Where the rubber meets the road

[Coronita]

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Ok I’m going shopping for tires and it occurred to me that my last set of Yokohamas was made in the USA, should I make sure my next set of tires are American made?
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Good luck with that one…..
Take your pick…..

1. The only 2 U.S. tire companies left (for practical uses) are
Goodyear Tires, Cooper Tires (which owns Avon Tires).
but neither of them manufacture all their tires in the U.S.

You can add two more companies for non-practical applications
*Hoosier (track tires)
*Titan (off road tires)
…but I doubt you will be using tires from either companies.

The remainder of manufacturers look like this….

1. Yokohama is a Japanese company, as well as Bridgestone/Firestone

2. Dunlop is British company that is 75% owned by Goodyear and 25% owned by Sumitomo Tires

3. Sumitomo Tires is a Japanese tire company that has purchased the right to sell tires with the Dunlop brand… It also owns Falken Tires, which is based in the U.S.

4. Michelin is a French company that also owns BF Goodrich (and as a result produces tires of both brands in both U.S. and foreign facilities)

5. Continental is a German company with manufacturing all over, including U.S. and China

6. Pirelli is an Italian company with manufacturing all over too

7. Hankook Tires is a Korean company with manufacturing all over

8. Nexen is a Korean company

9. General Tire is an Indian company

10. Toyo is a Japanese company

I think you’re better off buying the best performing tire your money is worth imho.

FWIW: I’ve had pretty good experiences with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 for most of summer/fall/spring and Michelin Pilot A/S Plus as a general all season (can get buy as a *light* snow tire if you have AWD)

The other thing I use to run were Continental Sports Contact 2 as a summer/fall/spring tire (I didn’t like).
And the Continental Extreme Contact for winter (Which were ok, but squealed a lot).

You probably don’t need two sets of tires down here, because the likelihood of you needing tires with snow traction is almost 0 unless you like to ski a lot… It helps if you’re up in the bay area and want to go to Tahoe a lot.

I ran a set of for a brief 3 months BF Goodrich (I forget what they were), but they were ridiculously crappy…. They were cheap (in cost) and as a result, cheap quality too..

Runflats also suck btw….

[ucodegen]

[quote threadkiller]Now however I have a 4×4 that uses bigger tires and I don’t have to repace them immediately,before winter begins however. I was considering Costco,who gives $70 back on set of 4 Michellin but won’t do it for BFGoodrich which is owned by Michellin. In my reasearch I’m discovering that Costco does not have the best prices.[/quote]
Discount Tire seems to be the best for BF Goodrich. I even checked against 4×4 discounters. I recently had to re-shoe my truck(as well as get new rims because the 16.5 rim is no longer supported). I ended up doing a lot of pricing research in the process. I would not do the Discount Tire at Genesee (the store manager seemed to want to tack on as many additional charges, including ones that I have not been charge for before @ at Discount Tire), but I have had good luck at their Convoy shop, and have gotten most of my tires (truck and car) over at the Miramar shop.

With Discount Tire, you can do on-line price estimation and set up appt. to install. They will contact you back if there is a problem getting your tires. (http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do)

[ucodegen]

[quote threadkiller]Now however I have a 4×4 that uses bigger tires and I don’t have to repace them immediately,before winter begins however. I was considering Costco,who gives $70 back on set of 4 Michellin but won’t do it for BFGoodrich which is owned by Michellin. In my reasearch I’m discovering that Costco does not have the best prices.[/quote]
Discount Tire seems to be the best for BF Goodrich. I even checked against 4×4 discounters. I recently had to re-shoe my truck(as well as get new rims because the 16.5 rim is no longer supported). I ended up doing a lot of pricing research in the process. I would not do the Discount Tire at Genesee (the store manager seemed to want to tack on as many additional charges, including ones that I have not been charge for before @ at Discount Tire), but I have had good luck at their Convoy shop, and have gotten most of my tires (truck and car) over at the Miramar shop.

With Discount Tire, you can do on-line price estimation and set up appt. to install. They will contact you back if there is a problem getting your tires. (http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do)

[ucodegen]

[quote threadkiller]Now however I have a 4×4 that uses bigger tires and I don’t have to repace them immediately,before winter begins however. I was considering Costco,who gives $70 back on set of 4 Michellin but won’t do it for BFGoodrich which is owned by Michellin. In my reasearch I’m discovering that Costco does not have the best prices.[/quote]
Discount Tire seems to be the best for BF Goodrich. I even checked against 4×4 discounters. I recently had to re-shoe my truck(as well as get new rims because the 16.5 rim is no longer supported). I ended up doing a lot of pricing research in the process. I would not do the Discount Tire at Genesee (the store manager seemed to want to tack on as many additional charges, including ones that I have not been charge for before @ at Discount Tire), but I have had good luck at their Convoy shop, and have gotten most of my tires (truck and car) over at the Miramar shop.

With Discount Tire, you can do on-line price estimation and set up appt. to install. They will contact you back if there is a problem getting your tires. (http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do)

[ucodegen]

[quote threadkiller]Now however I have a 4×4 that uses bigger tires and I don’t have to repace them immediately,before winter begins however. I was considering Costco,who gives $70 back on set of 4 Michellin but won’t do it for BFGoodrich which is owned by Michellin. In my reasearch I’m discovering that Costco does not have the best prices.[/quote]
Discount Tire seems to be the best for BF Goodrich. I even checked against 4×4 discounters. I recently had to re-shoe my truck(as well as get new rims because the 16.5 rim is no longer supported). I ended up doing a lot of pricing research in the process. I would not do the Discount Tire at Genesee (the store manager seemed to want to tack on as many additional charges, including ones that I have not been charge for before @ at Discount Tire), but I have had good luck at their Convoy shop, and have gotten most of my tires (truck and car) over at the Miramar shop.

With Discount Tire, you can do on-line price estimation and set up appt. to install. They will contact you back if there is a problem getting your tires. (http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do)

[ucodegen]

[quote threadkiller]Now however I have a 4×4 that uses bigger tires and I don’t have to repace them immediately,before winter begins however. I was considering Costco,who gives $70 back on set of 4 Michellin but won’t do it for BFGoodrich which is owned by Michellin. In my reasearch I’m discovering that Costco does not have the best prices.[/quote]
Discount Tire seems to be the best for BF Goodrich. I even checked against 4×4 discounters. I recently had to re-shoe my truck(as well as get new rims because the 16.5 rim is no longer supported). I ended up doing a lot of pricing research in the process. I would not do the Discount Tire at Genesee (the store manager seemed to want to tack on as many additional charges, including ones that I have not been charge for before @ at Discount Tire), but I have had good luck at their Convoy shop, and have gotten most of my tires (truck and car) over at the Miramar shop.

With Discount Tire, you can do on-line price estimation and set up appt. to install. They will contact you back if there is a problem getting your tires. (http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do)

[scaredyclassic]

while i am a frugal fellow, I believe in quality tires, expense be damned, and especially for bicycles, but also for cars. tires matter.

[scaredyclassic]

while i am a frugal fellow, I believe in quality tires, expense be damned, and especially for bicycles, but also for cars. tires matter.

[scaredyclassic]

while i am a frugal fellow, I believe in quality tires, expense be damned, and especially for bicycles, but also for cars. tires matter.

[scaredyclassic]

while i am a frugal fellow, I believe in quality tires, expense be damned, and especially for bicycles, but also for cars. tires matter.

[scaredyclassic]

while i am a frugal fellow, I believe in quality tires, expense be damned, and especially for bicycles, but also for cars. tires matter.

[ocrenter]

did some comparison on tire pricing recently. Bear’s Tires in Miramar came in quite well. In and out very quickly as well.

[ocrenter]

did some comparison on tire pricing recently. Bear’s Tires in Miramar came in quite well. In and out very quickly as well.

[ocrenter]

did some comparison on tire pricing recently. Bear’s Tires in Miramar came in quite well. In and out very quickly as well.

[ocrenter]

did some comparison on tire pricing recently. Bear’s Tires in Miramar came in quite well. In and out very quickly as well.

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