LT vs ST's - Canadian Tires cries "Illegal!".
I replaced all 4 tires on my 35' horse trailer in the last 2 weeks - Canadian Tire had some excellent LT tires that were on 50% off "end of line liquidation" discount and the price was too hard to res...
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I certainly do plan to pursue it with the company, no question there, as at the very least I want my warranty, and I would also like clarification to go out across the chain with regards to the legality aspect - I've heard too many stories now this summer alone of people having been forced to buy garbage ST tires at Canadian Tire when there were much better LT alternatives, often at lesser money on top of it all.
I'm no fan of Canadian tire so far is automotive related service (and this experience just further reinforced that), however that said, the deal on these tires was irresistible from a price standpoint ($115 for tires usually in the $200-$250 range) so I had to put that aside.
I didn't really touch on it in my original post, however when I was making the arrangements on Saturday (for the installation on Sunday) there was a particularly crass employee at their automotive service desk who loudly spoke his mind about not only the legality, but the fact that it was more or less grossly unsafe and negligent of me to even consider putting LT tires on a trailer.
I'd like to think that people who work at an automotive service desk would be better educated about these sorts of things, however we come full circle to the entire Canadian tire experience often being lackluster. It's just the fact that several of the auto service employees, including a manager, spoke so supposedly authoritarian on the subject despite being blatantly wrong – I was extremely civil and polite in my rebuttals, however it became very clear that their mind had been made up and that they were basically telling me I was full of******and had no idea what I was talking about.
I'm no fan of Canadian tire so far is automotive related service (and this experience just further reinforced that), however that said, the deal on these tires was irresistible from a price standpoint ($115 for tires usually in the $200-$250 range) so I had to put that aside.
I didn't really touch on it in my original post, however when I was making the arrangements on Saturday (for the installation on Sunday) there was a particularly crass employee at their automotive service desk who loudly spoke his mind about not only the legality, but the fact that it was more or less grossly unsafe and negligent of me to even consider putting LT tires on a trailer.
I'd like to think that people who work at an automotive service desk would be better educated about these sorts of things, however we come full circle to the entire Canadian tire experience often being lackluster. It's just the fact that several of the auto service employees, including a manager, spoke so supposedly authoritarian on the subject despite being blatantly wrong – I was extremely civil and polite in my rebuttals, however it became very clear that their mind had been made up and that they were basically telling me I was full of******and had no idea what I was talking about.
