Very Strange Costco Tire Center experience (flat tire)

johnyang97 · 2007-03-14T03:41:29+00:00

Hi guys,Check this out--After consulting with everyone on the newsgroup, I went ahead andbought a set of 4 BF Goodrich "Grand Touring" tires for my wife's 2000Honda Civic 200 miles ago at Costco; the old tires had only 44k milesbut were starting to dry rot.Yesterday checked the tire pressures--found that Costco only inflatedto 25 PSI (Honda's spec is 30 PSI). Planned to inflate to 35 PSI perRay O's recs but didn't do it yesterday.Today as I pulled out of the driveway the car felt like it wasdragging. Took a look and the left front tire was completely flat.Hooked up my air compressor, pumped it up to 30 PSI, drove it toCostco Tire Center.The tire center employee (I think he may have been the manager) wasunimpressed. I told him that the tire went flat while the car wassitting in the driveway. He said "it's normal for tires to go flat,especially if the car's been sitting [as in sitting for a few days toa week before being driven]". I said "these tires only have 150 mileson them, it's NOT normal for tires to just go completely flat." Heinsisted it WAS normal. I also told him that I checked the tirepressure yesterday, it was 25 PSI, today the tire's flat, that's NOTnormal. He persisted that this was a normal, common scenario. AnyhowI kept saying I did not feel comfortable driving around like this, sohe reluctantly said they would check it out.Later when I picked up the car, the tech who gave it to me said thatthe "bead" had a poor seal due to rust, so that they sanded/grounddown where the rim contacts the tire so it should be ok now. I askedhim "what about the other 3 tires" and he said "if they have a problemthey should have gone flat by now."Has any tire center ever told you that it's normal for new tires tojust go flat?!!!!Ok, so now a question for the group--The car rode/tracked smoothly with the old tires (slightly unevenlyworn). With the new tires, the car does track straight and thesteering wheel's centered, but the car shimmies at all speeds-- whenit's...

Mar 14, 2007 21 Replies

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Jeff 19 years ago

Oopsie. Hey, it's metal. Alluminum or lead same thing. ;-)

I know. What was I thinking?

Jeff

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Scott in Florida 19 years ago

Those aluminum weights are GIGANTIC.....

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