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Originally Posted by fabulustt7
so, today i finally decided to go do some tire shopping for a winter setup, jus to get some pricing, so i happen to pull up in sts. As soon as i walk in the guy tells me, wow your rims look nice. Thanks man, i reply. Than he proceeds to tell me that i need air in my tires because its cold outside and that makes the tires loose air. So i reply yeah i havent checked in about 3 weeks. so he tells me "don't worry about it. We'll take care of you!" in my head im like wow....pretty good service. Than i continue to talk to him about tires while he gets someone to pump some air in my tires. i get a couple of high qoutes like 1300 for 4 tires so decide its time to leave. As im driving i hear a pop nose coming from my rear right tire and my stearing wheel starts shaking like crazy, i thought i got a flat. I happen to be right outside of nissan on route 9 so i pull in and tell them the problem. The service guy and i both go to check out the tires and there is no noticible flat anywhere. they tell me to have a seat and about an hour later the guy comes to me and tells me theire is 80psi in my rear right tire and my max is 45. Now there are tiny bubbles in my tire that is making my car shake. The best part about this story is that i go what should i do and he tells me i have to replace the tire immediately. its dangerous. So i say okay lets do that, how much will it cost. He tells me.. I'm sorry we cant touch your tires because your 20 inch rims will get messed up by our machine. Okay so what should i do, i reply. he tells me to go to goodyear not even 2 miles back, so i go. when i get there goodyear guy tells me the same thing, and also he doesn't have tires that big to replace it with. And he has no clue who would be able to help me in jersey. Now i know im not the only person in central jersey with 20 inch rims. how am i going to fix this problem. I'm not mad at sts either because the tire needed to be replaced anyway. it had a slow leak, and it was balding. i just dont know what to do or where to go...
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Originally Posted by fabulustt7
well they gave me a discount on my new tire so im cool now they say it costed 299 plus balancing and i paid 125 so im not that heated anymore
most of the tire shops guys take out the tire from out side the rim, but most of our aftermarket rims need to start taking out from the inner side of the rim which not evey shop has this set up on their equipment.
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well i needed the tire asap because i couldnt drive and it was finals week, so personally in the time and money invested wasnt bad. Like i stated, that tire was bad anyway, thats why i wasnt that mad to begin with, and may have been the only reason why sts took care of me, because i didn't run hell up them. sometimes its better to play Mr. nice guy, than sometimes you jus get ****ed
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