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Hi all

Ringing around to get quotes for mobile fitting of my van tyres, I was surprised to find that Kwik fit were the most reasonable, they state that 90% of their non contract mobile fitting is caravans and are well versed, they even carry the necessary tools for the tyron bands and DONT charge any extra for fitting, unlike Etyres who wanted a whopping £20 + vat extra per wheel for fitting with Tyron bands. Well worth a look

Jon

Well according to my local kwik-fit depot, they are not authorised to change caravan tyres, as they dont have the correct tension spanners to do the job, and although some customers are happy to sign a disclaimer to say that they will get the tensions checked independently after fitting, they do not promote themselves as fitters of tyres to any kind of trailer, and branch managers are told to make this clear to the customer by the order of their head office.

This info came via their Heanor branch manager, a really fair and helpful guy, who recently sorted out a new set of car tyres for us, but advised us to go via the caravan service centre for our new van tyres, which are due to be fitted at the end of the month.

Julia  

Not sure what you mean by tension spanners, do you mean torque wrenches to torque the bolts up, if this is the case then they should not be fitting wheels back on cars either ??

Jon