[GH85Carrera]

22 years ago when I bought my 911 I of course drove it to work to show my co-workers. I noticed one tire was low and I saw a nail in the tire. There was a family owned tire shop within 1/2 mile so I aired up the tire and zipped over there. I watched as they carefully jacked it up with a floor jack and large rubber pad. The took off the lugs with a hand wrench, took the tire off, patched the inside re-mounted in the same spot on the rim. Then they used a torque wrench to tighten the lugs. They don't charge for flat fixes so no charge even though I had not bought tires from them.

I wrote them a nice thank you letter and felt better. A few days latter a box shows up in my mail and it has a nice jacked with their logo on it. I still use it on occasion.

Unfortunately the family had had enough of the tire business after 70 years and they sold out to a big chain. It is just another tire shop, but they still do free flat fixes. I have taken my El Camino tires to them for a fix. And I have bought tires for the Elky there.

Now I buy my tires from Tire Rack for the 911. I use my scissor jack to get the 911 in the air, and dismount the 4 tires, and haul them and the new tires to a local shop. They do a "roadforce" balance and do a great job. It cost me $80 for the 4 tires to be mounted, balanced and dispose of the old tires. They know I am the grumpy and picky customer but they do a good job at not beating up my rims at all.