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I've been looking to have my OEM tires replaced for the past three months at Firestone Complete Auto Care. My Mach-E has 64,000 miles on it. I choose this location because I have a credit card with them that gives me 0% interest. Anyways, I've been visiting them every two weeks or so and they tell me there's no tires in stock for my Mach-E anywhere in the country that they can get.

I'm assuming I can get OEM tires very easily at the Ford Dealership, but I'm hoping to upgrade to something better. Any ideas or other options I can explore?
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TireRack offers six month interest free with Affirm. They have lots of options in stock.
 

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In my 2021 GT (not PE) with 22k miles, I had one tire damaged beyond repair. While considering what to do (they say replace both tires on axle to avoid different circumference problems) I decided to replace all 4. Swapped out my OEM Continentals with 4 Michelin Primacy and my previously TOO BOUNCY car became MUCH better.

Well worth it for me due to improved ride. Just saying.
 

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I've been looking to have my OEM tires replaced for the past three months at Firestone Complete Auto Care. My Mach-E has 64,000 miles on it. I choose this location because I have a credit card with them that gives me 0% interest. Anyways, I've been visiting them every two weeks or so and they tell me there's no tires in stock for my Mach-E anywhere in the country that they can get.

I'm assuming I can get OEM tires very easily at the Ford Dealership, but I'm hoping to upgrade to something better. Any ideas or other options I can explore?
I bought these Hankook EV tires as a direct replacement for the OEM tires and love them.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/hankook-ion-evo-as-suv-tires-now-available.26130/
 


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I recommend @Discount Tire. You have them near you. If they can't get the tires, no one can.
 

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TireRack and @Discount Tire are owned by the same company.
This explains a lot. I ordered my winter tires via Tire Rack (no local shop had anything that would fit the car) and they shipped them to my local Discount Tire for installation.
 

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This explains a lot. I ordered my winter tires via Tire Rack (no local shop had anything that would fit the car) and they shipped them to my local Discount Tire for installation.
Tire Rack has long lists of local shops that they'll ship to for installation. It doesn't have to be Discount Tire, which is good since they don't exist near me.
 

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Tire Rack also has a mobile service that comes to your door to mount and balance tires. I bought OEM wheels from a California-based company and winter tires + TPMS from Tire Rack. Their van came to my condo building and provided the mounting / balancing service right here on a busy street.
The guy politely declined to fix a flat due to their company policy, but I totally respect that.
 

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I know, but that fact wasn’t germane to my comment, which was about availability of both tires and interest-free financing.
Discount Tire offers interest-free financing with their credit card (so you do have to apply), which would be 6 or 9 months depending on whether you exceeded $999.99. And you would get 5% off.

What's interesting is that @Discount Tire STILL doesn't have the Primacy A/S on their website, despite it being brought to their attention a few times. TireRack does have it. $245.63 per tire. DT can order it they say, and I'm sure they would match TireRack (themselves) and then you could get 5% off with the DT credit card.
 

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Thank you to all that referred us!

As @RickMachE noted, the O.E. Michelin Primacy A/S is available through Tire Rack. I also received an update mid last month from the product team that an internal part number is being created for this tire on the Discount Tire side, and should be live on our website sometime this month.

Also, in looking at what's available in 225/55R-19 with proper load rating for the Mach-E, there are options out there such as the Hankook Ion EVO A/S, Michelin Pilot Sport All-Season 4, Nitto NT 421Q - to name a few.
 
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As I read this post I have a set of brand new Continental ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus tires stacked in the garage (since Jan. ‘22) on top of a set of 4X wheels shod with OEM Continental summer tires with less than 1K miles on them. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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