Another Story About People needing to Grow Up ...

[Demonic240]

Just Bought 4 New Yokohama ES100 Tires all around, and Thursday night, some clown slashed every single one of them ... PPL can really suck !!

[Atl_240sx]

That's 'f'ed up man...people have nuthin better to do than to get off on somebody elses misery

[Nameless EJ6]

Do you have enemies or something? If you know who it is, get yourself some pepper spray and a baseball bat and go nuts on them.

That sucks man.

[Demonic240]

no enimies, just some kiddies, that went around the neighborhood ... atleast 6-7 other neighbors vehicles got slashed too ...

[AZhitman]

Noooooooo! Aw, crap, man. I'm sorry to hear that.

Message to ALL NICO members: If you know someone, or even HEAR of someone, who feels that vandalism is an appropriate way to deal with ANYTHING, then step up and take a stand.

People who attack a defenseless vehicle are pu$$ies and punks who deserve the beating their fathers never gave them. I, for one, am happy to play the "surrogate father" in this case.

[Atl_240sx]

Hey Demonic240 do u really get paid for reading emails?

[-HyJynX-]

Just Bought 4 New Yokohama ES100 Tires all around, and Thursday night, some clown slashed every single one of them ... PPL can really suck !!

omg that totally sucks...y do people have to go and do stupid Sh*t like this!? If someone does that to me and i find out who it is...i will fuk them up so badly

[goldollar]

Beat the **** out of them, then slash there tires.

[D1GP]

sorry to hear but i think you should get yourself a shed or garagei know i'd never leave my baby outside

[-HyJynX-]

im ganna have to leave my car outside...cus our garage is full. But im goin total sleeper look and pretty cheap tires, hope it never happens to me:(

[Demonic240]

To have a Shed or Garage ... you'd either have to buy a house that has a garage, usually start @ 70-70K, or get an apartment that has garages, about $1,000 per month. Not the easy fix mind you. A shed would be a hastle to get City/County Building permit, then the HOA's approval. All I have got to say, is thank god I purchased the tire replacement contract ...

To answer Alt_240sx question, yes you do .. but the amount depends on how you work with it.

[Atl_240sx]

So Demonic are you saying that the amount of money you accumulate depends on how you work with the money you earn..or how well you work with the email reading task?

[SmithSR]

Are you <absolutely positive> the replacement contract covers vandalism? Some companies do not cover this, as people(morons) all too often slash a tire in the hopes of getting a new tire at a prorated discount(cheap, broke, criminals). Deadbeats.

Or did you get new tires already?

[AZhitman]

Side note - Atl & Demonic, please discuss the $$$-making venture seperately (email?). Thanks guys.

I too am curious to hear the answer about the replacement warranty... Phil, what's the policy in your company? Anyone know what Discount Tire's policy is?

[driftaholic]

Beat the **** out of them, then slash there tires.

why slash their tires when you can slash their throats?

[revhard05]

heres what u need to do... is set up a parameter with string sticks and bells....and put like a brand new cheap sub (jensen)on your car and wait for those punks to come strolling up and bust out with your paint ball gun and shoot the **** out of them them mace them and take all there money.....lol thats the way shoe those punks "i ant never skerd"

[SmithSR]

Les Schwab Tire Center does offer FREE road hazard warranty, good for the tread life of the tire. No time or mileage limit on warranty, use it as many times as necessary, it never runs out until your tires wear out. However, vandalism is not covered.

Many vandalized tires are replaced under the road hazard warranty, no questions asked. A deviation from the written policy, but we're not here to d*** you out of your money, we want you as a loyal customer, and we're not about to ruin our reputation/p1ss you off over ONE passenger car tire.

It's fairly easy to spot a vandalized tire, even though most people won't tell you how it happened, as they know it isn't covered under warranty. This isn't too great a concern for us, because the company as a whole gets X amount of "credit" in advance(on a monthly scale) to cover the cost of replacing ruined tires free of charge to the customer. Tire companies know that eventually, some tires go bad/people have a bad day... and to make customers happy, we eat the cost of some tires here and there.

Bottom line: Discount charges you for what we give you for free, and on top of that, Discount's "warranty" must be renewed after you use it, costing you MORE money. Then, after X amount of time, the Discount warranty EXPIRES!!! Forcing another renewal, costing you even more money.

Les Schwab offers free road hazard, rotation, rebalance, warranty with the purchase of your tires, good for the tread life of the tires, no renewal or hidden fees, no stupid "disposal" fee, etc. If you opt for the Road Force balance....hitman, get this...you pay the first time, then every visit thereafter is free of charge. You can come in every week if you want. We don't care, because we understand that you don't sell a guy one set of tires. You sell him five sets, over several years.

Edit time: OK, that was a bit off topic. Here's the deal. The warranty states that vandalism is not covered, but manufacture defects/installation snafu is covered. We usually work to please everybody that comes in the door, so in most instances, we tend to overlook the fine print and just take care of the customer. Discount I don't know if they cover vandals, but the smart money says hell no.

[AZhitman]

Hmmmm. Good info.

BTW, I don't pay for my roadforce balancing. But I like your roadhazard warranty deal better. Like I said, I wish you guys were in the SW market.

[SmithSR]

Soon.

2 years. They build at a rate of 15(or more) stores per year. Slowly expanding outwards from the west coast. Resistance is futile. Surrender your Discount tire stores or you will be assimilated.:drone:

[AZhitman]

Cool - Competition is good.

I need a new career... Wonder if they need someone with my kind of skills to help start up their Valley stores?

[driftaholic]

i was pretty bummed when i moved to the bay area from the seattle area and no les schwab the nearest one is like 2 hours from me or something

[SmithSR]

You move out of town, and you miss a TIRE STORE!?!

You kick arse... and are obviously a good consumer.

:bearchug

[driftaholic]

i bought my tires from les schwab, so if anything happened to them i'd be screwed and have to buy new tires from somewhere else instead of getting free replacements!