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Re: tire mounting: car discrimination ?

To: Autocross <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: tire mounting: car discrimination ?
From: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:51:32 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Michael R. Clements wrote:
> On the positive side, they did a good job. They spent almost two hours
> mounting the tires and did a thorough job balancing, even popping the tire off
> and rotating it against the rim and remounting it to reduce the amount of
> weight needed for balancing.
> 
> But Big O used to do all of this with my RX-7 wheels, and they charged about
> 70 bucks total for the entire job, which was (I'm ashamed to admit) less than
> half what the robber tire barons of Redwood City gouge through their
> discriminatory monopolistic price collusion.

I'd say two hours of work should end up being $100 or so.  What'd you pay?
What kinda car / why the heck did it take two hours?

Mark

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