Post by ballshooter on Aug 25, 2012 19:11:27 GMT -5
Hello all,
Hopefully I wont get into hot water with the board manglement over this but Discount Tire sent me away with a very serious condition today.
I am aware that my 15 year old truck with 225,000 miles on it isnt exactly eye candy, but it is dependable and well maintained. I wore out the key for crying out loud. I did let my front tires get pretty bad tho. Changing tires is the only work I wont do myself no tire machine or balancer and spooning on tires just sucks all together. So I leave it up to the so called experts. I didnt do a close up inspection just a quick walk around. Didnt even make it a block, the center caps were rattling to beat the band. Upon closer inspection I found a missing lug nut, the flat washers and spring washers randomly placed and many spring washers seemed to be missing. This is what burns me about it I really only wanted fronts but apparently michilen and the govt decided an understeering car that cant stop is safer than an oversteering car IE replace the back tires not the front. So I let them make me a deal on all 4 in the name of safety and I can resume normal tire roatation again. But yet they sent me out of there unaware I was missing a lug nut. They claim it was stripped, well 2 of the 3 lug bolts on the spare tire rack got stripped too. Someone needs to have their airgun taken away from them. Myself I always use a 4 way and torque wrench.
As for the center caps they guy did me a favor, removed and disposed of all those bent washers. Really, they had to dig them out of the trash. Its not exactly rocket surgery center cap, spring washer, flat washer, lug nut in that order. Who does that? Removes a part from something rather important like say the nuts that hold the wheels on and pitches it without saying anything? 3 hours 3 inspections and 2 more trips back in the bay its mostly right. I have to go back next week for the correct nut and couple of flat washers. They tried one replacement, a locking lug without providing me with a key, it now has a tapered head nut which will work for the time being.
You know the old saying do someone right and theyll tell someone do someone wrong and theyll tell everyone. And how.
They got a bit apologetic toward the end and hung alot on the "new guy". After all the empty safety marketing BS to send a vehicle out in that state is just beyond belief.
Austin
Hopefully I wont get into hot water with the board manglement over this but Discount Tire sent me away with a very serious condition today.
I am aware that my 15 year old truck with 225,000 miles on it isnt exactly eye candy, but it is dependable and well maintained. I wore out the key for crying out loud. I did let my front tires get pretty bad tho. Changing tires is the only work I wont do myself no tire machine or balancer and spooning on tires just sucks all together. So I leave it up to the so called experts. I didnt do a close up inspection just a quick walk around. Didnt even make it a block, the center caps were rattling to beat the band. Upon closer inspection I found a missing lug nut, the flat washers and spring washers randomly placed and many spring washers seemed to be missing. This is what burns me about it I really only wanted fronts but apparently michilen and the govt decided an understeering car that cant stop is safer than an oversteering car IE replace the back tires not the front. So I let them make me a deal on all 4 in the name of safety and I can resume normal tire roatation again. But yet they sent me out of there unaware I was missing a lug nut. They claim it was stripped, well 2 of the 3 lug bolts on the spare tire rack got stripped too. Someone needs to have their airgun taken away from them. Myself I always use a 4 way and torque wrench.
As for the center caps they guy did me a favor, removed and disposed of all those bent washers. Really, they had to dig them out of the trash. Its not exactly rocket surgery center cap, spring washer, flat washer, lug nut in that order. Who does that? Removes a part from something rather important like say the nuts that hold the wheels on and pitches it without saying anything? 3 hours 3 inspections and 2 more trips back in the bay its mostly right. I have to go back next week for the correct nut and couple of flat washers. They tried one replacement, a locking lug without providing me with a key, it now has a tapered head nut which will work for the time being.
You know the old saying do someone right and theyll tell someone do someone wrong and theyll tell everyone. And how.
They got a bit apologetic toward the end and hung alot on the "new guy". After all the empty safety marketing BS to send a vehicle out in that state is just beyond belief.
Austin