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Headed to town for a couple things, one being a tailgate seal. Nope. Not a single auto place carries it. Ok, Amazon does
I get my running around in town completed and head for home. I get to about 5mi from the house and the dash on my truck lights up in ORANGE. Tells me I'm loosing air in the left rear tire. So I pull off the side of the road and across a blacktopped driveway, where there was two ways in. Sure as heck, that left rear was flat.
Ok, here's where a guy can get an attitude with engineers........................
Trying to get the jack and equipment out to change the tire was at minimum a pain in the ask. Who the heck designed that? The manual was just about worthless, so I winged it pretty good anyway. However, getting that spare down, unhooked and out from under the truck wasn't easy either. What a PITA!
After about an hour of screwing around changing the tire, I was finally ready to turn around and head back to town for a tire repair.
The engineers that designed the system, evidently have never had to use it!
Pulled into the tire shop, which was just slightly busy. I was told about 45min to an hour. That I could deal with, no problem. The guy finally went out and pulled my truck in the bay for the repair. He immediately found the culprit that flattened the tire. Looked just like the inside of an ink pen. So off the guy goes to do the repair.
WAIT! He comes back and talks with me and the manager. Seems these new wheels are tire killers .... IF ..... one has a flat. He told me in most cases, people don't get enough warning and also don't get stopped fast enough. The wheel just eats the inside of the tire right down to the threads. With just hitting 4,000 miles, the tire was destroyed. Great. Well I need a new tire now, so they had to order it, and it'll be there tomorrow. I'm supposed to show up sometime around 2:00pm or a little later.
Oh the best part...................... The new tire only costs $388.00 Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I get my running around in town completed and head for home. I get to about 5mi from the house and the dash on my truck lights up in ORANGE. Tells me I'm loosing air in the left rear tire. So I pull off the side of the road and across a blacktopped driveway, where there was two ways in. Sure as heck, that left rear was flat.
Ok, here's where a guy can get an attitude with engineers........................
Trying to get the jack and equipment out to change the tire was at minimum a pain in the ask. Who the heck designed that? The manual was just about worthless, so I winged it pretty good anyway. However, getting that spare down, unhooked and out from under the truck wasn't easy either. What a PITA!
After about an hour of screwing around changing the tire, I was finally ready to turn around and head back to town for a tire repair.
The engineers that designed the system, evidently have never had to use it!
Pulled into the tire shop, which was just slightly busy. I was told about 45min to an hour. That I could deal with, no problem. The guy finally went out and pulled my truck in the bay for the repair. He immediately found the culprit that flattened the tire. Looked just like the inside of an ink pen. So off the guy goes to do the repair.
WAIT! He comes back and talks with me and the manager. Seems these new wheels are tire killers .... IF ..... one has a flat. He told me in most cases, people don't get enough warning and also don't get stopped fast enough. The wheel just eats the inside of the tire right down to the threads. With just hitting 4,000 miles, the tire was destroyed. Great. Well I need a new tire now, so they had to order it, and it'll be there tomorrow. I'm supposed to show up sometime around 2:00pm or a little later.
Oh the best part...................... The new tire only costs $388.00 Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr