Blobcat
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That’s not such a bad amount all things considering. It’s the unexpected uplift from a £20 repair to 4 new tyres that takes some absorbing.TLDR: Sunday I went in for a single tyre repair, and came out with 4 new tyres on my w203 C270 :/ On the plus side, now safer and road holding and feel has been drastically improved.
So, Sunday morning I pop into STS TyrePros to get rear driver’s-side tyre repaired. It has had a problem retaining pressure recently and I thought it may be a faulty valve or rim sealing problems like two of the others I had had serviced but in Saturday I noticed what looked like a stone in the tread, on closer inspection it was the head of a silver coloured wood screw. Given the location in the middle of the thread I thought it was prime for a repair.
In Nov 2016 I put 4 new Michelin CrossClimate 205/55 R16 91V on the car, done maybe 17k Miles on them, still plenty of tread (or so I thought).
I hadn’t got 20mins walk from the garage before they chap called me and said they could not repair the tyre as there was a nail through the inside edge as well, too close to the edge to repair and within a 90deg quadrant of the screw so they wouldn’t repair it. The news didn’t stop there; the passenger front tyre had a slash through the tread all the way to the belting (most likely caused by driving over a piece of glass or metal), it was also almost completely worn to the bars on the outside tyre edge (roundabouts) and the rear passenger tyre was worn almost to the bars on the inside edge (most likely caused by the bad busing on the left of the rear seat bar I had done in Jan, although not mentioned by the mechanic :/ )
To top it off, both front wheels were out of alignment (both toe in) which set me back £50 on top of the tyre cost (is this really the going rate for alignment nowadays?)
£425 later and I come out with 4 replacement CrossClimate tyres, having gone in for a £25 repair. Not happy about the unexpected spend but happy that the diligent staff spotted the safety issues and saved me potential license points had some of the tyres worn any further.
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