Originally Posted by
maxcichon
I think the point we were trying to make, sir, is that: if you have directional tires, you must add the cost of remounting and rebalancing 4 tires to eke out another 8-12 months of use. $80-$100.
If you have the OEM choice, Conti's or similar all-season UHP's, which are non-directional, you just move the tires.
Free if you do it yourself, $20 if you take it to someone with a lift.
Bingo! Now if only the rim size was the same... I am expecting to do the TPMS bypass soon since mine are somewhere around 8 years running now. I would be looking into just using regular stems on the rims when I buy new tires. The TPMS system on these cars is antiquated, low tech in the area of user friendliness, and expensive (and the bypass is super easy). Luckily I am in a state that doesn't 'safety check' the TPMS system (in fact SC dropped 'inspections' long ago because of complaints and fraud throughout the state inspection system). As a footnote, using syfi's example wouldn't you have to do 4 tires not two as in his example? Using the figure he gave (for the 2 rears) the cost would double from 2 @ $100 to 4 @ $200?
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