LifetimeTIRE Program

I just bought my Tacoma today, and the dealer told me about the Lifetime Tire Program. If I do all my maintenance on time at the dealership, they give me free tires when these wear out.

Has anyone used this program before?

 

Third taco owner in my family here. Made my dad wait til 65k to replace his tires. (Cost of their service) - (cost of same service elsewhere) = money for better tires than what they would give you.

 

ya dont do it. toyota charge too much for simple stuff that can be done for half the price at other places.

 

Thanks for the advice. In the past, I have not been favorably impressed with Toyota service. They do good work, but every time I took something in for them to fix, they started adding on a bunch of things that "should" be done. The last time, several years ago, I wound up with an $800 service bill, and felt like they took advantage of me.

I have never heard of anyone being able to drive 65,000 miles on a set of tires. Amazing. They must have been down to the cord. I understand that Toyota would be in the position to determine when to provide this free service, but it seems to me that making people wait this long would be a tremendous liability. How many people have slipped on wet or snow-covered pavement and hit something while waiting for new tires?

The terms of service also call for tire rotation every 6,000 miles and alignment every 12,000. Is this normal for a 4x4? I usually don't do an alignment until I get new tires, unless I've hit something hard and notice a different.

Thanks again for all your help.

 

believe it or not, some tires have up to an 80,000 mile warrenty as long as you rotate and keep proper tire pressure.

So, 65K on a set of tires is easily achieved.

When Hunter came and installed our alignment machines, they said reccommened alignment is about once a year, which could be 12K miles.

 

Wow. I didn't know there was so much to learn. Maybe 50 isn't old after all?

Thanks for the information. I was also wondering about tire pressure. These Dunlops are good to 51 psi. I have always inflated tires to about 5 psi below the max, but I read that 30 is recommended. It's on the door frame and posted in these forums. Why is that? It seems low to me.