Walmart...

Tonight I had to go to Walmart. Pulling into the parking lot I hit a nasty pot hole that resulted in a ruined tire with sidewall damage. After talking with a manager, the compensation is they replace the tire. So in the morning I get to drop off the wheel at the tire&lube express.

Anything else I should keep in mind? A quick inspection and a 22 mile drive home(on the spare) showed no signs of further damage. The only part of my car the TLE will touch will be the 15" tire rack steel wheel.

Wow, that is pretty impressive that they are replacing the tire. To me, potholes in the North are kind of like hockey pucks in an ice rink: Watch out for them, you're the one that is responsible if you get hurt.

mtn wrote: Wow, that is pretty impressive that they are replacing the tire. To me, potholes in the North are kind of like hockey pucks in an ice rink: Watch out for them, you're the one that is responsible if you get hurt.

Agreed. Around here I have to keep my eye out driving my RX8. Some of them look big enough to rip a wheel off my wife's car, but so far we have been lucky. They patch pretty regularly around here, but then we get another really cold night and 10 more spring up. I don't know if they paved the roads with glass or if the environment here is just nightmarish for blacktop, but whatever they did isn't working.

Yeah, I probably would have shrugged it off as a E36 M3 situation, and replaced it myself...

I just wanted to get them to fix the pot hol, but I'll take what I can get.

get an alignment

Does your neck hurt?

Did someone take a picture of you while you were in the shop?

I sometimes wonder if Walmart sells mirrors...

That's pretty decent of them, I think.

Go to the garden department, and quietly lift a bag of gravel, bring it out to the lot and dump it in the pothole.

Walmart has a policy of not even pursuing shoplifters for <$20 worth of merchandise.

I hit a pothole so hard on I-95 the other day it knocked my transmission out of gear.

I've done something similar (no shoplifting involved though) on my street … when the pothole has gotten large enough to be a PITA, I've gone to Ace and bought a bag of Sackrete and (after a rain so the hole is full of water) dumped the contents into the hole … it soaks up the water … hardens and lasts for quite a while …. eventually the State will get around to doing real fixes .. but that's usually a yr or so

Dr. Hess wrote: That's pretty decent of them, I think.

Nope. It's walmart, everyone knows they don't do anything decent and the only people that shop there are inbred mouth-breathers yadda yadda yadda.

Potholes are like wild animals.... you hit them and go on until you can't, or you try to watch for them and avoid as many as you can. Pretty nice that they are replacing the tire though.

Dr. Hess wrote: That's pretty decent of them, I think.

+1

wbjones wrote: I've done something similar (no shoplifting involved though) on my street … when the pothole has gotten large enough to be a PITA, I've gone to Ace and bought a bag of Sackrete and (after a rain so the hole is full of water) dumped the contents into the hole … it soaks up the water … hardens and lasts for quite a while …. eventually the State will get around to doing real fixes .. but that's usually a yr or so

I love Sackrete. Imagine the marketing geniuses who came up with that name...

"Well, it's concrete. And it comes in a sack. What do we call it?"

"How about 'Sackrete'?"

"Perfect! Let's do lunch!"

And the moral is: don't go to Walmart.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Dr. Hess wrote: That's pretty decent of them, I think.

+1

And again. They really were not obligated, if you think about it.

Neon, just cause reading through this it sounds like we're hounding on you: I am not--I don't think you were trying to get anything out of it other than inform them that they have a big pothole that needs to be fixed. I'm just expressing my astonishment that Walmart is replacing your tire.

Lesley wrote: And the moral is: don't go to Walmart.

I don't go to our Walmart simply because it's located in the most inconvenient parking lot ever. It's a nightmare getting out of there. However, I've seen some freakish looking people at Target, too.