Walmart Wouldn't Fix a Flat

I had a similar experience at WalMart. Pulled in with a flat trailer tire and they said they couldn't repair it because they were prohibited from jacking up the trailer to remove the tire. I asked them if there was some other method that would work ?????? I mean, don't you have to get the weight off the tire to remove it, right ???

Well, they wouldn't do it and it took quite a bit of convincing to get them to let me borrow their floor jack to raise the trailer. With me doing the removing and installing of the tire, they did do the tire repair.

Sams Club would do the BFG tire recall ONLY if I brought the tires and wheels to them. They wouldn't remove them from the trailer either.

timmac wrote:
Same here in Vegas, wallmart/sams club, discount tire and many other tire chain stores no longer work on motorhome tires or even install new motorhome tires, one person told me the insurance was to high for employees to handle heavy truck/motorhome tires, to many issues with explosions, weight and such..

Its the insurance companies causing the problems, same with my janitorial business here in Vegas, to work at my many HOA contracts I now have to have a 1 million dollar liability on each work van as also a 1 million dollar business liability, all just to clean a toilet.. {this took effect 2 years ago}

But this wasn't a heavy motorhome tire. It was a standard LT tire on a 16" wheel, no heavier than the regular car tires they usually service.

Same here in Vegas, wallmart/sams club, discount tire and many other tire chain stores no longer work on motorhome tires or even install new motorhome tires, one person told me the insurance was to high for employees to handle heavy truck/motorhome tires, to many issues with explosions, weight and such..

Its the insurance companies causing the problems, same with my janitorial business here in Vegas, to work at my many HOA contracts I now have to have a 1 million dollar liability on each work van as also a 1 million dollar business liability, all just to clean a toilet.. {this took effect 2 years ago}

Not only is Tire Kingdom (they go by several names) here in Orlando willing to sell me LT tires for the trailer, their service is great.

I ordered the Commercial TA set and when they came in the manager called me with the "born on" dates to confirm that they were new. I took the 35' Titanium up and dropped it in the middle of the parking lot (sorta like an elephant at the Dog and Pony Show). They pulled the wheels; changed out tires; balanced and reinstalled; retorqued and called me to come get it when they were done.

Meanwhile the other customers had to drive around it to get into and out of the store.

No problems.

When a set of TAs was recalled, they had new ones for me within 48 hours after the notice went up on Michelin's website and had them mounted in an hour so I could get on the road as scheduled.

Walmart sucks, I hate that store and avoid it when ever possible.

ol Bombero-JC wrote:

RoyF wrote:

I wouldn't trust a Walmart to do a proper repair to begin with.

A real tire store should know what they are doing.

Walmart is concerned about liability, not "the law".

Many Coscos won't sell/mount *new* tires on trailers - but no problem if you bring the wheels in for same.

Real tire stores..........

WalMart is probably as good as a "REAL tire store!" - whatever that is.

The "real tire store/s" have employees that were serving you burgers last week at Mickey D's or burritos at Taco Bell..:S

Kind of limited career path - hard work that generates incentive to move on and/or up.
You probably don't want the guy that can't do that..:W

OK - so you go to a Mom and Pop local "real tire store" - and the friendly owner/mgr mounts tires on your trlr wheels that were almost 2 years old. - (He/they did!)
Sorry bub, do better or re-mount the old ones! - (He/they did!)

Buyer beware of.... "REAL tire stores!"..:R

Better watch the any/all (real or imaginary) tire store employee torque your lugs if you have aluminum wheels......

Employee: "My IMPACT is set at....."

~

I don't trust WalMart to do ANY of my auto work. Had them change oil ONCE. It leaked, so not again, and Yeah, I do use a REAL TIRE dealer. My tire guy lets me see the dates on the tire before he mounts, and balances them. He only gets the tires I want for me. I tell him what tire I want, and he orders them. (next day) Plus he pays his tire changers enough that he stays there. Thing is. Around here. Real Car guys like to work around cars.

My tire guy also makes me the price INCLUDING mounting, balancing, and rotating. Unlike WalMart that sells you the tires, and then wants to know if you want them mounted, and balanced, and BTW, That will be $35.00 more per.

Nope. I trust my REAl tire guy WAAAAY more than WalMart. He even tells me when I don't need tires.

Vulcaneer wrote:
Kinda like when I tried to buy tires for my fiver in NY. The Goodyear store cited a "LAW" that they could not install anything but ST tires on a trailer. When I said, I don't want Chinese tires on my trailer, He said no problem, he'll get Non Chinese ST tires for me. After a call to his warehouse, he came back and said he had no non-Chinese ST tires. I again asked for LT tires, and he refused. Said all he could mount was ST tires.

I went down the road and found a Bridgestone dealer. He also said he could only mount ST tires on a trailer. I told him..."Look! I am going to find someone to mount LT tires on this trailer. And I am going to pay him for it. You want my business or not?" He installed 5 Canadian made Transforce HT Light Truck tires.

So what do they do when the tire specs right from the US manufacturer state LT 235/85R16 LRE as the tire for that trailer?

I'll keep plugging tires, when the situation is right. Never had a problem with any plug. And I can fix it myself...on the spot...without taking the tire off.

Not on a truck or motorhome, though.

rockintom wrote:

With all we know now about tire repairs today why would anyone plug a tire??? rockin'

Yeah, I hate plugs. I've seen what they do to tires when I was a teenager repairing tires. I had a flat on my new Jeep Wrangler and wanted it patched, not plugged. Discount Tire, NTB, Sears, Walmart etc -- none of them would do a patch. All claimed that nobody does them any more. Finally found a family owned tire shop that told me they'd patch it, in fact they never do plugs on tires. When I picked it back up the guy who did the work on it told me that I was lucky I didn't have it plugged as it would have blown out. He also recommended that I use it as my spare, not a driver. But I put it back on the ground anyway and have now racked up over 25,000 miles on that patched tire. Quality work. :-)

Give y'all one guess who's going to sell me my next set of tires on my Jeep and RV.

Bought my ST's there At Sam's. Jacked it up removed old and installed new and when I got a flat they fixed it. No problems. Might just be truly a state thing. Now have Lt's and when I got a flat the guy tried plugging it and could not get the plug through. Had to patch it on the inside. Too much steel.