Tire replacement - Event Date: 18 Jan 2023

Yet again LA you're putting words in my mouth. I never said that all brands or models within a brand are equivalent. That's absurd.

I just bought a GM product with trepidation after decades of owning Toyotas. But I had both direct and 3rd party model specific data supporting my choice of the Toyotas.

I'll stick with why statement. Buying by brand, rather than via actual 3rd party data, is a short cut for consumers motivated primarily by fear of making a mistake. Ask any trained marketing professional and I'm sure they'll say the same thing.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, I do it too sometimes. We all do. No one has time to research every purchase they make. You have to pick your battles and dig into the big and or key purchases that really matter to you.

For the rest of it, what I try to do for my shortcut is to buy the least expensive item that has the specs or features I need, ignoring brand. That process has worked out quite well for me over the years and doesn't really take any longer than just buying the recognized brand. But if you want to use the brand shortcut instead, that's fine. Nothing wrong with that, as Ive said 5 times at least.

Ive noticed more activity on FB Marketplace than CL lately as well. Can't say there's any difference in the number of scammers and tire kickers though.



Which alternative is cheaper depends on your particular situation. There is no way to know without looking into it. I needed a 15 inch upgrade and mounting was expensive where I was living at that time. Lots of old boat trailers around so a ready market for used mounted trailer tires. So I was way ahead doing what I did. Probably that hadn't changed with time.

If you don't need new wheels, have a Walmart nearby that does cheap mounting, and you can buy the tires on their website and have them shipped to the store then that could well be cheaper.

In fact that's what I did a few weeks ago for my Highlander.

But I didn't buy high end brand name tires for it either. There was 3rd party data available so I got a Kumho model which got a good rating on CU at a good price point.   

Originally posted by lostagain   I guess I can't post a beating a dead horse meme here.

I'm definitely not gonna show that to my wife or her horse, one of them might be offended.



And LA, maybe when someone quotes one of my posts asking for my response, you might want to just leave your club holstered when I respond with my opinion, and simply state your own if you disagree. All of this is just opinion after all, and Im sure the folks on here can do their own filtering. The shrinking horse population will be most grateful...

OG and LA, too bad you aren't neighbors.  I do like both pics of beating a dead horse though.  And even my wife thought they were funny; we had horses for a long time and are still alive to talk about it.  But now that we are in our 60's we have gotten wiser and value our  . . . . . lives and limbs.

This is part of my morning entertainment; dead animals and all.