The fact is if you sell tyres you have to offer a repair Service . QuickFit are about the only place you can get a tyre repair on a Sunday and they know it . I’ve had the pleasure of using quick-fit many times before I quit the world of work . They were one of the tyre suppliers to our company car fleet . I always found their workshops to be dirty , run down and the customer area to be dire . I very much doubt that the cost of the repair is even related to the overheads of running the business . A puncture repair is a distress purchase , if you walk in and ask about it , you might moan , but you’re unlikely to drive away and look at the independent places . Because of that it will be priced at what they can get away with . If you have already found the independent place and use them for your tyres , you are unlikely to go anywhere near Quick—Fit in the first place . The original QuickFit company was sold to Ford , and since then has been moved on through various private equity owners who will all have had their pound of flesh leaving the company with the reputation it has today ... 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

Mikey wrote:

So, £27 for a puncture repair...

£4.50 of that is VAT

Kwik Fit have an income of £22.50 on that repair

A repair takes around 30 minutes, by the time the centre manager has booked in, dished out the job, car on ramp, wheel off, leak identified etc

Of that £22.50, a new valve, balance weights and repair patch is about £2.50, so now we're down to £20

Out of that £20, the centre manager takes a wage, the mechanic takes a wage, and someone else will have to double check the wheel is correctly torqued

Let's assume they all get paid an average of £10 p/h. In that half hour, they will have earned £15 between them, leaving a £5 profit

From that £5 profit, they have to pay:
Rent
Rates
Business insurance
Electricity/gas
Water charges

Having already paid for, or financing of:
Ramp
Tyre changer
Balancer
Compressor and pressure gauge
Torque wrench/tools etc

So out of your £27, there is actually very, very little profit in repairing it...

Just another perspective on it

WGAF?  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Ah but my point was, that last year I paid £16
and that was with a National chain.
Dave DAVE.
I.A.M. F1rst Driver.
Gone 2003 Discovery TD5 Auto,
Gone 1986 Defender 90 Station Wagon
Gone 1984 Range Rover 3.5 Vogue Manual.
Gone 1970 Series 11A/3 SWB 3.5 V8 Hybrid
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Van
Gone 1966 Series 11A SWB Van
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Station Wagon,

Now I have the repair kit it costs $1 per puncture. Even the wife can fix the tyre & can clean the car when finished!

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Surprised she can do anything with all that fuzzy stuff round her face

Lightwater wrote:

While I make a coffee, but this is hard work!

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I use the same. So like not having to use pods! (I also have an original Gaggia Classic - makes great coffee, but still not as smooth as the aeropress!)

Bob 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

We had it for a long time & the gasket & outer body started to deteriorate. It was pleasing to by able to buy only the parts you need. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

Dave47 wrote:

Ah but my point was, that last year I paid £16
and that was with a National chain.
Dave

Just had another puncture!! fixed this time with National Tyres.... at £19.
so quick flit £8 over....
Dave DAVE.
I.A.M. F1rst Driver.
Gone 2003 Discovery TD5 Auto,
Gone 1986 Defender 90 Station Wagon
Gone 1984 Range Rover 3.5 Vogue Manual.
Gone 1970 Series 11A/3 SWB 3.5 V8 Hybrid
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Van
Gone 1966 Series 11A SWB Van
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Station Wagon,

Nobody is making you use them! Common sense isn't very common.
_______________________________
2007 Land Rover Freelander2 I6 hse Auto

Dave47 wrote:

Just had another puncture!! fixed this time with National Tyres.... at £19.
so quick flit £8 over....
Dave

Must be all that sun in Margate that is degrading the tyres.

All weather tyres!! this will be my last set.
great in bad weather, quiet with good tyre trade off
But being of a softer mix they seem prone to punctures...
Dave DAVE.
I.A.M. F1rst Driver.
Gone 2003 Discovery TD5 Auto,
Gone 1986 Defender 90 Station Wagon
Gone 1984 Range Rover 3.5 Vogue Manual.
Gone 1970 Series 11A/3 SWB 3.5 V8 Hybrid
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Van
Gone 1966 Series 11A SWB Van
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Station Wagon,

What is it with sun & tyres up there? Down under we never have issues of the sun puncturing or ageing tyres. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

Your sun is different, as it is upside down.

Is that why it always flattens the bottom of the tyre then?