Originally Posted By: LeakySeals
I used to mount and balance tires as a kid at the local garage. Mounting the tire with the dots correctly aligned tweaks your back because you have to tug the tire on the rim. The veterans told me to..rather than tweak your back, just quickly wash the dots off, slap the tire on the rim any old way, and bang 10 tons of weights on it. People are clueless, think the weights and the spinning machine are the balance. Wrong! Its the back tweaking mounting makes all the difference.
I couldn't do that to people, would bug me knowing the tire was mounted wrong. So I quit.
I hated tires. I was a service writer but sometimes when we were busy, in order to keep the "59 minute installation guarantee" I would have to run out to the service bay and start mounting and balancing tires. Manager would always complain that I was "dilly-dallying" by lining up the dots. I successfully demonstrated that my tires always balanced with minimal amounts of weights. The full-time installers didn't care. They'd have that gigantic lead weight on it adjacent to another and would quit trying if they got it under a half ounce.
I don't know why he was complaining. I was missing out on sales and spiff while I was sweating in the service bay.
I didn't have to quit. Sears' mismanagement led to the end of that career-road.
The worst thing about tires is the vehicle owners. They want the $15.99 advertised private label tire but they want it to stick in the wet, run quiet, and last 100,000 miles.....for $15.99. Then they are all [angry] at me because I "ripped them off". The tire costs $15.99. It does an outstanding job for $15.99. I can sell you a better tire, but it will be more expensive.
"you think I'm stupid enough to give you more money for your junk tires? I'm going to PepBoys."
"Better them than me."
As far as the dots...
I haven't sold tires in the better part of two decades. But it worked on the cheapest private label tires manufactured by Cooper at the time
