etyres - Practical Caravan - Our fleet, May 2006
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Our Month: Our Fleet
Matt Clark
Towcar: Kia Sorento 2.5 CDRi manual
Sometimes good can emerge from adversity. This
month everything seemed to go wrong, but through
this I discovered a new caravan site and a cheap
place to get tyres…
Two days before I was due to set off, I noticed
that our long-term Kia Sorento was listing to
one side like a stricken ocean liner – the front
left tyre was flat. The Kia has been utterly
reliable, but no car is impervious to punctures.
We later found the culprit: a screw.
I hunted for a place that replaces tyres quickly
and cheaply, and found www.etyres.co.uk (tel
0800 028 9000). The company could replace the
Hankook tyre on the Sorento for a fraction of
the price of other companies. Kwik-Fit did not
have Hankook tyres and suggested fitting a
Goodyear Wrangler for £126. But etyres were able
to fit the same model for £88.90. Better still,
the company could obtain a Hankook, which would
cost £79.90. The only place that could compete
was www.mytyres.co.uk, which offered the same
tyre for £75.60, but fitting would be around £12
extra and I would have had to go to their
workshop: etyres come to you.
Sam Fowles, the fitter from etyres, turned up
the next day to do the job, and the Kia was
roadworthy 15 minutes later. |
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