DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ACTION GOOD YEAR TIRES - I have never witnessed more disrespectful and quite frankly, appalling service than at this independently-owned Action Good Year Tires on Shawnee Mission Parkway in Shawnee, KS. We have only purchased tires for my daughter's car at this store - nowhere else.
We purchased my college-aged daughter FOUR tires from this store - 2 from March of 2015 and the other two in January of 2016. She was recently back in Shawnee from college and complained that she was having tire issues so we made an appointment at a different Good YEar closer to our home. This new Good Year Tire store told us that the two tires that ACTION Good Year Tires put on the car 18 months previously had plenty of tread left on them but were so old that they were severely cracking and by law, they couldn't "repair" these tires so I had to buy two new tires. This means that the tires ACTION Good Year Tires sold to my young and unsuspecting daughter were over five (5) years old when they were put on the car. This obviously concerned me and her father greatly as this is a huge safety issue as old tires can literally blow or fall off of the tire rim entirely! And, we thought we had purchased NEW tires for her car - not DRIED OUT and nearly EXPIRED ones. We've all heard the news reports and know that the full life span of a tire is six years according to much research.
I visited the ACTION Good Year Tires store on Monday, October 17 to try and get to the bottom of the issue. I had all of the paperwork to prove we purchased two tires there on March 3, 2015, and two more in January of 2016. I also brought the actual tires with me and a note with a business card from the manager of the other Good Year Tires store that had taken these two tires off of my daughter's car and replaced them with two new tires to prove I hadn't just picked these tires up "somewhere".
I was greeted by Rich McDonald, manager of the store and no other customers were in the store at the time. Rich seemed pleasant at first but that quickly changed when he realized that my invoice didn't match up with the two bad tires removed from my daughter's car. As a reminder, we have ONLY purchased tires for my daughter's car at this ACTION Good Year store (up until last weekend). I suspect what had happened back on March 3, 2015 was ACTION Good Year Tires sold her old tires and scammed us by including a DOT number on our invoice from a newer Good Year tire with a more updated DOT number - basically erasing the evidence. Plus, these weren't even Good Year tires, they were Michelin tires. (ACTION Good Year is an independent dealer and can install any type of tire. They will order tires at a customer's request or pull tires from other tire stores if the specific sized tires needed aren't in stock at their store.)
Rich was smug and completely unprofessional. He said this wasn't their fault and that they would not accept any responsibility for it. He said it was my problem and there was nothing they could/would do about it. I know that I became angry myself and I wanted to have a conversation about it but he wasn't going to engage further. I wasn't looking for a refund, I was looking for an explanation as to why they would do something like that and put my daughter's life in danger. If they've done it to her, they've done it to many other people. He laughed out loud at me and told me I could speak to the owner or take the situation to Good Year Corporate. I even called later to obtain the owner's name and Rich McDonald hung up the phone on me.
My daughter's father visited the store the next day and was laughed out loud at by Rich McDonald again. And while the owner, Tim Potter, was certainly more professional than Rich, he charged us with calling him a liar and he also claimed it was our problem. Tim certainly didn't seem to care that the manager of his store was laughing at a customer in front of him. That honestly told us everything we needed to know - ACTION Good Year Tires has no class and doesn't deserve the business of any customer. How can a place of business be so disrespectful right to a customer's face?!?! Unbelievable.
At the end of the day, we are just consumers that want our concerns to be acknowledged. Unfortunately ACTION Good Year Tires doesn't have the class, maturity, self respect and decency to even do that. Please don't do business with this company - we certainly won't again - EVER. read more