What Do I Do

[driverdale1]

MOT Time again and took the car to a local garage..failed on a coupla things 1 of them being the 2 rear tyres which i knew about, changed them right away at the MOT garage, car had to go to another garage to get brake pipe fixed and on return to the Mot garage, car passed mot but a further advisory of a near the limit front tyre...??? both tyres were replaced at same time about a year ago...same make of tyre but now one is near bald and is a different make from the other..so somewhere at one of the garages they have changed a perfectly good tyre for a tyre thats near the limit....my suspicions are the mot garage as the other garage was a large multi type garage and would not be where id go for a tyre, whereas the mot garage is much smaller and is a tyre and exhaust specialist...already spent over £400 so what do i do?? thanks in advance

[Zacs-Master]

If the tyres were on at last years MOT then compare the mileage between MOTs to the tyre wear. This still isn't proof that they've changed it (which i very much doubt) but it might give you a slight advantage if you do decide to challenge them.

[bhg481]

Not necessarily the garage that changed the tyre. A friend of mine had 2 new tyres on a car some years ago, went to Reading University to an open lecture and found the following day that one of his tyres was bald; someone had swapped his wheel for one of their own in the car park. Do you have locking wheel nuts?

[driverdale1]

The other tyre on front is still like new..i do very little miles and car is rarely parked anywhere a tyre could be changed....my suspicion lies in why was that tyre not in the original advisory as the back 2 were?

[driverdale1]

the tyres are also different makes now

[Zacs-Master]

I'm afraid you can't prove anything.

[bhg481]

Do you have locking wheel nuts? If not, it could be difficult to prove where the wheel was swapped. The garage which did the brake pipes will have needed the wheel key to do the job.
Incidentally, is it the tyre or the whole wheel +tyre which has been changed? Being kind to the garage, they just MIGHT have accidentally swapped the wheels with those from another car they were working on when doing the job, assuming the brake pipe was on the suspect wheel. You could always go to the second garage and talk to them, although I don't think you'll have any joy.

[driverdale1]

no locking wheel nuts and the break pipe was on the back not the front...i guess as Mrs Brown would say...im fecked!!

[bhg481]

Accessory shop for a set of locking wheel-nuts is the next stop then.

[Hopkirk]

A strong complaint is in order.

I would demand to speak to the manager.
The tyre has been swapped while the vehicle is in their care.