Did they explain their point to this? I was always taught that your best
tires went on the front by default, if you weren't rotating a set.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Oxroad" <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: costco 15" tires

> In a message dated 1/17/2006 3:40:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM writes:
>
> i'm  surprised your charm didn't win him over. :)
>
>
>
> LOL!
>
> I'm about to possibly deal with Costco for tires for my VW Fox. (they're
> having a $60 off on purchase of 4 Michelins.)
>
> I might just need two tires, I'll have to take a look. If I do need only
> two--which of course are the front two--Costco will only mount two new
> tires on
> the rear axle no matter if it's a 2WD or 4WD. So this means I would have
> to
> "rotate" the bad tires to the rear axel, bring it to Costco, have them
> mount
> two new rear tires, get it home and "rotate" the new tires to the  front
> axle
> where I want the newer tires and put the old ones back on the
> rear..."company
> policy."
>
> Honestly I don't know what we'd do if we didn't have big corporations to
> do
> the thinking for us.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA