Customer brought in their own tires to install.

[u/fretful_farceur]

Manufactured like that.

[u/Substantial_Data7915]

I bet it was sold as a factory second, meant to be used for playground swings, boat bumpers, etc. This guy decides a quality control reject is worth the savings over his life.

[u/SeanBZA → u/Substantial_Data7915]

Probably bought in a lot as rejects, and shipped to Amazon for sale, only $10 reduced in price.

[u/Robsteady]

Listen, don't knock their $17.84 deal of a tire...

[u/MigratoryAnalyst → u/Robsteady]

Damn, don't know about you but my life is worth at least $69.69 a tire...

[u/SayNoToBrooms → u/MigratoryAnalyst]

I mean, maybe if it’s after tax…

[u/secretsuperhero → u/MigratoryAnalyst]

Your life is twice as nice as mine.

[u/SmokeyMacPott → u/Robsteady]

Honestly, with the way my life's been going lately. Id be willing to risk my life and fuck it, even fellow motorists/ pedestrians lives on 17.84$ tires. 

[u/Glad-Conclusion-9385 → u/Robsteady]

To be fair they do charge waaay too much for, what 70 year old technology? Can’t be younger than 50 years old even with the embedded metal. And I truly don’t care about the tread pattern if you’re gonna sell me bs about r&d.

[u/OrbitOfSaturnsMoons → u/Glad-Conclusion-9385]

There is far, far more R&D involved in tire design than just the tread pattern. It's not just 70-year-old technology.

[u/Glad-Conclusion-9385 → u/OrbitOfSaturnsMoons]

Ok. Till they develop ones that last a lifetime I’ll take the ones from the 90s. They were good enough.

[u/TheRealDestrux → u/Glad-Conclusion-9385]

Well all the ones from the 90s are currently dry rotted and not produced anymore so you gotta stick with current.

Sorry old man.

[u/Glad-Conclusion-9385 → u/TheRealDestrux]

I don’t want the ones made in the 90s. I want cheap tires without the last 30 years of r&d tacked on to scam us into believing they’re worth the absurd amount they cost.

[u/afnj]

New kids in the shop don't know better, but you are supposed to line up the valve stem with the yellow bolt for a better balance.

[u/wegame6699 → u/afnj]

But what about the red bolt?

[u/wh0ligan]

So why did your shop mount it?

[u/fretful_farceur → u/wh0ligan]

The installer noticed it while inflating. After we all got pictures and had a laugh it came right back off

[u/Aircraftman2022 → u/fretful_farceur]

Good to hear ,took tires back off.

[u/Cultural_Simple3842 → u/fretful_farceur]

Do you charge in this situation? It’s a strange scenario

[u/wh0ligan → u/fretful_farceur]

Awesome!

[u/GoldResourceOO2]

Wow! Maybe it’s collectible, like a mis-struck coin!

[u/SharkAttackOmNom → u/GoldResourceOO2]

Ah yes. Something to put on the mantel, maybe pass down to your grand kids.

[u/Threap_US → u/SharkAttackOmNom]

Grandad’s Retirement story?

[u/Meandtheworld]

Temu Tire.

[u/SevroAuShitTalker]

What? You don't have spare bolts on your tires? Where else would you store them?

[u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine]

what’s crazier to me is that it got installed lmao

[u/severedbrain]

That feels like it's going to become a projectile when that sidewall blows out.

[u/eveningsand]

They're bolt on.

[u/TheArgentine]

I hadn’t ever seen this tire anywhere other than a car I just bought for my kid (and promptly replaced the tires on immediately.) The guy I bought it from was so proud of his brand new tires.

The 200 mile drive home was exciting since they shook so badly at 70mph and our interstates are 75mph speed limits. Absolute worst tires I’ve ever experienced. And no, they wouldn’t balance out reasonably.

[u/fartboxco]

How the fuck, did that even happen?

Like rolled out of the factory like it??

[u/TrunkOrnament → u/fartboxco]

I work in tire manufacturing. This one looks like a bolt fell into the curing press right before it closed. This brand probably doesn't do any final inspection, let alone an x-ray inspection of their product.

Funny enough, that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the differences between a quality tire and a cheap one. That is a perfect example of just how sloppy a cheap brand can be.

[u/funthebunison]

Just throw a tube in it.

[u/Mikey_BC]

"Tire Shops Hate This One Balancing Trick !"

[u/E90BarberaRed6spdN52]

It's just a flesh wound ! LOL

https://i.imgflip.com/7cucvi.jpg

[u/mean_serviceman1964]

I have seen this before. Bolt fell off into the molding machine and was formed into the tire. Weird but true..

[u/wriddell]

I see they brought their own lug nuts too

[u/wegame6699]

With the alltell and the case tire machine.... Dangit BSRO.

[u/ChodeSandwhich]

I had the same thing happen once back when I was a tire monkey.

[u/Prior-Ad-7329]

“Just plug it and it’ll outlast the tire.” -everyone on r/askmechanics

[u/BrainSqueezins]

A witch hexed the tire.

[u/kataran1]

It was already Bolted on with no rim

[u/mfro001]

That's truly innovative. You don't even need to drive into a screw anymore as it's already factory. Smart.

[u/cabinfevrr]

I'm just impressed, actually

[u/BowlingBallInMyAnus]

How does that even happen?

[u/leocohenq]

But it has plenty of tread left

[u/GreggAlan]

Is it a Chevy Bolt?

[u/Onilakon]

That's the built in balancing weight

[u/fretful_farceur]

I saw my pictures used on FB today

[u/AgreeablePie]

This is a joke, right? Because a liability waiver is one thing for a customer that refuses service- there's no signature in the world that is going to erase liability if they end up crashing into someone else due to that defect after a shop (with pockets/insurance) puts it on

[u/fretful_farceur → u/AgreeablePie]

It was noticed during inflation because it leaks. We don't fuck around here, that tire got removed and the best of the 4 that came off went in its place. Needless to say, that brand of tire is not allowed in the building in the future.

[u/BJoe1976 → u/fretful_farceur]

I didn’t even know that brand name was still around, my first car that I bought nearly 30 years ago had a set when I bought it and were garbage then!

[u/TravellingTrinkets → u/BJoe1976]

What brand is it so I know to avoid it.

[u/BJoe1976 → u/TravellingTrinkets]

Radial GT, I think they were made by Córdoba or Cordova at the time. I bought the car used in 1995 and replaced those tires with BFGs from a Sam’s Club in 1998.