Dealership removed wheelweights with screwdriver..

[SpatiallyAware]

Scratching that part of someone's car does not indicate the dealership doesn't care about the original poster's car. It may demonstrate a lack of good judgment in deciding how to take the weights off. You're free to care as much as you want about your stuff. The fact that other people aren't over the top anal about something like that doesn't mean they don't care about their own stuff.

It's a favorite past time of my coworkers to joke about how clean my car is all the time. Ask any of them and they would say I am obsessive about my car. But even I don't ever waste my time cleaning the inside of my wheels nor do I care about rock marks or any other cosmetic damage that occurs on that part of the wheel. I have never heard anyone ever comment on how clean or scuffed up the inside of someone wheels are. Unless you're driving a Ferrari of the like, any rational person would not get all bent out of shape about some minor scratches on the inside of their wheel that can easily be touched up.

I totally disagree. Seeing the results of "obvious" shortcuts like this make me wonder where else they're taking questionable shortcuts that aren't so obvious.

 

[The-Noid]

I totally disagree. Seeing the results of "obvious" shortcuts like this make me wonder where else they're taking questionable shortcuts that aren't so obvious.

You pay more so you get better service, not worse. This is a half-assed job.

Can be done with a heatgun/hair dryer and a piece of dental floss but it takes a bit more time.

 

[SparkyJJO]

LOL wow, overreact much? Shit people, it's the INSIDE of the wheel. How is OP going to react to his first stone chip, by going on a rampage?

Stone chips are unavoidable wear and tear from driving.

This is caused by someone using the wrong tool for the job and totally avoidable.

Your comparison fails miserably.

 

[brblx]

lol, so this is why i don't get along with this forum.

while you're at it, tell them they scratched the inside of your door panel, or perhaps someone has left some marks on your floorboard beneath the carpet and insulation.

100% backing gayner on this one. go ahead and kill yourself so that you'll be saved the trouble or doing it when you get your first door ding.



Telling someone to go kill themselves won't fly here. You need to clean up your language as well as your insults.




esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[brblx]

Stone chips are unavoidable wear and tear from driving.

This is caused by someone using the wrong tool for the job and totally avoidable.

Your comparison fails miserably.

go ahead and tell someone you want them to make sure to use a plastic putty knife to avoid scratching the dust covered inner surface of your wheel. i hope they take a shit in your car.



Clean it up in here, and knock off the insults.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[SparkyJJO]

go ahead and tell someone you want them to make sure to use a plastic putty knife to avoid scratching the dust covered inner surface of your wheel. i hope they take a shit in your car.

Given that I have basic wheels on my truck that use the basic lip-mounted weights, that won't happen

I also trust the shop I go to for tires to not gouge up my stuff. They take their work seriously.

If I had a nice car, the insides of the wheels wouldn't be dust covered. I'd keep them clean. Heck even the OP's wheels aren't all grimy either.

Door dings drive me nuts, even when someone dinged my old car which wasn't a show car it didn't need more dings than it had already. Door dings are the result of other people's carelessness, no excuse for it.

Why does it bother you so much that some people care about their property more than you do?

 

[evident]

go ahead and tell someone you want them to make sure to use a plastic putty knife to avoid scratching the dust covered inner surface of your wheel. i hope they take a shit in your car.

would you be more pissed if i purposely took a shit on your car rather than you driving through a pile of shit?

 

[Raduque]

I totally disagree. Seeing the results of "obvious" shortcuts like this make me wonder where else they're taking questionable shortcuts that aren't so obvious.

Honestly, I think this should be more of the point than the scratches themselves. In that last picture, I couldn't really see them unless I started looking for them (IOW, I knew they were there, so I could see them).

Also, brblx's post was hilarious, and most likely not serious. You guys saying he should die for saying he'd put frozen seafood in somebody's car are completely insane. Go take your medication already.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

Ive never seen a shop use a screwdriver like that. Hell even the Sears and Discount Tire use a plastic putty knife/heat gun to get them off.

 

[The-Noid]

The inside of all my wheels are clean. Every month I jack the car up and get up in the wheel well and clean off the wheels.

Again, this is a hack job and OP is completely in the right. Some of the people on this forum are idiots. Audi replaced all 4 wheels on my S6 because the dust ate through the clear coat, Infiniti replaced a wheel for my M in the past as well for the same reason, that is how customer service is supposed to work. The dealership is not supposed to scratch the hell out of your wheels because they are lazy.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Let the dealership know, i'd be semi mad too.

 

[ayabe]

Let the dealership know, i'd be semi mad too.

+1

I cannot believe the amount of grief some of you are giving to the OP. Sure we all get scratches, rock chips, swirls, and other random crap on our cars, that is unavoidable.

This is damage caused by ignorance or negligence pure and simple, I'd be pissed too. This would have been easy to avoid with the proper technique and a little "I give a shit about my job" which is severely lacking in all industries these days.

 

[Mike Gayner]

The inside of all my wheels are clean. Every month I jack the car up and get up in the wheel well and clean off the wheels.

I feel sorry for you.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

I feel sorry for you.

Why? Because he has a nice car that he's happy to be proud of? Would you feel less sorry for him if he had a nice car that he didn't take care of?


Taking a step back and looking at this thread is depressing... It's a sad world when you're shunned (or worse coming from brblx) for being happy and proud of what you have.

 

[The-Noid]

I feel sorry for you.

It takes a couple or three hours on a Saturday that I thoroughly enjoy. My family has always taken cars to car shows and it has stuck since my first Subaru to today's garage.

When I sell cars there are always people willing to buy them from me for more than kbb within a day or two of deciding to get something new.

I learned at a young age if you take care of things they last a long time. If you let them turn to shit, they don't last long.

 

[Mike Gayner]

What a sad life you live.

 

[The-Noid]

What a sad life you live.

Totally, it is so sad...

 

[Pariah]

Why? Because he has a nice car that he's happy to be proud of? Would you feel less sorry for him if he had a nice car that he didn't take care of?


Taking a step back and looking at this thread is depressing... It's a sad world when you're shunned (or worse coming from brblx) for being happy and proud of what you have.

There is an undefined line that seperates caring from compulsive. The addict rarely realizes and even less often admits their addiction.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

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I learned at a young age if you take care of things they last a long time. If you let them turn to shit, they don't last long.

This is something that is obviously completely lost on our current (and previous, really) generation.

 

[The-Noid]

There is an undefined line that seperates caring from compulsive. The addict rarely realizes and even less often admits their addiction.

Yes, I am addicted. Cleaning my car well once a month, the 997 after a race day or cleaning my wife's once every three months. Can you check me into Hazelden or should I call them?

I guess when it comes down to it, I would rather spend six to ten hours a month puttzing with cars than puttzing putting together a computer or playing on the intrawebs.

I am an addict, no question.

 

[KentState]

It takes a couple or three hours on a Saturday that I thoroughly enjoy. My family has always taken cars to car shows and it has stuck since my first Subaru to today's garage.

When I sell cars there are always people willing to buy them from me for more than kbb within a day or two of deciding to get something new.

I learned at a young age if you take care of things they last a long time. If you let them turn to shit, they don't last long.

I feel if it takes me 2 hours to do the lawn which cost less to sod than my car cost, I can put in a hour each week washing it. Not anything crazier than the time some of the posters in this thread spend neffing each week.

 

[Raduque]

Yes, I am addicted. Cleaning my car well once a month, the 997 after a race day or cleaning my wife's once every three months. Can you check me into Hazelden or should I call them?

I guess when it comes down to it, I would rather spend six to ten hours a month puttzing with cars than puttzing putting together a computer or playing on the intrawebs.

I am an addict, no question.

Cleaning it thoroughly is fine. It's when you jack the thing up and lay under it on your back scrubbing the backside of your rims with a toothbrush that you cross that line to "Obsessive-compulsive".

I'm the first person to yell "Clean your wheels!" when I see a car drive by with nasty, dingy, grimy front tires, but even I draw the line at scrubbing the backside of the rims.

 

[hanoverphist]

LOL wow, overreact much? Shit people, it's the INSIDE of the wheel. How is OP going to react to his first stone chip, by going on a rampage?

depends on if he is driving the car or has it in for service when it happens. inside of the wheel or not, if i entrust my stuff to a shop for something, they better damn well be professional about it. shitting up the back side of the rim with scuff marks from using the wrong tool is hardly professional. and i drive an ugly old car that is more scratched than painted.if i had a nice looking car like that id be over there bitching about it too. and im NOT ocd.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

An update..

Talked to my service guy and they offered to refinish both wheels.


I replied back that I'm not ok with that, that I've seen numerous refinishes flake or fade and I don't want to incur that risk. I asked for new wheels, and that the dealer takes my 'refinished' wheels and sell or reuse on their dime.

 

[Mike Gayner]

An update..

Talked to my service guy and they offered to refinish both wheels.


I replied back that I'm not ok with that, that I've seen numerous refinishes flake or fade and I don't want to incur that risk. I asked for new wheels, and that the dealer takes my 'refinished' wheels and sell or reuse on their dime.

Wow you';re being completely unreasonable. If I were the shop I would withdraw my offer and tell you to stop being such a baby.

Wheels can be refinished to as high or higher quality than the original finish. Don't be such a dick.