After the great Denver GTG, my Wife and I headed to Las Vegas to spend a couple weeks with our Daughter. We traveled around California a few days, then back to Vegas.
We finally left Vegas on the 17th. of August for our 2100 mile trip home, so we could make it to an old friend's "Daughters" wedding on the 20th.
We made it to Tucumcari New Mexico on our first leg of the trip, and got a hotel for the night. Later, we went out for food and fuel, and that's where the whole nightmare started about 10:30PM.
After filling up with gas, I pulled out onto the street where I fell prey to a kids prank. Somebody stuck a 1/2" "open end" wrench in the expansion joint of the concrete where it some how found its way into the left rear tire of our car.
Now Tucumcari is a nice enough place, with a lot of Rt.66 history. But one thing it doesn't have, is a tire store that stocks "Crossfire" sized tires. So at the suggestion of a local tire store owner, we had the car flatbedded back to our hotel, and in the morning another flatbed picked us and our car up for a 113 mile trip to Amarillo Texas. The closest town that had tires that would fit the Crossfire. So off we go back out on the 110 degree highway for our 1 and 1/2 hour ride to the tire store. Fortunately the AC worked quite well in the cab of the flatbed.
AAA, All Rite Towing in Tucumcari, Johnny at Discount Tire in Amarillo Texas all carried out their jobs very professionaly, and went that extra mile to make an unfortunate stuation a little easier to swallow.
We had to buy 2 new rear tires because they didn't have the correct sized Hancook tire that matched my blown tire in stock, and it would take a week too get. So over $800 later we are back on the road again, only about 5 hours behind schedule.
Now I'm starting to wonder how good my car would look with 235/60/15" tires on all 4 wheels. One thing for sure, they would be a lot cheaper to buy and locate.