Stay away from this location!! The Management & Employees are severely dysfunctional!
They are unqualified, untrained, unprofessional, and cannot follow simple instructions. They lack any and all customer satisfaction training.
I ordered 4 new tires from Town fair tire online and scheduled an appointment for this location to perform the installation, balance, & alignment. I also told them had a damaged wheel that needed to be replaced. I explained that the RF wheel was damaged and I explained that the new replacement "wheel" was in the box in the back seat. All good? "Yup all good he says".... Now the waiting & suffering begins. Even though I had an appointment, I initially waited about 30 minutes for someone to pull my vehicle in the bay. Soon after that I hear my name being called. The employee that was supposed to drive my vehicle into the bay informed me that he hears a loud grinding sound and my vehicle will not move or shift out of park. I go outside with him and I find that he shifted the transfer case shift into 4x4 Low instead of the automatic gear shifter. I corrected his error (even tho he swears he didn't touch the other shifter).... Anyway, my vehicle was finally inside the bay. They Indiscriminately remove all wheels and tires and begin mounting the new tires. They totally ignore the damaged rim and mount a new tire on it and install it on the truck. (Keep in mind they have cameras in the bays and I'm watching all of this on the TV in the waiting area). I hear my name called again. (Oh boy! What now!) The other employee informs me they can't perform the alignment because I have a Jeep and it requires "Special Training" (that nobody at this location possess)... Perhaps they should have told me this prior to accepting the work I requested? Anyway, after another 1.5 hours of the employee dragging his feet, walking around in circles, chatting with the other workers, another employee comes out and tells me I'm all set. I ask if the new Wheel was installed? He looks directly into eyes and boldly lies to me and says "Yes, of course!" I said: "Are you sure?" Again he says Yes. I then politely inform him that I literally watched the entire installation process and never saw anyone take the new rim out of my back seat! He apologizes and says "Oh, I misunderstood" They go back inside lift the vehicle back up and replace the damaged rim. They call me again to tell me it's done. They give me the bill. I notice they removed the alignment charge but added a TPMS reconditioning charge (@ $7.50 per wheel, which is a bullshit charge)..
I chose to ignore it because at this point I just wanted to get out of there.
So, I walk to my vehicle and I inspect the work. I look at the wheel in the box in my back seat and it is NOT the damaged wheel I pointed out! I walk around the vehicle and find that the damaged rim was still mounted on the vehicle! They removed a perfectly good undamaged wheel, swapped the tire to the new wheel and put that undamaged wheel back in the box!
Now scratching my head, I go back inside and speak to the manager. He inspects the vehicle and asks me to show him what they did wrong. He shakes his head and tells me I can either come back another day or wait for them to rectify the situation. I ask how long I had to wait. He says he doesn't know because he's short staffed with only 2 employees. At this point I'm starting to boil inside. I know for a fact that there are 4 employees on duty. I think he forgot the fact that they have cameras showing all of this in the waiting area? I asked him why they couldn't take a quick 15 minutes to swap the rim and be done with it. He said because they have other customers waiting. I was flabbergasted by this response. I politely asked why they are going to be taking in new (walk in customers) when they haven't completed the job I scheduled and had now waited 2+ hours to get done. He basically sent me to the back of the line instead of simply adjusting his schedule for the "walk in business" that he was now accepting!
I expressed my disappointment and ultimately left in disbelief. He made no effort to satisfy the situation and actually looked relieved that I was leaving. I'll also add that I was calm & professional without losing my composure. Perhaps If I became upset, caused a scene, or acted out I would have been treated as though my business was appreciated? In my younger days I probably would have been more vocal and more aggressive but in todays world it's not worth it! Especially when people can voice their dissatisfaction for limitless online readers to see. I've always been a loyal Town fair customer (since 2002) I will most likely remain loyal but certainly NOT at this highly dysfunctional location. These employees (& Manager) need extensive retraining at the very least or perhaps new careers in a field that doesn't require paying attention to details! read more