I have been bringing my car here for years & have been pleased with the service I have been provided....until now. I recently took my car here form an A/C check. I explained over the phone that I was having issues with inconsistent cooling & wasn't sure if it just needed a recharge or if there was something more. I made an appointment & brought it in. They had no idea what I had brought my car in for. I explained the issue again & they said that they would take a look. Took an hour & a half to get it in the garage to start to troubleshoot it...WITH AN APPOINTMENT. When they did all of their testing, they found the compressor was not working properly. It would cost $1400. Fine. I scheduled to get it fixed. I went to pick up my car, paid the bill & walked out as a satisfied customer. I got in my car & started it. It made a horrible vibrating/grinding sound. I pulled my car up to the garage & Danny, the manager, was outside. I explained it made a really awful sound but of course by this time, the sound had subsided. He said to let him know if it happened again. Sure enough, I was riving that evening in stop-n-go rush hour traffic . Every time I came to a stop & sat at idle, it made a horrendous sound & vibrated through my brake pedal. It continued this throughout my trip that evening.The next day, I stopped into Firestone & explained the issue again. Danny said they would take a look at it. We tried multiple times to duplicate the sound, but were unable to. Danny told me he needed to get the car to duplicate the sound in order to fix it. Danny consulted with his mechanic, John (20 years of experience) & they came to the conclusion that it was the fan motor. This took about 2 hours of sitting & waiting. That evening, it continued the sounds & became more convinced it was a failing compressor. The next day, I called again. Pretty much same story. Danny insisted it was the fan motor. He said he would replace the fan motor free of charge just to prove it to me. While I appreciate that he was willing to give me a free fan motor, I had already invested quite a large bit of time trying to get my car fixed & was convinced it was the compressor. The next day, I took off early from work to take my car back there. After a ride with John, my car still did not duplicate the noise. Danny & John decided they would run some further diagnostics on the car to see if they could figure it out., even though I insisted it was the compressor. And here's the other part of the story...the compressor was under warranty and they could warranty it out but insisted it couldn't possibly be this new compressor. John runs some questionable diagnostics...he set a fan outside of my car & blew it towards my car to simulate driving down the road. The measurements he got from this diagnostic further convinced Danny & John that it was not the compressor. After over 3 hours in the shop that day, the evening ended with Danny telling me it was the fan motor or it could be the ECM. He said they do not have any way to read the codes on my car so I needed to take it to the dealership to diagnosis. He explained he would even pay for that & a rental car for me to get the problem fixed. By the end of the evening, Danny wouldn't listen & gave me my money back, told me to take my car & never come back. The next day, I called the dealership and they got me in for diagnostics on my car. I received a call from my service advisor that indeed it was the compressor. It had shelled out into the condensor & so now I needed a compressor and a condensor & various other parts that were damaged from the metal shavings. My bill now went from $1400 to $2800 because Danny @ Firestone was so caught up in his ego that he wouldn't listen & fix the problem. HE was more determined to throw other parts at it, which in the end would not have fixed anything but rather caused me additional time off of work. I immediately called Firestone & spoke directly with Danny and informed him that indeed it was the compressor and it had failed and now I needed additional work. He said he had washed his hands of my vehicle and had told me to never bring my car back there. Frustrated by this but left with no other option at the time, I called the dealership back and gave them the green light to fix my car. Interestingly, the dealership did not have to duplicate the noise to fix my car. The next day around 9:15, I received a call from Danny that they were going to take care of it. Basically after multiple phone calls to Danny, Tim (the area manager) and now customer service (who promised a call within 48 hours) there has been no remedy. i am out $2800 to fix something that should be taken care of by Firestone. they have said they will take care of it however they continue to drop the ball and not follow through. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE YOUR CAR HERE! THEY DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR WORK OR THEIR MOTTO...FIXED RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! read more