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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #10 on: 11 March 2011, 21:36 »
Was going to change my winters over to the summer Bridges but noticed the weather forecast for the weekend is not great over in Cumbria which is where I am headed, so guess I will stick with them for the next week and decide on change over when I return home.

Noticed a huge great gouge in my monza tonight, don't remember feeling doing that, bit of a bummer anyone know of a decent fixer in North Yorkshire area?
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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #11 on: 11 March 2011, 21:41 »
Was going to change my winters over to the summer Bridges but noticed the weather forecast for the weekend is not great over in Cumbria which is where I am headed, so guess I will stick with them for the next week and decide on change over when I return home.
Noticed a huge great gouge in my monza tonight, don't remember feeling doing that, bit of a bummer anyone know of a decent fixer in North Yorkshire area?

Oh noooo. :sick: :sad:
Sorry to hear this.
Easily done. Where exactly is it? Along the rim? On the flat surface?
I am sure someone will come along with the info.
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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #12 on: 11 March 2011, 21:43 »
No rush Gizzy.
The Contis are excellent winter tyres, the main difference you'll notice is when cornering, the summer bridgestones are a bit sharper as you'd expect. Keep them on until Spring is official. :grin:

Sorry about the gouge, probably need a specialist wheel outfit.
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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #13 on: 11 March 2011, 21:56 »
Was going to change my winters over to the summer Bridges but noticed the weather forecast for the weekend is not great over in Cumbria which is where I am headed, so guess I will stick with them for the next week and decide on change over when I return home.
Noticed a huge great gouge in my monza tonight, don't remember feeling doing that, bit of a bummer anyone know of a decent fixer in North Yorkshire area?

Oh noooo. :sick: :sad:
Sorry to hear this.
Easily done. Where exactly is it? Along the rim? On the flat surface?
I am sure someone will come along with the info.
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Yeah I am sick about it as it is on the rim going down onto the flat so will be a pig of a job to get looking decent again.  God knows when it was done as you can normally feel something like that. :cry:
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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #14 on: 11 March 2011, 21:58 »
No rush Gizzy.
The Contis are excellent winter tyres, the main difference you'll notice is when cornering, the summer bridgestones are a bit sharper as you'd expect. Keep them on until Spring is official. :grin:

Sorry about the gouge, probably need a specialist wheel outfit.

Thanks, yeah must admit I do like these tyres for the winter, so glad I got them and was able to make good use of them.  My car has only done 8,500 so plenty of tread on the Bridgestones yet, probably get them back on in time for Easter, surely the weather will be better by then.
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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #15 on: 12 March 2011, 00:35 »
Amanda:
There are a couple of companies that will be able to repair a machine finished alloy. They collect and deliver. Painted ones are easily repairable, Monza Shadows are not as they have a machined surface.
There are a couple of threads on the forum about this.
I'll try tomorrow to fish them out if I can.
Exonian might know a company and there are other persons on the forum in the know who have been in a similar situation to you.
All very annoying.

Here you go:
http://www.rimfurbish.co.uk/index.html
http://www.lepsons.com/contact-us.phtml

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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #16 on: 12 March 2011, 01:29 »
Jesus H christ... I can understand issues in the winter and extreme conditions but in the summer? Seriously?

Caistor, read summer as "normal" or "stock"  :wink:

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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #17 on: 12 March 2011, 05:09 »
Noticed a huge great gouge in my monza tonight, don't remember feeling doing that, bit of a bummer anyone know of a decent fixer in North Yorkshire area?


Exonian might know a company and there are other persons on the forum in the know who have been in a similar situation to you.

Oh Amanda what have you done? :shocked:
Did the same myself the other week and still sulking about it now!

I had a set of Monza IIs (so nearly identical in finish to the Shadows) refurbished on my first mk5. Damaged by previous owner I'll have you know!
I was advised at the time to get both wheels on the same axle done at the same time as the factory diamond cut rim was very had to match. At that time (probably 5 years ago now) there weren't many refurbishers who would touch polished faced alloys. Mine were done by Pristine, and they were very good. However the finish was not 100% like the original. I had all four done as they all had at least stone chips.
Things have moved on since then and Lepsons seem to be popular. Give gossa a shout if he's still dropping by occasionally as I seem to recall he had his Shadows done by Lepsons last year.

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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #18 on: 12 March 2011, 16:52 »
There's snow lying here right now, and last year we had 18 inches on 30th March.  I'm seeing temperatures above 7oC sometimes, but not by a lot and not every day by a long chalk.

It seems to me that the performance of winter tyres up to 10 or even 12 degrees isn't going to fall off by much, compared to the catastrophic fall-off of performance of the summer tyres when it's freezing.  I was very very glad I still had the winters on when I was driving home on Thursday - snow lying on ungritted roads, though to be fair a gritter did show up and I followed him for quite a few miles.

I'm waiting till after 1st April before I go back to summer tyres.

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Re: Summer Tyres for the GTI
« Reply #19 on: 12 March 2011, 18:11 »

Excellent piece mate.


Doc, looks like a sticky candidate to me.


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Yes, I'll make this sticky - well done Asker, it's your first I believe  :wink: