Question on Tire Warranty

A new car warranty is from the manufacturer, not the dealer (unless you buy certain kinds of extended warranties). The tire warranty is actually from the tire manufacturer but honored by the new car manufacturer. You get the same BS language in a warranty when you buy an after market tire. Forget about tire warranties, the are not worth the paper they are written on, unless you have a major malfunction with the tire. Same is pretty much true for batteries.

I personally don't rotate my tires very often, but that is a controversial subject.

This must be your first new car.

No, not my first new car...probably like the 15th or so, but first tire warranty with this kind of wording. I agree with you, I'm not much on warranties or rotations. Just seeing if anyone had received this same warranty recently and if it was just a way to get you back for expensive rotations and even more expensive pro-rated tires when the time came.

Thanks,

Allen

Also watch out for tire warranties which come with manufacturer's extended service agreements. They are usually an optional feature and worthless since they just cover the first set of tires. Why would you want that with a 7 year 75k mile service agreement.

You can go to America's Tire or Discount Tire and for, IIRC, $40, buy a lifetime free rotation and balance contract for the tires that came on your new vehicle. You can rotate and rebalance every 3000 miles if you'd like.

The dealer/Toyota cannot legally require you to have work performed by the dealership, or even by a "professional".

I have bought this service from them for every vehicle that I have owned for the last 10 years. I can't balance tires, so they handle that and rotate while they're at it. Everything else, I do myself.

--- Rich

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Thanks very much,

...Allen

Sort of related, I bought one just like yours last month. Be sure to check the tightness of your wheel lug nuts after a few hundred miles. All of mine required lots of tightening up.

Thj

Thanks will do that!

Two things about tire warranties. Any replacement cost short of a tire defect is based on the amount of tread depth remaining. The replacement cost is based on the full retail price of the tire which is generally 30% more than at which one can buy that tire in the real world. If the tire is worn by 50% you can do better buying a tire on your own. Indeed all tires manufactures warrant the tire to the dealer as does the vehicle manufacture warrant the car to the dealer. The only exception is Ford Motor Company. Ford, since they got hurt badly by Firestones problem, they now warrant the tires directly, on all their vehicles.

mike hunt

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