Truck Tire Prices up 40 Percent

[jack darling]

:(Yesterday my tire guy quoted me a price of over $4000. for ten new tires for one of my trucks. He says all the tire companies went up 40 per cent overnight with no advance warning. Fact or fiction? A call to a few dealers seems to confirm this. Can you spell price-fixing boys and girls?

[RaiderRooter]

i hope not. its already expensive as it is.

[txshriner]

in the past i have always used michelin tires but last year when tire shopping they were over $5@@ each! i started looking into which other tire would work for me that would be more livable with my pocket but still a good tire. all of my trucks cost me @100k so i certainly didnt want to run a junk tire. what i came up with was the firestone FS series. that set has over 20k miles on them now & hardly look used! my experience with them led me to buy another set yesterday & i paid $250 each plus all the fees the government has tacked on.

[RaiderRooter]

Thanks for the heads up! i need to buy 4-6 more tires today

[RaiderRooter]

Just asked my tire guys, they said they checked more than 11 national carriers and couldnt find any of the FS560 PLUS in stock, which is the one im assuming youre talking about

[jack darling]

:rolleyes:I heard a rumor some guy in Hearne, Texas purchased the last of all those old Firestone tires, and has a grarge full of them>