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ATS Tyre Shops....
h4rdy:
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--- Quote from: h4rdy on October 05, 2012, 05:02:10 pm ---
Good on you Robin for apologising but don't do it again :signLOL:
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.... :signLOL: :laugh:
That's very funny indeed! I consider myself well and truly told off! :happy2:
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Just in case I was joking and not trying to stir it up!
I am the first to say sorry!
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: scottm72 on October 05, 2012, 10:54:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: maxitrol on October 05, 2012, 07:56:09 am ---
I have been a Tyre fitter for 20 years including kwik fit and their is some good and bad ones.
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brilliant, exactly right, some good and some bad,,, these garages should pay their staff more money whilst we are talking about it :happy2:
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....In my neck of the woods (the SouthWest), job opportunities are difficult and wage levels relatively low. Consequently, businesses have to try that much harder and this can encourage higher standards of customer service. I think this is a factor in why my local ATS, and also my VW dealership (until recently a family business), give better service than many elsewhere which we read about. However, people tend to speak much more often about bad points than good points, so that's what we hear about the most.
Also, being a small market town, so many people know each other and certainly know of each other - Everybody seems to know me! So word of mouth reputation is important.
Regarding my local ATS, as I think I said earlier, one of the guys there has a very tidy Mk3 GTI and the manager is also a car enthusiast. They actually know what an AP Racing BBK is and changed my pads for me free of charge when they fitted my Goodyear Asymmetric 2's. They spotted that one caliper piston was a bit stiff, eased it, and a couple of months later when I visited just for a nitrogen top up (they replaced it all) the guy remembered and asked how the caliper was. So I can only report good experiences with ATS so far and recommend them as worthwhile trying.
I expect that all ATS shops wherever they are located, pay their staff at the same rates but I wonder how ATS and say Kwik-Fit rates of pay compare. I don't know how big a chain ATS is or how they are perceived in the rubber world of tyres.
Andy:
see if you got me to fit them,it will cause a lot less hassle :signLOL:
rich83:
--- Quote from: maxitrol on October 06, 2012, 10:36:47 am ---see if you got me to fit them,it will cause a lot less hassle :signLOL:
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Shame you live in the middle of bleeding nowhere!!! :signLOL:
phil1975:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on October 05, 2012, 10:24:10 am ---^^^^
Naturally I appreciate the posts which reassure me that I wasn't entirely in the wrong - Thank You's :drinking: Without them I was inclined to question myself if I was out of order and to feel badly about it.
I have sent scottm72 a PM asking that we forgive and forget and move on. :grouphug:
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Robin you've been the bigger man :congrats: respect.
Back on topic Ats in Horsham, west sussex, are very good the few times I've used them both for the golf (helped me for free by loosing both rear wheels from the hubs as I could'nt shift them) and tyres for the works van.
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