Discount Tire...

[00tec]

I bought the tires on my car at Les Schwab. That company makes their guys work! I was in and out in less than 45 minutes. When I first drove up, dude ran out to the car like it was on fire, just to greet me before I got the door open.
Wife's Exploder has Treadwright tires balanced by Wally World, and they are fine. Believe it or not, I have not had problem with Wal Mart balancing any tires in the past.
I had the Treadwrights on my truck mounted and balanced by the DIY garage on Federal (Cheap) and they are good as well.

[tmleadr03]

I would say just come see me, but I am booked way out right now. You can call and see if you can get in the schedule. What you should do is take it to an independent shop anyways. Small independent shops typically don't have a minimum wage flunky doing work on cars. Too expensive to reputations. You will have a tech mounting and balancing your stuff, which means it costs a bit more.

[10mm-man]

Wow ! That sucks, must be one out of a lot of people. My experience has been nothing but EXCELLENT! Everyone of them from Co Springs to Denver to Castle Rock.

Sorry about that man!

[Buff]

I’ve used the FC store with mixed results and have found the Longmont and Loveland store to be competent. I have 3 trucks, 1 car and 4 trailers and it seems I’m always buying tires for something to the point where the staff knows who I am. I did have some issues with tires going out of balance which was cause by the rim not taking the clip/pound on weights, after some research and a few trips back to Discount it was decided tape weights was the way to go. To prevent this from happening again they put a note in my customer profile saying that vehicle required tape weights.
Every time I go in for tires I’ve done my research and show up with competitors prices to take advantage of their policy about beating the completions prices. Two years ago I bought 3 sets of GY Duratracs on the same day as always I was dealing with the store manager and was able to pull off an additional 12% off of the total bill.
Each store is different, by doing some research you can get a good deal, having no problem riding their ass/micromanaging them along with the amount of tires I buy from them I have no complaints with the Lovelan and Longmont stores.

[Irving]

No one should be using an air gun or impact wrench on lug nuts.

[tmleadr03]

No one should be using an air gun or impact wrench on lug nuts.

I use an electric impact to spin the lugs back on. Then torque wrench it the rest of the way.

[streetglideok]

No one should be using an air gun or impact wrench on lug nuts.

Impact guns are not the problem, its the users that are. I can break loose and tighten bolts tighter than any 1/2" impact will do, by hand. Most Japanese makes require less torque to secure the wheels than American brands. Isuzu used to be really problematic. The Rodeos and Troopers required less than 65ft-lbs to tighten the wheels. 80ft-lbs would stretch the studs, and 100 would lead to breakage the next time they came off. That's not much. I can torque most wheels in the air with just one hand holding the wheel. A four-way tire iron would easily surpass that. Poor workmanship is the issue, not the tool.

[Irving]

Impact guns are not the problem, its the users that are. I can break loose and tighten bolts tighter than any 1/2" impact will do, by hand. Most Japanese makes require less torque to secure the wheels than American brands. Isuzu used to be really problematic. The Rodeos and Troopers required less than 65ft-lbs to tighten the wheels. 80ft-lbs would stretch the studs, and 100 would lead to breakage the next time they came off. That's not much. I can torque most wheels in the air with just one hand holding the wheel. A four-way tire iron would easily surpass that. Poor workmanship is the issue, not the tool.

That's exactly the point. The only tool that should be used is one that will tighten to the correct torque. If the tech is in there playing Nascar with the impact gun, the vehicle owner is going to get into a fight with the poor person who tries to take the whhel off next when the studs break.

[streetglideok]

That's exactly the point. The only tool that should be used is one that will tighten to the correct torque. If the tech is in there playing Nascar with the impact gun, the vehicle owner is going to get into a fight with the poor person who tries to take the whhel off next when the studs break.

Then you may want to pick the fight with the car maker. They don't use hand tools to tighten things, though they will use torque wrenches or other torque measuring devices to verify. Impact guns only tighten as tight as you allow them. Whether you use steady twisting power, or short impact bursts, they tighten the same. There are plenty of ways to prevent over-torque using the impact gun. The guys that come in wanting their lug nuts taken off and put back on by hand are never the ones who do it themselves, and rarely willing to buck up and pay an increased labor charge for the increase in manual work. Trust me when I say in 20 years of assembly line work and auto repair work, I have never over-torqued a nut using a gun to install the fasteners.

[cofi]

Then you may want to pick the fight with the car maker. They don't use hand tools to tighten things, though they will use torque wrenches or other torque measuring devices to verify. Impact guns only tighten as tight as you allow them. Whether you use steady twisting power, or short impact bursts, they tighten the same. There are plenty of ways to prevent over-torque using the impact gun. The guys that come in wanting their lug nuts taken off and put back on by hand are never the ones who do it themselves, and rarely willing to buck up and pay an increased labor charge for the increase in manual work. Trust me when I say in 20 years of assembly line work and auto repair work, I have never over-torqued a nut using a gun to install the fasteners.

i always used these




never had a comeback main thing would be to thread the nut on by hand so you dont crossthread it