Disposal fee

[ephantmon]

I'm considering purchasing tires from tirerack.com and having them installed locally. All the installers around charge $2-$5 per tire for disposal. If I don't want them disposed of, can I request them back and not pay the fee?

 

[Treyz02KJ]

I am pretty sure local laws apply here.. Some will, some won't.

 

[J-Thompson]

you pay that when you buy them not when they take them off
I think that if you have tires you can bring them to them and they have to take them ,tire retailers

if they are charging you a disposal fee for tires you have they are steeling from you
the disposal fee is more like a tax ,Uncle Sam gets his first

 

[Dave]

Probably works different in different states. But here you can get your old tires back if they are still good or you were going to use them or something and not pay a fee. I have done it. I was told that the fee goes to the State and you actually have to have a tire disposed of to be required to pay the fee......that's NY though.

Dave

 

[HoosierJeeper]

I think here it's 5 bucks per tire or something like that. Can't speak for my county, because I had them installed in the next one up...

 

[Ry' N Jen]

This is how we deal with it in British Columbia, Canada.
We pay no matter what!
http://www.tirestewardshipbc.ca/tirerecyclinginbc.php

 

[ShafferNY]

Probably works different in different states. But here you can get your old tires back if they are still good or you were going to use them or something and not pay a fee. I have done it. I was told that the fee goes to the State and you actually have to have a tire disposed of to be required to pay the fee......that's NY though.

Dave

x2

I've been charged this fee even though the garage didn't dispose of my tires when I had them mounted. They slipped it in there without me noticing.

 

[jnaut]

you pay that when you buy them not when they take them off
I think that if you have tires you can bring them to them and they have to take them ,tire retailers

if they are charging you a disposal fee for tires you have they are steeling from you
the disposal fee is more like a tax ,Uncle Sam gets his first

Disposal fee is pretty standard in all the years that I've dealth with tire replacement.

 

[jnaut]

x2

I've been charged this fee even though the garage didn't dispose of my tires when I had them mounted. They slipped it in there without me noticing.

More than likely because it's almost an automatic fee, and since 99.999% of all people don't leave with their bald tires, they probably forgot to remove the fee. But yes, my advice would be that if you're not having your tires disposed, check the bill carefully to make sure you're still not paying it.

The only reason I could think of not having all the tires disposed of is for retention for a spare.