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Purchasing your tires from Costco Wholesale, whether it be online or from one of our local warehouse locations, provides you with several key advantages. Our published retail pricing includes all of the shipping and handling costs associated with your tires.


Your Costco.com tire order will arrive at your selected warehouse in approximately 5-10 business days from the time of your order. You will be notified by phone or email when your tires arrive at the warehouse and you will have 14 days for installation.


When you buy tires from Costco, you receive a free road hazard warranty for the life of your tires. You also get a mountain and road hazard warranty with no mileage limit. They also offer flat tire repair, pro-rated tire replacement, an alignment check, and a tire balancing service.


When you buy tires and an Installation Package from Costco, you get lifetime maintenance services throughout the lifespan of the tires. That encompasses tire balancing, tire rotations, flat repairs, and inflation pressure checks. Flat repairs, in particular, can be expensive, even with insurance.


Aside from its lifetime perks, additional benefits from the Tire Center include a guarantee of no additional shipping and handling costs for purchases. (Members can buy their tires online or in a store.) Costco also inflates new tires with nitrogen (as opposed to compressed air), which can help tires retain their pressure marginally longer. Costco says this extends tire life and improves fuel economy.


profile register preferences faq searchnext newest topic next oldest topicAuthorTopic: Please read before buying tires from CostcoCostco Memberunregistered posted July 25, 2005 06:19 AM Costco Tire Center will not honor the warranty advertised on a large sign in their showroom unless the original tire purchaser takes the car in. They do not inform anyone that the warranty is non-transferrable. It is only stated in the small print on the back of the receipt a customer receives "after" the tires are already purchased.I purchased a used car from an acquaintance who proudly gave me receipts showing that she had recently had all new tires put on the car by Costco Tire Center in Salem, Oregon. At the time, I felt good about buying not only a well-maintained car, but also one with 80,000 mile tires from a corporation which supposedly cares about its members.WRONG, when I discovered a bulge in one of the tires and happened to be near the warehouse, which is 1 1/2 hours from my home, they refused to replace or repair the tire. When I asked to speak to the manager, he quite cheerfully pointed to the small print on the back of the receipt that said the Road Hazard Warranty was only honored for the individual who physically purchased the tires. He said this while standing beneath the large hanging sign which advertised the Road Hazard Warranty. There was nothing that said the warranty was only good for the person who went to the warehouse and paid for the tires in the beginning.After I said I'd be taking my business to a competitor who has proven over and over again that it does honor warranties regardless of who made the original purchase, the assistant warehouse manager offered to wave the mounting and installation fee if I purchased a new tire.When I refused to buy another tire from them when they so obviously didn't stand behind their product, I was told that if I could get the first owner of the car who had purchased the tires to go to the warehouse, they would cheerfully replace the tire for her free of charge.So, I'm stuck with a tire Costco won't replace. A Costco Tire Center employee who inspected it even said it had 60-80% of the tread left (the tires have under 12,000 miles on them and were supposed to be 80,000 mile tires). All they offered to give me was free mounting rather than their usual $11.00 fee. Funny, they also have a sign saying the price of tires is reduced by $10.00 if the tires are mounted elsewhere. They don't seem to follow their own advertising.I had to purchase a new tire elsewhere. It would not make sense or be safe to make the 1 1/2 hour trip back to the warehouse, or ask the previous car owner to return immediately from her weekend out of town, just so Costco Tire Center would have to honor a warranty which should be good for anyone.If every warranty given on every item sold were only covered for the purchaser, anyone receiving a gift or buying a used car would be unprotected. This is a safety issue as well as bad customer service. Advertising a warranty on a large sign, then only providing disclaimers in small print on the back of a receipt also seems deceptive.Do not buy tires from Costco Tire Center. If anyone other than the original tire purchaser, including someone borrowing or buying the car, needs service, they are out of luck.IP: Logged


This isn't an isolated case. It has become increasingly common for car dealerships to charge this fee for nitrogen-filled tires on new vehicles. The prices can range from $100 as a stand-alone item to more than $700 if it is bundled with other items such as window tinting or door edge guards.


Consumer Reports conducted a yearlong study to determine how much pressure was lost in tires filled with nitrogen versus those filled with air. The results showed that nitrogen did reduce pressure loss over time, but it was only a 1.3 psi difference from air-filled tires. Among 31 pairs of tires, the average loss of air-filled tires was 3.5 psi from the initial 30 psi setting. Nitrogen-filled tires lost an average of 2.2 psi from the initial setting. Nitrogen won the test but not by a significant margin.


And though tire-pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) now come standard on cars, a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration study found that only 57 percent of vehicles with TPMS had the correct tire pressure. That's because most systems are only meant to signal that a tire has very low pressure, not to show that the pressure is optimal. Presumably, nitrogen-filled tires would save us from our own laziness, but at a price.


Nitrogen is free at Costco and at some car dealerships we called, but these are rare cases. We called a number of tire shops that carry nitrogen and found that the prices for a nitrogen fill ranged from $7 to $10 per tire. Assuming you're diligent about checking your tires monthly but can't make use of a free nitrogen service, you could potentially spend a few hundred dollars a year on nitrogen. Compare that to most gas stations where air is free or $1.50 at the most for a fill-up of all four tires.


I've now purchased two sets of car tires from Costco. They are great tires (Michelin) at the best prices I could find anywhere. The first set lasted as advertised and I had no problems with them or the service at Costco. But the second set has been a bit different. Not with the tires themselves, but with the service from Costco. It's so bad that it's making me re-think my future tire decisions. I probably won't buy another set of tires there.


For those of you who don't know the setup at Costco, when you buy tires from them, they will rotate the tires free of charge every 7,500 miles. You simply bring the car in, turn the keys over, and they rotate them for nothing. Not a bad deal, right? Well, there are a couple of snags:


So here's the problem for me: time is money. If I have the uncertainty of having to wait for an indefinite amount of time and have to plan my entire life around trying to get a semi-decent length of time to get my tires rotated, it's just not worth it. I can get tires for only a bit more somewhere else that does take appointments -- and that has mechanics that know how to tighten nuts the first time too. As such, I probably won't buy tires from Costco again.


I would look at this the same way as a rebate. Is the price worth buying the item without the rebate? Pay for rotation at the oil change. It's about the same number of miles and usually under 20 bucks. Driving that distance simply to rotate tires isn't free. That's about like driving extra distance to save $2 in gas.


I don't understand why this would keep you from buying tires at Costco. If Costco is the cheapest place to buy these tires why not buy them there and have someone else rotate them (which most likely isn't even needed every 7500 miles).Have you considered rotating your own tires?


Rotating tires yourself is not a good idea... they REALLY should be balanced ANY TIME they are rotated... or you will surely have problems. I've never bought tires at Costco, but have bought them at Sam's Club, and they offer the same deal as Costco as far as free rotating AND balancing for as long as you own the car the tires were installed on. I've had good luck over the years buying tires at Sam's Club, and they even replaced one tire at no cost when it failed after almost 9,000 miles due to a bad belt in the tire. Most places won't do that without prorating the old tire. Some of the tire dealers where I live (thanks to Sam's and Costco I'm sure) now also offer the free lifetime rotating and balancing, and the prices are not that far off from the discount warehouses either, but very few places I've ever found (other than car dealer mechanic shops) will set appointments for tire rotation... that's like oil changes... first come first serve.


I buy my tires at Costco strictly for price.I rotate my own tires or get it done when I have the car serviced. Coming back to check the lug nuts has got to be a ploy to get you in the store. If lug nuts are torque properly there is no need to check them. I have bought 4 sets of tires from Costco and have never had an issue with lug nuts (check them myself). The tire rotation is a cortesy service, also I think to bring you into the store. 041b061a72


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