Tyred and emotional

 I'm not sure why but I always find getting tyres fitted to be a chore and often a stressful chore. This was no exception, even though I wasn't there and this was all done for me, it was a pain.

This time, the choice of rubber was fairly easy, I'd had Toyo Proxy tyres on my previous Vitesse and the 2.5PI. I tried to get them on the TR6 but couldn't source them. This time round I decided on Rain Experts by Uniroyal. Several friends have them on their Triumph and I've driven on them and been impressed. SO that was the easy part. 

Now where to get them? Well Halfords of all places had them on offer and so 5 were ordered and the wheels dropped off for fitting. Specific instructions were given that they should no load up weights without optimising the tyres on the rims first - I hate it when the fitter just slaps the tyre on and tells you "It's your wheels mate" even when they are brand new (been there before).

Well the Halfords fitter was not the greatest, or his equipment was crap, or he just could not be bothered but after a damaged tyre and a bucket of weights, he was done, this was the result.






This was not Halfords finest hour.

After some harsh words and a new tyre, on Halfords, the wheels were taken to an independent specialist who stripped off most of the weights, did the job properly and didn't wreck a tyre.

I should say that I have used Halfords locally on my modern car and been very impressed with their mobile fitters (if you're in Reading area, ask for get Courtney, he's a good bloke).

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