Whatever cus words you were thinking of using goes double for me!!!!!!
Only if they're un-trained monkeys. Anybody who has any experience can tell if a tire has been run too low long enough to cause damage, & knows the warning signs, AND knows to dismount & inspect the interior of the casing. They can easily tell this to any employee they hire that understands the language used to hire them, but they don't. Incompetent help, lack of competent or any training, even just experienced oversight of a newbie, all missing a majority of the time anymore. They can train 'em how to take Your $$$, that's about it. Doing things right, training competent help, is just too much bother for everything from a corner tire shop to a Cadillac dealership. There's no money in it to help somebody, then compound that with risk. They're just not into it, buy a tire, or good luck if You don't have a functional spare.
The fly by night, hole in the wall, crappy used tire places charge that here.
I been thinking about it for a few years now, Id order tires online then pay the local garage guy to get rid of the old ones for me...I really don't have room in my shop but I can build a "tire room" addition... you can find tire equipment used enough guys are retiring/ going out of business...
Yeah, We adopted a patch-plug policy at the dealership, for legal, as well as sound safety reasons. Reason #1; once tires started displaying the service description, or just the speed rating, anything rated "H" or higher required a patch-plug to maintain warranties and the rating(I'm talking late '80's early '90's from memory here). So the private shop I worked in, which was a Dealer for Uniroyal & Delta tires, as such We made sure We had the Bowes patch-plugs stocked up. I know, many of Us have jammed a knarly string in a hole, even a sidewall to get by 'till it can be replaced. But professionally, today's legal climate means reason #2, liability; to sue-happy people & clueless/untrained techs that would use terrible judgement as to what repair is needed.
