Used to be a Big O' fan of this location and referred others to it, until things went downhill. I'd recommend using Seever and Son instead, 100x. I used to respect the manager Mike, but he had become more and more condescending and confrontational towards customers, and I could see how he'd (embarrassingly) talk to female customers like they were children. I don't know why this change happened...
I had four cars going through this location and had recently purchased $1,000+ worth of PS4 tires. One got a nail within a couple of weeks and I brought it by to get repaired. After repairing the tire I noticed a scrape on that wheel. I brought it right back to take a look at it, and basically Mike and one of his other front desk guys did this weird double-team job, where they were saying all my wheels had some curb rash etc (they were all perfect! lol). It's like they try to gaslight you to get out of mistakes (they never even asked the tech about it, so what does that tell you?).
Fine, I didn't have solid evidence, and didn't want to blame someone else without knowing 100% it was their fault, so I let it go and had the wheel repaired under my own cost.
Some time later I brought the car by to do its 5,000 mile tire rotation, and I asked Mike to come out and look at the wheels. I just wanted to do a pre-service inspection so there would be no questions later, or bad feelings, if a mistake happened. Seems reasonable? He started acting all confused why I would ask for such a thing. I said, just so it's all clear beforehand that the wheels are undamaged. Then he started getting a bit loud and saying that I was being picky if I didn't want parts being scratched during service. I was like, "you all can't do a tire rotation without damaging wheels?". Years ago Mike bragged at how they had high-end equipment so as not to damage local Ferrari and Lamborghini customer wheels, and now one is being picky if you don't want your car damaged?
At that point I just told Mike, "I think we are done" and left. Just be wary of who you are dealing with, because if things go south, the behavior quickly becomes bizarre. I told this story to an old-timer car guy I know, and WOW the stories he started sharing of this location when things went wrong. I consider myself very lucky.
Oh, even better, is when I put in a complaint to Big O corporate about Mike's behavior, these just repeatedly go to him instead of anyone above him. What a joke. read more