Long thread, if you plan of reading all of this - and its worth it - get a cup of tea or a beer.......
Anyone who reads the ‘B’ forum regularly will know the ‘saga’ of my £60 wheels that look a million dollars (to me anyway!!)….but there is another side to the story.
I am a bit of a believer in things happening for a reason, this post follows that train of thought
….......................................... finding a £300 worth of wheels for £60 resulted in me breaking a promise to my wife, something that I have not done in 10 years of marriage but there was a reason – I just did not know it at the time!!
Last night I made a 120 mile round trip to pick up my new wheels, most of the trip made on the M4/M25/M1 and on the odd occasion I MAY have exceeded the speed limit…
Today I took my new wheels to my local tyre garage to have the tyres swapped over and have 1 new tyre fitted to the front that was on the limit. While changing the tyres over the manager pointed out a nail through one of the read tyres (oddly enough it had been loosing pressure ever since I bought the car) and offered to fix it for £8 – of course I said yes.
Once the nail had been removed and the puncture repaired the chap inflated the tyre up to operating pressure and pointed out a HUGE budge on the inner tyre-wall, I went pail ‘cos all I could think of was ‘wow, if I had a lapse of concentration last night one the M1, M25 or M4 I could have been doing nearly 100 mph with that thing waiting to get hot and explode’ – it was a blow-out waiting to happen. £37 later and a new tyre was hugging the outside of my new rim……….
If you are still interested and awake the moral is this……………..I take a lot of care of my B, its well looked after, I lavish attention on making sure the legal stuff works (apart from the front number plate) and I assumed that because the outside tyre-walls were OK the inside would have been the same, without the trip to the tyre fitters today it could have ended in tears with one less (shiny) Barchetta gracing the UK roads………………food for thought?
(Thanks to the guy's at Total Tyres in Binfield for being so diligent and doing a good job...)
