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Originally Posted by Wideboy (Post 2371819)

their website has a "your story" button was going to report a bike shop in winton that i reckons a bit dodgy.......

Yeah it is well dodgy, you get free money off vouchers, coffee, biscuits, and glamourous girls to welcome you and help you part with your money with helpful information and advice!!! They even try and bride you with free Subway lunches ............. the swines!

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Originally Posted by Amanda (Post 2371823)

Yeah it is well dodgy, you get free money off vouchers, coffee, biscuits, and glamourous girls to welcome you and help you part with your money with helpful information and advice!!! They even try and bride you with free Subway lunches ............. the swines!

HG should try that approach, along with fee subways ;)

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Originally Posted by fizzwheel (Post 2371805)

I reckon you'd be OK with tyres

Nope

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Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S (Post 2371807)

But fitting tyres you can't go too far wrong can you....

Nope

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Originally Posted by Wideboy (Post 2371815)

they can (and most likely will) feck up the balancing

You got it!

Though to be fair most tyre places feck up the balancing, it's just not a problem for most folk as most cars are not as sensitive to it as some.

The wheel and tyres on my Vectra SRI cannot be balanced by a standard tyre place, I've tried more than 5 different places, even when you find a guy who knows what he is doing, the machine hasn't been calibrated in donkeys. Then I found a place with one of these http://www.gsp9700.com/ who maintain it properly and have the expertise to use it as they balance tyres for BTCC cars. They sorted my problems first time and I only go to them for tyres now.

My wifes car on the other hand is quite happy to get balanced at kwik fit, so long as you get one of the older guys who knows how to use the machine and do dynamic balancing. A YTS student who only understands how to set the machine up to measure and correct static imbalance, can still feck it up and leave you with a wheel wobble. Even when you find the right guy, the machine isn't perfect, but my wifes car is not so sensitive to it, so it drives fine.

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Originally Posted by amanda

glamourous girls

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Originally Posted by specialone (Post 2371831)

HG should try that approach, along with fee subways ;)

cheeky beggar ...... he was talking about us!!!!

Its not just quik fit that are useless.

My car failed its MOT on tuesday, needed two tyres and both front side light bulbs. The tyres had plenty of tread but had cuts in the tread down to the inner cord which were only visible on very close inspection.:(

So on wednesday i took my car to an independent place, much like quik fit, for two new tyres.

I asked them if they could sell me the bulbs and i would fit them myself.

The guy said they would fit them for no extra charge, just the price of the bulbs, so i said OK great.:D

They fitted my tyres and told me that the near side bulb had blown twice when switched on so it still wasn't working.:(

Today i changed the near side bulb myself and it worked faultlessly.:p

I can only presume that the fitter hadn't used the slide panels which are in the archs to access the bulbs and had fitted the off side bulb from inside the engine bay and didn't fancy having to remove bits from the engine bay to get access to the near side one.:confused::smt120The slide panels must have been pretty obvious considering he changed both front tyres.

So instead of being honest, they thought they would lie and say the bulb kept blowing.:smt013

So i spent 24 hours fretting about getting the bulb working for the retest.

And to think i was considering going there when i need the bike tyres soon.

Email heading thier way.:smt024

Lol kwikfit was bad !!! Name and shame love it

kwikfit in rugby is sh*te both times the tracking on dads car was out

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Originally Posted by Amanda (Post 2371847)

cheeky beggar ...... he was talking about us!!!!

I didnt know that honest :rolleyes:

relax amanda he doesnt know much ,come on he needs a ipod to remind himself to breath

There are some properly dodgy garages about. Seriously, if you don't do your own work or at least try to gain some understanding about your own vehicles you must be absolutely ****ing retarded or be some southern **** with more money than sense and deserve ripping off!

Find an independent one man band type of garage you trust and be nice to them... get your car serviced on time so the job isn't a right git to do because of neglect and all will be well.

MOTs are worst. Never, never, NEVER get your car MOT'd at a place that does MOT repairs too. If you are going to, make sure they know you aren't letting them do ANY work except the MOT itself.
Best bet is to find a small test station that just does MOTs and nothing else, so they've absolutely no reason to be anything but truthful with you. These sorts of places tend to know exactly how far they can push their luck with tests and generally a bit more... not just the bare minimum.

I'm not even going to start on some of the terrifying horror shows I've seen from various garages, I'd be here all night and you'd all be scanning catalogues for socket sets!