Recently an elderly fellow from out of state hit a pot hole and burst the inside wall. He had finally stopped right in front of my house and came knocking on my door. It was a Honda with low profile tire so I had him pull it to the shop door. While jacking the car up he informed me the car came with NO spare tire what so ever. Not even a donut......its Saturday so off to wally world we go.
He found a tire and when asked about getting it mounted, as I had his old one in the back of my truck, the shop foreman hollered and ask the "tire guy" if he would mount a new tire. The EMPL:OYEE yells back yeah, in about 3 1/2 hours. I explained the situation an how it'd 10 minutes and I could get the old man on his way. He made us stand there for 40 minutes while he wrote down oil changes "3 cars back". We were stuck. All my tire guys are closed on Saturday.
So I told him it was the first time I ever seen an employee tell the foreman how to run his job!!
Then I ask how much and how long it'd be....$18.50 to mount/balance and he made the guy come pick the tire up at 5pm closing time. In my area 90% of the folks will mount and balance it free if you buy a new tire.
Now, like Jerry, I changed many tires back in the day, tube type, for the station "special" of $1 and with the old manual set up where you broke it down physcially.
Another place here in town will not plug a tire and changes $25 to patch it no the inside. He is not a nice guy anyway so nothign lost there.
I've plugged many tractor trailer tires (ran new tires on steering axle) and never had a problem. The strips are longer for the bigger tires.
For myself, I USED to plug my own but after all the surgeries I no longer have the upper body strength to plug one but my neighbor does!!!
My LOCAL tire guy pulls the nail out and plugs 95% of tires on the vehicle and I'm gone in 5 minutes usually with no charge.
Whats this world coming to..........oh, I know, I'm not in Kansas anymore Toto.
ok ok, ,I'm through.
