It's hard to buy tires

gopherbeats · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:37 pm

Man.. Its really hard to buy tires..
I have never been through this before, but it is difficult.

I want to get BFG 245/70/r16
$162 at Town Fair Tire.. then they charge $27 to balance, and Valve stem, so what ever... they are going to be $189 or something before taxes...

Then I called Sears.. that guy gave me a song and a dance about how that is the wrong tire for a Jeep, it is in the wrong load range... and why would I do such a thing.. I did not even mention it was for a Liberty

Man I thought I would just be able to watz in and buy some freeken tires..

any input would be helpful...

nickmv · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:39 pm

forget the corporate places. when it comes to getting non-standard size/load range tires, stick to a small shop. Do some more searching. Surely you can find something. 160 a tire for BFG's is actually around standard price, but usually most places have a buy-3-get-1-free deal or something like that.

raceinfan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:45 pm

I answerd your post in the tire section but I'll do it here too, go to a differant sears I got mine no problem same tire as your looking for they will beat any online price or tire store 110% thats how I got mine & I got no flack for what size I wanted,told them what I wanted & they orderd them I couldn't be happier

FL RENNY · **Joined:** Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:30 pm **Posts:** 458

Go to Wal-Mart...you'll be glad you did

Se7enLC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:33 pm

FL RENNY wrote:

Go to Wal-Mart...you'll be glad you did

Doesn't wal-mart only sell particular tire models? I just did a quick site-search, and while they say they sell BFGs, they don't have the ATKO or any mud tires, the "rugged trail" is the closest they have, and that's really more of an all-season, despite the name.

4wdParakeet · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:07 pm

Tire rack or ebay is about the best prices on tires I have seen.http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Sizes.jsp?make=Goodyear&model=Wrangler+MT%2FR Tire rack has MT/R's fro 121.00 shipping is roughly 50 to 60 bucks and you can find mom and pop shops to mount and balance for 50 or 60 bucks. Or befriend a tech at the stealership and see if he could mount them on the side usually ubercheap (case of beer).

Parakeet

CaKJFreedom · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:18 pm

Wow.

Blackwall MTR's 245/75/16 for $121? Darn good price.

kolesy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:23 pm

Thats where I got mine!!!! Hella cheap price!!!

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:51 pm

I can't believe they would charge for balance after you purchased. Most places will do that for free....especially for expensive ones.

Make it a rule for yourself. Learn all that you can about tires before you choose and buy. It is like buying running shoes. There is so much to know and so much pain and agony that can come from not knowing and just going out and buying something that looks good or is "just in your price range." So much comfort and joy when you have the knowledge and get the right product.

white04kj · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:21 pm

Se7enLC wrote:

FL RENNY wrote:

Go to Wal-Mart...you'll be glad you did

Doesn't wal-mart only sell particular tire models? I just did a quick site-search, and while they say they sell BFGs, they don't have the ATKO or any mud tires, the "rugged trail" is the closest they have, and that's really more of an all-season, despite the name.

The website doesn't list all the tires they sell for some reason. I got my AT's at the Wal-Mart I work at, and we also sell BFG MT's and MT/R's.

SethX9 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:03 am

I got a set of pull-offs from a local shop...$100 a tire - mounted and balanced and out the door.

Jeep Dawg · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:06 am

Hey man,
I found my BFG's AT/KO 225/75/16 on the tirerack.com web site. I paid $ 107.36 a tire and shipping was FREE!

Here is what they look like on the KJ:

4wdParakeet · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:59 am

what did you pay for mounting and balancing.

Parakeet

chetos · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:28 am

[quote="Jeep Dawg"]Hey man,
I found my BFG's AT/KO 225/75/16 on the tirerack.com web site. I paid $ 107.36 a tire and shipping was FREE!

How do they ride? highway and regular in town driving? noise? Thanks.

Jeep Dawg · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:39 pm

They ride NICE!
Little more road noise, but I dig that. I always had these tires on all of my jeeps. I find that thses tires work very well with jeeps.

It cost me like 10 bucks to mount and ballance each tire. I bought 5 of these. Sears does it pretty cheep. OH YEA, that valve stem crap that they say you need, Its a crock of S@$T............ they do that so it will be faster to get the air out so the cut it off insted of using the straighter puller......

Guyute1210 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:35 pm

Forget Wal-Mart. They won't mount or balance any tires that are not listed as stock size. I tried there when looking for 245/75/r16 GY MT/r's or BFG M/T's and they said that they would only order them. They were way to expensive anyway. I found a small shop and I got my MTR's for $138 each mounted, balanced, and tax. Call all the small shops within 50 or so miles of your place, and get prices.

peebut · **Joined:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:05 pm **Posts:** 37

Jeep Dawg wrote:

Hey man,
I found my BFG's AT/KO 225/75/16 on the tirerack.com web site. I paid $ 107.36 a tire and shipping was FREE!

How did you hook up w/ free shipping?

Jeep Dawg · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:35 pm

I have no Idea, All I know when I got the invoice, it said free shipping and there was no tax charge.
When I ordered the set of 5 tires, it was at my door in less then 24 hours.

I like the tire rack people. Either they messed up or it was a special that week, day or month.

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