This article is sponsored by Tyreright.
We bought a new car recently. Well, okay, not new. It’s old, and the interior needs upholstery shampoo, but it’s a bigger car and I can easily fit three children and the grocery shopping inside it. My children aren’t all stuck together, elbows and knees attacking each other. Although Amy has been known to poke Isaac in the back of the head, so maybe it’s not all sunshine and roses.
I hate car shopping. Hate. In fact, I hate pretty much everything to do with cars. This time, instead of going with Nathan and wandering around pretending to care, I sent him with his brother and told him that whatever he chose was fine with me. Feminism: It’s the art of getting to choose which things I don’t want to have anything to do with.
He found a car, I told him it was great and we moved on. Yay, us.
But you see, the problem with buying a second hand car is that car yards will scrimp on some things when they’re looking to resell. Things like tyres. (See what I did there? Bringing the entire article around to my point? I AM AWESOME)
Tyreright offered me a free set of tyres, in exchange for a review of their services. And I said Hell Yeah, because having to pay for tyres comes under my God I Hate Cars And All Their Expenses banner, which includes everything, pretty much.
Tyreright are all about safety in tyres. They’re all about keeping us safe, which I got first hand knowledge of when they refused to fit the set of tyres I’d purchased online, because they were the wrong type. No, it wasn’t my fault – the car dealership we bought from had fitted the wrong tyres and I’d then bought the same kind ASSUMING that other people know what they’re doing. Other people are idiots.
My husband took the car in for the tyres and I stayed at home with sick children. Frankly, he got the better end of that deal. The guys in the Hobart store were professional and polite as they explained to Nathan about wrong size tyres and come back tomorrow and we’ll have the right kind of tyres for you. Because SAFETY.
The next day, Nathan took the car back into the city, while I stayed home (yet again) with three sick children. Tyreright fitted the tyres that I’m told are of very good quality, and did the wheel alignment thing that is important and Nathan got to drink coffee and sit in a park alone. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
Frankly, it was all much easier than the last time I had to buy brand new tyres. From buying online (AWESOME), to the fitting, it was relatively stress free and I liked it so much I’ll do it again next time when I don’t have a freebie code. Yep, it was that good. Prices seem stock standard – but they’re tyres. You’re not exactly going bargain hunting, are you?
Tyreright will do all your tyre related car things for you, making sure that the rubber holding your car up is actually going to continue working in the manner it is supposed to. I’d say that’s pretty important.
