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[waynie]

Took my wheel to get re-sealed today, for them to infront of my dint the rim. So obviously i wasnt best pleased, he put a crow bar looking thing in and said "this might dint the rim" so i said and was umming and rrrr'in and he said "there gona have to come off one way or another" so anyway he did and put a big dirty dint in it! so when my dad came home he phoned them up, "i sent my lad down earlier to get my wheels re-seal and you've f***ing dinted em blah blah you get the jist, then the man s*** him self and said order a new one we'll pay Can you order rims one at a time?
So conclusion to all this DONT GO TO KWIKFIT

[wobbit]

o dear, yes you can order them one at a time

[clarks.2006]

What rims are they?

[blacktulip]

i took my car in to see if i can fix a puncture and they wanted me to buy a new tyre by saying it was perrished and worn, when i asked a friends second opinion he said it was b**locks and pointed me in the right direction. i think they must think were all gullable and try to bust it into us!

[will.i.am]

quite the reverse for me, i took my car to motorsave and they managed to put the new tyre on the wrong wheel and when i woke up the next mornin the new tyre had gone flat,quick trip to quikfit and the jobs a gooden

[minimole]

gotta be honest my local kwickfit they are actually ok. i went up there with a tyre i had bought from the net and they changed it over for free because it was for a mini

[Pavel]

While we're on the subject of rims and tyres, does anyone know if you can change tyres on split rims (3 piece lets say) by splitting them and then putting them back together? Seems to avoid any potential opportunities for some wrench monkey to damage them while fitting!

[pikey7]

Whoever fits tyres on my rims has a Pikey hovering over him like a hawk making sure things get done right (I actually had one guy tell me to leave the workshop once, so I took my keys, tightened up the one nut he'd got off, and went somewhere else!). So far the worst that's happenned is that some kid almost stuck the balance weights on the outside of the rim...... Fingers crossed.

[Dan]

While we're on the subject of rims and tyres, does anyone know if you can change tyres on split rims (3 piece lets say) by splitting them and then putting them back together? Seems to avoid any potential opportunities for some wrench monkey to damage them while fitting!

Don't think so, the three pieces need to be sealed to each other and if the tyres on when you're trying to do it you'll not be able to paint it in.

Oh yeah, and I do that to Pikey with cars that I like. But then I only take the Mini to one place now to get the tyres changed and they are pretty good to Mini's as the owner has an excellent Mk1 Cooper S and a Works rally car too I think. They know what to do with 10" rims!

Edited by Dan, 03 April 2006 - 06:01 PM.

[Sprocket]

I'm lucky in that I have two independant tyre specialists within miles of each other in Warrington and both stock Yokohama, Bridgestone, Pirreli, Goodyear and Michelin to name a few. They both have the correct rim claws to with protective jaws for alloy wheels and clamp from the inside of the rim rather than the outer edge. One is Jeffreys High performance Tyres and the other is http://www.bromleytyres.co.uk/, but I have never had a problem with National Tyres In Warrington either, but have in other towns. I think the regular places are pretty much hit and miss.

[Jammy]

While we're on the subject of rims and tyres, does anyone know if you can change tyres on split rims (3 piece lets say) by splitting them and then putting them back together? Seems to avoid any potential opportunities for some wrench monkey to damage them while fitting!

Don't think so, the three pieces need to be sealed to each other and if the tyres on when you're trying to do it you'll not be able to paint it in.

Oh yeah, and I do that to Pikey with cars that I like. But then I only take the Mini to one place now to get the tyres changed and they are pretty good to Mini's as the owner has an excellent Mk1 Cooper S and a Works rally car too I think. They know what to do with 10" rims!

I heard you can since you have to run tubes in split rims anyway??

[Mini Mad Rich]

Took my wheel to get re-sealed today, for them to infront of my dint the rim. So obviously i wasnt best pleased, he put a crow bar looking thing in and said "this might dint the rim" so i said and was umming and rrrr'in and he said "there gona have to come off one way or another" so anyway he did and put a big dirty dint in it! so when my dad came home he phoned them up, "i sent my lad down earlier to get my wheels re-seal and you've f***ing dinted em blah blah you get the jist, then the man s*** him self and said order a new one we'll pay Can you order rims one at a time?
So conclusion to all this DONT GO TO KWIKFIT

Well like the saying goes "you cant get thicker than a kwikfit fitter" lol

Rich

[TimS]

We tryed to get MADMAX's tyres of his 3 piece saxons, and with 3 people it still didnt work. They are still tubless though and so need sealing around the edges of the rim.

I took a puncture of mine to Quikfit. Knowing that its completly fixable being in the centre of the tyre and tread. But still the guy said that the tread was coming away from the tyre (obviously thinks its off a 1000bhp drag car or something) and says I need a new tyre so I laughed at him and walked off.

[TJenkos]

Which Kwikfit is this?

[miniallsort]

bad luck mate