Posted on 02/22/2019 2:56:10 PM PST by Chickensoup
Quick question: My son had a severe accident, someone flew over the median into his car and totalled it. He is ok but needs some surgery.
He needs to get his tires and rims off and put junk ones on. Where does one find junk tires and rims? Quickly size 5x114.3 lug
Is that something junk yards would have?
If you are scrapping it they probably don’t need tires on it!!!
the insurance company requires all the parts. not necesariy the best parts. but it cannot be on blocks.
While the bolt pattern may be correct, rims also have an "offset", which can cause your replacement wheels to hit the fender (outside) or the suspension (inside). Maybe cause the car to not move at all!
car will never move, just need the tires on them to put on the junk car carrier off to be crunched. can be flat tires.
Yes, for sure. In this case I believe the car is totaled and just needs some rubber to turn car over for salvage.
Got it, thanks. I didn’t understand what was going down.
You won’t need rims and tires for the wrecker to haul it away. I’ve done this twice already. Put the car on large wood blocks and the driver will slide it right off em. Have one or two extra blocks handy, he’ll know what to do. You may want to give him back a $20 if he doesn’t put up too much of a fuss about it.
After about four months my daughter’s tires are still tarped up in the yard but she is just about ready to swap em out.
Good luck
Hope your son recovers quickly.
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He’s fine but needs surgery?
If you are near Chicago and Comiskey Park there a many local entrepreneurs that can obtain them for you quickly and relatively cheaply ... they can also throw in batteries and stereos if needed.
It is at the dealership.
He is essentially fine, the car is crushed, but he is having sore back and neck and his foot is a mess, his tendons are scrambled he meets with a surgeon next week to address the foot. They cannot operate until the swelling has diminished. He is on crutches with a boot.
the car was a totaled mess, a car jumped the median and flew in the air and landed head - on on his car, rolled over his car and landed side down near him. a couple of degrees of trajectory difference and it would have gone straight through his windshield. Lucky guy.
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Thank god he escaped serious injury or worse. Godspeed on a quick recovery.
In my best Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) impression.
“Missed me by THAT much!”
Praise God your son is still with us.
My best friend in HS(Matt), his uncle and a friend(God rest their souls) were killed in a similar accident returning from a hunting trip they had invited me to join them on. They were hit in the windshield by a flying Delta 88 that had jumped the median coming the opposite direction. A carload of drunk teenagers were being chased by the police, they estimated the car was traveling 118 mph when it left the road. His other uncle(riding shotgun) somehow survived but spent months in the hospital.
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Is that something junk yards would have? Yes, junk yards should, but call first, and usually the rims are specific to the make. But unless we know what area you live in then that is about all we can do to help, besides pray.
My dad saved old tires just for that purpose but they tended to accumulate after about 30 years. I counted the tires one day and there were 105.
And no long after, as they were getting older, dad and mom were going over things that needed to be done, and mom asked about all those tires in back of the garage. Dad replied "Oh, those are shipping tires." This seemed to go right past my mom and so I asked, "Dad, what do you mean shipping tires?" (humorously 'cause i knew). He answered something like, "Well, when I get ready to ship a car to the junk yard I put them on it." "But dad," I replied, there's 105," and which was funny.
Mom also had a longing to see dad's crowded collection of "fossils" in the old tool shed dealt with. She had a dream one night in which the tool shed was all cleaned out. She told my dad but I think that was a night mare to him. I sympathize with that!
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