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Two new tires, $244.68

June 18th, 2006 at 11:37 am

Actually, it worked out well on many levels.

I took a walk yesterday morning, and on the way back noticed one of my tires was flat as a pancake. It was beyond saving, with both a screw stuck in it AND the steel belt thingies starting to show. I've had a weird shimmy thing going on, and was afraid something big and expensive was wrong. Turns out it was only the bad tire, because with the spare on, everything was back to normal.

I'm so glad I got home from work ok on Friday. I'm so glad I wasn't scheduled to work Saturday morning. I'm so glad it went flat from the screw, instead of eventually blowing out while I was driving. I've been keeping an eye on a front tire with a slow leak, but I never thought to look closely at the other ones.

I checked around online, and the consensus seems to be that Costco has the best price on tires. And on the face of it, it looks like I would have saved $60 going there, even after paying the membership fee.

However, the closest one is 30+ minutes away. I probably would have been tempted to buy stuff inside Costco that I didn't really need. I would have had to pay extra for an alignment, while at Firestone it was free because I'd paid for lifetime alignments. And if we had to take advantage of Costco's road hazard coverage, we'd have to drive that 30+ minutes again to do so.

Enough was in the Emergency Fund (yay!) and it's DONE. So I'm content to have done it this way.

Posted in Money, time and energy, Cars | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Two new tires, $244.68”

  1. spendless Says:
    June 18th, 2006 at 01:01 pm 1150635700
    1150635700

    Hey, time is money...plus convenience is worth a lot, too. Good choices, I think.

  2. ima saver Says:
    June 18th, 2006 at 01:57 pm 1150639047
    1150639047

    I had to get new tires last month, they were over $1300 for four of them. I hope that makes you feel better about your tires!! (Mine are the type that never go flat because my car has no place for a spare)

  3. StressLess Says:
    June 19th, 2006 at 12:19 pm 1150719581
    1150719581

    Thanks, guys. Ima, as soon as this happened I remembered your tires and was very thankful that I didn't have to spend that much!

  4. swicki Says:
    January 2nd, 2007 at 04:42 pm 1167756123
    1167756123

    'ima saver', your tyres cost $1300? how do you manage to maintain a car like that?

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