Blacksmoke

Got back from a trip to Dallas with the family.
Did not take the Mustang.

Got home...got in the Mustang to go to my girls house.
About two blocks down the road I hear a noise that sounds like something is in my wheel or tire. Car does not feel like it has a flat but I decide to pull over just in case.

Get out.. sure enough it's a flat.
I get the air compressor out of the trunk and air up the tire, while at the same time wondering if the wheel and tire were damaged from riding on it. I can see the nail and after it is aired up the sidewall has a marking that makes me think the wheel may have road on it.

Take it to the shop this morning.
Good news, the inside of the tire is not damaged from riding on it. The wheel is fine.

Bad news... there were FOUR nails in the tire.
More bad news... the nails are close to previous patches so the tire will have to be replaced, and the tread was almost gone.
More bad news... the other back tire has little tread on it.
Needs to be replaced.

More bad news. I have a bad wheel rod on the right front side. He showed me how the wheel would wiggle. (I thought all wheels wiggled a little)... but he said that if I did not feel it now I sure would soon.

So... he tally's up the bill.
Tires 226 a pop. Rod.. 85 bucks.. new alignment which has to be done after rod replacement 58.00.
+1 1/2 labor.

Grand total. 762.00
Mother F-er.

I was planning on saving up for some more mods or saving for a down payment on a new 5.0 at end of this model year. (If the payments came to what I could afford which was what the down payment is to help with)

I have not actually told them to do the work yet.

I am going to have my uncle look at it at his Ford dealership to make sure the rod really is bad.
Bad thing now is that I don't even have that much money to spare on hand.

My mind is just so flabergasted right now.
I think I am going to have a heart attack while shatting bricks and breathing fire all at the same time.

I cannot even begin to express how pissed I am.


I dunno WTF I am going to do.

joutcelt

sounds like a shatty day. Hopefully ur uncle can get u a better deal. i would think so if he works there. I have always made a practice of having 1000 dollars on hand just in case something happens Plus my deductible is 1000.

Id be just as pissed though if i were saving a for a new 5.0

akiba17

When it rains it pours.

Riptide

****ing cars. It's always something.

Norm Peterson

Couple of things come to mind here . . .

It seems like you live or drive in an area where nail-caused flats are common. Construction?

Finding out that the tread on both rear tires was almost gone was probably a blessing in disguise. Kind of crappy that it took a flat tire to find it out, but still better to have found out now rather than later.


Norm

wolfpup

and the moral of this story is...???

Tylus

well, why not run cheaper tires and save yourself $200? you can grab some Kumho/Summimoto tires for a tad over $100 each. Especially if you plan on ditching it later. They aren't bad tires either. Say a 255 width up front and put the 275's out back

why is the guy charging 1.5 hours of labor? you can replace the entire steering setup twice in that amount of time. and then he is charging you an alignment ontop of the rod replacement. needs to pick 1 or the other....not both IMO

Nuke

I don't see where a couple of new tires, alignment plus suspension work totaling under $1000 is cause for you to go freaky. Get over it and move on.

05 Mustang

very true!

Gene K

Option 1 - $300:
Two Sumitomo HTRZ II 285/40R18 for roughly $260 Drop Shipped to a local shop from Tirerack. Around $300 Total Mounted and Balanced. Shop to see if you can match that total locally.

Option 2 - $200:
Find Two Federal SS595 255/45R18 for $200 locally and try to talk them into installing for free and rotating fronts and rears.

Both of those tires are decent.

Let the dealer worry about the suspension when you trade it.