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You Can't Fit Quicker...

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Jip Jaap Stam, Mar 22, 2012.

  1. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    ... than a KwikFit fitter, apparently.

    Though it may not be entirely safe. They changed a wheel for me yesterday afternoon, which promptly flew off while I was doing 70mph on the M60 last night. I managed to get to the hard shoulder, but nearly shat myself.

    Useless bastards! <grr>
     
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  2. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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  3. Warmir Pouchov

    Warmir Pouchov Better than JPF

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    <claimtime>!
     
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  4. bucks_is_leeds

    bucks_is_leeds Jonny big spuds Forum Moderator

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    Jip in save a penny shocker!

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  5. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    The-Don Well-Known Member

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    where theres blame theres a claim
     
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  7. Chris-Gashead

    Chris-Gashead Well-Known Member

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    Kwik Fit are ****, full stop. Stopped using those ****s after they left a spanner in my engine and it nearly wrote my car off!
     
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  8. Mind The Duck

    Mind The Duck Well-Known Member

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    They done an MOT for the misses and didn't bother checking the oil...checked the box though
     
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  9. Cyclonic

    Cyclonic Well Hung Member

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    Many years ago I bought an aging Ford, it had to have a road worthy to be registered in my name. The bastards who checked the brakes, didn't fully secure the left rear. It came off while doing 80kph. It was easy to stop as it was just a rear. I often wonder what would happened if it had been the front.
     
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  10. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Serves you right for travelling in kph rather than mph ya French ****.
     
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  11. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    I was thinking that. I might crack on that I've been traumatised by the incident and can't drive on motorways any more.
     
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  12. Sam Axe

    Sam Axe Active Member

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    The bigger question here is, what the **** were you doing getting someone else to change a wheel for you?
     
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  13. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    That's what some people do in the civilised world Sam. We also buy our food from the shops rather than hunting it and growing it ourselves, and we even keep money in banks rather than digging a hole in a field <ok>

    I also have a gardener, naturally.
     
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  14. Sam Axe

    Sam Axe Active Member

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    ****ing fairy. No wonder self reliance is becoming a thing of the past, people can't do anything for themselves anymore.
     
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  15. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm sure it's easy to find the time to piss about with cars when you're single with no kids, Sam.
     
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  16. Sam Axe

    Sam Axe Active Member

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    It takes 2 minutes to change a wheel on a car. How long did it take the Kwikfitter to come out and change it?
     
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  17. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Jip make an appointment with your doctor, tell him you can't sleep, life flashed in front of your eyes, cold sweats need sleeping tabs, valium blah blah blah.

    There is a right few quid there, ****s put your life at risk.
     
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  18. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    I took it into the shop. There's one over the road from my work, and I was already late for work as it was. I dropped it off in the morning and they sorted it (or not) while I got on with earning a living. Then I picked it up on my lunch hour. What's your beef Sam?
     
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  19. Sam Axe

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    Ah so it was the tyre they changed and not the wheel at the side of the road? That's ok then.
     
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  20. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>

    Had a tyre blow out on the M8 once. Summat like that tends to excercise the old sphincter <laugh>
     
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