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Old 04-29-2019, 02:11 AM   #5
mr48chev
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Re: Interesting AD I saw at the Dream Machines show in Half Moon bay Ca.

A few years ago we spent the 4th of July in Park City Kansas and I had to run into Wichita to have a tire fixed. I was finding my way though what is no doubt the old part of town and a kid with a jacked up Impala/Caprice with genuine Donk wheels rolled out of the lot of a tire store with the paper stickers still on the tires as I passed and wheeled up the street past me and turned the corner. I turned the corner and headed up the street and he was pulled to the side of the street with a bent wheel and destroyed tire. He hadn't made it a mile when he hit a pot hole and busted the rim and tire. Probably blew close to a thousand bucks right there as fancy as the rims were.
Another time I was down at the tire store when a high school kid and his mom pull up and he digs what looked like a 22 or 24 out of the back of her rig and takes it into the store, bent rim and ruined tire with the tits still showing on the tire. No warranty add no road hazard on them they found out. Mama was not a happy camper having to shell out for another high dollar wheel and tire.
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