Not happy with discount tire and hopefully they make it right. - RESOLVED

[ShadowsPapa]

yeah I want High speed and i don't have the shop space

That's my problem - I'd have to sell some engines and/or some other equipment to make room, or get my lean-to enclosed to make shop space. Heck, we had to make a mess and shove stuff around to get my JT into my shop to work on it.

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[Supazuk]

This is why I absolutely love beadlock wheels. I ordered 5 tires and 5 wheels and had them delivered to my house, along with 5 TPMS sensors and 50 oz of balancing beads and 10 valve stems. I mounted and balanced and installed my wheels myself, and nobody had to touch my stuff.

My buggy has 39's on bead locks, I don't even make an attempt to balance those, nor trailer tires, the manual machine does a good job

 

[Supazuk]

That's my problem - I'd have to sell some engines and/or some other equipment to make room, or get my lean-to enclosed to make shop space. Heck, we had to make a mess and shove stuff around to get my JT into my shop to work on it.

And here my wife thinks I have too many engines axles and tcases in the garage
oh and BTW who doesn't keep a dana 60 and a spare set of toyota solid axles in their boiler room???

 

[ShadowsPapa]

And here my wife thinks I have too many engines axles and tcases in the garage
oh and BTW who doesn't keep a dana 60 and a spare set of toyota solid axles in their boiler room???

My wife has taken over much of the house for her quilting stuff - multiple sewing machines, hundreds of yards of fabric, racks and racks of thread............ so I'm pretty much stuck stacking spare axles for my Eagle, several transfer cases and transmissions, engines, small chamber high compression heads, and other fun stuff around the garage and shop. She even started taking over parts of the garage loft where I store Jeep take-off parts with her Christmas decorations!
If I don't get to a space first, she sees it as free to use.

 

[GeneralMaximus]

I honestly have yet to see a company like that do anything differently with women than with men. Today's generations just don't operate like that.
Some places, like car dealerships, may be less willing to "deal" or bend a little but a strong woman can resolve that issue.
I've found the days of "they'll take a woman for all they can get" are fading fast. Today's women don't put up with it, many companies are at least partially managed or owned by women, and today's men don't treat women like your grandparents did.

Cant say that I agree or disagree with your point of view. Unless, of course, you’ve walked for a day in high heels(I wont judge). Any women around here to corroborate with this assessment of how woman are treated by repair guys these days? OP’s wife notwithstanding, since we all know her last experience with this.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Cant say that I agree or disagree with your point of view. Unless, of course, you’ve walked for a day in high heels(I wont judge). Any women around here to corroborate with this assessment of how woman are treated by repair guys these days? OP’s wife notwithstanding, since we all know her last experience with this.

LOL - showing your age?

high heels? Really? I so rarely see those these days - not even when I worked in an office. Pretty "cliche".

It's called the powers of observation, pattern recognition - and having a lot of experience working in such shops, and lately, waiting in line behind women at tire stores, or in waiting areas while getting extremely custom exhausts made.
These days, so many prices are set in computers. The guys in the back room? The work on the cars and are usually too busy to give a rip about WHO the customer is.
It's been years, actually decades, since I've witnessed anyone coming out and trying to sell a woman something she didn't need.
Heck, I was shocked Discount Tire didn't tell me that they'd not warrant the tires on my SX4 because the alignment is so out of whack due to the stiff springs up front. They installed the tires, did a great job - not a mark anywhere on those rare, expensive wheels, and the lug nuts were properly torqued.

I don't know where you live - but you just don't see that sort of thing around here.
And knowing my D-I-L - if anyone tried anything with her, she'd send them away crying. (at only about 110 pounds, 5'4", former delivery truck driver in Korea, she's been known to win battles against bankers and others - modern women aren't like our mothers were)

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