So one of the guys at work is looking for new tires for his Pathfinder, and based on my older cross border tire shopping experiences I pointed him towards Discount Tire and Tire Rack.
He did some further digging and found a store in Quebec called PMC Tire that seems to be pretty damn competitive with the USA pricing vs what we are typically gouged for up here, even with the dollar where it's at now.
For example, from PMC 4 of 315 75r16 BGF All terrain t/a KO2 shipped to my house is $1,348.67 ($81.25 shipping and $64.22 GST..it does not state any PST). Each tire is $300.80 . This is unmounted obviously.
From Discount Tire:
4 of the same tire @ $237 USD (using a closer Washing state store) is $1068.28 USD (again, unmounted).
Take that and the approx current exchange rate of 1.23 and it is $1314 CDN, plus you still need to go down and get them.
Kal Tire:
4 @ $334.10 plus taxes, enviro fees and minus $50 rebate = $1466.77 (and apparently they have some 5% deal for price guarantees)
Perhaps with the dollar they way it is now it's not such a big deal anymore.
Sure it's not "buying local" but it's still Canadian.
Feel free to hack this all to pieces now.....
He did some further digging and found a store in Quebec called PMC Tire that seems to be pretty damn competitive with the USA pricing vs what we are typically gouged for up here, even with the dollar where it's at now.
For example, from PMC 4 of 315 75r16 BGF All terrain t/a KO2 shipped to my house is $1,348.67 ($81.25 shipping and $64.22 GST..it does not state any PST). Each tire is $300.80 . This is unmounted obviously.
From Discount Tire:
4 of the same tire @ $237 USD (using a closer Washing state store) is $1068.28 USD (again, unmounted).
Take that and the approx current exchange rate of 1.23 and it is $1314 CDN, plus you still need to go down and get them.
Kal Tire:
4 @ $334.10 plus taxes, enviro fees and minus $50 rebate = $1466.77 (and apparently they have some 5% deal for price guarantees)
Perhaps with the dollar they way it is now it's not such a big deal anymore.
Sure it's not "buying local" but it's still Canadian.
Feel free to hack this all to pieces now.....
