What did you do TO your Cruze today?

Spent my stimulus $ to order a set of Blizzacks installed on steel rims delivered to me for my 18 hatchback. Soon will be needing to make daily trips of 140 miles to radiation treatments for my wife. We've already had to stay away overnight for a snow and ice storm after her first chemo treatment.

NHIA said:

Spent my stimulus $ to order a set of Blizzacks installed on steel rims delivered to me for my 18 hatchback. Soon will be needing to make daily trips of 140 miles to radiation treatments for my wife. We've already had to stay away overnight for a snow and ice storm after her first chemo treatment.

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Well Shoot. In preparation for the new tires I'd already jacked up the back end and removed the two rear wheels. The new tires arrived and I set out to install them. But, the lug nuts listed on the packing slip were missing. So now I have to wait a couple of days for a new supply of lug nuts to arrive as the factory lug nuts won't work with the new rims.

NHIA said:

Well Shoot. In preparation for the new tires I'd already jacked up the back end and removed the two rear wheels. The new tires arrived and I set out to install them. But, the lug nuts listed on the packing slip were missing. So now I have to wait a couple of days for a new supply of lug nuts to arrive as the factory lug nuts won't work with the new rims.

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Day 2 - Well Shoot again. Got the lug nuts and put tires on the car. Then tried to reset TPMS using the tool I'd used before after rotating the factory tires. Put TPMS into learn mode and tried to reset senor locations. No response from any of the new tires, but the car could read the TPMS off of the old tires. Waiting on a response from Tire Rack. I'm wondering if the same person who forgot to ship the lug nuts also forgot to install the TPMS sensors.

NHIA said:

Day 2 - Well Shoot again. Got the lug nuts and put tires on the car. Then tried to reset TPMS using the tool I'd used before after rotating the factory tires. Put TPMS into learn mode and tried to reset senor locations. No response from any of the new tires, but the car could read the TPMS off of the old tires. Waiting on a response from Tire Rack. I'm wondering if the same person who forgot to ship the lug nuts also forgot to install the TPMS sensors.

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This order was filled the Monday after New Years weekend. So the first response from Tire Rack was "very unlikely we forgot to install them." Please have a local tire retailer remove a tire and inspect to see if TPMS are missing.

My local mechanic said he could tell without inspecting that the valve stems were too long to have the TPMS sensors. But they opened it up and found as expected they were missing. They took photos and I sent them on to Tire Rack.

This time Tire Rack admitted they had not installed them and shipped them out UPS so I got them the next day. They also said they would reimburse the bill for having them installed.

So far I haven't had the need to drive in snow, but they ride smoothly and are reasonably quiet on dry asphalt or pavement.

I took my winter Blizzacks off, reinstalled the factory tires. Reset the TPMS and reinflated the tires to 35 PSI.

Fixed an earlier error I had made. Back in November I took the factory summer tires off my car. Then I installed my Blizzak winter tires giving them my usual 4 wheel pattern rotation. About a week ago, it dawned on me that the Blizzaks were unidirectional. Sure enough, my back tires were installed rotating backwards. So today, I swapped the back tires to get them rotating the right way again. Unidirectional tires only rotate front and back on the same side.