Pics: Mirage with custom wheels & decals at a dealership

[M-88]

The owner is going to be in for a treat when they go to buy tires and no one will install tires on it ...

[MetroMPG]

^ Link doesn't work!

[MysticMirage]

The owner is going to be in for a treat when they go to buy tires and no one will install tires on it ...

Why wouldn't they....?

[Rahtid]

http://www.rchillmitsubishi.com/new/...abb78eae40.htm

[MetroMPG]

saved for posterity..

Wheels look nice.

They screwed up the pin stripe though... it doesn't follow the body lines! Or they follow the mid-body line at the rear, and the window lines in the middle, then wander aimlessly into the front fender ...

[M-88]

Why wouldn't they....?

In NY the tire shops wont go near your car unless you are having the OE size specified on the placard installed.

[MetroMPG]

I had that happen here, too (Ontario). So I just brought the wheels in. They were OK with that, even though they knew what car I'd be putting them on. Lawyers!

[MysticMirage]

In NY the tire shops wont go near your car unless you are having the OE size specified on the placard installed.

Interesting. Never heard of that. Remind me not to move to NY. lol

[M-88]

Interesting. Never heard of that. Remind me not to move to NY. lol

I had my car held hostage at a Walmart a few years ago trying to get some snow tires mounted.

Stock size on my Focus is 195/60-15. I bought 185/65-15 snow tires. Nearly the same size, same speed/load rating.

On Saturday, I bought junkyard 5-spoke wheels for the snow tires.

Sunday, I threw the unmounted snow tires in the back seat and the 4 stock tires/wheels in the trunk. I put the junkyard wheels and tires on the car to see how well they drove (make sure they weren't bent).

I got to walmart and instructed them to
(1) Mount the snow tires to the junkyard 5 spoke wheels
(2) Put the stock tires/wheels back on the car - it was september and I was lazy.

So, they get my car up in the air and start mounting the snow tires and then the technician freaks out and refuses to touch my car. He wouldn't even put my stock sized tires on like he was supposed to.

He was freaking out for a few hours. Couldn't get it through his head that he was NOT putting the wrong size tires on the car - just putting them in the trunk.

3 hours later, there were a few managers yelling at him and threatening to fire him. It finally stopped when I started dialing the police.

That was back in 2011. Turns out 2 of the tires had bad belts. Last year in the fall I bought two new snow tires and had them mounted. This time I just carried in the two wheels and tires ... and said they were for my 2013 Nissan Versa. No problems then.

[aydu]

In the US, Sam;s Club will only mount the factory authorized size tires.

Sam's is connected to Walmart, so there must be some company-wide policy.