Buying tires online and ship to your house?

[GSP7]

Anyone do this? Found at least a couple dealers with free shipping.

Who'd you buy from? I found online tires: Simple tire, Custom offset etc

I live in the boonies and closets Les Swab, and another tire store are a way overpriced rip off and they try and sell you tires that they want,,, rather than the tires that you want... plus they are idiot

[kwmech]

I do it quite often. I usually get mine from Tire Rack, but the last set I got for my Toyota was from a company called online tires

[weq92f]

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For maybe the past 20 years or so I've been buying from tirerack.com, having the tires shipped most often to my residence but last few times to an installer locally. The pricing was usually 100 dollars or more better than buying at local brick and mortar stores even after their installation fees ( 100 bucks ). Many of those years the price difference was even larger in my favor as I was buying premium summer sport Goodyear Eagles. Later the relief became about 100 bucks.

The last time I went to do this things didn't seem to be jiving with what I was accustomed to so I did research and found that the brick and mortar brand Discount Tire purchased tirerack.com and after some comparison found the pricing had been adjusted to more closely match the Discount Tire model.

So yeah, Online was my preferred choice but I'm at a loss these days as to where the best sites would be. tirerack.com isn't the best place to go any longer...

EDIT: I re-read OP...If you have no national chain options for tire replacement/repair and therefore are subject to local maw-n-pop $tuff, tariff$ and other $henanigans then maybe tirerack.com is your best solution. The site will offer free delivery of your tires to a local installer if they are reigstered, otherwise ship to house and pay 100 bucks to have installed.

-Kevin

[mr48chev]

I've done business with Les Schwab for47 years and might agree that they do push what they have in stock but when I am on the road anywhere in the PNW there is a Les Schwab store in any town of any size or the next town over and they have taken care of me when on a road trip a number of times. I also have former Auto Shop students of mine who are managers or assistant managers. I won't argue a minute about their high prices though. I just spent close to 200 for a battery for my HHR with them.

A few years back my wife were headed to an event with our boat friends in Poulsbo Wa . I hit a piece of scrap iron on I 90 right close to a spot called West Nelson Siding and destroyed a new tire and got to the side of the road and changed the tire and went on to the Les Schwab in North Bend to have it taken care of. They didn't have a new tire but loaned me a real nice take off that was part of a set of four, Found me the correct new tire and had it shipped to the store in Toppenish that I have done business with and got me on the road and back on my vacation. A week later when I got home I went down and had new tire put on and the store shipped the loaner back to North Bend. That store takes care of my sister . Maybe we just have better service here than you have in back woods Idaho.

That said, yuppers you can find some great deals on line but remember when they stick the tires on the UPS truck they are pretty well done with them. They don't have to mount or balance them they don't have to figure out why and how much they are out of round. If you have a bad tire you have to get ahold of them to have it taken care of and then might have to ship it back and wait before they will deal with it. Plus if you ruin one on the road you are headed to the closest tire store to find a tire that comes half way close to matching. That is the problem when you don't buy a brand of tire that is sold nationally or buy from an outfit that isn't regional or National . In the early 70's I worked in a Firestone Company store in Waco Tx and would honestly have made a career with Firestone and worked for them for years except for the jerk I had for a boss.
I worked on a lot of cars that came in off I 35 and made their way to the store because they had Firestone tires on or the guy out at the gas station on the highway sent them to me. He wasn't even a buddy of mine but sent me a lot of business.

I'm looking at buying Diamondback wide whites for my 48 and will have to order them and have them shipped and then worry about the same issues that I just mentioned. and the first road trip for the 48 is to Texas to visit my wife's sisters and friends and go to an event down there. If a tire goes bad I'll just have to buy what I can find and keep on keeping on but I want wide whites and local tire stores don't sell them as far as I know. I can mount them on my Harbor freight tire machine and balance them with my Hunter on the car spin balancer so mounting an balancing isn't a big thing.

[franken]

Just go to discount tire. Duh.

[mongocanfly]

ive been doing it for years....no issues...i shop around for the best deal.

[mr48chev]

My only issue when you buy online is that if you ruin one on the road on the way to something fun the only thing you can do is buy one from a tire shop in the next town that probably won't match as you aren't going to get anything done about warranty until you get home and contact the outfit you bought it from. For getting something taken care of on the road nation wide Walmart may actually be the best choice.

[franken]

Remember to check the date of manufacture. Nobody will touch a ten year old tire.

[GSP7]

Originally Posted by franken

Just go to discount tire. Duh.

I always bought from Discount tire.... But like I said, I moved to the boonies 4 years ago and the closest Discount tire is 4-6 hour drive

Les Swab wanted $500 each for Toyo 35" tires, that's over $100 more each per tire than Discount Tire, so way over $400 more, plus more tax and more mounting and balancing $$$$

Thanks for the positive online buyer replies, sounds like a good option.

I was worried about getting miss matched dot date numbers or other issues paying online and shipping


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[raggedjim]

I do it if I'm looking for a particular tire. None of the tire shops around me could get the tires I wanted.

Otherwise there's Melvin's Tire in Murray, what a great bunch of guys.

[davischevy]

I ordered a tire and wheel package from Wheels for Less yesterday.

[Sheepdip]

I have a good friend that has been in the tire business for years... he does it all, from golf carts to big, and I do mean BIG, heavy equipment tires. He can get any tire made and he is my go-to guy.

[Stocker]

I have bought online once or twice -- can't recall for sure, it has been many years ago. It went okay, but I had no tire failures to deal with either. Shop around, many tire shops will price match a valid, printed quote.
One of my sons has worked at America's Tire for several years, so that's my obvious go-to now.