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Ensure that the people taking the wheel/tyre are actually making the repair. Hot vulcanisers are few and far between and their premises look like factories rather than tyre retailers. They will be full of commercial tyres and there will be a large industrial autoclave in there too, which will look like a 8ft high and 20ft long cylinder.
There are far more people who act as agents for some of these firms and they ramp the price up significantly.
There are far more people who act as agents for some of these firms and they ramp the price up significantly.
MK4 Slowride said:
In case you didn't look at my profile, I'm a driving instructor, with a 7 month old corsa. I wanted to keep good rubber on it but that'll have to change I feel which is a shame. The council should sweep the roads but don't so there's a dereliction of duty. Looks like I'll need to suck it up.
I was hoping someone here had pursued it further. Looks like I'll have to live with £50 ditch finders..
Whoever "pursues it further" won't have a legal leg to stand on. Even assuming you could prove "dereliction of duty" (good luck with that) at best you would be compensated for the cost of REPAIRING the tyre. It is entirely your decision to replace. I was hoping someone here had pursued it further. Looks like I'll have to live with £50 ditch finders..
Last I was a driving instructor (been a while) none of my learner drivers ever gave a hoot whether my tyres were new, repaired, punctured, or possibly round, even, so I don't see the relevance.
You also apparently prefer the cheapest possible (but new) tyres, over better quality ones that have had a repair. Your choice, but again, why complain here about your own decisions?
supersingle said:
Since when do tyres for a corsa cost over a hundred quid? 
Since people started buying shopping cars with 15 inch plus wheels with low profile tyres.Feel you pain but TBH mate you have people who are learning drive your car and couldn't avoid a cow in the road let aloan a nail, you do more than the ave miles so are bound to get more "bad luck" than most, i use my truck daily and visit a scrap yard once a week, council dump twice a week and havn't had a puncture in 3 years, there's both ends of the scale for you and i really can't see WTF you expect the council to do about it ? run a 24Hr road sweeping service?, they way your luck is going i would hang or bolt some neodymium magnets to the lower lip of the front a rear bumper to trap the nails before they get to the tyre.
Two this year.
One on my laguna 3 in Belgium on a day trip that became an overnight stay. Expensive, on my own and had my 3 year old in tow.
Friday on the wife's car. That was a blessing as I didn't notice she had turned the rear wheels into racing slicks in the last month or so since I had replaced a rear spring. 2 new contis on an already expensive month.
Such is life.
One on my laguna 3 in Belgium on a day trip that became an overnight stay. Expensive, on my own and had my 3 year old in tow.
Friday on the wife's car. That was a blessing as I didn't notice she had turned the rear wheels into racing slicks in the last month or so since I had replaced a rear spring. 2 new contis on an already expensive month.
Such is life.
S0 What said:
supersingle said:
Since when do tyres for a corsa cost over a hundred quid?
Since people started buying shopping cars with 15 inch plus wheels with low profile tyres.kambites said:
S0 What said:
supersingle said:
Since when do tyres for a corsa cost over a hundred quid?
Since people started buying shopping cars with 15 inch plus wheels with low profile tyres.Do Corsas come with massive wheels these days? If so the OP needs to get rid and get an I10 instead!
If you want someone to blame, i would blame the access companies that deliver and collect cherry pickers and scissor lifts. I have seen machines on the back of trucks covered in tec screws that the cladders use, god knows how many have fallen out of the machines. Drivers are instructed to sweep the decks but most can't be bothered.
MK4 Slowride said:
In case you didn't look at my profile, I'm a driving instructor, with a 7 month old corsa. I wanted to keep good rubber on it but that'll have to change I feel which is a shame. The council should sweep the roads but don't so there's a dereliction of duty. Looks like I'll need to suck it up.
I was hoping someone here had pursued it further. Looks like I'll have to live with £50 ditch finders..
What a load of crapI was hoping someone here had pursued it further. Looks like I'll have to live with £50 ditch finders..
Councils do sweep roads, just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't do it. Can you prove the nails were picked up from a certain piece of road? Like i said before you could have got it from anywhere.
I guess you go to Kwik Fit? a 30 second search finds Michelin, Pirelli, Bridgestone & Continental between £70 & £80 for 16's & £55 & £73 for 15's fully fitted, Where ever you get yours, you're being mugged off.
Don't see the point in expensive rubber on a driving school car, banging kerbs, potholes etc is pretty typical
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