My old Chevy needs some tires. Been that way for a while.
A couple/ three weeks ago I stopped in at a local Les Schwab tire store and got a quote for 2 All Terrain light truck tires just for shits and grins.
Mounted and balanced, two tires would have cost me $550.00
Yeah thanks but I’ll pass.
So I have been looking around ever since.
I thought I found a pair a day later on Craigslist but the guy never got back to me and the ad expired.
Yesterday it was back and I actually talked to the guy this morning.
Ten minutes away from the house.
Literally the exact same tires I was quoted $550 for, Les Schwab Back Country All Terrain Light Truck tires, mounted on Ford 3/4 ton rims.
$150.
Cash.
They are sitting in the back of my truck as I type.
Even if it costs me another $100 to dismount 4 , mount and balance 2, I will still be ahead of that game at half the quoted price for the privilege of driving them out of their parking lot.
Double Bonus, because they are Les Schwab tires, they will fix flats and rotate them for free.
Just budgeting for their price, I will now have enough left over to go find 2 more tires.
Every freakin’ penny counts at this stage of the game but it’s also imperative right now to get what you need while you still can, if you can.
That $550 quote is going to be $650 or $700 by the end of Summer, IF, they are even still available.
Score big! And they look like they hold air, which is important… Good deal. The two, for the front? I use to buy junk yard tires for my truck, better deals and I don’t remember any problems with them and I saved major dinero by doing that. Ya know, girls back then were not cheap to date, same as today. The rims, ya gonna keep or try to sell them?
“….get what you need while you can, if you can.” is the best advice you can give anyone now. —ken
I got a new set of 6 ply 265/70R17 Nitto Grappler G2s and a 4 wheel alignment yesterday for 1060, they will last the life of the old truck. Wife drives it more than I do, so I don’t fuck around even working on it that much, I let real mechanics do most stuff.
d fuhk is a les shwab tire?
is it like a pierre carden umbrella?
tires are like tools & weapons, get something decent u old krakkaa
geezuss
Les Schwabs is a regional tire and service shop in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Northern California and I think Utah, but not sure. They are what service use to be for gas stations and car repair places and have good tires. They have their own brand of tires, but sell other brands too.
Late to the discussion, but here is a source local to you, Phil, might be good for future reference.
https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/wtd/d/portland-new-tires-lt-lt-more/7488672020.html
there are a few things in life it does not pay to go cheap on. tires, brakes and shocks- they are between you and the road. now, if phil found a set and checked them over and got them, well. as a wrench turner for years I am willing to bet they are good to use. like everything else in life, it depends on a lot of things.
like phil not going to drive like a moron at high speed on a wet road or anything else dumb like that.
the thing is and will be more important as the dollar drops in value, is what can you get for your soon to be worthless bucks ?
stuff is better than money, at least paper money.
24.99 per round of ammo ? if you need it , it a great buy at the time.
gave up on stocks and keeping cash in the bank a long time ago. bought what I thought I might need or want and held on to it.
get what you may want or need now as it doesn’t look like shit going to get any better for a long time with these clowns running the show.
right now, I cleaning up a old presto 21 pressure cooker/canner I got at a yard sale a couple of years ago for 10 bucks (still had the price on it )
I think it might have bein used once or twice at best. still has all of the parts to it
and the stand off legs in a old brown faded wrap. needs a new seal and maybe a new pressure valve.
need to get a lot more jars now. didn’t need it when I bought it, but now a days
I thinking it will come in handy here soon.
and as far as ammo goes, I saw the writing on the wall back when the clintons where in power and started stocking up back then. I still have bricks of 22 ammo with price stickers on them at 14.95 per 500. last time I was in town ,the price per 50 was over 5 bucks for the cheap stuff. funny thing, my brother asked me if I was going to take all of my ammo when I moved up here. guess he thought I was going to leave it ?
we all best be getting anything we might want or need here while we still can.
good on ya phil. keep looking and getting stuff you want
I bit the bullet and got 4 skins on the F150. It was about 700. Saved up and got another new one for the spare. couldn’t find 235s so I went with 10.50×31. Found an old invoice from 2020. 4 – 235’s for 550. Sakes. Almost doubled in less than 2 years.
I found some older spare, spare tires, and have them in the storage. times, they be a changing….
Harbor Freight has a manual tire changer for $50. SKU(s): 69686
I change all my own tires, including light truck tires. It requires a solid mount. I used concrete anchors that I can take the bolts out and store it out of the way. I also bought a bubble balancer and balance them myself. It saves tonnes of $$.
Good deal. Nice you got a win. (fwiw, Michelin’s for my Tundra are 213 each, Costco will mount em and warranty them for 15 bucks ea 7 days a week. Something about your locale?)
What is the date code? Old can be as bad as used.
Yep been a grand or so for quite some time to replace all four. I try to use that as an economics lesson for my kids. They will get it someday.
The seller is either a good guy or an idiot nice find.
You are trolling the shit out of me aren’t you?
Five lug, 15″ rims aren’t 3/4 ton. You know that 3/4 and 1 tons Fords have been eight lug and 16″ since at least the 60’s. You’re just seeing if I’ve been paying attention. I will say I can’t recall seeing a set of rims like that, with the oval port holes around the inner disc, before.
Nice score on the sneakers, though. Did a quick search; Les Schwab tires are made by Toyo – or at least some of them.
The price per set is why I bought a tire machine and balancer a few years back. Saves me at least $100 each time I mount up a set. It has paid for itself countless times in the last four years.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Dammit, I can’t get anything by you, can I?
LOL!
Good for you. Ive had a set of Ram tires, 8/32 up on crackhead list, and another with a rim for $60 Ive a dozen tweakers email me, hey man you gots them tires, i needs em bad, can we meet in like an hour….then nothing i cant give the shit away. Then again its the florida panhandle, redneck riviera where tweakers are the special. I bought all my future needed, suv, quad, bike and truck tires a year and a half ago seeing what was coming.