Jimbothebarbarian
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Registered: 19th Apr 07
Location: Cumbria..........drunk..
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Originally posted by _Allan_
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Originally posted by Jimbothebarbarian
I went once for some new Contisport contact tires. The cunts sold me four for less than I could get from anywhere else! Including black circles and camskill, fuckers..
Don't worry m8. The more than make up for it with the wheel refurb costs.
My wheels don't last long enough round here to need refurbs TBH. 
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shaned12345
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Registered: 28th Sep 10
Location: Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
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http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?58-Garage-services
Have a look on there, plenty of bad stories about kwik fit if you go through a few pages...
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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I had front and back disks and pads replaced on my Grand Cherokee by Kwik-Fit on 14th May 2013. It was done at the Crawley, County Oak brank.
I was charged over £500 for the job. Last night, 18th May 2013, with my two children, wife and I in the car, we had just started off on the motorway, travelling at aprox 60 miles an hour, when we smelt a horrible burning smell. We immediately got of the motorway, stopped, jumped out to have a look and found the rear passenger side wheel glowing red and the tyre smouldering.
Luckily, we have a couple of drums of water in the car and dowsed the wheel to cool it down and then called the AA.
The AA arrived some hours latter, but even after this time the AA man could still smell the horrible buring smell. He checked the car and confirmed the fault was rubbing break pads, which had caused friction.
In the words of the AA man "Kwik-Fit have messed up the job and your lucky to be alive".
The AA man pointed out the the smouldering trye was on the same side of the car as both the petrol and LPG tank and if we had not have stopped and had the water to dowse the wheel, from the heat damage he could see, the tyre would have burst into flames and potentially ignited the fuel and LPG.
He also explained that the tyre was only moments from failling due to the heat and this could have caused the car to crash if travelling at speed on a motorway.
Thats pretty typically shit from Kwik Fit, however talk about over drama and scaremongering 
[Edited on 21-05-2013 by Steve]
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Generation
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Registered: 7th Jul 09
Location: Essex
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Big over drama
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Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
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Isnt their slogan
Kwik Fit... you'll be amazed at what we do..
Seems rather fitting to be honest!
On a side note, for some reason the wifes mum took her car to a kwik fit for a service. They said the front brakes were worn to 90% with fucked discs
and that the rear wheel cylinders were leaking and wanted to replace the shoes drums and cylinder
Funnily enough, they were all fine when i checked them..
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
Location: Glasgow
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Cant get shitter than a Kwik Fit fitter
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WukaChop
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Registered: 9th Apr 13
Location: Birmingham
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My dad took his there to have the handbrake cable on the Mondeo changed, and they changed the entire braking system and didn't even tell us. Well, until the bill came.
[Edited on 22-05-2013 by WukaChop]
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Steve
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fpmsl
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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Did you pay the bill?
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: MK
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But Nic said....
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
Kwik fit are no different to anywhere else tbh.
Must just be a coincidence 
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WukaChop
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Registered: 9th Apr 13
Location: Birmingham
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I think we shouted at them a bit and eventually we agreed to only pay for the work that actually needed doing (Handbrake cable, front O/S disc, even though we didn't ask them to do that)
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WukaChop
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Registered: 9th Apr 13
Location: Birmingham
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God knows, I could be wrong mate, it was 2006, I was 12 at the time. I do know that Mondeo has had so many problems with the brakes.
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