Sorry about your friend.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.
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. Itolddemanded 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.
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.
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Yeah, that would have been real bad...if it hit the tire transport trucksThe good news, if there is any in this event, is that it didn't bounce to the right and hit a window in the white Ford.
Hadn't thought of that....but can't quit thinking about it now.So now it's your fault for putting too much air in the tires causing them to bounce......![]()
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Sorry for the loss of your buddy. Its hard watching a good friend lose a battle with cancer.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.
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. Itolddemanded 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.
Thanks. As of 4:18 yesterday he's no longer in pain.Sorry for the loss of your buddy. Its hard watching a good friend lose a battle with cancer.
We have discussed this multiple times, but think it wasn't actually Forest River installing the internal banded sensors...but their tire/wheel supplier?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.
So you would have to keep your tires referenced for left and right????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.