Rims for snow tires
Rims for snow tires
I have seen it mentioned here several times that I should bring an extra set of rims to mount snow tires on. Seems like a sensible suggestion on the surface, makes it much easier to change from summer to winter tires and back again. So I went about looking for rims for our cars we are bringing with us. I was shocked to see that the cheapest I could get were in the $110 each price range. That would mean it would cost me about $950 (tax included) for 4 rims for each car, or $1200 if I got one for a winter spare tire as well. So how much does it cost to have tires mounted and balanced over there? Here it is usually about $10 per tire. Assuming I have winter spares that would mean mounting and balancing 10 tires twice a year (2 cars) or $200 / year. That means it would take 6 years for the rims to pay for themselves. Is there a cheaper way? Are rims cheaper there?
Cant be in the trunk
Just thought I would add that all of the shipping companies have told me that the spare rims can NOT be in the car. The vehicle must be completely empty. Note that there are two ways to ship cars, they can either go in a container, or the can do "Roll On/Roll Off" or ro/ro as they call it. If they go in a container then the rims and other goods can also go in the container, but not in the car. If they go ro/ro, then nothing else goes with the car. The price difference, ro/ro for two cars from California to Finland $4800 door to door, in a container about $8000 port to port, and since I am not close to the port add another $400 each to get them to the port.
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Rims in USA cost "nothing" to rims in Finland.
Of course, naturally, you get the cheapest possible steel rims (+ then some plasticky fancyness) but as "everyone knows that" I won't be telling you.
Changing the tyres is 40-50 euros here. Getting rimmed is 20 per tyre.
Of course, naturally, you get the cheapest possible steel rims (+ then some plasticky fancyness) but as "everyone knows that" I won't be telling you.
Changing the tyres is 40-50 euros here. Getting rimmed is 20 per tyre.
Last edited by Hank W. on Sun May 29, 2005 12:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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