ht rear tire has slow leak. Took it to discount tire, not where I got the t ires, didn't want to drive 100 miles to get flat fixed.
nd came in telling me I need new tires and he can fix me right up. The pric e he quoted was lower than what I spent last summer, but I had to keep insi sting, I don't need new tires, I just got these last summer. It seemed like he was about to put on new tires whether I wanted them or not. I didn't ev en want a price quote.
t need any and don't want any.
I took a car into a chain tire store to have them look at the brakes. I was pretty sure I had a stuck caliper or caliper pin, but it was mid- winter and I didn't feel like checking it myself.
I was standing at the counter talking to the manager when the tech came out and told me that I needed a new caliper, adding "If you do one, you should do both." When I asked the tech if it could be just the caliper pin, not the caliper, he said "You can't replace the pins on that vehicle, you have to replace the whole caliper."
I stared at him silently for a few seconds, then turned to the manager and politely asked "Is that true?"
Manager: "Ummm...well...errr...you see..."
It was kind of fun to watch him struggling as he tried to figure out how to deal with the fact that his tech had just lied to my face.
I saved him the trouble by telling him to find *another tech* to put the car back together and back it out. I pointed to the tech and told the manag er that I did not want *him* touching the car again.
I watched carefully as a different tech reattached the caliper and put the wheel back on.