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[KenYork]

Anyone know if they(dealership) charge you extra when your wheels are seized and have to do a wheel rotation for you when you get an oil change?

[JMAK74]

From my experience - If it\'s the first time you tried to take off your tires and they\'ve been \'welded\'/seized on such that you couldn\'t/lot\'s o\' effort get them off - go to the dealership and ask them to remove the tire and put anti-seize compound - no charge - when the car was assembled at Mazda - they should have put anti-seized compound. Remind them how pissed off you\'ll be if you get a flat tire late at night, etc.

Sorry - can\'t find my post - it\'s in Wheels/Tires (ya think :sarc) - short of it is got a flat tire and it\'s then I find out I have the seized/welded on tire that one can\'t remove easily - to the point were I had to call roadside. Even the CAA guy said it was on pretty good (he used a hammer like the chisel point and a mallet to wack the tire off). Fortunately I was in the city and in May and not on highway 115 in January at 2 in the morning. The time spent trying myself and then waiting for the CAA guy equalled that I could have, with the jack they give you with the 3 rotated all the wheels on the car (with numerous coffee and smoke breaks between tires). I went to the dealership and asked them to remove the tires and put the anti-seize compound. They were going to bill me for rotation - to which I told them Mazda assembled the car and the wheels had not been taken off since - so someone missed something on the Mazda assembly line. Reminded them it was a good thing it was in the city in May and not... in the end didn\'t pay for that.

If you\'ve brought the car in since for rotation/winter tires - not sure what the dealership will do.

JK