Re: Snow Tires Prices (and you thought it had died..)

[Porsray@aol.com]

take your busines elsewhere - I paid $85 apiece mounted at a little local
tire
store; same size as yours 195/65X15.

Places like the Tire Rack in car mags advertise steel wheels/snow tire
packages
for Audis, so i assume they are readily available.  Try some large
"recyclers";
they usually deal in new steel wheels.

If the no-names aren't Bridgestone Blizzaks, I would say forget it.
 Pittsburgh
tire dealers sell no-names like crazy; tried them once on my old honda,
cursed
them every mile I drove them.

I think this guy's blowing smoke; you have no other choices? Where have your
friends gotten their tires? 

Ray Calvo (porsray@aol.com)
1990 Coupe Quattro

In a message dated 96-11-14 01:17:10 EST, you write:

 Hey all,
     I finally got around to pricing some snow tires and wanted to run it by
you
 to see what you think. My local Nokkia distributor/dealer has the Hep 10s
for
 both the A6 and the Golf. The A6 price: $110/each including studs.. mounted
and
 balanced [195/?/15)
 The Golf Price: $77.00 same deal [175/70/13]
 
 They have another brand of tire.. can't recall which at the moment, that he
 claims was designed and tested for the Japanese market (non-studs) that are
 exceptional snows. He says that since they aren't brand-name, like Michelin,
 the price is reasonable. $76.00 (for the A6)
 
 Do you feel that these prices are reasonable? Does anybody know of a cheaper
 place to get them. He had a strong point, that service reputation stands for
a
 great deal and a few buck either way is insignificant. However, the cars are
 usually about 180 miles away from this dealer but he has franchise dealers
 within 100 miles of home base. 
 
 The man seemed VERY knowledgable and with a exceptional demeanor. I'm
usually
 extremely weary of salespeople of any sort, and this guy cut through the
usual
 huffy saleperson BS. He almost sounded like he owned the place and had a
vested
 interest in his clientel. Maybe he did.. 
 
 Thirdly, and this is the part that I REALLY wondered about. This guy claimed
 that there aren't any steel wheels for the A6. He just outfitted a customer
 with the same package that I was inquiring about. He had to get wheels from
 Audi.. and they were very difficult to locate. Apparently, there aren't many
in
 the country. Price for the wheels was $70/each.
 
 Steels for the VW are easy to find.. no problems there. Well folks.. whatcha
 think?  My personal inclination is to go with the no-name brand snows for
the
 A6 and get the Hep 10s for the VW. The Quattro in the A6 should perform
 admirably with decent quality snows, even if they aren't nokkias, and the
Golf
 REALLY needs amazing snows.
                                -Osman Parvez
                                 89 200q (148K miles)
                                 Siena College
                                 Albany NY
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