[Shotimes] flat tire - tire wall damage?

[Ron Porter]

I never used to buy extended warranties for anything, but now I will not buy
a new car, nor new tires, without it. Particularly on a newer car, an
out-of-warranty repair can zing past $1K fast enough to make your head
spin!!

Anyway on the Michelins that I had Discount Tire install last spring, the
prices were as such:

Lifetime Balancing: 				4 X $10.00 = $40
Mounting, new stems, and RH Warranty:	4 X $22.50 = $89

$129 out-the door. These are $165 (@ Tire Rack, more elsewhere) Michelin
Exalto PE2s that I got for a great price.

Considering that, with the lousy roads up here, I could have driven 50' out
of the tire store, hit a pothole, and tear open the sidewall. The RH
warranty is well worth it to me. We have used it on a few tires over the
last 7-8 years.

Ron Porter

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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of bjshov8
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:49 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] flat tire - tire wall damage?

I guess it depends on whether you feel lucky or not.  I've bought the
warranty a few times but never used it.  I figure with the number of tires
I've purchased, that I've saved enough by not buying the warranty to have
paid for several sets of tires.

I bought the extended warranty on my 90 SHO, as I recall it was about $1k.
I managed to get a new rack out of it but that was it, so the $1k warranty
paid for my $0.5k rack.  I've re-evaluated and never buy extended warranties
unless it is for something that I'm really suspicious about or that I think
will have a higher than average failure rate.

I have a co-worker who jogs every day, no matter the weather.  He bought a
64k MP3 player several years ago, and bought the extended warranty.  He has
had the player replaced about 3 times for free, and each time he is upgraded
to whatever they are currently selling, so now he has a 1MB MP3 player.

> > You did buy the Road Hazard warranty, didn't you??  ;-)
>
> I totally agree.  Nowadays, with tires costing so much, the RH warranty
should ALWAYS be included.