Just got my 1999 Grand Vitara (v6, manual) a couple weeks ago.  Already I am planning what I want to do with it over the summer.  This is my daily driver and although I am a mechanic I don't really enjoy working on cars much anymore.  My GranVit is bone stock right now and I pretty much want to keep it that way.  No lift (it doubles as my Grandmother's taxi service, she really appreciates the current ride height.  Leave it where it is!), no big fat tires, no chopping the fenders!  Pretty much all I plan right now is some sort of underbody protection and a trailer hitch.

For the past few days I've been thinking about what to do with the tires.  The stealership I bought the GranVit from installed 4 Goodyear Integritys which are nice for driving back and forth to work and are good in the rain but they kinda suck in the snow (well I was on Blizzaks on my old vehicle).  Don't even want to try going off road with them.

I found some stock sized (235/60-16) Yokohama Geolandar A/T-S general purpose All Terrain tires that I am interested in buying but they are a tad pricey (tire store will have to order them in) especially since I am still trying to recover after buying the GranVit.  So I figure if I want to get some $$ back off the Goodyears I should get off the pot and pick up those ATs but what should I do with the Goodyears?  They have easily less than 3000kms on them, what do you guys do with your stock tires?  Do you go to a tire store and get a reasonable credit for them?

Thanks

James

If the Goodyears are prety new I'd say the store might buy them or you could sell them yourself.

I'm dealing with this right now.

In my area NO tire stores that I could find buy tires back, even brand new ones like we have.  I actually have six practically new stock sized tires.  Four GY Integrities like you have and two Bridgestones that were/are spares on our XL7 and our previous GV.  The Bridgestones have no mileage on them and the GY's have maybe 200 miles on them as I put better tires on ASAP.

The local paper lets you run ads in the "under $100" category for free if you place them online.  Well, I've been doing that for about a month now and have had plenty of calls but no takers.  I've got them listed for $50 each and won't go lower since they're practically new and the local Goodyear place wants $90 each for the same tires.
Also be prepared for the people that don't know jack$hit about tire sizes other than their car has tires that have 235, 60, 16, some combination of some of those numbers, one of those numbers, or just tires on it.  I had a guy all ready to buy the first week...I pull up and realize he's driving a F150.
"Those are kinda small."
No $hit moron...I even have the complete tire size in the ad too, he didn't know what size tire his F150 ran...235/70R16.

Some old guy wants to come see them, but can only come by during the day on weekdays...while I'm at work..."no, I won't let you randomly sift through my garage while I'm not at home sir."

Then there's the , "I'll call back on Saturday..." calls...so far I still have them.

Have fun...luckily I have a storage shed and they're not in the way...cause they sure aren't moving right now...
They might end up on Ebay for stupid cheap soon.

I sold my stock Bridgestones thru Craigslist, to another XL7 owner