PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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Tracking & 3 Wheel Balances - £28.02
tracking was out by a shed load - always pulling to the left... also heavy vibrations above 40mph...
sorted it all out & also found one of the front wheels was buckled (something KwikFit didnt notice when my dad took the car 2 months ago to be sorted) place I went said it looked like it was tracked using candle light & shadow puppets 
so now also have an alloy wheel in need of refurbishment - about £40+delivery ontop...
still, all the way to 70 & no pulling to one side or vibrations!
anything I can do though about kwikfit from 2 months ago?? need to have words with the father for not taking it to the usual garage...
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Joff
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No, that was an expense you DID need.
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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i know... but if my father had taken the car to where i originally told him to - none of this may not of been needed
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stubbsy05
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Have you got your mantzel yet Paul?
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PaulW
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no 
had a few 'unforseen' bills come up so thats out the window atm...
plus still not sold the other alloys...
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
place I went said it looked like it was tracked using candle light & shadow puppets
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Tracking & 3 Wheel Balances - £28.02
tracking was out by a shed load - always pulling to the left... also heavy vibrations above 40mph...
sorted it all out & also found one of the front wheels was buckled (something KwikFit didnt notice when my dad took the car 2 months ago to be sorted) place I went said it looked like it was tracked using candle light & shadow puppets
so now also have an alloy wheel in need of refurbishment - about £40+delivery ontop...
still, all the way to 70 & no pulling to one side or vibrations!
anything I can do though about kwikfit from 2 months ago?? need to have words with the father for not taking it to the usual garage...
kiwk fit are absolutely appalling my mrs took her car to a branch in evesham to have the tracking done and tyre replace (tyre was worn due to tracking being out)
then one month later the same tyre was fucked again, took it to another kwik fit branch in bromsgrove and they said the tracking had never been done!!! then they stung us again for a new tyre, now the other tyre on the car was fine but they said it was company policy to replace both tyres i though that was bollox and rang up the head office, they said no it wasnt company policy to replace two tyres at once and gave the evesham branch a bollocking for not tracking it in the first place, they agreed to give us £80 of our money back, from about £160 spent 
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
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Kwik Fit are monkeys, my Dad's Vectra went in twice and they still didn't fix it.
He took it to a local garage and it was fine after that.
They did give him the second time free as they screwed up the first, though.
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ajscorsa
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Registered: 30th Apr 02
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why anyone goes to kwick fit is beyond me, especially when they have 16 yr old kids doin ure trackin, i dont trust them at all
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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^^ agreed only went there bcus mrs tyres were on the metal threads and they were the only place that had the queers size she has on the seicento in stock, over 60 quid for a 13 inch tyre
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leeshez
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My dictonary i will convert for you.
Kwik Fit = Useless retards.
I will never trust them.
A friend went because of her brakes so they said they did this that and the other but when a garage checked they did nothing of the sort.
[Edited on 29-12-2004 by leeshez]
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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i dont trust them - never have & never will..
is just the nob-jockey step dad who took it there 
my cousin in her infinate dumbness went for brakes to be sorted, quoted her £300 for new discs & pads to be fitted up front I did it for her for £60
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fax2004
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Registered: 1st Nov 03
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My dads Focus goes to quick fit for tyres because its a lease vehicle, he don't care what they do as long as they're quick, and its gone through 3 sets of front in 26,000 because they say every time they've set the track, but obviously never do!
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Colin
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Theres a kwik-fit at the bottom of my street - sound bunch of lads. Always do me free work like replacing tyres, tracking, welding exhausts, etc even let me dump stuff in there container. I was at them on Monday to remove the heat shield from my exhaust and done it straight away and the bloke wouldnt even let my give him a £5 for his troubles
[Edited on 29-12-2004 by Kolin]
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