Shoutout to the guy at the Rockford tire shop who told me to rotate and balance, not replace

Reese Taylor · 2026-10-17T10:10:03.532426+00:00

My rear tires were cupping bad at 28,000 miles and the first place in Rockford quoted me $640 for a new set without even putting it on a lift. The second guy, older, quiet, walked out with a tread gauge, checked all four, and said the tires had plenty of life left, the problem was I hadn't rotated them in 14 months. $60 for a rotate and balance and the cupping smoothed out within a couple hundred miles. I keep thinking about how easy it would've been to just nod at the first quote. How do you tell the difference between a shop being honest and a shop being lazy?

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