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[QUOTE="mtk, post: 1077158, member: 54339"] And this policy you have is the same as the one purchased by a typical service station? Not too many service stations install gas-fired heaters. Sounds like yet another apples-to-oranges comparison. You don't run a shop either so neither one of us is an "expert" on this topic. My BOP insurance isn't the same as your BOP insurance so it is foolish to assume that a service station would have the exact same wording as either of ours. As for a random station in "Anonymous, USA," you make it sound like this is unheard of in the business. It isn't. I guarantee that EVERY person reading this in the USA could find a local shop that will install new tires from an outside vendor. By the same token, it would be simple for them to find a car shop that will install used tires brought in by the customer as this is done CONSTANTLY in the USA. Lots of folks have winter and summer tires and only one set of wheels. I've yet to hear of ONE individual being turned away at a car shop when they want to get their summer tires installed. Not one. Or is this insurance requirement only for motorcycle shops (also highly unlikely)? If this insurance prohibition was that widespread, those examples would be VERY rare, which they are not. That leads me to one conclusion: the shop is using "insurance requirements" as an excuse to not do the work, most likely because they're pissed the customer didn't want to get raped by prices 100% higher than mail order. And for the record, I get my street tires at a local non-franchised shop. He stocks plenty of tires and has them at reasonable prices, unlike the monkeys at the franchised shops who want outrageous prices and do shoddy work to boot. He'll also mount mail-order tires too, but at increased prices. And unlike the franchised shops, he doesn't expect me to pay $300 for a tire I can get from him, or mail order, for $200 or less. He's also a pretty knowledgeable and strikes me as a by-the-book kind of guy so I highly doubt he'd risk his insurance protection to make an extra $20 here and there. [/QUOTE]
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