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    Fscking grease monkeys

    What would you do? I am taking a car to have its tyres swapped for the winter ones.

    Do I drop it off, go shopping, and then try and not worry about what they're up to?

    or

    Do I stay an' watch to see them struggling to put a wheel back on because they don't know about the locator pin on the hub (15mm long, 10 mm diameter i.e. not exactly small or easy to miss) when they fail they then try and put a back wheel on the front...

    Fscking grease monkeys. I'd do it myself, but a condition of the insurance is that I have to use someone 'qualified'. Fscking joke if you ask me....

    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

    #2
    Originally posted by threaded
    Fscking grease monkeys. I'd do it myself, but a condition of the insurance is that I have to use someone 'qualified'. Fscking joke if you ask me....

    Is the qualified stipulation for changing your tyres or fitting the wheels?

    what would you do if you had a puncture?
    Last edited by Troll; 4 November 2006, 16:03.
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #3
      Originally posted by threaded
      Fscking grease monkeys. I'd do it myself, but a condition of the insurance is that I have to use someone 'qualified'. Fscking joke if you ask me....
      Qualifed what frikkin car you got.....a lowered nova with skirts?

      I think you dont given grease monkies more than enough credit.

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        #4
        Send your car to india - they are far more qualified and it will be cheaper.
        Vieze Oude Man

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          #5
          Originally posted by threaded
          Fscking grease monkeys. I'd do it myself, but a condition of the insurance is that I have to use someone 'qualified'. Fscking joke if you ask me....

          They haven't done anything wrong yet!

          If I was that worried I'd have labelled the winter wheels before taking it in, but I suppose that solution is too simple for a genius like you!

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            #6
            You tell 'em threaded.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Troll
              Is the qualified stipulation for changing your tyres or fitting the wheels?

              what would you do if you had a puncture?
              Well, I guess that means you haven't read your car insurance and so don't already know the answer.

              So, so, sad.
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                I didn't know you can become "qualified" for tyre fitting. What is the course you have to take to get accreditation, is it a City & Guilds, OND, HND or a degree?

                Judging by the employees at my local tyre shop, I'm not sure many of them made it beyond 16 at school.

                btw..what would you do if you had a puncture
                How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Troll
                  I didn't know you can become "qualified" for tyre fitting.
                  Threaded invented tyres - no one is more qualified than him to speak on this topic, not even me.

                  HTH

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Troll
                    btw..what would you do if you had a puncture
                    buy a new car..


                    threaded

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