Wheel alignment-tyres gone after 2 months.

JB123

Hi all.
I got a wheel alignment + two front tires in Advance pits stop at the end of November. Anyway the other day I noticed that outsides of the tires on the front were badly worn. I took the car back to them and they said they would turn the tires around and retrack it.
It's booked in for Tuesday.The tires are border line legal am I within might rights to demand new tires. Car is a 03 Mazda 6 2.0 Diesel 58k miles.

Cheers

Tigger

no

but try anyway

ninty9er

They may have aligned the tyres, but that is different to tracking, which you have to pay for.

As far as the law is concerned I would be surprised if you had any comeback

Type 17

Whether it's true or not, they can (and will) say that you must have hit a kerb or pothole, or done something similar to upset the tracking.

It's a bummer, but all you can do is keep an eye on the tyre wear, especially after you've hit anything unusual (big pothole etc).

JB123

Thanks for the replies lads.
They had the car up on the wheel alignment machine and charged me 50 euro for it.The car was pulling to the left and tires were worn on the inside before I had the alignment done.

So the best I can hope for is a goodwill gesture.

CreepingDeath

Just on Advance Pitstop (Townsend street branch), I had 17" alloys that needed rebalancing as the steering wheel shuddered badly at 60mph.
They took 2 attempts but didn't solve it.

By chance I'd a puncture and got it fixed in a tyre place in Lucan (over the Liffey Bridge and on the right ). I told them about the shuddering and they spotted straight away that the balance weights were on the edge of the rim of the wheel. They removed all existing weights, rebalanced all wheels and solved the problem.

So, despite Advance Pitstop seeming to specialise in tyres, I wasn't exactly impressed.

Omnipresence

Same thing has recently happened to me but it was another dealership... so not just Advance Tyres

I had very badly worn front tyres a couple of months ago (with wear on one side of tyre - so very much alignment issue) and went into garage to get new tyres and alignment sorted...

Drove home for xmas and noticed same thing again ... after only a couple of months got it fixed again (along with two new tyres) much cheaper too... so wont be giving my local dublin garage anymore business and will wait till i go back down the country.

-A

tin79

very similar thing happened to me, if you read my posts in the thred below

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055431726

i got my money back from advance in the end and i wont ever be going there again

Darsad

The answer to your woes is in your question Advance The pits !