New tire, Miniature Foreign Gigolos, Smokey Bingo, Came home smelling like a man...adventure time!
I'll start at the beginning.....because you guys deserve to hear this tale in it's entirety.
I sent my son to Home Depot to buy the rolls of paper I use for shipping. He called on his way there and said "you're tire is out of balance because I can hear it" I told him just to get there and come on back and I'd check on it later. He gets the paper and on the way home he has a flat tire. He says he can change it ......but this car is so new and I'm picturing him prying something open and tearing something up when he gets frustrated, so I tell him to just hang on and I'll call Larry.
Larry leaves work and heads over to where he is. What does Larry do???? He lets Liam change the tire, he put the jack in the wrong place......of course it slips off and bends my running board on the passenger side. AND.....somehow my son spun the tire around and broke the cable that holds the spare tire under the car. So, the reason I called Larry and asked him to handle things was so Liam wouldn't mess up my car.....but he ended up just driving there and watching him do it. (So mad at both of them, but just glad its all ok now.)
The next day, I cancel my plans and call the dealership. They tell me that the tires aren't covered because I didn't "opt" for the road hazard package. I bought every silly thing imaginable....but somehow I turned down road hazard?? I don't think so lady. The lady quotes some CRAZY price for road hazard, but tells me she will discount it to $850. It covers the rims and tires for seven years. I'm still shocked because road hazard from my tire guy is just a few bucks extra when I've bought tires. It just covers tires, no rims.....but how many rims have I had to buy in my lifetime??? Seriously, this crap is a ripoff.
I get over to the service area and they quote the tire for $247....which is high, but I need to find out what the final "discounted" price is for road hazard before we move forward. The lady is busy in the finance office, so I get the young guy. He shows road hazard is $500 on his screen and tells me it will not cover the tire I'm getting today. At this point I'm just over all of it and buy the tire, pay for road hazard and get out of there. I still have my spare in the back of the car because they have to order the part to fix that.
On the way home I check with my aunt who I'm supposed to be meeting later to confirm our plans. She has agreed to go to a bingo hall that is a business adventure of one of her friends. I adore this friend of hers, but this bingo thing is not something I am not looking forward to.
We agree to meet at the Mexican place before we go over there. Here is where I relive my high school years....where I am invisible and my aunt is bombarded by flirtatious guys. These two took this nightmare to a whole new level though. These two BARELY speak English, neither is over 5' tall, both look like rough versions of the male species and still......next to her, I'm completely invisible. (I am chalking this one up as a gift from above though.) We eat and get out of there....headed to bingo!
We find this place. Its a run down golf course out in some back woods low rent area. No lights of any kind.....a dark road.....parking lot with a dozen of the crappiest cars you've ever laid eyes on and this one random exposed light bulb over an unmarked metal door. My aunt tells me we are here. OMG....we get inside and its about 50 of those slot machine things with characters sitting around at a few of them.
I give the guy at the desk some money and he gives me a ticket with some number on it. We find some machines and we start pushing the button. The two gals on both sides of us were "pros" because they mashed their buttons a lot faster than we did and they looked like they were having fun. My eyes were burning from the cigarette smoke and eventually we decided it was time to leave. We made our appearance, hugged her friend and promised we'd be back (A LIE LIE LIE on my part.)
I'm home by midnight where I ran into my son sitting on the porch swing playing with his phone. As we walk into the house he says....."Mom, you smell like Nick Long's dad." This was a football buddy of his from school. So, I went up and got a shower before making my way to bed.
I sent my son to Home Depot to buy the rolls of paper I use for shipping. He called on his way there and said "you're tire is out of balance because I can hear it" I told him just to get there and come on back and I'd check on it later. He gets the paper and on the way home he has a flat tire. He says he can change it ......but this car is so new and I'm picturing him prying something open and tearing something up when he gets frustrated, so I tell him to just hang on and I'll call Larry.
Larry leaves work and heads over to where he is. What does Larry do???? He lets Liam change the tire, he put the jack in the wrong place......of course it slips off and bends my running board on the passenger side. AND.....somehow my son spun the tire around and broke the cable that holds the spare tire under the car. So, the reason I called Larry and asked him to handle things was so Liam wouldn't mess up my car.....but he ended up just driving there and watching him do it. (So mad at both of them, but just glad its all ok now.)
The next day, I cancel my plans and call the dealership. They tell me that the tires aren't covered because I didn't "opt" for the road hazard package. I bought every silly thing imaginable....but somehow I turned down road hazard?? I don't think so lady. The lady quotes some CRAZY price for road hazard, but tells me she will discount it to $850. It covers the rims and tires for seven years. I'm still shocked because road hazard from my tire guy is just a few bucks extra when I've bought tires. It just covers tires, no rims.....but how many rims have I had to buy in my lifetime??? Seriously, this crap is a ripoff.
I get over to the service area and they quote the tire for $247....which is high, but I need to find out what the final "discounted" price is for road hazard before we move forward. The lady is busy in the finance office, so I get the young guy. He shows road hazard is $500 on his screen and tells me it will not cover the tire I'm getting today. At this point I'm just over all of it and buy the tire, pay for road hazard and get out of there. I still have my spare in the back of the car because they have to order the part to fix that.
On the way home I check with my aunt who I'm supposed to be meeting later to confirm our plans. She has agreed to go to a bingo hall that is a business adventure of one of her friends. I adore this friend of hers, but this bingo thing is not something I am not looking forward to.
We agree to meet at the Mexican place before we go over there. Here is where I relive my high school years....where I am invisible and my aunt is bombarded by flirtatious guys. These two took this nightmare to a whole new level though. These two BARELY speak English, neither is over 5' tall, both look like rough versions of the male species and still......next to her, I'm completely invisible. (I am chalking this one up as a gift from above though.) We eat and get out of there....headed to bingo!
We find this place. Its a run down golf course out in some back woods low rent area. No lights of any kind.....a dark road.....parking lot with a dozen of the crappiest cars you've ever laid eyes on and this one random exposed light bulb over an unmarked metal door. My aunt tells me we are here. OMG....we get inside and its about 50 of those slot machine things with characters sitting around at a few of them.
I give the guy at the desk some money and he gives me a ticket with some number on it. We find some machines and we start pushing the button. The two gals on both sides of us were "pros" because they mashed their buttons a lot faster than we did and they looked like they were having fun. My eyes were burning from the cigarette smoke and eventually we decided it was time to leave. We made our appearance, hugged her friend and promised we'd be back (A LIE LIE LIE on my part.)
I'm home by midnight where I ran into my son sitting on the porch swing playing with his phone. As we walk into the house he says....."Mom, you smell like Nick Long's dad." This was a football buddy of his from school. So, I went up and got a shower before making my way to bed.
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I went to a bingo hall years ago with some friends from work just for fun...........there was a blue cloud of cigarette smoke about three feet thick, hovering in place, captured by the ceiling................the air was foul. Kind of like the glassed in smoke rooms in airports years ago.........you walk by and see these poor people inside a glass box, enveloped in smoke, smoking away. Hell.....I am just old enough to remember smoking sections on Braniff airline flights........ 
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Glad you survived it all kasey.
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Stay away from all those additional warrantees. That is where the money is made in a dealership. And find somewhere else to buy tires. Seems a bit high to me. $1000.00 for a set of four. 0 -
i buy all my tires at wal mart or wal mart .com . i do this for the very reason you describe, their road hazard warranty is $10.00 per tire. my daughter has ruined several tires over the years with road debris usually going thru a sidewall. wal mart has always replaced the tire free of charge. the other advantage of using wal mart is no matter where you are in this country you are probably less than 30 mins from one. 0 -
The Traverse had the same size tire. The cheapest I have ever gotten away with paying was $180 per tire. I don't think I will continue to buy tires from the dealership. I did this time, but this will be the last. 0 -
Sorry for your car trouble LF, but I always enjoy your stories! 3 -
thats what i was saying about buying warranties from local establishments, you go to another location and you find your warranty doesnt apply. this has bitten me in the past and why i use wal mart now, their warranty applies at every store no matter where you are. 0 -
I love these tales of your'n. Always interesting. Never dull. Packed with as much adventure as the paper in your shipping boxes. 3
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