Comments on: Why Buy Your Tires at Costco

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:23:07 +0000

Listen you nut job air and nitrogen are both passe. Argon is the way to go! You can drive from the center of the earth to the outer limits with it. Spread the word don’t let the man or nitpicker surpress the truth!

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:45:16 +0000

The main advantage of using nitrogen is that it leaks out slower than regular air…but this isn’t terribly important for most general purpose tires since most of them leak rather slowly in the first place. Nitrogen can be an advantage for people using specialty tires for things such as drag racing and off-road applications. Many “over-sized” tires can leak very quickly. One of the pro-street drag cars I worked on would go flat in the rear in a day, if not quicker. Slicks and E.T. Streets don’t hold air well at all…but then again they’re usually used at terribly low pressures anyway.

By: jeffbone

jeffbone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:26:24 +0000

Costco screwed me out of a $60 tire rebate, then refused to honor the “lifetime” balance and rotation. They claimed the car was misaligned even though our regular mechanic checked it out and pronounced it within specs.

The couple of times I successfully took our other car in for the balance and rotation, we had to wait over an hour for the work to be completed — and this was a slow time in the middle of the week.

Love Costco for groceries and electronics, but will never buy another set of tires there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:42:28 +0000

You CAN add regular air from any gas station to your tires from Costco with the green cap, get a life and learn the facts before writing wrong information.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:39:05 +0000

Costco’s lifetime tire rotation and balancing is not lifetime, but only five years or 60,000 miles, whichever comes first. I just brought my van in the get the free tire rotation and balancing and Costco refused to do it because I bought the tires more than five years ago. I hardly drive this van so the tires have almost no wear, so its not like the tires were worn out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:17:25 +0000

That’s because the recommendation is every 6-8k miles for rotation. Anytime the tread difference is more than 3/32nd’s between the front and rears a rotation cannot be performed. Costco follows what Michelin’s policy on tire rotation says. Your lack of maintenance is what cost you, not Costco. You should always have the deeper tread tires on the rear anyways, per RMA, Michelin, Goodyear and Bridgestone, Safety First!

By: Bill Carrick

Bill Carrick — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:15:11 +0000

Does Costco cover the tire repair or replacement if there is not a Costco in the area?

By: Boy Racer

Boy Racer — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:30:00 +0000

FYI on Nitrogen for your tires. 1) Yes it is a gimmick. 2) It’s okay to mix regular air and Nitrogen. 3) The real reason to use nitrogen is to limit the Delta(T)variable. IE expansion and contraction under HIGH temps. >>>>IE RACE TEMPS approaching vulcanization temps<<<< Thats why we use it on the track for RACE purposes I race cars an bikes there is a HUGE difference with Nitrogen. My grip on my bike is WAY more predictable at speeds, the same with my car. On the road at road speeds you won't notice.

Long story short: don't pay extra and mix it up and keep your tires properly inflated ladies and gents!

By: Vince in VA

Vince in VA — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:46:40 +0000

There is no Lifetime Warranty Replacement. Read your warranty, (printed on the back of your receipt) it is at this URL and it is 60 months.
http://www.costco.com/Images/Content/Misc/PDF/TIRE.pdf.

By: Winston

Winston — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:19:49 +0000

DEFINITION OF A MORON: someone who drives around on flattish-tires, looking for a nitrogen equipped Costco. Alternate definition: dumb ash called Nitpicker.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:49:13 +0000

nitpicker, you’re a sucker if you buy into the N2 thing. You have no business expressing your uninformed opinion.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:17:32 +0000

our truck tires are old but have way under the 50000 miles for warranty but they are old. the tires are warping and out of round. they were bought in 2005 and costco will not prorate them they say ” the warranty means 5 years or 50000 miles.” no where on the contract does it say 5 years. to me this is an outrage milage is milage not years. Dont say miles if you mean years!!

By: Jeff in SoCal

Jeff in SoCal — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:05:28 +0000

Hydrogen & helium are such a small part of the atmosphere (0.000055% & 0.000524%) that they can completely leak out and not cause a measurable change in your tire pressure.

The only significant benefit is the lack of moisture. A tire will have worn out on the outside before oxygen causes any significant damage to its inside, so excluding oxygen is also insignificant. Ozone (plus sunlight) will destroy a tire’s exterior before any significant damage is done to the interior.

By: Nick in NC

Nick in NC — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:48:56 +0000

HOW TO GET 80K MILES FROM A 80K WARRANTY.

1) ROTATE AS REQUIRED.
2) BALANCE THEM
3) ENSURE FRONT END ALIGNMENT IS CORRECT.
. This will eat a tire in a few thousand miles.

My first 80K tires lasted 76,490 miles and I changed them. They probably could have gone the extra 3500 but I was going on a trip and it was snow weather up north. Besides the sale was on that week.

By: Nick in NC

Nick in NC — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:44:35 +0000

regarding Lee W;

I find that as difficult to believe as it was to read.
IF the tires were $700 then they must be for a huge monster truck.
As I was waiting for mine ($510 with tax and stems etc. then less the $75). I walked around to see the different tires. The most expensive one I found was $149 each which would be $596.

The price he quoted was most likely inflated as was the story he told.
Maybe he will learn to spell. Everyone hits a typo once in awhile, but ‘balanced’ “warranty” repeatedly wrong several times… hummm. Does anyone believe that he can tell the difference between 4/32 and 8/32 nor less actually know how to read a measuring device?

That tells a lot. Maybe he will shop at Wal-mart next time for tires, it would be closer to his trailer park anyway.