Hey, Cullen:
I know this comment will mean something to you since you and I live in the
same area so I beg the forgiveness of the list right off the bat.
If I were you, I'd be very concerned over where you take your nice wheels to
have ANY work done on them at all. Case in point...I used to own a '89 Saleen
Mustang and one day I picked up a nail in one of my tires. I removed the
wheel and took it to Hibdon Tire Center in Edmond. I had previously called
them and inquired about their experience regarding working with
out-of-production and expensive wheels and they assured me that they had a
"touchless" tire machine and there was no way they would damage my wheel. To
make a long story short, the pimply-faced idiot in the shop bent the sh*t out
of my wheel rim. In fact, I caught him trying to beat it back into shape with
a hammer!!!! After going absolutely ballistic on the manager, I took the
wheel to "The Wheel Connection" over on Meridian and had them repair it. I
then presented the bill to the DA over Hibdons and, to his credit, he paid me
for the repair work ($150.00). To this day, if I ever have ANY wheel or tire
work whatsoever done on the Tiger or the Alpine, "The Wheel Connection" is the
only place I'll go. They specialize in restoring damaged wheels and know how
to handle them. To date, they've handled both sets of wheels for my Tiger (my
LAT 70s and my magnesium American Racing Silverstones) and have done an
outstanding job on both occasions.
Be very careful who you let handle your wheels!! I would most definitely stay
away from the "average Joe" wheel and tire stores when it comes to specialty
wheels.
Just FYI,
Andy Walker
Edmond, OK
B382001600LRXFE (TAC#740)
B9006857LRX
---- Cullen McCann <cmccann@lwpb.com> wrote:
> Brad, I also advise that many tire shops will match the price of the best
deal
> you can find on the net, including Tire Rack...I recently purchased a full
set
> of shoes for my cobra replica, and Discount Tire ordered them and took 10
> bucks per tire off to "beat" the competition of TireRack's price....and
they
> have order access to every brand of tire that I know of...and now since
they
> sold them they will back up the warranty and such...as far as the wheel
damage
> concerns....I didn't worry about it but that is probably a valid
concern...I
> would just take good pics of the wheels, some how document that you dropped
> them off with them and express to the person at the shop that they are rare
or
> something and that it's a concern for you....not sure what else you could
do
> on that...
>
> Good luck
>
>
>
>
>
> Gentlemen,
> What kind of luck have you had when you buy your tires from an internet
> source
> and you take them to the local tire shop to be mounted?
> 1) Will they even talk to you?
> 2)Having the zitty high school dropout with the scraggly beard attempt to
> mount tires on non replaceable rims bothers me. If they break one they will
> just say sorry, you didn't buy them from us anyway.
> Any thoughts. I would even buy a one day insurance policy on the wheels to
> get
> me through the process if it were possible. -Brad
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