Little known fact: if you take a brand new car to a Bridgestone owned retail outlet you can “trade up” (sometimes plus a little cash) to a Bridgestone product you actually want. Stores get stuck with your factory tires and it’s kind of a hassle for the store manager but Bridgestone wants your business. There is a mileage limit and I don’t think it applies to super specialty tires like blizzaks but YES WE DO IT.

Factory Goodyear Wrangler SR-A’s? Straight to Firestone to swap for some Revo’s or Dueller’s.

In exchange while your car is under warranty please send us your family for repairs and maintenance. We get goodwill business and you don’t have to have feelings about managing a family members car when they complain about their ride at family gatherings

Blizzaks work well for us. In the last 5 years we've had the Michelin x-ice 3's, bf goodrich winter slaloms (discontinued), winterforce 1's and ws70, and now ws90 blizzaks. The Michelins were okay but a bit too stiff on the ice. The old firestone winterforces are great for snow and mud but seriously lack for ice. The new firestone Winterforce 2's are alot softer and have wider tread voids but honestly we mostly sell them for trucks. Generals are pretty good but you tend to get alot of tread squirm and they take ALOT of weight to balance. Blizzaks have always been good to great across all categories and don't disappoint. Haven't tried and pirelli or happilata as I cant get another easily if needed but they tend to be winter/sport with the stiffer compounds.

Snows are generally supposed to be replaced at 4/32nds. The newer blizzaks use a "multicell" technology that has tiny pores of varying sizes to help pick up and move water off ice. Seems to work well so far but that "multicell" tech only goes to 5/32nds.

Best of the bunch was the discontinued BFGoodrich winter slaloms. Fracking awesome on both the honda and the minivan. Closest tread design available today would be the winterforce 2's but much like the BFGoodrich units I don't think the firestones would be so great on dry pavement with the larger voids and softer rubber.

When choosing my winter tires blizzaks are the all around best performers. If I think its going to be a snowy year I'll try wider voids. Icy year more tread. But we live in the 8th ring suburbs so,,,? You're needs might be different

@boxer_4 A couple of the techs I've worked with had them for common cars like Toyotas and Chevy trucks. They're surprisingly good. 5 quarts dumped chugged in like 5 seconds.

@musashi66 Chrysler no longer has the tools to fix my dead because of the bendix 10 93 Town and Country’s brake system that was so bad it was federally mandated to be lifetime warranty. It’s hard to imagine maintaining all the drivers assistance without some sort of revenue stream to support constant updates.

But paying for heated seats or such after the initial purchase is crazy. In this land of overly complex laws I wouldn’t put it past em for trying.

@gettingoldercarguy bought our burley used and it’s still worth about $200. Super comfortable to use as wide awkward stroller too. Checked other brands at target and fleet farm and they just weren’t as smooth and the construction or concerns about occupants wasn’t quite the same.

When the last kid outgrows it I’m still keeping it for errands and stuff. It’s just that good.

Drive past paisley park on the way to work every day.

So happy they moved cars and coffee

@long_voyager94 people don’t asked to see date codes nearly often enough. Maybe I meet one or two a year that care to ask.

@interstate366 HELLO

A word from the service department.

Typically a high pitched squeak is small metal bits and lower pitched squeak is lack of grease. A lot of techs don’t believe it but WASH NÉW ROTORS UNDER WARM SOAPY WATER, then give em a good rinse under running water. Microscopic bits remain behind after manufacturing that get bedded in the brake pads. There is also some thought that the running water demagnetizes the rotors so the burrs float down the drain easier. This is often the cause of a lot of squeaks in brake jobs. Scrub and rinse em real good. And then reassemble with lots of grease. Should be good enough

A word from the service department.

Typically a high pitched squeak is small metal bits and lower pitched squeak is lack of grease. A lot of techs don’t believe it but WASH NÉW ROTORS UNDER WARM SOAPY WATER, then give em a good rinse under running water. Microscopic bits remain behind after manufacturing that get bedded in the brake pads. There is also some thought that the running water demagnetizes the rotors so the burrs float down the drain easier. This is often the cause of a lot of squeaks in brake jobs. Scrub and rinse em real good. And then reassemble with lots of grease. Should be good enough

@interstate366 HELLO

@orneryduck ! YUP !

@hfv Holy crap! That’s close enough to promise the misses another child for!

Little known fact: if you take a brand new car to a Bridgestone owned retail outlet you can “trade up” (sometimes plus a little cash) to a Bridgestone product you actually want. Stores get stuck with your factory tires and it’s kind of a hassle for the store manager but Bridgestone wants your business. There is a mileage limit and I don’t think it applies to super specialty tires like blizzaks but YES WE DO IT.

Factory Goodyear Wrangler SR-A’s? Straight to Firestone to swap for some Revo’s or Dueller’s.

In exchange while your car is under warranty please send us your family for repairs and maintenance. We get goodwill business and you don’t have to have feelings about managing a family members car when they complain about their ride at family gatherings

@long_voyager94 people don’t asked to see date codes nearly often enough. Maybe I meet one or two a year that care to ask.

@classicdatsundebate thanks to Medtronic leaving we’re now about 2nd in Fortune 500 companies per capita. Guess if ya don’t like snow a lot of business can get done

Drive past paisley park on the way to work every day.

So happy they moved cars and coffee

@gettingoldercarguy bought our burley used and it’s still worth about $200. Super comfortable to use as wide awkward stroller too. Checked other brands at target and fleet farm and they just weren’t as smooth and the construction or concerns about occupants wasn’t quite the same.

When the last kid outgrows it I’m still keeping it for errands and stuff. It’s just that good.

@essextee it looks like it would navigate the lip of my driveway better. But maybe it’s just the angle?