-[95cxhatch]-

I recentley had some yokohama avid h4's (205/40/16) mounted on my alt seven wheels. Went to pickup my car and look at my wheels in horror! three of my wheels had huge chunks out of the finish. I went inside and asked wtf was wrong with them and they said I had "Junk" wheels. Think they are pullin 1 over me saying thier machine didnt do it or are my wheels really junk? I think ALT wheels are a good brand and this is the second set of tires installe don them and the previous install didnt chunk hte heck out of them.

Paranoid Android

eww id sue them boy.

thats a hideous chunk.

that looks like hell!

sry

Heath

That sucks! I had no trouble mounting tires on them when I had em...SUE! ;-)

tim anto

you got dicked over, rims dont fall apart cuz they are junk... junk wheels are bent or something like that.... burn down their shop if they dont buy you new ones.

Heath

i'd go file charges man...seriously...they will prolly change their tune when u serve em papers!

-[95cxhatch]-

can I borrow some gas and matches?

GSR

sorry to hear bout your rims, but yea i would go file charges

General Kills

Burn it down and **** on the ashes! That kind of **** pisses me off more than anything. My friend brought his car in and his 18's were scraped to hell when they used an oversized lugwrench to take off his bolts. They didn't do anything for him either. That really sucks!

Russ713

iTrader: (1)

they just reamed you.

Yokohama

That's BS...go back and kill somebody if they dont buy you new ones!!!
any idiot can mount tires...trust me I know!

Kamin

Ive never heard of Alt wheels...

go file charges.

SpoonFedHatch

dude that's BS.....i worked at Discount Tire Co. for 3 years, and TRUST me, whoever tried to mount the tires didnt know what the hell they were doing....ask them if they used "rubber booties" on the mounting clamps to protect it.....good luck, and YES that is BS becuase if they charged you to mount them, they should have mounted them RIGHT without damaging the wheel goodluck

-[95cxhatch]-

altwheels.com

Loco Honkey

In the shop's defense- it's just cosmetic, and those are really low profile tires. Ever try to mount tires that size? It's ******* HARD. I mean two people sweating and using all their weight to get those sons of bitches over the rim. Did you go to a tire place that has a bunch of passenger tires laying around, and one whom predominantly deals with said passenger tires? Mounting a 70 series tire doesn't require the skill, technique, or special equipment that mounting a 40 series does.

Unless the wheel is structurally damaged, or you paid over $15 per tire to have 'em mounted, I'd chalk it up to experience and next time find a shop that has the equipment and skill to mount low profile tires.

And FWIW, ALT wheels are right up there with Primax and American Racing as far as quality goes. But hey, I'm sure they look nice.

GapxGuy

Junk wheels or not, sue their ***. That's a poor excuse for their lack in skills.

Civichatch2k

They did it man. I had gone to a tire shop here, and the bent all four of my wheels! im mean actually bent the lip on the wheels, of course their insurance doesnt cover it, so my insurance bought me some new wheels, but needless to say it sucks and i am sorry for you...try to get the money from them!

TurboBumblBee

ill second that.. 40 series tires are not the easiest thing to mount specially on civics.. there is NO sidewall at all.. i work at a tire shop and we would not had fucked them up that bad if at all.. i would definatly get the shop to pay for them, if the store manager wont chulk it up, go the DM or RM and you will get what you want.. good luck..

Civichatch2k

werd!

ImportechPerformance

Dont they need a special machine to put on low performance tires? I mean one time i went around looking for a cheaper place to mount my tires and not everybody was able to do it beacuse they said they didnt have the machine to do it....

ps this was back when i had on 17's now 15" owns me!

Loco Honkey

You need a machine to put low performance tires on, but the machine you need to put on low profile tires is different. I honestly forget the difference.

As for suing the shop... you're going to waste their time over a few paint chips? How much did you pay for the wheels? How much did you pay for the mounting? Just get some touch up paint and suck it up. Christ, it's not like they rendered the wheels unusable.

SpoonFedHatch

i'd suggest sanding down that one part (maybe a 400grit) down really nice (provided those are painted aluminum/alloy wheels) and just touch it up nicely with silver touch up paint....

tim anto

ok drop the fact they are poop rims....

its still the principle that the shop can just put blame on the rim for their lack of skills...

guess what...now you know where NOT to go... learned the hard way but you will never forget that info now will ya.

B18EG6

trust me...i pissed on ashes once, i was scarred for life...its one of the worst smells in the world

-i did burn down a house, that smelled gooood

heel_touge

well, if you signed the papers to take the car, the shop has no responsabilty. once its out th door its your prollem. i gurantee there were no rubber booties used. installer error is what it is but theres nuthin you can do about it now.
edit: those wheels are bunk. it looks to me like the powder coat was bubbled. thats why it cracked off. those look more like bubbled paint chips than chunks of paint eaten off.


[Modified by 1slowcivic, 5:59 AM 12/13/2002]

TurboBumblBee

i pissed on a camp fire and it ****** stunk..

back to the point, have the shop compensate you somehow.. get your money back atleast.. what shop was it?? a national chain or some smaller shop?