Have you ever bought something for your car that came from a thrift store?

[Leo99]

Whaaaa...?

Don't need any

 

[ripcord]

Don't need any

Does not compute, lol

 

[Leo99]

Does not compute, lol

I'm giving up. Lol. I have plenty of oil filters.

 

[eljefino]

Lessee... I got a Fram filter at Goodwill once. They say they don't accept auto parts so it must have snuck through the screening process. It fit whatever beater I had at the time, think it was a 3614 on a Toyota/ Geo, and slightly oversize. There are a set of three hubcaps at my local Willie that fit my kid's Camry, going to leave those on the shelf.

Got four Michelin MXV4+ tires at a yard sale, fit my Saturn. 9/32 tread, $25. Air filter that fit Saturn. Four Frams for a quarter that fit my Saturn and Dodge Dakota. Found a Fram 3593 at my town dump swap shop, held onto it for a decade, then got a Honda Accord it fit.

 

[macarose]

Without meaning to be offensive, there is no way I would buy, nor would I recommend or approve, used tires from a thrift store or even from a used tire shop. Living near an urban area, I use a used tire dealer to do installations when I buy tires online. Recently, I pulled off a set of four seven year old, but lower mileage Continentals. The dealer wanted a $15 per tire disposal fee, which said no to, indicating I would hang onto the old set. That fee quickly became $10 per tire in my favor. I am sure some PDB is driving around on them now, and hopefully not going too fast. The point is that lives are in danger when you buy worn tires about which you know nothing. I note that like modern belts, tires often show no sign of degradation on the outside. Don’t get the wrong idea, I am as chea frugal as they come and look forward to hearing about good finds in thrift stores.

You're not offensive at all. Just highly judgmental and hopelessly misinformed.

Tires and other auto parts don't magically get cooties if they are in a thrift store.

The ones I bought were Michelins and were only a couple years old. No uneven wear. No defects of any type. They were a steal of a deal and I'm still friends with the lady who ended up using them 15+ years ago.

I have also bought tires at garage sales, estate sales, and a healthy number of used tire shops. There's no magical pixie dust that's going to make any tire defective based on where it's sold or who sells it.

Perhaps living in the highly litigious state of New Jersey makes you a bit fearful, and I do think that your $15 tire disposal fees are sky high compared to here in metro-Atlanta where I pay only around $2 to $3.

If you want a reasonable installation fee, go to Walmart or Discount Tire. They do a good job and, at least around here, it's only $11 a tire.

 

[TomYoung]

You're not offensive at all. Just highly judgmental and hopelessly misinformed.

Tires and other auto parts don't magically get cooties if they are in a thrift store.

The ones I bought were Michelins and were only a couple years old. No uneven wear. No defects of any type. They were a steal of a deal and I'm still friends with the lady who ended up using them 15+ years ago.

I have also bought tires at garage sales, estate sales, and a healthy number of used tire shops. There's no magical pixie dust that's going to make any tire defective based on where it's sold or who sells it.

Perhaps living in the highly litigious state of New Jersey makes you a bit fearful, and I do think that your $15 tire disposal fees are sky high compared to here in metro-Atlanta where I pay only around $2 to $3.

If you want a reasonable installation fee, go to Walmart or Discount Tire. They do a good job and, at least around here, it's only $11 a tire.

I am not misinformed. I probably am judgmental in that I place tires in a special category where I want to know where they came from. And my reason for that is that I cover highway miles at high speeds, and care about those few small inches of contact patch separating me from oblivion, along with any passengers, and any poor soul I might hit. I can’t imagine what a person bringing old tires to a thrift store is thinking, and it is a fact that one cannot divine that tire’s true condition or history. When I see folks buy used tires, btw, they are never, ever going on anything other than a hooptie…

 

[duck__dodgers]

I have bought windshield wipers at Ollies

Depending on your area, good chance that those wipers are leftovers from Costco. Michelin Hybrids. $8-ish when on sale at Costco, in the Ollie circular they were $5.99. 26" 24" sizes get cleaned out at my local warehouse during sales. The Hybrids are reasonable at $8. At full price, no thanks.

Thrift stores are as much of a bargain lately....at least around me.

The real tightwads, like me, gamble on Temu! pre-tariffs I've found great wipers and cabin air filters----good thing I bought a stash.

 

[wtd]

oil and air filters and sometimes tools if it's something I don't have and think I might need.

 

[nthach]

I found 4 Nissan 15208-55Y00 oil filters at a local thrift/reuse store for an old Quest we had. Still sealed, made in Japan and the US, it fit any Nissan or Subaru with 3/4-16 oil filter threads. I ended up PIFing them here when we got rid of that van.

If I need chains, I get them from Goodwill, Marketplace or CL.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

Not as much a Thrift store but just last week at my local recycle center ( we call it the "dump" ) we have a small shed called the swap shop. People may leave a headboard, mirror or lamp that someone can pick up a reuse vs trashing the item.

My wife found me (2) full new sets of Harley Saddle Bag liners with handles so when on a trip you cary the saddle bag items like luggage!
(2) free sets of anything Harley never happens, Made My Day! Thanks to whomever left them for me!

 

[Jetronic]

anti-fog spray

 

[barbersurgeon]

Back in the nineties I scored a set of ski racks to deck out my Subaru gl wagon at a thrift store for super cheap. Probably my best thrift shop buy of all time.

 

[twouvakind]

Brand new OEM set of HR-V mats and brand new set of OEM Golf mats.

 

[addyguy]

Yeah, a few things…air pump, window squeegee, mats, wipers…
One thrift store I went to had a bunch of really old Fram and Motomaster oil filters from the 1980’s(?); I bought them as collector items and have them on a shelf!