JDgreen227
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Not sure is the $200 price is for load Range E, but will check. Have always liked BFG tires.
Tire Prices!! Geeze
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Not sure is the $200 price is for load Range E, but will check. Have always liked BFG tires.
Patches
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While I don't routinely rotate my tires, I change from the alloy/at tires to my 4steel rim/studded snows and back with the seasons and change their location on the vehicle as per the owners manual.I use my impact to remove and install the wheels snugly and then use the torque wrench to tighten the wheels. The alloys require 97lb/ft and the steels 154lb/ft on my '07 Tundra.I now have 68,000 on the truck and have not had to replace tires as of yet, but of course had to buy the 4 snows initially at a cost of $1150.00 for the 275/65R-18 size required
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In the days when I was putting 40,000 KM on my 1990 F250 4x4, I rotated the tires, lubricated the front brake sliders, and washed the dust from the rear drums every 10,000 KM (6000 miles). These vehicles were supposedly notorious for tire and brake wear. I got good wear from mine and all wore evenly. I'm just too old to have the energy to do it now. I don't use an air impact anymore. I find it more convenient to use a long breaker bar to loosen/tighten the lugs and spin them on/off with a 1/4" drive cordless impact. It doesn't have enough power to damage anything and I find it very much more convenient to move it around.
clemsonfor
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I buy Batteries from Advance Online. I use thier coupon code to get $30 off $75. I try and break orders up at that price to take advantage of the savings the best. If i were to buy 2 batts i would make 2 online purchases. So s $110 battery would be $80 and just do 2 transactions and there ready at the counter when i get there.
clemsonfor
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I am on my second set of those 245/70/16 i think. I only got around 30K miles out of the first set. Its a government truck and thats the tire in thier price so back on it went?
Actually it may have been closer to 20K, i will have to look?
JB4310
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I just did that the other day for a free flat repair at Townfair tire, Was faster than leaving the van there and coming back. Plus I hate to admit it but I don't trust anyone to touch my vehicles. Of course I have to for warranty work etc.
But did you ever look under your vehicle, they don't even pay attention when they lift them, I can see were they put the lift arms, all over the place, even on the floor panels :confused2:
Just had warranty work done to my jeep Grand Cherokee, I can't complain too much cause they actually did $3,000. worth, with the warranty expired
But man, they don't put any of the factory hangers for hoses, fluid lines or wires back right, got all kinds of squeaks and sounds when driving. My wife said it sounds like there's a bird under the hood, I laughed at her til I drove it, sure enough sounds like a bird chirping and squawking!
When ever I make a deal to buy a used vehicle, I want it right then and there. None of this "we're gonna bring it in and go over it" I just went over it I don't want them touching it now.
JB
JDgreen227
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I just did that the other day for a free flat repair at Townfair tire, Was faster than leaving the van there and coming back. Plus I hate to admit it but I don't trust anyone to touch my vehicles. Of course I have to for warranty work etc.
But did you ever look under your vehicle, they don't even pay attention when they lift them, I can see were they put the lift arms, all over the place, even on the floor panels :confused2:
Just had warranty work done to my jeep Grand Cherokee, I can't complain too much cause they actually did $3,000. worth, with the warranty expired
But man, they don't put any of the factory hangers for hoses, fluid lines or wires back right, got all kinds of squeaks and sounds when driving. My wife said it sounds like there's a bird under the hood, I laughed at her til I drove it, sure enough sounds like a bird chirping and squawking!
When ever I make a deal to buy a used vehicle, I want it right then and there. None of this "we're gonna bring it in and go over it" I just went over it I don't want them touching it now.
JB
Know what you mean, last time we took one of our cars to a dealer to have A/C repaired, mechanic left a lot of the firewall/heater plenum hardware loose, or stripped it when he reinstalled it, grille on car was missing half the fasteners, etc. BTW here's one for you guys to ponder...wife told me my Buick Lesabre had a loud whirring noise when heater/ac fan was on, I cannot hear, so asked her to call dealer, they told her "oh it's probably a bad fan, bring it in..." ($$$$$$) well I was remembering when I was back in school, us kids that rode the bus would fold up paper and stick in in the rear heater boxes, then yell at the driver to turn the heaters on, the loud whirring noise as the fan blew the paper around drove the driver nuts....:laughing: :laughing: well I took apart the heater/ac cover under the dash in the engine compartment of the Buick....guess what I found....
A HUGE, full oak leaf stuck in the fan blower wheel !!! How it got there I have no idea...we have no oak trees here !! I removed the leaf, and the noise was gone. Made me wonder what the dealership would have done, removed the leaf and been honest enough to tell us the truth, or screw us over and told us they replaced the fan motor? Your guess is as good as mine !!
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A girl I dated had the same thing on her Toyota. Ended up being a set of Mardi Gras Beads. Now the question is just how did she get, earn, them beads.:thumbsup:
They charged her nothing to take care of it. Now that I think of it maybe she showed the service tech and service dept manager just how she got them. She was cute, about 5-4, 130#, and a solid D-cup.
:licking:By the way, if your Lasabre was anything like a old college buddies Chevy Corsica with a 3100 V6 its a pain to change. I did it and remember having to remove about half the passengers side of the engine, alternator, serpentine belt, brackets, motor mounts, then jack the motor and tilt it to get the $20 fan out and install the new one that took all of about 3 minutes. Then put it all back together. Total time for the job was about 1/2 a day.
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JDgreen227
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A girl I dated had the same thing on her Toyota. Ended up being a set of Mardi Gras Beads. Now the question is just how did she get, earn, them beads.:thumbsup:
They charged her nothing to take care of it. Now that I think of it maybe she showed the service tech and service dept manager just how she got them. She was cute, about 5-4, 130#, and a solid D-cup.
By the way, if your Lasabre was anything like a old college buddies Chevy Corsica with a 3100 V6 its a pain to change. I did it and remember having to remove about half the passengers side of the engine, alternator, serpentine belt, brackets, motor mounts, then jack the motor and tilt it to get the $20 fan out and install the new one that took all of about 3 minutes. Then put it all back together. Total time for the job was about 1/2 a day.
Chris
Nah, the Lesabre has the tried and true GM 3800 V6. Wish our summer driver ('93 Olds Cutlass Supreme) had the 3100 V6---nope, it has the DOHC 3.4 V6. Alternator is under the glovebox, when the regulator goes bad, pull the exhaust system, some of the front suspension and loosen the motormounts, then jack up the engine to replace the alternator....what a huge PIB that was. Really brilliant engineering !!!
Diamondpilot
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This is one of the reasons I am not a GM man. My uncle was a die hard GM man until he bought a chain of service stations with real bays that fix cars. He went through mechanics school and that turned him to Ford also.
I know its not just GM but they seem to be king of making them hard to work on. He contributes this to them having very few drive trains but then hanging as many as a dozen different cars over it under as many as 5 different brands. Just too hard to make them easy to work on when that is your business model. He always jokes that just to figure out which oil filter it needs you must know the day it was built, color, interior type, ect.
By the way if you think that is tough try working on a Corvette. I have replace the power antenna and in tank fuel pump on my fathers and it was a major pain. Had to remove 1/2 the rear of the car to do both.
That Corsica once broke the serpentine belt once again had to remove the motor mount and jack the engine to get in the new one. I put a spare in at that time and zip tied it up out of the way.
Chris
