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I have a bad situation and am looking for advice. Here is the back story.
I have an 07 fj with a 3 inch lift. I bought 20 inch Moto metal 951 rims nearly 2 years ago and had never got tires. Yesterday, I happened to be playing on craigslist and found a set of 4 nitto terra grapplers in 305x50x20's. The description said 75 percent of tread left and wanted 500 dollars. I drove an hr away, they were in great shape, I offered 400 and he took it! I was pumped.
That brings me to today. I called my local tire discounter and they said they would have to problem mounting my tires and putting them on. I dropped it off this morning, 40 a tire to mount and balance and 40 dollars for lug nuts. 200 total, no big deal.
I was called a little after noon, everything is done, and told me everything went great and no rubbing. I went straight there, saw it in the lot and it looked amazing. Paid the 200 and I was off. I hit the highway and was a few minutes on the road and people were beside me, honking and pointing. I pulled off the road and the smell of burning rubber was so strong. The front wheel wells were covered in rubber shards!
I went straight back to tire discounters. The asst manager came right out. He crawled up under the front and the insides of both tires were rubbing on the control arm. There is a 1/4 inch gouge all the way around the inside diameter of each tire.
He says they'll put my original tires back on. He also said he would not ride these. Then the manager got involved and said there is no problem in running them and that I need a set of spacers.
Once he said he would run them, so did the assistant. I asked if they can give me some kind of guarrantee on them blowing out and it was a stern no! All because I didn't buy them from them.
This went on for about an hour. All the bay guys working said they would not run them and couldn't believe they didn't catch this and let me leave.
So, I'm glad they didn't blow on the highway, could have been disastrous, and now I don't have my tires to put on.
Suggestions, been thru this? Please help, am I just kinda screwed?
Sorry about the long post!
I have a bad situation and am looking for advice. Here is the back story.
I have an 07 fj with a 3 inch lift. I bought 20 inch Moto metal 951 rims nearly 2 years ago and had never got tires. Yesterday, I happened to be playing on craigslist and found a set of 4 nitto terra grapplers in 305x50x20's. The description said 75 percent of tread left and wanted 500 dollars. I drove an hr away, they were in great shape, I offered 400 and he took it! I was pumped.
That brings me to today. I called my local tire discounter and they said they would have to problem mounting my tires and putting them on. I dropped it off this morning, 40 a tire to mount and balance and 40 dollars for lug nuts. 200 total, no big deal.
I was called a little after noon, everything is done, and told me everything went great and no rubbing. I went straight there, saw it in the lot and it looked amazing. Paid the 200 and I was off. I hit the highway and was a few minutes on the road and people were beside me, honking and pointing. I pulled off the road and the smell of burning rubber was so strong. The front wheel wells were covered in rubber shards!
I went straight back to tire discounters. The asst manager came right out. He crawled up under the front and the insides of both tires were rubbing on the control arm. There is a 1/4 inch gouge all the way around the inside diameter of each tire.
He says they'll put my original tires back on. He also said he would not ride these. Then the manager got involved and said there is no problem in running them and that I need a set of spacers.
Once he said he would run them, so did the assistant. I asked if they can give me some kind of guarrantee on them blowing out and it was a stern no! All because I didn't buy them from them.
This went on for about an hour. All the bay guys working said they would not run them and couldn't believe they didn't catch this and let me leave.
So, I'm glad they didn't blow on the highway, could have been disastrous, and now I don't have my tires to put on.
Suggestions, been thru this? Please help, am I just kinda screwed?
Sorry about the long post!