In Our Garage

A Tyre-some Tale

Although I always have the best intentions in mind, I can also be a bit on the lazy side. A good example is a few years ago when I bought five original Toyota Land Cruiser Colorado wheels and tyres off a seller not far from me. I was aware that the tyres were beyond their best, but I wanted the wheels so I could get them cleaned up, painted bronze and used for a selection of tyres that a few companies wanted to send me to test.

Too many years later, and they’re still sat in the back yard gathering spiders webs and moss, and it was only when Muddy Madam got fed up of the sight of them that she decided to do something about it. A quick phone call to our local National Tyres service centre just down the road, and a chat with the nicest lady in the world later, and she’d organised that they would remove the tyres from the rims - for free!

Straight after putting the phone down she ordered me downstairs to empty the crap from the back of Deux Smurf, load the wheels/tyres and drive to said National Tyres before they changed their mind.

The lady that Muddy Madam had spoken to told us that we'd rung just at the perfect time, as they had an unusually quiet afternoon, and that if we'd have rung the day before we may not have got the same response. Result!.

So a big shout out goes to National Tyres in Bolton, who not only spent a while getting all five stubborn tyres off the rims, but they also disposed of them for free.

Guess who I will be going back to for balancing and tracking?