Fun is what its all about, Carl E.
"J. Adrian Barnes" wrote:
> I got home tonight and who showed up but the UPS guy with three boxes of
> Midget goodies for me. He spent 5 minutes in my garage asking me
> questions about the car, which was fine because he's bringing most of it
> (the car) to me, one box at a time. Among the loot were my new
> Mini-lite replicas (Made in England, no less! heh heh). Those are some
> darn good looking wheels, by the way.
>
> Anyway, impatient me opened them up, took one look, loaded them up in
> the Accord and headed off to Sam's Wholesale, where I promptly had them
> mount some Michelin 155/80 R-13's. I spent the first 20 minutes telling
> the two sales people (including a teenage girl, who was fascinated too)
> all about the car and what I was doing, and by the time I came back to
> pick the wheels up, a small crowd of employees had gathered around. I
> finally got to leave after spending another good 20 minutes telling my
> story. The main tire guy said half the store's employees had all made
> it back there to take a look at the wheels. I had to promise to bring
> the car by when it was driveable.
>
> All that commotion over some wheels! heh heh...I can't wait to get the
> car back on the road. I may not have a running car yet, but at least I
> got a little bit of excitement out of ownership tonight.
>
> On an interesting technical note, the wheel/tire combination was almost
> in perfect balance. They said they didn't even have to balance one of
> the wheels. Also, based on the balancing/mounting procedure, they marked
> each wheel as to which position on the car they'd recommend placing it
> (right front, and so on).
>
> Now I have a stack of wheels in my garage waiting on something to hook
> up to. But, by golly, they sure look good.
>
> One potential difficulty I ran into was that there was no car, and only
> rims. This could very easily cause problems with the manufacturer
> warranty because they couldn't write down the starting mileage, and
> since I don't yet have an odometer, I couldn't even guess. On the other
> hand, since I was going to buy the road hazard anyway, that covers the
> tires to a particular tread depth, so I am okay anyway. Just thought
> you folks might be interested in that.
>
> Oh well...time to clean house...have a hot date tomorrow!
>
> adrian
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