**** Goodyear!
04-10-2005, 06:36 PM
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Yes... I know all caps is annoying, but I needed to put that extra emphasis on my subject title you just can’t get from correct grammar!
So the story starts off like this...
It was a sunny day outside, so I hop in the rx7 and head out! Drive to the gas station, get some gas and talk to some guy getting gas next to me about a turbo Volvo wagon he got for free. After that I head to the freeway, and that’s when the fun started.
I'm on the freeway, driving down 405. 60-70mph, when my car slowly starts pulling hard to the right. I think, maybe I got a flat coming on? Then about 30 seconds later, sure enough my steering wheel begins to vibrate a bit and the car is pulling hard to the right. I pull off on the next exit, which was Canyon Park. Go to the nearest gas station... by this point it was obvious I had a flat. I pull up to the air supply station. Get out and check it out... I'm lucky it didn’t blow out.. it was pretty close. So I go into the gas station to try and get cash back. Sure enough these old hags working behind the counter wont let me do cash back. So I go outside and I found 50 cents in my car. Pop in the 50 cents to find out, the station doesn’t work! Great! No air, flat tire, in gas station miles from home. Then one of the hags comes running out to me asking me if I had gotten gas and was trying to run away. I looked at her and said "no?" Then she walked back inside. God damn ugly old *****.
So now I'm on a quest to find something to help me out of this. I look up a hill and I can barely make out a sign, it says "Goodyear Tires". I think, awesome, a Goodyear! I get in my car, with the flat tire, and slowly drive up to this good year. Upon arriving at the tire store, I have one of the fellas come over and deem the tire unsalvageable. Which I expected, since I drove like 2 miles, at freeway speeds on the side walls. So I ask him how much to get some tires mounted? He said 35 dollars.
I call up my mom and ask her to bring me down my tires. I have a few tires sitting in the garage. So she snags two and drives them down to me. It takes the dumb **** "mechanic" like 20 minutes to get my wheels off. I stood and watched him the whole time. Then he tries to tell me about my tires, and how he gives them "3 months tops!" ******* tire shop workers are some of the biggest bunch of 2nd class degenerates in the world. ******* losers... So after about 30 minutes (20 minutes getting my wheels off) I'm paying a 40 dollar tab. For letting them put MY tires on MY wheels. $40 is a bit much, don’t you think? But since I was in a hurry and had no other options, I paid it.
Driving away thinking "man that was a horrible experience" I get onto the freeway again. BOOM! Instantly I feel my car pulling to the RIGHT. The OTHER tire went flat? No way.. not possible. Oh yes, very possible. I get off the next exit, which was lucky only like 1/2 mile away. Pull into a gas station, get out and look. I was fuuuurious by this point. I had no phone, no cash, no more tire shop, and no more extra tires. I go into the gas station and ask the chinese man if I can do cash back. He says yes, so I grab a coke and try to ring it up for some cash back. Then he tells me they won’t. I struggle with his broken english and finally get so mad I just go to the ATM and eat the 1.50 charge, and take out $20 even though all I needed was $2. The ATM machine wont read my car. I try and try... no go. I go back to the chinese man, and tell him. He gives me a blank look. I get really angry and just want to punch the guy. So I ask him for a phone book. I get it, and go look up the Goodyear phone number.
I sit down for a moment to collect myself, and go back to the ATM. It works. Good. I take my $20 bill to the chinese man, still standing there with nothing bit a dumb *** smile on his face. I buy my coke and some starburst. I take my change and go outside. Then, I called the Goodyear.
The conversation went something like this...
me: Hello, I was just in there about 10 minutes ago with the red mazda rx7.
manager: Yeah?
me: Well I don’t know what happened yet, but I'm guessing the tire didn’t seal right somewhere when it was put on, because the OTHER side is now flat"
manager: *getting an angry tone of voice* Well that’s not my fault, you paid me to mount the tires that what I did. Those are your tires, they probably have a hole in them. That’s your problem. What do you want me to do about it?
me: Well I drove about 300 yards before it started going flat on me, I want you guys to fix it
manager: Do you want me to call you a tow truck or something?
me: I'll call you back.
Hang up.
I was ready to reach through the phone and rip this douches eyes out.
As angry as I was, now I had some doubt about my tires. Maybe before I yell at this guy, I should check to make sure there ARE no holes. These tires were perfectly good last time I used them, so I didn’t see why they would have holes, but I wanted to make sure.
So I go back, check it out, then fill the tire with air. Fiddle around with it a bit and find its a broken valve stem. The dumb **** that couldn’t get my tires off broke the valve stem doing something. I call Goodyear again and this time its his flunky that answers the phone. I tell him I was just talking with the manager, Curt, and that I wanted to talk to him again. He told me Curt was busy. I said, "please get him". So now I’m on hold... and hold... and hold. 15 minutes go by. Now, I can understand maybe a call center or something, but no, this is a tire shop. And when I was there (10 minutes prior) he had all the time in the world, they were NOT busy. So after this 15 minute wait (literally) I say **** him and go back to my car.
Well, I had some hose clamps in my car and a screw driver. I mashed up this hose clam and managed to make it stick in the just right position in between the wheel and valve stem, to keep it from leaking. Topped the tire off with air, and on my way I went. Back toward Goodyear. Making my way through 4:30 traffic on 405 North bound, I get back to canyon park. Go up to the Goodyear, where our favorite douche tire shop manager, Curt, is standing outside talking to some buckled *** deuce faced ****. He sees me and shrugs his shoulders at me. I park, get out, walk up to him and say "It was the valve stem, you guys broke it". He looks at me, looks at the girl, crosses his arms and says "ok... what do you want me to do?". I looked at him, and I wanted to punch this guy so bad. I just said to him, "I want you to fix it, *******". Then I walked back to my car. About 15 minutes later the same dumb **** kid that did my tires the first time came out and wanted to pull my car up. I said, "No, I'll pull it up". So I pull up, he begins taking the tire off. Then the flunky homo from the phone earlier comes out and starts trying to talk cars with me. Asking me if I did my intercooler install myself, then follows up with the greatest follow up question to an intercooler question, "Is this thing turbo charged?!" Did I mention I think tire shop workers are some of the ******* dumbest people on earth?
So after junior gets my tire fixed up with a new valve stem, he starts telling me about my "tires". Giving me advice on buying new tires, because the ones I have now wont last!! I just looked at him and said "homie, I'm not worried about it." Got in my car, and left.
This whole ordeal took 3 hours of my time, 40 dollars of my money, and an ungodly amount of anger.
The moral of this story is, don’t go to Goodyear. Try not to go to any tire shops, they will purposely try and rape you on anything they can. They are all liars, and that is how they make their money. They tell the average joe that just wants to do a brake pad change ($30) that he needs new rotors, brake system bled, new calipers, new ball joints, new axles, new every-*******-thing. Then a $30 day turns into a $600 day. When in reality, none of it is needed but the $30 pads.
I'm going to be filing a complaint with Goodyear about this store and about this manager. **** these guys, and **** tire shop working scum.
Sources Cited: Online. **** GOODYEAR.. AND THEIR BLIMP!, April 10, 2004. http://www.travisarket.com/forum/index.php...5.msg290#msg290
So the story starts off like this...
It was a sunny day outside, so I hop in the rx7 and head out! Drive to the gas station, get some gas and talk to some guy getting gas next to me about a turbo Volvo wagon he got for free. After that I head to the freeway, and that’s when the fun started.
I'm on the freeway, driving down 405. 60-70mph, when my car slowly starts pulling hard to the right. I think, maybe I got a flat coming on? Then about 30 seconds later, sure enough my steering wheel begins to vibrate a bit and the car is pulling hard to the right. I pull off on the next exit, which was Canyon Park. Go to the nearest gas station... by this point it was obvious I had a flat. I pull up to the air supply station. Get out and check it out... I'm lucky it didn’t blow out.. it was pretty close. So I go into the gas station to try and get cash back. Sure enough these old hags working behind the counter wont let me do cash back. So I go outside and I found 50 cents in my car. Pop in the 50 cents to find out, the station doesn’t work! Great! No air, flat tire, in gas station miles from home. Then one of the hags comes running out to me asking me if I had gotten gas and was trying to run away. I looked at her and said "no?" Then she walked back inside. God damn ugly old *****.
So now I'm on a quest to find something to help me out of this. I look up a hill and I can barely make out a sign, it says "Goodyear Tires". I think, awesome, a Goodyear! I get in my car, with the flat tire, and slowly drive up to this good year. Upon arriving at the tire store, I have one of the fellas come over and deem the tire unsalvageable. Which I expected, since I drove like 2 miles, at freeway speeds on the side walls. So I ask him how much to get some tires mounted? He said 35 dollars.
I call up my mom and ask her to bring me down my tires. I have a few tires sitting in the garage. So she snags two and drives them down to me. It takes the dumb **** "mechanic" like 20 minutes to get my wheels off. I stood and watched him the whole time. Then he tries to tell me about my tires, and how he gives them "3 months tops!" ******* tire shop workers are some of the biggest bunch of 2nd class degenerates in the world. ******* losers... So after about 30 minutes (20 minutes getting my wheels off) I'm paying a 40 dollar tab. For letting them put MY tires on MY wheels. $40 is a bit much, don’t you think? But since I was in a hurry and had no other options, I paid it.
Driving away thinking "man that was a horrible experience" I get onto the freeway again. BOOM! Instantly I feel my car pulling to the RIGHT. The OTHER tire went flat? No way.. not possible. Oh yes, very possible. I get off the next exit, which was lucky only like 1/2 mile away. Pull into a gas station, get out and look. I was fuuuurious by this point. I had no phone, no cash, no more tire shop, and no more extra tires. I go into the gas station and ask the chinese man if I can do cash back. He says yes, so I grab a coke and try to ring it up for some cash back. Then he tells me they won’t. I struggle with his broken english and finally get so mad I just go to the ATM and eat the 1.50 charge, and take out $20 even though all I needed was $2. The ATM machine wont read my car. I try and try... no go. I go back to the chinese man, and tell him. He gives me a blank look. I get really angry and just want to punch the guy. So I ask him for a phone book. I get it, and go look up the Goodyear phone number.
I sit down for a moment to collect myself, and go back to the ATM. It works. Good. I take my $20 bill to the chinese man, still standing there with nothing bit a dumb *** smile on his face. I buy my coke and some starburst. I take my change and go outside. Then, I called the Goodyear.
The conversation went something like this...
me: Hello, I was just in there about 10 minutes ago with the red mazda rx7.
manager: Yeah?
me: Well I don’t know what happened yet, but I'm guessing the tire didn’t seal right somewhere when it was put on, because the OTHER side is now flat"
manager: *getting an angry tone of voice* Well that’s not my fault, you paid me to mount the tires that what I did. Those are your tires, they probably have a hole in them. That’s your problem. What do you want me to do about it?
me: Well I drove about 300 yards before it started going flat on me, I want you guys to fix it
manager: Do you want me to call you a tow truck or something?
me: I'll call you back.
Hang up.
I was ready to reach through the phone and rip this douches eyes out.
As angry as I was, now I had some doubt about my tires. Maybe before I yell at this guy, I should check to make sure there ARE no holes. These tires were perfectly good last time I used them, so I didn’t see why they would have holes, but I wanted to make sure.
So I go back, check it out, then fill the tire with air. Fiddle around with it a bit and find its a broken valve stem. The dumb **** that couldn’t get my tires off broke the valve stem doing something. I call Goodyear again and this time its his flunky that answers the phone. I tell him I was just talking with the manager, Curt, and that I wanted to talk to him again. He told me Curt was busy. I said, "please get him". So now I’m on hold... and hold... and hold. 15 minutes go by. Now, I can understand maybe a call center or something, but no, this is a tire shop. And when I was there (10 minutes prior) he had all the time in the world, they were NOT busy. So after this 15 minute wait (literally) I say **** him and go back to my car.
Well, I had some hose clamps in my car and a screw driver. I mashed up this hose clam and managed to make it stick in the just right position in between the wheel and valve stem, to keep it from leaking. Topped the tire off with air, and on my way I went. Back toward Goodyear. Making my way through 4:30 traffic on 405 North bound, I get back to canyon park. Go up to the Goodyear, where our favorite douche tire shop manager, Curt, is standing outside talking to some buckled *** deuce faced ****. He sees me and shrugs his shoulders at me. I park, get out, walk up to him and say "It was the valve stem, you guys broke it". He looks at me, looks at the girl, crosses his arms and says "ok... what do you want me to do?". I looked at him, and I wanted to punch this guy so bad. I just said to him, "I want you to fix it, *******". Then I walked back to my car. About 15 minutes later the same dumb **** kid that did my tires the first time came out and wanted to pull my car up. I said, "No, I'll pull it up". So I pull up, he begins taking the tire off. Then the flunky homo from the phone earlier comes out and starts trying to talk cars with me. Asking me if I did my intercooler install myself, then follows up with the greatest follow up question to an intercooler question, "Is this thing turbo charged?!" Did I mention I think tire shop workers are some of the ******* dumbest people on earth?
So after junior gets my tire fixed up with a new valve stem, he starts telling me about my "tires". Giving me advice on buying new tires, because the ones I have now wont last!! I just looked at him and said "homie, I'm not worried about it." Got in my car, and left.
This whole ordeal took 3 hours of my time, 40 dollars of my money, and an ungodly amount of anger.
The moral of this story is, don’t go to Goodyear. Try not to go to any tire shops, they will purposely try and rape you on anything they can. They are all liars, and that is how they make their money. They tell the average joe that just wants to do a brake pad change ($30) that he needs new rotors, brake system bled, new calipers, new ball joints, new axles, new every-*******-thing. Then a $30 day turns into a $600 day. When in reality, none of it is needed but the $30 pads.
I'm going to be filing a complaint with Goodyear about this store and about this manager. **** these guys, and **** tire shop working scum.
Sources Cited: Online. **** GOODYEAR.. AND THEIR BLIMP!, April 10, 2004. http://www.travisarket.com/forum/index.php...5.msg290#msg290
04-10-2005, 10:34 PM
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[quote name='GreyGT-C' date='Apr 10 2005, 05:48 PM']maybe all that drifting rubbed a hole in the tires?
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I'm not a drifter...
I blame the holes on some rocks and worn tires I was wanting to change anyways.
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I'm not a drifter...
I blame the holes on some rocks and worn tires I was wanting to change anyways.
