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Used tires not good enough for you? Nonsense. It's a $6B a year industry. Go buy some new tires for a thousand bucks, put them on your car. Drive around the block. Now you have used tires. Are THEY good enough for you? Read on for more information and sources.

If you're in the US this is easy. Look on eBay. There's a very healthy marketplace there and tires can be had at a very resonable price. Almost always these are inspected and never repaired and can be had with various tread depths from almost to near-new at one end of the scale all the way down to ones that don't have that much tread but will do for the few months you need them. Know what you are buying!

Try to buy locally. If you're in New York and you find the tires of your dreams in California understand that it may cost more to ship the tires than to buy them. Within one or two zones, that is dairly locally, shipping tires can be fairly cheap. $25 typically, for 4 tires shipped up to one or two states over when shipping by ground. Both Fedex and UPS have ground service, tires are not the kind of thing you want to use the postal service for.

There is an issue shipping them from the US to Canada. Most companies won't do it and if you can find one that will you'll find it's expensive. Your options at this point are to find soembody near the border to recive them for you then go and pick them up, or use a mail drop service. I've heard you can have them shipped to "general delivery" at a Fedex office but haven't verified or tried this. I should.

There are places that sell used tires and here's a rundown of some that I've found recently in Southern Ontario primarily.

• Used tires at used.recycle.net
  http://used.recycle.net/a/6045.html

• Used tires at servpro/Toronto
  http://www.toronto.servpro.ca/testlist.php?compType=used%20tire%20sales&sub=40372&city=ONTARIO

• 2nd time around tires - Toroto/Scarborough/Oshawa
  http://www.tirestires.com:2280/tires/contactus.htm

• 701.com lists a few places in Soutern Ontario:
  • Sparkies in Hamilton - (905) 544-6203
    http://hamilton.701.com/sites/701/HTML/hamilton/344263.html
  • Good to Go in Hamilton - (905) 385-8629
    http://hamilton.701.com/sites/701/HTML/hamilton/331443.html
  • USed Tires Inc in Burlington - (905) 632-6688
    http://waterdown.701.com/sites/701/HTML/waterdown/350453.html

If you have places you've had good (or bad!) expereinces with drop me a line by clicking on my name at the bottom of this page.

Richard Sexton, Sep. 2006