Tires, Brakes and a Headache

It's that time again! You know the time to go spend an arm and a leg on tires to make your vehicle RUN.......

My last set of tires were the absolute BEST. (Cooper) my ONLY complaint about them is that they only lasted 30K miles........

So (mom) has been worrying about the tread on my tires and decided to buy me a new set..... She's VERY good to me :)

We went to Firestone (First Mistake) and decided on the "Destination" tires....... They were a "decent" price, have a GREAT warrantee and it's tires for gawd sakes tires are tires right?

EHHHHHHH WRONG!!!!!!!!

They put them on my SUV and driving home that night I notice an IMMEDIATE difference........ My SUV is "shaking" at 60mph and it feels like the whole thing is ready to fall apart... I think to myself Eh I'll get used to em no biggie.....

The store also did an alignment yet the truck is still drifting to the left BIG time......

Then I notice I'm getting 3 miles a gallon LESS than I was before........ and I almost flip the truck twice trying to change lanes.......

Ok that's IT......


I call the store back and tell them what's going on and I'm told to bring them back in......

I do, they check them out and they say that I needed them "balanced"

UHHH WTF! Did you NOT balance them when you charged my mother almost $500.00 for these things?~?~?~?

As for the alignment they say that it's off .04% Uhhhh if it's off .04% then it must have been off by .01% when you told me I needed one because my truck NEVER pulled like this before!

Anyway, all is well that ends well..... They balanced the tires, & fixed the alignment..........MUCH smoother ride on the way home!!!!!!!! What an AMAZING difference!


Will the destination tires be better than the Cooper?

That remains to be seen but I am NOT going to hold my breath on this one! :)