Buying Tires Online: The Wide Selection Advantage

Next to the purchase of the vehicle itself, a new tire purchase is likely the most significant automotive expense a person will face. 

Not only that, it’s a purchase decision with lasting consequence since tires are used over the course of many years.

Despite these facts, a tire purchase is often less deliberated than a restaurant choice on a Friday evening… (How did we end up at Denny’s, again?)

Typical tire purchase protocol involves a visit to the dealership or local tire shop, a word or two of tire advice from someone who may or may not have any idea what they’re talking about (and who may be motivated by factors such as tire inventory management), then a purchase decision on site. That’s about the extent of it.

As has been mentioned and repeated ad nauseam here at MinimumTread, not all tires are created equal. The disparity in quality, durability, performance, and other measures between a high quality tire and a low quality tire is significant. If you’re reading this now, then you might have learned that the hard way. 

When you visit your local dealer or tire shop you’ll most likely be looking at a very limited selection of tires. And there’s certainly no guarantee that the available selection will permit you to choose from among the highest quality and most cost effective tires for your vehicle.

Contrast that experience with buying tires online –
 
For any common vehicle there are most often dozens of tires available. TireBuyer.com, for example, has over 3 million tires in stock. This massive selection permits the shopper to find a tire that best fits his or her purposes, and budget. 

In addition to MinimumTread tire reviews, online tire businesses like TireBuyer.com allow you to evaluate tires according to user feedback. Tire Rack regularly publishes informative tire comparison tests.

​When searching for a tire, these online tire outlets permit you to sort tire options according to overall quality scores, so the best options immediately rise to the top while the fails are demoted in the results. Easy peasy. 

The tire information available online, which is accessible to and easily digested by any layperson, likely far exceeds what the dude at the dealership counter knows. 

And from that collection of information and the wide selection of tires you can confidently make a decision that suits your needs and budget.
 
Buying tires online you’re all but guaranteed to find a quality and cost effective tire. The same cannot be said for purchasing tires from your local dealership or tire shop.

And then of course there is the significant cost advantage of buying tires online.