Feel Good Story - Pay it forward... Two years ago, I was in a very bad place financially. Of course, that's when someone decided to slash all four of my tires. I had the car towed to a Discount Tires. I'd heard their customer service was top notch and I really needed someone to NOT take advantage of my relative ignorance about tires. I was in a fragile state. I got there and talked to a nice guy who, while symathetic, could only do so much. We decided on four, unmatched, used tires. But honestly, it was too much money for me. I got a little weepy, but kept it quiet. Eventually I smiled and muttered something about being glad I like PB&J because that's what I was going to live on for awhile. And I sat down to wait. (to be continued in comments... who knew there was a limit? LOL!)

Tires are date stamped. They age whether or not they're being used. Always look at the year of the tires that are being sold to you, and ask for the current year!

I was walking through the parking lot at Canadian Tire one day when I spotted a new-ish sporty car with two flat tires on the passenger side... then I kept walking and realized all four were flat. I'd love to know the story behind that.

If I were them I would reTire. :)

I bought my very first car from a friend who was moving abroad for the exact amount of money I happened to have in my wallet. It was an old SAAB with a lot of kilometers on it, and the first thing I did was to change the tires. New ones were out of the question but reasonably good used ones were put on in the tire shop. When the semester ended about a month later, I packed the car full and driving to my parents, I had a flat tire going 110 km an hour on the motorway but managed to stop safely, found the lug wrench, and tried to loosen the lug nuts. Impossible. I kicked as hard as I could but it did not budge. A police car stopped after a few minutes to give me a ticket for stopping on the motorway ... but when they realized that the reason was a flat tire, one of them looked me over and with a sarcastic sneer he said "Yeah, you haven't changed a tire in your life, of course." With my most innocent-stupid-girl-smile all I could say was "No. Please, can you help me?" (continued below)

My sister can drive but knows next to nothing about the technical side of cars. One day she took her car to the mechanic and they asked her what the odometer said, and she shrugged her shoulders and said “I don’t know, I think it has a 3 in it.”