door for all 4 at the local Tire Shop. That's $72.00 each tire with all taxes and fees. Includes lifetime re-balancing and rotation.
Now at Tire Rack (exact same tires).
4] 215/60TR14 Kumho Touring Plus 732 - $46.00 ea = $184.00
FEDEX 3 DAY EXPRESS SAVER shipping
3 Business Days + $36.24
184.00 + 36.24 = $220.24
Plus -- Additional Fees and Taxes
Tax: $13.21
Excise Tax: $0.00
State Waste Tire Fund Fee: $4.00
Grand Total: $237.45
So it comes to $237.45 to get the tires to me. Now it costs $12.00 per tire to get a local recommended installer to mount and balance the tires and dispose of the old tires.
4 tires x $12.00 = $48.00 (Mount and Balance labor - local)
Now it is $237.45 + $48.00 = $285.45 [$71.36 each tire]
It's a grand total of $2.55 in savings on 4 tires using Tire Rack. Not worth it to me at all. 
Local Store out the door = $288.00 [$72.00 each tire]
Tire Rack + Local M/B fee = $285.45 [$71.36 each tire]
See what I mean?
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xkunalx
join:2004-12-27
West Chicago, IL
| why didnt you call a local shop and have them match prices with Tirerack? I did it last year when i got tires for my dad's car. Local shops will usually match prices with shipping factored in and install them at a lower price since you bought the tires there. we saved a lot of money going this route. FWIW it's an option to anyone in the market for new tires. |
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Doctor Olds
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| said by xkunalx  :why didnt you call a local shop and have them match prices with Tirerack? I did it last year when i got tires for my dad's car. Local shops will usually match prices with shipping factored in and install them at a lower price since you bought the tires there. we saved a lot of money going this route. FWIW it's an option to anyone in the market for new tires. Match what savings? Ask for a $2.55 price match on 4 tires? Seriously? Don't you think it would be silly to ask for a 64¢ per tire in a Price Match?
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xkunalx
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West Chicago, IL
1 edit | the tires my dad wanted were $59 a piece at the local tire store and $38 a piece on tirerack. Standard shipping would have been $7 a tire, with that figured in, the local tire shop sold me the same tire for 38+7= $45 which is a $14/tire savings. Then they installed them for a smaller fee since i bought the tires from them and threw in free lifetime balancing and rotations...without even looking at installation, i saved $64 which was totally worth the phone call i made to the tire shop to ask if they matched prices. I didn't have to wait 7 days for the tires to come in or carry them to the tire place. The people at the shop were happy to have my business and i was glad to save some money while supporting local business... |
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Doctor Olds
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| That's wonderful, but you cannot use a blanket statement to apply/compare your Dad's purchase to mine which is what you attempted to do. It's very likely your local shop overcharges for their tires plus labor and the local shop I use (independent, not chain) by comparison does not or has more local competition and prices their tires accordingly. That is very likely why you had a $60.00 difference and I did not on two separate cars and tires sizes/brands I compared online and locally.
And you skipped the question I posed since you didn't see there was a $2.55 (64¢ per tire) difference not $60.00 in the tires I'm getting.
Bottom Line: Asking for a Price Match is useless and a 100% waste of time when the difference is under a few dollars as I clearly posted in my details you must not have fully read.
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CylonRed
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The people I know who use Tire Rack don't use it to save money (although they can have good deals on wheel/tire packages) but it is mainly that Tire Rack usually has a better mix of tires - especially for performance/race cars and then they ship to a Tire Rack trusted installer... |
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Stiofan
join:2000-08-21
Post Falls, ID | reply to Doctor Olds
He made a suggestion. Why bite his head off? |
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Doctor Olds
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| He made a non-serious suggestion to ask for a price match on a $2.55 difference and that is ridiculous to do so on a ~$290.00 purchase.  It seems obvious he didn't read what the actual difference was.
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robbin
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1 edit | reply to Doctor Olds
Yes -- I use Tire Rack and I do save money. I also have an unusual tire size which few stock. Recently while on the road I destroyed one of my real dually tires. I wanted a specific tire and Tire Rack said it was back-ordered. I was at my sisters at the time in Oklahoma City and so I called around to see if anyone could get the tire I wanted. A local chain said they could -- 3 -5 days. They had it in three -- except when I went to pick it up, after it was mounted, I looked at it and told them they had gotten me the wrong tire. Sure enough, the tire mounted was a cheaper tire. Long story and I don't have the actual numbers but they wanted about $155 out the door for that tire. I could have gotten it from Tire Rack for $78 plus about $12 shipping -- mounting would have been about $20 for a total out the door of $115 to $120. They sold it to me for their cost, free mounting, etc as they had ordered the wrong tire and they wanted me to have a spare for my trip. The tire shops wholesale price was very close to the entire mounted cost out the door for the Tire Rack tire. Oh yeah, I would have had it from Tire Rack in two days (Friday) enabling me to return home on schedule instead of it being late Monday enabling a Tuesday return. I LIKE TIRE RACK !!! |
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Doctor Olds
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| Excellent! Thank you! I just had not seen anything like that in the comparisons I made. I even checked 2 more vehicles and there was nothing saved in my specific cases that came up.
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matt5
join:2001-10-06
Lagrangeville, NY | The savings depend on the person. I would have $10 total (if that) for install, balance, and disposal. |
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