>> $982, almost triple what the radials would have cost at Wal-Mart.
Being in debt completely sucks. If the couple has cards, they’re probably being extorted to the tune of ~30% interest. Yes, it’s extortion, but I’m not demanding that asshole, lawmaking heroes step in to change it.
Obamaville on wheels.
When it comes to the love of money, many people will do almost anything, we even see this with large companies like phone companies and cable, and banks, to much of America, God isn’t looking when it is ‘business’.
This story demonstrates an appalling lack of resourcefulness (and more evidence of the dumbing down of America that is the result of the welfare nanny state). If you’re that desparate, just go to a junk yard. If nothing else, you can always get four of the “doughnut” spare tires and drive around on those until you can save up the money for Wal-mart tires.
I really don’t believe this is so much about tires, as it is about ghetto rims. It’s not unusual where I live to see what
appears to be a $500 car with 2 grand worth of rims. Used tires can still be picked up fairly cheaply.
a fool and his money....
Seems like a good deal.
You need em? We got em....at our prices.
You no pay.... You Nova ...
There’s a ‘rent a tire’ outfit down the road from me. I’ve been passing the place for a year and half now, and never did understand what the heck was up with their business name. Thanks for the explanation.
Gee, can I rent gas, too?
I was at a party in the park for three days and when I finally went to my car there was a creep with a van who was obviously getting ready to steal my tires.
Try a junk yard and get rims with tires on them. I think I see another “reality” show coming next season.
If they can’t afford tires, how can they afford car insurance? Oh wait, they probably don’t have any.
If they could afford the 54+ bucks a month for rent, why didn’t they do it the way I did when I was young, buy one tire each month until you have all 4. Would be cheap tires but it would have saved them lots of money. After they had the 4 tires they could keep putting that 54 or so dollars in the bank for when the next financial emergency came along.
I ain’t buying that anyone can buy 4 new tires and get them mounted and balanced for $350, even from Wallymart world
A lot of wrecking yards will have tire places nearby.
And you can get xlent deals on batteries, the mfg date is usually on a sticker on the battery, and the wrecking yards have enuff of them to choke a goat.
It’s not unusual to get a hundred dollar battery for 20 bucks.
This article is totally untrue. Not even demowits are that stupid.
You can't fix stupid. When did they start thinking about replacing their tires? What else did they buy during the period that they should have been thinking "tires"?
That business finds a way to offer more choices (including bad ones) should be a surpise.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that tires weren't the first consumable that the Cherrys rented or paid high interest rates for, instead of planning to buy outright.
This is a story about people who can't handle their money, not about rental tires.
Renting tires? I think I’d prefer dumpster diving behind the local Firestone or NTB store. There’s lots of junk tires out there that still have 5000-10000 miles of treadwear left on them.
They probably can’t sell them due to liability issues, but if they’re in the dumpster, they’re fair game IMHO.
Here in NorCal you can always buy a used tire with 15,000+ tread miles left on it for about $25.