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Originally Posted by tvp2003
We're booked in on Friday for new winters at Kal Tire.
There were a couple of smaller shops advertising chinese winter tires for dirt cheap, but at the end of the day we decided against it. Did a bit of googling yesterday and apparently you can buy that particular tire wholesale on Alibaba for $10 each (!). In some climates they might be okay but I figure Calgary is not one of those climates.
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Good call, those chinese tires heatsoak easily and the rubber will turn hard making them effectively useless. Some combat this by using rubber that's too soft, and then they wear too fast anyways.