Techzilla Retires with 100,000!

I wish!

Actually I'm referring to a new set of shoes for the Jeep. Wearing out the tires is something I do going around fixing computers. On my previous jeep about 4 years ago I spent around $600 on a set of Michelins. I was nearing the 120,000 mile mark on a 50,000 mile tire when the jeep was stolen. When i bought my Liberty 2 years ago it had the same set of tires on it.

Following a recent flat, I started looking around for a set of replacement tires. New tires being of course out of my ballpark pricewise at the moment. I spent an entire day searching the web, and driving around the area checking the wrecking yards and stuff. Litterally nobody had a matched set of anything. And as you might guess, I was at the 100,000 mark on these tires.

Over the next few days, I started checking craigslist in several surrounding areas but still nothing until yesterday.

Score!

I decided to call around to the tire dealers and get prices and ran into the number of a re-capper down in Red Bluff. They just happened to have a matched set of Michelins in my size. I was floored to hear the price they were asking.

$35.00+$3.00 core+$5.00 mount and balance+tax....out the door around $160.00.

These tires have approximately 70% of the tread left and that's more than the tires that came with the Jeep! Should be good for another 100,000 now.