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Everything You Needed to Know About Tires and Then Some!

Your car does nothing without tires. TIRES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SAFETY ITEM on your car. Going is optional, and on my older car, I sometimes think the car gets to decide if it will go or not. Tu rning and stopping are mandatory. Without tires, your car will not do any of them. Poor quality tire s do these things more poorly than higher quality tires do. Sufficient tire tread is vital in the rain or on wet roads.      If your tires are more than 8 years old or your tread depth is less than 4/32 of an inch, you need to get new tires. That’s where we come in! We sell and install tires afford ably. Heck , we have a price match program that guarantees if you find the  same tire at a store  within 25 miles of us, we will match the price.   We invite you to call for details (512) 681-3500.   The tires we sell for your Volkswagen come with road hazard ins urance that will completely replace your damaged tire in the first year and pay for half in the second year. The good news is that ther

The Used Car Market Is Hot!

A wise person once told me; “as with anything in life, change seems to be the only constant we can count on”. Yes, life as we know it has changed - a lot, (maybe even more so in just these last few months). What I want to discuss today is the biggest change in the used car market that I’ve seen in my 30+ years in the car business. First let me digress back to the first big used car market change I witnessed, right after 9/11. As America and many places around the world were stunned, the economy almost came to a standstill here in the United States. Very shortly after, General Motors (partnered with GMAC) announced the “Keep America Rolling” campaign and introduced a 0% loan for 72 months on all of their automobiles. It was the first introduction of a 0% auto loan and it worked VERY WELL. What we witnessed at that time was people trading in their current year models for the exact same vehicle simply because they only wanted to trade “loans” and have one for 0%. As you can only guess,