where can buy high-quality and reasonable tires?

Have you looked at Tire Rack - Your performance experts for tires and wheels?

Welcome aboard and enjoy the ride!

 

Costco? One negative is the yearly "cover charge". Apart from that, their prices are very competive, and if there's any mail-in rebates going, they take the amount off at the till, and and accordingly you also pay less sales tax.

One tip: if you don't like green valve caps, take your present ones off just before going in, and swap them back after the install.

 

I second tirerack.com. Great selection, lowest prices in my experience, and they have a feature where you indicate the year/model of your car and it shows which tires are applicable. I have them drop ship to my installer, or you can use one of their many recommended installers.

 

I have gone thru 4 sets of tires during my 95,000 miles! Let's just say I drive in a very spirited manner. I would highly recommend the Bridgestone Potenza RE960 AS Pole Position. They transfrom the handling characteristics of the car (snow, wet dry). I have gone through three sets of these tires from three separate vendors.
1) Discount Tire = great service and reasonable price. They no longer carry this tire on this size.
2) Tire Rack = Awesome price and service; terrible expirience with the installer. ** You can choose an installer and have the tires shipped to them. However, my expirience with the installer NTB left me with no desire to go through that again.
3) Firestone = I never in a million years would have consider them until I found out that no one carries this tire in my area. The only place that had the Prius 185/65R15 tires was firestone. I was very impressed with their service, I was not pressure into buying extra protection certificates or road hazard insurance. In and out in less than an hour, at a very reasonable price. These are performance tires and I was out the door with only a $438 dollar hole on my wallet. (Lifetime Balancing and Rotation included).

I hope this helps out a bit, I went from the original Goodyears to the Bridgestones and never looked back.

 

After several hours of online research I was able to find the lowest price for the tire I wanted at Walmart (researched at Walmart.com, free shipping to store). I detest shopping there but at $100 savings for the set compared to Tirerack.com (and all other tire retailers) I couldn't pass up the savings. GL

 

I purchased my tires, Michelin Energy Saver 195x65x15, at Coscto about two years ago.

I am a Costco member and I received 70.00 off during the tire sale when I purchase all 4 tires. That was 47,000 miles ago with probably another 20,000 miles left.

Costco does rotation and balancing for the life of the tires for free and inflate to my request to max sidewall pressure of 44 psi
of Nitrogen.

Costco is only 12 miles from home and they are opened 7 days a week which is convenient.

alfon

 

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TireRack FINALLY has an affiliated retailer in Canada, apparently the first one. And they're less than a kilometer from us, LOL. So just for an exercise, I put tires in a basket at Tirerack, calculated shipping, added the retailer's (fairly steep) install charges, and they were either tied or slightly more expensive than Costco. So at least up here in Canada, it really wan't worth the hassle.

BTW, it's funny how things fester, until you have to let them out. Anyway:

I've never tried reasoning with a tire...