Shopping tires
Thank you, they may be my choice...
i'm in that proverbial corner
Money is tight and I need tires, a really generous friend gave me significant gift card for Sears, supposed to help with cost of a new refrigerator, but, I can live without a refrigerator... tires are another matter.
Problem is, I visited Sears the other day and was not pleased with the fees or the blather...
I'm now looking on line wondering if I can use the card to purchase the tires and take them to the most (seemingly) reliable service shops locally (America's or Performance) and have them put on, I gotta ask if the service fees and warranties are the same if I bring the tires in...
sadly, seems Sears does not carry the same tires other recommended... Cooper Discoverer HTP was the top recommendation elsewhere for my low mileage (4,000 a year), non-off road driving.
Pity Sears will not (so far) cash in the gift card so I can use the dealer of my choice. The Wranglers have never a problem but, you never know.
Will I offend the other shops if I ask them to install tires purchase elsewhere?
Or will the fees be higher?
Thanks for any advice
*** Sears...
I asked for an out the door price for tires for my 2006 Element, LX, The associate added the cost of digital valves for a 2006 car that does not have the needed electronics to read the valves, He did not suggest this as an option, he just totaled it in. No other tire source I spoke to later did this. When I asked about the digital valves he dithered, stating they were “required”, “you have to have that”, when I asked directly, “are you saying this is required by law?” he said “uhmmm uh mumble mumble................. no....” If the point is it was required by the warranty, he did not say.
Their fees for everything were higher than the neighborhood average...
the tires we priced, while $2 cheaper per tire than America's, ended up costing me over $140.00 more installed..... with a 4 year warranty instead of life time of the tire, alignment twice the local professional alignment shop price. Not impressed.
I don't know enough to protect myself from auto repair scams, I've been scammed a couple times, I can't afford it now, aside from the principle of the thing