v10enomous
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Went Saturday to get my new Goodrich KDWs installed. Local tire guy with a great reputation and a thriving business as a result. He has done a lot of work for me in the past.
So after a week he finally got me a newer set of tires than the originals that came in with a born on date of the 8th week of 2008. The first problem is that he can't get the car on the lift because it's too low. So the hand jack the rear. They dismount and remount the the first tire and it won't balance. I give them credit because they went through the entire manual and tried every setting on the machine but they have just never balanced anything so wide. Damn rim looks like a keg of beer on the tire mounting machine
So seeing as how the help line for the balancing machine manufacturer is not available on weekends he just mounts the raers and tells me to come back during the week to balance the them.
So now we move to the front and he can't even get the hand jacks underneath so they start scowering around for wood blocks. By now we are over 2 hours into the process only to find that the fronts won't balance either.
So after nearly 3 hours my tires are installed but still not balanced and I have to come back during the week when he can get the balancing machine help desk involved.
I give him credit though because he still gave me the $100 discount for combining the sale for the Viper tires with a set of BFGs for my wife's car. Plus there is a $60 mailin rebate on each set.
So after a week he finally got me a newer set of tires than the originals that came in with a born on date of the 8th week of 2008. The first problem is that he can't get the car on the lift because it's too low. So the hand jack the rear. They dismount and remount the the first tire and it won't balance. I give them credit because they went through the entire manual and tried every setting on the machine but they have just never balanced anything so wide. Damn rim looks like a keg of beer on the tire mounting machine
So seeing as how the help line for the balancing machine manufacturer is not available on weekends he just mounts the raers and tells me to come back during the week to balance the them.
So now we move to the front and he can't even get the hand jacks underneath so they start scowering around for wood blocks. By now we are over 2 hours into the process only to find that the fronts won't balance either.
So after nearly 3 hours my tires are installed but still not balanced and I have to come back during the week when he can get the balancing machine help desk involved.
I give him credit though because he still gave me the $100 discount for combining the sale for the Viper tires with a set of BFGs for my wife's car. Plus there is a $60 mailin rebate on each set.
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He also told me one of the rears had a nail in it.
People actually came up to me the next day and asked if I had blown the engine because the carwas smoking so bad... The same car once delayed racing at Island dragway for almost 15 minutes because I smoke out the tower. Whose I dea was it to put 14" 70 series tires and an open rear on a car with that much torque anyway..
