"Mike G" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Had the first one for ages the other day - which scrapped the tyre as it
was just above the shoulder on the side wall. No idea what caused it as it
was on the inside of the tyre. It went down very rapidly. The tyres were
all near new too. I'd bought them mail order and got five - but not used
the 5th one as the spare is perfect.
So took the wheel and the new tyre to my local place for fitting/
balancing and they charged me 20 quid plus VAT. Is this the normal price
these days?

The same as I paid a couple of months ago to have a tyre reseated to cure a
slow puncture, but they did have to remove and refit the wheel.

HFM? I had a leek round one of my valves (funky pressure monitoring ones),
took the wheel off stripped off the tyre, removed the valve and had a good
look (not one they had seen before) put the lot back together and charged £6.