Another blanket statement that is not backed up by facts . Maybe your area that might be partially true but it all depends on what type of vehicle .
Again you are wrong . There are affordable tires that can be bought .
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There are decades old cars I would like, under 100,000 miles but more than $10,000:
1960 Square-Bird, 60-61 New Yorker, 58-63 Lincoln, 58 P-Hawk, 57-61 S-Hawk, and many more!
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I like to look in Hemings what my old cars would be worth now had I warehoused them. Of course they were pretty well worn and I needed the money, still a 59 Pontiac for $50,000 that I paid $150 dollars for and sold for $125. Hardly anything I own now will be worth $1 in 50 years, or so I think.
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When was the last time you were in a used car lot? $10k+, decade old, 200k mile cars are everywhere?
Here’s 715 cars that meet that criteria for you…
Again you are wrong . There are affordable tires that can be bought .
For someone hanging out in a car discussion forum, you’re pretty mis, and un, informed about the car repair industry.
Go to a tire shop, behind it will be the used tires…take a look…WORN TO THE CORDS or worse! People are not replacing at the warning bars.
Go to Places like Reddit, or most any car repair forum, people will ask “I can only afford 1 tire, the shop says I should at least replace 2 for safety, is this true?”
Go to youtube, look at mechanic vids…one recent, the tire blew out, they put on the spare and drove that down to the cords…the other 3 tires were shot, they just wanted a new spare.
Dude you are seriously disconnected from the reality people are living in.
CashNet USA survey of 1,000 Americans shows that 22 percent of Americans have less than $100 in savings
As of 2022, 42% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings.
There is no such thing as “affordable tires” for some of these folks, it would take their life savings and still come up short for 1 new tire. Ever heard of buying used tires…yeah, that’s an industry, a big industry, for people that can’t afford new ones.
Yeah I know people are struggling. Not only families though but the small businesses that managed to make it through the lockdowns. It’s been kinda like a one two three punch.
There are Chinese tires that will dry rot in 4 years that are affordable but not a bargain in the long run.
I paid $325 after $70 discount for a set of Michelin tires from Costco 4 years ago. Last week the price was $610, today $552. The price of tires follows the cost of oil, in 6 months the price of tires might be reasonable. They say “just get 4 new tires” but it is not an entitlement, you must pay for them.
And you know what ? These people that claim they cant afford two new tires always seem to have money for tobacco, weed, alcohol, or the latest iphone hair extensions or tattoos. If these people hadnt already trashed their credit, they could use a Visa card and buy a pair of tires anywhere.
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Tattoos and tabaco, is everyone a degenerate? I never considered financing tires on a credit card, I can buy tires from the salvage yard for $10 each. Not so easy today with the extreme tire sizes, you won’t find them at the pick-a-part.
Your guess is as good as mine. We had economy cars with excellent fuel economy, even by today’s standards as early as the mid-1980’s, and this continued through the early 2000’s. Unfortunately, most of these models did not sell well, and were laughed at when new. Trying to find one used, which runs today is a tough search, as most people treat a 10+ year old economy car as disposable, and won’t put more than a few hundred bucks into keeping it running.
Even now, you can buy a Mitsubishi Mirage, which has a fuel-efficient 3-cylinder engine. It is also one of the cheapest new cars for sale in the U.S. and for some reason, few people buy them. People still buy huge trucks and SUVs, even when they have no real need for anything larger than a compact car, and then they complain about the cost of fuel, tires, etc.
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Behind 2 women at grocery store checkout. One woman was showing the other her brand-new tattoo which cost her $300. Then proceeded to pay for groceries with EBT card.
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And we have a winner!
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I’m thinking of buying used tires for my utility trailer. Wouldn’t do that for my cars, but the utility trailer is seldom used, sits in one place most of the time. So imo used tires at times for certain applications makes complete sense.
I wouldn’t do that myself like other stuff used only seldom and in a hurry more prone to failure when you don’t want it.
I really am not familiar with this whole used tire availability. I think the last st I bought I had about 5/32 nds on the old ones. The tire shop really didn’t care and they were just going for recycling. I did buy a used tire once. 200 miles from home and they had one my size not bald for $20. Enough to get me home where I could put a new set on. Thing is even if the tire is cheap, you still pay for mounting and balancing so the total price difference is lessened.
When I was young and without much money, I only bought used tires from the junkyard. Most of the tires they sold were in surprisingly great shape- having been taken off of late model wrecks. I bought quite a few full sets of tires that were practically new for pennies on the dollar. Never had any issues with them, they lasted out the remainder of their expected life on my vehicles…
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You guys are a hoot sometimes. I will not ask about different brands of chain saw oil leaking more, since I know already. I won’t complain about inappropriate use of ebt
cards since the real issue is how they got them and who gave it to them to misuse. I won’t even ask if the holders were part of the 40% of families this year that pay no income tax. Down from 50%. But I don’t have a card and pay a lot of income tax, so I’ll buy what I want.
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Which means these people are at or below poverty level. Trickle-up economy at its finest.
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No such thing up or down. It was a myth. Everyone needs to be part of the party though whether a big part or a small part or it becomes a tyranny of the majority.
Sorry. But you’re WRONG again. Trickle-Down economics was a theory that was highly promoted by Reagan. The theory was that the wealth of the rich would trickle down to the middle and lower classes. It NEVER WORKED. Instead the richer got richer. The wealth trickled to the top and stayed there. There’s a slew of data on the subject.
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Oh mike stick to computers. I think will rogers first dubbed it that in the thirties but that didn’t make it any more of a viable economic theory. Just because the media quotes rogers doesn’t make it a viable theory. Now Friedman did concentrate on creating share holder value and reducing government borrowing to fight inflation, but inflation is not magic.
Bing…you’ve been wrong so many times in this forum and spreading your conspiracy theories.
Trickle down is a theory that was put into practice under Reagan than tried again under Bush Jr. All it did was make the rich richer.
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