
1. If the steering is not locked, that creates a major problem that will lead to the friction of cars bouncing off each other.
2. The rear wheels on his car are always straight, and probably went around corners every now and then. What was the sporadic but frequent "friction" doing to those tires?
He wasn't buying any of it. He claimed his attorney would be in touch, and spun his rear tires on the way out of the lot.
I had another woman claim that towing a car backward with the front tires on the ground would cause "loosening" of the suspension that would lead to pieces falling off soon after she left our property. Her brother-in-law, who owned a body shop, had told her that would happen. I think she had heard something about the old "knock-off" wheels at some point. I asked her how she dared to back her car into parking spaces, or out of a driveway. She thought about it a moment and said the damage could only happen when the rear wheels were off the ground, because ALL of the weight of the vehicle was on the front wheels at that point. A new towing technique, I guess: Levitation. I gave her a written guarantee that her suspension would not spontaneously fall apart for at least the next 1000 miles, with the exclusion of front-wheel-only driving.
Possibly one of the craziest claims was from a man who insisted we had damaged his door locks while unlocking his car to impound it for the police. He wouldn't let me get a word in to explain. How did we tow the car when it was in gear? Didn't we get in the car to get it out of gear? Did I know that those kind of vehicles were lockout-proof, and that ANY attempt to unlock them would result in damage? That was one of the reasons he had bought that model--it was impenetrable to lockout attempts. This was all BEFORE he paid his bill and inspected his car. After several attempts to explain to him how his vehicle was towed, I just gave up and let him rant. Finally, he paid his bill, and I handed him his receipt... AND his keys. It was a DUI tow, and he didn't "remember" that the police had given us the keys.
Have a safe and profitable week.
Sincerely,
Nick Kemper
www.TowPartsNow.com