Glad the crappy December has turned a corner. We've had snow on the ground for a couple weeks now and it'll be gone by the end of tomorrow. Last Wednesday it was wet snow and I should have shoveled when it stopped at night because the next morning it froze to the asphalt. And I spent way too much chipping away at it and spending probably $15 on the good salt. Learned my lesson.
So... a month ago I bought some 2022 used winter tires that look new. 95% tread left on them. A week later I dropped off my car to get those installed on my steelies and the mechanic calls me and says the first tire is leaking. Then he says 3 out of 4 have punctures in them. Like the same size and location. As in it was intentionally done.
I bought them from a guy in a house just off Lakeshore. Like a $3m house. The guy wouldn't scam me from his house surely. Anyway, I drove them to his house, knocked on the door and he said he was baffled. He said they came off his inlaws' car. He gave me back my $400.
I ended up buying some mid tier tires new for $636 all in to get it over with. My previous winter tires lasted 10 years and had lots of tread left, but they were dry rotting. And of course, the day before I scheduled to get them put on it actually snowed and I had to drive very carefully and slow. Since I've had them on for the past six days I actually haven't needed them and doesn't look like it for the rest of the year.
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