Thread: Wow, priced any tires lately?????

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Last set I bought was for my daughter's car and they were the skinny-assed rubber ribbon tires. Not much rubber, even less tread and over $500 to boot. Probably won't last more than 30k miles.

I also will likely need a new set this year as mine now have nearly 60k on them and may not make it thru another winter. Plus with AWD, all four have to be replaced at the same time.

Unfortunately tire production uses petroleum in the process and we all know in what financial direction petroleum has recently gone.

I was looking at upgrading my tires for my DD, an F350 Super Crew. The crummy OEM Continentals are now $173 each and a Bridgestone is $195 and a Michelin at $222 from Tire Rack. All but the OEM's are a bunch more expensive since the last time I looked. Unfortunately I need an 18", 3500 pound 'E' rated load capacity tire for that vehicle and not many make them - and I WILL NOT run Goodyear or Firestone tires with my past experiences.

I just put all 4 new Yokohama's on the 3/4 ton Dodge yesterday for $700 out the door. I thought that was decent

Originally Posted by willowbilly3

I just put all 4 new Yokohama's on the 3/4 ton Dodge yesterday for $700 out the door. I thought that was decent

That's the tire brand I would like but unfortunately they don't offer one with a 3500# E load rating for my 1 ton p/u for an 18" wheel. I've had them before on two previous vehicles and in fact my wife's Escape has them now.

It has been awful on my end. They have gone up 17% in the last quarter, 7% In January and they had a price increase close to the end of last year. We are having to raise our prices as of September 1st. Steel is another whopper! I go to a local steel salvage place to get small pieces for my car. It used to cost 30 cents a pound, now it is 55 cents. Thats just in the last 6 months.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

It has been awful on my end. They have gone up 17% in the last quarter, 7% In January and they had a price increase close to the end of last year. We are having to raise our prices as of September 1st. Steel is another whopper! I go to a local steel salvage place to get small pieces for my car. It used to cost 30 cents a pound, now it is 55 cents. Thats just in the last 6 months.
Ken

I just bought a 2' piece of 6061 .5 x .75 aluminum ----for ~$11. A 6' piece of .25 x .75 hot roll steel that my supplier would dig out of his odd lengths barrel and give to me last year was $10. He said his price has gone from .11 a pound to ~.80 per pound in a year. There was an article in the paper last week that junk yards were giving ~$50 a ton last year are now over $350 for steel. I have a couple of 351W Ford engine blocks I can't sell and a few other chunks of scrap that are going shortly -

Don't forget, if you bought it a truck brought it!!

When fuel prices go up, the cost of EVERYTHING goes up.