Well since Arnie decided to just about double the vehicle registration in California and I now own property, and have an address in Arizona I decided it’s time to register our vehicles in Arizona. Along with the registration I knew I would have to insure them in Arizona also. So I called the insurance company to see how much the insurance will be in Arizona. DOUBLE! WHAT THE… Yes it is double and it turns out the increase in insurance will cost me more than the increase in registration fees. Damn, I thought I was going to be able to rid myself of California but I guess not.
I set out today to line up some tires for the motorhome. The place I called a couple of weeks ago is gone, yes gone. I called the other day and the phone has been disconnected so today I did a drive by. It looks like an old abandoned warehouse. WHAT THE… No sign of there ever being a business there. Now this is no fly-by-night business. It is one of many and even Michelin recommended them as an authorized dealer. So I headed on down the road to the next authorized dealer. Well this place is still in business but none in stock. They called Michelin and none available there either. Seems they are building them as fast as they can, and are backordered by about 500, they are not taking any new orders. Before I left Havasu I talked to a place that said they could get me some so I will have to trust the old tires to get us back to Havasu and have the new ones installed there. This is more convenient anyway because they will come right out to the resort and install them.
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ReplyDeleteHave you factored in the taxes due each state? It looks like AZ is a lot lower than CA.
Have you thought about getting Goodyear tires? They are having a rebate on tires at the present time. We saved $50/tire using the rebate. Not cheap, but we saved almost $550 on 6 tires after bargaining with them.
The dealer I went to did not carry Goodyear. I got a quote from Campingworld on since I was there yesterday and their Goodyears with the Campingworld President’s club discount and $60 off per tire discount and they were still about the same price as the Michelins. They couldn’t get them for a couple of weeks though and we are heading back to Havasu before that.
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