Word.
If you don’t know you were screwed, you won’t know if someone else tells you were screwed.
Hi there Grand Prix with cracked sidewalks and a blowout buddy! Same thing happened to me this weekend, only it was a 1997 Grand Prix, I was driving, and it happened as I was coming down an off ramp. My new tires were $430-ish, installed, at a Les Schwab.
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Do you have tread marks on your back? If not, you may have been screwed on OLD tires.
Hello Again said something sort of in that vein, but it wasn’t ignorant boastfulness as you characterized it. It was just ignorance of tires in general. It’s like when my brother wonders why anyone would pay more than $300 for a TV when you can get a perfectly good one for that much. He doesn’t know jack about TVs. I suspect that Hello Again doesn’t know jack about tires, but he or she wasn’t boasting like a teenager with a tricked out Hyundai.
You and I didn’t read the same post then. He said (paraphrasing) “Hey, I’ve never paid more than $80 for tires for my cars, but for your car that might be right.” He wasn’t bragging that he got his tires for less or saying anyone got pwned. :rolleyes: A remark that you may have been taken does not equate to “Epic Fail!!!11one!”.
Looked at costco.co. If yours is a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GT1/GT2 (3.8L V6) then the tires run $105 to 136 bucks a piece, and you paid a bit much.
But if you have a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP 3.8L V6 Supercharged, then those run $150 - 179 bucks a piece (Michelins), you got a pretty good deal.
Tried to price compare with Brigestone, but they don’t list their prices.
[sub]costco charges $14 per tire to install[/sub]
Five and half years or so - your tires were shot. Tires both wear out and age from sun, temperature swings, road contaminants, and atmospheric pollutants.
$600, from a National dealer, mounted and balanced, including a warranty good all over the country - not too bad.
Price depends on the diameter/width of the tire, handling characteristics desired, wear expected, and weather considerations.
Typical types are summer performance (great/addictive on dry pavement, warmer temperatures, and wet roads when newer:)); all season performance oriented (most of the summer tire grip with some ability to get through occasional light snow and cooler temperatures); all season (all around tire with reasonable capability in light snow conditions - most original equipment except on performance cars fit this category); winter (specially formulated rubber compounds for low temperatures, specialized tread design and siping, sidewall construction all geared to handling snow and icing conditions).
Different qualities abound. My former car, 1998 Mustang GT, could be had with 245/45x17 tires ranging in price from $90 to $250 each depending on brand and characteristics. I went through 4 sets while owning the car and it’s peculiarities wore out different brands/types at around 20,000 miles each time. :):)There’s just something about pulling out of the Sonic parking lot and leaving a 1000 miles of rubber on the road - even at age 55+:)
BTW, don’t you think that a customer who goes to a car service shop, pays $600 and leaves more ignorant than she arrived has been took, regardless of whether she paid too much? Just look at the OP. She has no idea what she paid for and why. That’s just an uncool way for a business to treat a customer, and it makes me suspicious that the OP has been at least a little bit oversold.
I think it’s rich that everyone thinks I’m male. I am the woman riding the horse in the above link.
I’d have looked for, and probably found, a tire, already mounted, at a junkyard to replace the dead one and taken my time to comparison shop for a full set.
The priority is to get your car off that lousy “tempa-spare”.
Your other 3 tires were, despite dire warnings of the “they all go bad within a month of each other” or some such, probably OK.
A couple of years ago, I got two tires for an Aztek, same size/bolt pattern as your Grand Prix, for $228. I’d have only bought one, but I couldn’t get an exact tread match for the tire on the other side of the axle without waiting to special order, so I bought a pair of another brand. BTW,the other 2 tires of the original set are still in decent shape.
Be careful at places like Firestone. They often advertise decent prices for tires, but then add on all sort of extras. Installation, balancing, and so forth.
Now, if any of you have an older non-high performance car, there are often places where you can go to get a decent set of tires (sometimes tires recovered from a new car that was wrecked or that died) for about $200, fully installed. I am not talking re-treads.
Yeah, and nice ass…whoa, wait a minute, that’s a horse. Nevermind.
I hope so, otherwise they might come off while you’re driving.