Björn Phillipps

Monday was fun. Carly, Des, Karin, and I where hanging out talking by there apartment on Sunset. We where talking about the rain and how the roads have become chock full of pot holes. Moments later we heard the unmistakable sound of someone driving on a flat tire. As it turns out Bjorn Phillipps a tourist from Germany (or Switzerland) had driven his rental car into the aforementioned pot holes and tore a 1" hole in the tire. Pulling his car around the corner to a safe spot, he walked up to us and asked to use a mobile (Cell phone). It turns out they have AAA over there and the member numbers work over here to. The down side is the membership was in his wife's name and they would not let him use it. So then I called Dollar rent a car to get them to send someone to deal with it. They said just change the tire. I said send out someone. They said it will be a while and you have to wait there. At this point it dawned on me how silly all these phone calls where. While Björn had never changed a tire before the four of us track our cars all the time. We have a full set of power tools, Race Jacks, Stands, and gloves about 50' away. So I hung up the phone, yelled to Des that it was Pit Crew time.

We sprung into action and had bolts off, car up into the air, tire swapped with the doughnut, and torqued down. This took maybe three minutes? Roughly 1/3 the time I had already spend on the phone. Next time screw AAA, we fix this Racerfactory Style.

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