Tire shop hacks, gotta vent! - Page 2

BlueLibby04 · 04-30-08, 11:34

Yea, Im not much on letting people work on my Jeep at all. I do all the work I can but stuff like tires is kinda hard to do at home. I either put my Jeep on jack stands then take the wheels+new tires to them or put my spare set of wheels on and take them to them. I watch them the entire time and do not except bull sh*t of any kind. They do what I say or they get no money and I leave with my tires. I usually get them to put the weights on the back of the rims since I dont like the stick on ones. I offroad alot and I worry all the mud+water that I go through will cause them to come off.

One thing that PO'ed my last time I got my tires mounted on some rims I had, the rims had the stick on weights and I thought about taking them off but figured them being a tire place would take them off. Got the tires back and they balanced the tires with the old stick on weights on the rims but they used clamp on weights(like I told them too).

cajunfirehawk · 04-30-08, 11:34

I think a large part of these problems stem from hiring the lowest paid person to do the job for the lowest price. IE: everyone wants an oil change under $20 but they also don't want to be the one whose drain plug was left off either.....catch 22. Tire shops are no different; they hire cheap labor to do crappy work (dirty, hot, sweaty, physical) to keep their bottom line down. Front end techs are a different pay grade and usually a lot better, in my experience. YMMV

Scottwax · 04-30-08, 02:19

I normally get really good service at Discount Tire but a couple times it was a nightmare. They didn't torque down the lug nuts on my front wheels except for the wheel lock. A few days later, I keep hearing this faint knocking sound, almost like my calipers were rattling or I had a bad bearing. Pull on my wheel to see if the bearing would click and it was very obvious the wheel was loose. Tightened it up and complained to the manager. He gave me a card for 30% off my next purchase. Then, for the next year, every time I'd go in for a flat repair or tire rotation/balance, they would break a stud on the driver's front hub (the one that was the loosest from them not tightening my lugs), so after breaking the 3rd one, they went ahead and replaced them all. Next time, the broke a stud on the driver's rear hub.

They replaced all the studs on that one too, and fixed a flat on the passenger front (every time it hails, we end up with roofing nails in the streets), so they had the back end of the car and the passenger side front jacked up, putting all the weight on the driver's front tire that was still on the ground. First time I open my driver's door, the plastic spacer on one of the hinges broke and to top it off, they mounted the front tire inside out, so they had to fix that too.

I've been going to Discount Tire since I was in high school, so that is nearly 30 years now but for an 18 month time span, nothing seemed to go right. NTB is quite a drive for me but there are two Discount Tire stores within 4 miles from my house, making them convenient for flat repair.

Setec Astronomy · 04-30-08, 02:44

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Originally Posted by Scottwax

every time it hails, we end up with roofing nails in the streets

Huh? Or are you saying that the hail, due to its higher mass relative to raindrops, dislodges the nails that roofers leave all over the roof when they're done?

Scottwax · 04-30-08, 05:23

I mean that the roofers are more than careless with their nails when repairing roofs.

Setec Astronomy · 04-30-08, 06:02

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Originally Posted by Scottwax

I mean that the roofers are more than careless with their nails when repairing roofs.

I guess you are saying that the TX baseball-size hail requires roof repair! In the rare instances we have hail here it's not usually very large (we had golf-balls a few years ago which did a lot of car damage but not any roofs that I'm aware of).