Here's two weird occurances in one day....

Number One-I bought 4 new tires for the 5th wheel in June of 2004.  Two of them went bad on a recent return trip.  I finally had a chance to go back to Sears over the weekend to get replacements.

The warranty doesn't show a time limit, only 50,000 miles with a pro-rated  adjustment based on remaining tread depth. 

The sales guy measured the tread wear and I had only used 2/32".  Since 2004 we've only used the 5th wheel two or three times each year and the longest trip was a little ove 1000 miles long. 

He entered all of the numbers into the computer and the adjust per tire came out at $180.00.  On my receipt from 2004 I only paid $104 per tire.  So in 7 years I made $74 per tire.  That's a better return than the stock market or real estate.

I wonder if you bought $1000 worth of tires each year and stored them in the garage for 5 years and then turned them in for adjustment would you make more money than investing that $1000 in mutual funds or even gold ????

Anyway, I put my $360 adjustment towards a set of new Michelin XPS Rib tires.

Number Two-  Sears no longer allows their mechanics to use Floor Jacks.  The doorway for the stalls are too low for the 5th wheel.  They were willing to sell me the tires but could not install them.

I finally worked out a deal with the manager where I would use my bottle jack to jack up each tire, their mechanic would remove the wheel and tire, then install the newly mounted and balance tire back on the axle.  We would repeat this process 3 more times.

Insurance regulations are getting out of hand.....