onthecoach
Senior Member
Hello All-
We had a great experience last month outside of Salt Lake City, UT. It started out bad, but ended up well! We were about 18 miles west of SLC, I drove into the Flying J there to fuel up and stay the night. As I was entering the driveway, Hubby and I felt a strange bump...I was move about 3mph...and did not see any big bump in the driveway, but we didn't think much about it.
After fueling and parking, I went outside to check and make sure we had room to open the bedroom slide. I looked down and saw the left rear outside tires was flat! Bummer! I called my Good Sam Road Service and they were no help at all! They said the closest help was 180 miles away! I said, "I'm 18 miles west of Salt Lake City, for Goodness Sake! There are thousands of truckers through here all the time! There must be someone nearby!" NOPE! Great!
Hubby saw a sign across the street....really....literally across the street: SPEECO Tire Service. Now maybe a bunch of you are familiar with this company...we were not.
I got their number, called them and ascertained:
1. they were open (it was 7pm on Saturday night);
2. as long as we were a diesel they could work on the coach;
3. they had a tire should we need a replacement
We limped over there and they helped us!! Regrettably, it took them 3+ hours to get the wheel cover off, because of a design flaw! Fleetwood had CRIMPED the lug nut cover over the lug nut on the wheel cover and they could not find a way to break the seal.
Once they got the wheel cover off....the rest was easy. Turned out there was nothing wrong with the tire...it had come off the rim!! Every heard of that before??? Me, neither!
They replaced the valve stem and remounted the tire. I went to pay the bill, and figured about $300-$400 what with 4 hours of labor....but, how surprised was I when it came to a whopping $31.96!??!?!?!
Not only that, but they let us stay in their back lot over night!!
Suffice it to say, if you ever need tire service, Oil Change anything like that, check out Speedco!!!! They were fantastic, and so CLEAN!!! You could eat off the work area floors!!!
We had a great experience last month outside of Salt Lake City, UT. It started out bad, but ended up well! We were about 18 miles west of SLC, I drove into the Flying J there to fuel up and stay the night. As I was entering the driveway, Hubby and I felt a strange bump...I was move about 3mph...and did not see any big bump in the driveway, but we didn't think much about it.
After fueling and parking, I went outside to check and make sure we had room to open the bedroom slide. I looked down and saw the left rear outside tires was flat! Bummer! I called my Good Sam Road Service and they were no help at all! They said the closest help was 180 miles away! I said, "I'm 18 miles west of Salt Lake City, for Goodness Sake! There are thousands of truckers through here all the time! There must be someone nearby!" NOPE! Great!
Hubby saw a sign across the street....really....literally across the street: SPEECO Tire Service. Now maybe a bunch of you are familiar with this company...we were not.
I got their number, called them and ascertained:
1. they were open (it was 7pm on Saturday night);
2. as long as we were a diesel they could work on the coach;
3. they had a tire should we need a replacement
We limped over there and they helped us!! Regrettably, it took them 3+ hours to get the wheel cover off, because of a design flaw! Fleetwood had CRIMPED the lug nut cover over the lug nut on the wheel cover and they could not find a way to break the seal.
Once they got the wheel cover off....the rest was easy. Turned out there was nothing wrong with the tire...it had come off the rim!! Every heard of that before??? Me, neither!
They replaced the valve stem and remounted the tire. I went to pay the bill, and figured about $300-$400 what with 4 hours of labor....but, how surprised was I when it came to a whopping $31.96!??!?!?!
Not only that, but they let us stay in their back lot over night!!
Suffice it to say, if you ever need tire service, Oil Change anything like that, check out Speedco!!!! They were fantastic, and so CLEAN!!! You could eat off the work area floors!!!