Still Alive / Prolonged Agony
It isn't over, oh no.
I spent a long time at the place the guy from Ybor Tire sent me to, called "Rent a wheel". They rent and sell all things tires and rims. They mounted the tires I bought from him, but it turns out I did bust the rim that I drove to him on. I'm not sure if I did it before I noticed it was flat, or if it happened on the way to him when I was knowingly driving it on the rim. But they don't actually FIX rims... so they threw the spare on for me, and it was off to someplace else.
What I thought would be another fairly sizable business turned out to be a tent on the side of a side road next to a church, populated by two black dudes... one elderly and toothless, the other looked like what I imagine Paul Bunyan or Popeye would look like if they had a darker skin tone. Quiet man with huge arms told me that he could fix the rim no problem, and it would run about $75. I left the rim and my number, and I'm waiting to hear back.
So far today, I'm looking at having spent about $375. On fucking tires. $200 for the set, another $100 to have them mounted and balanced, and $75 to fix the fucked up rim. Oh, and I have to go back to the rent-a-wheel place to have the tire mounted on the repaired rim. So two more stops before this is over.
And I still have the engine belts to check, the breaks need work, and the check engine light is on.
I spent a long time at the place the guy from Ybor Tire sent me to, called "Rent a wheel". They rent and sell all things tires and rims. They mounted the tires I bought from him, but it turns out I did bust the rim that I drove to him on. I'm not sure if I did it before I noticed it was flat, or if it happened on the way to him when I was knowingly driving it on the rim. But they don't actually FIX rims... so they threw the spare on for me, and it was off to someplace else.
What I thought would be another fairly sizable business turned out to be a tent on the side of a side road next to a church, populated by two black dudes... one elderly and toothless, the other looked like what I imagine Paul Bunyan or Popeye would look like if they had a darker skin tone. Quiet man with huge arms told me that he could fix the rim no problem, and it would run about $75. I left the rim and my number, and I'm waiting to hear back.
So far today, I'm looking at having spent about $375. On fucking tires. $200 for the set, another $100 to have them mounted and balanced, and $75 to fix the fucked up rim. Oh, and I have to go back to the rent-a-wheel place to have the tire mounted on the repaired rim. So two more stops before this is over.
And I still have the engine belts to check, the breaks need work, and the check engine light is on.