Originally Posted By: Blue_Goose
Originally Posted By: bama7x57
I research tires through Tire Rack, but they have never been able beat DTD or Tirebuyer when those sites have a good sale going on.
DTD had exactly 3 tires in my size. Falken and Toyo. I can't believe they don't even carry Michelin, Firestone, Blizzak or Goodyear in winter tires in 225/60 18 or 235/55 18. Not some weid sizes
From what I've been told by DTD reps they order winter tires in batches and then exhaust the inventory and that's it, they don't special order stuff and I assume make a judgement call at some point as to whether or not they will restock another batch or just be done with it for the season. I gather, at least from what I was told, that they would rather not sit on the inventory for a season even on a hot selling tire.
Doesn't really help you in any way but I was pretty frustrated with the same selection issue. Last year I could not get the Xi3s for our car so I ended up going to TR, this year I had the same question and was told the Xi3s were not being ordered in my size, now the Xi3s are in stock and the Arctics are out of stock in my size - go figure.
