F1 Autocentre Monkeys
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This thread scared me, scared me a lot.
Not because we have a skinny jeans wearing "male" of the species unable to perform one of the simplest of practical skills that even a small child could demonstrate.
Not because I'm familiar with F1 autocenters or worried about their service.
Purely based on the fact that FortyFive went to Grimsby on an internet pasty hunt. I was born there and it is a worrying place. I would not only be fearing for my saftey but also my car parked outside and what "pasty" would be lying in store for me on arrival.
You sir, are a ballsy gent and deserve recognition in the form of ample main points for your endeavors. Not to mention the fact, that you managed to change your own tyre! Kudos!
[TW]Fox;18022031 said:
This presupposes you can get the thing off. I had to call the AA to get an alloy off my volvo, i reckon i could almost have driven on it with no nuts in !!
Lesson: Always copperslip the back of the wheel.
Had the same issue at the Harlow F1 Autocenter, They rounded off the locking nut by using an airgun, Told me it must have been done when the wheels were last removed (although they we the last to remove them!) and the said the only way round it was for me to walk down to the Peugeot parts center down the road and purchase some normal wheel bolts and they will grind the other one's off.
I was none to please but now don't have locking nuts but will never go to them again.
I was none to please but now don't have locking nuts but will never go to them again.
People slate Kwik Fit, but when I went to get the rear run flats changed, not only were they the cheapest by far, but the nuts were done up by a supervisor with a proper torque wrench. They also balanced the wheels perfectly because BMWs are more prone to wobble.
That has to be fake!!!
As it turned out it was not fake. I spoke to Leon Glencross and he sorted out the refunded me the amount.
ahr F1 autocentre posts always make me chuckle because of a fairly funny accident i witnessed at the Northampton (6fields) branch a while back. (about 6 years ago now)
I was in the waiting room watching them fit an exhaust for me, the big metal shutters were half down and they had just put a ford focus on one of the lifters with the boot fully open. They raised the car all the way up then a young engineer pressed the button to raise the shutters, as they raise they fold so as to follow the curve of the roof, well as this happened it caught the boot of the focus and peeled it back like a tin of sardines as it pulled it back pretty much all the windows in the car burst. Poor lad looked like he was going to pass out as the manager legs it over towards the car. They lowered it and it was totalled. The look on all the engineers faces was pricelss. Unfortunately the person who owned the car was not there so i dont know what their reaction was! Cant imagine their face when they go to pick up their car. "yes we have changed your tyre and given you the cabrio conversion at no extra charge"
I was in the waiting room watching them fit an exhaust for me, the big metal shutters were half down and they had just put a ford focus on one of the lifters with the boot fully open. They raised the car all the way up then a young engineer pressed the button to raise the shutters, as they raise they fold so as to follow the curve of the roof, well as this happened it caught the boot of the focus and peeled it back like a tin of sardines as it pulled it back pretty much all the windows in the car burst. Poor lad looked like he was going to pass out as the manager legs it over towards the car. They lowered it and it was totalled. The look on all the engineers faces was pricelss. Unfortunately the person who owned the car was not there so i dont know what their reaction was! Cant imagine their face when they go to pick up their car. "yes we have changed your tyre and given you the cabrio conversion at no extra charge"