Woohoo - I have a greenie!! <ew> Many thanks to all who helped me shed my whitie status!!
Woohoo - I have a greenie!! <ew> Many thanks to all who helped me shed my whitie status!!
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I had to finally accept the truth - all four tyres on my car needed replacing, despite the protests from my credit card.
I went to my local branch of ATS and asked for a price. They quoted £528 and could have the tyres in and on my car the next day. I went home slightly grief stricken by this amount so got busy on the internet to see what other prices I could find (whilst my credit card hid under the bed, quietly sobbing.)
I wasn't particularly hopeful of finding many alternatives, as I live in a fairly remote part of Wales so outlets of any retailer are few and far between. However, I did have a look at Kwik Fit's website www.kwik-fit.com to see if there was a branch nearby, and if so, what price they could offer.
I thought that it would be quite complicated and I would need to search through lists of tyres, with weird specifications and numbers on them that wouldn't mean a lot to me but I was pleasantly surprised! On the Kwik Fit site, you don't need to go outside, crouch down and examine your tyres to write down all the meaningless numbers and symbols on the tyres, so that you can select the correct ones. You can just enter your car registration and it will automatically give you all the options as to which tyres could be suitable for your car with the prices! Result!
In addition, I saw that the website offers the option of booking an appointment at a time suitable for me, so that I could go in at the appointed time and have my tyres changed, instead of just having to turn up on spec and wait my turn in a queue behind everyone else having their tyres changed. Or I could book Kwik Fit mobile, which would mean one of their vans would come out to me with my tyres on board and change my tyres for me at my home.
I decided to book an appointment and go to the local Kwik Fit 13 miles away. I followed the simple to use instructions on line, selected my appointment time, selected the tyres (with the husband's help I ruefully have to say. It gave three tyre options for my car and I didn't know the difference, except the difference in price and name. I'm not convinced my husband did either despite his protestations to the contrary, but that's another story, lol!) I paid for the tyres in the same on line process and that was it, done! AND it was £440 - £88 cheaper than ATS!
I received an e-mail receipt and confirmation of my booking and took the receipt to Kwik Fit at my appointment time the next day. My car was immediately taken in at the appointment time and half an hour later it was all done.
Brilliant - I'll definitely go to Kwik Fit for tyres again (but hopefully it won't be necessary for some time yet!))
PS I've had to give a rating for 'Competitiveness of APR' which isn't applicable here, but Ciao seems to be forcing me to give a rating on it, so I've selected Average.
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Oct 28th, 2009
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