What Did You Do To Your HHR Today?
11-04-2011, 08:26 PM
#5841
Member
Join Date: 09-29-2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 48
Had the tires emptied and filled back up with Nitrogen. I stopped in on Tuesday and guy told me $4.99 a tire and 1-1/2 hour wait. Made an appointment for today and showed up 15 minutes early. They pulled it right in and took care of it. I walked next door to my bank. When I came back he told me my car was done and to have a great weekend. No Charge for the Nitrogen inflation!
11-05-2011, 09:25 AM
#5847
Senior Member
Join Date: 05-23-2009
Location: Fieldsboro, New Jersey
Posts: 829
11-05-2011, 05:42 PM
#5849
Deceased
Join Date: 06-30-2010
Location: Kannapolis NC
Posts: 25,739
An unexpected gift...
Today started out with errand running in the Paddy-Wagon while the lovely lady headed out antiquing in the Spousemobile, but it ended with a flat tire and an unexpected gift.
Michelle beat me home by a good margin, and I was greeted with "do you know the Carryall has a flat?", well no I didn't notice this morning. Sure enough, the old beast had a flat left front, goody! A quick call to my buddy at the tire shop confirmed that he had a 600-16 inner tube in stock(just in case). So it was off with the wheel after lunch, and then to the tire shop.
It seems that while checking the brake adjustment the other day, the tire had slipped on the rim enough during a hard stop to pinch the tube, possibly fixable but not worth the effort or time considering the cost of a tube. While I was waiting at the counter an older man asked me what the wheel was for, so I showed him a pic of the truck on my phone, he said "I got something at home you might want, gonna be here a while?....I said yes at least an hour, maybe longer.
Well twenty minutes later he came back with this, a Chevy pin I've never seen before, his Dad was a Chevy salesman in Raleigh before the war and he'd found the pin in his Dad's things. I tried to give him something for it, but he refused, just said it should go with my '37. So a big thanks to John Ahearn of Landis NC, you made my day!!
Michelle beat me home by a good margin, and I was greeted with "do you know the Carryall has a flat?", well no I didn't notice this morning. Sure enough, the old beast had a flat left front, goody! A quick call to my buddy at the tire shop confirmed that he had a 600-16 inner tube in stock(just in case). So it was off with the wheel after lunch, and then to the tire shop.
It seems that while checking the brake adjustment the other day, the tire had slipped on the rim enough during a hard stop to pinch the tube, possibly fixable but not worth the effort or time considering the cost of a tube. While I was waiting at the counter an older man asked me what the wheel was for, so I showed him a pic of the truck on my phone, he said "I got something at home you might want, gonna be here a while?....I said yes at least an hour, maybe longer.
Well twenty minutes later he came back with this, a Chevy pin I've never seen before, his Dad was a Chevy salesman in Raleigh before the war and he'd found the pin in his Dad's things. I tried to give him something for it, but he refused, just said it should go with my '37. So a big thanks to John Ahearn of Landis NC, you made my day!!