RE: Discount Tire Local

["Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

Dave Head wrote:
> I've been waffling over new tires for the beast fer quite some time now
> (got the A-8 rims BEFORE Christmas). Was going to the Firestone SZ50s when
> I stopped by Discount Tire on the way back to work. They gave me
> the Direct price ($96.00) for SP8000s. [SNIP]

Well, you clearly have a better Discount Tire than I do. I just went across
to get the 17" wheels balanced and onto the car. Not a hard task, you'd
expect?

[after 20 minutes]

"um... sir... those tires won't fit on those wheels"
"But they already _are_ on those wheels?!"
"oh, you mean you didn't want us to swap them over"
"I want you to swap the wheels and tires over, together, not the tires
alone"
[minion runs into back of shop to stop gorilla from trying to fit 17" tires
onto 16" rims and vice versa].

After another half hour, I notice that they're now putting the wheels back
on. They have the FR and RL wheels on, and are rolling a third wheel between
the two remaining spots (FL and RR), and staring at it.

Gorilla #1 bolted the first two on, and gorilla #2 is now trying to figure
out whether he should (a) put the wheel on to match the work of gorilla #1
or
(b) put the wheel on to match the little "Rotation ->" arrow on the side of
the tire

Remove all wheels, start again, complete with pictures drawn in the air to
make sure the tires are now facing the right way.

Geoff