cars

Lol

...and a snowy mountain road to drive it on

"Advance Auto Parts" is closing almost all it's west coast stores and are liquidating all inventory. After ignoring it for a month or two, I finally went in to check it out. Everything appears to be 95% off.

I'm talking $5 brake rotors, $1 coolant hoses, $8 for an entire front shock & strut assembly, $15 fuel pumps, $.03 cleaning sprays.

If you live anywhere near a closing store and own a car, you should probably check if they have anything you might need one day, cuz you'll never get a better deal. Employees were all really chill too considering they're about to be laid off.

So I bought a car from a relative because I could afford that, they bought a fancy boutique version of this car (Chevy Cruze) that has, by default, 18 inch rims. I live in a shitty midwestern USian city and of course this thing can't handle potholes and the tires leak if you look at them funny. I've been limping along as long as I can but a pothole destroyed another one and replacing these stupid 18 inch tires is expensive. I've had to replace them twice in the last year, it's absurd, and they're of course way more expensive than a normal person tire.

So I'm looking at replacing the entire wheel set so that I can get a 17 or 16 inch wheel with more reasonable and cheaper tires. Is there any reason to be afraid of a certain size or wary of downsizing at all? I go on some site like Tirerack and it looks like I can get a set for a few hundred. My mechanic said this isn't a problem, that the chassis is identical to the less boutique options, but I'm not a car person so I would love a second opinion on this before I spend a bunch of money again. Things to look out for, free wheels (lol), any helpful advice is appreciated.

I don't speak Czech so I assume this is a story about

https://subium.com/profile/ericafails.bsky.social/post/3lffnbitw322d

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154433397

Now I have an excuse to launch it at every stoplight

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