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I try to do business with mom and pop shops as much as possible. All the local mom and pop tire shops have been bought out over the years and become trash.

I went back to DT after a 20+ year hiatus and found their service, pricing, and willingness to work with me delightful.

For example my car uses a very specific tire and I got a flat on the side wall. They just happened to keep a set from a previous driver in near new condition to replace that one tire for labor only until the very specific tire could be brought in 3 weeks later!

Then they discounted the original labor off the new tire purchase price.

My only beef with discount tire is their anti-weed policy for their employees.

When it's time to replace I usually go with Walmart. I buy whatever tire is on rollback online, ship to atore, and they put it on. Their autocenter has the cheapest rate for putting on tires.

Last time I paid $45 a tire and $11 for installation.

Yes it's Walmart, but I'm broke and this is like $100 cheaper than the next option

Last time I needed multiple tires, they wanted about $150 note fir the tires, and wanted to charge $35 per tire changed.

I went elsewhere with slightly cheaper tires and the change was included in the service.

Junk yards in general are great. Just pick up spares of literally anything you need

While I definitely agree that the wealthy should be paying more in taxes, this isn't an especially accurate take.

1. There were way more deductions available. Basically, nobody ever paid any taxes at such a high rate.

2. The primary reason for the post-war "golden age" that MAGA waxes nostalgia about is because almost the entire manufacturing sector of most European countries was wiped out. By comparison, the US was almost fully intact, and had a massive new base of workers trained in manufacturing. We went from a nation of farmers to a nation of city-dwelling industrialists almost overnight.

I don't see how we could ever get back to the 50s - 60s era of growth and security again, but overhauling taxation and more union representation could probably at least wind us back a few decades.

That’s what made the golden days that conservatives want to return to so golden.

Stop it. If those conservatives could read they'd be very upset.

I’ve read that you can often buy a single replacement and they’ll “shave” it down to match the tread of the existing tires.

I watched a tech bro crash his sports car, come out, laughed, and then walked into his garage to jump into another sports car.

Subarus are actually one of the worst-case vehicles for this. I really don't understand the love for those things.

My partner has one and with the 'need to replace every tire if you replace one' thing, ads showing up in the infotainment center, the battery dying if the key fob is stored too close to the car (real stuff, it's legit written in the manual not to store the key near the car because of this, ask me how we know), she's so fed up with it.

Edit: To clarify the 'one of the worst case', other AWD/4WD vehicles have higher tolerances for size mismatch than Subarus. Like, I think literally every other major manufacturer is better about this.

Yup, having only ever driven Subarus, this is what I have always been told. The ever-so-slightly different diameter of a worn VS new tire can cost you way more money than a three additional tires in the long run.

I had a manager who told me that he and his wife both bought new cars every year. He said this while lecturing me for requesting time to take my car to the shop.

When I said I couldn't afford a new car, his response was that he and his wife saved so much in repair bills, they couldn't afford not to.

Fortunately we made this illegal in the US and we're working on banning E-bikes under the guise of protecting kids.