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danewguy
Jul 25, 2013Explorer
I myself recently had a blow out in my right front tire while doing 60 mph coming out of CT into NY. After I started to breath again and got myself to the side of the road I made the call to GS. I told them what occured and that I needed a tire. I have to say they got back to us fairly quickly but said it would be 2hrs plus before someone could get to us. When they sent me the contact info for company that was coming I saw that it was a suffolk county area code on Long Island and realized why it was going to take 2+ hrs. We called back GS and asked why they stated that because I needed a tire and they only deal with goodyear this company was the closest that would come out. Next was the real hit when they told me that it would be $640 for a 245 70r 19.5 tire and service. So GS will come out and change a tire if you have a spare for nothing but it cost 130 just to have them do the extra step of putting the tire on the rim. I told the guy coming from Suffolk to stay put till I got back to him. In the meantime I found a local tire guy that had a tire, I un hitched the toad and picked up the tire and had GS just send someone to do the change which they said they could definately get someone closer. The closer company was in Linden NJ..... it still cost 130 but the guy who came was great and we were on our way. If I had done it GS way it would have cost me a couple of hundred more then it did, it was worth it to just work it out myself. Don't get me wrong when I had my old Class C I used GS a few times and things worked out ok but this time it just didn't sit very well with me. Any body know of a good after market tire carier, I would really like a spare
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