I managed to get a nasty lump of industrial metal stuck in my rear tyre just after purchasing a rather nice new jacket from messrs Hein Gericke in Kenton!( bleedin' typical eh!).
So after waiting an hour for Mr Recovery man, I'm on my way down to the HGB Tyres in Ruislip. It's now 17.20 and I've phoned to make sure it's OK to bring the bike down for a new tyre...."Not a minute after 17.30" says Mr Angry/ Rude/ Miserable Old Git answering the phone.
Eventually turn up at 17.40, run into shop and ask is it still OK? Tyre fitter says "Yeah mate, no probs, wheel her in". So start to undo multitude of straps holding bike onto 10 ton lorry.
Just start wheeling the bike off and another fitter runs out and says "Your too late.....job's gonna take 30 mins and it's now 17.45 and I'm supposed to finish at 18.00".
So I expain that I've already Ok'd it with the other bloke (turns out he was new and on his first day and just trying to be helpful like a real human being!!!).
Massive ructions start between all parties. Mr Recovery Man is fuming (as he might have to take me all the way back to Cambridge
Tyre fitter in charge is swearing his head off, calling 'Mr Angry/ Rude/ Miserable Old Git answering the phone' a fuc*ing c*nt......he offers him a fight there and then in front of the customers in the shop.
'Mr Angry/ Rude/ Miserable Old Git answering the phone' hastily vanishes through a doorway. Tyre fitter in charge shouts after him " You can have my Fuc*ing notice......I quit!"
I go into reception to see what the hell is going on. 'Mr Angry/ Rude/ Miserable Old Git answering the phone' is asking me who the hell said that I could still get a tyre fitted.
"The tyre fitter did " says I.
'Mr Angry/ Rude/ Miserable Old Git answering the phone' levitates from his chair and runs into workshop and bellows "Who said it was Ok??!!".....new bloke pipes up that he said it was OK (if looks could kill!).
So reluctantly they all decide that I can have a tyre. They manage to have the whole thing done in just over 10 minutes.
I get the bill......£154.00 for a Michelin Pilot Road fitted to my Deauville including 35 minutes labour!
I am in a state of shock
Suddenly I remember why I stopped using this sh*t hole tyre place.
***PLEASE AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE.....YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!***
HGB TYRES ARE TOTAL TOS*ERS!
To add insult to injury, I rang my friendly tyre shop in Cambridge today and asked them how much they would have charged?? £120.00 for exactly the same service!!!
Nuff said.
Dismount from soap box
Bailey
