Mike Melton explains how tire shops cut corners: skipping valve stem replacement, rebuilding TPMS sensors, and improper balancing. Check the manufacture date to avoid old stock, avoid prorated warranties, and watch for hidden shipping and mounting costs. Road-force balancing reduces vibration better than standard balancing.
Every 5,000 miles.
How not to get scammed when you're buying tires. So what you need to ask yourself is what corners are they cutting? Are they replacing my valve stem? Which I've seen a lot of companies do not replace the valve stems, which is crazy. Are they rebuilding your TPMS sensors? Are they balancing them the right way? What corners are they cutting? One way is old tires. Make sure you're checking your manufacturer's date. Because a lot of people, they'll try to give you a certain price on a tire way lower than a lot of people. And what it is, it's an old tire they bought up and they're trying to pass it over to you as a new tire. But that thing's already five or six years old. Check your dates. Roadhouser warranties. Now, they're good if they're 100 replacement, but most companies, which is 99 has a prorated warranty, it ain't worth a crap. Do not get it if it's prorated. Online tires buying. The thing is, say they're a little cheaper online, right? But you got to make sure you're checking the shipping costs and all that. One thing, you still got to go take them, have them mounted. A balance. So you're going to need to rotate your tires every 5,000 miles. That's what we recommend. To get most of your miles out of your tires, you're going to need to recheck your balance every 5,000 miles when you rotate them. Because as your tire wears, they do go out of balance. And all that is the cost. You got to incorporate that. When you buy your tires from us, we do all your tire rotations, your rebalancing and your flat repairs. Free for life of your tires. No extra cost to you. Not only that, if we need to match or beat a price online, not a problem. So the price of your tires today, when you buy them from the retailer is actually going to cost you more in the long run. Another thing is they're not going to stand behind it. So if something does happen to that tire, you've got to go call, deal with a bunch of crap, try to send those tires back. You got to pay again to the installer to reinstall, uninstall. It's going to cost you a lot more money. Now, when it comes to balancing, a lot of these companies try to save weight. And what they do, they static balance the wheel to reduce the amount of weight they're putting on there. So it saves the company money. Listen, you have to balance the tires right? And I recommend to road force balance all tires. So for one, you reduce any kind of vibrations, you reduce any kind of comebacks, and we can fix it right for you the first time so you don't have to come back.
