Tire Warehouse in Clinton, MA
This was my experience from a couple years ago (and the years proceeding that) but I still feel that it needs to be posted made know in as many places as possible. I've always gone here for all my tire needs since I could drive well over a decade ago, but I've seen it go more and more downhill over the years. Many years ago, it had that almost small-town "mom and pop" neighborly feel to it and now, it's just an infuriating headache.
My last experience there: I had to go and get a (one) tire replaced - which I'm not even going into drill into why I'm charged 2-2.5 times what it would cost if I bought it at Walmart and lugged it there because they also (so conveniently) always only have one available option for my car that's one of the most expensive of the literal dozen and dozens of options on their website, but I digress.
I get the tire replaced and the next day the tire pressure went from 50 (which - why so high?) to 18. I work multiple jobs, so this is just a pain to try to go back and address, but I do. The person looks at it and said they sprayed some sealant on the inside and outside and sent me off. A day or 2 later - same thing. I find time to make my way back and they replace the nozzle where you put the air in. (Keep in mind, each time I'm having to pay to put air in my tire almost daily alongside all the damage that goes along with this until I'm able to make it back.) For the FOURTH time, I have to go back to the tire shop because they have now broken my tire pressure sensor trying to "fix the problem". WHY are there so problems to replace one tire?! GAHH!
Now the best part: 1) as I'm waiting in the shop on my fourth time back to get this (one tire replacement) done correctly, I'm sitting there with a father and daughter and over-hear them discussing between themselves how that have also had multiple issues and had to come back multiple times for their one tire replacement as well. & 2) when I am called up, I am gas-lit (no exaggeration) the worst I have been my entire life. "No no, it was us. We didn't break it. The battery inside just died" etc etc. After I explained that 1) this has happened once before when that same shop broke the sensor while changing the tire, admitted their mistake and fixed it and 2) are you really telling my the stars aligned so that battery just so happened to die at that very moment you're banging around trying for the 3rd time to fix this tire? Absolutely refused to admit their mistake, talked down to the mechanically ignorant woman to get out of fixing their mistake - that's not even coming out of your check, so? I've already gotten confirmation that the sensor was broken and get to pay $250 to fix THEIR MISTAKE.
The time I went there before this whole nightmare, I did have to go back a few times but atleast they didn't break anything that time. Then the time before that (different car so fyi it's not a car issue) they did the same as this visit: had to go back a few times to get it done correctly, they broke the sensor (but DID replace it that time), etc.
When your main gig is replacing tires, but it takes 4+ times to get it to keep pressure but causing $250 in damage in the process - just stop. I've since learned my lesson and stopped trading headaches for convenience and drive 30 mins (instead of 5) to get it done right (the first time) and my favorite, not spoken to like a moron.








