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S.Crum

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I needed to get a new pair of tires for the front of my F-150. I actually wanted them back in January. Yesterday I drove down to Marty's to see about a pair, $150 a piece! Ouch! for a 245-75-16 LT. Marty told me that had I bought them in January they would have been $110 each. Marty told me of a trade magazine article that explained how the domestic tire manufacturers whined and cried to the goverment about the un-fair trade practices. What's a goverment to do? Slap a 35% tarriff on the imports. What's a domestic manufacturer to do now that the playing field has been leveled some? Why raise their prices 35% and claim they still can compete. Seems to be the American way these days. I did find a decent used pair of tires on CL that were more in my price range.
 
last ones I bought for my 03 f150 4x4 were 250 each, 285-70-17 is what I run on mine though...after the sticker shock, I decided that I did need them cause the old ones were completely shot and bought them...Bob
 
I did a commercial insurance inspection on a tire distributor a coupla months ago.

In his warehouse, the fella pointed out a rear tractor tire that he said sold for $800 a year ago. Now it's $1800....... And his profit margin stayed the same.
 
I had 17 inch alloy wheels on this truck but had so much trouble with rim leaks that I put a set of 16" steel wheels (that at the time had good tires on them) on this truck. Of course I can't use any of the wheels and tires from my pre 97' F-150s on this 97'. It's a conspiracy I'm tellin' ya!
 
I knew going in that it was going to sting. I was talking with a hopper belly driver out of Arkansas Friday at work and he was saying what some new rubber on his truck costs. His saving grace is it's a cost of doing business that is passed along to you and I.
 

Yes, that is how the Idiots in Government think..

They can't SEE that what they are doing is, "Closing the Barn Door" after the Horse has left...

That would have been OK ( Raising the Tariff ), IF the Manufacturers were STILL HERE. BUT..the IDIOTS encouraged them to LEAVE...

Does anyone know what SNAFU stands for..???????

Ron..
 
yep, bought 4, 22.5 drive tires last week for a peterbilt, tire store put them on in the parking lot, 2 on the wrong axle, 2,019.90 when i hit the road
 
Must have been low grade tires? That's really, really cheap.

Damned dollar isn't worth the ink used in it's printing.

Allan
 

Put a new pair on the rear of my 3/4 ton chevy, I'm thinkin they were 265/75/16. $225 each. Put a used pair of the same tire on the front off a wrecked pu I found on craigslist for half that.
 
Situation Normal, All F~d up. One of my favorite sayings....and these days it seems no one knows what it means.....except my wife who gives me "The Look" every time I say it...
 
(quoted from post at 05:33:49 04/22/12) I did a commercial insurance inspection on a tire distributor a coupla months ago.

In his warehouse, the fella pointed out a rear tractor tire that he said sold for $800 a year ago. Now it's $1800....... And his profit margin stayed the same.
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Whats surprising about that? It's normal for a retailer to mark up items to a certain %. His price to buy goes up your price to buy from him goes up too. If not he starts losing money and his business fails. Most retailers don't make more money when the price he pays goes up. Thier marnigs withh stay pretty much the same and what little more he makes gets eaten up by the inflation caused by prices going up.

Rick
 
Yep,bought the cheapest ones I could buy for my dually a few months ago. Cost me $845 for six of'em.
 
wholesale, a 10 ply 245/75-16 chinese import is running about $110...Uniroyal about $140, Commercial TA about $151 and an LTX about $190.
Copper branded and private 10 ply stuff still a bit hard to get due to the lock out. Add 20-20% at retail, plus install.

18 months ago, that Chinese tire was $84. Tarrif has been in place about that long, rumor is it will soon be lifted so I'm letting my containers sit at the dock.
 
Tried finding some used 15" one's for my scraper last week. None to be found except scabs for $35. Lucked out at an auction Sat. and found 2 on rims for $15 apiece. Old Silvertown's but not cracked.
 
Blew out an inside rear on my service truck 100 plus miles from home a few weeks ago. Bad as I hated to I went with a "cheap" recap. The tire on the outside has been slowly eating itself from having to take an extra share of the load after being put on new, beside a used tire, after catching a rock with the one it replaced while leaving a quarry one evening a year or so back. Since I knew that another new tire would do the same being put on beside a now worn 'new' tire, I cheaped out because I know I'm going to have to get all of them new soon anyway.....and that's really gonna hurt the wallet.....

Anyway between a $295 dollar recap, the service call (((and I already had my truck jacked with the outriggers, the tire off and on the ground when he got there))), the mount and dismount charge, and another $5 for a valve stem change that I told him it didn't need (((but didn't realize until later that I got charged for anyway))) I wound up footing a bill to the tune of about $420, just so I could get home.
 
I'm going back in time, but have had good and bad experinces buying tires. About 7 years ago I took my Dodge 2500 in for (4) BF Goodrich 265-70 R-16 tires. When I went to pick it up the owner told me all he has were 285's and had installed them..they looked good but my spare would not work anymore. $1,000. I made the mistake of having 16" tires put on my car there also $800.00. Neither set laster over 20,000 miles. I knew this dealers place had burned earlier in the year and later read in the paper that the insurance company had paid for damaged tires and he was charged for fraudulantly re-selling them. On the other hand when the 285's were gone I saw a set of 265's in the newspaper for $100.00 total, I went over and met the owner who I recognized from a prior business deal, they were like new, had been taken off his truck when it was new so he could have summer tires put on for traveling, he had an accident, and the new truck took 17" tires. These tires have been on for 30,000 miles and still look like the day I put them on.
 
Had an accident with my dump truck and blade on the mini-excavator, I have towing an tire service on the truck so my insurance payed for all but $25 of the bill. Put a used one on that matched the other to keep wear down on a new one.
Always try to match the tires on duals.
Walt
 
I just bought 4 cooper 265/70 17 10 ply for my Dodge, $992. I also bought 2 19.5x24 14 ply backhoe tires for $1500. Now I'm in the market for 2 18.4x38 tires. This year ain't looking good.
 
I paid $270 for a pair of Yokahama 15"ers a couple weeks ago. $115 each before mounted, balanced and taxes. Wait till you shop for tractor rear tires. Like a couple mortgage payments. And with the fear and fight over calcium, I am back to taking down and remounting myself. Craigslist is the first place to shop for anything like this, but I'm not cheap on 'family car' fronts.
 
America has passed SNAFU. We are now well into FUBAR (beyond all recognition), and if we don't do something soon America will be TANGO UNIFORM.
 
(quoted from post at 15:21:15 04/22/12) I needed to get a new pair of tires for the front of my F-150. I actually wanted them back in January. Yesterday I drove down to Marty's to see about a pair, $150 a piece! Ouch! for a 245-75-16 LT. Marty told me that had I bought them in January they would have been $110 each. Marty told me of a trade magazine article that explained how the domestic tire manufacturers whined and cried to the goverment about the un-fair trade practices. What's a goverment to do? Slap a 35% tarriff on the imports. What's a domestic manufacturer to do now that the playing field has been leveled some? Why raise their prices 35% and claim they still can compete. Seems to be the American way these days. I did find a decent used pair of tires on CL that were more in my price range.
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I own a very small independent tire dealership. Last year by October, there had been 12 (yes 12!) price increases by most of the major tire makers. We are being told it is a lot because of rubber prices and China getting so much of the world's rubber. Also, as has been mentioned, there have been several labor disputes in the last few years and let's not forget fuel prices. Wholesalers now charge per stop for delivery of products. I agree, it is a mess. But we do the best we can. We have tried holding down our prices while our electricity, insurance and other bills are doubling!
 
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