"Tire Rewards Certificate" ? (free tires for life of car ?)
Hello,
Will be picking up a new Elantra from the Dealership shortly. Dealer made a big deal about what is apparently free tire replacements, due to wear only, for the life of the car if one has all maint. and oil changes, etc. done at the dealership. Anyone know anything about this ? Legitimate ? Caveats or hookers ? Really seems to good to be true. There is a "Tire Rewards Certificate" to be filled out. Reading a bit between the lines, it seems this guarantee is from a third party, but not all that clear. Anyone know anything about this ? Thanks, Bob |
Re: "Tire Rewards Certificate" ? (free tires for life of car ?)
> Hello,
> > Will be picking up a new Elantra from the Dealership shortly. > > Dealer made a big deal about what is apparently free tire replacements, > due to wear only, for the life of the car if one has all maint. and oil > changes, etc. done at the dealership. > > Anyone know anything about this ? Legitimate ? > Caveats or hookers ? > > Really seems to good to be true. > > There is a "Tire Rewards Certificate" to be filled out. > > Reading a bit between the lines, it seems this guarantee is from a third > party, but not all that clear. > > Anyone know anything about this ? > Never heard of it and wouldn't touch it. You can bet the dealership will be making a lot more money over the life of your car then the cost of four tires every 40k-50k. Unless you plan to have them do all the maintenance anyway I would say "no thanks". |
Re: "Tire Rewards Certificate" ? (free tires for life of car ?)
On 03-02-10 9:18 AM, Bob wrote:
> Hello, > > Will be picking up a new Elantra from the Dealership shortly. > > Dealer made a big deal about what is apparently free tire replacements, > due to wear only, for the life of the car if one has all maint. and oil > changes, etc. done at the dealership. > > Anyone know anything about this ? Legitimate ? > Caveats or hookers ? > > Really seems to good to be true. > > There is a "Tire Rewards Certificate" to be filled out. > > Reading a bit between the lines, it seems this guarantee is from a third > party, but not all that clear. > > Anyone know anything about this ? > > Thanks, > Bob P.T. Barnum lives!! |
Re: "Tire Rewards Certificate" ? (free tires for life of car ?)
"Bob" <rgsros@notme.invalid> wrote in message news:hmja97$8er$1@news.eternal-september.org... > Hello, > > Will be picking up a new Elantra from the Dealership shortly. > > Dealer made a big deal about what is apparently free tire replacements, > due to wear only, for the life of the car if one has all maint. and oil > changes, etc. done at the dealership. > > Anyone know anything about this ? Legitimate ? > Caveats or hookers ? > > Really seems to good to be true. > > There is a "Tire Rewards Certificate" to be filled out. > > Reading a bit between the lines, it seems this guarantee is from a third > party, but not all that clear. > > Anyone know anything about this ? > > Thanks, > Bob So there really is such a thing as a free lunch. I'm sure he is offering great prices on the maintenance too. In all fairness, my dealer is reasonably priced on oil changes. But they get $89 to change a cabin filter that you can buy for $15 or so. My dealer has a menu of services and recommended intervals. If you follow their idea of required services, at about 40,000 miles when you need tires, you would have spent about $2000 for service. If you follow the book, you'd have spent far less, less than half of that. When I traded my Sonata at 67000 miles, my total service costs were $500. Your money, your choice, but I can buy some nice tires for the price difference. Read carefully what you sign and what is required to have done. |
Re: "Tire Rewards Certificate" ? (free tires for life of car ?)
On Mar 2, 10:18 am, Bob <rgs...@notme.invalid> wrote:
> Hello, > > Will be picking up a new Elantra from the Dealership shortly. > > Dealer made a big deal about what is apparently free tire replacements, > due to wear only, for the life of the car if one has all maint. and oil > changes, etc. done at the dealership. > > Anyone know anything about this ? Legitimate ? > Caveats or hookers ? > > Really seems to good to be true. > > There is a "Tire Rewards Certificate" to be filled out. > > Reading a bit between the lines, it seems this guarantee is from a third > party, but not all that clear. > > Anyone know anything about this ? > > Thanks, > Bob My dealer has a similar plan. Might be the same dealer. Dunno. In any case, when my Sonata's Michelin OEM tires were worn out at 40,000, the dealer did indeed throw a set of tires on the car. No begging was needed: just asked them to check the tread depth and they told me it was time and did the job while I waited. So I got a set of Kumho KH16 tires at no charge. Now, this is NOT a top of the line tire but it's okay. The question is what qualifies as "do all your maintenance here" at your dealer. Some may be more rule-happy about this than others. For example, suppose you get a flat hundreds of miles from home, or a headlight burns out. Are you allowed to get that fixed where you are or do you have to bring the car back to the dealer to get it fixed just so you can keep the tire plan you may not use for years? I like my dealer but not that much! In my case, I have had several flats on my car over the year. It happens. And when it does, I get that fixed where I am. It was a concern to me about whether that would void this plan, but honestly a I can't live my life worrying about free tires years from now. When they went to replace the tires, the interesting part was that they didn't ask me if I'd had any work done anywhere else. Most of my maintenance has actually been at the dealer. But I didn't volunteer the flat fixes I had to get done, or the bulbs I have replaced, or oil changes done elsewhere. I will also add this: I ran over a giant bolt thing a few weeks ago and blew out one of those relatively new Kumhos. The tire was not repairable. My local very trusted tire shop charged me close to $120 to replace that one Kumho with a new one, so that put the value of a set of four "tires for life" at about $500 a set. Your dealer may use another tire as a replacement, but the point is, there IS a certain value in this sort of offer. You need to decide if you think the dealer will honor it (because it's worthless if they won't), and whether that value is worth going back to the dealer all/most of the time. Monetarily, you would probably be better off getting the maintenance done elsewhere or DIY and putting aside some cash for when the tires need to be replaced a few years from now. Enjoy your new Elantra! |
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