Lucky escape with the Forester, pulled up at a roundabout and all of a sudden its pulling to the left, managed to get it onto a convenient triangle refuge sure enough flat front tyre, changed that for the as yet unused spare, dropped the tyre into the local tyre bay fully expecting it to be beyond saving cos run it flat and most likely buggered the casing, result, they've fixed the puncture and the tyre not damaged....215/55 x 17 not a cheap size, bought the present set its on for a princely £53 each last year (suspect pricing mistake on Tyreleader but they honoured it) currently same tyre £103 and most premium brands even more costly so was expecting a shafting for an emergency purchase.
Anyway, compare with the storeman at one of my regular drops Saturday, nice bloke too.
He's got an Audi, no idea which model, on way home 10pm tyre blow out, no bloody spare and blowout aint going to be fixed by the supplied pot of goo and a toy inflator, rings breakdown 'we're busy so could be up to 2 hours'.
At 4am they phone him and see if he wants them to arrange hotel (as that's on his plan), might have been worth asking at 11 pm doh, 5am they finally get to him and drop him and car off at a tyre bay, 8am tyre bay opens, he walks home via the cashpoint for some dosh, later the £350 quote for 2 tyres plus a weeping shocker has risen to £520 but he refused to pay more than the quoted figure he has in his pocket, and they relented.
His tale is the sort of luck i'd have, my tyre breakdown delayed me by about 15 mins (would have been quicker but couldn't find the winding handle for the scissor jack), his tyre breakdown i can't even add the hours up, but imagine if he had a car full of people or taking the mrs and kids on holiday, nightmare.
Anyway, compare with the storeman at one of my regular drops Saturday, nice bloke too.
He's got an Audi, no idea which model, on way home 10pm tyre blow out, no bloody spare and blowout aint going to be fixed by the supplied pot of goo and a toy inflator, rings breakdown 'we're busy so could be up to 2 hours'.
At 4am they phone him and see if he wants them to arrange hotel (as that's on his plan), might have been worth asking at 11 pm doh, 5am they finally get to him and drop him and car off at a tyre bay, 8am tyre bay opens, he walks home via the cashpoint for some dosh, later the £350 quote for 2 tyres plus a weeping shocker has risen to £520 but he refused to pay more than the quoted figure he has in his pocket, and they relented.
His tale is the sort of luck i'd have, my tyre breakdown delayed me by about 15 mins (would have been quicker but couldn't find the winding handle for the scissor jack), his tyre breakdown i can't even add the hours up, but imagine if he had a car full of people or taking the mrs and kids on holiday, nightmare.