Last Thursday I received my new tires for my '83 RX-7 from Tire Rack. I just got a set of Kuhmo Solus 185/70-13's (there aren't many options for this car) for daily driving and a bit of snow traction if I need it next winter since I will be in Virginia. On Friday I called up a local tire shop, who seems to have a pretty good reputation, to get the tires mounted and balanced. They told me to bring it up and they could do it while I waited that afternoon, so I did.
About an hour later they told me the car was done and the keys were in it. I paid my $65 and was on my way. Left turn out of the shop and I get to about 30mph, feel a bad vibration, and think "Shit, they forgot to balance one of my wheels." I slow down to pull off the road and turn around, but as I slow down the vibration still exists, but now I realize it isn't a vibration...it is a wobble and my lugs aren't tightened down.
I come to a stop and get out of the car to check it out. One lugnut is almost all the way backed out and the other three are over half-way out. My wheel now looks like it is at 15 degrees negative camber and I am not very happy. I call the shop and tell them whats up, so they send a guy to tighten my wheels back down. Takes him a good 5-10 minutes to go a half mile down the road and what does he show up with....a jack, a breaker bar, a socket, and NO torque wrench. I couldn't believe my eyes.
I tell him to take the wheel off completely because I want to see if there is any damage to the wheel, rotor, etc. Luckily, everything is good to go. He puts the wheel back on and torques the ever living hell out of it. He says that he is sorry and that it was the owner's son (not a certified mechanic) who torqued my wheels. Finally he says, if there are any other issues to let him know and he will take care of it. I say thanks in a completely dissatisfied tone and just leave because I don't want them around anything I own again.
I was beginning to think I was being paranoid that I didn't let anyone else work on my cars but me. I used to carry a torque wrench in my car to retorque my wheels in the parking lot of a shop after similar work was done. Then the one time in my life that I didn't do this, it bites me in the ass. So the moral of the story is that sometimes paranoia is necessary to not get fucked over by the morons in this world.
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I used Murray's on S Saunders a couple times in the past year. Younger white guy named Chris hooked me up both times, seemed like he knew his shit and took surprising time and care in balancing and torquing. I actually regret forgetting to tip him.
I always try to hang around and shoot the shit with whomever's working on my car if I take it in for anything. Part curiosity, part paranoia.
Oh and I actually happen to have a torque wrench in my trunk right now, haha.
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