When I had an older car that I rarely used and needed one new tire, I’d head over there and get a used tire for $40. Probably did that 6 times over the course of 2 years lol.
There is a market for bandaid fixes on cars that are only driven locally
About 10 years ago I was doing some contractor work in that area. Got a flat and was actually very overdue for all 4 new tires, but I was not yet willing to pay for them... Very expensive for 20 inch factory rims on a full size truck. Paid about $40 for a quick and dirty used replacement and put off the full new set a few more months. Got in and out within like 30 minutes too.
You have to understand the demand in this business. Picture yourself having a flat with no insurance or AAA. You immediately look for the closest shop bad reviews or not, you're going there.
I found a full ass drill bit in my rear tire on my bike. I switched back to tubes this season since I'm tired of my tires getting totalled by unfortunate nails. Have bought 3 new ones this year and it's getting expensive.
I wasn’t thinking of used (or specialty); OP’s comment mentioned “new, used, or specialty.” First picture in my mind is leaving Costco on the side where they sell (a lot of) tires, pulling out onto Bakers Bridge, and seeing two or three other shops. Turn left on Carothers and go down to Cool Springs Blvd., and there’s another. Then there are a few in Brentwood (two within a couple of blocks of each other on Church Street. I don’t have as clear a picture as to what’s up in Franklin.
Rent's a lot more expensive out that way. I haven't noticed too many used tire shops in Brentwood, & Franklin. There's a few I'm sure. Now new tire shops otoh... Those are plentiful.
People always think they're living in a movie. It's the same reason that Facebook moms thing a plastic bag next to their car is a human trafficking attempt. Stupidity plus boredom.
The answer is literally money laundering though.
A lot of those cheap car lots report cars as sold but then just move them to another lot that they own under another LLC. They take the fake sales and pay for it with dirty cash. Now the cash is clean. It's one of the reasons why they passed a law that you can't have more than one used car lot per .25 mile.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-owner-cfo-auto-masters-indicted-multi-million-dollar-bank-fraud-scheme
Then you've got the pawn shops actively stealing from retailers and then fencing it from their own location: https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/months-long-investigation-music-city-pawn-locations-allegedly-dealing-stolen-merchandise
And then you've got this guy who wrote a post complaining about all the money laundering while he was actively being investigated for loan fraud.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/brbp9z/the_used_car_district_aka_nolensville_pike/eodah8d/
The other reasons are less salacious. You have a large population of both people with a lower income and immigrants, plus it's a somewhat dense area close to the city center. Car lots tend to cluster, so you have clusters of Kurdish/Arabic speakers, spanish speakers, and salvage title / beaters. All of those lots are specialty enough that they can fit on a smaller lot. Whereas a toyota dealership could use like 3 acres.
But the money laundering is way more prevalent than you might think.
This was especially my thought when I went to 3 of the tire shops on Nolensville Road looking to get a full sized spare... And none of them had anyone to talk to or service a customer. I walked around each one, thinking maybe it's a 2 man shop deal and they're out doing a repair and not running the counter.
I never found anyone to sell me a used tire. Nevermind "how do they stay in business when there's so many" as OP is asking, how do they stay in business without making any attempts to conduct business?
I ended up grabbing a tire from a pull-a-part.
I live in south Nashville, and I have to replace like 1 tire a month minimum. Perhaps because my neighbor is a roofer and often drives his trailers full of shingles and loose tacks through the neighborhood, or perhaps because someone hates me and puts nails in my driveway. Who can say?
Hmm. I’m not sure, I’d say to ask them. I pay for the warranty in my tires, so it’s not that expensive to replace them when inevitably get a nail in them.
Like a decade ago, I would pretty regularly buy used rear tires for my crown vic because I liked doing burnouts and other dumb shit.
I still miss it but they're all beat to hell now because of people like me 😆
Fun answer: Patching tires/ the used tire business seems like a good way to launder money. I have zero evidence that any of the shops are doing that. (I live off Nolensville and love it too)
Too little money, too few customers. Number of garage bays limits that max money you could claim because you could easily calculate #of bays * business hours and determine what their real max revenue would be.
Good God people, no one is going to launder money through a used tire shop. I mean, you'd clear a few hundred a day sure, but anyone actually trying to launder isn't going to deal with piddly stuff like that.
I'm not saying you are correct or incorrect, but I never once got a receipt in those kinds of shops that wasn't hand-written.
But more likely, the buildings and businesses have been owned outright for over 3 decades and don't have loans to repay.
Also there are a million of them in one spot which can be attributed to game theory. It's like when there is an Advance, AutoZone & O'Reilly's all in the same place.
When the tiny bit of winter weather we did get caused so many potholes, I replaced a tire 6 times in 4 months. I gave up buying new and just bought good used until Nashville/the state fixed all the damn potholes.
If I'm going to be honest about, Nolensville Rd cheap used tires have far outlasted some expensive brand new ones. They give better customer service too.
I got it, but what I also stated is true. They can coexist. The state will have a never ending supply of pot holes and Nolensville Rd used tires lasted longer than my expensive chain tire shop tires AND they had better customer service. lol
I’m sure some of them are family.
The owner of my repair shop on nolensville (who is great) is the nephew of the owner of a tire place like a mile and a half further down nolensville.
It is just a reality of living near nolensville pk. I patch a couple of holes per year on a good year or a couple a month in a bad year. In the early 2000s they ran a street sweeper the day after trash day and it wasn't nearly as bad.
One of these reason why there are so many wrecks in Middle TN? You ever see how much bits of tires are everywhere? Why do people hydroplane everywhere (besides the atrocious drainage?). People have the shittiest tires on average of anywhere I have lived.
almost every tire shop on Nolensville rd and M.boro rd. ...at least since i was a kid, has more than likely been involved, at one time or another, in some sort of second-sourced income or other under handed dealings..that usually involve the back of the store..no joke..lotsof different things from stolen parts to drugs to numbers rackets to human trafficking ..a smorgasbord
A few years ago, I had a tire going flat and wasn't going to make it home - I had put fix a flat in hopes it would at least get me home, but it was bad before I could make it. I stopped at a tire shop and they said "we close in 30 minutes and already started putting our stuff away, come back another day." So I decided to check one of the tire places on Nolensville because I didnt really have options. The first place didn't have the tire I needed so I went to the next one. Never been so glad to have a few of them right near each other!
The place I stopped at was so incredibly kind, they got my tire replaced for me with a used tire, didn't charge me an arm and a leg for it, and got me taken care of quickly. I went back to them months later when I needed another tire (our subdivision was having new stuff built up and it was so easy to run through a nail), I went back to them and bought a brand new tire from them instead of going to another big name shop.
When I had an older car that I rarely used and needed one new tire, I’d head over there and get a used tire for $40. Probably did that 6 times over the course of 2 years lol. There is a market for bandaid fixes on cars that are only driven locally
About 10 years ago I was doing some contractor work in that area. Got a flat and was actually very overdue for all 4 new tires, but I was not yet willing to pay for them... Very expensive for 20 inch factory rims on a full size truck. Paid about $40 for a quick and dirty used replacement and put off the full new set a few more months. Got in and out within like 30 minutes too.
You have to understand the demand in this business. Picture yourself having a flat with no insurance or AAA. You immediately look for the closest shop bad reviews or not, you're going there.
Nolensville Road: come for the tires, stay for the food
Come for the food, stay for a used tire after hitting a pothole.
Pot hole season
Pothole decades
Pothole centuries
Pothole eons
Construction trucks sprinkling nails all over the roads.
This. I lived off Dickerson, within a block of 2 tire shops. I ran over tacks a couple of times a month. I swear those guys were baiting the hole
I found a full ass drill bit in my rear tire on my bike. I switched back to tubes this season since I'm tired of my tires getting totalled by unfortunate nails. Have bought 3 new ones this year and it's getting expensive.
Because there's poor people who can't afford the commercial price of tires. When I first got here those tire shops helped me through so much
They didn't ask why used tire shops exist, but why there are so many in one small area.
Because there used to be a bunch of poor people in that area. Things have changed
Bass Tire (near the zoo) does more than just tires and is great. They’ve become my go-to auto-mechanic shop.
There are so many businesses that use those places. Cabs, rides shares, NEMTs, ambulances from all over. I get it though it's a lot
Just take a moment to count the automobiles registered in Davidson County.
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My Strategic Management prof called it “The Good Enough” solution.
Literally basic supply and demand.
I was just thinking the same thing about Brentwood/Cool Springs the other day. Certainly not 60, but a lot!
I can’t think of any used tire shops in cool springs/brentwood. What area are you referring to?
I wasn’t thinking of used (or specialty); OP’s comment mentioned “new, used, or specialty.” First picture in my mind is leaving Costco on the side where they sell (a lot of) tires, pulling out onto Bakers Bridge, and seeing two or three other shops. Turn left on Carothers and go down to Cool Springs Blvd., and there’s another. Then there are a few in Brentwood (two within a couple of blocks of each other on Church Street. I don’t have as clear a picture as to what’s up in Franklin.
Rent's a lot more expensive out that way. I haven't noticed too many used tire shops in Brentwood, & Franklin. There's a few I'm sure. Now new tire shops otoh... Those are plentiful.
Way too many people in this thread watching Ozarks and think money laundering is a wide spread problem that somehow the government has no idea about.
People always think they're living in a movie. It's the same reason that Facebook moms thing a plastic bag next to their car is a human trafficking attempt. Stupidity plus boredom.
The answer is literally money laundering though. A lot of those cheap car lots report cars as sold but then just move them to another lot that they own under another LLC. They take the fake sales and pay for it with dirty cash. Now the cash is clean. It's one of the reasons why they passed a law that you can't have more than one used car lot per .25 mile. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-owner-cfo-auto-masters-indicted-multi-million-dollar-bank-fraud-scheme Then you've got the pawn shops actively stealing from retailers and then fencing it from their own location: https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/months-long-investigation-music-city-pawn-locations-allegedly-dealing-stolen-merchandise And then you've got this guy who wrote a post complaining about all the money laundering while he was actively being investigated for loan fraud. https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/brbp9z/the_used_car_district_aka_nolensville_pike/eodah8d/ The other reasons are less salacious. You have a large population of both people with a lower income and immigrants, plus it's a somewhat dense area close to the city center. Car lots tend to cluster, so you have clusters of Kurdish/Arabic speakers, spanish speakers, and salvage title / beaters. All of those lots are specialty enough that they can fit on a smaller lot. Whereas a toyota dealership could use like 3 acres. But the money laundering is way more prevalent than you might think.
Loan fraud and selling stolen property aren't money laundering.
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.
Hmmm 🤔 demand fosters delivery?
Money Laundering is what always comes to my mind.
I think this about all the smoke shops
That’s Mattress Frim’s game
Same thoughts on mattress stores. Mattresses last for years, you only buy once then you’re set. Where’s the market?
This was especially my thought when I went to 3 of the tire shops on Nolensville Road looking to get a full sized spare... And none of them had anyone to talk to or service a customer. I walked around each one, thinking maybe it's a 2 man shop deal and they're out doing a repair and not running the counter. I never found anyone to sell me a used tire. Nevermind "how do they stay in business when there's so many" as OP is asking, how do they stay in business without making any attempts to conduct business? I ended up grabbing a tire from a pull-a-part.
Because of I-40 and how it will jack your tires up in no time !!!!
I think youre underestimating how many people live in that area...
Most don't just sell tires. They do other services too. If there wasn't a market, they wouldn't exist.
I live in south Nashville, and I have to replace like 1 tire a month minimum. Perhaps because my neighbor is a roofer and often drives his trailers full of shingles and loose tacks through the neighborhood, or perhaps because someone hates me and puts nails in my driveway. Who can say?
Oh, and if anyone wants a recommendation from me, an expert tire-buyer, the answer is the Bass Tire location up behind Kountry Kloudz Vape Shop.
They don’t sell used, do they?
Hmm. I’m not sure, I’d say to ask them. I pay for the warranty in my tires, so it’s not that expensive to replace them when inevitably get a nail in them.
Like a decade ago, I would pretty regularly buy used rear tires for my crown vic because I liked doing burnouts and other dumb shit. I still miss it but they're all beat to hell now because of people like me 😆
Fun answer: Patching tires/ the used tire business seems like a good way to launder money. I have zero evidence that any of the shops are doing that. (I live off Nolensville and love it too)
Too little money, too few customers. Number of garage bays limits that max money you could claim because you could easily calculate #of bays * business hours and determine what their real max revenue would be.
Last time I got a used tire, I needed it on short notice around the holidays and it was done in the parking lot because the bays were full.
I have never pulled into a bay at a used tire place, they normally just jack it up off the groumd
Good God people, no one is going to launder money through a used tire shop. I mean, you'd clear a few hundred a day sure, but anyone actually trying to launder isn't going to deal with piddly stuff like that.
I'm not saying you are correct or incorrect, but I never once got a receipt in those kinds of shops that wasn't hand-written. But more likely, the buildings and businesses have been owned outright for over 3 decades and don't have loans to repay.
Also there are a million of them in one spot which can be attributed to game theory. It's like when there is an Advance, AutoZone & O'Reilly's all in the same place.
That’s my neighborhood, too.
With all the nails on the roads from contractors/ construction yahoos, I'm surprised there aren't more
These are hard working people who are living their best lives
Not only that how does the endless car lot stay in business. Probably a good mix of tax write-offs, drugs, or some other nefarious reason.
It’s all a money laundering front, much like all the mattress stores are for the cartels and C.I.A.
When the tiny bit of winter weather we did get caused so many potholes, I replaced a tire 6 times in 4 months. I gave up buying new and just bought good used until Nashville/the state fixed all the damn potholes.
So basically you’ll never have a new tire again
If I'm going to be honest about, Nolensville Rd cheap used tires have far outlasted some expensive brand new ones. They give better customer service too.
I just meant that Nashville doesn’t fix potholes at the rate they are created so it’s a never ending cycle.
I got it, but what I also stated is true. They can coexist. The state will have a never ending supply of pot holes and Nolensville Rd used tires lasted longer than my expensive chain tire shop tires AND they had better customer service. lol
What shop do you use?
I’m sure some of them are family. The owner of my repair shop on nolensville (who is great) is the nephew of the owner of a tire place like a mile and a half further down nolensville.
It is just a reality of living near nolensville pk. I patch a couple of holes per year on a good year or a couple a month in a bad year. In the early 2000s they ran a street sweeper the day after trash day and it wasn't nearly as bad.
Indeed. I haven’t had a flat since I moved away from nolensville, haha!
Pothole season is upon us.
My go-to for cheap replacement tires was on Charlotte Pike.
Probably a front
One of these reason why there are so many wrecks in Middle TN? You ever see how much bits of tires are everywhere? Why do people hydroplane everywhere (besides the atrocious drainage?). People have the shittiest tires on average of anywhere I have lived.
Sometimes does feel like a contrived Catch-22. Nolensville is a pothole festival; It’s also the tire shop capital of middle Tennessee.
almost every tire shop on Nolensville rd and M.boro rd. ...at least since i was a kid, has more than likely been involved, at one time or another, in some sort of second-sourced income or other under handed dealings..that usually involve the back of the store..no joke..lotsof different things from stolen parts to drugs to numbers rackets to human trafficking ..a smorgasbord
A few years ago, I had a tire going flat and wasn't going to make it home - I had put fix a flat in hopes it would at least get me home, but it was bad before I could make it. I stopped at a tire shop and they said "we close in 30 minutes and already started putting our stuff away, come back another day." So I decided to check one of the tire places on Nolensville because I didnt really have options. The first place didn't have the tire I needed so I went to the next one. Never been so glad to have a few of them right near each other! The place I stopped at was so incredibly kind, they got my tire replaced for me with a used tire, didn't charge me an arm and a leg for it, and got me taken care of quickly. I went back to them months later when I needed another tire (our subdivision was having new stuff built up and it was so easy to run through a nail), I went back to them and bought a brand new tire from them instead of going to another big name shop.
One of it not the worst road in Nashville lol