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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Ever hear the syaing you get what you pay for??
It's true 99.9% of the time.
And this time was no exception.
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Originally Posted by Bill Moore
It is common practice for tire dealers to offer free rotation on tires they sell. It's an added bonus for them, cause it gives them an opportunity to do other work on your car. (Oil change, alignment, etc.) The local Goodyear shop has been rotating tires on my vehicles for the past 20 years. Never a problem, never a loose or missing lugnut, and always free of charge...
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On the Good Year note - did you pay MORE than going to Wal-Mart for your tires?
Now here is where some may not like what I say - but it's the truth from my point of view being in automechanics my whole life (Father is an auto-mechanic and as am I)
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Ask Wal-Mart how quick their turn-over rate is. I'll never be caught dead working for a Wal-Mart due to their quite piss-poor pay. You get kids fresh out of school that may be BOOK SMART - but that is only about 10% of what applies to automechanics. You have to be out in the field wrenching under a Vet for 3 years IMHO to get to the point where you can be on your own. Books tell you how things work, the shop shows you how to fix things when broken.
Also - same goes for the quickie oil changes place. Sure - most of them hire kids at 6-7/hr for dealing with scalding hot oil/metal parts in a hurried fashon. Ever see somone over 30 working for a place like that? Not around here...
Before you bash please realise where you are going. It doesn't start up higher in the chain - the jobs goes to the lowest priced person in thoes cases. PERIOD. Talk to other people that pay a little more at a mom-n-pop shop and they will tell you that they are overall 99.9% (if not 100%) happy with their choices.
Agian - in the automechanics field - you pay for experience/knowlege/speed. Any place that offers an oil change at 9.99 is a shop that is 1. hurting for business or 2. hires the local kids out of school.