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wheel alignment
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:07 pm
by meatball
Anyone suggest somewhere in Glasgow?
MMC want £250 to do the job!
Pothole killed my wheel and possibly my suspension......bugger!
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:56 am
by Rich H
Try sueing the council, a long shot but got to be worth a try.
As for Geo, I have no idea. I have used Mark in Banchory but that's not Glasgow!
Re: wheel alignment
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:56 am
by robin
meatball wrote:Anyone suggest somewhere in Glasgow?
MMC want £250 to do the job!
Pothole killed my wheel and possibly my suspension......bugger!
If you cannot find anywhere more local, CLCM are on the same estate as MMC in Edinburgh. Beware that if you are thinking of camber changes you will need shims (and they are different front and back), or you will need to compromise on the closest you can get to by just removing and shuffling shims left/right.
C.L.C.M Wheel Alignment Ltd
11 Bankhead Drive
Edinburgh, EH11 4EJ
0131 458 5559
Cheers,
Robin
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:51 am
by meatball
A claim will be going in.........I won't hold my breath though!
Looks so far that MMC will be getting the job.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:12 pm
by ed
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:21 pm
by Shug
meatball wrote:A claim will be going in.........I won't hold my breath though!
Looks so far that MMC will be getting the job.
Go straight to CLCM then, cut out MMC and save the cash. MMC just book it in at CLCM and drive it over.... Then charge you twice the cash.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:37 pm
by GregR
shug's right - Willy charged me £11 a tyre to fit, whereas MMC wanted £70 to have the same job done by the same man!
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:29 pm
by meatball
Somewhere in Glasgow would be better!
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:05 pm
by GregR
sorry mate - unaware of any. Its worth the 45 minute trip to get the job done properly; quite a lot of people on here travel from Edinburgh - Banchory (farking north!) to get the job done by Mark. Willie has a specialised laser allignment system that must have cost a fortune, so its not like your local Kwik Fit will have one. Even if they did, I'd not let them tinker with a car as allignment-sensitive as the Elise without a proven track record.
If you do find on on the west, I'm sure you'd please a lot of people on here if you posted up the details
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:33 pm
by Shug
Yup - TBH you can get just as much accuracy with string and rulers (ask Mark at Banchory) but it's the bloke you're paying for, not the kit. I haven't yet found a decent bloke over here (as I just started doing it myself)
Just make sure you're sitting in the car, holding the wheel straight, as Willie has been known to forget that bit occasionally and send cars out with the steering wheel off centre....
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:32 pm
by robin
GregR wrote:shug's right - Willy charged me £11 a tyre to fit, whereas MMC wanted £70 to have the same job done by the same man!
Actually I am not convinced MMC have their tyres done at CLCM, though the geo work does go there. The reason I say this is that last time I got tyres done via MMC the balance weights were placed to foul the caliper (doh) but I know that Willie knows not to do that, so I surmise that at least on that occasion someone else fitted the tyres. They used to use Kwik Fit mobile IIRC.
On that note - went into Kwik Fit today to get an emergency tyre repair (am still down South). They wouldn't repair ("nail too close to tyre wall" - pish) so I asked them to quote me for the cheapest tyre they sold that would fit (it's only the spare on my Sister-in-law's run about, so no big deal) - clickety click, 55 quid he says. I said "That doesn't sound very cheap?!?" and he replied, "oh, you can have a budget tyre for 40 quid." FFS, what part of "cheapest tyre" did he not understand. And what's more you know they would have fitted the same tyre either way, just charged me an extra 15 quid for it!!
Cheers,
Robin
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:48 pm
by simon
MMC use a mobile kwik fit van for tyre fitting AFAIK.
