Buying a new tire for flat one

[wet_suit_one]

The OP is cheap.

Tires are the most important component of your car. Your life literally depends on them. Don't skimp for the benefit of other users and innocent bystanders.

Cars are generally a pit into which money is thrown never again to be seen. It's called the cost of driving. If you expect them not to screw you, well you're out of luck. Also, with all the competition in tires, you're probably paying as little as you should (i.e. tires are expensive).

 

[Dancerfan]

Call Ron Mitton Tire Service
295 Danforth Road, SCARBOROUGH, ON M1L 3X2
416-699-2128
They will give you a good deal on new tires.

 

[Astro999]

Stickynuts, don't buy a new tire, waste of money and you will throw off your alignment as you will have new tread on one side of the car with the old tread on the other.

I had the same issue last year and lucky i found this shop at Danforth and Dawes Rd, they sell used tires for $40. each. This old Chinese guy runs the shop, very amiable good fellow. He has an assortment of used tires to choose from just bring your specs or car and he will find a match. The name of the garage is Ken Chow Auto. It is south of Danforth on Dawes RD. I think it is 20 Dawes RD, can't remember, right across a Home Depot lumber yard.

 

[oldjones]

Stickynuts, don't buy a new tire, waste of money and you will throw off your alignment as you will have new tread on one side of the car with the old tread on the other.

I had the same issue last year and lucky i found this shop at Danforth and Dawes Rd, they sell used tires for $40. each. This old Chinese guy runs the shop, very amiable good fellow. He has an assortment of used tires to choose from just bring your specs or car and he will find a match. The name of the garage is Ken Chow Auto. It is south of Danforth on Dawes RD. I think it is 20 Dawes RD, can't remember, right across a Home Depot lumber yard.

That'd be a Home Hardware lumberyard, for anyone looking for a bir orange sign landmark.

 

[WoodPeckr]

That as usual is patently absurd!

Woody it is all about supporting the unions

It's all about Corporate GREED fattening their bottom lines. Your Union brothers ARE NOT doubling their pay off of this move to larger tires. Most are being forced into making concessions. Were you not such a brown nosed company man and Judas to your Union brothers you would realize this!....

 

[great bear]

Not to tread on this thread but it is tiring.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I did not think you were allowed to replace only one tire.

Sure you can.
I had the misfortune to have the same thing happen this past November with my new vehicle. The weak sidewall blew out of my 'new large' OEM tire with <5000 miles on it. I said it was a blowout due to a defect in the tire and the dealer said I hit something to cause it to blowout. Their was NO evidence on the tire to show this when I inspected it! The guy I called to change the tire for me at that time who also inspected the tire after changing it agreed and said the same to me! He said it looked like the sidewall just gave out and blew. Remember I used to work on and build tires in the past! Ended up having to buy 1 new tire that cost $165, FFS!!! In the recent past you could get a set of 4 new tires including balancing and mounting with new valve stems for less than that!

Ladies and Gentlemen we are being raped on tires!...

 

[danmand]

In the recent past you could get a set of 4 new tires including balancing and mounting with new valve stems for less than that!

MB charged me $160 for installing 4 new tires, and $129 for alignment, plus HST, of course.

 

[red]

Not to tread on this thread but it is tiring.

get in the groove. when the rubber hits the road its time to peal off some dough for pneu tires

 

[toughb]

"Buying a new tire for flat one".

Why?

Replace it. Don't baby it.:clap2:

 

[great bear]

get in the groove. when the rubber hits the road its time to peal off some dough for pneu tires

There is a woman on this site who says that you always rubber the wrong way.

 

[burt-oh-my!]

Everyone is talking about PATCHING it, but don't you really need a PLUG? You can buy a kit to do that yourself, although I defer to more experienced contributors if they still say it wouldn't be safe.

Then again, your safe and my safe might be two different things, remembering those terbites who felt that driving without snows was terribly dangerous.

 

[Dougal Short]

Just curious... How did you manage to get a nail in the sidewall?

 

[Why Not?]

Sorry to disagree with you shakenbake but that is merely industry rationalizations for ripping us off. I base that on driving since the very early 60s and working in the rubber/tire industry in the past while working on various rubber compounds. We had synthetic rubber compounds back in the 70s where any vehicle tire WOULD LAST 100,000 miles. Dupont also came up with neoprene an extremely versatile and sturdy synthetic rubber. If they were produced you would never buy a tire on your vehicle unless you damaged it or until you reached 100,000 miles! Guess what? The formula was locked away never to see the light of day.

Yeah, they keep it on the same shelf of the vault as the 100 mpg carburetor we all know they have.

In the 80s I had NO problems buying 13" tires with a 70,000 mile warranty! Same for 14" and 15" tires. Same in the late 90s when I bought a set of 4 Generals, 13" tires for $60 plus tax USD with a 60,000 mile warranty! Today vehicles are coming stock with 17", 18", 19" and bigger tires with crappy soft rubber compounds that wear out in <30,000 miles!

All these 'technical justifications', better fuel economy, etc., touted by car and tire makers are basically BS obfuscations to fleece the public.

Larger size tires came about on performance cars because larger wheels allowed for the fitting of larger brakes discs for better stopping. After that it became a fashion fad. People wanted them. They weren't forced on us. You can still buy very high mileage tires but their braking performance is typically not as good. I'll take better performance over cheaper and long lasting thank you.

 

[stinkynuts]

I think it happened when I drove on the dirt on one of those country roads up north. I got impatient as a car slowed down to turn, and just passed him on the shoulder, which was dirt.

 

[rhuarc29]

You mean it is too bad other citizens won't help to pay for your tire?

Haha, that's what I was thinking as well.

 

[S.C. Joe]

Yeah people are getting screwed on tires. Its these 18--19--20 inch tires.

For many many years 15 inch was the largest tires, then come the 1990's and for some reason larger wheels became it. Why?

Oh sure, these lower profile tires are better at higher speeds, 130 mph plus--why do we need those tires, you got me.

Was walking around the bus station on Bay while waiting for my bus, those tanks have no low profile tires, I think I seen 32 inch tires but the sidewall was very tall, like the good old days.

Those tall sidewalls take the bumps better, take driving on dirt better. Yet the more the car cost, the shorter the sidewall. Oh sure, the car drives like its on rails, big deal. Who flies around turns any how?

I still got 15 inch steel rims on my hot rod. Steel is heavier but also stronger. I jump railroad tracks in 55 mph zones at 2 times the limit, lol. Got no problems with my tires or wheels. No newer sport cars stays with me, all go dropping way back, yep pay $50,000 for that thing---yeah its a chick magnet, well most chicks are dumb, we all know that

What did those Duke boys run, 15 inch 60 series and in the first few TV series those jumps were real, done by pro stunt drivers. Today the new Chargers would crack and air bags will blow off but its "better" than those 1969 Chargers, yeah right.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Yeah people are getting screwed on tires. Its these 18--19--20 inch tires.

For many many years 15 inch was the largest tires, then come the 1990's and for some reason larger wheels became it. Why?

Oh sure, these lower profile tires are better at higher speeds, 130 mph plus--why do we need those tires, you got me.

Folks and kids today are getting hosed and snookered silly and don't even realize it!....

 

[WoodPeckr]

Larger size tires came about on performance cars because larger wheels allowed for the fitting of larger brakes discs for better stopping. After that it became a fashion fad. People wanted them. They weren't forced on us. You can still buy very high mileage tires but their braking performance is typically not as good. I'll take better performance over cheaper and long lasting thank you.

You must sell tires or work for them.
That's the BS they con you with!
Bigger tires WERE FORCED on us.
We had nothing to say about it.

Back when cars used 13, 14, 15" tires they ran ~$30-$70 a piece.
Now 17, 18, 19" tires run $165-250 a piece and YOU say folks want that!!! YEAH RIGHT!!!

Your performance angle is corporate BS also.
Back in the 60s we had performance vehicles with 14 & 15 tires that STILL would run circles around these 'sissy cars' today you think are performance cars! These low profile tires forced on us today bottom out too easily and damage rims more easily also! Also they are dangerous when getting near the end of their life because they hydroplane more easily in the rain and slide more easily in the snow than conventional tires with high profiles that were used in the past!

Braking?????
Don't even get me started on how we are being raped on brakes today either! Brakes and disc brakes were made far better in the 70s than today! I had a 72 Gran Torino Sport Fastback, just like the one Clint Eastwood used in his movie Gran Torino, only it was silver like this.

Put over 92,000 miles on it before the tranny went. I abused it a tad too much... It needed only 2 brake jobs. First at ~45000 second at ~85000 where the rotors needed to be turned for the first time and there was NO rust on them rotors yet! Did both bake jobs myself, it was unbelievably easy!

Today crappy rotors come from RED China, are too thin to be turned, start rusting the first year and your lucky to get more than 3-4 years out of them.

It came stock with 14" Wide Oval 70 series low profile tires. They were terrible in the snow and would start to hydroplane in the rain easily when ~70% of the thread was worn out. Never liked Wide Ovals and always replaced them with good standard conventional higher profile tires.

 

[T.O.tourist]

Bigger tires WERE FORCED on us.
We had nothing to say about it.

Who forced you to buy a vehicle that uses 17'', 18''or 19'' tires?
If you want to buy a car with 15'' rims go ahead. Many cars still come with 15'' tires.

I do agree that the price of tires has risen drastically in the past 10 years, but remember that the price of oil has as well.