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pektel

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So I load up the kid and girlfriend to take a 90 mile drive to do some Christmas shopping, and take the kid to a Christmas lights show called Bentleyville. Gonna be a decent day I say to myself.

Until I get about an hour away from home, on a country road, and all of a sudden while cruising at 65, I hear a really fast "rap rap rap rap rap rap" sound from the right front of the vehicle. GREAT.

I get out to inspect, and I find this:
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So I see a side road about 200 yards back, so I turn around to pull off the main road to change the tire. Pop the trunk, pull the stroller and sub, and... no jack. No breaker bar. It's on the bench in the garage. F*CK! So I walk to a house. Looks like a bigger house with a larger garage, so I think, "awesome, these guys for sure will have the tools." I knock on the door, and a nurse answers. It's a group home for mentally handicapped people. No tools in that big garage. So I get a scissor jack out of the nurse's minivan, and walk back to the car.

So now I have a way to jack up the car, but the tire iron is the wrong size. So I go back to the group home again, and after a bunch of digging, they come up with a 1/2" drive socket set. So I get to break the lug nuts loose with a 6" long ratchet (no easy task, mind you).

SO I put the 16" spare on (on which is a 10 year old tire ) and make the last 30 miles. No one in that town could help me with a damn tire. Unless I wanted to wait 3-4 hours. So I go to Sears to see if they will at least put a new tire on the spare. "If the size isn't listed on the door jamb, we won't." Well, the only size listed on the jamb is 235/50/17, which they can order, but dont' have in stock. And they would not touch the spare. F*cking pricks.

Had to drive all the way home on the spare too. It's at the shop now getting a new tire on the 17" AND the spare.
 
that sucks dude,

I had a flat a few months back, right rear, and the jack in the trunk would not even lift up the LS, also no lug wrench or socket of any kind with me. Luckily some of my friends were on the way to meet me and one had a cylinder jack in his truck and another had a 6" rachet and a small pipe we used to put in the end of it to extend it for leverage.

ended up having to buy a used tire for $60
 
sounds as fun as my friday, went to help my Mom, whose truck wouldnt start at 9pm, left there around 10, blew a steer tire on the expedition.

jack was junk, lug wrench wrong size, spare was flat, and has a broken belt...neverless, I got home around 12:30, frozen and snowy, got a new tire sat. and somehow managed to break off 2 lug bolts in the process.

then on my way to work sat. I hit a deer...well, the deer jumped over the front of the truck, and then even though he cleared it, he decided to kick the front bumper on his way by....

and if you read "sad day at work" thread, you can see the fun I had with the LS after all of this.
 
yea getting stranded sucks.this summer when me and the fam were heading back home from cali i hit a log in the road in nevada, cracked my rim. when i went to get the spare out i realized i didnt have a socket that was the right size for my wheel key. i wasnt around anything so we had to wait for 3 hours till my sister and brother in law caught up to us with a new tool set. try sitting in the middle of the desert with a 1 year old baby with nothing to do, not a fun experience. and to top it off i had to go buy a new rim and tire that would get me 500 miles back home since the spare wasnt gonna cut it. the only tire shop i found charged me freaking 325 dollars for a steel wheel and a 17 inch tire. at least i have a full size spare now, which is nice
 
pektel said:
I get out to inspect, and I find this:
tire2.gif

tire1.gif


So I see a side road about 200 yards back, so I turn around to pull off the main road to change the tire. Pop the trunk, pull the stroller and sub, and... no jack. No breaker bar. It's on the bench in the garage. F*CK!

That sucks, common sense is to leave the working jack and wrench in the trunk, not the garage.
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Let me guess... I bet he said something about common sense, right?

You know what would be common sense, fordfan? If you lick my butthole.

EDIT: had to read what he had to say. fordfan, common sense would be the understanding that people are not perfect.
 
pektel said:
Let me guess... I bet he said something about common sense, right?

You know what would be common sense, fordfan? If you lick my butthole.
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I'll pass, get one of your other suckholes to toss your salad.
 
pektel said:
Let me guess... I bet he said something about common sense, right?

You know what would be common sense, fordfan? If you lick my butthole.

EDIT: had to read what he had to say. fordfan, common sense would be the understanding that people are not perfect.
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Jesus Pete what did you you do to give this clown a raging hard-on?
 
That sucks man. Yeah, why couldn't you plug it, its alsways an quick fix until you get a new tire
 
It was a used tire to begin with. I have them holding the 17 right now til I decide. I may just bring in both fronts to have Winterforce's put up there too.
 
ford nut said:
Jesus Pete what did you you do to give this clown a raging hard-on?
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I send burns his way, and he's not smart enough to give a good comeback. So, those are his miserable attempts. I have him on the ignore list though, so I don't have to even see what he posts unless I want to.
 
pektel said:
So I go to Sears to see if they will at least put a new tire on the spare. "If the size isn't listed on the door jamb, we won't."
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That's a crappy policy. I hope other tire vendors don't follow that rule.
 
Damn!!!!! That sucks.:eek:

I just removed my spare and jack a few weeks ago. Maybe, I should put them back.:rolleyes:
 
That's one thing I've learned in the past is to make sure you keep the tools neccessary to change a spare plus with any emergency items that I may need. We live and we learn.
 
pektel said:
Let me guess... I bet he said something about common sense, right?

You know what would be common sense, fordfan? If you lick my butthole.

EDIT: had to read what he had to say. fordfan, common sense would be the understanding that people are not perfect.
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The best thing about your crappy Friday is that your lack of common sense will cause many of the members to check their trunks for the proper tire changing equipment.
I will always get around to responding to the stupid stuff that you post, it might take a few hours to get back to you because I have a life.
I get it that some guys on this site have a huge crush on you, I think you know way less than you actually think.

here is one for you:

common sense 

–noun sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.

I think it's funny that you talk about putting me on your ignore list, but the urge to read what I have to say about your stupidity always brings you back around!!!
 
93' Blue on blue said:
That's a crappy policy. I hope other tire vendors don't follow that rule.
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Normally regular tire shops don't. They will do what you want them to. The only 2 places I've heard of doing this are Sears and Walmart. The only reason I know Walmart has the same policy is when the put up a Super Walmart here in town, I went to check a price. I told them the size of a tire, and they wouldn't even give me a price without first getting the make/model, and looking it up in their book.
 
road side assistance added to your collision is only a couple of bucks a month, gives you towing, change of flat tires, if you should run out of gas.
cheap peace of mind.
 
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