Snow tires

[jyl]

No, it is happening all over Oregon. I guess the TPMS law has been on the books for several years but most stores have been ignoring it, now they aren't. No doubt the profit margin on $240 is a factor, but this tire shop has been very good to me over the years.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by jyl

No, it is happening all over Oregon. I guess the TPMS law has been on the books for several years but most stores have been ignoring it, now they aren't. No doubt the profit margin on $240 is a factor, but this tire shop has been very good to me over the years.

Bummer, the nanny state knows what's best for us I guess.

[Billbo]

My commute is 65 miles one way, Blizzaks go on at Thanksgiving and off in April. I'll never go without snows again. Night and day difference. Today the first 20 miles were not plowed after a 4" snowfall, ez pz with snow tires. Get a 2nd set of rims.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by jyl

No, it is happening all over Oregon. I guess the TPMS law has been on the books for several years but most stores have been ignoring it, now they aren't. No doubt the profit margin on $240 is a factor, but this tire shop has been very good to me over the years.

Tirerack was cool with mounting on new rims without TPMS even though the vehicle I listed had TPMS. I think maybe I had to click an extra box to accept that I was being bad, unsafe and generally unamerican.

The problem there is the "new rims" part - I wasn't just doing tires.

I'd expect to be able to find a mom-n-pop that won't worry too much about the sensor. Does Oregon really have that much free time to pay attention to this?

[jyl]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

Tirerack was cool with mounting on new rims without TPMS even though the vehicle I listed had TPMS. I think maybe I had to click an extra box to accept that I was being bad, unsafe and generally unamerican.

The problem there is the "new rims" part - I wasn't just doing tires.

I'd expect to be able to find a mom-n-pop that won't worry too much about the sensor. Does Oregon really have that much free time to pay attention to this?

I probably could have found such a mom and pop shop, but didn't want to run all over town looking. I figure that TPMS is a useful thing anyway, so now I have it on both sets of wheels.

We get snow tires because my wife has to drive four hours over mountain passes to visit her elderly ill mother, sometimes on no notice (mom gets hospitalized, wife has to jump in the car). My wife is not the sort to notice that a tire is deflating, she's more the sort to get stuck twenty miles into a snowy pass with a flat tire, no idea how to change it, and no cell coverage . . .

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by jyl

I probably could have found such a mom and pop shop, but didn't want to run all over town looking. I figure that TPMS is a useful thing anyway, so now I have it on both sets of wheels.

We get snow tires because my wife has to drive four hours over mountain passes to visit her elderly ill mother, sometimes on no notice (mom gets hospitalized, wife has to jump in the car). My wife is not the sort to notice that a tire is deflating, she's more the sort to get stuck twenty miles into a snowy pass with a flat tire, no idea how to change it, and no cell coverage . . .

Hey, the same excuse I use for buying proper snow tires - "cheaper than an insurance deductible / rate hike" also applies there. I 50% wish I would have gotten them but that die is cast...