brad@tirerack.com

Thanks for all the feedback and praise for us. We ship into Canada daily and use UPS primarily as the shipper. We include all brokerage and duties into the sale so you know your landed price up front. We do our best to beat everyone, but of course cannot all the time. We always encourage people to shop around before buying, so please call me for a quote. I'd be happy to help! BTW, buying from us through our link here also supports Rennlist!

9964runner

after a run-in with a piece of pipe on the 400 yesterday I'm now on the hunt for a set of PS2's, so far
Tiretrends $1748 + install
CDN tire $2083 + install
Braiden $1760 installed
Simply $1550 installed

I'm sure results will differ depending on brands, but for me Simply tire is 15 min away highly recommended and include road force balancing .

CATA19

Do the prices you listed include taxes?
What size tires are you running?
Have you looked at the Super Sports or Hankook's?

9964runner

all are taxes in.
225/40/18 285/30/18 But I'm seriously considering up-sizing to 235 295
unfortunately Michelin haven't sized Super Sports for the rear.

KenW

Howdy, Sent you an e-mail and PM about PS2s in Montréal, 235 & 295, hopefully will be interesting at half price of brand new. Cheers!

9964runner

email sent, tks

BruceP

Just a word of warning about that: I ordered winter tires from them last year, and the tires I received were three years old. I called them on it, and they were a bit weasely about the way they're stored etc, but the bottom line is the same: 3 year old tires at half the price of fresh ones... end up costing the same as fresh ones.

The customer service experience was great with Tire Rack, but those tires are cheap for a reason.

swbatte

That sucks. I'll be sure to ask in the future - but so far I've been good with my purchases from TR. Perhaps inventory that turns over regularly is a safer bet and they don't sell as many snow tires as high performance or 4 season sets.

BruceP

It scared me off, unfortunately. The tires in question were Blizzaks for our Abarth, not what you'd call exotic tires. Whereas we just put new summer tires on the wife's MINI at a local retailer, and they were date stamped this May. Below is the complete text of their position on tire aging, so this story is fairly told. It felt to me like I wasn't the first person to ask:

Tire Rack works with the global tire manufacturers we represent to procure the latest production available. Our tires are never stored outdoors or in containers exposed to the elements and we utilize inventory control systems that rotate tires through our warehouses.

However low-volume specialty and seasonal tires that cannot be produced on an ongoing, economically reasonable basis are often only produced periodically by their manufacturers. Typically these tires won’t re-enter production until preexisting supplies have neared exhaustion, which can result in some chronologically older tires arriving at our warehouses that have previously been properly stored in the tire manufacturers’ warehouses or in transit to us.

Fortunately by having eliminated the negative influence of temperature extremes and exposure to direct sunlight, these new un-mounted, un-driven tires are known to age very slowly. You can learn more about tire aging and how to determine the age of a tire on our website ant the following URLs:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...jsp?techid=138

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...jsp?techid=172
And

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete....jsp?techid=11
We thank you for your business. If you need further assistance or have any other questions, please contact our Customer Service Department and we’ll be happy to assist you. We are available at 1-888-981-3953, extension 4360. Outside of the United States please call 574 287-2345.

swbatte

Their explanation would seem to suggest that one would find older specialty tires at every supplier, unless TR orders so many at a time that it takes them forever to sell out of that spec before placing an order for more recently produced tires.

Interesting food for thought. Thanks for sharing this with us.

San56dra

pay higher prices up here vs the US.

creaturecat

i am at 550 for 4 tires from tire rack. including taxes, shipping,
2 x 255 40 17
2 x 205 50 17

Kumho ecsta spt

I tried getting them for a reasonable price in Vancouver.
They looked at me like i was from Mars.

aviography

I've bought 2 sets of tires from Tire Rack, first set was only a couple of months old, the second set was 5 months old, not overly happy about it but won't lose any sleep over it.

A coworker almost bought some tires on deep discount at TR, until he read the disclaimer that these were several years old, he chose not to get them.

911 Rod

I'd go anywhere to find the discontinued 245/45/16's !

Pags993

^^^ I think Fuzion ZRI's made by Bridgestone Firestone was the last readily available street perf tire made in that size if I am not mistaken. Someone has to have some stock somewhere.