cosmo vyss
05-12-2006, 11:02 PM
Got home from work today nice and early to watch the end of the cricket. All went well the aussies gave the poms a spanking.
The bride comes home at 7.30. We need some milk and crap so she walks up to the shops to get it. When she comes home she yells out to me to come up to the garage and have a llok at her car. So i get up there and i can hear a hissing sound comming from the front tyre. I have a checkers and the valve is blown up like a balloon and the air is leaking out.
No worries babe, i will put the spare on and get the valve fixed tommorow and happy days. Well some dumb arse who put the wheel nuts on did them so tight i couldn't get them off. So i tried putting a metal pole over the wheel brace for some leverage and no joy. i ended up getting nrma out to help. It took the guy 20 minutes to get the stinkin things loose.
I get the spare out a chuck it on, and you wouldn't read about it the spare had stuff all air in it. So i drive up to the shell servo on lane cove rd, fill her car up with fuel and go in and pay.
I walk out and move the car over to the air hose to fill the tyre up and the end has been removed. So i go back inside and ask the attendant for the connection and he states " its 10.02 and i close at 10pm so no you can't use the air. I suggest to him that i just put fuel in my car and that i will only be a minute and be on my way. He rufuses and mumbles something under his breath. So i gave him a spray and told basically what a wanker he is etc.
I drive down the road to another servo and go to put air in. The stinkin thing is busted and has no psi reading working. So i chuck in a bit and drive to another servo. finally some joy i pump the tyre up and check thew others and drive home.
What a major pain in the rear.
Lessons learned.
1. always ensure your spare is in good working order.
2. have a tyre pressure gauge in your glove box.
3. make sure the monkey that put your wheels on doesn't do them up so that only conan can get them off.
4. Only go to service stations that you know and have functional equipment and decent staff that have half an idea about customer service.
5. I will never use a shell service station again.
6. option for those with large balls - make her change the tyre and go pump up the spare.
End rant.
JB
The bride comes home at 7.30. We need some milk and crap so she walks up to the shops to get it. When she comes home she yells out to me to come up to the garage and have a llok at her car. So i get up there and i can hear a hissing sound comming from the front tyre. I have a checkers and the valve is blown up like a balloon and the air is leaking out.
No worries babe, i will put the spare on and get the valve fixed tommorow and happy days. Well some dumb arse who put the wheel nuts on did them so tight i couldn't get them off. So i tried putting a metal pole over the wheel brace for some leverage and no joy. i ended up getting nrma out to help. It took the guy 20 minutes to get the stinkin things loose.
I get the spare out a chuck it on, and you wouldn't read about it the spare had stuff all air in it. So i drive up to the shell servo on lane cove rd, fill her car up with fuel and go in and pay.
I walk out and move the car over to the air hose to fill the tyre up and the end has been removed. So i go back inside and ask the attendant for the connection and he states " its 10.02 and i close at 10pm so no you can't use the air. I suggest to him that i just put fuel in my car and that i will only be a minute and be on my way. He rufuses and mumbles something under his breath. So i gave him a spray and told basically what a wanker he is etc.
I drive down the road to another servo and go to put air in. The stinkin thing is busted and has no psi reading working. So i chuck in a bit and drive to another servo. finally some joy i pump the tyre up and check thew others and drive home.
What a major pain in the rear.
Lessons learned.
1. always ensure your spare is in good working order.
2. have a tyre pressure gauge in your glove box.
3. make sure the monkey that put your wheels on doesn't do them up so that only conan can get them off.
4. Only go to service stations that you know and have functional equipment and decent staff that have half an idea about customer service.
5. I will never use a shell service station again.
6. option for those with large balls - make her change the tyre and go pump up the spare.
End rant.
JB