I took my wife’s Kia Picanto shopping trolly in to have the O/S DRL bulb replaced (cant be bothered to remove the wheel & arch liner myself)
Job was done £23 including bulb, fine.
“Oh by the way your front pads are on the metal & you need new discs; £200”
Maybe this should have gone in the daily jokes section
This car has done 13000miles in 5 years & the discs are good. The pads still have meat on them so when I get round to doing it I can source Mintex pads &2new discs for about£65.
Exactly why I would never use QuikFit
They are well known for trying it on.
The staff are told during training to target people if they appear to know nothing about cars, paying special attention to unaccompanied females.
A friend went to them many years ago for a new tyre. Came out with four tyres, new front discs and a complete exhaust system.
They tried it on with me years ago when I took my SR1 Cavalier in for an exhaust.
Mechanic sprayed WD40 on both rear shockers and told me they needed replaced. I informed him they were gas shocks and he was talking utter bull*****.
They are a despicable company and I tell everybody to avoid them at all costs.
Cowboys! always good if you have a reliable small independent garage.
I always use a local small GOOD garage but needed the light doing quickly before a trip to Wales in the Kia shopping trolley. Can’t take the 5 because we are visiting grand children & need 4 seats!!! Don’t see why the children cant take a bus; they are 6 & 7 after all
Halfords talked my daughter into having an MOT test, it had 6 months before it expired, she had it done.
Surprise, surprise she needed the front brake pads replacing and a new tyre as it had a object embedded in it that surprise again couldn’t be repaired…
I bought the car for her 12 months earlier and it had fitted new discs and pads to the fronts then. Seething i certainly was but she let herself in for this, telling me after the work was done.
Mate of mines went to them a few years back to get his wheels balanced on his Escort.
“Oh you exhaust is on it’s last legs & needs replacing”
“Full system?”
“Yes”
“OK go ahead then - stainless steel as is on it just now”
Work done
“that’ll be £loads of dosh”
“I ain’t paying a penny”
Mate then went in to the glove box pulled out receipt & guarantee for exhaust fitted less than a year before by Kwik-Fit.
Free new exhaust & a very pissed off Kwik-Fit “mechanic” & shop manager
^^^^
That’s brilliant.
Serves them right for trying yet another con trick.
You can’t get better than a Kwik Fit fitter, they’re the boy to trust!
Am I showing my age?
My local Kwik Fit is great. I had occasion of a stuck oil filter, and had to slink off to Kwik Fit of a filter and oil change. They didn’t have a filter in stock, and couldn’t fit the filter I had. So, on a busy saturday, they said go ahead use their ramps, feel free to borrow the filter extraction tools they had. Got in there, and the lads turned around, and said don’t worry, we’ll do it for you, FOC. Feeling guilty, I said can I at least buy some oil off you. Whereupon they told me to save my money, use the Unipart semisynthetic I had in the boot. They did it all, no charge at all.
My issues with garages have always been the independents, where they have verged on criminally incompetent:
All of which goes to show that it’s not the company, but the personnel that are good or bad
. The dreaded human factor!
Definitely I remember it too
Took a wheel with a tyre that was half worn for a puncture repair. Small nail in the centre of the tread. Operative looked at it and said he could repair it in an hour s time. Returned an hour and a bit later to be told the Manager said that they would not repair it as it was too worn. Took it to a local guy and was done within 15 minutes.
No more Kwik Fit for me !!!
I have always used ATS for my 5s, and other cars. Always found them to be excellent
No doubt other members will disagree with this