This is my van. I still love my van. But those wheels, those stupid wheels, I don't love them. I don't even like them very much!
The brilliant people at Honda worked with those brilliant people at Michelin and came up with a "run-flat" tire. Sounds pretty good right, it won't go flat, you can drive 30 miles until you get to a shop and they can get you a new tire. Awesome! Except that you can't just buy new tires, you have to buy a whole new wheel/tire set up. At about $700 a piece!
Oh, and the tires pretty much suck, so you are talking about replacing them about every year or two. Add that up...$2800 at least every two years. UGH!!!
So we have been ignoring the fact that our tires are bald and need to be replaced. I have noticed that the car slides when the ground is wet at all. We have talked about getting new wheels that normal tires will fit on, but that will also run about $3000 and we just don't have that right now.
Last Tuesday we went to the temple. It was a rainy day and the car was sliding. Jason said that we needed to make getting new tires a priority. I pulled out my handy dandy phone and checked on Craig's List to see if by any miracle there was anything that would work to replace our tires.
The very first add was for GTO wheels that fit the 2005 Honda Odyssey. Four rims for $250!! They had just been listed the day before. After we got out of the temple Jason called the guy and met with him that evening. They fit, they look great. The next day he got new tires and put them on. Everything worked perfectly. And when all was said and done (we had to get all new lug nuts too, of course!) we spent less than a third of what we had been expecting.
It was an incredible blessing and I am sure that it was because we were going to the temple that everything worked out smoothly (and that we didn't die with our bald tires in the rain!)
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| And the rims are pretty sweet! Jason made our Honda center caps fit |
