Thanks Discount Tire

[Ben]

So I go to the golf course today and noticed I had something in my tire causing a slow leak. During the round I'm thinking "great, I'm 2 hours from home, I'm playing a crappy round of golf, now I have to change a tire?!!?" After the round I see that the air pressure really hasn't gone down much at all. So I decide to take it slow and hope there's a gas station close. Turns out the closest thing, a block away, was a Discount Tire Center (Oceanside, CA). Huh, I got these tires from Discount Tire's eBay store, there's a coincidence. So I pull in and talk to the manager, Mike, to see if they have the same tire in stock, how much it would cost, and how long it would take to replace. Before I got my questions out he was already talking about "why don't we fix it for free?" I've never done business at this store, didn't buy my tire from this store, and they still fix my tire for free? Totally awesome! I flipped Mike $20 to give to the guy that did the repair work.

[z.b.taylor11]

Nice work. I have the worst luck with tires

[Ben]

Nice work. I have the worst luck with tires

I don't, or should I say haven't. But this was my second tire incident in two months. The last was a full on blowout. Also after a 2 hour drive and right as I pulled into the house I was staying, thankfully not on the freeway.

[z.b.taylor11]

That blowout sounds awful. I got some nice performance tires for my can and got a screw in one about a week in. it was fixable. Then another week after, I got a nail in the same tire. that one was too close to the sidewall to be plugged. other than that, I'm just really hard on my tires and wear them down quickly. so I guess I don't have bad luck with tires, I just feel like I'm buying new ones all the time. haha

[Fat Slice]

Nice, have to use them again.

I bought a tire from Big-O and paid for the 3-year extended road hazard warranty. 1 month (and a pothole) later, I needed replacement, which they grudgingly agreed to. Then they presented me with the bill!

$30 for mounting and balancing and tire disposal fee
$19 for a *new* 3 year road hazard warranty

Uh, what kind of warranty expires upon use? How is it that they don't mention the mounting and balancing costs when they sell you the warranty?

What a crap operation - back to discount tire. Thanks for the reminder.

[ks8829]

I buy my tires at Costco, they are convenient and they offer free tire repairs, wheel balancing and tire rotation anytime.

[Jay-Bird]

I've had 2 blow outs in the past year. One was on the Interstate, at night, during rain, in an early '90s Pathfinder (the in-laws gave it to us to haul stuff between stores...) - so I had to figure out how to get the spare down from it's position in a car I wasn't used to as cars are flying by at 70-80mph. I ended up buying brand new tires for the Pathfinder, only to have the transmission go out a month later...

The 2nd was on a rural highway in Missouri, in my own vehicle - fully loaded with shit for the weekend at the lake. I had to take everything out to get to the spare. The tire was shredded - like I ran over a Police spike strip. Luckily a guy at a small tire shop in Osage Beach had a used tire that was in great condition. He gave it to me and installed it for $20.