Thread: Wow, priced any tires lately?????

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Originally Posted by willowbilly3

I just put all 4 new Yokohama's on the 3/4 ton Dodge yesterday for $700 out the door. I thought that was decent

That's the tire brand I would like but unfortunately they don't offer one with a 3500# E load rating for my 1 ton p/u for an 18" wheel. I've had them before on two previous vehicles and in fact my wife's Escape has them now.

It has been awful on my end. They have gone up 17% in the last quarter, 7% In January and they had a price increase close to the end of last year. We are having to raise our prices as of September 1st. Steel is another whopper! I go to a local steel salvage place to get small pieces for my car. It used to cost 30 cents a pound, now it is 55 cents. Thats just in the last 6 months.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

It has been awful on my end. They have gone up 17% in the last quarter, 7% In January and they had a price increase close to the end of last year. We are having to raise our prices as of September 1st. Steel is another whopper! I go to a local steel salvage place to get small pieces for my car. It used to cost 30 cents a pound, now it is 55 cents. Thats just in the last 6 months.
Ken

I just bought a 2' piece of 6061 .5 x .75 aluminum ----for ~$11. A 6' piece of .25 x .75 hot roll steel that my supplier would dig out of his odd lengths barrel and give to me last year was $10. He said his price has gone from .11 a pound to ~.80 per pound in a year. There was an article in the paper last week that junk yards were giving ~$50 a ton last year are now over $350 for steel. I have a couple of 351W Ford engine blocks I can't sell and a few other chunks of scrap that are going shortly -

Don't forget, if you bought it a truck brought it!!

When fuel prices go up, the cost of EVERYTHING goes up.

I just checked the 31x12.5x15 M/T ET's I bought last year. They went up 34.00 each. You have to figure its not nessaceraly the fact that they use oil products to make the product, Geezer2 is right, you also have to factor in what it now cost to drive the trucks to deliver.

You guys are right, sending a 53' trailer to NY was about $2500, now it's about $4500. We are in the process of using 5 distribution centers through out the US just to combat the freight cost. My wife told me food cost are going nuts also. I read in the paper this morning that truckers from the US are going across the boarder to Mexico and filling up 55 gallon drums. Diesel is $2.50 a gallon there. But of course that's illegal, they can fill there tanks but no surplus, go figure.
Ken