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Re: Tire shops
@Jstas
On a standard car, it doesn't take an extra 30 minutes per car to use a torque wrench for final tightening. That's a fallacy. There is no reason to use the heavy impact to tighten all the way. It's fine to use an electric or pneumatic driver to get the lugs on to something like 30lb-ft. Once the car is on the ground, a guy can do the final pull-click star partern with a torque wrench in about 3-4 minutes. Maybe 5 minutes if it's a 6 lug truck wheel.
Discount Tire and other quality tire shops factor this into the installation cost per tire. They don't use "book rate" for that and that is pretty standard across almost all tire shops that I've encountered. Now, if you getting tires done at a general mechanic or dealership, well that's a mistake to start with, IMO.
You should stop jabbering about things you know nothing about
Likewise. I think everyone here generally agreed that zipping on lug nuts directly from the impact gun and cross-threading was a bad thing. Then you start talking about heavy truck shops and book hours which have nothing to do with normal tire shops. Bye-bye.
billbillw
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Re: Who's best? - Original or cover? - You choose.
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bcwsrt
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
ken brydson wrote: »
Works for me, can't say I haven't been there...
Geoff4rfc
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Re: Who's best? - Original or cover? - You choose.
Really love Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
compared to Lou Reed’s original, and I like Lou Reed’s version.
compared to Lou Reed’s original, and I like Lou Reed’s version.
skipshot12
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Re: Weather at Your House?
The Pollen has thined out now, BUT...
The Live Oak and Pecan tree TASSLES are falling like brown snow now.
They fill up the cowl under the wipers and also pile up on the wipers. They get into any crack or crevice your vehicles have.
The Live Oak and Pecan tree TASSLES are falling like brown snow now.
They fill up the cowl under the wipers and also pile up on the wipers. They get into any crack or crevice your vehicles have.
Tony M
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Re: Tire shops
motorstereo wrote: »I remember as a young man many decades ago cussing the evil tire place thinking they had cross threaded or overtightened my lugs nuts when I had a flat. Then I saw the L stamped in the wheel lugs.
Classic Dodge issue.
sucks2beme
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