I know Kwik Fit are pretty terrible but...

PiKe

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My girlfriends mum went in to get her tyres checked, they had a look around and said they're fine. I drove the car yesterday and noticed it wasn't tracking straight, looking at the tyres when I got out the OS wheel look to be bulging excessively so I checked the pressure, it was 10psi down on the recommended!

This was also true for the remaining 3 tyres.

I think this is absolutely shocking, if I hadn't driven the car then she would have been driving around on tyres with only 22psi in them, in an emergency this could have proved fatal :eek:

Absolute bunch of cowboys, the same cowboys that told me my oil filter on my S2000 only had to be hand tight :rolleyes:
 
The only shocking thing here is that she doesn't bother to check her own tyre pressures then blames someone else for it. Surely all you didn't expect them to do a pressure check, they would have looked at tread depth.
 
have to say, my car had a bit of a problem recently and i had to use kwick fit as they were near by

they were brilliant !
 
I've used Kwik Fit for quite a bit of work on my E46, and they have been ok.

They replaced a tire that one of the fitters had cut when fitting it when I returned back to the centre, there and then.
 
[TW]Fox;21352866 said:
The only shocking thing here is that she doesn't bother to check her own tyre pressures then blames someone else for it. Surely all you didn't expect them to do a pressure check, they would have looked at tread depth.
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If someone asked you to 'check my tyres' you'd check the pressures too right? I mean even with a visual inspection you could see the bottom of the tyre was bulging out.
 
Used Kwik Fit once too, my old car had problems with slow punctures. They spent a while looking round all 4 tyres, had it up on the ramps and correctly diagnosed it as alloy corrosion, and directed me to a reliable alloy refurb centre.

All for free too. Could have easily robbed me for needing new tyres...
 
MikeHiow said:
Is the S2000 oil filter special or something?

I've only ever tightened oil filters by hand.
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[TW]Fox;21352866 said:
The only shocking thing here is that she doesn't bother to check her own tyre pressures then blames someone else for it.
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& this^.

Why do people Always blame somebody else ? :confused:
 
4T5 said:
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& this^.

Why do people Always blame somebody else ? :confused:
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If she was able to check them herself, she would, it's a mobility car.

She went in to them, stating that the car doesn't feel right, they checked the tyres and didn't notice pressure was down.
 
PiKe said:
If she was able to check them herself, she would, it's a mobility car.
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Well that certainly sheds a different light on things, I Apologise.

Now that we know that a disabled person was asking for help/advice etc then I think it's Shocking & they should be reported.
 
It doesn't really matter though, if you go to a garage and ask for your tyres to be checked, you expect them to do it.
 
red eye said:
I have never seen a oil filter that need to be torqued up.
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Then you've never seen an S2000 one, it says on the side of the can.

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Try turning it 7/8's by hand after gasket contact, it's impossible unless you're he-man.
 
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