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Last updated: 09 Sep : 01:06 Details
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Well my last post said about my financial milestone. It got put on hold after my new car was inspected, turns out the tires on it were @ 4/32 of an inch on 3 out of 4 tires and 3/32 on the one. i passed inspection but was told id need 4 new tires within 3 months. He quoted me a price of 700 with the tires he had in stock. I thought to myself i paid 98 a tire for my pickup truck why the HELL would car tires be 140 a piece, as he quoted. Turns out with the sport version of any car... they require, you guessed it, sport tires; aka 'high performance'. So i tired shopped several tires, reviews, ratings, etc. The very next day I'm headed to work and an 8ft long piece of road debris, a steel, possibly chrome pipe or tube with fittings or clamps attached is hit by one vehicle, bounced off another, and sent careening at me at nearly 60mph, now with a v shape and flying like a boomerang. luckily for me i was able to use evasive maneuvers and professional instinct to avoid the debris but ended up running it over with the left front tire causing a blister in the sidewall. no cosmetic or structural damage to the vehicle or under-body, i was lucky. 
Lucky too that it happened BEFORE i got new tires. However my tire shopping was over, with that blister in the tire my hand was forced, i NEEDED new tires now. NTB quoted me a price of 800 dollars!!!!!!  w/ mounting alignment and the whole 9 yards. Pep Boys gave me a quote of 682 dollars with mounting, balancing, alignment, road hazard warranty (if the tire is damaged within the 50k mi rating they will repair it free. or replace at a prorated fee depending on tread-life). On top of that pep boys is 'home of the buy 3 get one free' deal. so i have a rebate for 112 dollars within the next 2 months or so. So in the end 4 tires, alignment balancing mounting 121 point inspection, and a bunch of other sweet stuff i end up paying 571 dollars. Which is a fantastic deal.
Now i got the pep boys brand tire 'Definity' VX700 which is actually made by Hankook (a racing tire mfg). So its their name on the tire but the quality and performance i would expect out of the company that produces it.  smiler to the OE tires that were on my car, these are low-profile, high performance, UTQG 360 A A, V-Rated tires. For those of you that don't know what the fuck that means Refer to Here.
The quick explanation is that if i were to run my car at a high rate of velocity, which i generally do not do, nor advise, the tire would hold up. V is an alphabetical rating used by tire companies to dictate the speed rating of a tire. mine is rated at 149mph  , so basically i could cruise at 149mph without loosing handling, traction, or overheat my tires  . anything above that would be dangerous and unrecommended. however i do not plan on running at that high rate of speed  , high performance tires come in H V and W ratings. i don't have much other choice. but its nice to know they can handle it if i had to run from some unknown danger. 
So what does this all mean  ? well i got 4 brand new high performance low profile tires on my car, and am out nearly 700 bucks. I'm down to 430 right now  . i got a paycheck of roughly that same number expected today so ill be back up to 800 by Tuesday afternoon, so perhaps by the end of march ill be back over 1000 again 
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