Anyone here work at a tire shop? (not a walmart)

[pocket-rocket]

We have a Monteith (seems to like to rip people off on repair work, they do more then tires here like mentioned above), Discount (good service), Big O Tires (decent service, but they didn't seem to work all that fast compared to other stores) and I am a half hour from the South Bend Tirerack (awesome service except I waited an hour and a half for them to put my snow tires on my truck). All around, yeah, I respect the guys at our tire stores as well. I do believe most of them are worth every dime they get when I buy new tires. Out of all of them, I think my favorite has to be Tirerack. The service there is really good, they have a lounge for you to wait in, and their facility is really nice. One year they had a miniature Indy style car in the lobby, and in the summer depending on the time and day there are people driving on the Autocross course right in front of the building.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

I think the tire shop I work in is very good I guess, I mean we just got 3 new bays with floor lifts and new balancers (although we still need to get the new road force balancer) there are two bays on the other side of the lobby for the mechanical work (from oil changes to brakes and transmissions, pretty much everything)two bays behind there 1 for tires already on rims, the other an alignment bay, a large pad to do Semi's and dumptrucks, plus tons of storage in the shop and 4 connexs for the different tires. And we do everything when it comes to tires from 3" lawn mower tires to 24"s and up, only thing the shop will turn down is Motorcycle rims for some reason? hummm...?

 

[red85]

I work in a full service shop that does a lot of tires. We have 3 tirebusters/oil change guys and me and the other mechanic. The tire work is intense especially this time of year but that's just because of snow tires. Whoever said tha the low pro's are a pain is absolutely right. i know our guys dread seeing them when it's busy. As for the people coming out in the shop to watch people work on their cars, I hate it. It is a dangerous place to be without protective eyewear and steel toes. The last thing I want to see is a customer using our equipment; it's too large a liability. When I see a customer out in the shop I send them back into the waiting room and show them the big sign that says customers are not allowed in the shop while I politely explain the insurance liability. It also speeds up the work going on in the shop. We had a guy wander into our shop while a tirebuster was cleaning a rim and a piece of the wire brush nailed the guy in the cheek. We were damn lucky it didn't hit him in the eye. At that point the management became quite adamant about letting customers in the shop. A good idea I think. I also can't stand a person looking over my shoulder and questioning why I'm doing something. Makes me want to say "do I go where you work and rock the slushie machine?".

 

[woodyedmiston]

Snake,

I hate to correct you - but that is not a rag that the Middle Easterners wear in their native costumes. It is a small hemmed cloth very similar to a 1/4 of a standard bed sheet. So to be technical - it would be more accurate to consider them "small sheet heads"