WELL. Who would've thought i'd need to do an update on this.

REmember this bit? :

well over the last few weeks the left tyre (the supposedly 'fine' tyre mentioned above) has developed a slow leak. Well...not slow, but not fast either. A moderate leak. So he took it off and put the spare on, which has had a slow leak for ****** ages.

So today we take both tyres in to get tubes. poeee tells the man helping us about what the tyre franchise we originally went to had done, and the man immediatly went 'but thats dangerous'. Anyway, he takes the tyres, and said they'd be ready in an hour.

WE go back to pick them up, and he tells us that they had found a 13" tube in the left tyre. THE OTHER PLACE HAD TOLD US THE TYRE WAS FINE!

NOw really. After they screwed up the fright tyre, which could have caused a magor accident, the intelligent thing to do would have been to tell us that they'd done the same on the left tyre, and that if we brought that in they'd fix it. But noooo. They told us the tire was fine. F***ing liars.

But its all good now. 12" tube in a 12" tyre. Thats the way it should be.

But we've learnt our lesson. We're never going to a tyre franchise again, because they dont seem to care.

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Oh that really sucks.
I havent had troubles with tyre guys luckilly.
I was so pissed after leaving my car for blue slip and he knob end had scrapped up
my radiator shroud. with a scrwe driver.
There was no reason for him to of done it as it was clear as day to me.
He was like welll you can paint it again
Im like its a ****ing cooper s you dick head .
Looks like someones tried to sratch it off not happy jan.Wont be letting anyone touch it again without me there.
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go on..you'll get to be on tellie!

well thats not good at all : ( I hate leaving my car with anyone!!!

But why are you putting tubes in anyways?? should be tubeless on
Pooheys car..??>>??

they were tubeless ones. Unfortunatly, the unnamed tyre franchise wrecked the bead in both tyres, and had to stick tubes in.

They should not call themselves experts.

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i took my mini into the local tyre place guys (who are usually excellent) and came out to find one bloke with a jack, under my battery box, any body got any idea how angry i was??


lukily for everyone in a 2km radius, he hadnt taken any weight on the jack... and my battery box survived.. but its cold hearted reality.. watch your cars!!

-Cam

sorry cam bussness names are a no no
makka

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ahhh well i would be angry and if they wrecked the tyres i would
say to replace the tyres with new ones, NOT put tubes in there... i would
be very angry

UNDER THE BATTERY BOX!!!! i would be

I know tyre place at annandale jacked my mates immaculate cooper s up by the
floors, needless to say they didnt come out looking to straight after that
and not only that they scrtached all the wheels when they put the tyres on....
i have never taken my car there since ifound out!!

and you to christopher
makka

Well, I went to the 'so called experts' at a tyre place . These guys seem to do alot of hard to get sizes and different brand wheels that beaurepaires and bob janes wont. They helped us out a heap with my dads Mustang. So i go back there, to get 3 A539s. (Thats all they could get overnight from Melb, the other one had to come from Qld)

They jack the car up by the (previously straight) floors, dent 'em all, and do their best to crush the brake lines that run along the bottom of the trailing arm. Only to watch them use second-hand valves from off the workshop floor, use crap clip-on weights, and then over-tighten the wheelnuts so that on my way to the Mallala trackday the next morning, i lose an entire wheelnut and stud still attatched, bouncing down the road. Shite. Brickworx had me all sorted in about 5mins with a replacement nut and stud, but the next day when i called the tyre shop they kinda just went "What do you want us to do about it?" Useless pricks.

For the fourth tyre, i went to Beaurepaires at Edwardstown, the place that Brickworx uses, and i watched everything done as it should. Stick-on weights on the inner of the rim, he asked what pressure i wanted ( other tyre place put in almost 50psi ! ) and then offered to put the wheel onto the car, which i only brought in the boot. This is after he asks me what torque setting i preferred, too, telling me that "these little studs always break if ya do 'em up too tight"

SO, a big endorsement to Beaurepaires @ Edwardstown, SA Cheers for the help.

endorsements are fine but once againe no bussness names please
makka

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Yeah definitely.
I've done a few pick ups & drop offs at Beau's.
They are very efficient, and work hard.

They also are great people

pisses me off, i wasnt too happy when i got my tyres done, they lost some of my new shiny valve covers, and i think they dented my car.

does anyone do a proper job these days?
names must be named, its not defamation if its true.

I think people are paranoid when it comes to other people and denting their car
Its just one thing that happens when you give your car to someone else i spose.
If you don't want dents, trailer queen it, stick mirrors under, and rope the **** thing off.

Ok that was harsh.
HARSH BUT FAIR.

/rant.

yeah no thanks, i don't want mutant.
the main issue is that nobody does a good job anymore, and nobody cares.

Maybe 2006 will bring a year of caring people

yeah but now cush will bring his mini to MATM on a trailer next year and make sure everyone sees it, then put mirrors under his car and rope it off..