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 existing tyre on it has a split.

I started on the four new tyres, jacking the car up and removing the wheels one by one. The old tyres were removed and the new ones fitted, they were inflated to the correct pressures, balanced and fitted back on the car, tightening the bolts to the correct torque setting.

Checking the old tyres I found one of them was only a year old and still had 6mm of tread left. This would be fitted to the spare. Because of the small split in the rim, the owner wanted to keep the wheel as a spare only, but it needs to be able to stay inflated. To help with this I added a liquid rubber sealer to the rim before mounting the tyre. Once inflated any excess sealer was pushed into the split which helped seal the tyre to the rim.

Due to some uneven wear on the front tyres I used our supertracker equipment to check the wheel alignment on the car. With this car the trackrods are above the front wheels which makes it difficult to adjust. Luckily the figures showed that the tracking was well within the tolerance for the car and didn't need any adjustment.

Once completed I took a payment from the customer by card machine and emailed a report on the car along with the receipt.