Wow, priced any tires lately?????

I guess the high gas oil prices are affecting more than just gas........evidently everything that is produced using oil or oil derivatives are jumping up in price too. I just priced the slicks that I have on the rear of my T because I was considering a set for the rear of my Dodge truck. When I bought them a year ago they were something like $ 260 each, now they are $ 299 each. :eek: :eek: Coker had a price increase July 1st.

I bet other regular tires are also more costly, like for our daily drivers. I don't think I will be putting slicks on the Dodge, and I SURE won't be doing any more burnouts with the ones on my T !! :(

Don

Tires are getting real bad, luckily i do not drive my truck to much so i can limp by on the ones that are on it for now.

The tires on my jeep went from $160 each in 2005 to $343 today from Tire Rack. Let's see, a set lasts about 600 miles off road....but much longer on a paved road. Fortunately, I can sell the worn out tires for $50 each or so.

mike in tucson

The mark up seems high to me. I had to buy one for a 07 Fusion. it was 185. everywhere I checked it was going to be 200 mounted. My buddy has a regular mech shop and somtimes buys tires. He called his supplier "after the fact" and the same tire he could get for 118, thats $67 per tire $268 for 4 mark up plus what they get for mount and balance. Next tire I'll try to remember to check with him before I buy.

WOW... i havent even noticed that!!! just a couple months ago, i got a full set of bf goodrich radial t/a's front back, mounted and balanced for 330 bux!! that was from one of our "little" local shops tho!

i guess i got them just in time!! :P

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. :eek: 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.:CRY:

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.:eek:

I just checked the 31x12.5x15 M/T ET's I bought last year. They went up 34.00 each. You have to figure its not nessaceraly the fact that they use oil products to make the product, Geezer2 is right, you also have to factor in what it now cost to drive the trucks to deliver.

You guys are right, sending a 53' trailer to NY was about $2500, now it's about $4500. We are in the process of using 5 distribution centers through out the US just to combat the freight cost. My wife told me food cost are going nuts also. I read in the paper this morning that truckers from the US are going across the boarder to Mexico and filling up 55 gallon drums. Diesel is $2.50 a gallon there. But of course that's illegal, they can fill there tanks but no surplus, go figure.
Ken

Anyone check a gallon of milk lately...... you can get gas cheaper!!!

I'm a operations mngr. with a moving company......although the actual moves per month in the (this) summer seam to be about the same as last yr. the cost of fuel has gone up over 100%.

This is not good. We shall see what becomes of us after the Nov. elections. I hope everyone has picked up some extra ammo (up also this yr.!!).

Regs

I went to get some new tires for the Falcon today. Got a pair of Goodyear 195/65/15 for $65 ea.
Then was going to get a pair one size bigger for the rear 205/65/15 and the price was $135 ea!!!

235/60 16s arent cheap either. For a tire a month ago after my kid brother turned a corner too sharp, its was $120 for 1 tire, without mount and balance. Thats just the rubber!