most cost efficient way to get flat car tires replaced? (Update 5/22)

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Used tires are fine. A visual inspection before installation and you're good. A 13 year old beater is a perfect candidate for used tires. On our new daily driver's we use new tires. On my 24 year old mustang or 10 year old truck I'd definitely go used.

 

[kitatech]

On the topic of used tires...


The one thing to consider with used tires is you often don't get to choose what you get - you pay your $30 or so and they go to a big stack and pull off the tire(s). So you might get the almost new tires I described in the previous paragraph or you might get something that will last only a few months or a year.

In the case I mentioned on p. 1 about "pull-offs", the guy at the used tire shop took a photo with his phone of my new front tire and then took me back to the rack and found a match! It wasn't the same brand but was a match, made in the same factory a week after my front tires (it pays to be able to read tire manufacturing codes)
....serendipity and just good luck, of course...

 

[VAisforlovers]

updated OP with what I paid

 

[Vic Vega]

That's a good price OP.