Well bad day today #1 tire

JOCCO · Mar 30, 2019

Had tire shop mount new tire/tube for baler I am working on. MRS Jocco brought it home last night. Guess what this AM ITS FLAT!! So back it goes Monday. What do tire shops do around you when this happens??

Janicholson · Mar 30, 2019

They fix it free and apologize. Jim

rrlund · Mar 30, 2019

Free repair. I had a new set mounted for the front of the 1600 last fall. One went flat on a few days. They found a little nick on the rim that poked the tube. Said they should have seen that.

I've got one right now that I don't know what to do with. It's on the front of the 2-105. Not a new tire,but it went flat in cold weather over the winter,so not wanting to mess with it myself,I took it to town. I could hear it leaking through the face where the middle rib had a flap that was loose. I told them they'd better put a boot in it. When I went and got it,I asked the guy who worked on it if he did,he said no. I hauled about five loads of manure and it went flat again. I took it back and Tim said they booted it that time,no charge.

I was hauling manure day before yeaterday,backed up,shut off the tractor and could hear it leaking again. I put another tire and wheel on it. I'll probably tear in to it myself this time and see what I find.

JOCCO · Mar 30, 2019

Not to worry a new tire rim and tube will fix it!! And a tax deduction to boot!! I don't get to upset as its not to uncommon for a sitting tire to go down in a cold winter. I don't have much temperament though for messed up tires, bad batteries, bad starters. It really brings out DR. Jeckel syndrome.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 30, 2019

I'll drop off tires and if I don't need them wait a couple days to pick them up to make sure they stayed up usually they do.I had tires put on my stock trailer last year and in about a week both tires on the right side started loosing air I had used the trailer to haul off some cattle.Took it back down to my tire guy when he go them off the rim it was obvious something had punctured them.He fixed them and I offered to pay since it wasn't his fault but he said he'd catch me the next time.

rrlund · Mar 30, 2019

Well that just ticked me off a little. I just went out and broke it down to see what happened. There's no boot in it. Just an ordinary tire patch on the inside of the tire. Pretty good sized hole in the tire. They should have known that wasn't gonna last long. I guess I'll be buying a boot and fixing that myself this time.

caterpillar guy · Mar 30, 2019

RRlund's experience is why I have always done my own tire work and for that matter most all of my own other fixing too. Either don't do it right or it doesn't stand up over time.
I have gotten to the point of if I can get tires working tubeless I do. tubes are so chancy these days for holding for any length of time before a seem lets loose or just flat fails to hold air.

johnofnewhaven · Mar 30, 2019

I had my rear tires broke down on my Ford 5000 and new tubes put in. They are fluid-filled. In 11 months both valve stems rotted out. They said they have been having problems with the Firestone valve stems and calcium chloride. They also said they thought they mix the calcium chloride too strong. They came back out broke down both rears put new tubes in and adjusted the calcium chloride mix. They did not charge me anything to redo it!

Red1 · Mar 30, 2019

I could kick myself for not having a decent air driven tire changing machine..Over the years it would have paid for itself easily..

SVcummins · Mar 30, 2019

Traditional If it?s a big tire and I don?t need it I always let the tire shop keep the tire for about a week , it?s awfully hard for them to say you did anything to the tire when it went flat sitting in their shop . I have good tire men that usually don?t have a problem but sometimes they let their helper do the big tires and that?s when you sometimes have a problem

WellWorn · Mar 31, 2019

Haven't had the best of luck with ag tires sent to shops of recent. Had a calcium loaded tire put on a new rim because of a tube stem failure and rim rot, and several months later, turns out to have had a tiny nick in the tube from install that had been leaking for a while. Had to break it all down, scrub the rim, re-paint, and took it to another place to have a new tube put in and loaded with beet juice. They filled the tire with ballast alright. Full. I drained over 2 gallons of juice out and it's still too full. I can't get to air even with the stem parked at 12 o'clock with the opposite wheel 18" lower in a ditch. When the weather gets better, I'll drain out whatever it takes to get it below stem level, return the extra to the shop and ask for credit because I was over billed for ballast. I'm sure all I'll get is a laugh.

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