Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:03:22 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:

>  At 10/23/2006 11:55 AM, dicconf wrote:
>
> > $155 for a tire?  What is it, one of those new titanium-belted
> > radials?
>
>  Either you haven't been to a tire store lately, or you are driving
>  something where the pedals go around and around...
>
>  The Michelin radials for my Jeep Grand Cherokee were a bit more than
>  that a couple of years ago.  Not bargain basement tires by any means,
>  but I figure my life is worth a few bucks, and they certainly
>  perform.  On a dollars per mile basis they aren't all that expensive
>  anyway...they have a 65,000 mile warranty.

In my case it's a Bridgestone which came as original equipment with a
2007 Honda Civic Coupe.  It's not one of the cheap ones.  Normally I'm a
Michelin guy, but I want all four tires to be the same.  And the other
three now have about 700 miles on them.

--Ted White