Discount Tire Direct

[Discount Tire Direct]

Hello guys,

Some of you guys have already said hello in the thread I started in the Show and Tell forum. I've been browsing the site for about a week now and I have been impressed with the maturity of the members on this forum. There are a lot of really good guys on here that do what they can to help without judgement; to each, there own. My props go out to you guys. As I stated in my last post, I'm too am here to help. This thread will be a place where I can answer any technical questions you might have about products and services Discount Tire Direct offers. I.e. product manufacture statistics, sizing, weights, applications, finishes... and so on. For Prices go to our site or send me a PM, I can put you in touch with a store near you or one of the guys in sales to help you get what you need.

As for a little Discount Tire Co:

Discount Tire Co. is the largest wheel and tire retailer in the US. We have over 650 store locations in the US and we have an outstanding online store at www.discounttiredirect.com. We've earned our way to the top through offering more choices at lower prices, through our wheel and tire expertise and most of all through our customer service. We are constantly growing to better serve you, our valued customer. We thank every one of you that have purchased from us before and we look forward to the opportunity of new customer’s everyday. I should also mention again that through Discount Tire Direct we will ship your wheels and tires together or alone FREE, we will also Mount and balance your product FREE. We work hard offer the lowest price so If you can find our products anywhere else delivered cheaper let us know, we will try to match or beat their price.

I invite all of you to check out our website. We are constantly adding new product to fulfill your needs.


Now a little about me. I think I said it best in my last thread:

Come to me, or anyone at Discount Tire Direct, we are here to help. I will never pressure you into buying something, that is not my job. I have been in the wheel and tire industry for 4 years now and have worked for other companies in it. Now that I am here, I know why Discount Tire Company is the top selling tire and wheel retailer in the industry. I can honestly tell you that Discount Tire Company knows how to treat their customers. I look forward to getting to know you guys and I hope to be a valuable resource for you to add to your contact list. Make me a buddy on your profile!

Oh, yeah and I should probably mention that I have always been a big jeep fan. One of my first vehicles was a 1987 Jeep Cherokee Laredo, I was 16. I beat it up pretty bad, almost drowned it in the winter in a river when I didn't know the 4WD wasn't working, and romped it constantly harder and faster than it was meant to be... and I absolutely loved it. I had to sell it to go to college and have strayed since but the jeep blood is still in me, I'm sure it won't be long until I buy another.

[Volley]

Right on! Welcome to the site. I've used Direct Tire Direct before and have been very please.

[T Mac]

Welcome. I just bought my BFG M/Ts from a Discount Tire this week...

[tgrt]

I plan on buying my tires and wheels from you when I get the money together for lift and all. I went to browse some tires and wheels yesterday and I have to say that your browsing capability on your website is practically worthless. Are there any plans to make it functional?

[Discount Tire Direct]

I plan on buying my tires and wheels from you when I get the money together for lift and all. I went to browse some tires and wheels yesterday and I have to say that your browsing capability on your website is practically worthless. Are there any plans to make it functional?

Worthless is a pretty strong word. The search options work pretty well but unfortunately right now we don't have a lot of wheels in stock for the new 2007 Jeep Wrangler. We have more wheels on order and should be able to special order almost anything you want. Here's the skinny on searching.

If you want to see all the wheels we carry you can search wheels by brand. The downfall to this is that it will show you ALL the wheels for each brand and will not narrow them down to what fits your vehicle. On new fitments like the 2007 Jeep wrangler where the options are limited, you have a higher chance of pulling up options that are not made for your vehicle.

If you only want to see wheels that fit your vehicle you can search by vehicle. This search option will bring up the wheels that we have in stock. Enter the year make and model of your Jeep and click "go". choose the size you want and your options will come up. This search option only pulls up wheels and tires that will properly fit your vehicle with stock suspension. This will change shortly as we are getting legal approval to add the new 2007 Jeep Wrangler lifted options to our fitment guide.

A third way you can search for wheels, and the easiest way right now for the wrangler is to search by size and bolt pattern. If you want to see all the 17" options we have in stock in your Jeep's bolt pattern click on the "wheels" tab, click search "by size", enter the desired size, enter the bolt pattern for your jeep and click "go". This will pull up all the wheels in that size and bolt pattern. It will pull up wheels with greater widths and lower or higher offsets than the ones shown under the search by vehicle option. If you search this way and find something you like please confirm the fitment with one of our salesman. Searching this way does not guaranty a sure fit.

Here is some information that may or may not some of you.

Year Bolt Pattern Original wheel Offset
2007+ 5x127 45mm
2006-1986 5x114.3 most 32mm or 25 w/some exceptions

If you would like help in determining the offset/backspacing for your particular lifted or stock wrangler by all means send me a PM, If I get a lot of the same questions I'll start a thread.

I will keep you all updated on the changes to the fitment guide and wheel search options. Part of the reason I am on here is to get feedback from you guys. Your opinions are what we look for so that we can make the improvements to better serve you. If you have a suggestion please PM or email it to me @ travis.comfort@discounttireco.com

I hope this addresses your search questions.

[tgrt]

Thank you for the information. I'm in the research phase as well as the procurement phase. I have to get through my purchasing department (and she can be tough). :)

There are some usability issues that make the searches frustrating -- and therefore almost useless. If I were Joe User I would become frustrated soon and call or worse search elsewhere. And to clarify this in case it wasn't clear, I say this all to help not to be critical. For example, when I get my results and click the back button it doesn't remember any of the values I had specified (the site is saving cookies, so I don't know why it's not saving that).

You didn't really ask my opinion, but I'll offer it nontheless. I'd recommend a filtered approach instead of the hunt and peck approach used (granted it's allot easier to find what you want if you know pretty close what you want, but that's not always the case). The filtered approach would display a list of criteria that you could use to narrow down your search and the displayed results would get progressively smaller as more and more criteria were applied. This makes changing your result set really easy (a few clicks vs. multiple pages and button clicks).

What I'm kind of looking at now is doing a 16 inch wheel on a 35 or 36 mud tire. I'm not sure what width of rim or tire, but 8 and 12.5 didn't seem unreasonable. I'd probably need 4.5" backspacing with that configuration. But, there's probably some wiggle room in all of that.

[crankitdb711]

You have plenty of great brands but I'm obsessed with Interco... thinking of picking them up any time soon? (and no I don't have any affiliation with them, just looking for some IROK's mounted and balanced inexpensively :D )

[tgrt]

The filtered approach would display a list of criteria that you could use to narrow down your search and the displayed results would get progressively smaller as more and more criteria were applied. This makes changing your result set really easy (a few clicks vs. multiple pages and button clicks).

By the way, after re-reading this it isn't clear that I meant all on the same page. No page changes just postbacks. Amazon does this in some of their areas, and Sears does it for appliances at least.

[Basement Monster]

This is perfect timing. I need a 35" for my spare, that stocker is KILLING me haha

[bOLsAK=3]

Hi TravisDTD,

Welcome.

I have a question.

I've been in search of a 33-34" X18 with no greater than a 12.50 width, MT or agressive AT. I am having a very troubled time finding one like that for $250 or less. Can you recommend a tire for me?

Thanks

[150]

I got my Nitto Terra Grapps fro DTD. Fast shipping and a great price.

[Discount Tire Direct]

Thank you for the information. I'm in the research phase as well as the procurement phase. I have to get through my purchasing department (and she can be tough). :)

There are some usability issues that make the searches frustrating -- and therefore almost useless. If I were Joe User I would become frustrated soon and call or worse search elsewhere. And to clarify this in case it wasn't clear, I say this all to help not to be critical. For example, when I get my results and click the back button it doesn't remember any of the values I had specified (the site is saving cookies, so I don't know why it's not saving that).

You didn't really ask my opinion, but I'll offer it nontheless. I'd recommend a filtered approach instead of the hunt and peck approach used (granted it's allot easier to find what you want if you know pretty close what you want, but that's not always the case). The filtered approach would display a list of criteria that you could use to narrow down your search and the displayed results would get progressively smaller as more and more criteria were applied. This makes changing your result set really easy (a few clicks vs. multiple pages and button clicks).

What I'm kind of looking at now is doing a 16 inch wheel on a 35 or 36 mud tire. I'm not sure what width of rim or tire, but 8 and 12.5 didn't seem unreasonable. I'd probably need 4.5" backspacing with that configuration. But, there's probably some wiggle room in all of that.

Great feedback, I will take your suggestions to our web guys. I agree it would be easier to make more selections on one page instead of page-by-page. As for the cookies, I'll find out if we can get those ones working.

For your wheels and tires, You could run the 16x8's on the 12.5's but they are going to be ballooned out. I'd try to get a little wider wheel maybe even a 16x8.5 would be a little better, a 16x10 would be ideal for the 12.5" width. (Just an FYI People run the 8's and 8.5" with 12.5's and sometimes even wider tires but most tire manufactures don't recomend this setup and if you do have a claim consider your tire warranty void.)

You have plenty of great brands but I'm obsessed with Interco... thinking of picking them up any time soon? (and no I don't have any affiliation with them, just looking for some IROK's mounted and balanced inexpensively :D )

I haven't heard anything about us taking on Interco but let me know exactly what you are looking for and we'll do our best to get you what you need.

[Discount Tire Direct]

Hi TravisDTD,

Welcome.

I have a question.

I've been in search of a 33-34" X18 with no greater than a 12.50 width, MT or agressive AT. I am having a very troubled time finding one like that for $250 or less. Can you recommend a tire for me?

Thanks


Try looking up metric sizes that are close, I did a quick search and found the same trouble you did, It looks like there just aren't too many options out there. I did find the Nitto Terra Grappler and I think it would be a great tire for you.

Nitto makes it in a 285.65.18 They are equal to about: 32.5x11.25-18 This one is actually under your price range and they also make it in a 275.70.18 if you want a little taller tire. They are equal to 33.15x10.82-18, Nitto Terra Grappler in this size is also under your price range.

If you can sqeeze a 35x12.50-18 under there the Nitto Mud Grapplers are pretty close to your price range and are very aggressive.

Take a look at them on our website and let me know if you have any other questions.

[tgrt]

For your wheels and tires, You could run the 16x8's on the 12.5's but they are going to be ballooned out. I'd try to get a little wider wheel maybe even a 16x8.5 would be a little better, a 16x10 would be ideal for the 12.5" width. (Just an FYI People run the 8's and 8.5" with 12.5's and sometimes even wider tires but most tire manufactures don't recomend this setup and if you do have a claim consider your tire warranty void.)

Hmm.. I was under the impression allot of people went with the 8 inch wide rims, because the bead stayed better when you air down. Anyone have any experience on that?

[150]

I used to run 33/12.5 on a 16" rim. I never air them down for off road use however I did get a funny ware pattern in the center of the tire. I often wanted to go to a 10" rim however not to many dealers would put them on my rig.

[Discount Tire Direct]

Hmm.. I was under the impression allot of people went with the 8 inch wide rims, because the bead stayed better when you air down. Anyone have any experience on that?


This is a great question. I don't have personal experience with it. I'll post up a thread in the modified JK forum for some input. If you really want a tight bead under low pressure Bead locked wheels will do the trick.

[tgrt]

It would need to be street legal, so I'd have to go to internal bead locks which would really drive up the cost. I'm not looking at 5 psi or anything, but I don't want to lose the bead at 12-15 psi.

[Discount Tire Direct]

I'll be out of the office until Monday September 10th, If you need assistance please call us at 1888.459.4080 our sales and technical department should be able to help you, or if it can wait, email me at travis.comfort@discounttireco.com or send me a PM and I will get back to you as soon as I get back.

[Discount Tire Direct]

Back in action here and I've had a pleasent suprize when I got into the office today. Our Fitment guide has been updated for easier search. You can now look up lifted applications. Our Interactive wheel System has also been updated (this only shows stock suspension options right now) check out the updates and give me your feedback.

[zeeto]

Hey Travis,

Could you shoot me a price on some BFG MT KM2s shipped to 13790? I'd be looking for either:

5 - 35x12.5R17
5 - 315/75R16

I checked the site but didn't see them on there.

Thanks

[2K1TJ]

Hey Travis,

Could you shoot me a price on some BFG MT KM2s shipped to 13790? I'd be looking for either:

5 - 35x12.5R17
5 - 315/75R16

I checked the site but didn't see them on there.

Thanks



I'm interested in the same tire, but a different size.

I need:
5- 37x12.50x17's shipped to 30153, or 30120 business address if it's any cheaper.

Thanks. ;)

[Discount Tire Direct]

Hey Travis,

Could you shoot me a price on some BFG MT KM2s shipped to 13790? I'd be looking for either:

5 - 35x12.5R17
5 - 315/75R16

I checked the site but didn't see them on there.

Thanks

I'm interested in the same tire, but a different size.

I need:
5- 37x12.50x17's shipped to 30153, or 30120 business address if it's any cheaper.

Thanks. ;)

Sent you both PM's. The BGF KM2's should be instock in our warehouses in about a week and a half. BFG has most of the sizes in stock. We can order them for you, they typically take 7-10 business days. Pricing on these tires should be up in the next few days. If you need it before them shoot me and email or give one of our sales agents a call for a quicker reply. 888.459.4080

[2K1TJ]

Sent you both PM's. The BGF KM2's should be instock in our warehouses in about a week and a half. BFG has most of the sizes in stock. We can order them for you, they typically take 7-10 business days. Pricing on these tires should be up in the next few days. If you need it before them shoot me and email or give one of our sales agents a call for a quicker reply. 888.459.4080



Thanks. ;)

[Discount Tire Direct]

Heads up guys, We just recieved price reductions on the MB Razors, check them out online, the price includes the shipping. There are a few sizes some of you might be interested in: Check with me or one of the guys here if you have any questions.

15x8 5x114.3 -19mm Machined Finish
15x8 5x127 -19mm Machined Finish
16x8 5x114.3 -6mm Machined Finish
17x8.5 5x114.3 25mm Machined Finish
18x8.5 5x127 -6mm Machined Finish

[Anhedrew]

Travis - PM sent

[ARsahara]

Just got my new Nitto Mud Grapplers in from Discount tire..............excellent service, free/fast shipping............and the best prices I could find.

[kidjeep]

I wanted to ask whether it is a company wide policy that Discount Tire does not mount tires on rims when wheel spacers are involved? Long story, but I almost got in a real bind when I was trying to get my new tires mounted out of town and after waiting over an hour found out they would not do it.

Good customer service though, the guy felt bad enough for me waiting to call around town for me and found a place. It was in Vegas, and I was leaving town next day and needed the tires mounted that Saturday. I ended up going to a Goodyear tire store couple miles away.

Chip

[AK]

Travis,
Looking for the Cooper STT in 285/70R17. I can't find it on your site. Can you help? Sent you a PM also.

Thanks,
AK

[Anhedrew]

My PM was in regard to the Cooper STT's also. I'm looking for 35's for a 17 wheel. They are a difficult tire to find online. I was counting on being able to see them easily on Discount Tire's site but as someone earlier stated, it ain't easy to navigate.

[hold24]

Hi...looking for a set of 35x12.50-17 bfg mt (old style) do you guys have them.

[Discount Tire Direct]

I wanted to ask whether it is a company wide policy that Discount Tire does not mount tires on rims when wheel spacers are involved? Long story, but I almost got in a real bind when I was trying to get my new tires mounted out of town and after waiting over an hour found out they would not do it.

Good customer service though, the guy felt bad enough for me waiting to call around town for me and found a place. It was in Vegas, and I was leaving town next day and needed the tires mounted that Saturday. I ended up going to a Goodyear tire store couple miles away.

Chip

We do have a company policy against using spacers. We believe them to be unsafe for road use. I am sorry to hear you had trouble at one of our stores in getting your wheels and tires mounted but I am glad to hear they were able to find someone that would do them for you.

[Discount Tire Direct]

Hi...looking for a set of 35x12.50-17 bfg mt (old style) do you guys have them.

BFG has discontinued this size in the old style. I called them this morning to see if we could still get them but they too are completely out of stock. We do have the KM2's in stock in our Ohio warehouse.

[CodyB4C]

Do you know if the unique steel wheel 297 17" for the JK will be in stock any time soon. thanks

[Discount Tire Direct]

From the information we have we expect them sometime in the spring.

[LiquidSmile]

Is there any way to get the Certificate for Free Replacement on all of my tires after the fact of purchasing them? I have had them for maybe 1000 miles, but they are all in perfect condition. Any Chance?

[Discount Tire Direct]

Is there any way to get the Certificate for Free Replacement on all of my tires after the fact of purchasing them? I have had them for maybe 1000 miles, but they are all in perfect condition. Any Chance?

Generally, You have up to 30 day from your purchase to buy the certs. Give us a call and we see what we can do. Call Zack @ 1.888.459.4080 EXT. 1875