Quote:
Originally Posted by htismaqe
(Post 16891914)
The same thing happens at Walmart. Yeah, they have great policies but they have shit employees that don't give one **** about how good of a job they do. They don't depend on you for repeat business like a local shop does and they're getting paid Walmart wages on top of that.
I've gotten tires at Walmart/Sam's Club twice. I know several other people that have done it, as well. Nobody ever has a good experience.
So I'd say your experience is the exception, not mine. ;)
|
Yeah Walmart's so called
mechanics, work for peanuts and to be honest, if they were worth a damn, they would be working anywhere else and would be earning a lot better wage.
I've used Walmart twice for tire work, once on an ATV and once on a Truck. In both cases, it was because I couldn't find anyone else that could get me in quickly. The first time, it was on a truck and I went back when the
mechanic was tightening the lug nuts. I wanted to make sure that he was A. using a torque wrench and B. that he knew what the torque spec was for the lugs. Surprisingly, he was using a torque wrench and knew the spec.
The ATV was a different matter. I took one of my ATV's down to have some new tires I had purchased installed, because I was heading out to ride for the next four days. When they were done, I asked the
mechanic,(and I use that term loosely)"what spec did you torque those lugs down to." He looked at me with a deer in the headlight look and told me 35 lbs. I said, "that's great, if I wanted a tire and rim flying off on the trail, they are supposed to be torqued down to 75 pounds."
He was all butt hurt and said "You are dead wrong!" I said "come here, lets call my buddy down at the Polaris dealership, who has been a
mechanic down there for 30 years." I turned on the speaker phone and my buddy verified that the correct spec was 75 lbs of torque.
When I got home, I grabbed my torque wrench to check his work and I still had to torque the lugs to the correct spec. Even after the correct spec was verified by Polaris, the dipstick only torqued the lugs down to variances of 53 to 61 lbs. Needless to say, I haven't been back.