Tire Shops
The independent tyre shop on Young Road, carrying new and a large stock of used tyres, wheels and rims, with repairs, balancing and fitting.
Tyres matter more here than in most of the Lower Mainland, because a lot of the driving is not on the flat. The Eastern Hillsides, Promontory, Ryder Lake and the Chilliwack River valley all involve real elevation, winter conditions arrive up there earlier than they do on the valley floor, and British Columbia's winter tyre rules apply on the routes east. That gives the trade a seasonal rhythm the coast does not quite have, and it is why the independent shops in this city handle changeovers, storage, truck and trailer work and agricultural tyres alongside ordinary passenger cars.
Feri's Tires is at unit C, 8815 Young Road, which puts it on the Young Road corridor, one of the two pockets where this trade concentrates in Chilliwack; the other is the light-industrial ground behind Sardis. New tyres are listed here and so is a large stock of used, along with wheels and rims, and repairs, balancing and fitting. The used side is worth knowing about, because it changes the arithmetic on an older vehicle or on a trailer that only needs to get through one more season. It also means the useful question is whether a particular size is on the rack that day, since a used inventory is by definition whatever came in last.
Neither a phone number nor a website is recorded on this entry, and there are no map coordinates either, so the street address is the thing to work from rather than a pin. Young Road itself is straightforward to find. The unit letter suggests a shared building, which is normal for that corridor, and it is worth carrying the letter as well as the number when setting off. National tyre chains are excluded from this directory, so the comparison to make is with the other independents on this page rather than with a franchise price list.
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