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    Quote Originally Posted by Proton View Post
    I want to know the brand of sneakers your putting on the old girl so that I may avoid purchasing them, with 270K on the meter and your on your eight set of free tires your averaging 38 thousand a pair.
    The ones on there now are Grand Prix Performance GT, but I don't think that is what they have put on every time. Kumho(?) rings a bell, but I don't know. Theoretically, softer tires give better grip, while harder tires last longer. I really don't care. They are putting them on for free.



    When I was delivering pizza and buying my own tires, I worked out what seemed to be the best strategy for tire maintenance. Auto shops want to rotate the tires front to back every so often. This will wear out all tires roughly equally, and all at once. Cha-ching! you're on the hook for four tires at once. I found that it I didn't rotate the tires, the fronts would wear out well before the back, so... I would run the fronts off, buy two tires and put the new tires on the rear and put the rear tires (which were in nearly new condition) on the front. Burn the fronts off, rinse repeat. You were only on the hook for two tires at a time and you always had decent tires all around the car.
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