Mine is not too old. Had purchased a set of new tires from a Firestone retail store for my CRV. They insisted on a 4-wheel alignment to maintain the tire warranty. They screwed up the alignment so bad that my Honda dealer alignment guy had to fix it, and it took him almost 2 hours to dial in the rear alignment. Then, the Firestone dealer voided my tire warranty because they claimed my CRV could not be properly aligned.LeftieBiker said:My experiences with these places is old, but unhappy. One Monroe franchise cut a brake line - it had a clear knife cut on it. I was poor, and it really hurt...
I had good past experiences (spanning 3 decades) at this Firestone location. In addition, my niece was a Bridgestone-Firestone corporate employee at the time and provided her discount plan. Otherwise, Honda dealer does my alignments and I don't let anyone but my Nissan dealer LEAF tech touch the LEAF, except for buying tires.babbles said:So best you should have gone to honda in the first place? what drew you to firestone??
LeftieBiker said:My experiences with these places is old, but unhappy. One Monroe franchise cut a brake line - it had a clear knife cut on it. I was poor, and it really hurt...
LeftieBiker said:The mid Seventies was, IIRC, the era when electronic ignitions were replacing the old breaker point system, and this led to much longer plug life. Between that and improved spark plug design, it was widely reported that cars would only need a tune-up every 100,000 miles or so. That turned out to be a wee bit optimistic, but even a 50k mile interval meant that tuneups were much less frequent than they had been just a couple of years earlier. Now what I'd like to know is why the owner of a chain car repair/maintenance place was telling you that you didn't need his services!
Now if only stainless steel exhaust systems had been phased in with those breakerless ignitions...
LeftieBiker said:It may be that foreign cars came with electronic ignition well before the American iron. Does anyone know if the Honda-clone X-cars had it?
Speaking of the 8-6-4 V-8, I invented that, circa '77. Sort of, anyway. My idea was a kit to do a permanent conversion on V-8s, using a kit with a secondary spring on the rocker arms. My test consisted of pulling a plug wire on my four cylinder Volvo. The B-18 was a great motor, but not so much with three cylinders.
My first new car was an 84 econobox and by then even that cheap little car had throttle-body fuel injection and electronic ignition. Most of my VW beetle tune-up skills were obsoleted. I think there were still a few carbureted cars made up through the mid 1990's.LeftieBiker said:The mid Seventies was, IIRC, the era when electronic ignitions were replacing the old breaker point system, and this led to much longer plug life. Between that and improved spark plug design, it was widely reported that cars would only need a tune-up every 100,000 miles or so. That turned out to be a wee bit optimistic, but even a 50k mile interval meant that tuneups were much less frequent than they had been just a couple of years earlier. Now what I'd like to know is why the owner of a chain car repair/maintenance place was telling you that you didn't need his services!
Now if only stainless steel exhaust systems had been phased in with those breakerless ignitions...
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