 Hey guys, another addition attack talk here and winter tires, it's time to get them off. Spring is here, it's great news. Let's get into that. Earl Glant, Townships Everleigh, let's talk about tires. I'm just here to talk to you guys about your winter tires. It's that time of year, spring time's here. Gotta get those winter tires off, get them put away in storage, just talk to you a few things about that. I guess number one is best time rule of thumb for taking your winter tires off at seven degrees. Once you realize that you're seven degrees Celsius for temperature, that's what time it is to take your winter tires off. Your winter tires are a softer compound. They do that for enhanced grip in cold weather and cold pavement. So what's going to happen is as the weather gets warmer, it's actually going to chew those tires up quicker and they're not going to handle the stop break. They kind of get grease here. They don't have the same sidewall retention because they're made of a softer compound. So you want to get them off, like I say, as soon as you're on seven degrees. So when it comes time to take those things off, if you're going to store them yourself, just a few things to keep in mind. You want to store them somewhere where it's dry, you want to store somewhere that's cool. So like a basement would be a good spot to do it. If you can't, keep the tire bags on. If you're putting it in a shed where maybe it's going to get hot or you're putting an enatic where some place is going to get warmer, you're going to have a lot of temperature fluctuation. Just tighten that tire bag up because what you want to do is keep the air away from the tires as much as you can in that type of environment. That way you're not losing the oils. The tire, the rubber will dry out and you'll cause weather cracking over time. So especially if you're somebody who doesn't put a whole lot of kilometers on each season, you want to keep that rubber from cracking and drying it because you'll get most amount of time that you can't have those tires. If you're going to store them in a basement, just something to keep in mind, you want to keep them away from hot water heaters or furnaces or stoves, something that's going to generate a lot of heat because that'll dry out the rubber too. And if you're not interested in storing them and you don't have a spot for them, we do offer storage here. We label the tires. We mark the customer's name down. Your name, owns the tires. We also do the tread depth, the type of tire and the size of the tire. And we also keep that with the work order as well as a sticker on each one of the tires. And we put them in the container and then when you come back in to get your winter tires put on, you know, you're getting the right tires, you're getting your tires and it's easy for us to find. We get them ready for you and we'll get them mounted up next year. Another thing to keep in mind is too, if you're doing your own tire changes, you want to get those sensors relearned so your vehicle knows what corner you're low tires. So the car itself has no way of knowing whether the left front wheel is the left front or the right front is the right front or either one of the back ones. So we put your vehicle in a learn mode. We go around with our tool and we set each tire so that way if it shows you got a right rear tire that's low on air, you know the right rear tire is the one that's low. When you top it up that'll get reset. Another great thing to do too is alignments. You're getting your tires changed. Tires these days are not cheap. We're offering, if you come into the drive-thru for an appointment for a service or having your tires changed or mounted and bounced, just mention it to the team in the service department and they're offering free alignment analysis. So we'll just put it on the machine. Jeremy here does a great job. Only takes about 15 or 20 minutes for most vehicles. Now some trucks take a little longer because it's a little harder to set up the machine. There's a little more work to it and a little more work to do the adjustments if you end up needing that and we'll get you a print out from our live machine on whether your vehicle needs to be lined up or not. Rule of thumb is if everything's in the green you're good to go. Jeremy's good. If you have any questions he'll come out and talk to you. Kind of fill you in on what adjustments need to be made if that needs to be done and then you can decide to do that at the time. The alignments if you do need one are start at $69 and that's assuming that everything for the alignment good. If you're dealing with a vehicle that's older, you're around a lot of salt water, a lot of rust, you might have to have some bushings replaced or some bolts to make those adjustments but that's something that he'll talk to you about in the service department before we go ahead and do that work but especially an alignment analysis for free. It's a no brainer in my opinion because like I say tires are expensive. You get some premature wear on the inside or outside of your tires or some cupping and you're wearing those tires are quicker you need to when you're talking some tires, you know your range of anywhere from $100 to I've seen some tires for $400 just depending on the size and the type of tire you want for your vehicle. So just something else to keep in mind and um yeah so it's great warm weather's here don't forget seven degrees let's uh let's get those tires changed and keep you guys rolling down the road. Thanks