HOW TO TELL WHEN IT’S TIME TO REPLACE YOUR TIRES.

When I was younger, poorer, and stupider, I drove on crap tires. In college I once put a set of two-ply, polyester, bias (non-radial), Israeli-made recaps on my Beetle, because they were less than ten dollars apiece. I’m not sure I could have bought worse tires if I’d tried. The next set I got were bottom-rung radials from One Price Tires, but the difference was so amazing it was like having a new car. Now I don’t scrimp. Especially with safety-related stuff, I follow more of an aircraft-style replace-before-failure policy where car repairs are concerned. Of course, I’m also not a broke student any more.