GAHHH and they were new tires too....
#1
GAHHH and they were new tires too....
Alright saturday i got some Firestone Firehawk tires. Loved them. took a look at them today, and theres a big a$$ screw in the front left. I tried unscrewing it to see how deep it was, and i stopped when i heard the air hissing. Right now its screwed down under the tread so it wont come off on the road, but WHAT SHOULD I DO???????
#2
um, take it to any tire place and have them repair the tire for like 10 bucks? i'd say to do it yourself, but i think you're supposed to take the tire off the wheel for that and i doubt you have that kind of equipment handy.
#6
Why would you buy brand new tires w/o road hazard protection? It usually costs nothing if you buy them at the right place. Then you never have a plug they always give you a new tire minus tread used. Plugs are horrible, I will not use them, once you have had a high speed blowout you won't either. Especially if you drive your car aggressively and or race with it. I would cut it with a knife and send it back as a defect, firestone is used to that by now, especially since it is brand new. Do you really want a plug in your tire for 35,000 or however long they last? Tell them the knife mark was a bubble then it exploded, you were on your way to the tire place when it happened, sound good. They can't prove otherwise, it is a defect, good luck.
#7
Originally Posted by southeast_first
um, take it to any tire place and have them repair the tire for like 10 bucks? i'd say to do it yourself, but i think you're supposed to take the tire off the wheel for that and i doubt you have that kind of equipment handy.
By state law you must get it patched. No more pluging. Its going to run you up there. It works like a plug but it has a nice round contact surface area. They must dismount the tire from the rim, sand down where the nail went through, clean up the area with tire/rubber cleaner use a drill bit to make the screw hole larger and a nice clean opening. Put some glue patch in that area pull the patch through, make sure its 100% flat on the tire use a sealer and slap everything back again. last but not least cut the plug part of the patch that sticks out of the tire. Its 100% effective will not blow out! We do it this way at work I don't know how others do it but there are stages to this, you can do it like a scum bag and just slap on the patch without any of the steps above but risk the patch moving.
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The ones I use at work is better but this is a general idea of what is being used now.
#8
Originally Posted by RockfordMax
Alright saturday i got some Firestone Firehawk tires. Loved them. took a look at them today, and theres a big a$$ screw in the front left. I tried unscrewing it to see how deep it was, and i stopped when i heard the air hissing. Right now its screwed down under the tread so it wont come off on the road, but WHAT SHOULD I DO???????
Dave
#10
Yeah there's a discount tire 5 mins from my house. I'll head there tomorrow. Otherwise i'll head back to Tires Plus, see what they tell me.
As for sabotaging it and calling defect......what happens when they see its a clear knife mark, call BS on my story, and i get screwed with a tire that i cut myself when a plug would have worked just fine.....
As for sabotaging it and calling defect......what happens when they see its a clear knife mark, call BS on my story, and i get screwed with a tire that i cut myself when a plug would have worked just fine.....
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#12
Yeah at the time they were throwing all this crap at me, We can change that taillight for 65, Replace the lower control arm (bad ball joint apparently), add our road hazard plan, new sway bar endlink, and replace rear rotors and pads all for 650 + change for labor.... I said do my brakes... didnt even THINK of road hazard. now i regret not spending the 50 bucks. Either way, tire places are shady trying to force all this crap on me. I knew beforehand what needed to be done.... The fact that they wanted to charge me 60 dollars to change my damn tail light bulb ( cost me 1.27 and 3 minutes of my time) turned me off to spending ANY more than i needed there....
#17
Originally Posted by RockfordMax
Yeah at the time they were throwing all this crap at me, We can change that taillight for 65, Replace the lower control arm (bad ball joint apparently), add our road hazard plan, new sway bar endlink, and replace rear rotors and pads all for 650 + change for labor.... I said do my brakes... didnt even THINK of road hazard. now i regret not spending the 50 bucks. Either way, tire places are shady trying to force all this crap on me. I knew beforehand what needed to be done.... The fact that they wanted to charge me 60 dollars to change my damn tail light bulb ( cost me 1.27 and 3 minutes of my time) turned me off to spending ANY more than i needed there....
Dave
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