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You guys ever call one of those? They're supposed to say "It's a good day at Mr. Tire..." blah blah blah...
So I had my General Grabbers delivered and installed there from the TireRack back in Nov. Several days ago the right rear tire was flat. I took it off expecting to find a nail.. no nail. Sprayed it down, no bubbles.
Brought it back in to Mr. Tire and they fixed it. It was on the house because they said over the phone it was the valve stem. When I went in to pick it up the guy over the counter very vaguely mentioned something about not really sure what happened and the guy who installed it before didn't clean the rim off properly because there was rust on it so that attributed to a slow leak.
I talked to my mechanic friend about it and he said it sounds like the bead seal didn't conform to the rim properly because of the rust hence wasn't seating properly.
Should I be concerned about the other three tires? What would you do?
(The story is a bit longer because it appeared to be losing psi the other day so I called and confronted them about it. The guy kinda blew me off and said I would just have to bring it in for them to check that ONE tire again and see if it's their fault or not. Of course if it's not then I'd have to pay. But didn't we already establish from the first visit that it was their fault??!?)
So I had my General Grabbers delivered and installed there from the TireRack back in Nov. Several days ago the right rear tire was flat. I took it off expecting to find a nail.. no nail. Sprayed it down, no bubbles.
Brought it back in to Mr. Tire and they fixed it. It was on the house because they said over the phone it was the valve stem. When I went in to pick it up the guy over the counter very vaguely mentioned something about not really sure what happened and the guy who installed it before didn't clean the rim off properly because there was rust on it so that attributed to a slow leak.
I talked to my mechanic friend about it and he said it sounds like the bead seal didn't conform to the rim properly because of the rust hence wasn't seating properly.
Should I be concerned about the other three tires? What would you do?
(The story is a bit longer because it appeared to be losing psi the other day so I called and confronted them about it. The guy kinda blew me off and said I would just have to bring it in for them to check that ONE tire again and see if it's their fault or not. Of course if it's not then I'd have to pay. But didn't we already establish from the first visit that it was their fault??!?)