Buying Advice - How to Buy Tires for your Car & Truck

After spending several hours calling around to the various tires stores (including the big discount tire companies), we searched the web and bought from The Tire Rack   We saved at least $500. We enjoyed the process so much we put this page up so others could save too!

Here's Our Advice....

First and foremost, you must be able to wait 2-5 days for your tires. Hopefully you're here in time. If you are, read on.

Here is our step-by-step guide to buying tires:

• First, go to The Tire Rack

• Search for recommended tires for your vehicle (within the site)

• Sort by your preference (brand, price, performance, etc.)

• Read the reviews and customer surveys to see how satisfied customers are with the tire selected.

• Call around to your local tire dealers and see if they will match The Tire Rack's prices. If they do, great!

• If you decide to go with The Tire Rack, call your local tire store or service station and ask what they will charge to install your tires. Typically, it's $12 - 20 per tire.

• Yes, you will be charged shipping - but our shipping was only $40. And, they shipped right to our doorstep. We then simply took the tires to the tire dealer and had them installed.

• We saved the sales tax as well which easily accounted for the $40.

All told, we estimate that we saved at least $500. On the tires we bought, we paid $88 per tire. The tire dealer, who installed our tires, showed us their cost which was $190. That means we would have paid at least $250 per tire retail! In fact, the dealer asked where we got the tires!