Birdmayon
Silver Member
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but, here goes.
I headed down to my local dealer yesterday to pick up my 2520 after its 50 hour service. Trailer felt like it was tugging on my truck pretty good on the way down there, but due to heavy rain I couldn't see or tell what was going on. Pulled into the dealer and walked inside to inquire about my tractor, and one of the salesmen told me I had a flat on my trailer, and to pull it around to the shop to see if it would hold air. I backed my trailer over to the shop, went to pull the cap off the valve stem and the stem fell off in my hand! Turned out it was dry rotted and just tore off. I did not have a spare wheel/tire for my trailer, so one of the guys told me to go in and buy a stem and he'd take care of it. He was able to break the bead on the tire and replace the valve stem w/out removing the wheel from the trailer...in about 5 minutes! So after airing up the tire, he decided to check pressure on the other 3 tires. Two out of the 3 remaining wheels had severely dryrotted valve stems that looked like they could fall off at any moment as well. So, back inside I went to buy two more valve stems and within 10 minutes, they had me on the road, safely, with my tractor in tow.
My dealer is Carroll's Equipment down in Dameron, Maryland. These guys really went way above and beyond to keep me safe, and I can't say enough about how much I appreciate what they did for me. This was all after closing time too. Anyway, just felt that I needed to share my experience, these guys are really top notch and it's an example of why I keep going back to them.
I headed down to my local dealer yesterday to pick up my 2520 after its 50 hour service. Trailer felt like it was tugging on my truck pretty good on the way down there, but due to heavy rain I couldn't see or tell what was going on. Pulled into the dealer and walked inside to inquire about my tractor, and one of the salesmen told me I had a flat on my trailer, and to pull it around to the shop to see if it would hold air. I backed my trailer over to the shop, went to pull the cap off the valve stem and the stem fell off in my hand! Turned out it was dry rotted and just tore off. I did not have a spare wheel/tire for my trailer, so one of the guys told me to go in and buy a stem and he'd take care of it. He was able to break the bead on the tire and replace the valve stem w/out removing the wheel from the trailer...in about 5 minutes! So after airing up the tire, he decided to check pressure on the other 3 tires. Two out of the 3 remaining wheels had severely dryrotted valve stems that looked like they could fall off at any moment as well. So, back inside I went to buy two more valve stems and within 10 minutes, they had me on the road, safely, with my tractor in tow.
My dealer is Carroll's Equipment down in Dameron, Maryland. These guys really went way above and beyond to keep me safe, and I can't say enough about how much I appreciate what they did for me. This was all after closing time too. Anyway, just felt that I needed to share my experience, these guys are really top notch and it's an example of why I keep going back to them.
