Went in looking for wiper blades for the missus' and daughter's car. Asked the nice lad there with a 'Purali'(or something) badge on:-
'Have you got any Bosch wiper blades for a Kia Carens'
'Dunno. Let's have a look on the computer'
Nice stroll to the other end of the shop, cleverly avoiding the printed cross reference list 15 inches away.
'Now, what was the car again?'
'Kia Carens'
'Ford Kia, yeah?'
'No, it's a Kia Carens'
'Err how do you spell that?'
'K-I-A C-A-R-E-N-S'
'Is that with a 'K'
'Kia is with a K, Carens is with a C'
'Nah, its not listed - we might have some Bosch though'
(Biting lip as I speak) 'OK, We'll have a look then'. Found it but instead of leaving quickly, I thought I'd risk a quick visit into Bikeshed.
'Hi there, would you happen to sell any tread stopping compound?'
'Errr, no, not any more'
'Ah, when did you stop selling it'
'Dunno'
'So, you do know what it is then?'
'Err, no'
'It's stuff that you put into the tread of a bike tyre to plug the cut'
'Well, I've got Slime'
'Oh, does that go into he cut in the tyre; I thought that was for tubes'
'Yeah, but the tube goes inside the tyre, dunnit?'
My fault - I went there!!
"tread stopping compound"
never heard of it. Is it soemthign from the 1940's?
did you invent "tread stopping compound"? I've never come across that before
halfords are bad... kia's are worse!
The Bikehut lad was right to take the piss. "Tread stopping compound" indeed.
They've got tartan paint next door in B&Q 😉
you probably use those little rubber tubes that come in puncture repair kits, dont you? 🙂
You sure taught him a lesson he won't forget 😆
Tread stopping compound?! Never had that one in all my years working in bike shops. But then, I'm an idiot too 😆
So that's at least two mistakes (Kia and then Halfords) you've made so far - any more you want to admit too?
Tread stopping compound? Is that like tartan paint or a sky hook?
Were you wearing a flat cap and driving gloves too? Tread stopping compound..FFS.
I suspect this thread is not shaping up quite as Old Git Surrey envisaged.
WTF is tread stopping compound 😆
Old Git, by itting Bosch wipers on your Kia,youd instantly double its resale price,to the man with the labrador and white stick.
google has only 6 results for [url= http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1SMSNCENUK353&q=%22tread+stopping+compound%22&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&oq= ]tread stopping compound[/url]
that pretty much means it doesn't exist 🙂
have you heard of google old git?
I said HAVE YOU HEARD OF GOOGLE?
google has only 6 results for tread stopping compound
five actually, the first result is this tread lol
Went into one of their shops in Dublin looking for wipers & high intensity headlamps for my focus. Came out as being €62 for the lot. Thought it seemed a bit expensive. So decided to go to a local motor factors favoured by backstreet garages all over dublin. Bosch wipers & osram high intensity bulbs came to €35. That's nearly half of the price of the halfrauds. Given the choice I ain't never buying anything else in there ever unless i have to.
tread stopping compound?
what we need round here is some [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-this-joker-on-about ]tHread[/url] stopping compound....
IGMC
Nice stroll to the other end of the shop, cleverly avoiding the printed cross reference list 15 inches away.
I take it you didn't have your reading glasses with you? old man!
Thread stopping compound probably near the Loctite lock n seal stuff 😉
Philistines! 😆
Tread stopping compound, or treadstop, is (well, or probably was :oops:) a mastic made to plug the large cuts in tyres (usually tubs and expensive slicks).
So, what does everyone use now, as Superglue lasts until the first splash of water.
any more you want to admit too?
Well, I once owned a Maestro that would have eaten your car, but that's another story!
"Tread stopping compound"
You just made that up FFS.
My mate has a Kia it's a solid car, you lost me at the compound thing though
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Early in WW2, a rat knawed through the wooden floor of the shed, right under my mothers front tyre, it then chewed the tread off the tyre. It was very difficult to get new tyres and as the cords were OK, my father stopped it with tread stopper. the tyre lasted for several years. Whether you are mending a puncture or stopping up the tread you have to be very meticulous in the preparation.
trust the CTC to know
So Halfords failed to stock something that no other bike shop sells eh? I can see why you had to share!
Tread Stopping Compound? - I'll tell you what everyone uses now.. Nothing, ride it until it fails and get a new one on! Anyway isn't a tread stopping compound something that turns nobbly tyres into slicks?? 😆
"Tread stopping compound"
You just made that up FFS
Er, yeah, mate.
Here's one I used earler --- much earlier!!
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So who uses what these days?
I think you need to go tubeless 😆
Is that like tartan paint or a sky hook?
[url= http://www.hitchnhike.co.uk/acatalog/aid_climbing_sky_hooks.html ]Sky hook would be one of these things[/url]
That stuff looks like it may well predate the pneumatic tyre! Which begs the question, what was it used for back then? Fixing horse hooves?
Went to Halfords to buy grease for wheel bearings as I was changing them on my car and there are two types of grease so I read the labels to see which was which but it didnt help me decide.
So I ask for help. 😥
Guy walks over and I ask which is correct for wheel bearings ?
I explained that I have read the containers and they shed no light as to which one.
He then proceeds to spend the next 5 minutes reading them himself to then pronounce he hadn`t a clue ?
FFS 😐
[i] The last remaining hope for Britains tight as a nats chuff cyclists was dashed last night, as news came by telegram that the convoy transporting Tread Stopper was sunk in the Bay of Biscay. Made from latex found only in the high mountain plateaus of Burma, the compound has allowed Britains riders to laugh at the dastardly Hun, while allowing riders to progress through the rubble strewn streets of the Blitz. Adolf has won this round, but we will prevail.[/i]
Winston Churchill, collected speeches, pub.1946.
Also, halfords pay minimum wage. Why do people seem surprised when they realise the staff aren't all especially bright?
Ah c'mon, Halfords aint's that bad.
Some of the local bikehut fellas, the ones that ride bikes rather than drive saxos are sound.
Guess it depends on the local staff.
It's ok for some things, rubbish for others.
but "tread stopping compound", you're kidding right...
So who uses what these days?
er new tyre? If a tyre is damaged I won't be risking a reapir failing miles from home. Most tyres aren't that expensive.
It's a repair, just like patching an inner tube.
Try buying a Continental tub at nearly £100, finding a cut in the tread after the first ride (no puncture) and slinging it. I'm not that rich!
On Sunday, I saw a customer and his son making fun and shouting at a kid for not knowing a pipe from hydro.clutch (main dealer or engineering part not kept in stock).
I move the lad and tell the customer I'll have look on the system...I'm typing away:
T-H-E-C-U-S-T-O-M-E-R-I-S-A-W-A-N-K-E-R
Sorry sir not in stock but I could order it in for you? with the kid behind my shoulder s****ing at the screen...
Some of us know what we're doing, Uni students doing technical degrees but I have noticed the lazyness is crazy.
It's the easiest part-time student job with some idiots working there full time.
A bike legend on 20K a year was pushed out to cut costs-thats why you're getting shoddy service.
(I work on all the sections as a student and I know my stuff and not afraid to ask collegues or go out of my way but not everyone does! for me it makes the day go quick before coming home to study chemistry and teaching.)
He then proceeds to spend the next 5 minutes reading them himself to then pronounce he hadn`t a clue ?
I have a horrible suspicion that's exactly what I'd have done.
I remember tread stopping compound. But then again, I am nearly sixty.
I remember using it too.....no better than supergloo, that's for sure.
All hail the one and only MisterCrud!
Old Git Surrey - MemberTry buying a Continental tub at nearly £100, finding a cut in the tread after the first ride (no puncture) and slinging it. I'm not that rich!
If you're buying £100 tubs then you're pretty rich IMO.
I use superglue.
Another thread of people moaning about Halfords, stop moaning and go elsewhere.
repeat after me "i am not the target market, i am not the target market"
got plenty of customers that don't need self gratification
[url] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091119/halfords-profit-half.htm [/url]
in retail terms those margins and cash flows are good
bit like ryanair - take it or leave it
does anyone else find this Daily Mail-esque trend of misspelling words like Hellfrauds or Nu Liebour etc.. massively irritating or is it just me?
Yup. It's an open declaration of war against the english language. I can't help but disagree with anyone who does it 🙂
steady on, a tad reprehensible and possibly misguidedmassively irritating
think i might throw up if i hear or see "app" again this week though
just order some PIAA ones online. As long as you order the right length they come with all the varieties of fasteners you might need.
Isn't it amazing how you always feel the need to reduce the complexity of what you're asking until they can answer it?
You didn't want slime! But you ended up wondering whether that would do...
...Until it reduces to "do you know what day of the week it is"?
He then proceeds to spend the next 5 minutes reading them himself to then pronounce he hadn`t a clue ?I have a horrible suspicion that's exactly what I'd have done.
I agree - I wouldn't trust your average punter to be able to read a tin either.
Halfords isnt a bad place, just like every other large business with managing directors and stockholders who are trying to squeeze the pennys. To be honest Ive never heard of tread stopping compound, but I have heard of tyre patches to fix large cuts from the inside to make the tyre usuable again.
As for the Kia incident, he might have been deaf from last nights booze fuelled antics, or just a bit dumb. Again, pay peanuts and get mostly monkeys, with exceptions.
lol.. they are onto YOU.. elsewhere ;O)
www.halfords.co.uk/staff.forum.guyaskedfortreadstoppingcompoundtoday/wtf.
YOU OWN A KIA. A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
You must try to read a bit better!
YOU OWN A KIA. A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
No, I don't!
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God help me, I've joined a forum where unless people have heard of something, it either doesn't exist or is a wind-up!
I've never heard of you Old Git Surrey.
You therefore either don't exist or are a wind up.
Can you tell me which it is please?
I can never be bothered to fix cuts in tyres myself but most that do seem to use superglue and rave about it so presumably it lasts longer than "until the first splash of water"?
OldGit - your picture appears to show 'Readstop' rather than Treadstop.
'Read stopping compound' = turning the light off, presumably?
Those bounders! Imagine my distain when they refused to sell me a replacement starting handle for my Model T Ford! Harrumph! Call themselves a motorised vehicle equipment supplier?
I recently bought a bike form our local Halfords superstore. I was chatting to one of the lads in there about which one to get (Subaw One or Two) and he seemed to know his stuff reasonably well, and was helpful letting me ride the two sizes round the shop until I was happy. I said sorry for taking his time up (It was a busy Saturday) faffing, but he said it was fine because it was nice to have someone who knew a bit about bikes to serve.
I guess they get a lot off eejits in there....?
Is the lame moaning and whinging about Halfords taken over from the lame moaning and whinging about MBR mag? 😐
If you'd have gone into any bike shop I know of and asked for something people stopped using about a million years ago, I doubt they'd know about it.
Halfords are great I reckon. Went in at the weekend and received excellent service for something car related. For the bike stuff, I tend to know what I'm getting so if they don't have it, I'll ask nicely. What I won't do is act like a complete d*ck and start belittling their staff. Customers aren't always right, they're quite often morons...
Never heard of Tread Stopping Compound, but black silicone mastic works well on truck tyres when they've got a bit of wire showing. 😉
[i]HoratioHufnagel - Member
does anyone else find this Daily Mail-esque trend of misspelling words like Hellfrauds or Nu Liebour etc.. massively irritating or is it just me?
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No. What is irritating is people who don't read any of the posts previous to theirs, except the orginal one. Hey [b]Jamie[/b]?
Here ya go, Old Git, TreadStop: [url= http://www.fitnessrepairparts.com/cart/ViewItem/13001594 ]I've found it!!![/url]
Comes in 3 levels - hope you know which one you want coz I ain't got a bleeding clue... 🙂
So who uses what these days?
I have a few tube patches on the inside of my tyres covering cuts. Not sure it adds much strength but makes me feel better that one lucky thorn won't get an easy path to the inner tube.
The big tears have several layers of duct tape on them too. It seems to keep the tyre in the correct shape better than not adding anything.
I am that tight/skint. 🙂
Dunno. Let's have a look on the computer'Nice stroll to the other end of the shop, cleverly avoiding the printed cross reference list 15 inches away.
When i worked at Halfords the computer system was updated more regularly than the flip-charts, also the computer will tell you if you have any in stock, and most likely the computer will be infront of the stock racks so he could get you one off their and save someone having to refill the on-floor racks later on.
The flip charts are also often incorrect, they also have pages missing, pages in the wrong order, and only have one brand of wiper blade in each (one is for Bosch, the other for Halfords blades).
I once went in with the wife to get some car odds and sods and whilst gathering bits I spotted her in the bike Dept talking to a young assistant. She then proceeded to walk towards me laughing, as after asking the assistant why were two identically specced bikes £50 different in price, she was told one was green and the other was red!!!
On the treadstop topic, I'm not ashamed to say I've heard and used the stuff in the past and recently read a 'Top Tip' somewhere that informed that the glue used to repair wet/diving suits can be used to repair treads too.
i like the fact Dezb is getting upset about Jamie recycling his tartan paint joke.
If you'd have gone into any bike shop I know of and asked for something people stopped using about a million years ago, I doubt they'd know about it.
.... and would probably have said so rather than some crap about 'we don't stock it any more', thereby implying that they once did.
Still, as I said, my fault; I went into the place.
Halfords are great I reckon.
Yeah, stick with them then, Davey. They make their living dealing with people like you!
Roger and Out!
alpin - Member
i like the fact Dezb is getting upset about Jamie recycling his tartan paint joke.
I also like that fact.
It's the little things i guess.
If i could go back in time [b]Dezb[/b] and edit my post so you could bask in the glory of your original creation I would. I feel so bad that i have claimed the tartan joke© as my own and stolen your moment in the limelight. A thousand apologies and allow me the honour to perform Seppuku to right the abominable wrong i have have been guilty of.
Etc.
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rather than some crap about 'we don't stock it any more', thereby implying that they once did.
To be fair, the company has been around long enough to have stocked it back in the olden days 😆
stick with them then, Davey. They make their living dealing with people like you!
What, you mean people who dont go round with preconcieved opinions and dont ask stupid questions?
Well, as the owner of a p7, a Bianchi racer and 4 1980's bmx bikes, and a semi regular reader of stw, I've never heard of Thread Stopping Compound either.
And as a sweeping generalisation, people who spent less than a fiver on their new car (apologies, I'm sure Kia's have moved on in terms of build quality since the Kia Pride was the cheapest, but insdisputibly the nastiest car for sale in Britain), tend not to spend £100 on a Continental Tub? (tube?).
I bought from the c2w scheme, a Bianchi from Halfords, from their defunct Bikehut branch in Dorking, in, er, Surrey, and the staff were both excellent, and helpful. They were happy to let me out the shop on £1500 racers just to get a feel for the right size before I ordered my bike, (as They don't do Bianchi, they obtained it for me). When I;ve been in there casually on a sunday pm, they showed interest in my vintage 80's Diamond Back Silverstreak BMX (a classic I'll have you know), and as the shop was full of high end bikes, must have had an ability to put them together.
Ok, the local car parts superstore primarilly selling kids bikes and commuters might not be used to obsure products for people who spend £100 on a tyre, but then the staff at Mcdonalds will look at you oddly if you ask for Steak Tatare.
or even tartare?
Thread Stopping Compound
I'm sorry I haven't got a [b]glue[/b] mate 🙂
Me? Upset??
He is not me 😐
TBH chaps you can't expect the kids to know what's what for every car ever made, and the way manufacturers change parts spec during production what chance have they got.
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