Firestone, Tires and Alignment. Tuesday, Nov 26, I called my local Firestone Store #18201, 600 Chapel Hill Mall, Akron, OH 44310-4301 to schedule an appointment for two front tires and an alignment. I spoke with a female (don’t recall name). An appointment was set for the following Friday, Nov 29, at 10:00 AM. In deciding if I would drop it off and get picked up or would just wait for it, I asked how long it might take and was told about an hour and a half. The tires I asked for were Firestone all weather tires for $109.99 each and a regular front end alignment. A short while after making the appointment the same female called me and said they only had one of the tires I asked for. She offered some other similar tire referencing some “H” number that they had two of. I asked if the price would be the same and she said yes. When I arrived Friday for my appointment a few minutes before 10:00 I was checked in and again asked if it would be about an hour and a half and was told that’s what they’ll aim for. He asked if I was getting picked up or waiting for it. I chose to wait since it wouldn’t be very long. Just over 45 minutes later (about 10:45) my car was finally taken back for its work. At about 12:25 they called my home and said my car was done. I was called up to the counter a couple minutes later to check out with a different person from the one that checked me in. I repeated I was there for two front tires and an alignment and asked how it went. I was told they didn’t do an alignment. Not very happy, I asked how much longer that was going to take. He said about 20 minutes once my car was taken back again. I also asked about the military discount. I was told if I got the lifetime alignment with a $40 black Friday discount, it would be more than the 10% military discount. Whatever, let’s just get this done. Once the alignment was done I was called back up to check out with the same person that tried to check me out earlier. While going over the work I learned that they had put on different tires than I asked for and price matched them to another tire I did not ask for. As I explained how I chose the tires from the web site and what work was supposed to be done the clerk brought up the web site and the tires I asked for weren’t even listed any more. So instead of a pair of Firestone all weather $109.99 tires I got a pair of Bridgestone Taranza $188 tires somehow priced matched down to $127 tires which weren’t what I asked for.
Meanwhile, the person checking me out is feeling awkward and not wanting to throw his coworkers under the bus for not making notes and doing their jobs very well. And throughout the entire appointment nothing about any of it was ever discussed with me. This all came out after the fact and what was I supposed to do? Tell them put my old tires back on and undo the alignment?