If you can't find anyone who can use them then you have found what dumpsters are for in the middle of the night.
How to lift my wrangler
Nov 28, 2005
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Steel belts are hard to cut through..
Make sure when you do that you at least pay the rightful user of the dumpster for an extra pickup. A lot of people seem to think that disposal companies don't charge for their services.
Yeah, a while back every so often people dumped their houshold trash in my
4-yarder at my store. Yard waste, trash bags, boxes, all kinds of stuff. They'd fill it up and we'd have to order an extra pickup to make room for our own trash. Once someone put a mature tree in it, it stuck 10 feet out the top.We lock our dumpster now, and it doesn't happen as often, but since it's locked people intent on dumping their trash now just leave it in the alley behind the building. Last month someone left an old window air conditioner next to the dumpster.
If I find tires in my alley, I'll know who to call.. :-)
There is no problem putting out TVs here, it must be a Kalifornia thing. Do they normally look inside dumpsters before they hook up and lift?
Another method around here for anything useful or recyclable is to put it out for the trashman the day before. Worthwhile stuff usually isn't around for the trashman not to take.
My two latest sets were properly disposed of.... well... as far as I know.... My neighbor got me the 'family price' on my Kumho ATs tires and had them installed, balanced, and front end aligned (toe) before I picked it up.
There is one problem with buying tires this way.... While I am not eligible for the 'free' lifetime rebalancing and rotation I do get the 'free' nitrogen every time I need to air up.
Nylon was one of the first materials used for belts. I hear people used to complain about the 'thump' for the first mile or so but it never bothered me. Perhaps it was because I was so happy not to be riding (wallowing) on bias ply tires or maybe because the roads on the way to the main drag were so bad.
More likely their competitors used something else and it was advertising hype.
Does everyone now use steel? It seems that for a while they were using all kinds of different fibers.
Spdloader proclaimed:
It may have something to do with the huge tire farms that have crept up around the country, causing havoc with water supplies, fire departments, etc. Apparently the old ones rotted away more gracefully.
That is the rumor I heard sorta ended the tire sandal era. The Michelin sandals were just too expensive to make compared to pulling a mold off a tread and having them made in taichinawan.
Billy Ray proclaimed:
Put new springs on it, and it will be lifted. Of course, the springs have to be shown as providing lift, the lift figures are typically 2.5, 4 and 6 inches. Most mortals only need 2.5 inches of lift, and _maybe_ a 1 inch body lift. If you need to ask, you're probably one of the "most mortals" that I speak of.
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