I'm not tyred anymore.
I often read blogs which rant and others which relate incidents which have been deeply moving or challenging or stimulating or vomit inducing or whatever....there's such a diversity in BloggyLand.
On this post I want to share a liberating experience I had this week.
It's not the one where the Mem Sahib saw and fell in love with an Aston Martin VantageV8.That was a lovely moment as my smashing wiffle told her petrolhead hubby how she was really impressed with the car for all the right reasons ie. style, road presence, engine note.
No! What I want to tell you about is how easily I bought two tyres for my Audi Avant this week.
Think about how most of us carry out this simple task.
We recognise that the balding wellies on the car are not only dangerous but illegal and it's time we did something about it. So you phone all your local tyre dealers with the size and speed rating and they quote you for the brands in stock, their special offers and/or the brands they want you to buy. It's never the same brands but eventually you get an overlap and two outlets quote you for the same tyre. Then you find out when the job can be done, drive down there, sit for a while [ never less than thirty minutes ] or go and do anything you can for the waiting time. But basically you're locked into their routine.
Well this week the Mem Sahib had spotted one of those glossy flyers in the weekly free newspaper...and it was advertising a service by a company called e-tyres.
So I did the usual, got my quote THEN I went on to the e-tyres site ( http://www.etyres.co.uk/ ) entered in the tyre size and speed rating, hit the return button, scrolled down to the tyre make I wanted, selected quantity, went through the 'pay cycle' and then two hours later took the phone call telling me that the tyres were in stock and ASKING ME when and where would I like them fitted! Since my day off is Friday and I'm building a rockery the answer was Friday morning at my home. And that is exactly what happened. On Friday morning, I got another phone call from e-tyres at 8.45 confirming the time of fitting and the rest is history. John turned up with a megaVan full of tyresome kit and did the job in thirty minutes while I continued with my life.
The bonus - I also saved about Thirty pounds on the cheapest quote I'd had.
Nice One e-tyres !
On this post I want to share a liberating experience I had this week.
It's not the one where the Mem Sahib saw and fell in love with an Aston Martin VantageV8.That was a lovely moment as my smashing wiffle told her petrolhead hubby how she was really impressed with the car for all the right reasons ie. style, road presence, engine note.
No! What I want to tell you about is how easily I bought two tyres for my Audi Avant this week.
Think about how most of us carry out this simple task.
We recognise that the balding wellies on the car are not only dangerous but illegal and it's time we did something about it. So you phone all your local tyre dealers with the size and speed rating and they quote you for the brands in stock, their special offers and/or the brands they want you to buy. It's never the same brands but eventually you get an overlap and two outlets quote you for the same tyre. Then you find out when the job can be done, drive down there, sit for a while [ never less than thirty minutes ] or go and do anything you can for the waiting time. But basically you're locked into their routine.
Well this week the Mem Sahib had spotted one of those glossy flyers in the weekly free newspaper...and it was advertising a service by a company called e-tyres.
So I did the usual, got my quote THEN I went on to the e-tyres site ( http://www.etyres.co.uk/ ) entered in the tyre size and speed rating, hit the return button, scrolled down to the tyre make I wanted, selected quantity, went through the 'pay cycle' and then two hours later took the phone call telling me that the tyres were in stock and ASKING ME when and where would I like them fitted! Since my day off is Friday and I'm building a rockery the answer was Friday morning at my home. And that is exactly what happened. On Friday morning, I got another phone call from e-tyres at 8.45 confirming the time of fitting and the rest is history. John turned up with a megaVan full of tyresome kit and did the job in thirty minutes while I continued with my life.
The bonus - I also saved about Thirty pounds on the cheapest quote I'd had.
Nice One e-tyres !
posted by It's Dave at Saturday, September 30, 2006
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