Here's a CO Fest tradition that REALLY needs to change......

Many of you will recall the near tragedy DJ dealt with for CO Fest '07 when his rear locker blew up at 70mph and spun him off the road just outside of Gunnison...... and ultimately left him without a rig to wheel for the entire event. Link: http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=926369

Well, this year DJ showed up for just the Friday dinner and raffle night intending to stay overnight and head back. So, he loaded up his Audi with a tent - arriving in town with a flat rear tire. He decided to deal with it Saturday morning, change the flat with the spare tire and head out right?..... Oh no, uh uh...... This is DJ we're talking about ya know.......

Yeah.... I had to tow his junk home and he drove my XJ home..... AGAIN!

He had a small piece of strap steel stuck in the center of the right rear tire. No biggie, swap out with the full size spare in the trunk right? WRONG. Full size spare looked fine until it was removed and the entire inside edge of the tread had been worn down past the steel belt and wouldn't hold air...... So, we go into Buena Vista Saturday morning, find a tire shop to have the flat fixed, guy tells us it'll take 30 minutes. No problem right? WRONG. We show up as scheduled a half hour later and he comes walking out holding the tire in one hand, the rim in the other - not a good thing. He shows us that DJ drove on it for a while apparently with low air pressure, rubbing off a substantial amount of rubber from the inside of the side walls exposing the nylon threads - tire is no good. He continued to be the bearer of bad news by saying "We don't stock this size tire and we don't have any used ones either - it'll be Tuesday to get one ordered in." CRAP! He tells us we could probably find one in Salida.......... but we'd have to hurry "Everybody closes down around noon in these parts on Saturday"........ It's 10:30 am.

We hit all 3 tire stores (one of which was a Big O) in Salida and not one of 'em had a used or new 235/45/17 tire.... most looked at us with a blank stare when we said the tire size......

So that left DJ with only one option....... Tow it home all because of a flat tire! :roflmao:



Here's the inside of the tire he'd hoped to have patched - I didn't get a pic of the lovely spare the dealership left in the trunk when DJ bought the car.

And DJ probably thought he was avoiding trouble by bringing the Audi :sure:

Guess he should'a cruised up in the 2wd XJ... one could say he is jinxed, but I will go for DJ being due for some better luck, at least in the jeeping world!:moon:

WOW so at what point to you just give up on anything mechanical? Wow maybe it’s just a tire wheel axle thing. If he can some how narrow that out of the equation he might have a fighting chance of not ending up on your trailer again. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s going to happen again isn’t it?

Well, there has been some good news on this issue....... He did find a good deal on a lightly used set of 4 Falkens to replace his mixed junk tires.

But guess who floated him the funds AND went to go pick 'em up?

YELLAHEEP said:

Well, there has been some good news on this issue....... He did find a good deal on a lightly used set of 4 Falkens to replace his mixed junk tires.

But guess who floated him the funds AND went to go pick 'em up?

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Now thats the way to take care of your "son".:thumbup:

YELLAHEEP said:

Well, there has been some good news on this issue....... He did find a good deal on a lightly used set of 4 Falkens to replace his mixed junk tires.

But guess who floated him the funds AND went to go pick 'em up?

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Oooooooooooo I missed the part he was running 4 missmatched tires. Who does that?

O ya that would be DJ where's he at is he hiding from all this? :anon:

but just think of all the money he's savin with that audi

YELLAHEEP said:

Well, there has been some good news on this issue....... He did find a good deal on a lightly used set of 4 Falkens to replace his mixed junk tires.

But guess who floated him the funds AND went to go pick 'em up?

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I know right, us nine to fivers miss all of the good deals..................

jdogg4 said:

Oooooooooooo I missed the part he was running 4 missmatched tires. Who does that?

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An out of state dealer does that, freakin' Californians..................

91 Jeep Project said:

An out of state dealer does that, freakin' Californians..................

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We need to work on that fine art of wheeling and dealing my man. I would have demanded 4 new matching tires before it left the lot. Do they not have laws on this stuff? Ok mybe they don't but I would have haggled with the guy over it even if they were a cheep set matching is always nice.

jdogg4 said:

We need to work on that fine art of wheeling and dealing my man. I would have demanded 4 new matching tires before it left the lot. Do they not have laws on this stuff? Ok mybe they don't but I would have haggled with the guy over it even if they were a cheep set matching is always nice.

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Out of state bud. I did not notice until it showed up on my doorstep.

91 Jeep Project said:

Out of state bud. I did not notice until it showed up on my doorstep.

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O ya that would do it. out of state SOB! send them some hate mail or gay porn. I used to get those subscription cards to playboy for a buck then mark the bill me later option and send in my friends info or people that pissed me off it's great. Some of them liked it and ended up paying the buck a month rate or what ever and others well I don't know what happend.

Isn't that thing AWD? Four mismatched tires?

I bet it drives like a dream now.

Front Trac FTW!!

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I am so glad I didn't go...DJ in the Audi, me in the Mini Cooper. Bad Karma would have got us both.