Since I'm so absolutely steaming mad, I thought I would vent at my usual frustration with discount tire places. In this case....its Sears.

Some of you may remember the pics I posted of my falken ziexs that wore through on the inside edge. Well, I took it in, and tried to be cool with the guy. No dice. He says the tire is fine. The tire is okay, it has tread on it. The inside doesn't matter.

Do you not see THIS?



So, I'm usually good at dealing with people, especially idiots. I explain to him that I really don't think the inside of the tire is safe. I paid for the warranty, and I understand I'll have to pay for the difference. I'll buy a new warranty, valve stems, and mabye even let you align it for some easy profit. No dice. He then switches his story to say that its a misalignment and not their fault, but that the tire is definitey damaged.

So I tell him that BMW says that there is no rear alignment on the car, and thats the way that they're supposed to wear. So he says he will check the alignment, it will be $95. I asked him if he's going to do it correctly (with no real intention of getting it done). I reminded him that there was no rear correction, but he said he had to check it. So I asked:

"If you check the alignment, and its in spec (rear negative camber), then the tire is covered under warranty, right?" He says, "no, definitely not, thats an alignment problem". Talk about a broken record. So I tried really, really hard to keep my cool. I asked him if there was anyone more experienced I could talk with. Up until this point, I was actually in a very normal tone, trying to get the guy to side with me, rather than insiting I'm right. I've done this before.

He told me to leave, that they didn't want me there. Thats when I absolutely lost it. I thought I would have some fun with him, insist he was gonna have to push me out or something to get him riled up, hoping he would do something stupid. No dice there either (darn). He did get pretty pissed though. I told him I would be back tomorrow to talk to his manager. I'm not, but I thought I would worry him about it.

Man, I hate those guys......

Ok, done venting.