New tyres and brake discs, pads? Costs?

Strider590

cherie1122 wrote: »

When I got the car back the new tyre hadn't been cleaned up and was covered in white sealant and had a missing valve cover.

While I avoid KF like the plague I do have to say this.....

You pay them to fit new tyre's, not to make them look pretty :rotfl:

cherie1122

My car is fairly new and went there looking immaculate

It came out with a scruffy wheel and tyre and missing valve cap. I don't want a "pretty" car but I don't want a scruffy one either. It also came out with an ineffective handbrake (it had previously worked fine)

I will definitely be avoiding Kwikfit in future

mikey72

Front discs and pads for my Zafira were £65 from Vauxhall, and took about two hours to fit.
The discs had lasted 80k miles, and I must admit were shot.

optimus_primera

We have to use Kwikfit or ATS for the tyres of all our fleet vehicles (cars vans 7.5t and 18t trucks). They never bother trying to 'sell' any other stuff to us,as they know servicing is covered by the particular manufacturers service outlets .....not even a ' best get the brakes looked at' piece of advice.

I reckon they rely on the average motorists lack of knowledge/interest on how their motor runs .......

benham3160

The tyre sealant is normal, if you came back and told me you wanted me to wash it off, I'd frankly laugh.

Not sure what "dirty brakes" mean though.

Regards,
Andy

mickbhall

Could buy tyres from http://www.blackcircles.com/
and find cheap fitting place toyo proxes tr1s are decent roughly £55 each unfited.

Use http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/Car-Parts
For pads and disks dont skimp if possible and find a local family/friends reccomended local garage for fitting.

cherie1122

I wasn't sure what dirty brakes meant either LOL - I've been driving cars for 35 years and never heard that one before ......

About the sealant - I reckon if I had been a guy with a flash BMW they would never have left the tyre covered in it (or the hub cap) - I just wanted the car in the same condition as it was when I took it there. I didn't think that was much to ask. I've used Kwikfit a lot over the past few years and I've never seen a tyre left like that before. I didn't think it too much to ask to get a valve cover put on it either - after all, I'd paid for it when I bought the new tyre.

The handbrake really was dreadful though - it came up at 90 degrees instead of 3 or 4 clicks before engaging. They hadn't bothered resetting it after checking the rear brakes. Oh, and I hadn't asked them to check the rear brakes by the way - I think that was just another way of trying to get more money out of me.

photome

patman99 wrote: »

The only time it is worth using the (Ford-owned) Kwikfit lifetime brake replacement program is if you own a car which wears-out its pads/discs really quickly (such as a Focus, which does about 25k per set of pads/discs), and you do a very high annual mileage.

My Focus has just done 45000 on original pads and stilldoesnt need discs.

Kilty_2

Isn't the KF lifetime guarantee worthless anyway because it only covers pads, not discs, and you need to have any suggested work done when the brakes are checked in order to keep it valid (so discs, calipers, exhausts, tyres, shocks, lol)