What in the tire change

[TJ1978]

This dude is in my works parking lot..
Loose lug nuts or he's never changed a tire before. All the lug studs are still on.. hahahaha. Some oldish guy. Looked confused on what to do. I walked over but he's on his phone or watching how to change tire videos

 

[eodcoduto]

Did you help the poor guy?

 

[TJ1978]

Did you help the poor guy?

I went to go offer a hand. Maybe I could use our forklift to get it up enough to put the spare on, but he declined. The shop is sending a tow truck

He went to have his tires serviced and I guess the shop failed to tighten the lug nuts beyond finger right.

 

[sweetk30]

he has the AK-47 lift on the front pumper .

and jeep / mopar has had DRY threads for years on there lug studs / lug nuts . give a incorrect CLICK on a torque wrench . always lube them just a tiny bit is all you need .

 

[muddybuddy]

I went to go offer a hand. Maybe I could use our forklift to get it up enough to put the spare on, but he declined. The shop is sending a tow truck

He went to have his tires serviced and I guess the shop failed to tighten the lug nuts beyond finger right.

My initial reaction is he should be able to fix it himself with the lift and such on the front end (unless he knows nothing). At same time, if i paid a shop to do something and then it failed and this happened, i wouldnt want to lift a finger (in ideal world, though this always seems to happen when you are in a rush and dont have time for a major inconvenience), they are completely responsible for this and i wouldnt want them trying to point a finger at me for trying to fix it and claiming it was all my fault.

 

[TJ1978]

He was an older guy, at least mid to late 60's... I offered to help. He's still there when I left work. Not sure how long a tow truck takes but 2 hours seems a bit excessive to wait.

There metal shaving all under his jeep from where the wheel was dragging/rubbing on the rotors. His wheel was shot.

He also needed new tires which I told him but he said that's from off-road. I told him maybe, but your tires have dry-rot.

Hahah, whatever, I tried

 

[sweetk30]

notice the RV / MOTOR HOME tow points in the front ......... that says a lot to a guy like me .

 

[70jimmy]

I always check the lugs before I leave when anyone else does work with my tires. The clerk at the last tire store didn't like it when I checked the lugs before backing it out. He said we use a torque wrench, just as I gave one of the lugs a couple twists because it was loose. I said well I don't know what you use it for but obviously not to check lug tightness since this was loose. He said they must have missed one.

Same place that stripped a couple lug nuts and had to chase the threads on a couple studs then had to replace 36 lugnuts so they all look the same. When I went to the counter he said you need to buy the lugnuts, Nope your tech does, grabbed the keys and backed it out since they weren't sure someone could drive it with the triple stick and reverse manual valve body gated shifter. I had pulled it in for them since he didn't understand what it was, I opened the door and showed him and he said yeah you pull it in.

 

[Wes Harden]

I always double check as well, sometimes at the tire shop sometimes at home.
The discount tire store here in Havasu is @75% on the good side of getting them all torque'd evenly

 

[folkenheath]

Did you tell him the parking lot is not much of a creation to explore?

 

[76k5blazerr]

Brings this to mind

 

[sweetk30]

saw ron in person years ago ...... you think his show is funny with his drinking and smoking ..................................... its even better 2nd show of the same level

 

[wazzabie]

Maybe he had more important things to worry about this day then loosing a tire... be kind, you never know what someone is going thru.