I paid for a mobile service so that my punctured tyre could be changed at my home for convenience,…read moredue to kids and work constraints. This service seemed ideal for a single mother like myself. During the tyre change, they broke my sensor and asked me to drive it to the garage to have it fixed. I asked if I needed an appointment and they said no, just come any time. When I got there, the person wasn't around! So I had to go back an hour later. And they couldn't fix it.  There was no apology, no sense of duty or responsibility. I had to leave to get my kids from school and heard nothing from them. I sent a few messages and they responded with "bring it in for investigation"! Was I supposed to drop everything and hang around the garage to wait endlessly while they did this? Why had I paid for a mobile service?  Since then, they have ignored all my messages. Their intimidating behaviour makes me scared to go back to the garage to try and retrieve the sensor. I will have to take it to my own garage to get it sorted at my own expense, having not had any offer of refund or anything at all from them.  Appalling service designed to take advantage of vulnerable women.

Recently I had cause to take my car into a local garage because I kept hearing a clunking sound…read morewhenever I went over a bump. After a two hour inspection I was told that they could find nothing wrong with the car, but the two front tyres they'd replaced eight months earlier both needed replacing. Obviously I was a little annoyed as unless you're driving several hundred miles a week you don't expect to have to replace your tyres after only eight months. Still, I could see myself that they did need to be replaced, though I was reluctant to have them done at that garage. It's not just that they replaced those tyres eight months ago. It's not just that it took them over an hour to fit them while I waited. It was more that they charge £67 a tyre plus a fitting fee, so replacing both front tyres there would have cost me over £140, and with the MOT and road tax coming in the next few months that's an expense I would rather have avoided. Fortunately, someone recommended the Kirky Tyre Centre to me, and I'm very glad they did. My garage gave me the choice of just one type of tyre, not a brand name. Kirky Tyre Centre gave me the option to have one of four types of tyre. My garage quoted me £67 per tyre, plus fitting, for an unbranded Polish piece of rubbarised crap. Kirky Tyre Centre quoted less than that for a branded tyre. In the end I went for a brand I didn't know, but which the owner of the garage said he had on his own car. The price he quoted - £41 a tyre, fitting included. I was ecstatic. I drove over there, pulled into their little garage, and they immediately started work. I braced myself for the same long wait I'd experienced in my own garage, but ten minutes later - if that - the job was done. And the tyres - they may not be a brand name but one look is enough to know they're better quality than the ones I had on it. Contrary to what most men might have you believe, testicles do not give you an immediate and exhaustive knowledge of the inner workings of a car, and there are plenty of garages who will take advantage of your ignorance to charge as much as they can for work that isn't needed. Kirky Tyre Centre is not such a place. They replaced my front tyres, checked the back and said they had plenty of life left in them, and charged me just £82 for the work - £60 less than my local garage. Best of all, the staff are actual human beings who don't try to induce a migraine by babbling about things you can't possibly understand. They talk clearly, politely and with smiles on their faces. I will be taking my car back to Kirky Tyre Centre whenever I need work done on my tyres, and trusting their recommendation for other garages if I need other work done. Highly recommended.

They scored 3/4 of my recently refurbished wheels while fitting my tyres. Unfortunately I hadn't…read morenoticed until getting home, and upon returning I had them look - followed with a jobsworth old man saying that it wasn't them as "the machine would have scored them all the way round"... Yeah as if we have ball bearing kerbs in Scotland. The young lad - whom I was chatting to about cars previously while waiting on them fitting the tyres - went quiet (as if he knew fine well it had been carelessness on their part) and told me I'd need to come and speak to the boss who is on holiday. Perfect semi-circular scores around 3 wheels with the powder coat freshly seen flaking underneath. Joke of a tyre fitting company. Unfortunately parted ways with the car before the boss was finished his trip so never got round to having my issue rectified but the attitude of most of the staff and sheer incompetence, with 4 members taking a wheel each to fit, was appalling. Since been going elsewhere and never had any hassle. They even explained where Broadcroft had gone wrong. Avoid at all costs, idiots cannot carry out a simple task they should be well capable of doing. Fire the old tadger, he hasn't a clue.

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Parked and before I stopped my engine, the guy was at the window saying good morning and how could…read morehe help. Showed him the nail in my tyre (which was in the boot). He said no problem, 10minutes - within 6minutes, he was back putting the tyre in the boot for me. Service, smile and £10 in under 10minutes, who could possibly ask for more!

I was recommended this tyre place by my local garage years ago and now I never go anywhere else…read more The manager is great really professional and friendly. There is sometimes a queue but you never need to wait long. They offer all different types of tyres and will get you what suits you for your budget. They only take cash, but if you forget there is a petrol station a 5 minute walk away with a cash machine (which unfortunately charges)

Having moved to the area 4 years ago I set about looking for a local garage that I could trust for…read moreMOT's and general repairs. As an engineer myself and son of a retired mechanic (not to mention a bit of a petrolhead) I have been working on cars since I was waist high, so finding somewhere I trust completely is a tall order but John Brady's have managed just that. My first visit here was to have an MOT carried out where I found the garage staff to be pleasant and friendly. They also took some time to chat about my car and build confidence that they knew what they were talking about. Following visits for MOT's on both mine and my wife's cars have built a good, trusting relationship with John Brady's. When I used them to price some specialist tyres for my track car they were good enough to call around their suppliers and then price match my usual online supplier. I have found them to be very reasonable for normal road tyres for various cars now. I have also had some diagnostics and repairs carried out when I haven't had the time or tooling to do it myself and have found the pricing to be very fair. The well lit MOT bay and workshop are visible through the large windows in the reception area showing that they have nothing to hide (anyone who has been in a dim lit back street garage will know...). In summary - this is a friendly, trustworthy garage who will take the time to explain any work required and do it to high standards for fair prices. Give them a try.

I had a problem with my car. The exhaust warning light was on and a local mechanic had told me the…read morefront pipe needed replacing. I contacted Kwik Fit who quoted a reasonable price to do the work, but I also contacted National Tyres and their price was only slightly higher. I wasn't completely comfortable with Kwik Fit (though they ended up doing the work) so I took the car to National Tyres, willing to pay a little more to get the job done by a mechanic who inspired confidence. What a mistake! When I arrived I was made to wait for more than half an hour because the guy supposedly in charge, the Archbishop of Canterbury's twin, I thought, though my mother-in-law believed Worzel Gummidge would be a more accurate comparison, seemed more anxious to chat to a customer who was, admittedly, there before us and deal with a guy who came in ten minutes after us rather than look our way. Finally he came over and put my car up on the ramp. He turned on the engine, which is fair enough because I suppose you need the engine running to see certain problems, hoisted it up and immediately confirmed the problem was with the exhaust. He went to get the part he needed to fix it, brought it through and...decided immediately it was the wrong part. He then started looking through books to find the right part. He then made a phone call to find the right part. He then had another mechanic look at it. He then made another phone call. All the while the car engine is running and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Finally he decides it's going to take a while so he lowers the car and switches off the engine. Perfect. Now all he has to do is find the right part. Can he? No. My exhaust, it seems, is completely unlike any he has seen before. This does not inspire confidence in me. He makes another phone call and finally finds what he thinks is the right part. Fine. Except he tells me it will take at least an hour to get it delivered and it will cost me double his original quotation. In the end I took it back to Kwik Fit and they did it for less than his original quotation. The truly ridiculous bit - the part he had in the first place was the right part for the job and all he had to do was fit it. Instead he talked himself out of a job by insisting on doubling the price, though in all honesty after the shoddy treatment I received I'd already made up my mind to go elsewhere. A ludicrous experience and one I will not be repeating.

Again, great service from the guys at national in kirkintilloch. Always a cheery bunch and very…read morehelpful.

I don't like taking my car to big companies like Kwik Fit. I prefer to deal with local garages…read morewhere the service is more personal and if you get a decent mechanic you know he'll do his best to keep the costs low while still doing a great job. However, I had a serious problem with my exhaust and the £200+ I was quoted locally couldn't compete with the quote of less than £100 from Kwik Fit, so I took it to this branch in Kirkintilloch. Let's start with the positives. The amount I was charged was the amount quoted, not a penny more. The service was quick - they put it on the ramp right away and I went for a look in the shops in Kirkintilloch, returned an hour later and the car was done. The core service, therefore, was excellent and the price was brilliant, so why am I only leaving them two stars? It started when I arrived. The so-called mechanic who brought the car in just to check he had the right part ordered immediately returned to the office and told me there was no problem with the exhaust - the problem was with the engine. It didn't seem to matter that the exhaust warning light was on and the engine management system light wasn't, it didn't seem to matter that there was an obvious hole in one section of the exhaust, he insisted it was a problem with the engine and started telling me that it would cost over £100 just to identify the specific issue and would likely cost more than £500 to fix the problem. As the part hadn't arrived and as I'd already had an opinion from a local mechanic I took the car to another garage. They put it up on the ramp and, sure enough, confirmed the problem was with the exhaust. So why did the mechanic at Kwik Fit find it necessary to insist the problem was with engine and would cost substantially more than quoted? I took it back to Kwik Fit after a visit to another garage and they did the work. They fitted a new section to my exhaust and, sure enough, the warning light went out and the car seemed to be running fine. Unfortunately, the problems don't end here. First, even though the work was completed when I returned from the shops I had to wait for twenty minutes for them to take it off the ramp as the guy I was dealing with insisted on making a phone call. Then the car was parked next to the office and I had another twenty minute wait while he tried to sort out my bill. I didn't mind the wait - what I objected to is the fact he left the car engine running the whole damn time. Do the mechanics at Kwik Fit not know the cost of petrol these days? Do they think their customers are fabulously wealthy? Would they leave their own cars running for 40 minutes? Second, when I pulled out of the garage the car felt sluggish. I figured it was fine, just adapting to the new exhaust, so drove off. I managed to get about a mile down the road and then the car shuddered, a smell of burning plastic filled the car and I couldn't get it to move at more than 10mph. I pulled the car over and debated whether to take it back or call my breakdown service, but in the end decided to take it back. Started it up again, drove for about half a mile, struggling to maintain 10mph, and then there was a loud bang. Calamity? No. It seems something was left inside the exhaust and whatever it was broke free. My feeling, considering the smell, was that it was some kind of plastic wrapping or bag that burst when I put my foot down. After that the car ran perfectly and has done ever since. There is no doubt that Kwik Fit provide a fast service and their prices are competitive, but considering the scaremongering from this branch and another I went to the same day, considering the problem immediately after the exhaust was fitted, it will be a cold day in Hell before I trust them with my car again. Two stars for doing the job quickly and cheaply, but this is not the kind of service I would expect from alleged professionals.

Excellent service messaged his page yesterday tyre was in for 1130 and I arrived at 12 to a clean…read moretidy garage had tyre fitted with no issues wouldn't go anywhere else

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Saturday was my second visit to this tyre depot. I got a couple of tyres here a few weeks ago and…read morewas very impressed with the excellent service that I got. I did not hesitate to return when my Son needed a new tyre after finding a bulge in his tyre and before going of on a trip on Sunday, Paul could not go himself as he was working four 12 hour shifts before his trip. The owner was busy with another customer but quickly acknowledged me and came over to speak as soon as he could. Paul's tyre size is unusual and he first thought that I would have to wait until Monday, bu the soon found one for me and asked if I could return in 30 minutes. When I came back new tyre in place he did explain that the wheel had been damaged also and he had repaired it as well the day was saved and Paul went off yesterday safe in the knowledge that his tyres were all save.

Hi all, here is my review for turbo tyres. Firstly I would like to mention I'm just a regular…read morecustomer and not in any way related to the owner. And had never met the owner until my first visit. I've done the sensible thing, and before writing this review decided to use turbo tyres services on a few occassions just to get know the place. ** notes - also recommended this place to partner so I'm speaking on behalf of her experience as well. 1st visit was to purchase a couple of part worn tyres just to help my car pass it's mot. ( as this had been advised by the chap who does the servicing on my car) I payed £50 for 2 front tyres 7mm depth almost new in other words. Same make of tyre for both. Have had no problem with the tyres. 2nd visit back tyre continuously needing pumped up. When the tyre was removed the owner pointed out the bubbling seeping from the edge of the alloy wheel and the tyre. This was very apparent after he sprayed the tyre and rim with a little liquid. Was told tyre was good but rim needed repaired. Rim was grinded and he replaced the valve for the tyre total cost £20-£25 again had no problems with tyres since they've been repaired. 3rd 4th and 5th visits, were all for my partners car. Again tyres needed replacing as well as valves on a couple of them. No problems and neither of us have ever had to return after work has been carried out. I like the fact that it's one mature guy and not a team of guys all giving different advice. I also liked the fact that on removing the wheels if there was any problems with the discs or pads the chap at turbo tyres pointed out and showed me. This was important as I had not noticed that my left side brake pad had basically no wear on the pad. The car wasn't pulling to the one side or giving any squeals upon braking. This advice was not only important but saved me money as I could have damaged the break disc. I'm like most consumers I want as much as I can for as little as possible. You definitely get that here at turbo tyres, And myself and partner felt confident after leaving the premises. Also you'll find like a lot of places the more you use the less you'll pay. Apologies for ranting on. But definitely give this guy at turbo tyres a go you won't regret it. Peter and Audur