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Just change my tires. I don't need legal advice.

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Prime Lord

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Got a flat tire near my place last week. Ordered new one's from Tire Rack. Limped the Stang to the closest shop (only about 3 blocks away) to save a AAA tow in case I really needed it someday. So I ride by this morning on my motorcycle and notice that its done (no phone call from the shop). I stop in there to pay for it so I can ride home and walk back to pick it up. And the first guy I talked to said he couldn't help me, and that I had to talk to the shop manager. I though I was going to get a pitch to fix all the little piddly crap thats wrong. No. Oh no. His first statement was, "How did you get an inspection sticker?"

NOTE: No emissions equipment & foglight rewire (which creates the "illegal" situation where the fogs don't cut off when the hi-beams come on)

One of the service guys wrote "No legal for you sir" on the work order. And the guy goes ON and ON and ON about all the stuff thats illegal and then told me about the penalties and that if I bring it back to him ever again he would report it. Because everything there is done "by the book."

I just said, "I'm glad I don't need an inspection then." and signed my paperwork and left.
 

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What a great way to encourage you to do business with them again.
 

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Ive had experiences like that, after the shop broke part of the new Hellion Turbo kit. Friends car BTW. I usually tell them to keep it to themselves and they will NOT get my business or any of my friends and families business ever!
 

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Unreal.. When I was a mitsubishi tech, we'd tell the guys with illegal setups/warranty voiding mods what days to come in so no one official would see their cars. I did 3 sets of warranty rotors on a gsx that was burning them up at the track.
 

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since when does fixing a flat tire have anything to do with the rest of the car? sounds like they were looking for things on your car.

they should of just fixed the tire and left the rest to themselves.
 

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Next time, just take the wheel off, and roll it down there with the new tire in hand. Don't even take the car there.
 

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Oh, I'm never giving them any money ever again. after that experience and the $10 "low profile/large rim" surcharge on a 245/45/17.....yeah......never.
 

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Oh, I'm never giving them any money ever again. after that experience and the $10 "low profile/large rim" surcharge on a 245/45/17.....yeah......never.
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thats ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!! if i'm not mistaken isn't that the stock tire size for stock mustang 17' rims? what a rip off!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Oh, I'm never giving them any money ever again. after that experience and the $10 "low profile/large rim" surcharge on a 245/45/17.....yeah......never.
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Hahahaha, what? I would have fought that.
 

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What a bunch of a holes............
 
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it sounds to me as some shop workers need to meet a highway overpass and just so happen it fall off of it
 

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I would have fought it had noticed it before I left. I was so annoyed when I left that I just signed the stuff so I could leave.
 

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Wal mart wont install those tires either.
 

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I would never let wal-mart near my car. so no problem there.
 

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I brought the rim in so they could mount the tire. I guess even that is pushing it too far.
 

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bunch of aholes... i'd look over your car real well to make sure they didn't mess with anything else while they had it
 

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They can't fix your tire cause of that?? That's BS, they should have just made you pay cash and then let you leave with a fixed car.
 

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I already did. Looked everything over, I wrote down the mileage before I left it. Nothing is wrong with it....but they still are a bunch of a-holes.
 

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Damn, that's ridiculous. Sign paper, sna(t)ch my copy, "mind your's", bounce off rev limiter on the way out.






















I'm kidding of course but what a bunch of a-holes.
 

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Oh, I'm never giving them any money ever again. after that experience and the $10 "low profile/large rim" surcharge on a 245/45/17.....yeah......never.
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Ever try to mount a low profile tire before? Just cause its a stock mustang size doesn't mean it aint a bitch to mount. I see that extra charge everywhere and its a huge pain in the ass to mount a low profile tire without the accessory on the tire machine to aid the tire to stay in the drop center. I did a set of 255/40's and 275/40s many times and each time was a huge pain in the ass to not fudge the rim up, regardless, that shop sounds like a bunch of jerk offs anyway.
 
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