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M3 Fleet Services - a rapid response. Peugeot Partner van
Hometyre North Hampshire received a call from a stranded tradesman who had limped into Fleet Services with a shredded rear tyre. He had no spare, it had gone in for repair following an earlier puncture! The time was 5.35pm on a Thursday. Could he...
VW Touran in Odiham Hampshire
The owner of this VW Touran called us after having clipped the kerb and damaging the sidewall causing the wheel to deflate. They tried the supplied inflation kit supplied with the car but as usual it was ineffective as these kits are not suitable...
Puncture Fix in Fleet Hampshire Mazda 3
The owner of this Mazda 3 in Fleet in Hampshire set off for work one morning and having travelled about fifty yards realised that he wasn't going anywhere! He had a puncture. Having nursed the car back to his drive he then managed to get a lift to...
VW Sharan in Church Crookham
A gentleman on the outskirts of Church Crookham found himself with a flat tyre on his VW Sharan one Saturday morning. As is usual nowadays he had no spare but he did have an inflation kit. As is also usual 50% of the time, the inflation kit was...
Abnormal Tyre Wear
This picture shows something that we see very often. A tyre heavily worn on the inside shoulder. In fact the tyre had worn so much that it wore through the casing and eventually deflated. Luckily, the car owner was not driving down a motorway at...
VW Touareg. Hometyre makes it easy
The owner of a property management company who works from home saw us having just completed a tyre replacement on a neighbour's Audi TT. He approached us and enquired as to how much tyres for his VW Touareg would be. We simply showed him the...
Pothole damage to VW Golf
I was recently flagged down on a country road by a mother and daughter who had been driving along in their VW Golf and had inadvertently driven into a pothole. The impact of hitting the pothole caused an immediate fracture of the circumference of...
Land Rover Discovery and Mercedes S500
A lady in Rotherwick, an outlying village near Hook in North Hampshire suffered a puncture to her Land Rover Discovery. Her immediate need of fitting the spare wheel at the roadside was carried out by her breakdown and recovery company. The next...
Rural tyre problem for young mum.
A lady in a small very rural North Hampshire hamlet had been advised by her small local garage that there was a problem with her front tyres on her Ford Fiesta. In particular one was in need of changing as soon as possible. However, the lady had...
Cheap Tyres Anyone?
Have you seen those adverts for CHEAP TYRES!!!!! in your local paper? You know, the ones that say TYRE PRICES FROM £25 or £35? Well, what do you actually get? Firstly, you will...
Tyre continually losing pressure?
How often should I check my tyre pressures? Drivers are recommended to check their tyre pressures weekly. This is really just to make sure that you have not picked up a slow puncture. If your tyres need to be brought back up to pressure every...
Mercedes ML in Virginia Water
A repeat customer in Virginia Water has a very busy schedule and does not have the time available to drive to a fitting centre. His working week finished on a Thursday night and the next day he was taking his family to a half term holiday break...
Stranded in Alresford, but not for long!
A lady customer contacted us when she had a puncture on her Range Rover Evoque. She had managed to nurse the car to a parking spot at the back of the shop that she ran in picturesque Alresford, but now the tyre was well and truly flat and of...
THE DANGER OF POTHOLES
A customer called us out to deal with the two tyres on the left side of his Renault Clio. They had instantly deflated when he ran into a pothole on his way home. He nursed the car home and called us out. On investigating the wheels we found both...
Overtightened wheel nuts.
If you have visited a fast fit centre in the past, chances are that you will have seen wheelnuts being removed and retightened using an airgun. The machine gun like rat-a-tat-tat of the airgun as it tightens up or loosens off a set of nuts is a...
Porsche 911
HI was recently called to replace the rear tyres on this Porsche 911. The tyre requirements for Porsche are more exacting than for many cars. As a Porsche is such a high performance car, in order to ensure that tyres are suitable for...
Punctures
Whenever we repair a puncture we do so in compliance with the British Standard BS AU159. Our repairs are limited to a designated area of the tread. This area is determined by the width of the tyre as follows:- Up to and...
Audi A7
I had a call to attend a customer's Audi A7 in a small hamlet outside of Winchester. The property was very picturesquely located down a narrow lane and the location was idyllic. The only problem is that the type of services available in a town...
Why not run winter tyres all year round?
I have just had an instance of a customer having winter tyres fitted that they intend to run all year. The customer with a Nissan Terrano had Pirelli Ice and Snow tyres fitted. his annual mileage is not high and so he decided that it would make...Buy Tyres Online Here
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