I recently bought a new set of Toyo Proxes S/T for my truck and went and had them put on by costco (I'm on a high school budget, and the tires were pushing it, but I have an odd size rim that only expensive tires seem to fit). I would have mounted them myself, but the tire machine at our shop is broken. When I went back to costco an hour later the tires were on but i noticed they used WD-40 or something of the like to remove the hubcaps and let all the sealant and excess WD-40 run all over my rims. This pissed me off because i had just finished getting them to a mirror shine the weekend before. Then on top of it the guy said he couldnt get the hubcaps to stay on (because they had removed the REUSABLE sealant already on the wheels). So i had to go buy more and put them on myself. A couple days had passed and i noticed a green fluid had dried on my rims. I STUPIDLY dismissed this and thought it was left over grease. The next day i noticed that the power steering was whinning more than usual and that the green fluid had once again dried on the rims. NOW I was becoming concerned. So i brought my truck into the local chevy dealer and scheduled a tune up. (the parking break was doing weird things as well so i thought better now then later) So i dropped off my truck this morning and I recieved a phone call about an hour later. The mechanic at the shop said that the dust cap for the hub was not there and that the hub had completely seized up and was unsafe to drive until it was fixed. Price? 490 bucks on top of the 150 or so for the new parking break mechanism . And I wont have my truck back till tuesday. A word of advise: DO NOT GO TO COSTCO TO GET YOUR TIRES CHANGED. I'm going to costco this tuesday (memorial day sure gets in the way of getting my truck) and am going to talk to the manager about having them paying for the hub, seeing as they somehow removed the dust cap.

I know this seems like bitching but i dont care i had to get it off my chest and where better than to other truck guys.

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Man that sucks. Hope you get it resolved.

 

How do you know costco lost your dustcap? Im trying to understand why they would have taken it off in the first place. Mine came off with no one touching the truck The hub obviously didnt last long after that.