Well this story just gets better and better. The wheels i was going to get last week turned out to have gone on another car to a track day demonstration. So they were a right off. I was promised that another set were being shipped to them for Monday. I got the call this morning telling me the good news that the car was ready for collection. I got a friend to drive the 2hour to the dealers (you can see where this story is heading, I bet).
On arrival, I paid for the service and happily drove off in my car, having made a quick inspection. The car was on the fuel light (nice touch i thought) so I drove to the nearby garage to fill her up. Whilst standing by the car i had another look at the tires and thought they looked slightly odd from that angle. Bending down to read the wall, i discovered they were the wrong ones! Yes they had fitted the Porsche N1 tire. Which i can now confirm sits completely differently on the rim. Rather than being flush as with the standard tire, they protrude beyond the rim itself. I made a call to the service guys and drove the car back to them. They confirmed the mistake. Seemingly no one had checked the wheels (including myself) as they couldn't believe after all the problems sourcing them, anyone could have got it wrong.
Of course by this time, my ride had long gone and i was stuck 90 miles from home with no car! A call to my friend revealed he was already an hour down the road. So i had him wait and the service guy gave me a lift to his car. I'm now promised the correct tires are arriving tomorrow and someone will be delivering my car to my home. Sadly the delivery trailer is being used tomorrow so someone will be driving the car down. On my full tank of fuel of course! All in all a great day. 5 hours on the road, £2k in service fees and tires and a full tank of fuel later, and still no car.
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