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08-16-2018, 12:56 PM | #1 | ||
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2) The dealer probably lost more money in time dicking with the same vehicle coming back than they made off the original tire purchase. 3) There is no reason to believe they screwed up conventional balancing 4 times, and got it right on the first try with sticky weights.
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08-20-2018, 12:47 PM | #2 | |
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"They said to balance the tires by putting the wheel weights down the centerline of the rim, not on inside/outside." Now let me ask you...how much experience do you have in a tire shop? I've got a bit. Wheel weights centered, or inside the wheel like that, are never as good as those on the lip. We proved that many times over. Then again, I worked at a shop that cared about what we sent out the door. If I told you a steering stabilizer cures death wobble, what would you say? Proper techs would have broken down each tire, and rotated it on the wheel if there were balancing issues. Upon that, we would have also run a road force test. We would have found that either: - The tire needs to be replaced, as it was bad from the get go - The wheel needs replaced (either bent, or somehow mis-manufactured) - The tire needed rotated and properly balanced on the wheel (not too uncommon). |
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08-20-2018, 12:51 PM | #3 | |
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Having been a tire monkey, everything you've written above, we saw...enough. We "rebalanced" dealer "balances" seemingly daily. They don't give two licks, since it pays them next to nothing. They don't specialize in that, they just want to slam it in and send it out the door. As someone who has known a few peeps who've worked for stealerships...they always told family, friends, to come to us |
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