Went to enterprise and rented a car that had literally 4 leaking tires and they filled them all up to 55 psi before handing the car over. This photo was taken after the 30 minute drive home.
Called and took the car back in for service only to get the same car, same 55 psi on all wheels, and same major leak in the rears. Went to another enterprise location to get a normal car instead 2 days later. Really took me back to my first car, but it’s a lot less fun when it’s not even yours and the “fix” is just dangerous overpressure.
Enterprise is straight garbage right now.
On a work trip to Georgia, they gave me a car with a nice big gash on the front passenger sidewall. I didn’t see it when I picked it up as it was at night and the airport garage was dark and I only noticed it the next day coming out of the factory, after driving all the way from ATL to Suwanee. (~45mi/70km) I wasn’t going to risk a trip back to the airport, so I spent 2-3 hours calling around to try to exchange it at a closer store; a lot of it being on hold and getting hung up on. None of them had any inventory (most were pick-up only) and no one even seemed concerned at all when I told them about the gash.
Eventually I got tired and annoyed of the BS and went to the closest store and told them to just take the car back as I got a rental elsewhere. (Hertz had a full inventory, right across the street and the service was huge amount more personable and friendly.)
Oi, and here’s the gash.
Yikes, I wouldn’t drive that either
Shit I would. Then wreck that fucker into a ditch and get me some “Enterprise Capital”
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Lol. I came here to say that this sounds like enterprise, and see their name on your first sentence. Sorry you’re going through that, mate. They suck.
Honestly they all suck
I had to rent a car from Enterprise during a mild snowstorm.
I picked it up the night before and brought it home (work paid for the rental, I didn’t want to put miles on my car).
They had filled up the wiper fluid with water, so my wipers wouldn’t work. Frozen solid.
Swung by the rental agency on the way to my trip to complain and swap out the car.
Next car was fine for like 30 minutes but then it stopped working again. Frozen solid.
I guess some idiot decided to top up all the cars with water. Which doesn’t work so well in the wintertime.
ETA: for those who don’t know driving in the snow…you often need wiper fluid. Especially when the road has a mist of salty, sandy water on it from melted snow + sand/salt trucks.
50psi is dangerous.
Edit: I mean if a tire blows out when over inflated that much, it becomes a legal problem. Whoever inflated it that much, or their supervisor along with the company, is negligent
So are leaky tires.
And throwing stones at people.
Tigers, too. Probably.
I didn’t know you could inflate tigers.
You can inflate anything at least once
I had to get new pressure sensors for my old car and decided to roll new tires into it. A mile and a half out of the shop the light popped on and I pulled over to find out that the tech over pressurized one of the tires to 55psi and busted one of the new sensors
The VW ID.4 uses actual/expected rotational speed to calculate pressure.
No sensor to ruin there.That honestly makes more sense. Mine had the sensors attached to the air valve which sync’d with the car wirelessly and they’d fail for any reason
I must admit I’m a bit of an VW fanboy, I just bought an ID.4 and I am waiting for it be ready to drive home.
It is such a brilliant piece of engineering in so many ways, I am very impressed with what VW achieved with that car.
Goddam the driving of that car is excellent! 😀 😎
I guess my old car (from 2005) does the same thing. Has no tyre pressure sensors but gave me a tyre pressure fault on time. Turned out my rear left had a small leak. Error light came on at 1.6 bar (rears are supposed to be at 2.1-2.3)
Seems to me it did the job, maybe not as accurate, but it’s a way simpler system and less error prone.
If you over fill the tires enough, you can drive on water. If you reach 100psi, you can fly like the movie Up.
This Imperial shit is getting ridiculous.
And the arrogance of expecting the rest of the world to understand it without converting to a more widely used standard is astounding.
PSI = pounds per square inch.WTF Really? Anybody is using that? POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH!!! That’s what you are going with??
Instead of the much simpler and way more intuitive bar which is based on atmospheric pressure.For anyone not using tribal Imperial 24 psi is 1.65 bar and 50 psi is 3.45 Bar.
https://www.unitconverters.net/pressure/psi-to-bar.htmGet off your high horse and accept that people do things different than you.
It’s not just different, it’s less intuitive, and it’s based on other obsolete units, and it is only used by a minority.
I bet if some other country had their own national standards of measurement plastered all over the net, that you would be pretty annoyed by that too.
But somehow USA doing this shit constantly is OK because AMERICA!!Americans are fucking annoying with their constant special pleading, it’s OK to post psi or other imperial units, but for fucks sake post the metric units too that the majority is using.
Says the dude gatekeeping fucking pressure measurements…
You’re the only one shoving it in our faces.
“please stop using this system and use this one it’s better”
-guy who hates special pleading
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Okay millennial
Less intuitive for morons who never learned anything anyway.
Are YOU going to pay for the conversion?
Algeebea and Calc must’ve really sucked for you.
What cost?
I’m arguing to convert to metric when posting on an international forum, because metric is the international standard.
But I’ll have you know that I often also post Imperial units when posting things that are in metric, because I know there are also a lot of Americans here. I’ve seen others do the same.
But Americans very rarely do that. Hence the claim about American arrogance.Finally to make the car show bar instead of psi and use it for recommended tire pressure has no extra cost.
What do you do in that situation? Demand a new car?
All you really can do. They’ll usually say they don’t have one and you’ll just have to call around. Big headache overall
I hate that. My car has a leaky back tire. It’s been like that since I bought it, and continued after I replaced all the tires.
Leaking valve stem, or less likely a cracked rim. A 5$ fix while the tires were off; but more work just to fix on it’s own. If it’s a slow leak you keep ontop of, you may as well wait till the next tire rotation; make sure you request they replace the valve stem(s).
In warm weather, it might last all summer. In the winter, I can go maybe 3 months before the low pressure warning comes on. I’ll get new valve stems next time I get tires. For some reason, that hadn’t really occurred to me.
Some of these newer alloy wheels are harder to mount. If you let them know there’s a history of leaks on that tire they may apply tar to the rim which can go a long way. My car has had a lot of issues on one tire until I found the right mechanics, ironically they were also the cheapest (small business who specialize in used tires). Later after getting new tires the problem went away without the tar, so I think it comes down to surface prep.
You could try tightening the valve core too. But 3 months isn’t really a slow leak. You should probably fill your tires that often anyways
Could also just be the rim being kind of dirty and corroded and needs to be cleaned up a bit of bead sealant.
I’ve had it happen to me a couple times, tires just always lost air sort slowly, I never cared enough to bring it in just for that, not a big deal to stop by the air pump once a week or so when I was getting gas anyway.
I’m sure if you brought your car in just for that they’d probably slap some token $10-50 price on it.
But if you bring it in for another service I feel like a lot of places will just do it. I know I brought my car in to pep boys one time for an oil change or something and asked them to look at it and they just did it, no extra charge.
I feel like it’s one of those little things that no one is quite sure how to write it up in the system, and figuring it out is more of a pain in the ass than just not mentioning it to the boss, not like he’s gonna notice they used an extra scrap of sandpaper and blob of sealant anyway.
Bring it to a Discount Tire. They might even fix it for free. They definitely will if you bought the tires there.
