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The Missus gets scammed.......

luckydog

luckydog

Charter Member 2014
The little lady left early this morning to get her hair done, get in some early Christmas shopping and get a wheel alignment on her Subaru Outback.

She gets home mid-afternoon and I went out to help her unload..........hair looked great, shortened to shoulder-length and layered ( she's two years younger than I and yet to get a grey hair)........lots of clothes and really cool "educational" toys and books for the grankiddos...........

......and four new tires (there was at least 10,000 miles of tread left on the old ones ).

"Nice tires", I say, bending down and checking the brand.....Michelin Primacy MV's.....

"Oh, yes", she says, handing me the tire receipt "and they filled them up with nitrogen for only $45.00 " !!

$700 bucks for the Michelins and, sure enough, $45 bucks for filling them with nitrogen. :isadizzy:
I KNEW I should've gone with her, but hair salons and christmas shopping aren't my thing.

I can accept her getting suckered on the tires.....but the nitrogen thing is something else.

just letting off steam..

LD
 
If you run those Michelin Primacy MV's for longer than an hour at over 155mph, they overheat.
Filling them with nitrogen prevents that.
It's a safety thing...
 
Wing_Z said:
If you run those Michelin Primacy MV's for longer than an hour at over 155mph, they overheat.
Filling them with nitrogen prevents that.
It's a safety thing...
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Were are you going 155mph at?
 
Isn't plain old air like 80% Nitrogen anyway? And that isn't meant as an insult to the intelligence of the missus, but rather the audacity of the tire shop.
 
djscoo said:
Isn't plain old air like 80% Nitrogen anyway? And that isn't meant as an insult to the intelligence of the missus, but rather the audacity of the tire shop.
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"Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air

Naismith said:
P'raps they mistook her car for an SR-71, it is an easy mistake to make.
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Nitrogen filled tires are supposed to be more temperature stable, have better tire life and fuel economy, and require less frequent re-inflation. Is there any hard evidence of such? Incredibly little. Nitrogen is very popular in car racing, but in that application it does make a difference as the tires get really hot.
 
Luckydog, that must be a really nice Outback you have because I'd never spend $700 on tires, not to mention $45 to fill 'em with nitrogen. I think your Missus got taken advantage of by the tire dealer, she goes in for a routine alignment and they feed her a line of BS about her tires being in bad shape and etc. etc.
 
Nice!

I should put some nitrogen in my bike tires....! lol...

Goodness... I would have to put a tow strap on my car and link onto a bullet train to get my tires that hot so that I could use the Nitrogen effect, lololol...

LD, live and learn. Now she knows. No worries... I guess you cant return it, lol...

"Hi. My wife purchased your fantastic, safety nitrogen earlier last week, and its not working the way we thought. We monitor the tire pressures and temps pretty often and we saw no difference. We would like to know if we can get our air back and return the nitro.. "


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I've read the same as Stans... Nitrogen is better than air inflation. But $45 is a bit too much I'd say. Sounds like they used it too to inflate the credit card too.

LD, just go over and lift yer leg on the showroom floor's tires and get even. :bump:
 
TARPSBird said:
Luckydog, that must be a really nice Outback you have because I'd never spend $700 on tires, not to mention $45 to fill 'em with nitrogen. I think your Missus got taken advantage of by the tire dealer, she goes in for a routine alignment and they feed her a line of BS about her tires being in bad shape and etc. etc.
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I don't think that's terribly unreasonable for high quality tires. I spent $313 yesterday on two, and next week I 'm going to get the other two replaced on my work truck. But they ain't no Michelins.... I buy 10 ply tires due to the roads I drive on.

I had a conversation with a lady that drives a Honda CRV and she claimed her tires came from the factory with nitrogen in 'em. I asked another guy I know that has one and his didn't. Must be a girl thing. My wife won't talk to salesmen or phone calls asking for donations. She hasn't said no in twenty years. That's good and bad....:jump:
 
Tires that good and expensive LD. I would be careful about.....err...raising a leg beside them. ;)
 
One atmosphere is appx. 14.7 psi, so inflating to even 45 psi with nitrogen still leaves close to 25% air unless the space inside the tire is purged first. Give them this fact and then ask them to justify the cost. If they say they purged the tires, ask them to explain the process.
 
Tom Clayton said:
One atmosphere is appx. 14.7 psi, so inflating to even 45 psi with nitrogen still leaves close to 25% air unless the space inside the tire is purged first. Give them this fact and then ask them to justify the cost. If they say they purged the tires, ask them to explain the process.
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+ 1 for the good post and....

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