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Tire talk
Miss Mia:
--- Quote ---defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Apr-26-08 01:16 PM
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Staying safe re tires . . . had a flat on the Garden State Parkway yesterday . . .
Weird time yesterday, as I began to notice strange sounds and then some smoke from the right front
of my car ---
turned out to be only a flat ---
Two recommendations . .. and I hate cars and never pay any attention to my -- my husband handles that . . .
AAA was great --- When I called, they told me they can't service the parkway, but the parkway will honor their membership --- so they connected me thru to GSP people and about ten minutes later a truck arrived --- that was nice cause it was a bit tight where I had to park re cars rolling by.
About ten minutes later, the spare was on the car -- and five minutes after that I was on my way.
MEANWHILE .... RE TIRES . . .
My tire was a mess, but when I looked at it I could see uneven wear -- so I went to the Goodyear
shop today --- presume any tire place will tell you this ---
"Rocco" looked at my tire and pointed out that there was too little air in the tires ---
I should have had between 30-32 pounds of pressure and I had 25 or less on all of my tires!
He also said, my tires weren't getting rotated and I needed a wheel alignment which was also screwing up things ....
BUT, HE SHOWED ME THAT ALL FOUR OF THE TIRES HAD CRACKS ....
very close to the wheel rim, there is a like a two inch circle and it's all cracked.
Evidently from not having enough air in the tires --- and the heat ---
I don't know what gave me the flat, if I had picked up a nail or what -- but it's an expensive
lesson for me --- we ask the people who service our car to check our tires all the time and
I'm really annoyed that things went along this far and created such a problem.
Four new tires . . . rebalancing . . . realighment . . . expensive!!!
Now to check my husband's tires . . . !!!
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Okay, so it's a lack of basic tire and car maintenance knowledge on this poster's part.
People tell her to get an air pressure gage and she says:
--- Quote ---defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-26-08 07:32 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. What I'm figuring is I'm just going to have the guy at the gas station check them every
Edited on Sat Apr-26-08 07:33 PM by defendandprotect
two/three months or so --- seasonally.
My husband said he used to have a guage and couldn't ever read it !!
LOL --
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She's just going to ask someone to check it for her. Okay, seriously this pisses me off. It's not hard to figure out a tire pressure gage, especially since they have digital gages now. I hate it when a woman just says "well I'll just ask someone to do it for me" instead of learning to do it yourself. It's not like it's changing belts and such, it's checking your own tire pressure.
Maybe it's just me.
DumbAss Tanker:
On the other hand, she is in Jersey, which explains a lot right there.
:lmao:
Chris_:
There should be a government program to check my tire pressure! Why else do we have elected representatives!!! /DUmmy
--- Quote ---BUT, HE SHOWED ME THAT ALL FOUR OF THE TIRES HAD CRACKS ....
very close to the wheel rim, there is a like a two inch circle and it's all cracked.
Evidently from not having enough air in the tires --- and the heat ---
I don't know what gave me the flat, if I had picked up a nail or what -- but it's an expensive
lesson for me --- we ask the people who service our car to check our tires all the time and
I'm really annoyed that things went along this far and created such a problem.
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How telling.
CactusCarlos:
--- Quote from: Miss Mia on April 26, 2008, 10:30:18 PM ---She's just going to ask someone to check it for her. Okay, seriously this pisses me off. It's not hard to figure out a tire pressure gage, especially since they have digital gages now. I hate it when a woman just says "well I'll just ask someone to do it for me" instead of learning to do it yourself. It's not like it's changing belts and such, it's checking your own tire pressure.
Maybe it's just me.
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What's wrong with you? What if she breaks a nail? It's not like they're giving away mani/pedi's in this * economy, sheesh! :whatever:
:-)
Chris_:
--- Quote from: CactusCarlos on April 26, 2008, 10:39:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: Miss Mia on April 26, 2008, 10:30:18 PM ---She's just going to ask someone to check it for her. Okay, seriously this pisses me off. It's not hard to figure out a tire pressure gage, especially since they have digital gages now. I hate it when a woman just says "well I'll just ask someone to do it for me" instead of learning to do it yourself. It's not like it's changing belts and such, it's checking your own tire pressure.
Maybe it's just me.
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What's wrong with you? What if she breaks a nail? It's not like they're giving away mani/pedi's in this * economy, sheesh! :whatever:
:-)
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From the DUmmy pictures I've seen, having nice-looking nails is low on their list of hygeine issues. She just sounds lazy as f**k or completely useless to me.
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