Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson
Originally Posted by Wolf359
Originally Posted by 69GTX
Last time I shopped for summer performance tires for my Camaro, BJ's was the best price by far on BFG Sport Comp 2's...including on line tire discount dealers, Tire Rack and others. They also had a $70 mfg discount. Since they didn't do alignments, I used the quote from BJ's to get a price match/price beat from Town Fair Tire....who could align them as well as purchase/mounting/balance. Good deal overall.
I used to go to Town Fair, but they actually don't include lifetime balancing. Plus the last time I got tires there, there's certain tires that aren't covered by the road hazard warranty. Which happened to be the Michelin tires I bought. Costco does the lifetime balance, rotation, flat fix and road hazard for their flat rate install price of $15.
And yes, when Costco has a sale on tires, no one else can beat them, that's the $70 off Michelin plus the 1 cent installation. I think it worked out to be about $50 cheaper than everyone else. So if there wasn't a sale, it would have been more than others. They have that Michelin sale pretty often, seems like every other sale is their Michelin sale so just wait a month. They also seemed to know in advance when it was going to happen because when I called them once, they told me to wait a week for the sale to kick in.
I just get the 3 year alignment warranty at Goodyear for $159 so the "free" alignment from Town fair isn't worth much especially when they charge $50 for a 4 wheel alignment and only the front is "free".
Yes but I've never seen a Costco that does Alignments.
Right, neither BJ's nor Costco do alignments. They just sell tires. Goodyear, Firestone, NTB, etc will all do alignments, they all have various terms, from 3-5 years to lifetime depending on the chain and what you buy. I don't demand that the tire store also do alignments. The free alignment that you get at Town fair gets lost if you have to get the tires balanced which they don't cover, but Costco/BJs does. Plus road hazard which Town fair also doesn't do on certain tires.