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I brought my Dad's car down from WV a month or so ago and dropped it off at a local dealer for some minor repairs to the front suspension after a minor accident he had from a medical condition.
Fortunately there were no other vehicles involved and he wasn't injured. His car ran up on a curb and damaged one front wheel and tire on the driver's side, and both rear wheels and tires.
So I go over today to pick up his car. Reviewed the paperwork and paid the deductible and the balance for a few other items that he wanted done that weren't covered by insurance.
Get home with the car after noticing that it was "walking around" on the road on the way home. I get out and immediately notice that the front and rear tire on the driver's side aren't the same brand tire he had on before.
So I walk around to the passenger side and discover that those tires are the same tires that were on the car before taking it in to the dealer.
The dealer charged the insurance company for two new Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S tires and installed two Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season tires.
We told the dealer that the tires on the car were just installed a few hundred miles before the accident, therefore, only replace the damaged tires.
So what do they do? They put two new, totally different All Season tires on one side of the car, and leave two high performance stickier summer tires, the Michelin tires, on the other side.
What an asinine thing to do to a very nice performance sedan. Actually, it's asinine to do it to any vehicle that operates on the roads.
I thought I'd seen it all during my three decades in the automotive industry. I guess not.
Fortunately there were no other vehicles involved and he wasn't injured. His car ran up on a curb and damaged one front wheel and tire on the driver's side, and both rear wheels and tires.
So I go over today to pick up his car. Reviewed the paperwork and paid the deductible and the balance for a few other items that he wanted done that weren't covered by insurance.
Get home with the car after noticing that it was "walking around" on the road on the way home. I get out and immediately notice that the front and rear tire on the driver's side aren't the same brand tire he had on before.
So I walk around to the passenger side and discover that those tires are the same tires that were on the car before taking it in to the dealer.
The dealer charged the insurance company for two new Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S tires and installed two Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season tires.
We told the dealer that the tires on the car were just installed a few hundred miles before the accident, therefore, only replace the damaged tires.
So what do they do? They put two new, totally different All Season tires on one side of the car, and leave two high performance stickier summer tires, the Michelin tires, on the other side.
What an asinine thing to do to a very nice performance sedan. Actually, it's asinine to do it to any vehicle that operates on the roads.
I thought I'd seen it all during my three decades in the automotive industry. I guess not.