I need a little advice ...

[Ebejaran1]

Hi this is my second post and I am a fairly new member . This forum was AMAZiNG at helping me solve my first post so I figured I'll ask here for advice . I am looking for all season tires (new or used good conditiin) for my '98 explorer XLT to get ready for winter but I don't know much about tires. My question is should I buy used or nit even bother and buy new, and what exactley do I look to judge the tires Condition/performance when buying tires? I have looked into a lot of places and tires are expensive so I wantto make a good investment.

 

[shadowless127]

If you have the money buy new. As far as what to look for, if you're using them for winter then make sure the tread pattern is more aggresive and not plain jane. Some tires to consider would be the General Grabber HTS, Firestone Destination, BFGoodrich Rugged Trails (I have these on my 2003 and even with ****ty tread left they performed outstanding in the snow).

 

[gruss01]

buy new unless you just can't possibly swing it, by the time you pay some place to mount and balance the used ones your not really that far ahead unless you get the tires for free.

 

[shadowless127]

buy new unless you just can't possibly swing it, by the time you pay some place to mount and balance the used ones your not really that far ahead unless you get the tires for free.

there's a place up the road that has amazing used tires, and the guy mounts and balances them for you for 45$ a corner.