Bonus
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Registered: 13th May 02
Location: Cheltenham
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Can someone explain this too me!
I Badly curbed one of my alloys last week, because there High power silver, I knew it would be expensive to respray, so as well as quotes for respraying I looked into just buying a new alloy since the tyre was fine. Phoned a few places and a new alloy, (Team Dynamics Mirage HPS 16/195/45) was going to cost me about £105-£115.
Just buy chance i was in halfords for sumit else, and noticed that they sold the Mirage, so out of interest i went and asked the girl behind the counter for a price. She had a look on the system and told me that they only had price for the wheel with a tyre and that it was £165, just for the one wheel!!. I asked if they could do it with out tyre, she wasn’t sure, and went off to ask someone.
She came back and said she could get a price, but needed to ring the supplier. She phoned, and they told her the price just for the wheel was, £58 + Vat, (about 70 quid all in). She then sold me the wheel for 70 quid and i picked it up yesterday.
So whats going on?! I think shes sold it too me at the trade price! It cant be an extra £95 just for a cheap tyre!?
Speaking to a friend, he knows someone whos done the same. That means u can buy a set of 4 alloys for £280 without tyres where as they sell them with for £700!! Tyres only cost £55 quid where i get them from (yoko).
Anyone else found this with halfords?
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Sounds like a wicked loophole if it works! If i werent emmigrating, i would be down to Halfords sharpish!
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Bonus, post this up in general chat
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Bonus
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Registered: 13th May 02
Location: Cheltenham
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ok - moving to General Chat.
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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beast u jus stuffed halfords 
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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i used to sell 17" alloys for 90 quid a time
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