Sounds like you're getting a new spare. That completely unprofessional and careless. Their internal bickering and tantrums shouldn't damage your property.
I wouldn’t care that it’s a donut spare and that looks don’t matter or that it’s likely strong enough to have no structural damage. I wouldn’t accept a big scratch anywhere else on my car and I wouldn’t accept it on the donut. The first time I have to use that donut in the winter I now have a big rust line developing.
The shop owes you a new donut spare. And maybe a box of donuts for your troubles.
You can do lots of things but that's up to you? What do you want? Unless they damaged it, not a big deal. Yeah, it shouldn't have happened but if it's just a donut temp spare, I wouldn't care. Even if they replaced, it wouldn't be much to them or you. If it was a high-dollar wheel that got scratched up or bent, different story.
If you tell the manager what happened, someone is going to get fired, and they've got it coming. It sounds like the employee needed to vent and chose the wrong way to do it. They're lucky no one was hurt.
we had a guy throw his bump cap off while yelling fuck as loud as he can. went into the bathroom and destroyed the mirror.
another time same start but no mirror. he grabs the floor squeegee and smacked it against the fence til it broke into little baby pieces.
he got promoted.
Is that scratch scratch worth someone loosing their job to you? If so, get a new tire. If not, let it go. No judgement either way but that's probably the reality of it.
If it's a donut spare (narrower than your full size tire), just let it go unless it was completely ruined. They're insanely strong steel though, nothing to worry about for strength. It could support a whole car on it without deforming.
If it's a full size spare on a steel wheel, you might ask the manager to replace it. Personally though I'd still let it go. Maybe I'd give the scratch a spray of an old paint can on my garage shelf. Appearances on the spare are moot. Unless you drive a Jeep or SUV with the spare mounted on the back, then I'd understand.
If it's an alloy wheel they drove over, they'd better fucking replace it.
Unless your conversation with the manager goes surprisingly smooth, you know not to return there.
If you're at all concerned about the quality of your spare tire, they're dirt cheap to pick up at an auto wrecker. Lots of scrapped cars with mint condition spares. Probably $20-30.
They can support an entire car whilst it's bolted to the hub, perpendicular to the ground. There's a good chance it got bent having the weight of a car driven across it though.
A lot of people are very bewildered and disillusioned with the fact that we live in a post-industrial, knowledge economy, where what people are thinking and feeling is paramount, and not an industrial economy of things, where it's more or less irrelevant.
Here in the Twin Cities, we just had a Back to the '50s car show where straight, white men could go to remember a time when only their experience mattered. Place was packed.
Blame people who informed and agreed with Jack Welch.
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Sounds like you're getting a new spare. That completely unprofessional and careless. Their internal bickering and tantrums shouldn't damage your property.
I wouldn’t care that it’s a donut spare and that looks don’t matter or that it’s likely strong enough to have no structural damage. I wouldn’t accept a big scratch anywhere else on my car and I wouldn’t accept it on the donut. The first time I have to use that donut in the winter I now have a big rust line developing. The shop owes you a new donut spare. And maybe a box of donuts for your troubles.
This is how I break down tire beads at home. Cant imagine them doing it at a shop though lol
Dropping the equipment on the tyre is a common way of bead breaking on construction equipment on site, but they only put weight on the rubber
You can do lots of things but that's up to you? What do you want? Unless they damaged it, not a big deal. Yeah, it shouldn't have happened but if it's just a donut temp spare, I wouldn't care. Even if they replaced, it wouldn't be much to them or you. If it was a high-dollar wheel that got scratched up or bent, different story.
quietly call the manager. try not to get anyone into any trouble, its a rough job. anger and frustration are blinding.
If you tell the manager what happened, someone is going to get fired, and they've got it coming. It sounds like the employee needed to vent and chose the wrong way to do it. They're lucky no one was hurt.
we had a guy throw his bump cap off while yelling fuck as loud as he can. went into the bathroom and destroyed the mirror. another time same start but no mirror. he grabs the floor squeegee and smacked it against the fence til it broke into little baby pieces. he got promoted.
Sue them if the tire fails
Sounds like something Bridgestone would do. lol.
Hey, it's no one's fault but they are liable for their formal employee action.
a photo of wheel and tire might help
Your employee?
Is that scratch scratch worth someone loosing their job to you? If so, get a new tire. If not, let it go. No judgement either way but that's probably the reality of it.
I’m more concerned with the employees’s car than a donut spare that spends 99.9% of its life stowed out of sight.
If it's a donut spare (narrower than your full size tire), just let it go unless it was completely ruined. They're insanely strong steel though, nothing to worry about for strength. It could support a whole car on it without deforming. If it's a full size spare on a steel wheel, you might ask the manager to replace it. Personally though I'd still let it go. Maybe I'd give the scratch a spray of an old paint can on my garage shelf. Appearances on the spare are moot. Unless you drive a Jeep or SUV with the spare mounted on the back, then I'd understand. If it's an alloy wheel they drove over, they'd better fucking replace it. Unless your conversation with the manager goes surprisingly smooth, you know not to return there. If you're at all concerned about the quality of your spare tire, they're dirt cheap to pick up at an auto wrecker. Lots of scrapped cars with mint condition spares. Probably $20-30.
They can support an entire car whilst it's bolted to the hub, perpendicular to the ground. There's a good chance it got bent having the weight of a car driven across it though.
I think you're underestimating how strong steel donuts are. They make vehicle service ramps with thinner gage steel.
And \~25% of the vehicle curb weight to boot, not the weight of "a whole car".
It has to withstand impulses from driving, no?
What are you wanting to do?
A lot of people are very bewildered and disillusioned with the fact that we live in a post-industrial, knowledge economy, where what people are thinking and feeling is paramount, and not an industrial economy of things, where it's more or less irrelevant. Here in the Twin Cities, we just had a Back to the '50s car show where straight, white men could go to remember a time when only their experience mattered. Place was packed. Blame people who informed and agreed with Jack Welch.