Well the dealer invited us to take a test drive to experience how smooth
the ride would be. He rode with us. The ride was not smooth at all. It was
almost like riding on a corduroy road. He diagnosed the problem. He said that
they had just experienced the same problem with a brand new same model vehicle
a few weeks earlier.
I would have never guessed that brand new tires were out of round. I just
can't understand how Bridgestone could possibly make a tire that was not
circular but apparently it happens.
Anyway they took four tires and wheels from another new vehicle and
replaced mine. It seems to be all right. And the head mechanic drove it two
hundred miles to me so he got a good chance to test drive it.
Beyond that I can't understand how I actually found this particular
vehicle on-line and ordered it through this dealer, paid cash, and apparently
the dealer hadn't even test driven it before I traveled two hundred miles to
pick it up.
Not only that, my vehicle had a sticker on it that said it was one
randomly picked by the manufacturer to thoroughly test drive in order to insure
the integrity of the production line. One of every fifty or five hundred
vehicles randomly picked or something.
By the way, the light that came on was not a seat belt light but an air
bag light.
Jerry
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