Wildlifer
Old Mossy Horns
Ford truck I would not worry about it. Now a GMC I would be pissed....
Now come on we all know they wouldn't have to pry anything off a GMC it would just be laying on the ground for them to pick up
Ford truck I would not worry about it. Now a GMC I would be pissed....
If there's not any damage to the center cap then it wasn't caused by someone trying to steal the center cap. It looks to me like the damage was done when the cap was off.
ok update. Manager said they dont take caps off from the front. They pull the wheel and knock it out from the back. He saw the pictures and said it looks like someone was trying to steal the centercaps off the wheel.
I gotta say, that is the way those caps are NORMALLY removed, but I still think someone removed (or attempted to) yours from the front with a screwdriver. If it were attempted theft, imo, the caps would be gone...
Getting no satisfaction from the service department would drive me to the dealership managers office. If that avenue didn't work out, a call to customer support at Ford may be in order. Dealerships really don't like complaints against them being filed and investigated. May help, may not, but I wouldn't walk away without a "fight" in this situation. Your truck is new, one tire balance and rotation into the life of the vehicle, and you now have wheels damaged that have significant value. You could wager a significant amount that a dealer would reduce trade value if they saw the damage if you were to upgrade....
Looks to me like he put the steel cone on the outside of the wheel then backed it up with the spindle nut. If it is off center just a bit it can leave marks but shouldn't be that bad. The "right way" is to put the steel centering cone on the inside of the hub face and use the plastic cone on the face of the wheel.
Yea. the balance cone did that. They would fix it.
How? You'd have to have a real dumbass to damage something with the balance cone. Add to that the whole thing would be wallowed out, not just that one spot.
Ive seen techs/mechanics fack up stuff that would make you wonder how the hell they did it.......
wheel goes over spindle, centering cone slides over spindle and then slams it into wheel
I was watching a guy at firestone years back getting my tires done.......
He was using an air gun to remove lugs.... He removed the first one hammering away then the next and next before he seen the nut and stud were removed... Ask another for help... he pushed button on the the air gun and removed the rest.
They cam out and told the guy the lugs broke.... And what it would cost to fix..
I've removed many a lug nut with an impact gun. I've snapped a few, but we always talked to the customer beforehand if the lugs were being a pain like that. Sometimes they'd have us go ahead and just snap them off, others they'd say to leave it. Interestingly enough I've snapped more lugs with a 4-way than I ever did with an impact gun.
I changed many tires working at the Amoco station we used to run from the early sixties until I got out of high school in 1965.. The air operated tire changer we had would mess up a rim back then if you didn't screw the center cap down tight to hold the rim down against the machine, some of the mag rims would even break at times. I had a '69 Dodge with keystone mag's and every time I had new tires put on that machine or had a tire patched the operator would tell me, if I break or mar your rims I won't be responsible for them...They never broke or got gouged but the owner of the tire company or service station let me know he wasn't and would not be responsible for mag rims if they broke or got marred..
Multiple times?
I know exactly what machine you're talking about. I got to where I could use those, but I prefer the more modern ones. Those old tire machines have busted a few jaws.....