> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:51:13 EDT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It sounds as if you say the wheel is now bent. (Side to side run out) In
the
> US, we immediately assume the shop damaged the wheel. IT is possible to do
> so, especially if they are using an automatic tire changing machine, as
> opposed to the old way of by hand with tire irons.
Oh, that sinking feeling of seeing your wheel reduced to crap. Some years
ago I took my Alfa Romeo for a tire change. The guy was having a great
conversation with another customer while doing my wheel. Sure enough, he
managed to rip a chunk the size of a banana off the alloy rim, all in front
of me. Didn't even blush. Eventually I got it perfectly repaired at a rim
specialist since that model was no longer available, but as the tire guy was
paying the bill, he even had the gall to tell me I was too picky and he
wouldn't work for me again - as if I were thinking of going back!
Me wants to be a tire guy when grownup - or maybe an attorney, don't know...
:^)
Later,
Roberto.
