CrashOverride
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- 2015 Mustang GT
My neighbor is a director of sales for Tires Warehouse, the place that many SoCal tire retailers buy from. This guy knows tires. He could tell me what tire my car had, by looking at the tread pattern across the street. So I'm lucky in that I get a deal on tires. Spent over $2000 on meats. But, I asked him about why they are getting so expensive. He said one word. Tariffs. Rubber comes from China now, and I think he said there is literally a tariff per tire on import. And this was before the stuff with Trump. I don't know what he marks them up at, but the deals he gets me are usually a little bit better than tire rack. Although sometimes I get a steal on tires when they clear them out. I got rear OEM tires for the Mustang for $100 each. He told me that a lot of people don't go with the OEM, so they clear them out. And yeah, I know it's not a great tire for retail cost, but it's a heck of a $100 tire if you know what I mean.
It's cool because I get all kinds of Pirelli pens, Hankook hats and so forth. He's like the automotive equivalent of Santa Claus.
It's cool because I get all kinds of Pirelli pens, Hankook hats and so forth. He's like the automotive equivalent of Santa Claus.
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