geekhouse23's "LIFE'S WAITING TO BEGIN" Overland & Home build and all the Adventures in between!

Parts, parts, parts...

At least arriving or on order.

Have another one coming that was ordered at the same time but it's coming next week...dunno why.



New lugs and wheel locks on order as of 15 minutes ago.

Really just waiting on the vendor to drop the wheels on their site. These rubbers are sad, cold and lonely:

 

Tires rotated this evening before it's 18* tomorrow and the rest of the weekend. Took the truck to get an oil change last week on Thursday and they couldn't rotate the tires because the truck is "too lifted". Odd.

5th TPMS sensor arrived today, too.

 

Meaning their floor jacks didn't go high enough for your bad bish.

 

When you show up to the shop to have your tires rotated but the tech looking at you like:

 

Well, I attempted the SCS drop this evening and I would have made it if their payment options were more PayPal friendly.

Spoke to the other vendor today and they said they wheels might be delayed another month if they can't get a truck driver to deliver the container from the port. Wheels are in the port but they can't get them without a driver.

Really annoyed with "everything going on right now".

 

@EatSleepTacos says you need to make sure your auto fill works. And maybe test it out with lug nuts before the drop.

What wheels are you looking for? Have you looked on the book of faces for a deal or TW express?

 

Second having autofill for CC info and billing/shipping address saved. Even if you've only got it saved in chrome, its WAY faster and just generally more convenient speaking from the "drop" experience first hand with other non-truck vendors.

Lug nuts as a test article beforehand through their website is def a good idea. Randy be smart like that. If they arent in stock, really any checkout-able item of theirs can possibly be used to test your browser's autofill and save your details going through the different checkout screens.

 

Maybe I didn't explain it properly.

I made the drop. The wheels were in my cart and ready to submit payment. But, due to the fact that the only payment option was to put the purchase directly onto a credit card and not, PayPal credit, for example, the decision was made to not proceed.

 

More stuff on backorder...

The lug locks in black are backordered until June/July. I was forced to pick another color that should compliment the wheels and black lugs nicely. Pretty annoyed with everything going on right now. Bullshit.

 

have you checked ebay? I recently did, and surprised to find tires there. Might be using that as an outlet in the future

 

I checked ebay and Amazon and was shocked at some of the availability of tires. My guess is flippers posting them for sale.

Worst comes to worse, it's an option.

 

Wheels now say "March"...

 

Backordered Fridays!!!

Ordered these bad Larry's this morning.

https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/...-POINT-THIN-WALL-LUG-WHEEL-NUT-PROTECTOR-SET/

No confirmation email when I placed the order. Then, I got an email a little while ago that they are backordered and will be available to ship on the 25th.

I just want to be a real Instagram boii but Brandon got me struggling.

 

Lugs are here.

I think it's going to looks pretty good. Again, black locking lug nuts were on backorder until June/July. Only choices I had were blue, burnt blue, chrome, neo-chrome and titanium chrome.

 

Muteki? I think i have the black chrome or titanium chrome.

 

I feel like they will go well with bronze wheels

 

I only have one bronze wheel the rest of my wheels are gunmetal.

I think by now all of the lugs are dirty/scratched up. But they work

 

I'm only anticipating these to be fresh and clean for a little bit. But for that small window of time...

 

The curse of Brandon strikes again!!

These are, now, backordered until the end of March. Called customer service this morning. No emails from Matco. All I was told was that 2/25 they were expected to show up and ship out from Matco.

Wheels are saying March but there is another company doing a preorder for some wheels that would arrive at the end of April that I might jump on just to have something. Details haven't been announced yet. But those would probably be delayed until late summer or Christmas at this point.

Let's go....

 

Installed the anti-winter mod yesterday..70 degrees. Today, it's 40.