parts hoarding lol
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parts hoarding lol
Am I hoarding?
Right I have an issue where I often go down 2 or 3 routes to do things, recent example is my mrs ran into a loose curbstone. She drove home with the flat tyre (about 2-3 miles)
and left it on the drive. Car is a 2006 fiesta with 195/50/15. As the tyre was shagged I swapped the wheel for the spare 185/55/14.
For the last couple weeks she’s been driving on the spare while I tried to find a wheel local to me, eventually I gave up and got a fiesta breakers to send me one, described as with a great tyre (breakers are a little loose with their descriptions) I would describe it as a cheap but legal tyre.
The wheel however is the right part number and all correct and for £30 im happy. Now I spoke with a place that has done some wheel refurbs for me and they reckon they might be able to straighten the bent steel (and at the same time put a new tyre I have) on it for £20. Local places to me will put the good tyre on the recently acquired wheel for a tenner.
Maybe it’s a slow day at work, but im trying to decide if I should save the bent wheel and fit the tyre for £20 and stick the other wheel in the garage for when she does another one
or just bin the old wheel and tyre and put the better tyre onto the newly acquired wheel
Your thoughts?
Rory
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Right I have an issue where I often go down 2 or 3 routes to do things, recent example is my mrs ran into a loose curbstone. She drove home with the flat tyre (about 2-3 miles)
and left it on the drive. Car is a 2006 fiesta with 195/50/15. As the tyre was shagged I swapped the wheel for the spare 185/55/14. For the last couple weeks she’s been driving on the spare while I tried to find a wheel local to me, eventually I gave up and got a fiesta breakers to send me one, described as with a great tyre (breakers are a little loose with their descriptions) I would describe it as a cheap but legal tyre.
The wheel however is the right part number and all correct and for £30 im happy. Now I spoke with a place that has done some wheel refurbs for me and they reckon they might be able to straighten the bent steel (and at the same time put a new tyre I have) on it for £20. Local places to me will put the good tyre on the recently acquired wheel for a tenner.
Maybe it’s a slow day at work, but im trying to decide if I should save the bent wheel and fit the tyre for £20 and stick the other wheel in the garage for when she does another one
or just bin the old wheel and tyre and put the better tyre onto the newly acquired wheelYour thoughts?
Rory
(bored at work)
And make her learn a lesson by paying for her own wheel and tyre.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
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And make her learn a lesson by paying for her own wheel and tyre.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
she called me when it happened and i told her to drive it back carefully and slowly and i fitted the spare for her.
this is not yet another thread for you to rant on....
And make her learn a lesson by paying for her own wheel and tyre.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
Perhaps take her license and burn it as well.
No excuse to drive that distance and not notice a flat tyre or drive on regardless. Its not even a low profile tyre
You hear of so many daft bints doing the same. My bosses wife doesnt drive his porsche now after driving for ages with a flat and only noticing when flagged down by another motorist. She then carried on anyway and ran over a big pot hole punching a hole in the expensive alloy wheel.
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Hoarding would be being unable to buy one steel, so buying a set of four alloys as an upgrade, then finding out they had been incorrectly listed and were the wrong size, so buying another set of four, only to discover all the tyres were too poor to fit to a wheelbarrow and in your search for inexpensive tyres, finding a matching set on some wheels for a VW so buying those, leaving you with:
1 spare steel 14
3 good steel 15s
1 bent steel 15
4 14" alloys with tyres
4 15 inch alloys and tyres on the car
4 15 inch VW alloys without tyres
Then chuck the whole lot in the shed and wonder why you have no space.
That's NEVER happened to me....
1 spare steel 14
3 good steel 15s
1 bent steel 15
4 14" alloys with tyres
4 15 inch alloys and tyres on the car
4 15 inch VW alloys without tyres
Then chuck the whole lot in the shed and wonder why you have no space.
That's NEVER happened to me....
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Hoarding would be being unable to buy one steel, so buying a set of four alloys as an upgrade, then finding out they had been incorrectly listed and were the wrong size, so buying another set of four, only to discover all the tyres were too poor to fit to a wheelbarrow and in your search for inexpensive tyres, finding a matching set on some wheels for a VW so buying those, leaving you with:
1 spare steel 14
3 good steel 15s
1 bent steel 15
4 14" alloys with tyres
4 15 inch alloys and tyres on the car
4 15 inch VW alloys without tyres
Then chuck the whole lot in the shed and wonder why you have no space.
That's NEVER happened to me....
1 spare steel 14
3 good steel 15s
1 bent steel 15
4 14" alloys with tyres
4 15 inch alloys and tyres on the car
4 15 inch VW alloys without tyres
Then chuck the whole lot in the shed and wonder why you have no space.
That's NEVER happened to me....
I've only got 3 sets of tyres and 2 sets of wheels in the garage already
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