WTF £22.50 for a puncture!!!

[Troll]

Dropped wheel off at local Kwik Fit - small nail in tyre and slow leak

Picked it up and bill for £22.50 presented instead of the expected tenner

Valve £4.75
Nitrogen Inflation £1.50
Wheel balance £6.75

[Sausage Surprise]

Nitrogen inflation

Isn't air 79% nitrogen anyway.

[MaryPoppins]

Dropped wheel off at local Kwik Fit - small nail in tyre and slow leak

What d'you expect?

[Mich the Tester]

Nitrogen inflation

Isn't air 79% nitrogen anyway.

Yes, but most consumers don't know that. I bet you could do a discounted 'up to 80% nitrogen filling!' and make a tulipload.

[gingerjedi]

Nitrogen inflation

Isn't air 79% nitrogen anyway.

Good enough for F1, every fraction of a second saved is billing time.

[Gentile]

Dropped wheel off at local Kwik Fit - small nail in tyre and slow leak

Picked it up and bill for £22.50 presented instead of the expected tenner

Valve £4.75
Nitrogen Inflation £1.50
Wheel balance £6.75

Where are you getting £22.50 from? Even if you add VAT onto that breakdown it doesn't come to that.

[escapeUK]

Dropped wheel off at local Kwik Fit - small nail in tyre and slow leak

Picked it up and bill for £22.50 presented instead of the expected tenner

Valve £4.75
Nitrogen Inflation £1.50
Wheel balance £6.75

Well it didnt need a new valve, only new tyres need them or if the valve was damaged and it probably didnt need balancing.

But I bet if you challenged them, they have to do it for health and safety reasons.

[TestMangler]

Where are you getting £22.50 from? Even if you add VAT onto that breakdown it doesn't come to that.

Not sure, but I'm assuming the cost of the puncture repair should be added

[Gentile]

Well it didnt need a new valve, only new tyres need them or if the valve was damaged and it probably didnt need balancing.

But I bet if you challenged them, they have to do it for health and safety reasons.

It probably did need balancing after a puncture (even if the tyre didn't actually hit anything, driving on a flat can knock the wheel out of alignment). But the valve should only have cost about 75p.

[TestMangler]

Technically, it does need balancing basically because the tyre has been off the wheel, and the mismatches in weight and density will be in different relative positions from where they were previously, leading to vibration and instability at certain speeds