wtf.....someone splain this to beed
the photo you see above is the 225/50WR17 Kumho ECSTA ASX. now beed researches the internet before he buys anything. and he did some surfing on some maxima sites where many folks said these kumhos are great replacement tires for the bridgestone potenzas that came on the car.
supposedly much quieter than the potenzas and just as good in the performance department. anyhoo, beed's potenzas are about as bald as his head. bald on beed's head looks good, bald on beed's tires don't look good at all. it actually looks pretty scary when there's a storm brewing on the horizon.
so beed breaks down and goes to sears. he knows a guy there and always uses him so he can get the points or whatever sears uses that they don't call a commission even tho' that's what it is.
beed axes "how much to put me in a set of kumhos?" him: clacking away on his keyboard, and isn't clacking one of those words that sounds like what it is? "umm, with road hazard $1,139.03, each tire is 214 dollars" beed: "screw me with a red hot poker next time, i don't believe i can commit to this right now" him: "we'll be here" beed: in his mind "hell yeah but not with any of beed's cheddah"
so beed goes home and gets on the internet. he had found this place before where their prices can't be beat. it's a place called tire rack dot com. beed clacks in the pertinent info such as make and model and year and it spits out all kinds of tires beed can outfit his pimp ass whip with. most importantly it spits out the kumho ecstas. dare you guess what they wanted for them. beed want you to close your eyes and pick out a number between one and one googol. after you have the number look at the next paragraph.
eighty-eight frickin' dollars apiece. with 44 dollars shipping added on the grand total is 396.12. then beed has to pay kentucky tire exchange to mount and balance them. that will hit around a hundred bucks but beed's maxima will soon be wearin' new sneaks and for 600 dollars less than sears wanted.
these are the exact same tires too. not factory seconds or blemished. the same frickin tire and one place wants 214 and another place wants 99 when you include shipping. thank God for the internet.
beed's eyes are still popping open zombie style at 2:30 every morning no matter what time he goes to bed. he put it to good use this morning. went in to work early and am leaving early today.
your buddy,
dahbeed andretti.
posted by dahbeed at 7:57 AM
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I've been tracking that Tirerack.com site for a few years now. I've always wanted to put some rims on my Civic, but never had the extra coin to do it. I like how you can pick your exact car and dress it up how you want. I looked through all of the rims and rubber wraps they had until I had my dream set up. Unfortunaly it was gonna run me a couple grand.
Now, I'm afraid, with as much as my whip sits in a parking structure, that if I get some bling, someone with jack them. I've yet to see it happen in my parking structure, but I don't want to be the first.
Also, there are just some places in Memphis where you don't want to be a honkey sitting on chrome dubs. Know what I mean?
i've done the same thing homie. virtual pimping your ride. it is a cool feature. i'm one of those guys that always wanted rims but just can't pull the trigger cuz they too high.
i almost went with them from the get-go but i wanted to give homie a chance and if it had of been anywhere close i would have gone with sears but in beed's wallet an extra six bills ain't close.
No, there's no chance I spend six large more at Sears when I can find them elsewhere. There's no "road Protection" plan that good. It sounds like almost twice the price to me. I get kind of stingy about things like that too. Luckily, my Civic doesn't need expensive tires on it. I can go to Sam's Club and get hooked up for a couple hundred. I don't think Adrianne's new car has that same luxury though. Fortunately I don't drive much, so I don't think about getting new tires very often. Hell, I forget to change my oil in a timely manner, all the time. I'm well past overdue right now!
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