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Rog___Nan
Jun 01, 2017Explorer
Had new tires put on at CW in Elkhart (no longer there) probably 10 years ago. Balanced with beads they did what they were supposed to do BUT 1st trip out on a county road front right tire goes down. We had service truck come out- took 2 hours to get there. They put on our spare which luckily is mounted on a rim because by the time we got stopped on a 2 lane road where we could be seen the rim was demolished. We headed for CW headquarters in Kentucky- what a joke did not even want to talk to us. Long story short after Michelin said it was not their problem, Elkhart admitted kid who did the job did not replace the valve stems with new proper ones and a bead got caught causing the tire to go flat slowly. CW finally made everything right and covered our costs and had no more problems for the 7 years we had the tires. New tires are not balanced with beads. This was on a 32' class A which we still own. Luckily we kept the tire and Michelin had us drop it off at a dealer to send back to them for inspection. Can't say beads are bad just make sure everything is done correctly.
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