Today I've taken my car in for MOT/Service.
The last 3 years I have done this (at 2 different places) I have received a call to be told I have nails/screws in 2 otherwise perfectly good tires and they need to be replaced.
Apparently I am both very unlucky to get so many nails/screws in my tires, and also very lucky that despite the high number of nails/screws I have in my tires I NEVER get a flat.
So I'm beginning to think this is a con - but I don't know what to do about it?
I wanted to ask them to check my tires before I left this morning but there was a huge queue. And I wimped out. They came out to someone waiting in the waiting room and told him he had a screw in his tire and he just smiled and nodded. Yeah I know the feeling mate.
I am doubly cynical about this as I have been driving for 30 years, and it it only the last few years since I split from XP and have been getting the car serviced myself again that this unfortunate affliction has been affecting me.
I don't know anyone else who gets so many, or even any, nails and screws in their tires. I drive on perfectly normal London streets.
So AIBU to think these car service places are fucking me over?
Is this a "thing" now?
Or is getting screws and nails in your car tires a really common thing these days? And if it is a common thing, how come nobody gets flats or blowouts?
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LovelyFriend · 20/07/2015 10:12
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