Mondays at the tire shop

Just lost a buddy, living in Texas, to that C stuff . . . Agreed about people who make the world better . . . He was a member of that club too . . .
Sad for your loss . . . Condolences.
As to the nice twin brother . . . Funny how families have so widely different personalities under one name . . . (Please don't ask my family which sheep I am . . . ; )
 
Sorry to hear about your buddy wm. Sincere condolences. Yeah, we all have an "evil twin" that comes out sometimes. I work in building material supply and in 13 years I've only lost it on about 4 guys ...3 of them are now some of my best customers. We just needed to set the playing field.
 
Ok, about the guy with with the ruined tire. I was having a real bad day, maybe bad enough I don't need to be dealing with people. Learned this morning one of my best friends (and type person who make this planet better) who has been battling the Big C has lost. They have him sedated awaiting the end.

This unfortunate customer got to see me explode when he lit my short fuse. He drives up basically on a flat tire, wanting it repaired. When I glance at it, I can see the heat lines/rub marks on the sidewall where it has been run underinflated/flat. I show him this and tell him the tire is probably ruined. He wants me to fix it anyway. I remove it from the vehicle and put just a little bit of air in it to take to the water dunk tank out back to see if I can find a leak, which I did. However, when I dismount the tire, ya can see what I saw.....a destroyed tire internally.

I show this to the customer, and this is where it all went south. He tells me I intentionally ruined his tire when I had it outside in order to make a sale. I am kinda incredulous at this remark, and even ask him how could I do something like that as the tire was still mounted. I tell him he DID it by running it flat. He doubles down and accuses me of ruining it again. :mad2:

That was it, it gets a little blurry now, as part of me left my physical body...but what remained went off onto a cuss rant. I called him a liar,stupid, moron, will lots of cuss words. Told him something to the effect of I how I should be with my dying friend and not listening to his stupid self (more colorful cuss words included). I also told him I would put his spare on and for him to never darken my driveway again.

He may have tried to interject but I talked over him. I told demanded he get his spare out.

I guess during all the smoke/haze from my head exploding, this guy left and his twin brother walked up.....as his twin had a totally different personality. He was very calm, and said he was sorry to hear of my friend. He also asked if I had a tire for purchase, which I did...and he did buy.

This guy is welcome back, but his lying twin brother is not.
Sorry about your friend.

As for the "evil twin", you just did what almost every sales person wishes they could have done at one time or another in their career.

This may also be the first time someone has confronted the "evil twin" when pulling a stunt like this.

At least you didn’t punch him out. 🤬
 
This did not end well for these 4 young men. They drive up to purchase two tires that one of them had previously called on the phone about. They don't drop the tailgate (not sure if it works) but unloaded the tires/rims over the top of the tailgate,

After I mount them and am collecting the money from one, two guys carry the tires.rims back to the truck and the first one 'throws' it over the top of the tailgate into the bed instead of laying it over into the bed. I see it do a hop and am actually yelling at the second one to stop before he does the same thing, but it was too late......He throws it like the first guy did, and it did a hop too.....crashing thru the rear window. :rip:

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This did not end well for these 4 young men. They drive up to purchase two tires that one of them had previously called on the phone about. They don't drop the tailgate (not sure if it works) but unloaded the tires/rims over the top of the tailgate,

After I mount them and am collecting the money from one, two guys carry the tires.rims back to the truck and the first one 'throws' it over the top of the tailgate into the bed instead of laying it over into the bed. I see it do a hop and am actually yelling at the second one to stop before he does the same thing, but it was too late......He throws it like the first guy did, and it did a hop too.....crashing thru the rear window. :rip:

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It is important, when contemplating a *massive* screw-up that you are completely responsible for, to stand quietly and stare at the damage for an extended period of time.

The duration of this period to be determined by the inverse relationship of the cost of the damage compared to the likelihood of being able to lay the blame on someone else.
 
Ok, about the guy with with the ruined tire. I was having a real bad day, maybe bad enough I don't need to be dealing with people. Learned this morning one of my best friends (and type person who make this planet better) who has been battling the Big C has lost. They have him sedated awaiting the end.

This unfortunate customer got to see me explode when he lit my short fuse. He drives up basically on a flat tire, wanting it repaired. When I glance at it, I can see the heat lines/rub marks on the sidewall where it has been run underinflated/flat. I show him this and tell him the tire is probably ruined. He wants me to fix it anyway. I remove it from the vehicle and put just a little bit of air in it to take to the water dunk tank out back to see if I can find a leak, which I did. However, when I dismount the tire, ya can see what I saw.....a destroyed tire internally.

I show this to the customer, and this is where it all went south. He tells me I intentionally ruined his tire when I had it outside in order to make a sale. I am kinda incredulous at this remark, and even ask him how could I do something like that as the tire was still mounted. I tell him he DID it by running it flat. He doubles down and accuses me of ruining it again. :mad2:

That was it, it gets a little blurry now, as part of me left my physical body...but what remained went off onto a cuss rant. I called him a liar,stupid, moron, will lots of cuss words. Told him something to the effect of I how I should be with my dying friend and not listening to his stupid self (more colorful cuss words included). I also told him I would put his spare on and for him to never darken my driveway again.

He may have tried to interject but I talked over him. I told demanded he get his spare out.

I guess during all the smoke/haze from my head exploding, this guy left and his twin brother walked up.....as his twin had a totally different personality. He was very calm, and said he was sorry to hear of my friend. He also asked if I had a tire for purchase, which I did...and he did buy.

This guy is welcome back, but his lying twin brother is not.
Sorry for the loss of your buddy. Its hard watching a good friend lose a battle with cancer.
 
I pulled my wheels off my trailer to grease the bearings for the first time, and when I was rolling one of the four tires down the driveway I heard something bouncing around inside the tire. Took the tire to my local tire shop for a dismount/remount and this is what they found inside. Apparently they cut the overly long worm drive clamp for the TPMS sensor at the factory and dropped it inside the tire, then mounted the tire.
 

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I pulled my wheels off my trailer to grease the bearings for the first time, and when I was rolling one of the four tires down the driveway I heard something bouncing around inside the tire. Took the tire to my local tire shop for a dismount/remount and this is what they found inside. Apparently they cut the overly long worm drive clamp for the TPMS sensor at the factory and dropped it inside the tire, then mounted the tire.
We have discussed this multiple times, but think it wasn't actually Forest River installing the internal banded sensors...but their tire/wheel supplier?

Whomever is doing it, I'm fairly confident is doing after the tire is already mounted, then just busting the top bead down and putting the band on.

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Sometimes they were not cut but the worm clamp was installed in the wrong direction. As the tire rotated the excess bent up and kept flexing until it broke.

Ray
 
Sometimes they were not cut but the worm clamp was installed in the wrong direction. As the tire rotated the excess bent up and kept flexing until it broke.
So you would have to keep your tires referenced for left and right???? 🤔
 
Had one of those people I dread see come here for a flat tire repair. He is always griping about the cost, time, etc. He tries to get me to give him deals, insinuating he's known the owner forever, blah blah.

He was true to form today and was griping about how he woke up to a flat tire and had to air it up before he could go to work this morning. When I took it off the vehicle, it had a piece of aluminum/alloy stuck in it, that was too big to repair. See the attached pic, that I put a quarter beside it for scale.

This guy was going to need to replace the tire, not repair it, and even though I always let him have tires at my cost, he still isn't satisfied. Ya probably know the type and despise them too.

After I get the tire put back on the rim and car, this guy doesn't pay me. He acts like he doesn't have any money with him. I don't say anything and am thinking of my next move, when this guy starts blabbering like an idiot, how he used to run around with my ex-wife. That truly shows me just how big a moron he is.

That was enough for me, so I got into the vehicle and pulled it out in the parking lot where I locked it up. It'll stay there till I get in it to go back home this evening. Nothing worse than having to deal with your own self and a flat tire. :)
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