Quality professional tyrefitter in Canberra ?

I've heard about and read on this and many other forums more than enough horror stories to fill me with dread, woe and caution about people who have taken their car to their local tyre shop and discovered that little to zero care has been taken by the tyre fitters and their rims have been scratched/marked/damaged when the tyres were fitted, centre caps broken, over or under torqued wheel nuts, wheels not properly centred on the hub, incorrectly balanced wheels causing vibrations and poor wheel alignments causing the car to pull to the left or right etc etc and the list goes on.

While there are plenty of them between a 5 and 20 minutes drive from my home, I'm not prepared to just rock up to the nearest
Bob Jane/Goodyear/JaxQuikfit/Tyrepower/Bridgestone/Tyres R Us place and then hope and pray all goes okay and they get it right. I have to admit to being fairly fussy and particular when it comes to any work done on my car so I'm just not prepared to take that gamble/risk and particularly not with a very expensive set of new rims.

So can anyone recommend an ultra professional wheel and tyre fitting specialist place in Canberra? Preferably a place that you, or someone you know well, have recently used and were 100% happy with and that you would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone else?

Avoid Jax in Fyshwick! I caught one of them flogging my car around the streets, and when I confronted the manager he didn't want to hear it. They also stuffed up the wheel alignment and said that my car was too low to set correctly even though it's above legal height.
A few mates have been pretty happy with Ozzy Tyres in Fyshwick, the place is very clean and professional for a tyre place.

Bad experience at Ozzy with some scratched rims. So I won't go back there personally. Northwest Tyres in Fyshwick have always been very respectful to my rims, and I am happy to keep going back to them.

Gave up trying to find a "good" place and bought my own tyre machine and balancer... ;)

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Originally Posted by IJ.

Gave up trying to find a "good" place and bought my own tyre machine and balancer... ;)

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So IJ are you in Canberra or close to it and wanna a good fee paid to fit and balance my wheels then...

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Originally Posted by wms

So IJ are you in Canberra or close to it and wanna a good fee paid to fit and balance my wheels then...

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LOL sorry no where near....

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If I were close by I'd have been happy to do it for the cost of the weights, maybe get together with a couple of mates and buy the machines, not that expensive :)

Each time I found someone "good" by the next set of tyres they were long gone..... :(

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Originally Posted by IJ.

If I were close by (

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Cheers IJ :) but I have been and always will be more than happy to 'pay my way'. Out of interest where are you located? PM me if you don't want that public of course.

Avoid Ozzy, they lost my nut covers and screwed my wheel alignment, new tyres scrubbed out in under 15k.
Also Bob Jane belco, scratched the shit out of my rim on the Rx7 plus young idiots work there.
North West were decent and would go back but usually go to Tyre power Belco, All old blokes and usually fit while you wait.
Gentech a forum sponsor does fitting i think? not sure about supply tho.

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Originally Posted by Mightypns

Gentech a forum sponsor does fitting i think? not sure about supply tho.

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I actually checked Gentech's website yesterday hoping they might've done fitting but there's no mention of it on their site. I'm the other side of town to them but I don't care about driving out there or further if I can get the job done perfectly with no problems, damage or dramas. If all else fails, and none of the members can give me a heads up on a place I might give them a call to see if they could maybe recommend somewhere...

I have been going to Jax in Belco for the past 7 or 8 years and haven't had any dramas with rims. Beaurepairs in Braddon is good for wheel alignment. Go and see Peter who used to be in the Gungahlin store. He does a great job.

Mick

^ Thanks Mick :)

Was actually back at NorthWest this morning ... They took a set of wheels off, took the tyres off, put the tyres on new wheels and back on the car. $80, no scratches on any of the 8 rims. Too blokes still.

^ Thanks team illucid - might just give NorthWest a go. I assume the $80 included balancing but not an alignment and did you pre book your car in for this fitment or did you just rock up?