What tyre pressure?

fred246

I have got no weights.

AdrianC

fred246 said:

I have got no weights.

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Any other lame excuses? Got a bone in your leg?

You avoid garages like the plague, but the average tyre fitter is at least three steps down the evolutionary ladder from the average mechanic, and considerably more likely to be trying to pull a fast one on upselling.

Car_54

fred246 said:

I just take the wheel in now and get the tyre fitted. Saves them damaging the car by jacking the wrong point and bending the sills. Stops them overtightening the wheel nuts.

So, do you tell the fitter what the pressure should be? Otherwise, how would he know?

AdrianC

Car_54 said:

fred246 said:

I just take the wheel in now and get the tyre fitted. Saves them damaging the car by jacking the wrong point and bending the sills. Stops them overtightening the wheel nuts.

So, do you tell the fitter what the pressure should be? Otherwise, how would he know?

Maybe it's now compulsory for every KF to employ at least one person who can read?

Car_54

AdrianC said:

Car_54 said:

fred246 said:

I just take the wheel in now and get the tyre fitted. Saves them damaging the car by jacking the wrong point and bending the sills. Stops them overtightening the wheel nuts.

So, do you tell the fitter what the pressure should be? Otherwise, how would he know?

Maybe it's now compulsory for every KF to employ at least one person who can read?

Read what? A crystal ball to tell him what car and axle the wheel is for?

oldagetraveller1

fred246 said:

The garages just guess. If I have a tyre fitted I always check the pressures when I get home. They are always nowhere near what they should be. Always well underinflated.

Also the wheel nuts/bolts for their correct tightening torque. With a follow up check after a few miles.

If marked accordingly ensure "outside" is outside an any rotational direction marking is correct.

Laurence_Harvey

AdrianC said:

Car_54 said:

fred246 said:

I just take the wheel in now and get the tyre fitted. Saves them damaging the car by jacking the wrong point and bending the sills. Stops them overtightening the wheel nuts.

So, do you tell the fitter what the pressure should be? Otherwise, how would he know?

Maybe it's now compulsory for every KF to employ at least one person who can read?

Steady on!___that would signal a radical change in their recruitment criteria.

 

MinuteNoodles

fred246 said:

The garages just guess. If I have a tyre fitted I always check the pressures when I get home. They are always nowhere near what they should be. Always well underinflated.

No they don't. There's the plate on the vehicle driver's door pillars that say what it is, they usually also have a large chart on the wall.

More nonsense from our resident clueless.

If they're always well underinflated you might want to double check that mickey mouse pound shop tyre pressure gauge you're using you bought back in 1970.

MinuteNoodles

oldagetraveller1 said:

Also the wheel nuts/bolts for their correct tightening torque. With a follow up check after a few miles.

Check after 30 minutes after first torqueing up or 60 miles travelled is rule of thumb. I doubt Fred knows that you should recheck them.

Car_54

MinuteNoodles said:

fred246 said:

The garages just guess. If I have a tyre fitted I always check the pressures when I get home. They are always nowhere near what they should be. Always well underinflated.

No they don't. There's the plate on the vehicle driver's door pillars that say what it is, they usually also have a large chart on the wall.

But Fred doesn't trust tyre fitters to jack his car up, so he just takes the wheel. Probably in a different vehicle just to confuse them further.