Laramie1997
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- Joined
- Jul 1, 2010
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- Location
- Springfield, Missouri
- Ram Year
- 1997 Ram/2013 Charger R/T Super Trak Pak
- Engine
- 5.2 (318ci)/5.7 (345)
After price shopping for the last month, I finally found a shop that had a decent price on a set of Hankook RF10 DynaPro ATM tires...
Called them last Wednesday and asked if they had that tire in a 275/60 R20 in stock. They checked and YEP! they did. Great, said hold four and I'll be down Saturday to pick them up. No worries, right? The shop in question is a two hour drive from me. Damn near in AR, but I was saving $400 by making the drive so it was worth it to me.
So yesterday.. I drive down (After a 30 minute detour. Thanks GOOGLE). When I got there, they said it would be a few minutes and that they were going to grab the tires out of inventory. Great! The shop manager comes back a few minutes later and tells me he has bad news for me... Uh oh. Said that some how their inventory was off and they only had two of those tires in my size at their location. Fark. He then went on to say that he had the same tire in a 305/50 R20 that usually lists at $265, but considering the muck up that he'd sell them to me at what he quoted me on the phone. ($219) SOLD.
Now, I've always been told there is a bolt of lightening behind every cloud, and yesterday I found this to be true. When I left the shop, I noticed a slight vibration or shudder coming from the truck. Honestly, I thought nothing of it because of where this shop was located, the roads were horrible state highway that's really bumpy and curvy. Add in the fact that I've never had tires this wide or that short on the side wall and you have what I'm thinking to be some what normal. It wasn't until I got out on good highway before I started to freak out. Got it up to 60 and the shake was so bad that I thought I was going to lose a filling. Grr. By this time, I'm an hour from the shop and they are closed so I decide that considering their equipment and tech that they simply didn't get the wheels balanced out correctly. I get home and called my normal tire shop and made an appointment for this morning. When they threw the tires on the balancer they started laughing. Not a single wheel was balanced out and they were all over 2oz off. GREAT. Balance them and my problems go away, right? Heh. They feel great about 30mph to 50mph, but anything over that and they start shaking again. So, I'm taking them back to Firestone in the morning and having them run it for runout and see if one of them has a highspot which will mean I'll have to go BACK to BFE and have it swapped AND rebalanced in Springfield.
Other than that, I love these damn things! lol. They make the truck look different to me.
Called them last Wednesday and asked if they had that tire in a 275/60 R20 in stock. They checked and YEP! they did. Great, said hold four and I'll be down Saturday to pick them up. No worries, right? The shop in question is a two hour drive from me. Damn near in AR, but I was saving $400 by making the drive so it was worth it to me.
So yesterday.. I drive down (After a 30 minute detour. Thanks GOOGLE). When I got there, they said it would be a few minutes and that they were going to grab the tires out of inventory. Great! The shop manager comes back a few minutes later and tells me he has bad news for me... Uh oh. Said that some how their inventory was off and they only had two of those tires in my size at their location. Fark. He then went on to say that he had the same tire in a 305/50 R20 that usually lists at $265, but considering the muck up that he'd sell them to me at what he quoted me on the phone. ($219) SOLD.
Now, I've always been told there is a bolt of lightening behind every cloud, and yesterday I found this to be true. When I left the shop, I noticed a slight vibration or shudder coming from the truck. Honestly, I thought nothing of it because of where this shop was located, the roads were horrible state highway that's really bumpy and curvy. Add in the fact that I've never had tires this wide or that short on the side wall and you have what I'm thinking to be some what normal. It wasn't until I got out on good highway before I started to freak out. Got it up to 60 and the shake was so bad that I thought I was going to lose a filling. Grr. By this time, I'm an hour from the shop and they are closed so I decide that considering their equipment and tech that they simply didn't get the wheels balanced out correctly. I get home and called my normal tire shop and made an appointment for this morning. When they threw the tires on the balancer they started laughing. Not a single wheel was balanced out and they were all over 2oz off. GREAT. Balance them and my problems go away, right? Heh. They feel great about 30mph to 50mph, but anything over that and they start shaking again. So, I'm taking them back to Firestone in the morning and having them run it for runout and see if one of them has a highspot which will mean I'll have to go BACK to BFE and have it swapped AND rebalanced in Springfield.
Other than that, I love these damn things! lol. They make the truck look different to me.