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[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

700$!? Where are you located that tires are this expensive? Here in Austria they are between 40€-80€ per 1 tire.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

A new set of 4 tires plus alignment for my compact crossover is about $900-930 in the US.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Smaller tires cost less and xovers usually need 4 tires if there's a certain thread difference. My mazda 3 cost 600 for 16" Michelin crossclimate2, which are considered good tires and also up there in price.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

You can have your alignment checked before getting the alignment. Often you won’t need one. Every time I’ve checked everything was perfectly fine still.

[-] Doombot1@lemmy.one 7 points 10 months ago

I paid $700 2 years ago for tires for my SUV. SUV tires are a bit more expensive - but they’re still not cheap for sedans. I’m in the USA.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee -5 points 10 months ago

Lol. Why pay extra for an SUV? It's like throwing money away. You can easily get sedan tires under $100.

[-] Doombot1@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

I sold the SUV a few months later, lol. I drive a hatch now.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

They are usually larger. SUV tyres are at least R17 (or R19 if you're super fancy) while sedan tyres are between R14 and R16.

[-] Doxatek@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

Just did this too mine were $600 for my car. They weren't even top grade tires or anything crazy. Live in u.s. Midwest

[-] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I still have no idea how I got 4 tires for about $180 in the Midwest a few years ago

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

For a second I imagined the shopping cart wheels (with the one that is bad) on a car.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

I'm in Ohio and drive a Subaru Crosstrek. 255/17/55 tires arent cheap. I could have gotten discount tires somewhere, but i work at a union tire plant and so i got the premium tires that i make for a living.

[-] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Well he was suddenly 3 inches higher. So probably a big car/something with big tires. Almost Everything is more expensive on bigger cars.

[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My car has AWD and 35 profile ties. It's at least 1200USD for anything that doesn't suck because I have to change all four at the same time.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

40 Euro for a tire? Is that stolen and/or used?

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Thinking more about it, what brand tires di you buy? Chinese firms have been flooding the market with cheap tires to undercut domestic union made tires in America and Europe.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know which ones they exactly were but it was from some German company as far as I remember.

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