[T3] "Beauty Ring"

Adriel Rowley adriel_rowley at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 27 11:48:44 PDT 2013


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1971 Sunroof Squareback with F.I. - Located in Coastal San Diego County
1985 Mercedes-Benz 300TD-T - Dog Wgn
Student, A.S.U., living in north central Mesa, AZ


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> From: snj at pobox.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:37:21 -0700
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] "Beauty Ring"
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> On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Dave Hall <dave at hallvw.clara.co.uk> wrote:
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>> I don't have beauty rings, but I always remove the hub-caps, even the modern
>> plastic sort, and put them somewhere safe - the tyre guys just pop them off
>> onto the concrete without a care if you leave them to it.
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> Good move. I take it one more step and don't even bring my car in when I need to get work done by a tire shop. I drop off the set of wheels and that's it. My cars aren't especially nice, but all the same, there are very few people I trust to treat them in the way that I think any surviving and driving 50ish year old car deserves.

I do this with ANY auto, as most shops just torque the hardware until it is just about stripping! Just took once of having to spend half hour to remove one wheel! Tire shops is the only place I go for work, as 99 percent of mechanics only in business to get your money and do no work, unless you get lucky and they make it worse! Too easy these days to be a mechanic!


Thank you!
Adriel 		 	   		  


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