WTF £22.50 for a puncture!!!

[Troll]

I know that you got a windfall recently but what on earth made you go to a kwikfit to get a puncture sorted ? Cowboys is being too polite when describing them.

Nearest tyre fitters to home

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

ftfy

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mich the Tester again.

[Sausage Surprise]

Huh? Are you a pauper or something? Seriously, you sound pitiful ranting on about such an insignificant sum.

What's £20 or so to fix a car puncture? You're lucky it wasn't £200 to replace the tyre, plus labour.

(I just spent £1100 fixing my Jag after accidently driving over a sticking out curb in Kilburn at 30 MPH. Knackered two wheels and a wish-bone whatever that is!)

You should kerb your enthusiasm

[Gentile]

£9.50 for the puncture repair itself

HTH

Ah, I see. So it couldn't have been a red car then. Otherwise there would have been a "red car surcharge".

[BoredBloke]

I would go anywhere other than Kwik Fit

[escapeUK]

I would go anywhere other than Kwik Fit

But they're the boys to trust!

[Platypus]

So did you agree the price beforehand? Or even ask?




P.S. Are you going to make any fuss about your endowment's under-performance?

[Paddy]

Dropped wheel off at local Kwik Fit - small nail in tyre and slow leak

Picked it up and bill for £22.50 presented instead of the expected tenner

Valve £4.75
Nitrogen Inflation £1.50
Wheel balance £6.75

Small nails can be done with the tyre on the car. They use a 'T' shaped plug that patches the inside. The last one done for me was free

[ZARDOZ]

So did you agree the price beforehand? Or even ask?

Yep,always agree up front how much it will cost. I too avoid Kwik Fit as I've found them to be shysters. I've found National to be OK.

[JaybeeInCUK]

Two things:

1) Kwik Fit are complete crooks - I know, my cousin worked there, and he's about as straight as Julian Cleary;

2) Garage labour is around £60/hour nowadays. Ok, I'm still in Permie-land but even when I'm not I don't like paying grease monkeys rates equivalent to my own on principle. It took a ******* DECADE for me to build my skills, so I'm not having some some shifty-eyed ape in overalls who set up in 2010, employs 3 council estate denizens @ £22k each, all the while trying to keep his 4 convictions for GBH/trafficking quiet, trying to make me finance his 700k house, his snivelling littling brats to go to private school, or his wife's compulsive spending habit.

Not happening. Not me.