Online tire vendor recommendation

[Super Doody]

Any recommendations for a good place to buy tires online?

Its been a few years since I bought tires online. I'm looking to buy 1 Open Country A/T II P285/70/17 tire. The best price I found was on http://www.treaddepot.com/ but they charge for shipping. Tireack.com is great but they don't carry the size I need.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[robert]

I've ordered from Tirerack with no problems on several occasions.

Check Amazon too- I bought two of my Durtracs from them with free two day shipping after the Goodyear shop called me back to tell me they'd made a mistake and only had two of the tires I wanted in (Goodyear's) stock.

I've read on other forums where more shops are getting picky about installing tires from other retailers but so far I've had no issues.

 

[TwoTrack]

discounttiredirect.com has great pricing and great customer service.

 

[Hopeless Diamond]

I don't think discount tire carries Toyo, otherwise I'd also recommend them. If tires are bought from them on line, you can have them mounted at a discount at any Discount Tire. I've found that it works out cheaper to buy online than at one of their stores

 

[CYi5]

I used to buy a lot of tires from www.onlinetires.com solely because they had a distribution center close by in socal and could will call pickup for free. Maybe one of the online vendors has a pickup near you, that's what i'd suggest.

 

[lathamb]

I bought my set of Goodyear Silent Armors from Amazon. They were the cheapest on price (way cheaper than Goodyear, and slightly cheaper than tire rack), and with free shipping it was a no-brainer.

 

[bkg]

I used to buy a lot of tires from www.onlinetires.com solely because they had a distribution center close by in socal and could will call pickup for free. Maybe one of the online vendors has a pickup near you, that's what i'd suggest.

I use onlinetires for price matching at Discount Tire. Worked great for 4 sets of tires. Though after set 2, they got wise to shipping costs.

 

[oscar the grouch]

go over to your americas tire and have them order the tires you want. it will probably be cheaper. My cooper tires arent on discount tire direct but my local store got them for me. america tire=discount tire.

 

[huerta32]

Any recommendations for a good place to buy tires online?

Its been a few years since I bought tires online. I'm looking to buy 1 Open Country A/T II P285/70/17 tire. The best price I found was on http://www.treaddepot.com/ but they charge for shipping. Tireack.com is great but they don't carry the size I need.

Thanks,

Jim

Big brand tires has good prices and carries the Toyos

 

[jgilbreath]

Is tread depots free doping on toyos only for sets of four?

 

[toymaster]

I spent most of my day yesterday surfing for the best deals I could get on assorted tire purchases.

Went with three different site due to price and availability. TiresByWeb.com, Onlinetires.com, and discounttiredirect.com.

And still had to go with a 4th site for the lug nuts I wanted. The 'discount' site only sold spline nuts. I don't do spline lug nuts; I had a bad experience in the past and that is all I'm going to say about that.

TireByWeb.com had the snow tires I was looking for in stock and a decent price on rims plus "free" shipping along with a small fee for mounting and balancing.

Onlinetires.com had the all-season run flat model I was looking for to go on our subaru and 37" cooper discoverer STT for my jeep in stock. Cooper must have a deal going on now 'cause every site I was on had 'free' shipping. The all-seasons tires cost me $70 shipping. They did not have the tires I wanted for my F350 nor any rims that fit.

Dicounttiredirect.com said they had the Cooper STT Maxx and rims for my F350 in stock with a $90 total off and 'free' mounting, balancing, and shipping. I got an email a few hours later telling me to call in there was a problem. I thought it may have been by CC 'cause spending that kind of money on tires in the same hour was unusual activity for me. Turns out the STT max in a 305/70 R18 is on back order, possible 30 days or longer. Not a big deal for me because I'm away from home working for the next while. The sale price is locked in so I don't mind waiting. We'll see how long the back order actually takes.

The morale of the story here is do your shopping/homework to find the best deals at the time. I have bought tire/rims online in the past but always know the usual price range for the tires and do not pay full price on shipping. With larger tires to my address it can be in $200 or more... Catching them on sale is about the only way buying tires online is cheaper than going to your local store.

 

[Blender]

Got my first set of Toyos off www.tirecrawler.com