Re: 56 radial tires (again)

Posted by Gary On 2013/3/31 19:41:03

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Howard, ironically I drove 20 miles to the nearest Discount Tire this past friday to have the Broadway Classic tires that were mounted on those ugly Blazer wheels tranferred over to my recently painted original Packard wheels. Then I find out that Discount has an expiration date on mounting tires over a certain age regardless of their condition. So for the heck of it we go inside and the salesman pulls the classic tire catalog out to get prices on some 3" wide whitewalls to replace the 1.6"s that I brought with me. He priced out 235/75R15 Diamondbacks at $239 each and then tells me they are Toyo tires with the whitewalls bonded to them. I've been using Discount for my modern car tires for about 8 years now but I won't use them for remounting or Classic tire purchasing and only went there because they will mount and balance tires on any car you own for free as long as you've purchased tires from them. Anyway, I left the Discount store and hooked up with the local independent, Clydes Tire and Alignment and he dismounted, mounted and balanced all 4 tires for $50.00. I installed them and drove the car Saturday and it was perfect. Have you checked out tires by American Classics? By the way, most independents have access to the same tires that the chains do and usually have the same catalogs.