LOL! I started looking at tires for my truck and my social media feed is full of advertisements for tires ⭕
LOL! I started looking at tires for my truck and my social media feed is full of advertisements for tires ⭕
It’s so fucking creepy. And hell of it is most of them won’t fit my big jacked up truck. 👹
I went to the shop today and got my oil change done, but they said it wasn’t worth-while to rotate the tires, I just need to bite the buck and get new tires on the old gal sooner rather then later. While they might not be worn down quite to the wear bars, 🤥 (okay, well, some of them are so close) after nearly 6 years of riding on rough roads, the dry rot has set in pretty bad. The cupping — mostly pre-alignment manual alignment after repairs last summer — is the least of tires ‘s problems. And the best tires are on the back traction wheels.
Next week I will start calling around. First I I want to have new tires on and all alignment issues fixed before I go down to West Virginia in mid-October want to get the truck to Watkins Spring to have them do a computer alignment on their big truck computerized alignment rig which my local shop doesn’t have. Then I need to figure if I should go to the off-road shop that installed the lift kit or just an ordinary tire shop to order, balance and install the big tires. Mavis Tire does have Nitto Terras — which I like — but can they order 35s? Not sure. Working downtown full-time will make that easier — as I can just grab a bus to any of those places.
It’s going to be big bucks, but I make good money, and I want to keep this truck on the road for a few more years before throwing it away. I figure $1,500 for the tires when you throw in mounting/balancing and taxes, and $500-$1,000 for the alignment and certain to be found broken hardware, but I like my big truck. I’m glad the oil change is done — should be good for the rest of the year, and I don’t have to worry about trashing the tires anymore by not getting them rotated sooner, as they already are pretty bad.