Tyres…….cross climate 2?

[jasmith44]

Originally Posted by foggyjames

You had a second set of wheels swapped over onto your car, or had they swap tyres onto a single set of wheels? If the latter....that's a very good price!

cheers

James

Swapped wheels with winter tyres on. Summer wheels with tyres in hibernation now.

[HDAV]

Originally Posted by Deck1ng

Last year I went to National Tyre Services to ask to change my wheels around, they refused unless I pay for re-balancing, which they said was company policy as the tyres and wheels would be in different places. I argued that that would not change the balance of a wheel just by changing its location on the car. They where adamant, ( they had the gear) but so was i and walked out, bought a secondhand windy gun, do my own now.

When I had my winter wheels I did get a decent trolley jack and a cheap torque wrench an 18v 1/2” impact is a game changer should have bought one years ago

Now I have the cross climates they will gather dust until time comes to swap front to rear to even up the wear probably in 10-12 months time

[Deck1ng]

Originally Posted by HDAV

When I had my winter wheels I did get a decent trolley jack and a cheap torque wrench an 18v 1/2” impact is a game changer should have bought one years ago

Now I have the cross climates they will gather dust until time comes to swap front to rear to even up the wear probably in 10-12 months time

Having two spare alloys, I shift back wheels to front, front to garage and garage to rear. Swapped every six months, at worst I only need to buy two new tyres at any one time.

[foggyjames]

Right, gotcha, thanks!

I have all the kit to do it myself, so didn't consider that many folk (including my Dad) would want a garage to do it for them. Of course tyre changing and balancing is less of an option...!

Insisting on re-balancing wheels when fitting them to the car seems a bit daft, IMO.

cheers

James

[Tannaton]

Originally Posted by Deck1ng

Last year I went to National Tyre Services to ask to change my wheels around, they refused unless I pay for re-balancing, which they said was company policy as the tyres and wheels would be in different places. I argued that that would not change the balance of a wheel just by changing its location on the car. They where adamant, ( they had the gear) but so was i and walked out, bought a secondhand windy gun, do my own now.

I was once stood in a queue at Kwik Fit and overheard a member of staff telling a customer that as they were having 4 new tyres the a full four wheel alignment check was needed as the last alignment done 2 months ago "will now be way out with 4 new tyres on" which is of course complete BS.

[Familyman 90]

Although if the tyres were so tired as to require replacing 2 months later one must ask why they had an alignment done in the first place?

You need decent tyres, correctly inflated, or its a poitnless exercise. If they did have an alignment done on old tyres and now have new boots then it probably would indeed benefit from another. That at least isn't bullpois.

What is bullpois is that 2 monhs ago they might have sold a customer an 4WA job on a car with worn out boots. Tyres don't wear evenly across the car, there's no way they could have done an effective job on tired tyres.

[foggyjames]

The most common issue I run into is tyre fitting garages offering wheel alignment, but failing to spot what is often the true cause of alignment issues - worn suspension components causing dynamic misalignment. No point in setting the tracking if it's miles out once you've moved the car two feet! It's often bad enough to wear tyres unevenly without being bad enough to be flagged at an MOT.

A friend with a P3 V70 keeps getting rear tyres wearing out on the inside edge. It gets tracked with every set of tyres. Static tracking evidently isn't the issue, but no-one seems to be paying any attention to what is.

cheers

James