With due respect to your OH, buying used tires isn't really rocket science. I thorough inspection by the knowledgeable amateur works as well. I picked up a set of winter tires for my Suzuki SUV last year for $120. They'll be good for another winter at least.

Yep I know that, but lots of people will advertise tyres, not knowing what they are advertising - we have looked at tyres advertised as part worn only to find half the tread missing across the tyre, we have looked at cracked tyres, we have looked at tyres advertised as completely the wrong size, we have looked at odd sets of tyres, so for someone that knows nothing about cars apart from how to drive them, it could be a bit tricky, I for instance would have little idea whether a tyre is good or not and half the people that buy tyres off us are in the same boat. You can sometimes get away with slightly different sized tyres too, dunno how that works either Well I do but I can't put it into explainable words.

You put the bigger ones on the wheels you'll be using for the outside of the turns.

But you can go bigger all round with wheels and change the tyres too and you can have taller or wider as well.

You mean like swapping expensive 17 or 18" wheels with low profile tires for much cheaper 15 or 16s with deeper rubber sections?


Its explained in the wiki. As long as the rolling radius is the same and it clears the brakes its all good. As you know, I am the cheapest man alive*, so my winter rims are an inch smaller that the summer ones, and the tires 10pts larger. 205/45 R17 becomes 195/55 R16 etc. This saves several hundred bucks on new winter rubber.

*outside of New Brunswick

Mine are the same, inch smaller than the summer ones 18" down to 17".

And I'm not the cheap one don'tcha know.

My XL7 takes some obscure 235/65/16 tire size which was difficult to find in used snow tires. So I went with 225/70's which are used on Jeeps and Ford Escapes so much more readily found. Fit OK, a little taller, actually looks better on the vehicle.

Him... I know him well, he's paranoid when driving in the winter, he's already changed his summer route to the bad weather route to work to avoid the mob

Fugly

any recommendations on any good mpg SUV's then?

Suzuki Samuari?

Not really my ideal SUV but thanks, know of any more?

We picked up a 2007 Dodge Caliber which is AWD, its fuel economy is awesome, we average 7.8l/100km. We are picking up snow tyres and rims this weekend.
its a very nice car with plenty of room in it.

Looks good, what engine have you got and is it a auto or manual? And is it an SUV as it looks quite tall from the pictures.

its automatic 2.4L. its not a racing engine but who wants to race around the country side in Canada anyway?
[reminds me of a joke about 'tear down dotted line']