How fucken hard is it?

[jellywrestler]

I disagree sir.

Given the job sheet specified the work and presumably charged for it one would be safe to presume it was done?

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my point is how many shops actually do a job, then have someone else check it over, maybe in a tyre shop where the average work takes an hour and a half to watch sixty minutes but a bike shop that employs tradesmen? surely not, and who is the sucker that beleived this?

[pritch]

My bike usually comes back from the shop with mildly incorrect pressures. Usually one under and one over so it's not the difference in gauges. No problem I check them before I go anywhere.

Most incorrect pressures ever experienced was a set of new car tyres way over inflated. I assumed this was done to provide superlight steering and convince me of what a great job they'd done.

[nodrog:Me]

how does the shop know what pressure you would like in your tyres?

And don't say "what the manual says" because the Suzuki GSXR 1000 manual sates 42 psi for the rear tyre, and all that is fucken good for is leaving black lines all the way to the chiropractors.

[pritch]

how does the shop know what pressure you would like in your tyres?

And don't say "what the manual says" because the Suzuki GSXR 1000 manual sates 42 psi for the rear tyre, and all that is fucken good for is leaving black lines all the way to the chiropractors.

They don't. But then their pressures have appeared entirely random.

Advice in manuals can vary. My Triumph manual says 34 for the front. The tyre manufacturers say 36.

My Ducati manual said 32 for the front. Unless you live where there are rough roads when a higher pressure was recommended to protect the rims. And we do live in such a place. Again the tyre manufacturer said 36.

All things considered if I was in a bike shop I'd use the tyre manufacturers spec 36 & 42. Just to avoid an expensive subsequent argument with OSH.
The owners could perform their own adjustments while waiting for the chiropractor.

[nodrog:Me]

They don't. But then their pressures have appeared entirely random.

Advice in manuals can vary. My Triumph manual says 34 for the front. The tyre manufacturers say 36.

My Ducati manual said 32 for the front. Unless you live where there are rough roads when a higher pressure was recommended to protect the rims. And we do live in such a place. Again the tyre manufacturer said 36.

All things considered if I was in a bike shop I'd use the tyre manufacturers spec 36 & 42. Just to avoid an expensive subsequent argument with OSH.
The owners could perform their own adjustments while waiting for the chiropractor.

or maybe, here's a silly idea, people could actually specify what pressure they would like, or ask afterwards what the pressure is to see if it is to their liking?

[nzspokes]

or maybe, here's a silly idea, people could actually specify what pressure they would like, or ask afterwards what the pressure is to see if it is to their liking?

You would think the poor guy fitting the tyre has to be a mind reader. Agree with what you say.

[nzspokes]

that's natural i would have thought, i always leave the valve out when beading, faster more efficiaent that way, then pop valve in.

Well yeah, how else would you do it?

[Maha]

Job Vacancy- Tyre Fitter Required- Rhodes Scholarship not Essential.

[nodrog:Me]

Job Vacancy- Tyre Fitter Required- Rhodes Scholarship not Essential.

Rhodes? where we're going we don't need Rhodes.

[Bassmatt]

how does the shop know what pressure you would like in your tyres?

They could always ask.

or maybe, here's a silly idea, people could actually specify what pressure they would like, or ask afterwards what the pressure is to see if it is to their liking?

I actually meant to check before I left this time but we got chatting and I forgot.

[pritch]

or maybe, here's a silly idea, people could actually specify what pressure they would like, or ask afterwards what the pressure is to see if it is to their liking?

Nah that is a silly idea. Just adjust it at home like always. Easy. If the pressures aren't to your liking then you have a problem.

[awa355]

New front tyre fitted on Friday, I said the pressure is 29psi. they said they put 34psi in because it was a new tyre and it should be higher to start with and I would not notice the difference. I did.

[MarkH]

I have a cheap air compressor (bought on special from Supercheap Auto) that I've had for about a decade, makes it easy to change the pressure to whatever I want.
I'd always check the pressure at home and change it as desired, I don't really care what a workshop thinks it should be.

[Tazz]

You would think the poor guy fitting the tyre has to be a mind reader. Agree with what you say.

Pfffft, poor guy my ass, considering they put air in every time they have to change/repair/lick a tyre, and they have a job sheet, you'd think they'd maybe fuckin ASK the customer if they'd like a specific pressure.
Customer service/attention to detail/doing the fucking job their being paid to do and all that.....

And tyre manufactures pressure or your own preference. They are the ones making them, not your potentially decades old owners manual.

[Katman]

Whenever the customer is there I ask if they have a preferred pressure.

The answer is more often than not - "whatever you think is best".