Tech Article: Run Flat Facts

[Zozzle]

Yeah, the cost of those machines and the Hunter Road Force machines is staggering! The goal is to find a "tech" who knows how to use the equipment and what the computerized Road Force setup is telling him.

I was mesmerized watching him make that machine do its thing. The comuterized wheel balancer was just as fascinating. The last time I balanced a tire (33 years ago) it was mostly art.

Glad GM stepped up and did the right thing with your wheel.

The service manager was soooooo apologetic that *I* had to find that one of my wheels had a CHUNK of magnesium missing. The jungle-bunny who wrecked the wheel didn't have the decency to tell the SM. That was the biggest pi$$-off. As I trust no-one with my car I'd snapped digi-pics of all four wheels just before I dropped the car off. My wife witnessed the pics too. The SM gave me zero hassle on this. But next time I won't leave my car alone with anyone.

I have a set of BBS LM's on mine and Eric is the only guy to date that touches them. A great find as a tech, he treats ALL his customers cars with respect and takes great pride in his word of mouth reputation. He also cons my wife into making him cookies a couple times a year

I was promised that only the Corvette mechanic touches Corvettes. But what they didn't tell me was that for tire and oil change work they use non-skilled (read: probably minimum wage) shop rats. I'll be more careful next time. Live and learn eh?

Yeah my wife used to bake chokky chip cookies for our ex landscaping guy (I do the L-S myself now {I watched him well} and now *I* get the cookies).

 

[mrm1149]

Fortunately I've got a great dealer here and have gotten to know all the guys in service.......they respect the car and know that there are 3 guys I trust to work on it. Those guys do a lot of extra stuff for me...A couple times a year I'll take them 3 or so pizzas at lunch time just to show my appreciation.......works both ways the way I see it...........