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Best Place to Buy Wheel + Tire Combo

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I'm in the market to replace the original tires on my car (going on 7 years, 27K miles), and I was thinking about buying some new rims to go with the new set of rubbers. The car came with 17" rims w/ very low profile tires. It can handle 18" rims, but it'll gimme a bumpier ride.

I was at Costco the other day and a set of Michelin rubbers will cost me close to $800 (ouch). What's a good place you would recommend I go to for a wide selection of rims + tires at affordable price. I just need all season tires, as there's no snow in socal.
 
Buywheelstoday.com is where I picked up some kumo esta sports and konig heliums for an ok price.
 
I got my blizzak lm60's for much less than any local place offered them from tirerack. They were reasonable on wheels too, but I wanted the OEM wheel.

They were something like 300 each + 80 shipping, where most local places wanted 360-380 each per tire.
 
If you're driving less than 4k per year you're probably a good candidate for used tires, the rubber will rot before the tread wears out if you buy new.
 
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I'm in the market to replace the original tires on my car (going on 7 years, 27K miles), and I was thinking about buying some new rims to go with the new set of rubbers. The car came with 17" rims w/ very low profile tires. It can handle 18" rims, but it'll gimme a bumpier ride.

I was at Costco the other day and a set of Michelin rubbers will cost me close to $800 (ouch). What's a good place you would recommend I go to for a wide selection of rims + tires at affordable price. I just need all season tires, as there's no snow in socal.
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You don't even need all season tires. Summer rubber is fine here year round.
 
I bought tires and rims last year and found my local VW dealer had as good a deal through VW as I could get anywhere else. Yea 17 cost they are high performance. I took my wife down from 18 inch to 17 for snows. Why replace rims with only 27 k?
 
Driving a 06 tC right now. Stock 17" rims and rubber.

Just wanna switch up the looks of my car a little w/ new rims. I'm thinking all black.

It's either new rims + rubber package, or new used car, or new car. Not in the market right now to drop serious money on something I don't need. Thus, the rims + rubber idea.
 
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