Bloody Tyre Centres
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Just a little story:

One of the rear tyres on my Legacy was going flat over a few days so I though I'd take it to the local tyre place for them to have a look at it.

Guy came out and took one look at it and said "wouldn't touch that mate, it's all worn on the inside edge". I explained that it was an old front tyre which was where that wear had come from and that the tyre was still perfectly legal.

He wasn't interested though. I should have left it there but I though I'd let him give me a price on a new tyre.

I specifically wanted an identical BF Goodrich G Force Proflier to mach all the others. "They're discontinued mate" he said; "so what's the replacement then?" I inquired, he didn't know.

I said I'd check on the internet and thanked him for his time, this seemed to shut him up.

Anyway, he's a lying cunt, they still make the tyres in question. And to make him look more of a twat, I took the wheel off and found the leak was around the rim. Got my mate to re-seal it for £10 as I was passing his garage.

I'm tempted to go back and ask him why he lied to me?

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

guess why he is employed at a tyre shop, !!!!.
because he wasn't clever enough to clean the shit off around cows arses,

i hate them all too. dickheads,

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of course we accept there will be exceptions, i always use the same small place for tyres for our family cars,but the national branded outlets are full of wankers,as well as most of the otheres to.lol

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The last tyre place I was at failed to get hold of some A008s so I got some off a local mini racer for £30 each. When I went back to the tyre place he and wouldn't fit them cause I didn't buy them from him:

Me: "erm, you said you couldn't get them hence why I went elsewhere"

Him: "oh fair enough, £5 each then for fitting, come back tomorrow"

Me: "tyres ready yet?"

Him: "Ermm, no, I put the tyre leaver through your tyre, it's OK I'll get another.... for tomorrow"

Me: "Tyres ready now then?"

Him: "yes here you go"

Me: "ah this ones not an A008, it's a 145s and it's not ballanced!"

Him: "But it's only for a trailer!"

Me: "oh yeah I put A008s and reverse rims on all my trailers! I said it was for a mini!"

He ended up having to order in a whole batch of A008s just to replace my one. Haha, I'd say he still has all 19 still sitting. He wasn't happy!

ok, its my turn,
years ago i took a metro wheel in for puncture repair [the run flat TD] went back day later , dickhead says he slashed sidewall with tyre machins. i say no problem just get another one there sharpish and i'll leave it at that,
manager then gets tread depth measurer out and starts checking tread depth , turn and says its borderline legal and i dont want to replace it with a new one ,
i told him to stop talking shite ,and he was happy to take the repair on, so get a new one on by this time tomorrow,

he did .

this was at Motorsave on bruntcliff lane morley, leeds.
iv'e named them because i feel like it ,
its true so they cannot complian
funnily enough ive never been back for anything other than spray paint,

carl

Edited by fastcarl on 7th Nov, 2006.

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i get my old chap to fit my tyres (bar the splitties) always does a nice job and hides the weights

the pissheads near me didnt check the new tyres id order through them cleared the coil overs on my old cooper, was doing 60+ when both backs blew simultaneously, ended up on the wrong side of a dual carriage way with oncoming cars dodging me on both sides.

fuckers didnt want to know so threatened to send pictures of the tyres into the local rag and to the police.
he soon changed his tune, again, to get my 2 yoko's in stock he had to order a small fortunes worth of tyres from his supplier, served him right...

BAC

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

yep the are cnuts most of the time,

I did have a housemate that worked for kwikfit which was handy, as long as it wasn't busy you could get stuff at cost.

i thought i'd been done the other day by my local tyre fitters, got a set of falcons put on a set of rims, picked them up in a rush took them home then noticed they han no balancing weights, chucked them on the car anyway and they're fine no wobble at all.

i found this the other day from a guy in america.

S2 lotus elise that went in for tyres all round, apparently the guy showed them explicitly where the jacking points were, even pointing it out with the diagrams in the owners manual.
he left the car with them to do it and got a call a while later saying there had been an "accident"....

http://www.my914-6.com/crap/

ha, same tyres i was getting, must be a yoko thing!

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"