No galaxy or iphone device will ever be considered bifl.

Yup. Personally, I’m fine with letting them handle those. I’ll take care of the outrageously priced simple things like brake pads and rotors. I remember my dealership quoting me $1200 for only rear pads and rotors. I chuckled. I think I paid $315 including taxes and shipping for pads and rotors for front and rear and took care of that myself.

The catch on any tires is to actually keep up with the warranty side of it, though most major tire locations will keep a record of this stuff for you. I personally go to NTB because they have a convenient location for me. But, let’s have some math fun fully based off of generic numbers, not actual tire prices. If I go to NTB and buy a set of tires where each tire costs $100, we have a total of $400 in value. They’re supposed to last 80K miles but only last 40K miles after standard warranty maintenance to generally include rotation and alignment every 6K-8K miles. NTB will now recommend me for new tires to which I’ll ask about the warranty on these tires I purchased from them. They do a little research in their system, then come back and tell me the tires only survived half the time they should have, meaning I’ve only received 50% of my $400 value. That remaining $200 can now be used towards new tires.