Originally posted by goldsmi:
SZ50EP's are $119 at Tire Rack. Local Firestone says $183.
Bottom line, installed at Firestone was almost $900.

AL



When I was in the market for new tires, I printed the TireRack's price and stopped in the Firestone store. The sales guy sold me the tires for a few dollars cheaper than TireRack's price (before shipping costs!) and that included the State Sales Tax and Installation and Balancing - Drive out.!!

One thing you have to be careful about an outfit like Firestone or Goodyear stores, they will get you in the front door with a good deal....and by the time you leave, you can feel like you got it in your "back door".!

I saw them sucker people on cheap break jobs or tuneups and by the time the poor customer left, they had spent about 3 or 4 times more than they expected to spend.

The number 1 money maker must be brakes. They had a mountain of rotors and drums behind the store.

I went out into the shop and watched them carefully. When serviceman removed my SVT's wheels, I inspected my pads and rotors...told him that I didn't need new brake parts. (which I didn't after 55,000 miles).

Later after my tires were mounted and balanced, I went to get my keys and pay. The Sales Representative told my it would be a while longer because I was gonna get a "COMPLIMENTARY" Alignment Check.

I told him that I had the Ford Dealer align it 1 month before. He told me that the Ford Dealers Shop was sorry and did not do good work. Judging from my old BFG G-force tires and how the car always drives straight, I told the old boy to forget the "free" alignment check....so I walked out without anything being put up my rear end.

Being I'm 55 years old, I could go on and on about some of this baloney, but enough is enough.

Good luck on whatever you do...boys and girls.

Tom