Tire Store

CharlieNJ · Sep 23, 2013

I went to the local walmart to buy a few gallons of oil for my tractors last week. While waiting in line at the service center counter, I overheard the clerk tell a customer, "I can sell you a tire, I can balance your tires, I can rotate your tires, I just can't mount tires right now because our tire machine has been down for a week, and we are waiting for a part." They had about five strong young fellas working there changing oil or standing around. So when it was my turn to check out I asked the young clerk, why they don't bar the tires with spoons. He looked at me for a second and said, "I'm not the one losing money, I'm still getting paid." Gosh, I knew of a good size tire dealer years ago, that did everything by hand, the owner did not believe in tire machines. Times are changing.

gab · Sep 23, 2013

I'd like to see you and your spoons change some of these newer tires with the short and hard side walls and then I'd like to hear the azz eating your going to get when you put a mark on somebody's $900. chrome wheel.

mkirsch · Sep 23, 2013

I'd imagine it's a safety/liability issue. You can easily wreck one of those expensive alloy rims, or knock yourself out cold if you don't know what you're doing with the spoons.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 23, 2013

That would be a good way to ruin expensive alloy wheel on a new vehicle. I hope they wouldn't do something like that.

Tech 7 · Sep 23, 2013

broke down and mounted lots of tires including aluminum truck rims with the basic tools

Pops1532 · Sep 23, 2013

Wouldn't hurt a thing for them to learn how to mount tires by hand.

uncle henry · Sep 23, 2013

i do all mine by hand with help from ken-tool the 38 inch tires are the hardest to handle for me

Gambles · Sep 23, 2013

If these were newer rims with the tire monitoring sensor and they broke the monitor while using spoons, management would have a cow. (Not saying that it couldn't be mounted, it's just that the upper management wouldn't understand)

ShadetreeRet · Sep 23, 2013

What? And stoop to doing manual labor? No way!
But you are right!

IH2444 · Sep 23, 2013

No one sees the problem with the service industry/parts availability here?

Part should have been available in one day.
but everything comes from overseas now...
And no one wants to keep any inventory on hand...

kito169 · Sep 24, 2013

The reason no one keeps inventory on hand is because
the city, state and county taxes the snot out of
what inventory is on hand. Back in the late 80's a
large Japanese electronics manufacturer was going to
build a manufacturing facility in Ft. Worth, Tx but
backed out because Ft.Worth decided to tax all
inventory. You can thank greedy politicians for this
problem.

Dick W. · Sep 24, 2013

You are right; but does Walmart have tires for those expensive wheels? There are a lot of steel wheels out there that could get new tires mounted by hand tools. Those monitors inside the tires can get smashed by tire machines too. BTDT.

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