Tire & Wheel Care

So I almost died on the highway once. Well okay that’s dramatic, I didn’t almost die but I definitely had a moment where I thought “this is how it ends, killed by my own stupidity and bald tires.” It was pouring rain, like absolutely dumping, and I’m doing maybe 60 on the highway when traffic […]

Hit a massive pothole on my way to work like three months ago. One of those ones where you see it coming but there’s nowhere to go because traffic’s hemming you in on both sides. Just had to grip the wheel and accept my fate. BOOM. Pretty sure I felt it in my soul. Anyway […]

So I went to a cars and coffee thing last month and there was this brand new McLaren 750S parked next to a Ferrari F40 from the 90s. And like, the McLaren is objectively faster in every measurable way – more power, better aero, faster lap times, all of it. But literally every single person […]

So last winter I was being lazy about checking my tire pressure and just kept pumping them up whenever they looked a bit low. Except I wasn’t actually checking the pressure, just eyeballing it and adding air. Genius move right? Ended up with my tires at like 45 PSI when they should’ve been at 32. […]

So my neighbor installed one of those obnoxious train horns on his pickup truck last year and I swear to god the first time he used it I thought a freight train was about to plow through my living room. Thing was LOUD. Anyway he got pulled over like two weeks later and the cop […]

Drove on bald tires for way too long in college because I was broke and stupid. Nearly spun out on a wet on-ramp one night and that finally scared me into actually checking my tires. Turns out they were completely shot and I’d been driving a deathtrap for months. Here’s what you should be looking […]

Short answer: yeah you can, but should you? Different question entirely. I’ve got mismatched tires on my car right now. Two Michelins up front, two Continentals in back. It’s not ideal but I’m also not dead yet so there’s that. Let me break down when it matters and when it doesn’t . When It’s Totally […]

What causes tire sidewall cracks? This is one of those things people notice while washing their car or checking air pressure and suddenly feel a knot in their stomach. The tread still looks okay. The car drives fine. But there they are — little lines, splits, or dry-looking cracks on the side of the tire. […]

Why do my tires lose air quickly? This question usually comes after the third or fourth time you’ve had to stop at a gas station thinking, “Didn’t I JUST put air in these?” It’s frustrating because it feels sneaky. The tire looks fine. No flat. No warning light sometimes. And yet the pressure keeps dropping […]

Okay so last month my alternator died on a Friday afternoon—because of course it did—and I needed my car running by Monday morning. Spent the next few hours learning every trick in the book to track down parts fast. Let me save you the same frantic Google spiral I went through. Stop Calling Individual Dealers […]