One of today's jobs was to carry out a puncture repair on a Continental Conti seal tyre on an Audi Q7. There was a screw through the centre of the tread, the tyre still had 5.5mm of tread depth still remaining, so the owner wanted it repairing....
A customer imported a 57 Chevrolet from the USA, it has been restored and had new front suspension fitted. The car arrived at his home on a transporter and upon inspecting it, he noticed that one front wheel was sticking out by around 10 degrees...
The first job this morning was to attend a Toyota Hiace with a flat tyre, the owner thought he had picked up a puncture. I jacked the vehicle up, removed the wheel nuts and took the wheel into my van.
A check around the tyre didn't show...
A customer who works from home, found Hometyre on the internet and liked the idea of having his tyres changed at home, while he continued working. The rear tyres had been replaced recently, but both front tyres on the Kuga were worn in the centre...
After getting a puncture and driving on
it, the runflat tyre eventually split as the owner of this Mini got home. (See photo - Right)
After checking the rest of the tyres and realising that they were all nearing the legal...
Today I was called out to the Wiston Estate, as their ride on mower had a torn tyre.
They already had a replacement tyre, but needed a mobile tyre service to come out and fit it for them. They had tried a few other tyre fitting...
I was called out to a customer in Worthing with a flat tyre on a Peugeot 407. The AA had come out to the lady roadside and fitted her spare wheel so she could get home. The AA couldn't find any sign of a puncture, so they told her there was...
Today's customer in Hove blew a tyre on his Audi A5 S, so he arranged for us at Hometyre Sussex to come and change his front tyres outside his apartment.
Since the car had been lowered, I had to start with a jack at the rear, just to...
A repeat customer in Elmer called to say he had a sensor light on his dash telling him he had a flat tyre.
Since this car is fitted with runflat tyres it is not possible to carry out a repair, so a new tyre was required. There is no...
The dreaded 'B' word... Brexit is almost here, one worry in the tyre industry has been the possibility of tyre shortages from the EU.
Discussions have been had with most of the major manufacturers, who don't see any major impact on...
A customer in Bognor Regis called our main office for a quotation on a tyre for his BMW 325. We fitted a new Excelon tyre in a 225/40R18 to the vehicle.
This particular 325 was manufactured in 2002 and only had around 90,000 miles on...
Hometyre West Sussex were called out to Hove last week to fit a single Autogrip tyre to a Ford KA.
This was a repeat customer who we had been out to couple of months ago, the last time we were there we did a routine tyre inspection of...
Our head office received a call from a distressed customer in Littlehampton late on a Tuesday afternoon, the customer had called a different company out to remove the locking wheel nuts but had unfortunately been let down.
Our team in the office received a phone call from a customer in Worthing, Sussex, who had a boat trailer with tyres in urgent need of some TLC!
The tyres had been on the boat trailer for around 8 years which is way past the recommended...
Hometyre West Sussex went out to a possible puncture repair on a VW Beetle in Brighton last week. The customer had run over a nail in the road, there was some building work going on just down the road from their house so we figured they must have...
Last week I was called out to a Mercedes SLK with a flat tyre. The customer had tried to remove the wheel himself to fit his spare, but found that he could not move the nuts.
We carry better tools than those in the cars tool kit,...
We received a call from a customer in Havant who had a puncture on her Citroen 2 CV.
This Classic Car, called the 'deux-cheveaux' or the 'two horses' in English, was introduced in Paris and was manufactured between 1948 and...
One of this weeks jobs seemed simple enough when booked. The lady said that she had a flat tyre that had gone down on her driveway, so she suspected a nail or screw in the tyre and was hoping it could just be fixed. When we get a job like...
Are large wheels becoming the Norm?
It used to be that 20" wheels would pop up on my job list once every 2 ~ 3 months, but recently they have been around almost every week.
Last week for...
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