Sort of a cross post, but I wanted to comment on these tires since I now have almost 4 years experience with them. Maybe more considering oilBabe is on her second set on her Camry.
I bought ONE tire yesterday. Replacing a Sams Club BFG tire with the same tire. Back on 12/11/05 a set of four, out the door was $270.50. So that works out to be $67.63/tire including all the charges and taxes. The tires themselves were $52.04 each before taxes and fees. Sales tax here is 7.85% for those who want to do the math and $2.50/tire disposal fee. At the time I had 175079 miles on my car.
Yesterday, same tire, about 4 years and 66K miles later is $80.33 out the door. Odometer reading, 241535, so yesterday's tire was replaced with over 66K miles on the tire and I'm not a gentle driver when it comes to cornering.
I had to buy only one because I had replaced a tire in January due to road damage and the road hazard helped. I sure got more than $15 in value. Actually, I paid $9 on that tire back in 2005 for the installation package. I got $21.85 in road hazard credit, so that paid for the initial package, the new package on the tire in January was still only $9.50 and probably covered the disposal fee. So in essence, I only had to pay for the new tire.
Yesterday, I picked the worst of the three oldest and had it replaced. Technically it could have gone to 70K, but I wanted at least two newer tires on there before winter.
Yesterday, the fronts went to the rear and the two newer tires went up front. I still have about 4/32nds on the tires rotated to the rear. Not bad for a 70K rated tire. I'll likely get the full 70K out of half the tires. Not bad at all for a FWD car that is not driven gently. I think their estimate of 4/32nds remaining is optimistic, but it's in the 3 to 4/32nds range, so good enough for the back for another 10K miles.
I like the O'Fallon, IL Sams Club as they don't give you the line about new tires on the rear. They realize that you are eventually going to rotate them anyway.
So I'll see if I can go another 10K miles as is, and then replace the rear tires. If it gets too squirrely in the rain or snow, I'll replace those old rears sooner.
The increase in price on this tire over four years was 11.9% It works out to be about 2.9% increase annually, or right in line with inflation.
So the Sams Club deal isn't a bad deal if you shop there anyway. It's a decent tire that doesn't have any really bad habits. It's not going to satisfy those looking for high performance. But if your car is an appliance, these are the tires that compliment that appliance performance. They just work, without drama and appear to deliver what they say they will, which is 70K miles of driving if you are willing to take them to 3/32nds tread depth.