daughters car just passed mot garage done the work fitted 2 tyres but 1 tyre wrong

jaks111

daughter took car in for mot saturday it needed 2 tyres which they replaced sorted and gave her a mot on driving home there is a noise she rang the garage they eventually came out took the car for a spin he said i need to take it back to the garage he bought it back 2 hours later and said the weights were out regards balancing anyway daughter drove it late on the evening still noisy anyway garage have been back out again checked the car then said the wheel is on wrong it has been fitted backwards ( i have never heard of that is it possible ) the garage now want it back tomor to fix yet again my daughter is not happy i cant believe they have done the work and mot then sent it out faulty as you can imagine my daughter does not want her car going back there is this dangerous
thanks

mikey72

Some tyres are directional, ie they have one way to rotate, so have to be fitted the right way round. There is an arrow on the sidewall to show it. It's not unknown for a fitter to get it wrong. When they have fixed it, check them both, make sure the arrow points the right way. Once it's right, it's right though, so no worry there.

phill99

I can't believe that some people have no idea about punctuation and grammar.

McKneff

phill99 wrote: »

I can't believe that some people have no idea about punctuation and grammar.

Well, you must have lived a very sheltered life sweetheart, think your self lucky, mmmm wahhhhh

xx

McKneff

jaks111 wrote: »

daughter took car in for mot saturday it needed 2 tyres which they replaced sorted and gave her a mot on driving home there is a noise she rang the garage they eventually came out took the car for a spin he said i need to take it back to the garage he bought it back 2 hours later and said the weights were out regards balancing anyway daughter drove it late on the evening still noisy anyway garage have been back out again checked the car then said the wheel is on wrong it has been fitted backwards ( i have never heard of that is it possible ) the garage now want it back tomor to fix yet again my daughter is not happy i cant believe they have done the work and mot then sent it out faulty as you can imagine my daughter does not want her car going back there is this dangerous
thanks

Give over, shoite happens, I sincerely hope that this is the worst thing that will ever happen in your daughters life, but I have a feeling it won't be, tell her to get up and get on with it. eh.............

colino

What did he do for 2 hours with the car (balancing from taking the wheel off to bolting it back on is a 5 minute job)? Only then he noticed the tyre was the wrong way round? It's not something daft like a huge sticker being left on the car is it?
Very, very unlikely that on a short drive she would notice increased noise from an incorrectly fitted directional/asymmetric tyre. They sound dangerously incompetent and something else is going on there.

Joe_Horner

Some idea of what sort of noise might help here. Otherwise could be anything from "a wheel about to fall off" to "they turned the radio on".

Both would make noise, one isn't a safety issue

jaks111

thank you for some of the helpful comments.
but to the others, why are people so rude.

Ultrasonic

jaks111 wrote: »

but to the others, why are people so rude.

While phil99's post was a little blunt, in all seriousness your initial post is difficult to read because of the complete lack of punctuation. I'm sure you do know what a full stop is, so you might want to consider using one or two in future to make it easier for people to try and assist you.

(I genuinely mean this post to be helpful, not offensive. Try reading your own first post yourself, you may find it harder than you think.)