a few weeks ago i noticed the mighty sonata had a very low right rear tire, 8 psi. i drove to the gas station and brought the pressure up to 32 psi. for the next few days i was checking the pressure several times a day. it was losing about 2 psi per day. yesterday i finally took it to the tire store to get it repaired. they said to come back in 2 to 2.5 hours so began a long walk to the public library.
after a few hours of walking on my suspect knee i returned to the tire place and was given the bad news that the tire could not be repaired, a nail at the edge where the tread meets the sidewall. they had a sheet made up with several recommendations. first they recommended 4 new tires and of course i said no. then they recommended 2 new tires. my tread was at about 35-40% remaining. again i said no and asked if they had a cheap used tire to replace the damaged one. after checking they said no. i was just about to leave when i was called back and told they found 1 new discontinued tire that would fit the now not so mighty sonata. i snapped it up for $70. $109 after taxes, installation, balancing and enviromental levy.
the guy thought i was nuts but here's the plan. this summer when the weather is nice and my 1 new tire is worn a little i'm going to head to giant tire depot that sells used tires with up to 80% tread remaining. i'll buy 3 of those buggers and have a set tires with approximately the same tread. plus my old tires will be ready to replace. why the hell should i toss out tires with 35% tread remaining? i thought of going to the used tire place yesterday but the weather was the shits and it might take a while to find good tires. in the summer i can pack a picnic basket and a bring along a lawn chair in case i need to take a rest. it should be a nice little adventure.
buy used stuff to reduce your carbon footprint. (and save a few bucks)
at the library i picked up 10 cd's and a few were excellent, especially this one:
just a pilgrim!
i love you sons of bitches
106 comments:
Isn't there a minimum amount of tread you're suppose to have on tyres? I remember someone saying you had to stick a coin into your tyre to test whether the tread was sufficient. It's possible he was talking out of his butthole.
You cheap hydroplaning son of a bitch, how the fuck are we ever going to pull out of this depression if you won't part with a couple shekels?
Beautiful People in xmas vids make me want to shit.
gb - i'm told 2/32 is the legal requirement. i'll replace them before then.
harry - a kopek saved is a kopek earned. i've had the car for almost 3 years and driven less than 10,000 kilometers so i'm in no rush.also, don't forget i put new tires on my bike last summer.
a nail at the edge where the tread meets the sidewall.
I call bullshit on them, down here almost any tire shop would have fixed it. Hell, I could fix it on the road, I carry tire plugs and a 12 volt compressor in my truck.
I bought my last set of truck tires at Discount Tire in Sequim, they cost less than yours do and came with a 50K warranty, even if I fuck one up myself it will be replaced free of charge.
Hell, I only drive 4 to 5K a year so they're good for years, likely longer than I'm good for.
I personally do around 20k miles a year on my Jeep and in the Vibe (mostly the latter, thankfully).
Family puts another 10-15 on the van.
We are definitely part of the problem. But the nature of my work requires site visits, heavy tool carriage, erratic schedules, and emergency service. And the wife uses the van like a school bus, so at least it's carrying a lot of occupants for its miles.
Just had to get new tires for all of them, so we're definitely treading our load on the giant hamster wheel of the economy, Harry.
Pilgrim, I've gotta hand it to you that you can make a sport out of optimizing weird shit; and if that amuses you, then have at it!
From a time-value perspective it might not make sense to me, but then again, your perspective is vastly skewed from the norm.
Me? I'm the only normal one here, for Christ's sake. Y'all are a bunch of looney tunes.
Me? I'm the only normal one here, for Christ's sake. Y'all are a bunch of looney tunes.
If you are the norm for normal on this rock that explains why we are all fucked.
And don't give me any shit about you being normal, you fucking fuck.
Normal is not a state on this fucking planet, it's just a concept.
If Thim's is normal I don't want to be normal because I'm hard enough on mother earth without being him.
But I do like the fucker.
it's funny how when you're buying tires the sellers inflate the tread depth but when they look at you're old tires they deflate the remaining tread depth. i measured my tread depth before going in and it wasn't as bad as they said.
thims - it's an adventure going around to different places checking out used stuff and talking to the sellers. when you're a pencil pusher in a cracker factory it's nice to meet some people that do real work.
I don't give a fuck what they think about tread depth, I know how to drive on tires with little tread depth and I get all I can out of my tires.
There is one cool trick that will help with tire traction, when they get to about fifty percent wear have them siped.
Hmmm... I'm told a replacement set of tires for my car will run about $1500. It'll be a while before I swap them out.
I sure am getting to be a cranky fuck but people don't see themselves as part of the problem in this global destruction, even I contribute some to it at times even though I try to keep it to a minimum.
I wonder what in the world Bob needs tires for that they will cost so much. Some earth destroyer I guess, no point in caring about the planet.
But I do have a pretty good seat, for now anyway.
Rick had to replace a tire the first of the week, I don't recall what it cost him but 170 MPH tires are not cheap.
i just looked at the receipt for my tire and there are a few dire warnings about how bad i need new tires. i guess once they get the customer in the shop it's survival of the fittest. like i say, there is between 30% and 40% tread left by my calculations.
I run my thread down to about 10% or less. At the speeds I drive it's no big deal, in my mind. I once bought a 200 buck car in Arkansas with near bald tires on it and drove it to L.A. then on to Washington, in the winter.
Later to Arizona, then to Utah. Never did put new tires on that car during the five years I owned it.
Fucking rain, want to go get my new cabinet today if it will stop.
Utah is a safety inspection state, your car has to pass an inspection once a year before you can get new tabs, so if they tell you that you need better tires it doesn't matter what you think, you gotta get better tires.
I didn't title that car in Utah, it just sat in the yard until I put it in a demo derby.
Of course the world being what it is even in Utah you can get signed off on a good safety inspection if you slip the right person fifty bucks.
They patched your tire and put it in the used tire rack. LOL
“Canadian Tire, this is Rob, how can I help you?”
“This is Ken Gibbons, I blew out a tire on my 2007 Sonata, do you have a used one?”
“Yes sir, just got one in yesterday.”
“Is it a decent tire?”
“Yes sir, just had a little nail hole in it.”
LOL
Commercial repair of damaged sidewall is not legal.
Maybe, not sure what the law is these days, but we used to fix them. and a nail where the tread meets the sidewall is a close call. And I just don't trust many anymore after being in the automotive business for years.
Anyway, Rick's shop was broken into, I'm going over now to start installing an alarm system.
my lovely sonata isn't a 2007 so it wasn't my old tire. what kind of car does rick drive that goes up to 170 mph?
i see your lunacy with guns continues with 26 dead from a mass shooting in a school.
If I wanted to see if they had a used tire today I sure wouldn't use the same year of my car, just one that uses the same size of tire.
Rick has a 560SL Mercedes, if it was mine I'd just buy standard tires for it because I'd never drive it fast anyway.
I didn't have anything to do with that shooting and I'm not running this rock, I'm just small and made of meat.
it's almost like it's becoming a contest with the mentally ill to kill as many innocents as possible.
at least the nut in arizona went after a politician.
Sadly, we don't know if one of those mentally ill are in the store or mall with us.
Killing kids in a school is just extra sick, I really don't get it.
And all those shootings involve assault rifles, something I don't have or want.
I'm okay with banning assault rifles but I don't see how that can be done. Once something gets on this rock you can't get rid of it. You can't even keep track of all of them.
at least the nut in arizona went after a politician.
I don't understand that either, I'm beginning to think I don't understand anything. But didn't he also shoot others? As I recall that's how it went down.
Pretty sure that if I snapped and decided to kill someone it would be just them.
Good work on the music and tire, BP. You are a smart egg. Have a good weekend.
As smart eggs go he's okay but I would have fixed that tire and got the rest of its life out of it.
Fixing a cut near a sidewall is iffy but a simple nail hole is no big deal to me.
On the other hand, that's just me.
The fucking tire people are getting as paranoid as everyone else anymore. Until they decide to sell that used tire they just patched that will have no warranty on it and free them of any blame.
Billy P is a pencil pusher in a cracker factory, maybe he will get my drift, maybe he won't.
Maybe Billy P trusts everyone?
BBC said...
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Fixing a cut near a sidewall is iffy but a simple nail hole is no big deal to me.
On the other hand, that's just me.
Ah, life on the Ragged Edge.
Naa, I've done a lot of things more risky than that. Hell, I've been married.
thank you mr shife, you have a good weekend too.
bill- the sucker would be the person that bought the ruined tire, not the person who bought 1 new tire at less than half price. i'm glad harry's concerned about my safety.
".......i was called back and told they found 1 new discontinued tire that would fit the now not so mighty sonata......"
It was a recall tyre!
Are you mad?
It's rife with Salmonella and/or Listeria!
Wash your hands!
Never mind, you are not following what I was saying about it all, but there wasn't anything unsafe about that tire.
Hey, you bought a new tire at less than half price and it still cost you over a hundred bucks? Crap, glad I don't have to buy tires in Canada.
you're glad that you don't have to buy and tire in canada and i'm glad that a $100 tire is rather inconsequential to me financially.
What ever, if ya got it spend it to keep the economy going. But the chances of a repaired tire killing you are less than the chances of a crackpot shooting you.
Tell y'all what, I've repaired WAY more tires than any of you have ever worn out so lets change the subject and talk about something y'all know about.
He can't buy a tire on Ebay, he doesn't have the skills to change it himself. Damn few folks these days know how to get a tire off a rim and get a new one back on it and get it inflated.
It's mostly just old farts like me that still do things like that.
IT'S GOING TO GET MORE EXPENSIVE UP THERE FOR MORE THAN JUST TIRES.
Nuestra presentacion especial comenzara en breve
Pero antes un mensaje de nuestros auspiciadores
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We are and have ever been at war. Killing, thieving, deceiving, scrapping, fighting it out.
Monkey takes shortest route to the crack house.
Tires suck.
Hey now, I kinda like my tires, it beats running on the rims.
I don't pay a tire recycle fee. I keep my old tires in case I need a backup for a while for some reason, or put them on one of the trailers.
When the time comes that I don't need them I take them to the landfill on Earth Day, I'm allowed to take four a year for free. They recycle them for me.
all comments from the shrew will be deleted until i receive a satisfactory apology.
I'm not sure what would be satisfactory to you. Why don't you write it so she can copy/paste it?
billy pilgrim said...
........................................................ i'm glad harry's concerned about my safety.
December 15, 2012 6:41 AM
Whoa there Hoss, let's not get too carried away.
Now Harry, you know damn good and well that you won't delete his bookmark until the day after his demise.
BBC said...
........................................................ Why don't you write it so she can copy/paste it?
December 15, 2012 10:28 AM
Why don't YOU reopen YOUR comments so pilgrim doesn't have to take all the heat?
Hmmm..?
Why don't you go fuck yourself?
Oh.... Wait..
That's right, because I already have.
She's never apologized to me either. For all the words in her vocabulary that isn't one of them.
it looks like harry's been toying with my affections. live and learn.
and it's snowing here. i ventured out to pick up a new toy, pvr, and the not so mighty sonata performed admirably.
Just a bit chilly here, you can keep the snow on your side.
Just keep that fucking snow up there in Canuckistan where it belongs and we'll get along just fine, pilgrim.
reach around
Driving in the rural town of Veazie, Maine, after midnight, a woman accidentally hits what she thinks is an oversized cat. She puts the unconscious animal in her car and drives several miles.
In the town of Bangor, Maine, the cat regains consciousness. That's when the woman realizes it's no house cat. She's riding with a wild bobcat.....
Having been married to one I can assure you that you don't want to mess with a polecat.
In my neck of the woods polecat means skunk.
Well, she didn't generally stink, except when she needed a douche.
In my neck of the woods too, harry.
pole·cat
/ˈpōlˌkat/
Noun
A Eurasian mammal (genus Mustela) of the weasel family, with mainly dark brown fur and a darker mask across the eyes, noted for ejecting...
Synonyms
fitchew - skunk - fitch - foumart - Leslie
I used that word simply to indicate something that could climb a tree, or up my back. Or rip into me like a wild cat.
Oh well, I guess it's not her fault she had some defective wiring, most of the time she met well.
Well pilgrim, is this your FIRST rodeo?
Tell her to fuck off Billy P.
@ Harry - Hehehe
harry said,
"......Well pilgrim, is this your FIRST rodeo?......"
I think it might be, if you don't count that "Brokeback Mountain" thing back in his University experimentation days.
I’m going to wander into Monkeyville and bullshit with the barflies for a while. I'm tempted to take a gun but they are banned in bars so the only ones in bars with them are outlaws and the insane, I'll just have to take my chances.
"......It may be impossible to come up with some kind of a way of determining that......"
Oh there are many ways. The problem is these ways tend to trample on basic human rights too much.
Body armour BBC!
Surely it is not banned in bars?
For what offense is Leslie meant to apologise?
It's cool how you guys leave the exact same comments on numerous blogs.
We learned copy/paste from you, bitch.
Am I crying?
Fuck no, that would involve an emotion, something you seem to be devoid of.
Being as Leslie is so good at keeping track of things I’m wondering if she can tell us how many times I’ve told her to shut up and suck my cock.
You didn't tell us how many times I told you to shut up and suck my cock.
Yes, his lifestyle bothers me at times but I suspect that it also bothers him at times and I'm not always ragging on him about it.
I thought Leslie had disappeared? Alas...sadly not. Her egocentricity amazes me. Billy P - I'm pretty sure I drew fire from you onto me. I welcome it. My fingers are poised to delete...
No hon, the fire came as a result of my being here. She hounds me like I'm some kind of a bad thing, or whatever in the hell it is going on in her mind.
I'm pretty sure I drew fire from you onto me.
So shut the fuck up. LOL
I'm pretty sure she's obsessed with you...it's kind of pathetic, really.
No shit, I wish she would get over it.
Or admit it.
Goodnight Gracie.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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You were just trying to stir the pot anyway, I'm just wondering why one of her comments is still here, maybe Billy P is sleeping in.
Leslie sure pissed Doc Teri off, won't be any friendships made there, not that I think Leslie is looking for any friends.
my lifestyle? is the lack of drinking or not chasing hookers that concerns you?
Is that question for me? Heck, I don't care that you don't drink or chase hookers, or even that you use some weed. BTW, I don't chase hookers, just talk about them.
I just sense that you have a pretty good income and live pretty well and those with plenty of money are consumers that are harder on the planet.
But hell, I fear I would be the same way if I had more income. Or I would go live in a remote area, not sure I want to be a part of humanity anymore.
If y'all really, and I mean really, want to rid yourselves of the fair Leslie all you have to do is ignore her. In fact, 'ignoring', is an activity which requires no effort whatsoever - it should be very easy to accomplish I should think.
The mere fact that y'all seem unable to ignore her is very revealing of the personal dynamic here.
Do we have a battle between co-dependant Narcissists and Enablers? Is Doc Teri the only well-adjusted adult here? She seems quite able to ignore the fair Leslie - why can't the rest of you?
Ignore her and she will go away.
Do not mention her name.
Do not refer to her.
AND ESPECIALLY!!!!!!!
Do not consider her "The Elephant In The Room".
Though her 42 inch hips might cause one to image a pachyderm - fight it!
Well SR, you sure took all the fun out of this comment section.
If I am included in this Co-dependant Narcissist/Enabler 'Police Action'(notice I did not say 'Battle' or 'War') then I claim 'Unlawful Enemy Combatant' status and demand to be taken to the 'Gitmo' section of this Handy Comments Facility.
There are some people who gain no pleasure out of anything at all in life, unless they have taken it from someone else. They lack the ability to define, all by themselves, what they would like and how it would make them happy. Like the toddler in the playgroup who hovers over the other children, snatching their toys and then having no idea whatsoever how to play with them; getting no pleasure out of the object at all. You should feel sorry for the poor, joyless mites, with no clue how to play, snatching away and screaming, but I do not, I just want to drown them, the grasping little feckers.
The fair Leslie is content to watch from above, silent, as long as we here are only discussing her - and it matters not if our discussion is 'for' or 'against' her. The moment we here drift from a Leslie-centric model of our 'fun' though, she's back at us, like BBC after a fine pair of 'tits'. We will not be allowed to have 'fun' independent of her essence at its centre. This is why just when we thought she had fucked-off to the Seychelles for good and we went about our normal routines she had to return!
Can we have non-Leslie-centric fun?
Do we deserve non-Leslie-centric fun?
These are questions for greater minds than mine I'm afraid.
Personally, I enjoy Leslie-centric activities, but then, I'm a psychopath.
aquarians - you make some excellent points.
would you consider sterc. to be a wolf in sheep's clothing?
like BBC after a fine pair of 'tits'
No man on this rock is going to have an issue with me enjoying a fine pair of tits.
Two of those pairs of tits were close to twenty years older than me but what the hell, fine tits are fine tits and they damn sure wasn't complaining.
BBC said...
Two of those pairs of tits were close to twenty years older than me but what the hell, fine tits are fine tits....................
December 16, 2012 7:26 PM
Yeah, those synthetic bolt-on teats dont age like real flesh and blood.
Man, this blog has become quite a chat room, I'll just comment on the post and ignore the 104 comments.
Interesting strategy on the tires, I probably would have gone for two new ones, but where's the fun in that?
It does sound like you are going to make lemonade out of lemons though, good luck!
yeah tex, somehow ruby's blog has morphed into this microcosm of the middle east. thanks for mentioning the tires. say hi to bob for us.
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