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Pammy
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 04:46 pm: | 
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"but most dealerships see tires as a Gravy Train."
I doubt it... I know indy shops don't see it that way. I know I rarely make 10% on tires. And you are welcome to ask one of the guys here if they would be so kind to mount your tire for cheap to free...How much do you make at your job and would you be willing to take way less money to do it? Oh wait...make sure you buy the best tools to do it, cause you wouldn't want to be responsible for any damage to the customers property...oh wait...make sure you are bonded and insured in case something does happen...oh wait...you might want to hire someone to handle all the paperwork for this transaction...
Yeah, tires are gravy...sheesh.
Dave, I am with you my brother. We don't stock near the tires we used to. You know they have a shelf life as well. Some of the larger sites buy odd lots (what the distributors have to get rid of in order to uphold their contracted purchasing quantities)
Court, that sounds a bit excessive. All bikes are not the same. Try mounting a tire on a Gold Wing for $45. Yikes!
Just to let you all know. I don't have one thing against anyone who tries to save a little $$. But lay off the dealers. We are not criminals nor are we common street thugs trying to mug customers as they enter the store. That kind of mentality is just stupid. Some folks are just trying to make a living. Some are still resting on some archaic and mostly imagined laurels from the past. But most of us are honest and hard working, regular, work a day, individuals, just like yourselves. So lay off...it's unbecoming of the spirit here on the old Badweb. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 07:37 pm: |
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Topeka used to have someone dedicated to "ride in" type of work . . . tires and so forth.
Apparently they still do.
EDIT - I'm a MORON. Wasn't Topeka. TOLEDO. As in, Ohio.
Duh....
But the rest of this story is true - I just don't remember where the hell we were LOL.
Thought the rear 616 would make it to HC, so I could get it replaced in/near East Troy....no such luck. Hit Topeka and it was throwing chunks off the centerline. Called from a gas stop across town, told the guy "I'm from Maryland, I have no idea how far I am, but here's the street sign I can see...do you have a rear 616 in stock?".
Yep, got one here. Lemme transfer you to service.
Got Nick on the phone. "I'll hold a tech, just get here as quick as you can".
Got there about 15 minutes before close. Checked me in. Before I could turn around, bike had vanished into the service bays. 30 minutes later it was back out, new tire, plenty of antisieze on the rear axle (tech is an XB owner - LOVE IT), ready to go. Talk to Nick about the bill while he's ringing it up - "in stock tire, 20% off....did it in double-time, labor discount...". I hadn't even asked. $249 got me and Kim back on the road, record time, to Homecoming....and $11 got him and the tech a semi-cold 12 pack of Corona (they'd just refilled the cooler at the beer store).
They took care of me, a "tip" seemed in order 
Get THAT over the internet.
(Message edited by ratbuell on July 05, 2010) |
Daves
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 08:20 pm: |
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Exactly.
Wonder how many tires they will stock once all their customers buy theirs on the internet?
I have lots of stories of how shops I worked at helped people that were on the road. Lots of past closing time work.
Heck, some even stayed at my house. In the archives there is a story from Grimace308 of when he was stranded in WI and I went to get him and his bike, about a 4-5 hour round trip, after I got off work.
He was not a customer of mine at the time, he was after that! Do a search, read and see if you think that would EVER happen when all we have left is the internet?
I sold tons of stuff over the internet, BUT, I often told people to give their local dealer a shot first. If that dealer failed them, then by all means, I was there for them. |
Odie
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 10:29 pm: |
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My local HD/Buell dealer doesn't even have the equipment to mount a rear tire on my Scg. |
Babired
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 08:57 am: |
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okay got another one for you since starting to teach Total Control I am amazed by how many riders don't know about the DOT code on the tire. Last year I asked one of the service guys, the ones that write up your service ticket, what is the shelf life on the tire you keep in stock. I'm pretty sure he said 6 years. So I started to ask other dealers like the BMW dealer here in MD and he said less than a year. So Rat what was the average time you kept tires in stock at Frederick? And for those tires that stayed on the shelf how long did the HD dealer keep them until they got chucked? |
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