First off I'd like to say that as a women going to any auto shop with very little knowledge is hard enough, but it's even harder when the men that work on your car scam and take advantage of you.
I made a 9:00am appointment on Saturday and told them I needed 2 front tires to match my backs which were 215's. After 2 hours joe the mechanic comes out and tells me I'll need all new lug nuts because he finished rounding them off and can't get them off.
You would think after 20 minutes maybe even an hour he would of said that before taking all of them off. He tried to sell me 10 lug nuts for 127$ as being on a budget like most I couldn't afford the lug nuts but he ended up giving them to me for free. Great! I appreciate that, I've been to tires plus numerous times and didn't even care how long it took I just couldn't wait to get my tires on.
After another hour joe comes out with my car which has the new tires in the back (I have front wheel drive) but left the front tires on which were meant to be replaced because I had been putting green slime and putting air in the tire the past 2 weeks. I mentioned maybe it was a mistake as my backs were 215's and the front ones never got changed and were 225's.
Both Paul the manager and joe the mechanic gaslit me and told me no those were the ones In the rear. Paul said he had no idea what goes on back there.
He stated my back tires were the worst of all. I was already frustrated and tried to explain to him that the backs were not as bad as the fronts, I haven't had to put air in them, or slime, another tire shop said they were in better condition than my fronts.
Upon inspecting my vehicles tires (still in the parking lot) I noticed my driver window wouldn't go up more than 1/2 way. When brought to Paul's attention he stated
"IF YOU HAVE MONEY I CAN FIX IT"
It had been snowing in reno for the last 3 days, I would of known if my window wasn't closing properly.
I also noticed my front now left tire had green slime and a nail still in it.
Which means tires plus never inspected my tires. They switched the fronts left to right and changed out my backs ones even tho the fronts were the worst tires of all.
They proceeded to "fix my tire by patching it and fixed my window"
But refused to put the right tires on the front.
I was extremely unhappy, embarrassed and frustrated.
Paul wouldn't help me solve my problem he kept interrupting me, he was extremely sexist and just down right unprofessional.
I called the following day to speak to a manager, Paul stated he was the manager. I asked for a refund my tire service was nothing that I expected, i had the wrong tires on which he admitted they messed up, but refused to fix. I also asked if I could speak to somebody higher up, or if there was another person I could speak to.
Paul stated "nope it's just me, you can't talk to anybody else and I'm not giving you a f*cking refund"
I have never had such terrible service.
I sat at tires plus from 9am-1:30pm
Joe failed to mention the different tire sizes, he failed to mention he was having a hard time with lug nuts.
He also failed to mention my broken window.
Paul the MANAGER failed to be any actual help. He belittled me, bullied me and treated me like a child. He didn't care for anything I had to say. He was rude and absolutely no help, he couldn't answer any of my questions and he was anything but respectful.
I have contacted someone higher above Paul to receive my refund, I have also put in a complaint with the better business bureau.
And on another note, the same tire I've been filling up for 2 weeks that they didn't notice the nail in the tire and supposedly fixed it is still leaking. I spent 260$ and 5 hours of my time and still left with 2 different tire sizes and the same tires I asked to be changed.
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