So I'm driving on 315 south between 161 and bethel rd last Friday night when a lady driving a Explorer a few hundred yards ahead of me loses control and hits a light post (she was driving drunk while text messaging). The post falls and scatters glass, metal etc all across the freeway. About 6 cars (myself include) hit varies pieces of the post because there was no time to react. Lucky for my I only got a flat tire on my drivers side rear.....or at least I thought I was lucky.
So I pull off to the side of the road so I can change my tire only to find out that I have the wrong locking lug key (I just go the car last week). I call up one my friends who has almost the same car to come help me and let me use his key. He shows up about 20 min later (by this time is about midnight) and we try his key and it doesn't fit. So I call up another friend who was at a bar downtown who said he might have the correct key in his car. So I have my friend who came to help me drive me downtown to pick up the key from my other friend and then drive me back to my car again only to find out that it was also the wrong key. By this time it was 1 am and I was tired so decided to just have the car towed home and deal with getting the wheel off the next day. I call a tow company and they said they would be there in about 25 minutes. So I told my friend I would be fine and he could go ahead and leave and I would ride home with the tow truck.
Fast forward to 4 am and still no tow truck. While I had been waiting on the side of the road I called them several times and they kept telling me they were on there way. I finally got a phone call from them at 4:30 am and the lady told me they would not make it until later on in the morning because they were too busy. So by this time I was pissed and was about to tell the lady off just before my cell phone died (and I didn't have a car charger).
So at this point it gets even worse. I end up driving the car at 3 mph down the side of 315 all the way to bethel road and stop at a BP gas station. I leave my car there and call a taxi from the gas station that charged me $40.00 to drive me home (hillard area), by this time its 5:30 am.
Here is where the fun begins, I wake up later that morning at 8:30 am and meet with a friend to help me deal with the car. So I call up the dealer and ask them if they have a lug key and they said yes but they have to see the car because there are 30 different ones it could be. No problem right......so I call a tow truck and have my friend take me to meet the tow truck at the gas station and then have the car towed to the dealer. After about an hour the service guy comes out and tells me "sorry but we don't have a key that fits, yours is one that they don't make anymore". He then tells me they have no way to get the wheel off and I would have to take the car somewhere else. So I call up Discount tire and the guy there says "oh we deal with that stuff all the time and we can get the wheel off without a problem". So I have the car towed again to Discount Tire. After about 2 hours the guy comes out and tells me "sorry we tried everything and can't get your locking lug off, your wheel is just stuck and there is nothing we can do".
At this point I was at a lost of what to do so I call my 80 year old grandpa for advice. He told me to have the car towed to his house and have him take a look at it. So I have the car towed another time across town to his house so he can take a look at it. After about 10 min we were able to get the wheel off without a problem. We just took an oversized socket and hammered it onto the lug bolt, put a breaker bar on it and it came right off. Its just funny that my 80 year old grandpa and myself had it off and 10 min but the dealer and tire shop were unable to. What a crappy night/day that was. Just wanted to vent.
