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

[aklim]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Good point. At least with draining it, you get some heads up on the bigger problems coming your way.

Also you know whether to put that expensive synthetic fluid in it or some El Cheapo you get from Wal*Mart.

[Skid Row Joe]

Originally Posted by Jim B.

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.

..........No way it happened.........especially the pink slip BS......
Nice urban legend though........

[WVOtoGO]

Originally Posted by 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......

Sounds like you’ve been there too. You’re not alone.

My other “Service Moron” issue is with the kids at the oil change shops that don’t know how to check a door jam for tire pressures.

I had a kid come up after an oil change in one of our Ram 1500 pick-ups to tell me all they’d done for me. Vacuum out…wash windows…check washer fluid…85psi in all the tires…. WHAT ?!?

When I questioned it, he proceeded to escort me to the truck to show me where on the tire it even says 85psi. Sure buddy. At a max load of something like 6800 pounds!! That would have been fine if the truck weighed something like 27,200 pounds or so.

I proceeded to ask him if he knew just how far at 35 mph that truck would slide on a wet road with all four wheels locked up (even with ABS) if I hit the breaks for any reason, with 85psi in the tires. A loooooonnnnnggggg way.

On the other hand, I’d bet I’d get better HW mileage with that 2.5 sq.in. contact patch at each corner.

[cmac2012]

Good lord, do they orient those guys at all? (Is that right usage, as in orientation?) What passenger vehicles go with 85 psi?!

[aklim]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Good lord, do they orient those guys at all? (Is that right usage, as in orientation?) What passenger vehicles go with 85 psi?!

They probably hired some local guy not an oriental who is oriented.

[WVOtoGO]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Good lord, do they orient those guys at all? (Is that right usage, as in orientation?) What passenger vehicles go with 85 psi?!

None, that I can think of.

That’s just the max load at max pressure that are on these truck tires.

I can’t think of a tire that I’ve ever owned that didn’t have a max of either 65psi or 85psi on it, and with some max load rating well above 1/4th my vehicle weight. Some, over half.

I guess it’s good to know if I were ever to put them on some sort of utility trailer. But I’m not into putting Michelins on a utility trailer that would wind up being drug through the Mesquites around here.

[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by aklim

They probably hired some local guy not an oriental who is oriented.

Hey, use ASIAN.

[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

None, that I can think of.

That’s just the max load at max pressure that are on these truck tires.

I can’t think of a tire that I’ve ever owned that didn’t have a max of either 65psi or 85psi on it, and with some max load rating well above 1/4th my vehicle weight. Some, over half.

I guess it’s good to know if I were ever to put them on some sort of utility trailer. But I’m not into putting Michelins on a utility trailer that would wind up being drug through the Mesquites around here.

Yup. I buy used tires at a particularly good bone yard around here for my trucks. I often find tires with 70 to 80% of their life left for $20 and I know a little tire place that charges $15 for mount and balance. Not only economical, sort of a recycling thing as well.

Now and then I'll find a really nice tire and then see written on the side: "For trailer use only." Must not require as high a grade of tire.