Kinda of a rant about tire prices LOL
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Why should the size of the rim that the tire is being mounted on affect the price of the tire? If you compare your 20" tires to her 17" tires, they are probably the same height. And if you look at the amount of actual rubber that it takes to make both of those tires, there is probably more rubber in the 17" tire with the bigger sidewalls. Soooo???
I agree though the price of tires overall is kind of crazy.
I agree though the price of tires overall is kind of crazy.
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This is quite true, unfortunately. Most car and truck makers "negotiate" a deal for a lesser quality of a "name" tire.
When reading a review of the BFG Long Trail T/As my Grand Cherokee came with, the review broke the tires down to two separate reviews, one for the consumer available version and the other for the OE dealer version.
One was given a four star out of five rating, the other a two star rating. Care to guess which was which???
I had those BFG Long Trail TA' s on my last truck, a frontier I got new. The tires lasted exactly 30,000 miles...they told me the OEM tires are not the same as the kind we can buy from a store. We have a tire shop here that specializes in off brands and 2nds (blems, etc). I can get a set of raised white letter Definity Dakotas (cool having dakota on the tires) in the 275-65 r17 size for 85.00 each, mounted.
Last edited by jkeaton; Jul 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM.
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I later found out that Dodge gets an OEM type of Goodyear Wrangler SRA for there ST dakotas, and that they are of lesser quality then the RETAIL Wranger SRAs. I can confirm this as my new ones have better tread and white lettering. They seem much better.[/quote]
Well that might explain part of how those SRA's that came on mine sucked so terribly. I still wouldn't be willing to test my luck on the consumer version after having those tires though.
Part of it is probably economies of scale. If they sell a lot more of one size than the other they can often produce the ones they're selling in higher volume for less cost. 20" is a very popular wheel size, I would imagine tire sellers move the common sizes of tire for 20" wheels in very high volumes.
I later found out that Dodge gets an OEM type of Goodyear Wrangler SRA for there ST dakotas, and that they are of lesser quality then the RETAIL Wranger SRAs. I can confirm this as my new ones have better tread and white lettering. They seem much better.[/quote]
Well that might explain part of how those SRA's that came on mine sucked so terribly. I still wouldn't be willing to test my luck on the consumer version after having those tires though.
Why should the size of the rim that the tire is being mounted on affect the price of the tire? If you compare your 20" tires to her 17" tires, they are probably the same height. And if you look at the amount of actual rubber that it takes to make both of those tires, there is probably more rubber in the 17" tire with the bigger sidewalls. Soooo???
I agree though the price of tires overall is kind of crazy.
I agree though the price of tires overall is kind of crazy.
