Tire store thought it was okay to jack car up by floor board

[nh500sl]

So I walked out to the bay to find the kid trying to jack my 633 CSI up by the floor board. Luckly I caugjt the jerk before he did to much damage. I told the mangager that I was going to have to take it to BMW to have them inspect. I think that everything is okay, but I'm more then less in shock because of this kids dumb move and furthermore his lack of respect to my car. So, I don't know where I will buy tires next time. LOL.

[G-Benz]

Don't most shops train their staff before they turn them loose on vehicles?

If for nothing more than practicing safety when installing tires and such...you CAN do harm to yourself and/or the vehicle if done improperly...

[Mistress]

Where did this happen wo we can avoid this place.

[nh500sl]

Originally Posted by Mistress

Where did this happen wo we can avoid this place.

America's Tire Company

[nh500sl]

I latter found out that the guy was just concearned with going to luch. The reality of the situation is the kid probably worked at Starbucks lastweek and taco bell the week before. Well I want a perfesional to work on my car not a KiD! I'm concearned that the facotry undercoat may have been damaged casuing an entry for moisture to come in to the car.

[TheDon]

send them the bill...

I took my 300D to a local tire place to have a tire replaced as well. .I always watch them work on my car.. I insist upon it..

Get this.. the idiont brings a floor jack out and puts it on the transmission pan.. I flip out, he tells me he knows what he is doing.. I tell him he is not and proceed to leave the retards... great thing is they refunded me my money when I hadn't even paid yet.. I was like.. thanks dumbasses

[raymr]

You pretty much get what you pay for these days. With all the pressure to undercut prices, most tire shops can't retain very good people. Sometimes you get lucky, but usually you get a total lunkhead looking at your car, and you just hope it comes back undamaged. Even worse are the guys who are willing to work and enthusiastic, but still know nothing. They are the ones you feel bad for. Especially true in DC area, it seems - where you can't afford to live on a mechanic's salary.

[Jim B.]

I met High Desert Benz from Schuman's on the way back to Reno.

He had a beautiful '82 300SD on the trailer.

http://www.schumanautomotive.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3859&d=1194273927

Here was the story:

It was beautiful, running great and the owner had brought it in for a simple oil change.

They put it up on the lift, and squashed the oil pan (from the lift cross member).


JUST LOOK AT THIS: the cause of death!!! ---

http://www.schumanautomotive.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3856&d=1194271961

Guy comes back, pays, drives off, 2-3 miles down the road, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK.

Takes it back there, the engine is dry, ruined.

The owner so mad, he comes back, throws the keys, and the pink slip, on the shops. office table, and storms out, never to return.

(I would have done something else!!!)

Shop owner then puts the car up on Craig's, for $700;

HDB wo has his own Mercedes diesel repair shop in Reno, sees the ad, buys it for $450, loads up his Ford diesel pickup and trailer, & hotfoots it down to Sacramento and, loads it up.

I met them near Auburn on their way back, and had lunch with them.

HDB had a spare diesel engine, for it out of a W116, back in Reno, too!!

Here's the story with some pictures, in his words:

http://www.schumanautomotive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5017

[pawoSD]

Originally Posted by TheDon

send them the bill...

I took my 300D to a local tire place to have a tire replaced as well. .I always watch them work on my car.. I insist upon it..

Get this.. the idiont brings a floor jack out and puts it on the transmission pan.. I flip out, he tells me he knows what he is doing.. I tell him he is not and proceed to leave the retards... great thing is they refunded me my money when I hadn't even paid yet.. I was like.. thanks dumbasses

That was a pretty dishonest move on your part there.....they didn't do any actual damage yet you feel its ok to take their money? Who is better in that situation....

Anyways, what shoddy tire place jacks up the car with floor jacks? Discount tire has hydraulic floor lifts than raise the whole car up a couple feet. Worst they've ever done to our cars is overtorque the lugs a couple times, but I just re-did it myself, and now I tell them 80lbs every time I go there. They generally do a good job.

[Hatterasguy]

Yep all the tire shops around here are morons, and they can't balance tires.

So now that a car that I give a damn about needs tires I'm kind of SOL. So I'm going to have the dealer do it, because while it may cost more, the job will be done right! I'm going to try to order them from Tirerack, and have the dealer do the labor, it will probably be a wash than.

Also the dealer is the only one who can do a good balance job.

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by pawoSD

That was a pretty dishonest move on your part there.....they didn't do any actual damage yet you feel its ok to take their money? Who is better in that situation....

I had to pay them 10$ to put my car on the lift for them to check it out.. when I told them I didn't want to.. The tire fiasco was only going to cost me 15$... you would think they would hire a competent person to change a tire.

The place I went to used to have a good reputation.. and now it has gone down the drain.. they charge insane amounts, do shoddy work, do stupid stuff..

example

for 30$ they will do a CEL diagnosis... autozone next door does it for free and will sell you the same part for less

[Dee8go]

Originally Posted by raymr

You pretty much get what you pay for these days. With all the pressure to undercut prices, most tire shops can't retain very good people. Sometimes you get lucky, but usually you get a total lunkhead looking at your car, and you just hope it comes back undamaged. Even worse are the guys who are willing to work and enthusiastic, but still know nothing. They are the ones you feel bad for. Especially true in DC area, it seems - where you can't afford to live on a mechanic's salary.

No kidding. I make pretty good money and bought my house back when it only cost about 25% of what it would today. Even at that, I sometimes feel squeezed. I don't know how people around here can get by in low-paying jobs.

[OMEGAMAN]

Originally Posted by TheDon

I had to pay them 10$ to put my car on the lift for them to check it out.. when I told them I didn't want to.. The tire fiasco was only going to cost me 15$... you would think they would hire a competent person to change a tire.

The place I went to used to have a good reputation.. and now it has gone down the drain.. they charge insane amounts, do shoddy work, do stupid stuff..

example

for 30$ they will do a CEL diagnosis... autozone next door does it for free and will sell you the same part for less

Autozone doesnt do a diagnosis. Some jackass who used to work at tacobell hooks a $25 code reader to your car and then tries to sell you a part based on what the code said.

[TheDon]

same exact thing snyders charged my friend for... a taco bell cook turned wheel installer hooked up the same OBD II scanner that az sells and pulled the same codes.

needless to say I fixed her O2 sensor that was bad for no cost at all

[Carleton Hughes]

Let's not even get into the pneumatic torque wrenches set to 100 foot-lbs that stretch your wheel bolts and warp your discs......