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[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Doxatek@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

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

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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