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09-15-2006, 12:29 PM
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| U.B's LoveChild   Join Date: Sep 2005
Bike: '06 HD Road King with sum stuff on it
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 1,292
|  Flunked out of Lug Nut school (long rant)
If you have never heard comic Ron White tell the story of his issue with Sears and them leaving lug nuts off his car you should seek it out and listen to it. Anyway, here is my run-in with Sears and lug nuts. My wife has a Lincoln LS which she babies and takes great care of. She had a slow leak in the left front so she dropped it off at Sears yesterday and I was to meet her and go to bike night. When I got there she was talking to the guy that checks you in at the desk. He had a lug nut in his hand and was explaining that we have some messed up lug nuts. “Somebody must have used the wrong size socket” he said. I explained that we have all tire rotations and other work done at the dealership and I doubt that they did it. These are the chrome covered lug nuts that are exposed. The one in his hand had all the chrome missing, you could see through it like it was a regular nut. I asked that he and I go to the car. Which we did, every nut on that wheel was chewed up and there was metal (chrome) shavings in the recessed socket where the nuts go. He finally agreed, without admitting that they did it, to replace all the nuts on that wheel. I thanked him for that and went on to bike night. We came back later to pick up the car. We went by the car on the way in the store. There was one new (different shaped) nut and 4 chewed up nuts on the car. When I questioned him about it he said “there are not two different sizes on it”. That when I lost it, I asked him to come outside and look at it. Then he said “I don’t have to, I put them on myself and I know what’s on it”. I finally made him understand that I was talking about the outside size of the nut. At one point he said “I’m trying to explain something to you and you keep yelling at me”. That’s when my wife stepped between us and I realized that I was yelling. I just turned my back and took a few steps away. He finally agreed to get 5 new nuts from a Lincoln dealer and call my wife when they come in. You can bet that I will not let them install the new ones. I’ll do it myself. |
