ImmoralMinority Tire Chain Store Endorsement

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
10/04/2019 at 11:50 • Filed to: None

N California, they are America’s Tire. In Arizona, they were Discount Tire Co. They have me in their database, had good tire options in stock, and were really pleasant and helpful. Both times, I could not have been in a more foul mood (especially the second time which cost me a money making day on the road), but they made fixing the problem easy. Definitely recommend.

Of note, I called Discount Tire Center here first, thinking they were the same company, and they guy on the phone was dopey as hell. They get a full non-endorsement. And fuck Les Schwab and their tread cutting scam.

DISCUSSION (23)

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 11:54

But does Toby endorse them?

fintail > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 11:57

Ah tire siping, I remember they were selling that back when I was a kid.

Thomas Donohue > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:02

I hope you bought a cigar while you were waiting. It’s Friday...

Michael > fintail
10/04/2019 at 12:08

Hi, yes do you remember how you just bought tires? How would you like us to take a little of the top, to make them worse and last fewer miles?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:15

Les Schwab has gone to shit. They gave me a brake job quote and they insisted I replace the entire calip ers, doubling the cost. It was twice as expensive as the dealer. They are also incapable of balancing a tire. I’ve taken a work car back at least 3 times for tire balan ce.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > fintail
10/04/2019 at 12:19

They are still selling siping.

facw > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:34

My experience with Discount Tire in Houston was poor. Long waits, adding charges to the bill, and perhaps worst of all, terrible covers of popular music in the waiting room while you waited.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:39

My only complaint with Discount is that they put my rear tires immediately on backorder, after I ordered them.

lone_liberal > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:52

My last visits to those two left me with similar sentiments. Discount handled everything smoothly and Les Schwab was a fucking disaster. I have to go to Schwab to have the Camaro’s alignment done since I don’t want to drive it very far like it is and Schwab is the only place close. Luckily the location near me wasn’t the the one that was a complete shit show and I’ve had good luck with that location before.

DipodomysDeserti > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:56

Always had great service from them, and I might consider using them now that the founder is dead. Why can’t certain rich people just be content with being rich, and not have to actively try to be assholes?

Wacko > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 12:57

Is that like our CanadianTire here?

Prices only decent when on special?

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
10/04/2019 at 12:57

I've often wondered how that happens in today’s computer age. Only thing I could come up with is that the system doesn't actually check inventory until an order is placed, which seems pretty poorly designed.

Gerry197 > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 13:37

After going to an Evans Tire, Discount Tire looks like the most well run professional organization in existence!

Most of the Discount Tires in my area are clean, well organized, well run team of people. They will also work with you on price, you can negotiate a little bit at the counter to get a better deal.

fintail > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/04/2019 at 13:49

No surprise. I recall telling my mom not to go for it.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 14:13

I’ll second this. The Corporation is actually “Discount Tire”... becbut ause of the aforementioned d-bags who’d been using the name previously in California, Discount Tire is a DBA “America’s Tire” in California. Same parent company though and identical service.

The web properties are managed together, though, and the pricing is transparent. They will also (ask for a manager) price match on specific tires, as well.

The secret is to reserve the tires ONLINE before you go in and always reserve the first timeslots of the day. You’ll be in and out in under 30 minutes every time if you go in at 8 or so . If you go in mid-day, without appointment, you’re asking for a long wait.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/04/2019 at 14:14

They used to be (20 years ago) great, but I think it’s harder to hire good installers at what Les w+ ants to pay these days. I quit them a decade back . never again.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 15:12

Never been to Les Schwab (and don’t plan on) but Discount Tire in AZ has slowly going downhill.

When I started going to them in the early 2000's they were good and fast and nice. Each visit after degrades the experience a little bit in some way... I’m waiting longer. More mistakes made. Prices going up. Supply nonexistent when informed were existent . Bad information being shared about their services.

After waiting 2 hours on a simple rotation I had an appointment for I kind of just called it quits. My local Firestone where I do my alig n ments do tires way better than this.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > DipodomysDeserti
10/04/2019 at 15:17

Do you suppose the act of being an asshole enables them to be even richer? I presumed it was in their self-interest, in that sort of Ayn Randian way.

facw > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
10/04/2019 at 15:24

Not to get into things too much, but my company definitely has problems with this. The most common issue is simply that our inventory counts are wrong, presumably because inventory has been lost, damaged, or stolen (damaged is our biggest problem but I’d imagine tires are more durable). It’s easy to imagine Jordan... ordered and then when they went to check they didn’t actually have that part. Indeed this happened to me with Discount Tire as well, tires listed as available online were not actually available at the listed location, so they had to ship some in from elsewhere.

We also have performance issues, though that might be less of a problem for smaller store inventories. In that case we sometime have to drop inventory requests if we don’t get a response in time, and just assume that we have it, especially for popular items. Obviously we could speed things up, but running a nationwide business definitely can strain hardware.

DipodomysDeserti > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/04/2019 at 15:34

Being an asshole will definitely help you amass wealth, but being a tea partier because you supposedly are a conservative, but then donating millions to oppose cannabis legalization makes you a different kind of asshole.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > DipodomysDeserti
10/04/2019 at 15:38

Yeah, it’s like an evolved Pokemon version of a regular asshole, I agree. Obviously as we live here, we see it pretty prominently...

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 16:36

Loved them in Rancho Cordova.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ImmoralMinority
10/04/2019 at 17:40

I started using them when I got my current BMW their service is tops.