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OT - For Those of You Getting Ready to Mount and Balance Tires in CA
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OT - For Those of You Getting Ready to Mount and Balance Tires in CA
Just an FYI - I stopped by the local 4X shop and had them rotate the tires because I wanted to get them balanced. I was surprised to learn today (I know, old news for some but new to me) that CA no longer allows lead tire weights to be used so we now have to purchase zinc weights and it cost me 40 bucks today just for the weights. Yet another reason I so need to move out of here
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Just an FYI - I stopped by the local 4X shop and had them rotate the tires because I wanted to get them balanced. I was surprised to learn today (I know, old news for some but new to me) that CA no longer allows lead tire weights to be used so we now have to purchase zinc weights and it cost me 40 bucks today just for the weights. Yet another reason I so need to move out of here
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Not likely, however all the CA idiots are now moving up here because they voted there state into a shoot hole, now they need a new place to F-up...
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I was aware of the change in lead ammunition here that is no longer allowed for hunting but I did not even think about how that issue might have affected wheel weights. The environmentalists claim the discarded weights are affecting soil and water sources and animals are ingesting the weights but I think that's just a cover story to get yet another worthless law passed out here in CA. Even the game and fish department argued that lead ammunition was not a problem but we did away with it anyway so this is no different. I would not be surprised if other states start doing this same thing. Wife owns a business here and I am almost done with my final degree so who knows what will happen next. I would like to say we are out of here but I don't think that can happen for at least another 3-5 years...or more
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But it's so much easier to blame the pricing on the government than it is to try and explain that you can't actually pay someone much of any wage to balance and rotate 4 tires, pay rent on the building, the light bill, insurance and all the other overhead and try not to go out of business while doing so.
The tire shop I use charges $5 to fix a flat. Including taking the tire off the wheel and putting a patch on the inside of the tire. I don't see how they make money at that rate.
Can't comment on the balancing price. I use centramatics so I'm ahead of the game if $40 is the going rate.
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