Tire talk

[Miss Mia]

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 . . . !!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3211285

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:

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
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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 --

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.

 

[Chris_]

There should be a government program to check my tire pressure!  Why else do we have elected representatives!!!   /DUmmy

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.

How telling.

[CactusCarlos]

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. 

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!  

 

[Chris_]

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. 

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!  

 

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.

[Lord Undies]

I've always said roads should be paved with galvanized rubber and tires should be made of steel.   

[Miss Mia]

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. 

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! 

 

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.

It's one of the things that bother me.  Learning something simple and easy like checking your own freaking tire pressure instead of asking the man at the gas station. 

[Wretched Excess]

I've always said roads should be paved with galvanized rubber and tires should be made of steel.   

I guess eisenhower got that one wrong.

[Chris_]

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. 

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! 

 

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.

It's one of the things that bother me.  Learning something simple and easy like checking your own freaking tire pressure instead of asking the man at the gas station. 

I helped some woman change her tire the other month.  She didn't even know where the spare was. 

I suppose she could pull into a full-service gas station and have it done then.  But damn, that's just pure lazy.

[Miss Mia]

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. 

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! 

 

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.

It's one of the things that bother me.  Learning something simple and easy like checking your own freaking tire pressure instead of asking the man at the gas station. 

I helped some woman change her tire the other month.  She didn't even know where the spare was. 

I suppose she could pull into a full-service gas station and have it done then.  But damn, that's just pure lazy.

I've had guys help me put on my spare.  At least I do know where it's at and how to do it, but men want to help a pretty girl with those types of things.  If my tire is low on air I know how to check it and fill it up. 

Speaking of which, my dad has one of those really nice plug in air compressors...since he's left his wife, I need to suggest that he "store" it at my house. 

[Wretched Excess]

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. 

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! 

 

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.

It's one of the things that bother me.  Learning something simple and easy like checking your own freaking tire pressure instead of asking the man at the gas station. 

I helped some woman change her tire the other month.  She didn't even know where the spare was. 

I suppose she could pull into a full-service gas station and have it done then.  But damn, that's just pure lazy.

I've had guys help me put on my spare.  At least I do know where it's at and how to do it, but men want to help a pretty girl with those types of things.  If my tire is low on air I know how to check it and fill it up. 

Speaking of which, my dad has one of those really nice plug in air compressors...since he's left his wife, I need to suggest that he "store" it at my house. 

I have stopped my car on the interstate several times to help change a tire for a "damsel in distress".

it is the south, after all.

[AllosaursRus]

On the other hand, she is in Jersey, which explains a lot right there.

 

Well, I have heard there is more hazardous waste in Jersey than anywhere else! Then again, perhaps it's just brain damage from car exhaust. 

Dogs do chase cars! 

[DumbAss Tanker]

On the other hand, she is in Jersey, which explains a lot right there.

 

Well, I have heard there is more hazardous waste in Jersey than anywhere else! Then again, perhaps it's just brain damage from car exhaust. 

Dogs do chase cars! 

New Jersey is one of two states (Oregon I think is the other) where all the gas stations still have to have attendants, there is no "You pump it."  Strictly a job welfare thing in the case of Jersey in the name of "Safety," one of the thousand small things that make life there what it is (and make it as expensive as it is).  I worked in the same area from 91-98, finally was able to get a suitable long-term soilution and moved the family completely out and severed all ties in 2001...a day that approaches "Birth of a child" on my Lifetime Happiness Scale.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

and I hate cars and never pay any attention to my -- my husband handles that . . .

SEXIST!!1!!11oneelven!!!

Imagine a man writing:

and I hate diapers and never pay any attention to my [sic]-- my wife handles that . . .

and I hate laundry and never pay any attention to my [sic]-- my wife handles that . . .

and I hate cooking and never pay any attention to my [sic]-- my wife handles that . . .

Get yourself a vibrator with a tire gauge (there's a visual, eh?), 'cuz we menz is on strike!!!!

[Chris_]

Although I find it hard to believe that her husband can't read a tire I do have to give the DUmmie credit for not blaming her flat on President Bush. It's actually quite strange. Every thing else is Bush's fault.

[Randy]

On the other hand, she is in Jersey, which explains a lot right there.

 

Well, I have heard there is more hazardous waste in Jersey than anywhere else! Then again, perhaps it's just brain damage from car exhaust. 

Dogs do chase cars! 

New Jersey is one of two states (Oregon I think is the other) where all the gas stations still have to have attendants, there is no "You pump it."  Strictly a job welfare thing in the case of Jersey in the name of "Safety," one of the thousand small things that make life there what it is (and make it as expensive as it is).  I worked in the same area from 91-98, finally was able to get a suitable long-term soilution and moved the family completely out and severed all ties in 2001...a day that approaches "Birth of a child" on my Lifetime Happiness Scale.

I was scrolling to the end to see if someone mentioned this. People in Jersey don't have to pay attention to their cars. They have someone to demand it be done and blame if if it doesn't.