'Nother tire story:
Cammie Wood Smith This was a post that a friend of mine had on their facebook page today about YOUR company. It broke my heart and made me angry at the same time. Shame on this mechanic and shame on your store for allowing someone so inconsiderate to work for you.:
Thank you rude mechanic at Canadian Tire for mocking the "hot rod" I drive...I affectionately refer to it as my hunk of junk, but if you prefer "hot rod" I'll take that. Thank you also for making me feel like the worst parent in the world, telling me I should be ashamed of myself for transporting my 2 children around in a car with unsafe (bald) tires on the front that couldn't stop safely in an emergency if they had to. Living in poverty isn't hard enough, I really needed you mocking me and belittling me...it's just the icing I needed on my cake today.
I find this all rather ironic since my husband went to the same shop a little over 3 months ago to get our studded tires taken off and all seasons put back on. No one bothered to point out at that time that the all seasons, which someone in that shop put back on our car, had only 3/32 tread left on them and allowed us to drive out of the shop with FOUR bad tires on our car. Less than a month later we were back in the shop after one of those tires finally gave out, resulting in flat tire. Thankfully it went flat in a parking lot while we were out, rather than blowing out while driving along the highway and potentially taking out our family- which you just chastised me about.
At that time I took our car elsewhere and (thanks to my parents) had 4 brand new tires put on it. My father also paid a mechanic friend to do multiple other repairs to the car to fix things that needed to be done for inspection this month (another expense that we can't afford along with the body work it needs). You noted these repairs today while inspecting underneath. Apparently those other multiple repairs caused our car to get so terribly misaligned that it was shearing the brand new tires off of the front. Perhaps if you had noted all these other repairs first (a.k.a. attempts to make our car safer to transport our children in) you would've thought a little harder before spewing your rudeness at me.
Why weren't these tires changed and alignment done sooner? (You didn't ask, but it was implied along with you telling me I should be ashamed of myself.)
1) The tires were put on brand new roughly 2 months ago and we weren't examining them every day, assuming that brand new tires wouldn't be bald in that short amount of time. The bald tires were noted a couple of days ago and I immediately called the shop to make an appointment to get the problem checked out. I took the car in as soon as possible despite the fact that I had no idea where the money for repairs would come from.
2) Living on EI for the summer, we have only $88.44 left in our bank account after paying this month's bills and putting a roof over our heads. That $88.44 has to feed a family of 4 for the next two weeks AND put gas in our "hot rod" if we wish to use it.
3) I had to activate a credit card that I had tucked away for an emergency, maxing that out and tapping into the $100 that my dad had graciously given us to help with the car, in order to pay the $316.45 bill to get these additional/unexpected repairs done today.
So again, thank you for putting the icing on my cake today. Did I mention tomorrow is my husband's birthday? Thanks to yet another financial kick in the face, the only birthday gift he'll be getting from me is, ironically enough, an iced cake...homemade with love... and perhaps some dollar store treasures purchased with pride (using their own money) by our two little boys whose car seats in the back seat (to keep them safe) prompted you to chastise me. End rant.
