<VV> New "stock" tires for LM's

[larry at forman.net]

The two tires I got for my 65 Monza at America's Tire Store in
Sacramento were: 

Milestar Touring SLE, P175/80R13 M+S with narrow white walls.  They were
about $53 each and two mounted and balanced were $163 out the door with
new valve stems.   However, they were out of the extreme extended valve
stems, so I had to reuse my valve stem extenders for the original hub
caps. 

They had to order them from one of their warehouses and they got them in
about 3 days here in Sacramento. 

Note: you do need to tell them what tire pressures they should have for
the front tires as they had already pressurized them about 35 PSI. 

I was in and out in about an hour with an appointment.  For the social
distancing they ask customers to wait in their car and pull their car up
for service, which seems about perfect in today's environment. 

Larry

On 2020-03-22 9:57 pm, larry--- via VirtualVairs wrote:

> Since I live in CA and have bought a lot of tires at America's Tire
> Store, I called them last week and they installed two of those tires for
> $163 complete.   That was the only tire they could find, but the price
> seemed right.   
> 
> Larry
> 
> On 2020-03-22 10:12 am, edward szuch via VirtualVairs wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for a new set of "stock" tires for my 66 Corsa.  I want to keep
>> the stock appearance and am looking for the narrow whitewall (or close to
>> it).  I currently have a set of '96 Goodyear Decathlon tires on it in our
>> typical P185/80R-13 size.
>> The only tires I can find in this size are the Maxxis whitewalls listed at
>> Amazon.
>> Does anybody know of a different source?
>> Second question.....I'll need to replace the valve stems as well.  With all
>> the Chinese suppliers for just about everything, are there any I should
>> stay away from or features to avoid (I know, a valve stem is pretty
>> simple)?  I've run into problems with American companies using Chinese
>> sourced junk so I'm just a bit leery.
>> Thanks very much.
>> Gary Szuch
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