My experience here has been neutral-positive since I've started using big o as a tire dealer and mechanic. First thing you will notice is it is always extremely busy. The people that have to check in/out customers also answer the phones for general inquires. That makes explaining to them what's going on or asking a question incredibly frustrating because it takes 3-4 interruptions to get thru a conversation. The amount of volume of calls and customer interaction is a huge distraction to getting effective service. The bad; I've taken my F150 in here a for a various list of normal maintenance and mechanical issues. It's probably the most common vehicle on the road so you'd expect everything to be routine. Twice I've brought it in for a tire rotation that wasn't done. I was only aware the first time because a different tire shop had chalked the tire where they did a flat repair earlier in the day and when I picked it up the rotation was on the ticket but it had obviously not been done. I just decided to ignore it because they were incredibly busy and it was probably just a one time over sight. Until I went back a few months later and the same thing happened. I bought it in for a suspension inspection because of unusual tire wear and they determined the tie rod ends were bad. There was some confusion between the service writers and the techs and they had to have it back for a second day after they ordered the wrong parts. So I again brought it back in and left it for the entire day. I showed back up at the end of the day incorrectly assuming there was time to do everything. I took it home and I noticed the tires hadn't been rotated, again. I've been to tire shops where the people working there were legitimately passionate about tires and cars in general. Some people can look at a tire and can diagnose an issue just by looking at the wear pattern or at least have the decency to let you know there is a problem. I bought these tires from big o and not once did they ever mention that there was a concern with wear or make any attempt to sell me service I didn't explicitly ask for. They will just do what is listed on the ticket and not a lick more. Sometimes less, in fact. I take it back a third time. This occasion happens to be a Saturday where the crowd level was like Disney world, and overwhelmed staff is franticly answering calls and checking customers in and out at an wholly unmanageable pace. I finally make it to the counter and I tell the guy that I need a rotation. In the most condescending and smug voice possible says; "do we have an appointment today?" Well, no I said. I handed him a self-tapping screw I found on the ground outside, simply to make them aware that their construction crew was dropping 2" screws all over their tire shop parking lot. He told me in an equally smug and dismissive tone, "yeah we're doing construction, we can only sweep the parking lot so many times in a day..." I proceeded to tell him my full story in between the phone calls he was taking and after about 5-10 minutes of negotiation he agrees to take my truck in right now, for the rotation that was never done during the 24 business hours its already been there in the last month. I ask him about balancing the tires because of the wear and high speed vibration and he tells me it would be wasting his time and mine. Translation: I don't want to and we obviously don't have time. I get a ride home and less than an hour later I have a text message that says it was done. Should be a good thing. I go pick it up and the guy hands me the ticket without adding a single remark, even though I could see the service tech and written several notes on the job slip. Oh well. As I leave driving down Wanamaker, I could hear a grinding sound as the wheel went around on the road loud enough to come into the cab. It sounded like a rock got between the rotor and back plate. Okay I can fix that. I get home and jack up the front end and discover the reason for the noise was the balancing weights inside the wheel are rubbing the caliper when the front wheel went around. You know, because the front brakes are larger in diameter so, clearance in the wheel is different? I had to scrape off half the weights with a screwdriver to get the wheel to move freely. Spinning it by hand at least once would have revealed this problem. They don't take any care to check their work. It was about finishing the job as quickly as possible with no regard for the outcome. Just close the ticket and make it someone else's problem. I took the truck to a different shop to balance the wheels and all 4 tires needed weight. Some over an ounce and now the vibration is gone. These are 37" BFG T/As @ $400 per, with a voided treadwear warranty because the tread wear is uneven and they were not rotated per spec. It definitely makes me wonder if all of the oil changes and other service I've had done was actually completed. What else other people are being charged for that isn't being done? read more