I’m not proud to admit it, but that is pretty close to how my tires were last week. I finally swapped them out, but even with my employee discount i was looking at almost $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.
That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it’s wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.
700$!? Where are you located that tires are this expensive? Here in Austria they are between 40€-80€ per 1 tire.
A new set of 4 tires plus alignment for my compact crossover is about $900-930 in the US.
Smaller tires cost less and xovers usually need 4 tires if there’s a certain thread difference. My mazda 3 cost 600 for 16" Michelin crossclimate2, which are considered good tires and also up there in price.
You can have your alignment checked before getting the alignment. Often you won’t need one. Every time I’ve checked everything was perfectly fine still.
I paid $700 2 years ago for tires for my SUV. SUV tires are a bit more expensive - but they’re still not cheap for sedans. I’m in the USA.
Lol. Why pay extra for an SUV? It’s like throwing money away. You can easily get sedan tires under $100.
I sold the SUV a few months later, lol. I drive a hatch now.
They are usually larger. SUV tyres are at least R17 (or R19 if you’re super fancy) while sedan tyres are between R14 and R16.
Maybe because a sedan has less room inside for children and storage space?
I bought a crossover when my sedan was totalled not super long after my kid was born, and it was actually beneficial to me, because I could actually fit the stroller in the back of the crossover, but not really in the sedan.
Just did this too mine were $600 for my car. They weren’t even top grade tires or anything crazy. Live in u.s. Midwest
I still have no idea how I got 4 tires for about $180 in the Midwest a few years ago
For a second I imagined the shopping cart wheels (with the one that is bad) on a car.
Well he was suddenly 3 inches higher. So probably a big car/something with big tires. Almost Everything is more expensive on bigger cars.
I’m in Ohio and drive a Subaru Crosstrek. 255/17/55 tires arent cheap. I could have gotten discount tires somewhere, but i work at a union tire plant and so i got the premium tires that i make for a living.
40 Euro for a tire? Is that stolen and/or used?
My car has AWD and 35 profile ties. It’s at least 1200USD for anything that doesn’t suck because I have to change all four at the same time.
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Thinking more about it, what brand tires di you buy? Chinese firms have been flooding the market with cheap tires to undercut domestic union made tires in America and Europe.
I don’t know which ones they exactly were but it was from some German company as far as I remember.
How did you passed the inspection with these tires?! or is it damaged within one year?
In the US most states don’t care in California (where I live) as long as it has a cat and passes emissions your good
I only just got the car 6 months ago, but Ohio doesn’t have annual inspections
I get used tires for around $30-$40 per tire. Between $150 and $200 gets a full set with installation. They last me a few years from there, driving around 8,000 miles per year. They don’t match, but I don’t care.
They’re slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they’re super grippy, right?
Yes, until it rains.
No, this isn’t the grippy layer. The grippy stuf is long gone.
Yes. There’s more rubber touching the road, therefore more grip.
^/s
Drive a little more and you’ll have METAL tires which are the BEST!
And sparkly ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Trains have metal wheels and are efficient. You can also be efficient by having metal tires on your car. You’re welcome, FuckCars.
Once that layer is worn down, the extra grip metal braid will be exposed, and the car will have super traction.
For all those wandering if these are slick (racing) tires, it doesn’t look like it. You can clearly see the grooves worn out (bottom left) and the threads through the rubber on the left, indicating extremely worn out tires. I’m curious though as to how anyone would get their tires in this shape before a safety inspection would have made it mandatory to change them.
Many states (and presumably many countries) done have safety inspections. In the Midwest there are tons of old vehicles that would never pass an inspection out on the road
Is that because regulations are for commies, or there’s some Big Road Traffic Accident lobby profiting off people dying in shitboxes? What possible reason is there to allow such an obvious death trap on the road?
There’s a combination of anti-regulation sentiments and poverty. Rural towns in particular have a lot of old ass beaters driving around and people don’t have the income to fix or replace those vehicles. But yeah, that’s also where you get a lot of the “gub’ment can take it from my cold dead hands” types of attitudes, even (especially?) when it’s for the safety and well-being of people. Hell people fought restaurant smoking laws up until the early 2010’s, and some states still have no helmet law for motorcycles.
Yep. I’m in Indiana. We don’t do vehicle inspections here. People drive scary shitboxes.
Hey there fellow Hoosier!
Hello! I hate it here.
Oh me too. My wife and I have talked about moving away again for years, but we keep having to push those plans back for one reason or another (work, COVID, etc.)
My wife has an amazing job that is basically her dream job. We also have our two elderly mothers in a nearby part of the state. And then there’s housing prices. Even if we sold our house, we couldn’t afford to buy one somewhere else. We’re not leaving any time soon.
Wondering**
Also looks like it’s about to split.
I had a motorcycle shop tell me they were saving my tires because they’d never seen anything so overcooked. What can I say, I could barely afford the bike. It isn’t running now because I can’t afford to fix it. This economy is fucking terrible.
Racing slicks at home:
Isn’t this pretty much optimal on dry surfaces? The patterns in the tires are for draining away water, and nothing else. I mean, look at F1 tires for dry roads.
But the tiniest splash of water will send you on a rotational journy into what’s straight ahead.
And those tires are wet in the picture, so it’s amazing they’re still alive.
On a dry surface these have more grip but the belts are exposed and any debris wouldn’t bit be absorbed by the tread so I’m guessing not optimal for dry surface but very dangerous.
Some racers pay big money for “Slicks” like these.
Tires are at their best when I can see my reflection in them, right?
I didn’t know a tire could be so smooth it casts a reflection. This must the maximum smoothnes possible.
That is quite specular.
You’re sliding all the way to god on those bad boys
Combine with brakes worn down to the calipers on rotors directly and you’re facing the final boss on hard mode for the prize of life
Doo-doo-doo doo doo doo-doooooooo
I worked in an arcade in the 90s which had that machine.
I can hear that music in my dreams.
One more coat of WD-40 should do it.
This is just driving on hard mode.
/s no don’t do this, this is so dangerous.
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