Postby Hasbeen » 22 May 2017 02:51
All too many people don't research a market properly, or at all, before making crazy purchasing decisions. Someone may just buy this thing without checking it's value.
My lady recently found she had a flat tyre by driving off from our daughters a couple of hundred yards. She then drove back to my daughters to look at changing it. Needles to say the tyre is shot. The other 3 are newish matching tyres, so I wish to replace the shot tyre with another the same.
A local tyre & mechanical shop quoted me $138 supply & fit. A large tyre company in a large town a only 20 kilometres further away quoted me $87 for the exact same tyre.
I find it amazing that the local place has stayed in business for 20 years, when they are that uncompetitive.
Interestingly my recently bought 2002 Mazda SP20 she was driving, my remote control aircraft transporting car, has 4 moderate quality tyres, & a sporty very new looking Yokohama as spare. The breakdown service man who came to change the wheel suggested she should get another of those, & use them on the front.
When I looked, that was an original tyre, 15 years old he was suggesting she should use on the front. God help anyone taking this "experts" advice.
Hasbeen
