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Posted by: lapuwali Aug 24 2004, 06:12 PM

I still have yet to find a decent tire shop in the Bay Area, and the wife's grocery getter just caught a nail in a nearly new tire, so I need a shop that will properly patch a tire. Prefer Peninsula, but I'll take South Bay or even Hayward and thereabouts.

Posted by: lapuwali Aug 24 2004, 10:25 PM

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 24 2004, 11:30 PM

I was going to recommend "us" but it sounds like you are VERY picky about who you want to do the job (which shy'd me away from raising my hand). We do all of our own mounting/balancing with late model equipment.


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Posted by: neo914-6 Aug 24 2004, 11:41 PM

James,
Take your pick of the cheapest, smallest used tire repair business... the ones who quote different prices every time you go there. The chain tire stores want to move tires but the small tire shops still know how to and will patch tires if that's all you need. Do you want the business owner working on your tire or the new kid in the chain store that was just hired that day who is figuring out how to use the air wrench?
Other than Roger Kraus in Castro Valley, I've ordered from Tirerack and used their local approved installers.
Felix

Posted by: tesserra Aug 24 2004, 11:43 PM

Americas Tire. They fix flats for free whether you bought the tires there or not.
They are part the Tire Rack co. too.
They do nothing but tires so they won't try to sell you alignments, brakes, etc.
I don't know if there are any in your area.

George

Posted by: neo914-6 Aug 25 2004, 12:37 AM

Forgot, I've used them too.
Felix

Posted by: lapuwali Aug 25 2004, 12:58 AM

Actually, Brad, I had no idea HPH did tires. It's not so much that I'm picky, it's that I had a fabulous place in Sacto (TredMill, for anyone near there), which always did patch jobs w/o a quibble, using a good patch technique (tire removed from rim, using one of the patches with the plug molded in, you could never tell the tire was patched). They also religiously used rim protectors and hand-torqued everything. Great shop, and I miss it.

Most tire places I've talked to won't touch patching, and I really don't want to call all over finding a place that will do it. I actually had a manager at a Firestone place in Sacto once look me in the eye and state that "patching the tire ruins the tire".

I'll bring my tire round in the next couple of days.

There are some America's Tire in our area, but HPH is actually a bit closer to me than the nearest one, and I'm happier to give HPH business for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 25 2004, 09:42 AM

Cool man.

I hate places that plug tires.. when you can hear the steel belts being seperated during the process it cant be good.


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Posted by: anthony Aug 25 2004, 08:55 PM

Brad, how much for a mount and balance. I've got two sets of tires that need to be done in the near future.