I put urgent in the title because I have to go back into the tyre shop this afternoon to possibly kick off about some terrible tyres so I hope a few people wouldn't mind reading what happened and advise me what to do please...
Basically I have a mate who works in a tyre shop so I called him up end of last month and asked him for some tyre advice, basically I wanted something with good grip that wouldn't break the bank, he told me about some NEXEN tyres that were slightly more expensive than the proper budget tyres but comparable to the better known brands in terms of grip, so I popped in when I was passing and he showed me the tyres (they looked decent but I know Sweet FA about tyres) but didn't end up fitting there and then as it was right before pay day and I still had a couple of 100 miles in my old tyres.
Anyhow jump forward to this week and I went in for the rear tyres changing and basically they are CRAP I'm getting traction control lights flashing on my dash at 30 mph corners not even pushed them and TBH I wouldn't dare much much less grip than my old balding tyres.
So I checked them this morning and they aren't NEXEN they are Event that got put on, I called my mate, (on his mobile) and he said I needed to call his boss on the shop phone which I did. In fairness he told me to come in and he'd have a look but his first suggestion was to put the terrible event tyres on the front and some NEXENs on the rear, which I think he is wanting to charge me for... My fronts aren't new but they are well within legal limit and they are contisports so I don't want to swap them for these... I'm now worried if even the nexen will be any good as one of the things he said was that both NEXEN and Event were "good tyres" and I'm thinking even my mates nexen recommendation maybe just him being brainwashed into selling them by his boss
Help please I really don't know what to do.. I'm £120 down at the moment with a set of completely useless tyres to show for it and I'm off on a European road trip next weekend meaning a) I need some good tyres on my car but also b) I have naff all money left as the holiday is expensive.
Any advice would be very much appreciated
Basically I have a mate who works in a tyre shop so I called him up end of last month and asked him for some tyre advice, basically I wanted something with good grip that wouldn't break the bank, he told me about some NEXEN tyres that were slightly more expensive than the proper budget tyres but comparable to the better known brands in terms of grip, so I popped in when I was passing and he showed me the tyres (they looked decent but I know Sweet FA about tyres) but didn't end up fitting there and then as it was right before pay day and I still had a couple of 100 miles in my old tyres.
Anyhow jump forward to this week and I went in for the rear tyres changing and basically they are CRAP I'm getting traction control lights flashing on my dash at 30 mph corners not even pushed them and TBH I wouldn't dare much much less grip than my old balding tyres.
So I checked them this morning and they aren't NEXEN they are Event that got put on, I called my mate, (on his mobile) and he said I needed to call his boss on the shop phone which I did. In fairness he told me to come in and he'd have a look but his first suggestion was to put the terrible event tyres on the front and some NEXENs on the rear, which I think he is wanting to charge me for... My fronts aren't new but they are well within legal limit and they are contisports so I don't want to swap them for these... I'm now worried if even the nexen will be any good as one of the things he said was that both NEXEN and Event were "good tyres" and I'm thinking even my mates nexen recommendation maybe just him being brainwashed into selling them by his boss
Help please I really don't know what to do.. I'm £120 down at the moment with a set of completely useless tyres to show for it and I'm off on a European road trip next weekend meaning a) I need some good tyres on my car but also b) I have naff all money left as the holiday is expensive.
Any advice would be very much appreciated
