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Rant time: I hate having other people work on my rides
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<blockquote data-quote="Jroc" data-source="post: 13093360" data-attributes="member: 51847"><p>And I usually don't, but when you need an alignment done then yeah I don't really own an alignment machine so I have to. </p><p></p><p>3 weeks ago I put new ball joints, tie-rod ends, and idler/pitman arms on the L.(did it myself) So obviously I now need an alignment done. My old tires were worn and I had bought some new Nitto 555's. So anyway I see where Tire Kingdom is open on Sunday so I call and make an appointment to have them mount/balance my new tires and align my truck. Somehow those SOB's determine I own them almost $200 for that because of them installing cam bolts on it, but whatever. So I go to leave and I start hearing this soft popping/click coming from my wheels. I pull over and started examining it and I thought it must gravel/dirt off the road sticking to where the stickers were on the tires as everything else looked fine and it started to rain and the noise went away. This noise would come and go for the next 1.5 weeks, but it was more annoying then anything. Then Wednesday 1.5 weeks ago this annoying little noise turn into a WTF really loud noise and the floor board and side of the truck where the E-brake petal is was vibrating pretty bad. The noise would get faster with speed and it was like someone put a big zip-ty on one of my wheel spokes. So I pulled over on the side of the interstate and couldn't find a damn thing wrong with it, and I'm crawling under the truck and everything. So when I got to work I called the Tire Kingdom as this shit started when they got a-hold of it, and they said to bring it in and they fix whatever it was.(BTW my job and the TK I used is probably 50/60 miles apart) So I'm about 5 miles from TK and the noise just up and stops so the TK people wouldn't look at it then. They told me to come back and get the alignment checked about 3 weeks after I first had it aligned to allow the new components to wear themselves in and my alignments warranty would cover the adjustment. So this weekend was 3 weeks and I took it to them yesterday and when I left I noticed my E-brake warning light on my dash was on. I pulled the E-brake lever and it didn't pop up or anything. So I got home and started looking and couldn't find anything wrong, and today I noticed the E-brake was slightly down and I pulled the lever to release it and nothing. So I pulled the level and lifted up on my E-brake petal and it's like it's connected to nothing.</p><p></p><p>Here's my theory:</p><p>When I took it in to get it aligned and whatnot they did something to **** up my E-brake cable and that's what was making the bad noise, and so then it must of just broke is why the noise quit, and yesterday one of them probably tried using the E-brake, and it didn't work and that's why my E-brake light was on, but the mofo's didn't want to say anything when they knew I was having a weird noise problem after they worked on it, as I told them to look to make sure nothing was wrong and see if they could figure out why it was making that noise when they were re-aligning it yesterday and they said they would.</p><p></p><p>I mean these dumb MF'ers can't even do the simple task of aligning a F150 without ****ing stuff up. This is an easy task to do with the right equipment. When I was in automotive class I aligned plenty of vehicles on the alignment machine, and never messed anything up. Even for a butt F'in student in school it was easy to do so when you're someone who's career is to align vehicles there should be no reason for stupid **** up's like this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jroc, post: 13093360, member: 51847"] And I usually don't, but when you need an alignment done then yeah I don't really own an alignment machine so I have to. 3 weeks ago I put new ball joints, tie-rod ends, and idler/pitman arms on the L.(did it myself) So obviously I now need an alignment done. My old tires were worn and I had bought some new Nitto 555's. So anyway I see where Tire Kingdom is open on Sunday so I call and make an appointment to have them mount/balance my new tires and align my truck. Somehow those SOB's determine I own them almost $200 for that because of them installing cam bolts on it, but whatever. So I go to leave and I start hearing this soft popping/click coming from my wheels. I pull over and started examining it and I thought it must gravel/dirt off the road sticking to where the stickers were on the tires as everything else looked fine and it started to rain and the noise went away. This noise would come and go for the next 1.5 weeks, but it was more annoying then anything. Then Wednesday 1.5 weeks ago this annoying little noise turn into a WTF really loud noise and the floor board and side of the truck where the E-brake petal is was vibrating pretty bad. The noise would get faster with speed and it was like someone put a big zip-ty on one of my wheel spokes. So I pulled over on the side of the interstate and couldn't find a damn thing wrong with it, and I'm crawling under the truck and everything. So when I got to work I called the Tire Kingdom as this shit started when they got a-hold of it, and they said to bring it in and they fix whatever it was.(BTW my job and the TK I used is probably 50/60 miles apart) So I'm about 5 miles from TK and the noise just up and stops so the TK people wouldn't look at it then. They told me to come back and get the alignment checked about 3 weeks after I first had it aligned to allow the new components to wear themselves in and my alignments warranty would cover the adjustment. So this weekend was 3 weeks and I took it to them yesterday and when I left I noticed my E-brake warning light on my dash was on. I pulled the E-brake lever and it didn't pop up or anything. So I got home and started looking and couldn't find anything wrong, and today I noticed the E-brake was slightly down and I pulled the lever to release it and nothing. So I pulled the level and lifted up on my E-brake petal and it's like it's connected to nothing. Here's my theory: When I took it in to get it aligned and whatnot they did something to **** up my E-brake cable and that's what was making the bad noise, and so then it must of just broke is why the noise quit, and yesterday one of them probably tried using the E-brake, and it didn't work and that's why my E-brake light was on, but the mofo's didn't want to say anything when they knew I was having a weird noise problem after they worked on it, as I told them to look to make sure nothing was wrong and see if they could figure out why it was making that noise when they were re-aligning it yesterday and they said they would. I mean these dumb MF'ers can't even do the simple task of aligning a F150 without ****ing stuff up. This is an easy task to do with the right equipment. When I was in automotive class I aligned plenty of vehicles on the alignment machine, and never messed anything up. Even for a butt F'in student in school it was easy to do so when you're someone who's career is to align vehicles there should be no reason for stupid **** up's like this. [/QUOTE]
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