new tyres
i have snow tyres of the kind you normally (or at least used to) have in Nordic countries: tyres with nails in them, that better adhere to the snow/ice. they're noisy but i feel a lot safer having them on than normal snow tyres. that accident in New Zealand really did have an impact on me...
anyway, those tyres are really old now, and the two front ones actually barely had any nails left in them and one of those was in fact so worn that i had to stop at a petrol station about once a week to put more air in it. not really something you want to do on a regular basis. so i'd gone to a garage and asked if they could repair the tyre, and that's when i found out they were too worn and needed to be replaced. and this was when i had the most ridiculous conversation with the mechanic.
i'd told him what kind of tyres i had, cos let's face it, we must be 2 in the whole area to have such tyres (they were illegal for a while, cos they don't do the roads any good). he went to have a look and came back and said there were nails in the tyres. 'yes', i said, 'that's what i was telling you.' but he thought that might be the reason for the problem. this guy was a bit younger than me, but come on. how can you be a mechanic and not know about this? then he told me they were illegal, to which i replied that they weren't anymore, not since 2 years ago, when the government decided to allow them, although they aren't produced anymore. then the guy told me how much it'd cost to replace the tyres. i said i would then only want 2, as you're not required to change all 4 and i wanted to keep the 2 at the back to feel safer. then the guy proceeded to try to convince me that normal snow tyres were just as good, which i'm sorry but is not the case. he really did my head in.
anyway, i didn't have time to deal with all of this before the holidays, so i went back yesterday to get my 2 new front tyres. another guy took care of me and the car was ready in no time. not a single comment was passed on my weird tyres, although i'm sure they had hours of fun talking about it among themselves.
anyway, those tyres are really old now, and the two front ones actually barely had any nails left in them and one of those was in fact so worn that i had to stop at a petrol station about once a week to put more air in it. not really something you want to do on a regular basis. so i'd gone to a garage and asked if they could repair the tyre, and that's when i found out they were too worn and needed to be replaced. and this was when i had the most ridiculous conversation with the mechanic.
i'd told him what kind of tyres i had, cos let's face it, we must be 2 in the whole area to have such tyres (they were illegal for a while, cos they don't do the roads any good). he went to have a look and came back and said there were nails in the tyres. 'yes', i said, 'that's what i was telling you.' but he thought that might be the reason for the problem. this guy was a bit younger than me, but come on. how can you be a mechanic and not know about this? then he told me they were illegal, to which i replied that they weren't anymore, not since 2 years ago, when the government decided to allow them, although they aren't produced anymore. then the guy told me how much it'd cost to replace the tyres. i said i would then only want 2, as you're not required to change all 4 and i wanted to keep the 2 at the back to feel safer. then the guy proceeded to try to convince me that normal snow tyres were just as good, which i'm sorry but is not the case. he really did my head in.
anyway, i didn't have time to deal with all of this before the holidays, so i went back yesterday to get my 2 new front tyres. another guy took care of me and the car was ready in no time. not a single comment was passed on my weird tyres, although i'm sure they had hours of fun talking about it among themselves.
posted by The Archaeologist @ 1:54 PM
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