The Joy of Running an Old Shed (Vol 2)
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JOY: purchased a Michelin Primacy 3 on eBay for £35. It is a 2018, but Michelin are not Avon, and a lot of thread left on it 
LESS JOY: I then looked for a place to install the tyre on the rear wheel and found a shop close to my work, with "good reviews on internet". A lot of good reviews, with people who left more than one review before, so must be alright!
You would guess...
I reversed the car in the shop, so stayed around the car. When he went for the socket, I told him "it is 17 IIRC". No answer. Alright. He started to remove the old tyre from the wheel, so I took out the "new" tyre from the boot, and started to look for the "inside/outside" sign, so he will save some time and hassle. Took me some time to find it, but I finally did, and show to him: "I know where it is". Alright...
He puts the tyre on the wheel, inflate the tyre, and come back to the car to fit it: "You don't balance the wheel ?" - "No, not for the rear."
What do you think of that ? Not balancing the wheel because it is the back one ?
(I let aside all the common stuff nowdays of randomly putting 3bar of pressure and screwing the wheel nuts with the impact driver)
LESS JOY: I then looked for a place to install the tyre on the rear wheel and found a shop close to my work, with "good reviews on internet". A lot of good reviews, with people who left more than one review before, so must be alright!
You would guess...
I reversed the car in the shop, so stayed around the car. When he went for the socket, I told him "it is 17 IIRC". No answer. Alright. He started to remove the old tyre from the wheel, so I took out the "new" tyre from the boot, and started to look for the "inside/outside" sign, so he will save some time and hassle. Took me some time to find it, but I finally did, and show to him: "I know where it is". Alright...He puts the tyre on the wheel, inflate the tyre, and come back to the car to fit it: "You don't balance the wheel ?" - "No, not for the rear."
What do you think of that ? Not balancing the wheel because it is the back one ?
(I let aside all the common stuff nowdays of randomly putting 3bar of pressure and screwing the wheel nuts with the impact driver)
cedrichn said:
What do you think of that ? Not balancing the wheel because it is the back one ?
Nonsense, wheels should be balanced regardless of where they are. You can tell a lot easier if its the front, because the feedback comes through the steering wheel as well as seat/body. I would not have been happy about that.Arnold Cunningham said:
Depends what he charged. As long as I get what I pay for, I don't mind.
I "stupidly" thought "fitting a tyre" include balancing it... What a moron I am 
RenesisEvo said:
cedrichn said:
What do you think of that ? Not balancing the wheel because it is the back one ?
Nonsense, wheels should be balanced regardless of where they are. You can tell a lot easier if its the front, because the feedback comes through the steering wheel as well as seat/body. I would not have been happy about that.He didn't look like the kind of guy who cares. Explaining him anything would have been a waste of our times.
It justifies again why I try to do everything myself: difficult to find anyone reliable... I prefer to do a pig job myself, rather than paying someone to do it
cedrichn said:
Arnold Cunningham said:
Depends what he charged. As long as I get what I pay for, I don't mind.
I "stupidly" thought "fitting a tyre" include balancing it... What a moron I am cedrichn said:
Especially if your car doesn't consume tyres quickly, it is best practice to rotate them.
+1 I did this for a Fiesta I had, knowing it was FWD and that it would wear the fronts much quicker, I rotated them front to back every 10-12k miles. They were all replaced at 47k, just shy of 5 years, in the end (Continentals). The other advantage of doing this was being able to switch to all season tyres all at once, not something I would entertain on doing for just one axle, regardless of the value of the car.I know you were only being helpful.
I do the same, but when I do it, it can border on telling the expert how to do his job.
Hence when said expert takes exception, I have only myself to blame.
Of course, on the occasions I don't tell them how to do their own job, 50% of the time they cock it up right royally.
The Great British workman, jack of one trade, master of the tea break, and never works after 12 noon on a Friday.
Utterly not related to this shed thread, but I need to get it off my chest.
I was stuck in my Saab shed (tenuous link, but it will have to do) in a half mile queue on the A17 yesterday for 20 minutes.
The roadworks were out of sight around two bends, and we just sat for what felt like a lifetime while the traffic from two other roads came the other way.
We then moved about 250 yards, then sat again, repeat until at the front of the queue.
They are repairing and repainting the structure above the Sutton Bridge swing bridge.
I say "they".
If this was Japan they would have put 75 men and loads of equipment on the job, started at midnight and finished by 6am - several weeks ago.
In Great Britain "they" turned out to be one bloke sat in the driver's seat of his van playing on his phone, and one bloke on one of those platform things, poised above the westbound lane of the bridge, fiddling with a spanner 15 feet above the roadway. He has been fiddling with that spanner for several weeks already, apparently, and will still be fiddling with it for several weeks more.
It's no surprise that breweries are going out of business these days - nobody is going on piss-up organisational courses any more.
Perhaps you or I should go along and tell them what they should be doing?
I do the same, but when I do it, it can border on telling the expert how to do his job.
Hence when said expert takes exception, I have only myself to blame.
Of course, on the occasions I don't tell them how to do their own job, 50% of the time they cock it up right royally.
The Great British workman, jack of one trade, master of the tea break, and never works after 12 noon on a Friday.
Utterly not related to this shed thread, but I need to get it off my chest.
I was stuck in my Saab shed (tenuous link, but it will have to do) in a half mile queue on the A17 yesterday for 20 minutes.
The roadworks were out of sight around two bends, and we just sat for what felt like a lifetime while the traffic from two other roads came the other way.
We then moved about 250 yards, then sat again, repeat until at the front of the queue.
They are repairing and repainting the structure above the Sutton Bridge swing bridge.
I say "they".
If this was Japan they would have put 75 men and loads of equipment on the job, started at midnight and finished by 6am - several weeks ago.
In Great Britain "they" turned out to be one bloke sat in the driver's seat of his van playing on his phone, and one bloke on one of those platform things, poised above the westbound lane of the bridge, fiddling with a spanner 15 feet above the roadway. He has been fiddling with that spanner for several weeks already, apparently, and will still be fiddling with it for several weeks more.
It's no surprise that breweries are going out of business these days - nobody is going on piss-up organisational courses any more.
Perhaps you or I should go along and tell them what they should be doing?
QBee said:
If this was Japan they would have put 75 men and loads of equipment on the job, started at midnight and finished by 6am - several weeks ago.
This brings back fond memories of a trip to Japan - and you're not wrong, with a simple obstruction having 6 blokes all armed with pointy sticks forming a human line of cones to ensure the traffic impact was minimised. Another example - there was a sinkhole in the news in Bexleyheath, they claim it would take more than 6 weeks to repair. Same thing happened in Japan witnessed by a friend out there. The road was re-opened after a couple of days. They don't do everything right out there, but it makes you think.TCX said:
Came out to this,today on ye olde streets of London,not surprised or particularly bothered,but if it wasn't a shed....
The £900 L322 still trouble free. Saying that, the sat nav won't display anymore as when I went to fit a digital TV tuner I cut what turned out to be a hardwired in RGB wire. Long story short I have some soldering and wiring to do this week. I'm off to view another shed L322 hopefully tonight, this one is a 4.4 on LPG. That way I can run them both to see which has the lowest running costs
monthou said:
aaron_2000 said:
I'm off to view another shed L322 hopefully tonight, this one is a 4.4 on LPG. That way I can run them both to see which has the lowest running costs
You are nuts.Please don't take that as a criticism.
In my days of running cars on LPG, I tended to get 15 to 20% less mpg on LPG than running the same car on petrol, so that would equate to petrol running of under £1 per litre. Diesel around here is about £2 per litre, so if you shop well for your LPG you may well be able to run the LPG car cheaper than the diesel.
aaron_2000 said:
The £900 L322 still trouble free.
These cars have always scared the bejeezus out of me as an ownership prospect, but a £900 one actually makes a lot of sense in that it becomes effectively disposable the moment it throws an expensive tantrum.I've looked at L322s before, but the outwardly decent ones always seemed to sit around the £3-5k mark which is enough that you would have no choice but to throw even more in to the thing every time it broke. No such pressure on a £900 car.
Brilliant shedding.
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