I went out to get the paper this morning and discovered my left front tire was low on air. I had a scheduled doctor's appointment at 10:45, so I decided to reschedule that while trying to get the tire fixed. I got down to the nearest tire place about 9:45 and explained the problem. They got three lug nuts undone and discovered the fourth was stripped, so they suggested I take the car back to the place where I'd gotten the tires to have them repair it, since the warranty probably still applied. That made sense, so off I went. I got there at 11:00am, and spent the next 3 1/2 hours waiting for them to get to it. They had to cut the wheel stud to remove it before they could get the tire off to check for leaks.
Surprise! No leak! "Keep an eye on it and bring it back if you see it start to get low."
Sheesh. On the other hand, no charge for all the work either, and I did get them to check all the lug nuts on the other three tires to be sure there wasn't a similar problem with any of those.
Posted by Linkmeister at August 12, 2009 02:24 PM | TrackBackTruly, any comment I might make would be eclipsed by the brilliance of previous posters.
Posted by: Juli Thompson at August 13, 2009 06:05 AMnot a really bad story. but why does it always have to take so long?
Posted by: cassie-b at August 13, 2009 01:09 PM