Pennies Fall From Heaven for Tire Shops
Posted by Stephen on
November 27, 2006
So today I spent four hours waiting for the local tire shop to swap my snow tires. I was driving around on my Summer Tires, and lets’ just say, even with four wheel drive, and a manual tranny, you still need to stop after going. I usually get this done on November 1st of every year, but I guess because of my new work arrangements (Work? LOL!) it just wasn’t a priority. I went to six tire shops and all of them were booked around the corner, and all of them were out of tires. It almost reminded me of a PS3 or Wii launch day. It was definitely a good day to be a tire shop.
I have to believe that most of the people that were there had to take the day off work to get this done. It took a huge chunk out of even my day because I couldn’t go anywhere until I got my car back. Well, now that the snow tires are on the Subaru I say BRING IT OLD MAN WINTER!
I dunno, maybe it’s cuz I come from snowy land, but it just seems kind of wasteful to me to go spend 800 bux on snow tires for 3 days of snowy roads. We all know it will be gone in a matter of hours, and now you’ve got tires that are actually unsafe on wet or dry roads, and really only useful on snow. Which doesn’t stick in vancouver. What gives with the lineups???
Personally, I just don’t drive for a couple days…I understand some people need to, and that’s fine. But is it worth it? On thursday when the roads are all clear again there will be lineups again as people go to get their all seasons put on again.
I have Summers and Winters. I swap them every season. All seasons don’t cut it on the Coquithalla.
I agree, if you travel the coquihalla a few times or if you drive to whistler alot or whatever it makes sense to have winters. The thing is, the majority of lower mainlanders don’t do either of those things. They drive out of their suburban development, then spend the rest of their drive time on either the lougheed or the number 1 or other major roads (that are snow and ice free by now, btw). The line ups at the local tire store are not caused by valid users, they’re caused by people who DONT need them for winter sports or traversing the rockies on a regular basis. These are the same people who had fist fights for bottled water on day one of the advisory…the panic people.
I saw a lot of contractors and business vehicles. You would think they would have done it earlier.
I observed no fist fights at the tire store I was at