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General => The garage => Topic started by: stfc_gti on 01 June 2012, 12:09
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My mates the manager at a Kwit Fit so always sorts me out, rather than pay 80 quid for a new tyre, he had one he had repaired lying around and put it on for free. Just wondering how reliable repaired tyres were? He seems to have done a good job looking at it.
20 quid for an MOT (passed) and a new tyre. cant compain.
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As long as the repair is in the tread and not the sidewall you should'nt have anything to worry about.
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As long as the repair is in the tread and not the sidewall you should'nt have anything to worry about.
its definetly in the tread.
Thanks
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As long as the repair is in the tread and not the sidewall you should'nt have anything to worry about.
Happened to me about a week after buying them brand new. Lasted til the death. Don't lose sleep over it :wink:
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Lol just show's how professional kwik-fit are. if the tyre is not below 3mm off thread then it dangerous as you have to grind down the tyre to fit the mushroom in order for it to seal. not only that it shouldn't be near the sidewall as that is where the most energy is put through.
i wouldn't personally take my car to a kwik-fit not after what i've heard. cheap for a reason.
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Lol just show's how professional kwik-fit are. if the tyre is not below 3mm off thread then it dangerous as you have to grind down the tyre to fit the mushroom in order for it to seal. not only that it shouldn't be near the sidewall as that is where the most energy is put through.
i wouldn't personally take my car to a kwik-fit not after what i've heard. cheap for a reason.
i dont see as im taking it to kit fit though, im taking it to a make who just happens to be a manager there. im certainly not treated like a kwit fit customer thats for sure.
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and kwik fit are far from cheap
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and kwik fit are far from cheap
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and kwik fit are far from cheap
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there priceS are a bit of a joke, before getting my Monza's rapped in rubber i went to them for a quote, for the tyres I wanted which were Goodyear Assymetric 2 18s they quoted me for supply & fit £650.. :sick:
And my reply - ah okay...no worries! and as I started to walk out the fella shouts...
''Hang on a minute, What have you been quoted''?
Well kwik were the first place I tried for a price so I didn't have a price from no where else....so I just made one up, as I new from research how much the tyres were worth LOL
£500 I said, and the response...
Were match any quote you get!
So if just goes to show you how much of a profit they try and get , and I bet there's been loads of numpty's that have just said, OK!!
I new from others that kwik fit weren't good anyway and in the end I phone my old suzuki garage who did it for £480 and that was the first price they offered me! :smiley:
Now this thread has turned into a ''I hate kwitfit badgering'' :grin:
Anyways back on subject LOL, as long as it's not in the tyre side wall you shud be fine, besides he's your mate I very much doubt he wud do a dodgy job... :wink:
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and kwik fit are far from cheap
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there priceS are a bit of a joke, before getting my Monza's rapped in rubber i went to them for a quote, for the tyres I wanted which were Goodyear Assymetric 2 18s they quoted me for supply & fit £650.. :sick:
And my reply - ah okay...no worries! and as I started to walk out the fella shouts...
''Hang on a minute, What have you been quoted''?
Well kwik were the first place I tried for a price so I didn't have a price from no where else....so I just made one up, as I new from research how much the tyres were worth LOL
£500 I said, and the response...
Were match any quote you get!
So if just goes to show you how much of a profit they try and get , and I bet there's been loads of numpty's that have just said, OK!!
I new from others that kwik fit weren't good anyway and in the end I phone my old suzuki garage who did it for £480 and that was the first price they offered me! :smiley:
Now this thread has turned into a ''I hate kwitfit badgering'' :grin:
Anyways back on subject LOL, as long as it's not in the tyre side wall you shud be fine, besides he's your mate I very much doubt he wud do a dodgy job... :wink:
its these people that i rely on so my mate can keep on "sorting me out" :-)
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kwikfit crashed my old car. it wasn't bad, but they did it and didn't give a sh!t.
i did find a decent kwikfit garage tho, the manager was sound and didnt' charge me for anything :smiley: whenever i wanted my balancing done etc
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We do have customers go to the local kwik fit for cheaper and then come in a week later as there wheel wasn't done up corrrectly or over-tightened this happens atleast once a month.
we also had a car we reported that it was seeping oil from a turbo hose, customer wanted nothing done. then took it to a local kwik-fit and they just said that the sump plug was lose...after i worked on the car. yes when i do 5 a day, it is very easy to never do them tight enough...yet there was still a majour oil leak from turbo and nothing around the sump...
and then a backstreet garage fitted the strut forks back in the wrong way on my mates eg civic so that they faced outwards and when he would turn his brakes wouldn't work as the forks as they were the wrong way round were pushing against the caliper pushing the pistons out.. my mate took it back to that garage and they denied all knowledge, never minding the fact they could have killed him. i looked at it at the struts were dumbered left and right and were fitted on the wrong side and the wrong way round... it really annoys when you have bodge arteits in the trade that put a bad name for everyone else.
we get a lot of cars from halfords auto centres as well and on services you see the oil around the oil filter were they didn't clean it, screws from the pollen filter case missing in the foot well. as lease companies take their cars to places like that. and chuck whatever halfords oil in they wish.
bottom line is places like kwik-fit you pay what you get for. there are alot of good independant garages out there. i first started at one. just make sure you're going to a good one. i personally would never pay or want anyone to pay to go to a place like that. you see kwik-fit or bodge places offering £20 for an mot of something silly so they're losing money yet make it back up with work as they will try and fail your car.
places like that try and trick the customer really annoy me. kwik-fits adverts like they can speak 100 languages fluent really annoy me that they're the best company there is.