Whelp, I should have done my homework and read all of the reviews before I went to this place. A week ago Sunday my friend and I were running around town doing errands when she suggested we pop in to the Tigard Car Toys and take a look. I was excited about the possibility of upgrading the stock stereo system in my 2019 Mazda CX-5. So, I go in and talk to a salesman named Dylan. I go into the sound room and pick out a pair of Infinity speakers and an Alpine amp, which he tells me will be compatible (he confirms this with one of the installers right in front of me). We set up a time for the installation (the following Wednesday morning) and I go along my merry way.
Wednesday morning arrives, I drop off my car, my friend picks me up, and we head back to her house. On the way I get a call from the manager, Tony. He tells me that the speakers and amp are actually NOT compatible and they're going to have to put me into a different amp (I confirm this because I ask him, "Will it still be an Alpine?" and he says "Yes.") When I pick up my car it turns out that they had installed a set of Alpine SPEAKERS instead of the Infinities I had wanted. I had listened to those same speakers on Sunday, wasn't impressed, which is why I chose the Infinities. I demo the system, and though I'm really not happy with the sound, I don't like conflict and didn't want to argue with Tony, so I leave with a pair of speakers I'm not happy with. After a day or so I decide that I'm going to have buyer's remorse for the rest of my life if I keep them, so I give him a call and tell him that I'm not satisfied with the sound of the Alpine's, so they need to replace them with the Infinities and put me into a different amp that will be compatible. He tells me, "Bring your car back and we'll install the Infinities," which makes no sense since they whole reason they'd installed the Alpines is because of compatibility issue.
At this point I'm frustrated and decide to visit the Clackamas store. There, a salesman hears me out and sells me an amp that WILL be compatible with the Infinities, which is actually $50 cheaper than the one that Tigard had sold me. He also sells me the Infinities, but explains that the only available pair are at the Beaverton store--they've been discontinued and are out of stock everywhere else. NOW things start making sense.
The next day I call Tony at Tigard back and tell him that not only did I have the speakers I wanted, but I'd also bought a compatible amp that I also want swapped out since they failed to put me into one in the first place. He then tries to tell me that Dylan had told me that he'd recommended that amp to me in the first place, but I'd insisted on the incompatible amp, which is a complete steaming load of BS. Why would I have done that, especially since the correct amp was $50 cheaper??? Then he tells me that on TOP of the installation I'd already paid for, which was $600, I was going to have to pay them another $350 in fees to remove the wrong speakers and install the new amp--all of which was their fault. Now, what was once a $1,000 deal has turned into nearly $1,400 (I'd also had to purchase two wiring kits for the new amp). When, given the fact that everything was their fault I protest, I'm basically told "tough $hit."
I start calling around to other stores, asking them how much they'd charge to do the job. Each one of them quotes me a price that is half of what the Tony wanted to charge me. The next morning I head down to the Beaverton store to pick up my new speakers and speak to the store manager, Francisco. It turns out he's also the acting RM while the RM is on vacation. I explain everything to him and find out that the only reason they had the Infinities is because a customer had recently returned a set. So, it seems that what happened is that the Tigard store had never had the Infinities in the first place, which is why they installed the Alpine's. At any rate, Francisco made everything right. Not only did the Beaverton store remove the old system and install the new one at no additional charge, he refunded me the difference on the new equipment (it turns out the Infinities were on sale on the Car Toys website), so the cost went back to the original $1,000 I was quoted in the first place. The installers did an awesome job, and I drove home happy last night.
The bottom line is avoid this store like the plague and take your business to the Beaverton store. As most of the other reviewers have explained, the Tigard store is run by a totally unscrupulous manager who will hose you if you give him the chance. read more