Ablefit Tyres & Exhausts Ltd Reviews Summary

Category: Tire shop Bristol

Address: Unit, 1b Kingsfield Ln, Bristol BS30 6DL, United Kingdom

Phone: +441179615044

Rating: 4.3
based on 117 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "the staff always seem courteous and professional."
  • "Excellent service and great people to deal with."
  • "the staff are efficient and obliging and the prices along with quality of service and goods are also very good."
  • "Staff are good at answering questions on your car/van."
  • "Dealt with very efficiently by a friendly team."

Cons:

  • "Miserable, unhelpful 'staff'/kids stroppin around on their mobiles!"
  • "Extremely dangerous and v poor customer service."
  • "Staff and management need extra training on customer service."
  • "Not one of them made eye contact, said 'hi', or 'be with you in a sec' or even acknowledged my presence in any way."
  • "Rude staff and a rude man called Steve from so called management."

Efficiency

Pros:

  • "A new battery was fitted quickly."
  • "One of the cheapest prices locally."
  • "Fast, efficient and well priced."
  • "Quickly fixed my slow puncture, it's always busy here but everyone does their best to help you ASAP."
  • "Came in on a busy Saturday morning for a tyre repair and was still in and out within 20 minutes."

Cons:

  • "Book my car for tire change and they promise me that they will sort it out In 45 min but waited 2 hours they said I didn't book at all."
  • "Tyre was already off when they suddenly didn't have the quoted replacement and over an hour of waiting."
  • "Advised staff that I had MOT in 1 hour on arrival and had 2 cars in front of me. Not a problem to wait if there busy working but when my car was finally started after a 45 minute wait it still took 30 minutes to change 1 tyre because of constant talking and messing."
  • "3 hours to fit 4 new tyres."
  • "take ages to fit a tire and spend most of the time just waiting around."

Professionalism

Pros:

  • "They could’ve completely ripped me off, I wouldn’t of had a clue, yet they didn’t!"
  • "Really fast professional service."
  • "Great friendly service, if only all garages were as honest & helpful!!"
  • "Fantastic - quick and professional service with knowledgeable and friendly technicians."
  • "Great value tyres and dealt with in a friendly and professional manner."

Cons:

  • "Filthy hands, dirty clothing, No floor mat, No seat cover, no steering wheel cover, changed radio station."
  • "Just found out how unprofessional they are."
  • "Very unprofessional. They banging with the hammer to take the locknut out instead to use special tools and they damage my diamond cut alloy wheel."
  • "Rude, slow but cheap this place is the car change equivalent of Ryanair."
  • "Need tracking then I've now learnt to take it to a professional who will align your geometry properly, these guys are tyre monkeys, not qualified mechanics."

Integrity

Pros:

  • "Excellent, friendly service. They could’ve completely ripped me off, I wouldn’t of had a clue, yet they didn’t!"
  • "Just been to ablefit to sort out a puncture they were fantastic checked everything offered me all types of tyre and made me very happy not all superheroes wear capes."
  • "The Manager always sorts our family’s cars out for me, no matter what has happened to them and what emergency I have!"
  • "Definitely recommend this place. I had no idea what tyres I needed. They could easily have told me all 4 and I would have been none the wiser."
  • "Really genuinely nice polite blokes. Normally as a women attending a car garage I normally feel like they try and get more money out of you and looked down on!! However they were more than helpful and definitely made me feel comfortable."

Cons:

  • "They said I needed a new tail pipe and silencer... A main dealer has just confirmed that the knocking was caused by a broken coil spring!"
  • "Used before but after this awful experience, never again. My partner went into change 2 rear tyres, fitter then made a mistake and fitted 2 front ones instead."
  • "when I asked 'WAYNE' 'do they know what they are doing' I was presented with attitude, no apology or reasonable explanation."
  • "They ordered in the wrong tires but we were accused of supplying the wrong tyre number."
  • "To be told that I needed 4 new tyres when I originally went in knowing only one of them needed replacing."

Value

Pros:

  • "The prices are very competitive."
  • "most other garages only give a years guarantee on exhausts - Ablefit gives two."
  • "Good prices and I do check around."
  • "if you need tyres at a reasonable price then you won't go far wrong here."
  • "I will definitely visit again and will recommend to others - great prices for tyres!"

Cons:

  • "Wish I could rate lower but can't. Technician couldn't get the socket so had to use a hammer whilst the ratchet gun was still attached to the car and chipped paint off my wheels."
  • "Charged for tyre tracking when they asked me and I said no."
  • "Charged £15 to take the tire off, say they couldn’t fix it and put it back on again… not very Christmassy!"
  • "New tyres almost twice the price as that's all they had and wouldn't even negotiate."
  • "Low prices = Very bad work!"

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