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Car pulling to Kerbside
maskell01 - 26/10/15 at 08:35 PM

Hello again motor masters!!!!!

Long Time.

I wonder if you could all help??
I had the tracking done on my polo.the blode did it but said that the two front tyres were buggered.

Being a saturday i just got the tyres done todaay.
Now, its pulling like a bugger to the kerb.

it wasnt before.

on closer inspection, there is more balancing weights than wheel, and a bloody directional tyre on the wrong way round
(arrows pointing to the back)


would this cause a pull???





Cheers all


Aaron

ian locostzx9rc2 - 26/10/15 at 08:56 PM

Yes it could also you should do the tracking after you put the new tyres on .

maskell01 - 26/10/15 at 09:14 PM

Right I had a sneaky thought this was the case.

Im now off to bounce my front wheel off his sodding head.
(shortly followed by the security bolt)

Suppose there is a lesson to be learned.
Check his bloody work!!!!!

Slimy38 - 26/10/15 at 09:20 PM

Too many weights on a tyre is either a messed up wheel, or the fitter's inability to match the wheel balance to the tyre balance. Guess which one the fitter will try and blame first?!!

I've had several tyres fitted that just wouldn't balance up and they've blamed a bad wheel, my response is to get them to match the yellow dot to the valve. Surprise surprise, it only needs a tiny weight to finish the job.

The tyre being the wrong way round is just plain incompetence though.

maskell01 - 26/10/15 at 09:27 PM

Too many weights????

At one point i thought he was fashioning a lew wheel out of the weights........

britishtrident - 26/10/15 at 10:14 PM

Check for a bent tie-bar/wishbone caused by incorrect jacking.

Mr Whippy - 27/10/15 at 01:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Check for a bent tie-bar/wishbone caused by incorrect jacking.


yeah last time I was in kwik fit I gave the guy a bollocking as he was about the jack my car up on the edge of the sills! he's like oh I alway jack up there! what a to$$er

sdh2903 - 27/10/15 at 01:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Check for a bent tie-bar/wishbone caused by incorrect jacking.


yeah last time I was in kwik fit I gave the guy a bollocking as he was about the jack my car up on the edge of the sills! he's like oh I alway jack up there! what a to$$er


Seen this a couple of times at huge chain tyre places.

Problem is the small backstreet tyre places are dying thanks to the likes of kwik fit and you end up with the underpaid undertrained numptys working on your car who don't give a $h1t.

Luckily I have an old boy tyre place locally with two guys who are well past retirement age who are absolutely first rate. They have 2 old jacks, An ancient tyre balancer and a couple of the tyre stripper machines and that's it. No air guns to destroy wheel nuts and lockers. They have done every tyre on all 3 cars plus the kit for the past 10 years and have never ever damaged a wheel, never left me with a wheel remotely out of balance and they charge a fiver per tyre to fit.

On the flip side last week our 2 connects at work needed front tyres. Kwik fit mobile came out. 1 van had a tyre fitted in the wrong direction. The other van shook the fillings out at 50mph they were that far out off balance.

AntonUK - 27/10/15 at 01:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Check for a bent tie-bar/wishbone caused by incorrect jacking.


yeah last time I was in kwik fit I gave the guy a bollocking as he was about the jack my car up on the edge of the sills! he's like oh I alway jack up there! what a to$$er


Had this issue when I ran a Classic mini. Even when told "Don't jack on the sill or floor" I still had them just carry on regardless. Tried to persue a claim against as they bent all the floor pan but wasn't worth the effort it in the end.

On my company car we used to have to goto national tyres... what a bunch of muppets.. took them 2 hours to change 4 tyres, and then they were massively out of balance. Then dropped into another national to have them try only for them to make it worse. Credit where its due a Halford Autocentre sorted them out in the end and ripped the previous work to shreds.

mcerd1 - 27/10/15 at 02:32 PM

Makes me glad I've got a decent place just around the corner

Only used quickfit once when I was desperate, jacked the car in what would normally be a terrible spot, but he got away with it as it was the bit I'd repaired with 4mm plate when I couldn't find anything thinner but they didn't know that....

The favourite game the big chains play is refusing to repair punctures and forcing you to buy new tyres.
A couple of my mates got stung by that one....

[Edited on 28/10/2015 by mcerd1]

rusty nuts - 27/10/15 at 06:27 PM

Ya can't get thicker than a crap fit fitter!

motorcycle_mayhem - 27/10/15 at 06:55 PM

My wife took the Cavalier (MK2 estate) into Kwik Fit a few weeks ago, only to be refused service. Apparently the car was unsafe to jack.... yes, it's a tad rusty, but there are a few solid patches if you can be patient enough to look...

Great service!