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Purchased 4 L315/70R17 121/1180 Rocky Mountain Falken tires from Discount Tire in Longview, TX. (I did notice while the installation was being done that the guy had to raise the hood about 20 times while he was balancing one of the tires...I should have had them stop immediately and leave) Upon leaving the store I immediately noticed an excessive vibration and pulling very hard to the left. I went back to the store to complain within 15 minutes. The guy suggested that I take it in to an alignment shop to get it checked. It was a Sunday; I drove 40 miles to Pep Boys in Tyler, TX. They installed a drag link. Shocks were a little bad and lower ball joints were a little loose. Still had bad vibration. Came back the next day to Discount Tire and had them check balance. Said all was good. I went to another shop and had them check everything...should have had them check for 'out of round'! Replaced lower ball joints and front shocks within the week. Still excessive vibration and pulling to one side. Within the next 2 weeks I had three different shops do an alignment. Finally no pulling but still vibrated. (Note: I originally went to Discount Tire with BF Goodrich 'worn tires' and had no vibration, none at all, with tires which had over 40,000 miles on them.)

Went on vacation to Niagara Falls and put 3,000 miles on tires, Came home and drove to California (another 1,500 miles) At 77 mph the truck almost beat me to death!!! Went to Nate Jones Tires in Long Beach, CA. and had to have tires shaved (3 of them) and balanced on the vehicle. Two of the tires had a flat spot about 5 inches in length and at a depth of over 1/8 of an inch. Nate asked me if I had slammed on the brakes and skidded. I told him no. He surmised that the two tires were factory faults and had been sold to me with 'out of round' spots on them. Needless to say, about 1/8 of my tread had to be removed from 2 of the tires and one other had to have about 3/32 shaved from it. They were so bad!!! My gripe...Discount Tire sells bad Falken tires. I have bought 4 or 5 sets of BF Goodrich tires from them but I will never buy not even one tire from them in the future. They don't know how to balance tires. I will purchase tires somewhere and if the shop can't do it, I will have them balanced on the vehicle by someone who know what they're doing!!!!

Monetary Loss: $1200.

Location: Longview, Texas

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Discount Tire really suck. :p

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