Tire Choices
I realize I am going to get a variety of responses, but I have to replace a tire on my 2007 Cherokee by Forest River 18-DD. These are my choices: Super Trail Goodyear Marathon Carlisle Radial Tr...
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Why do you have to find them locally? Tire Rack sent my new tires within 2 days to a local GoodYear shop. They did the install. Good price, good service, I'll use them next time around.
Mine were 14 inch and the best tire out there in 14 inch was the Kumho 857 radial.
When I bought tires for my Toyota Van, the best deal on Michelin radials was to order them online from Walmart and have them shipped to the local store for install. Again they showed up right away and the install service was quick and painless. Tire for tire the local stores don't compete on price.
I also wanted to give the local dealer a chance at my trailer tire business so after I priced the Kumhos on the Tire Rack website, I called three local tire stores and none of them could even get them, forget having them in stock. After three tries I just gave up and ordered them online.
It's my opinion that the local tire stores are all geared to an outmoded business model where the Regional Distributor 'pushes' merchandise down the chain until it sits on a store rack for maybe months until the next promotion gets rid of them. About the only thing the local store can order is various sizes of the tires that the distributor wants to push. Besides that, try getting tire specs out of the kid behind the counter.
The for example Kumhos don't specify the aspect ratio, they just size them as 205/14. The guy in one store couldn't even look them up in his computer without knowing the aspect ratio ...:R
I have no connection with Tire Rack except as a customer but their website will tell you everything you need to know about tires.;)
Mine were 14 inch and the best tire out there in 14 inch was the Kumho 857 radial.
When I bought tires for my Toyota Van, the best deal on Michelin radials was to order them online from Walmart and have them shipped to the local store for install. Again they showed up right away and the install service was quick and painless. Tire for tire the local stores don't compete on price.
I also wanted to give the local dealer a chance at my trailer tire business so after I priced the Kumhos on the Tire Rack website, I called three local tire stores and none of them could even get them, forget having them in stock. After three tries I just gave up and ordered them online.
It's my opinion that the local tire stores are all geared to an outmoded business model where the Regional Distributor 'pushes' merchandise down the chain until it sits on a store rack for maybe months until the next promotion gets rid of them. About the only thing the local store can order is various sizes of the tires that the distributor wants to push. Besides that, try getting tire specs out of the kid behind the counter.
The for example Kumhos don't specify the aspect ratio, they just size them as 205/14. The guy in one store couldn't even look them up in his computer without knowing the aspect ratio ...:R
I have no connection with Tire Rack except as a customer but their website will tell you everything you need to know about tires.;)
