I needed tires for my wife's van. 45K miles, the stockers were to the wear bars. OEM install tires never seem to have much life for some reason.....
Anyway, went with Goodyear Assurance Comfort-tred. Great reviews, $40 a tire rebate from Goodyear. Sooooo off to the local goodyear dealer.
Alignment was out, pot holes have been brutal this winter. $90 to align is a little high, but I have no equip to do it myself AND the tires were a good deal...so what the heck.
Got a call, "your rear brakes are dangerously low"...almost metal to metal! Now, I changed the front pads with OEM honda ~ 2 months ago, and then were at 25% .....but the rears were fine. hmmmm.
I told them no thanks, and put it on the lift today. Heres a pict of the rear pads. at least 50% remaining. Rippers.
The good? another "lesson" to teach the shop kids.......