morning from hell
 

well today is day 2 of my little 5 day vacation, i woke up early and set up the trailer and the ss to get ready for a quick trip to help out another member.....

drove over to joshes and got to the shop a little after 10, hung out for a little while and loaded up matts car, hung out a little longer and then left to take matts car back to his house....punch his address into the garmin a little after 11 and it says ill be there around 12:15, cool.

off i go to edison, rt1 all the way back into jersey and then all the way up to edison, construction here, traffic there, pretty much an uneventful ride. pull up to matts a couple minutes after the garmin said i would and hop out to see............................................a flat on my trailer, i seriously didnt notice it AT ALL while driving, no wobbles, vibrations, noise, anything.

so i unload matts car, park it, and hook up my compressor (tbss oem compressor FTW) and put some air in........it holds, so i go on my way planning to stop at pep-boys as soon as i get back on rt1.

by the time im at pepboys its flat again, i run in, buy some fix-a-flat, and run out, while putting in the slimy crap i notice its coming back out the side of the valve, **** the valves shot, run back into pepboys and the kid says if i can get the wheel off he will change the valve. OK

to be continued

LOL, no good deed goes unpunished....

go back outside, jack up the trailer, open my toolbox...........**** my emergency tools are still in the pos civic.

run back in pepboys buy a $25 socket set, and a $15 dollar ratchet, run back outside take the wheel off, ***** the inner sidewall is shot.......

at this point i give up, throw the wheel into the back of my truck, take a ratchet strap to the axle to hold it up to the frame, and drive home on three wheels.

It's ok, Wayfast is paying!

2.5 hours after leaving matts house, i pull into the pepboys in princeton, return the cheapo tools and get my cash back, continue home.

now, 3 hours later, im home and my spare wheel is installed on the trailer. 4 new tires are ordered and 4 new valve stems will be installed

Sounds like ****** vacation, sorry.

eh its ok now, i would have gotten it fixxed but pepboys wanted 85 dollars for a tire, trailer stores and the internet have the tires for the thing for 35 bucks each

damn did u ever make it to help jim?

planning on helping jim one night this week, not sure when he wants to do it.......

im very close to needing 2 new straps, one was already ripped the last time i towed a 3rd gen, and the emergency fix took a big toll on another

sucks mike, have a drink or two. and relax some

let me know if you guys need an extra hand ill tag along.... also i think i have a bunch of straps out in my garage ill check it out tonight or tommarow and get back to you

ohhh yeah, i dont want everyone that reads this to forget im just the forum ******* that wouldnt do anything for anyone other than talk trash online

yea you are a real piece of douchebaggery!

thank you vitals, we gotta keep it real

wow that really does sound like a morning from hell mike! i just said the other day on the way to atco that i should buy a friggin spare tire and rim for my trailer before i run into problems as such. i think you just motivated me :lol:

classic

well, yeah. everyone knows that.

:flower:

i have a spare..............it was leaning against the trans am in my driveway

Nah, we won't forget!

You got plans for the rest of the week? Bunch of us will be heading over to hOOters Thursday night, case you want to be a ******* in person. :rofl:

JB

Mike, where did you order your tires? My trailer needs 4 new sneakers and I haven't shopped around yet. Oh yeah, sorry about your ****** day. That will teach you, no good deed goes unpunished.:nod:

didnt order them yet, im planning on getting the maxxis trailer tires, i found them online a while back and just have to find them again...

so matt's car is home! go matt! and go mike for the help!

I SORRY :flower:

So who was planning on heading to Hooters this Thursday? The cruise night is next week. I noticed some familiar cars on the Dave Adams website. Hooters Cruise Night Camaros. Sorry to hear about your bad day Mike. Hopefully it happened at the right time before something more serious could have caused really big problems. That's a good reminder to everyone with a trailer to keep an eye on things.

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M&R makes great tie downs for cars and they are a NJ based company!