Tires from Costco? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

xavier405 · 10-12-2005, 04:24 PM

I noticed that the costco website lets you seach for tires by the car model. It has our Pilots available, but I don't recall the price. I'm sure you can just price compare the website against other tire websites and see what you get!

97Boxsterian · 10-12-2005, 04:34 PM

Costco's price is good, but I know their installing job is bad. One of my friend's rim was scratched while they install the tires. Discount Tires or America Tires do a way better job and their price are great too.

Tool Pants · 10-12-2005, 04:42 PM

There is nothing wrong with this. We have local owners who had their tires purchased and mounted at Costco. I can usually tell from the green valve stem caps.

I think they get their tires from TireRack, just like my local dealer.

My local Costco has the Hunter machine that does not scratch your rims.

dennizxxx · 10-12-2005, 05:10 PM

I had PilotSports installed at Costco last year...aside from a small order mix-up, I think they did a fine job, at the time I searched around and at costco, I saved about 250 or so.

No damage whatsoever...

Mark986 · 10-12-2005, 06:56 PM

Hey Toolpants

What's up with the green valve caps?

I got my tires at Costco and got the greenies too. I had my tires filled with nitrogen and thought maybe that's the way they tell that they're filled with nitro. Anyway, I went straight to Pep boys and grabbed some black caps; kept the greenies to swap out when I get them balanced,rotated and aired up.

dennizxxx · 10-12-2005, 07:06 PM

i thought it was notrogen too.....

thoughts...

Tool Pants · 10-13-2005, 04:10 AM

The green caps are for Nitrogen. My local dealer has also started to do this.

TerryB · 10-13-2005, 05:06 AM

Why nitrogen? I'm not familiar with this. Advantage?