How bad are Pep Boys Tires?

[J. Kennedy]

My other car needs tires bad. I know you get what you pay for, but Pep Boys is selling their own brand for $35 each. Who make them? How are they in snow? The staff at the store has no idea.

 

[sunbum]

IMHO, I'd be hesistant to buy them if they can't even tell you some basic information...
I goto Jack William Tires for mine.

I feel tires are one of the potential life saving items on your car... so isn't your life worth another $80-100 for something decent and proven? That's one area I don't sacrifice. You don't have to buy the best, but certainly don't settle for a slack piece of rubber that will wear out and force you to counter, endangering your life, your passengers, or anyone around you, capiche?

 

[410Fortune]

Pep BOys sells lots of brands and sizes of tires.
WHich ones are you looking at for $35?

 

[J. Kennedy]

Futuras

Im looking at the Futuras. All the brands Pep boys sells are their own brands. They contract out to outside manufacturers. (Sears & Walmart do the same thing). I just want to know if anyone has purchased them and how they handle in the snow.

I've paid big bucks for tires before (Dunlops, Pirellis, Goodyear, Yokos), and often they have let me down in dangerous situations. I'm riding on Michelins in both my vehicles right now and am not impressed. The best tires I ever had were a set of 14" Sears on my old sentra. I swear I could have climbed a wall of ice in those things.

So now I keep an open mind when it comes to cheap tires.

 

[MrShorty]

I had a set of tires from Pep-boys (Futuras with a 55000 mi treadwear warranty) on my Ceebrity before I sold it. I didn't have any complaints. Seemed to do just fine in the rain/snow/whatever. I only put 5-10,000 miles on them before I sold the car, so I don't know how long they would have lasted, but they seemed to be wearing ok at the time.
Hope it helps.

 

[biggs92EB]

im running futuras on my 91 maxima ive cruised on them for 40000 miles so far i locked up the brakes once and got a couple flat spots in two of the tires they replaced them for free. i have no probs with pep boys, now les schwab, on the other hand can kiss my ass.

 

[unclemeat]

Pep boys told me that Cooper makes the Futura tire.

 

[SplashMan]

There are two guys running the Futuras here at work, one on a Dodge 1500 in 33s and a K5 Blazer in 33s. They love them. Say they are great in the snow and wet. They compared them to a guy who has BFG A/Ts on his Jeep and found that the tread style/pattern is almost identical.

 

[james t]

we (Cooper Tire) make the Futura's. they are the same exact tire as the Cooper brand tire in the same linup. as they are built, they are only distinguished differently when they go into the molds. never owned a set, but i can bore you with more details than you could care to know.