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Nutmegdog1959 t1_iwih96z wrote

Reply to comment by mistahboogs in I'm looking for someone who Studs tires near Burlington area? by [deleted]

Nokian national distribution warehouse located in Colchester. I bet they have studded tires?

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mistahboogs t1_iwja9m1 wrote

Right but they might not stud this person's tires they already bought

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Nutmegdog1959 t1_iwjei3u wrote

No, they won't.

I've studded tires for www.icerace.com in NY.

There's about 100 studs per tire. It's laborious, time consuming and boring. If you're good and fast and have the right tools you could probably knock out a set of four in 90-120 minutes. Takes time.

In that same time frame a good tire tech could bang out four winter tire swaps at $80 a car, that's $320. Why would they want to dick around with some mutt who bought tires elsewhere and now wants them studded and mounted.

Ain't gonna happen anywhere!

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SomeConstructionGuy t1_iwkye68 wrote

This guy gets it. Studding isn’t profitable, selling tires is. Distributors stud tires so they can sell more tires. If you don’t buy the tires from them why the heck would they stud them?

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mistahboogs t1_iwlbvmy wrote

I worked for VT wholesale, delivering tires but occasionally had to stud them when we were backed up. I'm not sure how big of tires you were studding but for a set of 4 "average tires" there's no way it should take 1.5 to 2 hours. Half an hour at most.

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