Free Tyre & Brake Checks
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Except for the fact if they are worn then you have a car with illegal tyres and or brakes, an MOT failure certificate and limited time in which to get the problem sorted. This is why people drive around with randomly mismatching tyres because they don't bother to get it sorted before the MOT and end up being forced to accept whatever badly priced tat the MOT testing station has on the shelf.
Lot's of the chain garages will do it, but they'll usually come up with advisories that aren't even a problem, well in my experience they have. Dunno what they were mic'ing my tyres with, suspect it was their eyes, as when I did it some of them had 2-3mm more than what they reported, lol.
Can you not do it yourself, should be simple enough?
Can you not do it yourself, should be simple enough?
[TW]Fox;14616766 said:
If pads, discs and brake efficiency were not recorded as an advisory at the previous MOT then they are unlikely to be a problem now.
A visual check of the tyre tread should be a sufficient first step, together with a quick check for no bulges or damage in the sidewalls.
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Takes about 10 seconds per tyre and 20 seconds per disc, hardly complex.
Even an average 10-12k annual mileage would be enough to take a tyre from perfectly legal to very definitely illegal (on a reasonably powerful car it could take it from new to bald). The same kind of people that use an MOT as their only check of the car each year are quite likely to have ropey alignment that knocks out tyres even more quickly.
A single annual check of tyres is in absolutely no way sufficient under any circumstances.
what was clarkson saying about people with no interest in cars?
checking it once a year is really bad haha
i changed the discs on the front of my gf's mums car. the inner surface of both discs only had a half inch contact with the pad.
after i put new discs and pads in (with new brake fluid too) she said she couldnt tell any difference
checking it once a year is really bad haha
i changed the discs on the front of my gf's mums car. the inner surface of both discs only had a half inch contact with the pad.
after i put new discs and pads in (with new brake fluid too) she said she couldnt tell any difference