What to do with tires

[trez63]

This will be my first Jeep and I'd like to upgrade to 35s right away. I see there is no way to order them that way. So what do you guys normally do? I don't want to throw away a perfectly good set of 33" tires. Can you sell them easily? Is there any way to work this out so it's not a total waste?

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[SFC2]

This will be my first Jeep and I'd like to upgrade to 35s right away. I see there is no way to order them that way. So what do you guys normally do? I don't want to throw away a perfectly good set of 33" tires. Can you sell them easily? Is there any way to work this out so it's not a total waste?

I am doing the same when I order the JT. My dealer does upgrades and modifications on Jeeps as well as sales/service. I will order the 35s from them to be installed at delivery. They will give me a credit for the stock tires and take that off the price of the new tires.

 

[samichlaus]

Ship them to me.

 

[Troybilt]

They will sell with little effort. At some point before the Gladiator hits the lots they will open up a market place here. I asked Jay about it over at the JL forum and opened it right up.

Lots of folks will be looking for Rubi take off parts. I would think that they will also fit the JL's and the JK's also but the lug size went 1/2 to M14 so in not 100% on that.

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/forums/wheels-tires.53/

 

[Sgt Beavis]

Get the cheapest tires you can and sell them on the message board, craigslist, or facebook.

 

[DMoney]

Do burnouts on em till they pop. Lol JK.
I'm sure someone on this forum would buy them for 50 bucks a pop or more (assuming you take them off as soon as you get the JT).
That's 200 more dollars that can be used for other mods.

 

[homerun]

In the last several hours @bangolia has decided or at least posted in a few threads about wanting to buy Rubi take off tires

 

[bangolia]

In the last several hours @bangolia has decided or at least posted in a few threads about wanting to buy Rubi take off tires

This thread made me think about it

 

[12BNNT]

Myself, as well as others, who end up getting a sport or sport S will often look on Craigslist or FB buy/sell/trade for local owners who have upgraded their rubicons with bigger tires and/or wheels for a discount priced upgrade to the smaller tires that come on the sport.
What I’ve done in the past with my current (and previous) JK was use the stock tires for daily driving ($120/tire) and purchased another set of larger tires and wheels for off-road use. Right now, much to my wife’s amusement, I have 3 sets of tires and wheels... The stock set of 255/75’s that came with the Jeep that I will put back on the Jeep at trade in, another set with 285/70’s (rubicon size) that I’m daily driving, and a set of offset off road rims with 35x12.5 mud terrains for off road use when I get to go wheeling.
So, if you get a rubicon and get bigger tires/wheels, you have a few options... keep them in the basement or corner of the garage to put back on at trade in/selling of your Jeep (and be able to keep the set of upgraded rims you pick for next Jeep), use stock set with the less expensive tread for daily driving and set up another set of more aggressive tread for wheeling, or sell them online (here, Craigslist, Facebook etc...) or trade them for a credit through the dealer.
A lot of dealers are on this gamete of upgrading jeeps for sale with marked up/overpriced lifts/tires/rims. I’m not a big fan of this. It’s one thing to have one on display to show how much a lift and such can change the look of the wrangler (or Gladiator) but it’s another to put a few upgrades on the Jeep that would cost $3500 online and marking up the Jeep $5-6K over sticker to sell to someone who doesn’t know better. Most people think if the dealer does the upgrade it’s covered under the warranty but the fine print says if it’s not ALL Mopar parts it may not be. Also I was at a local dealer who had a display of tires and rims “ready for your Jeep”, but the rims were priced 50 percent higher than what I could find them for online and the tires were about the same. Then you trade in your rubicon tires/rims and let’s say they give $1000 credit towards your new set, they turn around and put them on a sport and add an upgrade sticker to that Jeep and charge that buyer maybe $1500 (or more) for the upgraded wheels and make a quick $500+ profit on your rims.
I say help a fellow Jeeper, find out what they are gonna give you in credit, sell them for that if you don’t want them, you still get some money back on them and save a fellow Jeeper a few bucks.

 

[WXman]

When I put tires on Craigslist, they typically last less than 48 hours.

I put a set of the KO2s on there a few weeks ago and had them sold the next day for $700 cash and that was with around 7,000 miles on the tires.

 

[12BNNT]

When I put tires on Craigslist, they typically last less than 48 hours.

I put a set of the KO2s on there a few weeks ago and had them sold the next day for $700 cash and that was with around 7,000 miles on the tires.

Ive done the same. When I first bought my current JK Sport S, I bought a set of rims with almost brand new 255/75 BFG M/Ts from a guy with a JK Rubicon who got bigger tires. I used those for offroad and the stocks for daily driving until I got my lift installed. Then I upgraded to the 285's for daily and the 35's for play (yes I had 4 sets at that point) but sold the 255 MT's in less than 24 hrs for what I had paid for them. Like yours, they still had plenty of tread on them as I had only used them at 2 Jamborees, 1 local offroad outing and a few snow storms of 10+ inches of snow.

 

[Rover_boy]

OK, same newbie here.... I've been googling this very info but cannot confirm for JT. if a jeep expert can confirm for me.

1. I can upgrade the tires to 35s on stock wheels without spacers. Need to program to take the 35s
2. I can upgrade the tires to 37s on stock wheels without spacers but need a leveling kit at a minimum. Need to program to take the 37s

Your input is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[JeepDreams]

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[Big Red Gladiator]

I have an LE on the way. I would like to keep the stock rims. So, what is the biggest tire I can buy for the stock rim?
Be specific on tire name and size if you can. Thanks.

 

[5JeepsAz]

a ways back I took tires off of a 97 wrangler, threw them on the shed roof, put them back on when turning it back in off a lease

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