san2000

Got my rears changed last week at Bracknell tyres.
I know I should have probably checked em straight away but only managed to get the pressure checker on em today.

Left rear - 31psi
Right rear - 36psi!!!!!

In light of recent accidents and the fact that a fair few folk may be changing tyres at this time of year.....CHECK THE PRESSURES AFTER!!

Those of you who have been there will know that they put your car make on the whiteboard so they know which order the cars have come in.
Well...when one of the rookies came to reading mine he goes:

'S2000.....what's an S2000?' Being on hand, I showed him.

This might explain the pressures....!

euan

You'd think a bloke working in a garage would be a petrolhead of some kind.

As long as he understands the words "alloys", "damage" and "genital mutilation" I guess that's really all that's important for a tyrefitter from my perspective.

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AquilaEagle

Sounds bad for Bracknell They know what an S is surely - musta been a new guy

san - didn't you feel that when driving the car? i can feel when mine are down by 2psi

san2000

Not so much on normal driving....but that's cos it's been kinda slippy anyway so I assumed thats what it was.

But after correcting it today I noticed a HUGE increase in stability under heavy braking.

(which i needed as there was a heck of a lot of fog on the A12 tonight)

moff

Same happened to me, but not so bad on the rears. Got all 4 changed, and had:

RF - 26PSI
LF - 28PSI
RR - 30 PSI
LR - 30PSI

Drives me mad. I specifically asked for 32 PSI as well

rahula

This is a big coincidence as I went out for a drive on Sunday and was warming up my brakes and a good thing too because when I pressed hard my car swerved left. I had to come off the brakes sharpish before I ended up in the hedges. I initially thought that the road was slippery so I tired this again and again for over 1 mile.

Most of the time the car would violently swerve left but other times it would go to the right instead and even stop in a straight line. Long story short, I stopped the car on the side of the road and checked my tyre pressures and it turned out my right rear was lower by 7psi than all the others. Got to the petrol station and filled up and everything was fine again. Strange thing is that I only checked mine a week ago so it must have happened at the 1stLotus day as I was complaining at the end of it that the car was not handling well. It was a luckly escape.

Paper Lawyer

Whilst it doesn't explain the differing pressures and the fact that your front tyres were definitely too low, perhaps your tyre gauge reads slightly differently to the tyre fitters? I know that my digital gauge and my halfords compressor guage have a 2psi disparity.

GSi

euan

I felt my car slightly "off" on the drive up north on saturday morning.

Checked them before returning on sunday and they were mostly 1 psi down.

Car felt significantly better after putting them back to 32. Amazing the difference 1 psi makes.