Safe lifting points for a tire shop with a lift
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 6:25 pm
To make a long story short I had Walmart install my tires on Transit rims and I brought them home in a trailer for installation because I needed to inspect and adjust my drum brakes. I also did not want them to confuse spherical and tapered lug nuts.
It took them almost four hours to do seven tires. They said they had a breakdown and remounts half of them several times to get them to balance. All but two of them are wearing a ridiculous amount of weights as many as 5-7 counting exterior and inside rim.
A friend suggested that an inexperienced Tech might not have realized they were lug centric and might have tried to balance them as if they were hub centric.
I've done the rear two axles in the evenings after work this week I'm saving the fronts for the weekend so I can get a good look at the double adjuster setup.
I may have to return to Walmart and have them redo everything. Is it safe for them to lift the vehicle?
It took them almost four hours to do seven tires. They said they had a breakdown and remounts half of them several times to get them to balance. All but two of them are wearing a ridiculous amount of weights as many as 5-7 counting exterior and inside rim.
A friend suggested that an inexperienced Tech might not have realized they were lug centric and might have tried to balance them as if they were hub centric.
I've done the rear two axles in the evenings after work this week I'm saving the fronts for the weekend so I can get a good look at the double adjuster setup.
I may have to return to Walmart and have them redo everything. Is it safe for them to lift the vehicle?