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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by ScottieJ » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:08 pm

Tom I think they were lying, never had an issue fitting the 15x10s and 33s on either of my mates machines and balancers, most tyre places use the same size machines as what they have.
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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by turbo-tom » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:09 pm

285/75/16 on 16x8 rims with -32mm offset that was a "landrover specialist" and in theory they are smaller then 33 12.50 15...
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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by turbo-tom » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:12 pm

ScottieJ wrote:Tom I think they were lying, never had an issue fitting the 15x10s and 33s on either of my mates machines and balancers, most tyre places use the same size machines as what they have.
Exactly mate I recon it was bollocks used that garage once and only once was constantly chasing them up for what was happening etc

Went to another garage local to me and they banged them on straight away
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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by Jordi » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:13 pm

Just did mine on a bog standard balancer. Same as Scotts, 33s on 15x10s.
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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by ScottieJ » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:19 pm

turbo-tom wrote:285/75/16 on 16x8 rims with -32mm offset that was a "landrover specialist" and in theory they are smaller then 33 12.50 15...
Must have been broken like all the landrovers in the garage :thefinger:
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Re: what company is best for supplying and fitting cheap tyr

Post by turbo-tom » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:30 pm

Blah blah blah :P
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