First of all, 3k miles ago, I had jiffy lube change my oil because I was really busy. Usually i change my own, but when i went to change it after that, I find that the drain plug is completely rounded off and I cannot get it off. (They say that they will fix it for free...)

Now the real problem. I popped a curb the other day and popped my tire, So I took it into Wal-mart to get a new one put on. I decided to get 2 tires because they were cheaper, so they changed them.

As I start up my car, there was the usually beeping because of seat-belt, so I put it in and the idiot light went off, but it continued to beep. It would not stop. It is driving me crazy. It sounds just like the seat-belt beep.

Secondly, the car now veers to the right very fast. If you let go of the steering wheel, it veers to the right. I am concerned with my safety it is so bad.

Wal-Mart says that it has nothing to do with changing tires, but it worked PERFECTLY before. They refered me to a reapir shop. What should I do? I want the evil corporarion to burn, slightly.

Bottom line, Wal-mart denies all charges against them when I am definitaly sure that they caused them. The beeping may be that the fat guy who changed my tires moved the seat and severed a wire somewhere. He did take a circle pretty fast when he "tested it out."

What should I do, legally and repairatively?

Thanks.

 

get a box of kleenex


or do something else, but legal crap seems to hardly ever work out for anyone but the lawyers

 

If you hit a curb, you probably wasted the alignment and need to have all 4 wheels aligned.

I can't possibly see how or why you would consider that a walmart problem.

If the beeping is in an order (say two beeps pause... or 5 beeps pause) you have a problem with the power steering and the power steering computer is reporting the error to you.

Again, that is probably related to hitting a curb. If you hit a curb hard enough to pop a tire, I can not see how it is even possible that you didn't bend anything, well alone screwed your alignment up.

 

I agree with Icemark on this one. Hitting a curb hard enough to blow a tire is more than enough to damage the alignment as well as steering components.

Take it to an alignment shop and have them give you an estimate on repair costs as well as a guess to what caused it.

I used to work at Wal-Mart and did tire installations and some steering problems aren't evident until after new tires are installed b/c they aren't "worn in" like the old ones.

If the guys at a repair shop can give you proof that the new tires are the problem with the car, Wal-Mart will take care of it. But, make sure you have ample tire pressue in both sides (stuck valve stem core can cause severe leaks) b/c it can cause a pull one way or the other when one tire is massively lower in pressure than the other one.

 

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If you alignment is off then the tires will wear wrong and it can sometime feel normal.
Once you put on balanced tires the problem can arise.

 

I was just thinking that. Generaly, if you hit a curb with enough impact to puncture it, it is easily enough impact to bend a tierod, or screw with alighment.

Take it from me, first time I popped a curb, I severed an aframe and had to use a hammer to pound the hub back out of the fender to drive home

 

yea i went for a oil change, those morons broke my fan shroud then zip tied it up.

 

Walmart near my house dropped a car from hydraulic lift, short the oil and other great reputations.

What were you doing hitting the curb that hard in the first place?

 

I was looking at directions to a friends house and the road made a sharp swerve.

It drove fine with the spare on there for about 50 miles.

And finally, It is 2 beeps, pause. How do I fix that?

 

The spare does not have sufficent width to matter with alignment. You could have driven probably 100 miles and not noticed the alignment or suspension was busted, when using that tiny useless spare.

You f&^%ked up your car and/or wheel when you hit the curb. Don't blame someone else (like walmart).

2 beeps (as found in the FAQ at the top of the section) indicates you have no speed signal from the trailing coil

 

hahhaa you bought tires from walmart.
I have heard many horror stories about
there auto shops. or lack there of.
sorry dude you brought all this onto yourself.

 

At walmart you only need to be 18+, you dont even need to know anything about cars. hah this is your fault

 

They are correct on the "training" system....I WAS one of their best techs before I quit. More money elsewhere.

But, like Icemark said, Wal-mart or any other reputable tire shop shouldn't take the rap for you busting your car taking a curb too fast.

Like I said before, take it into a shop you trust and get an estimate, the lower the price the better. If the shop says they can prove it was Wal-Mart that F*$*ed it up, then Wal-mart will pay for the repairs. Don't talk to the immediate manager anymore if he gives you any indication that he won't cover the repair costs.

Go over his head and talk to the district manager or else all the way to corporate. They will pay if it was their fault and quick. But, make sure it is their fault first. They will fight tooth and nail if not at fault (which you can't blame them).

 

alignment for most people are way underrated, do it right.

 

Icemark is right on as usualy sound like some steering or suspension damage, I'll admit i hit a curb really bad, (to avoid and accident tho) and I had to buy a parts car and put on the front suspension and steering componets from it, and don't go to walmart for tires, my dad went there and they wouldn't balence em cuase the rims on his truck are chrome and the didn't want to risk damage

 

i bought a gold fish at walmart and hes still alive,its been almost a year, id say they are pretty reliable for that

 

I took my car to another shop and they took a look at it and fixed the alignment problem. Better than dealing with Wal-Mart.

And about all the knocks on wal-mart: A tire is a tire (mostly). They take one off and put one on.

 

the beeping is Power Steering ECU, it's sending a error code, maybe you f'd somethign up with the rack when you hit the curb, assuming it's your front tire that hit. plus it must have been a pretty hard impact to get your tire to pop.

 

also...you can test it by unplugging the P/S ECU harness, its a silver box under the dash on the left of the steering column. if the beeping stops then it's a P/S problem you got there.

 

a friend of mine nailed a curb in his FC and F'ed up the suspension so bad they said the car was totaled, had to have all the suspension on one side replaced

 

I used to work at Walmart tire and lube express a few years ago i was 17, ahahaha i laugh jst thinkin about it.
Dont ever take your car there, u wont beleive some of the idiots that worked there,(they dont even really train u, u jst have to pick it up as u go if u dont already know how to do the ****.
I could tell u so many stories of what sum of the techs did to cars while i worked there. It was fun tho, we would always take nice cars out back when we were done workin on them and open them up, (lightnings, vettes, stangs, transams, and we had a few 7s that came in) i was careful tho and always treated the nice cars with respect, like puttin plastic on the seats and floor so oil and stuff wouldnt get on em. ahh good times. Anyways they might not have balanced the wheels right, but i think the alignment is your fault from hittin the curb. Dont have a clue about the beeping.

Bottom line nvr take your car to walmart, or jiffy ****, i worked at valvoline and oil express and we always had people coming to us sayin jiffy **** fucked sumthin up.

 

Dude, you popped a tire when you hit a curb, do you *think* that maybe a suspension or steering piece got bent hmmmmmm?

People looking to blame someone else all the time...