New Rear Shoes After 13,200 miles (3 years)

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ksher

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 Bedfordshire
My car had a new pair of Bridgestone RFT fitted at Kwik-fit today for £467. A BMW dealer (15 miles away) wanted nearly £50 more. I saved the money for its first MOT this Friday. The fitter managed to make a 20mm long minor scratch on one wheel :( .

BMW Insured Warranty with no excess is now £44 per month (no emergency service).
 
ksher said:
My car had a new pair of Bridgestone RFT fitted at Kwik-fit today for £467. A BMW dealer (15 miles away) wanted nearly £50 more. I saved the money for its first MOT this Friday. The fitter managed to make a 20mm long minor scratch on one wheel :( .

BMW Insured Warranty with no excess is now £44 per month (no emergency service).
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If refitting runflats I sometimes wonder if its better to pay the extra and go to BMW and hopefully have damage free wheels. My worry would be high street tyre places aren't geared up to correctly remove and fit runflats :|

Tim.
 
I think the very minor scratch was done by inserting the disc when removing the tyre. I already chose the Kwil-fit which have more expensive car customers, and hoped they would care more customers' cars.
 
TitanTim said:
If refitting runflats I sometimes wonder if its better to pay the extra and go to BMW and hopefully have damage free wheels. My worry would be high street tyre places aren't geared up to correctly remove and fit runflats :|
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Some are one step away from tyre levers ---- but there is an independant guy close to us that has some very sophisticated kit! The sort that the equipment makes no contact with the wheel! (no I dont know how it works either!)
Last time I was in there was a rather nice Ferrari having some big rubber fitted to some very nice looking wheels. I think I would trust him with my car. :wink:
 
ronk said:
Some are one step away from tyre levers ---- but there is an independant guy close to us that has some very sophisticated kit! The sort that the equipment makes no contact with the wheel! (no I dont know how it works either!)
Last time I was in there was a rather nice Ferrari having some big rubber fitted to some very nice looking wheels. I think I would trust him with my car. :wink:
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Like this one? The tool only contacts the rubber when pulling out and putting in the tyre.
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Yes - Thats the sort of kit he has. The downside is the average bods in his garage still prefer the old bish bosh bang methods and kit. It only seems to be used when something special is in the garage - I hope the Zed will qualify!
 
My 1st zd was an 03 and runflats fairly new. local brittania fitter spent like 1 hour trying to pull the tyre. 2 of them on it and me watching I saw the tyre snap back on the rim and the tool smash down on the fitters hand. he grabbed his hand and jumoped around a bit and then removed his hand and it was like a boiled egg. I said you have broken it so he went off to hospital.

It took another 2 hours to get the tyres off and during that time the poor fitter phoned his boss telling him hes broken 3 bones in his hands. I told the owner to just get the tyres on and if he damages them so be it and we can take it out with the machine manufactures. The owner just did not understand as the new kit was designed just for runflats.

I have never had any issues with local fitters damaging any of my rims and I have had a few tyres.

My advice is clean your rims before going in and show them, so any damage they must repair.

And way back with the 03 my local BMW dealer would sub the work to local dealer so you never know.
 
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