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TPMS Swap over

One of the jobs this week was for a previous customer who has bought a new Ford Mondeo. The car came with Low profile tyres on 19" rims which he did not like as the ride was hard. He also had a set of 18" rims already fitted with...

Why should you fit new tyres to the rear?

When most people buy new tyres they often fit them to the front as they believe that these are the driving wheels and must have the best tread, are less likely to suffer a blowout and can cope better with the rigors of steering, accelerating and...

Electronic Wheel Balancing on a Mercedes S Class

One of todays jobs was to check the wheel balancing on a Mercedes S Class. The owner had been getting vibration through the steering wheel at speed. He took the car to a local garage in Emsworth, they re-balanced his wheels, but also told...

VW Golf Tyre pressure Monitoring system reset. (TPMS reset)

If you get a low pressure warning light on your dash, although this light may be an indication of a puncture, that's not always the case! It could be that you simply may have low pressure in your tyres, or you may have just replaced a tyre and...

How to Reset your Ford Fiesta Tyre Pressure Warning Light.

If you lose pressure in a tyre or change any tyres on your Ford Fiesta and it is fitted with TPMS sensor valves, then you need to first adjust all tyres to their correct pressures (check the label inside the passenger door frame). Of course if your...

Badly fitted tyre in Barnham

One of the jobs today was to re-balance the front wheels on a Fiat 500 as the customer was getting vibration through the steering wheel when driving at 50 mph. I soon had the vehicle jacked up and removed each front wheel in turn,...

Subaru locknut removal

I had an emergancy call out from a customer in Worthing with a Subery Legacy. He arrived at work to find his tyre had gone flat. He went to put the spare on only to find that his locking wheelnut removal socket was missing so he could not change...

Do you need to check your tyre pressures?

At Hometyre, we check the tyre pressures in all tyres when working on your vehicle, and through this we often find that most people don't check and adjust their pressures on a regular basis. As an example, a Lexus I went to today had...

Audi tyres in Storrington

My last job of the day was an Audi A6 in Storrington the owner wanted to have all four tyres replaced with budget tyres, plus have the best of the old tyres fitted on the spare. The existing spare rim has a small crack in the alloy and the...

Slow leak caused by corrosion within the wheel

One of today's jobs was a Daihatsu Sirion where both front tyres would lose around 10 psi every week. The owner thought she had punctures in both tyres and called us at Hometyre to fix the tyres or replace them depending on what we found. ...

Ford Fiesta Tyres and TPMS replacement.

I was called out to a job in Tangmere, the owner of this Ford Fiesta had a punctured tyre, but had then driven the car for around a mile to get it home, totally destroying the tyre. Since he was about to sell the car, he decided to...

The problem with painted wheels

Today I was called out to a Land Rover Range Rover in Pulborough with nice black 22" wheels, the TPMS light kept coming on, letting the customer know there was a tyre pressure loss. The owner called us at Hometyre as they thought they had a...

Does your TPMS light come on at odd times?

Tyre pressure sensors are designed to go off when there is a pressure drop, so that you can be alerted of a puncture. With indirect systems that work off the ABS system, that pressure can be as much as 10psi before the alarm goes off. With the...

New wheel rims for a classic mini

A previous customer called me out to fit tyres to his old Mini, he had just bought it recently and was starting to do it up. The car came with steel wheels, which still had good tyres on them. The customer had bought new alloy wheel rims and...

Part Worn Tyre Problems on a Kia Sportage

I was called out to a Kia Sportage with a flat tyre. The owner explained that he only had it fitted last week and it had lost pressure almost immediately. He had pumped it back up and it lasted for a few days but had gone down again. He suspected...

Goodyear Asymmetric Tyre for a BMW 3 Series

Goodyear tyres seem to be becoming more popular at the moment, especially with higher performance vehicles. Since the new Asymmetric 5 was launched, Goodyear have been phasing out the Asymmetric 3. As the Asy 3 was an OEM fitment for older BMWs,...

Two APlus Tyres for a Fiat 500

Fiat 500s are becoming more and more popular, in turn, we are seeing more and more them coming through our hands for new tyres. This lady had booked herself in for two new front tyres as they had worn down to just above the minimum tread depth of...

BMW Locknut removal after removal socket was damaged.

A customer took his car to a well known fast fit tyre depot to have two new tyres fitted ready for an MOT. They took the car into the workshop then cam to him saying that his locknuts were over tightened and the removal socket had broken. They...

Another part worn tyre nightmare in Littlehampton.

I was booked in to fit two new tyres to a Ford Ranger. When I arrived, the customer explained that he had a part worn tyre fitted last month, it still had around 8mm of tread and cost him £25 (He thought he had a bargain). The 4x4 went...

Brand New Sensor Valve for a Ford Focus ST

Recently, we had a call from a customer who had just bought a used Ford Focus ST. But, after driving home he noticed that the TPMS warning light was showing.