A customer came in today requesting his summer tires be put on his wheels, and the currently mounted snow tires be discarded. No problem.
Towards the end of the day, I'm off doing an alignment and my tire tech yells "Hey, what size tires are on your Volt?" I tell him 215/55R17's. He yells for me to come take a look.
Low and behold, the tires are almost new Firestone Winterforce's, P215/55R17. There's some very minor cupping on the shoulders, it almost looks like they were used year-round for one season and that's it. The DOT code on them is 3313, so late in the year 2013. I'm not worried about the age, they look like whoever had them stored them properly and they show no sign of degradation or rot. The bead surfaces are mint, as well.
I'm probably just going to get a set of steels for next winter, I thought about buying nicer summer wheels but I really like the stock wheels. I'd rather keep them nice and rock steels in the winter.
Anyways, decent way to end my work day!
Towards the end of the day, I'm off doing an alignment and my tire tech yells "Hey, what size tires are on your Volt?" I tell him 215/55R17's. He yells for me to come take a look.
Low and behold, the tires are almost new Firestone Winterforce's, P215/55R17. There's some very minor cupping on the shoulders, it almost looks like they were used year-round for one season and that's it. The DOT code on them is 3313, so late in the year 2013. I'm not worried about the age, they look like whoever had them stored them properly and they show no sign of degradation or rot. The bead surfaces are mint, as well.
I'm probably just going to get a set of steels for next winter, I thought about buying nicer summer wheels but I really like the stock wheels. I'd rather keep them nice and rock steels in the winter.
Anyways, decent way to end my work day!