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valoth (profile) wrote,
on 5-15-2008 at 9:18am
Current mood: aggravated
Subject: The Going Price For Home
So I left work around 4:30 yesterday got maybe 5-6miles from the office and was another mile from getting onto 196 East. I cross some train tracks and to my ears I hear a glorious sound. Piff! Hisssssss!

Flat tire, rear driver side. I pull into the nearest parking lot just as the tire empties out of all its air. I get out to take a look. I have a nice 2-3" gash on the side wall ending on bottom side of the tire. I was pissed. Something hit the tire hard enough to slice a clean gash in the tire side wall while going over the tracks.

I move onto tryin to change the tire and come across my first problem. Covering the lugnuts up is a nice 6" round cap. The cap is held in place by a phillips head screw. The screw head is completely devoid of its original inset. So I cant get that off to even start on the lug nuts. I call up my Dad and we go home.

We return with tools to get past the problem. And sure enough after rejacking the car back up he pulls out the screw. We take the cap off and use a 4 way torque wrench to work on the lug nuts. We manage to get 2 of them off. The other 3 are on so fucking tight that they had to have been put on with a air wrench of some form. Short of rounding the things off and making it impossible to get them off we could not do anything about it.

So now on top of getting a new tire, custom to the car running me about $95 a piece, I have to pay costs of getting service of an air/power wrench to get those things off.

Oh and the tire may have to be Fed'ex shipped in to the area because after looking online at the tires website it isnt housed locally. At least, not by the tire discount who the tire company goes threw.

hooray.....
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butterfly

05-15-08 1:02pm

heh... you said nuts
*giggles*

... all seriousness aside, holy balls, this gave me diabeetus.

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skife

05-15-08 3:13pm

its a 4-way wrench for 1.

number 2. did you ask about a used tire? did
did you shop around at all?
what size tires are they?

3. when you buy a tire, it needs to be put on the rim and balanced at a tire shop, they pull the wheel off your car and put it back on for you. its not an "extra cost"

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valoth

Re:, 05-15-08 3:27pm

Its a Road Hugger G/T 215/60 -14 96S

I wasnt dealing with discount tire really other than online last night, I didnt get to be thr for when it was being fixed this morning. I did shop around looking for the tire from another company but nothing was showing up.

Road Hugger straight up just doesnt make the tire anymore from what I was told by my father who was looking into the situation for me being that he has the day off. I do not.

In regards to your #3 my extra cost was the fact that the car wasnt at the store, it was in a random parking lot. I needed someone to come TO the car to deal with getting the bad tire off so we can put the spare on finally and then look at driving it to the store where once the tire is in we will get it put on.

After calling to talk to my father is would seem a similar tire is available but not the same one so I have to buy 2 tires, to balance the back end and I will not get the tire put on until Monday when they should have the tire they found shipped in to that specific store.

I would use the car with the spare on but Im not going to do that because the spare has been sitting in the front of the car since it was brand new and that it was flat when I pulled it out. Making me not know if the thing holds air still.

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skife

Re: Re:, 05-15-08 8:57pm

it has 14" tires on it? i didn't know this.


to losen the bolts on the wheel, just take a peice of pipe to slip over the lug wrench to get better leverage, do this before jacking the vehicle up.

if i we're home i'd come by and help you out.

i wouldn't worry about using the spare tire, just follow the directions on it, don't exceed more than 60mph or so.




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