heathcote wrote:
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"Other than they are the only place you can get a puncture repaired on a Sunday."
National Tyres do puncture repairs on Sundays.
Was waiting on Sussex to say that there's no National Tyres branch in Brighton & Hove (as far as I can see), so his point wasn't entirely incorrect. But since he's not replied, I'll make the point for him
But I think you are right in general terms, and the reason I was looking at the National Tyres branch locator was to check the opening times of the branch in Dundee near where I used to live, and indeed it's open on Sunday. But the other National Tyres branch in Dundee (Broughty Ferry branch) isn't open on Sunday, so presumably it's not a universal thing.
But we certainly don't have a National Tyres branch in St Andrews, and as far as I know Kwik-fit is the only one open on Sundays here too, although I've never availed myself of their puncture repair service on a Sunday, maybe because I'm in church praying that I won't have a puncture on the Sabbath
(And, for what it's worth, I only started going to Kwik-Fit at the time of my last MoT when I couldn't get a slot anywhere else (and my taxi test was also imminent), so for that and another couple of reasons I was pleased enough with the service. Went back again during lockdown when a spring broke during one of my shopping trips
but was a bit more dubious then, so I'm not sure if I'll go back when my MoT is due again in a couple of months.)
Anyway, while I was on the National Tyres website, had a quick look for my tyre size, and indeed even the budget option was W-rated for speed, and many were Y, which is the next rating up (there's no X). Only £47 a corner too for the budget tyre, which is the cheapest I've seen by maybe a fiver or so
Ironically, the V-rated ones are the most expensive ones, but that's because they're mainly winter tyres, or some other kind of special tyre. In fact there's also an oddball H-rated tyre, and again that's another winter tyre or similar.
(The images just show the budget option and a few of the V-rated and the H-rated one. Must have been twenty or so tyres in total, and most W- or Y-rated)
If like me you don't know the fine details of the speed rating system, there's no real logic to the lettering as far as I can see, and although H-rated sounds like it will be a totally different ballgame to a V-rated tyre, the sequence is in fact H - V - W - Y
https://www.kwik-fit.com/tyres/informat ... eed-rating