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Feb 6, 2005 | 02:36 AM

Desertdawg

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From: The Only Corvette in Gila Bend, Az.

St. Jude Donor '09

I had to do it...

For some odd reason, I wound up needing 14 tires all at once. Wanna talk about hitting the play money fund hard.....

So on Thursday I did it, I found an online place that had some great prices on tires, and ordered all of them at once. 4 new shoes for the vette, 4 for the jeep, and 6 for the dually.

I think I am broke for the rest of the year now...

One big plus to ordering that many at once, they are shipping all 14 of them to me for only $90.00...

Feb 6, 2005 | 03:06 AM

BrandonS

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Why 14?!?! 6 for a truck and two cars? Regardless... i'm sorry

Feb 6, 2005 | 04:26 AM

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St. Jude Donor '08

Dayyyyyym that sucks. Would have shipped ya my 90% tread off my car if i would have known. I'll have 17's on it in a couple weeks.

Feb 6, 2005 | 04:33 AM

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From: The Only Corvette in Gila Bend, Az.

St. Jude Donor '09

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Originally Posted by BrandonS

Why 14?!?! 6 for a truck and two cars? Regardless... i'm sorry

Here, let me quote my original post for ya!

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4 new shoes for the vette, 4 for the jeep, and 6 for the dually.

That would have been nice David, to bad I didn't know you were upgrading...

Feb 6, 2005 | 04:41 AM

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From: The Only Corvette in Gila Bend, Az.

St. Jude Donor '09

Item: Pirelli Scorpion Zero
Item price: $92.00
Item quantity: 4
Size: 255/60/15 VR
Total this item: $368.00

Item: Dunlop Mud Rover
Item price: $113.00
Item quantity: 4
Size: 33/12.50/15 LRC OWL
Total this item: $452.00

Item: GOODYEAR WRANGLER HT
Item price: $113.00
Item quantity: 6
Size: 215/85/16 E BSL
Total this item: $678.00

Order subtotal: $1498.00
Shipping - Call us for shipping: $0.00
Sales tax: $0
Order grand total: $1498.00

8 of them are already in Phoenix at the FedEx dock....

Feb 6, 2005 | 06:48 AM

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From: In Dreams There Is Truth Ohio

I need tires for the Vette..the Pirelli's look good for a VR ratedtire..

The Gr70's on it have about 90-95% but they break loose at blip of the throttle

Feb 7, 2005 | 01:33 AM

Desertdawg

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St. Jude Donor '09

Yeah, a few other members here like them. There's nothing else out there in our size with that rating...

PM me if you want the vendor name..(non supporting)...

Feb 7, 2005 | 03:28 AM

grybdn

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I feel your pain, just put new rubber on my vet and my daily, ouch

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Feb 7, 2005 | 05:07 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Desertdawg

Item: Pirelli Scorpion Zero
Item price: $92.00
Item quantity: 4
Size: 255/60/15 VR
Total this item: $368.00

WTH how can italian made tires cost 2 times less than here (they're 178 Euros here, well over 200$) ?? Damn, everything about living in the Netherlands sucks

Last edited by Twin_Turbo; Feb 7, 2005 at 05:42 AM.

Feb 7, 2005 | 05:47 AM

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Wow, I can't get my self to spend $380 on the firehawk tires I want, and I need them badly. You got my respect man!

Feb 7, 2005 | 06:28 AM

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I had to do it...

Nice prices you got over there, come too Norway and take with you all the tires you can carry we take them all... Same tires and the same tire order will cost 3285,-USD ( 21024.-NOK)her in our country. By one beer at the mal and it cost you nearly 1,75.- USD.

But its made by arcticwater and tast wonderful.

Btw, someone out there who have some license plates fore my garage?
And thanks too my friends in the forum who have sendt me some plates earlyer,they fits perfectly on my wall.

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Feb 7, 2005 | 08:16 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Desertdawg

Item: Pirelli Scorpion Zero
Item price: $92.00
Item quantity: 4
Size: 255/60/15 VR
Total this item: $368.00

I just picked up a set of these from a forum member for $200 with 100 miles on them.

Feb 7, 2005 | 08:43 AM

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And the Vette ends up wearing the cheapest shoes of the bunch?

Feb 7, 2005 | 09:00 AM

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Ouch.
I'm in a similar boat.
Just did 4 for the Stratus R/T, 4 for the Jeep right before Christmas.
Now I need 4 for the Vette.
The Astro could use them as well, but; will wait a bit. . .

I feel your pain.

Feb 7, 2005 | 09:14 AM

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WOW

Feb 7, 2005 | 09:17 AM

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Well, you can honestly say you are 'tired'

Feb 7, 2005 | 09:28 AM

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Well, at least they were all relatively cheap tires! You spent $1500 for three vehicles. I spent $1200 for one car this fall.

15" and 16" Corvette-size tires are dirt cheap. We are lucky. Price the tires for the C6...($700 for the front axle set. $800 for the rear axle set. $1500 for the car set...)

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Feb 7, 2005 | 12:06 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Desertdawg

Those 33" Mud Rover's will look good on the Vette, excellent choice

The Pirellis are good tires, but the tread pattern is a little too pronounced, I've gotten a fair number of comments about them looking too truck-y (most don't notice though). That said, I bought them for the speed rating and I don't regret it.

-Chris

Feb 7, 2005 | 12:23 PM

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isosceles

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At least those look like good prices. I'm sure the rear tires on the Vette had the most wear

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How much is mounting and balancing going to run?

Feb 8, 2005 | 01:42 AM

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From: The Only Corvette in Gila Bend, Az.

St. Jude Donor '09

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Originally Posted by isosceles

How much is mounting and balancing going to run?

Mounting and balancing them myself at a friends place. plus no sales tax, no disposal fee. I got away with this pretty cheap...I think.

I do feel for you guys overseas, it must sock paying twice the price or more for your play toys...

Chris,
I did tease the wife about putting teh mudders on the vette...She didn't think it was funny.
I agree, they have an aggressive tread, but look at some of the C5 tires, they are using almost the same design...

Dave,
The vette also has the smallest tires...

Corvus,
You might want to look into the Pirelli Scorpion's, they are just hands down a better performing tire over all the others in the stock size...

I mounted the Jeep tires today, went from 31-10.50's to 33-12.50's....It sure does look better

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