How much do snow tires cost?
I need to start putting some money aside to get snow tires for my new car for this winter, so I just wanted to know about how much that's gonna run me. I have a 2002 Ford Focus ZTS
Snow tires can vary in price anywhere from 50 bucks a tire to 150. You have some options though you can do a swap and replace just the front tires with snow tires or replace all four. Doing this you will have to pay for mount and balance every time to swap them out. What I have done it cost a bit more up front but finding a cheap set of rims that fit the Focus and placing the snow tires on those will five you the option to save the regular tires for better weather and run just the snow ires in winter thus having two sets of tires you will get many more years out of the snow tires since only using then 4 months and more use out of the regular tires and they are usually already balanced and mounted so you can swap them out when needed in less than an hour yourself with the cars own jack.
Check websites like goodyear, bridgestone, tirerack and discount tires for new. Used look around at local tire shops. James advice good also.
Go on tirerack.com, now is the best time to buy, since it is off-season.
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