Discount Tire all the way for me for several years now. Free rotations and great prices. I even had a step child (mis-matched) tire one time and I did not notice till I put about 20K on the tire. I told them and they swapped it out for free.

Hey--but ya got Free Beef eh

BFGoodrich All Terain Tires all the way! The best, and costco carries them at a very fair price w/o the BS.

I had my last set 4-5 years and one developed severe side-wall damage last week. Took it back to costco and they gave me 4 new tires @ 45% cost. Simply because the 4 were from the same batch and one of the other 3 was showing early evidence of the same problem.

I was very satisfied.

In the N. end, the Edmonds (205th) Costco is much easier to deal with on warrenty work compared to the Everett Costco.

They were sending my tire back to BF Goodrich becuase they never see problems with them.

Baja Champs and Umtamum Kings! Worth the money

LOL Coho!!

We have used Les Schawb many times in the past but no more. They used to provide good service in small towns but either they have changed or the big city Les Shawbs like Redmond are not customer friendly. Between road hazard and defect they should have fixed the bulge which was 1/3-1/2 tennis ball size.

We didn't want to argue the case too much but you guys talked me into this and I will contact the regional manager and let them know that we won't be going there no more and we have a big family and every one listens to me :rolleyes: I am the chief
I will be buying tires else where like Costco and save money to buy my own beef

I worked for them for 10 years back in the 80's. Actually it was for a member dealer. Privately owned franchise dealer. I also believe that things have changed. They've gotten to big and think they are the only place left. What you want to do is write the main office in Prineville, Ore. and address your letter to Phil Wick. Tell him the problem, the store and name of the person that you are dealing with and that you won't be going back. You will be taken care of. The store manager and all the employees get a % of the net profit out of their store and every way they can save a penny they will. I have had excellent success with Toyo tires on my own rigs but I agree that next time I will try BFG's.

I had problems with Toyo z800 ultras last years.Maybe they had a bad batch.Same thing.Bulges where the tread was seperating.We put on new tires of the same type and have had no problem since.
I only ron LS tires on all 4 of my rigs.Because weve had good luck and good service with tghem
We deal with the O.B. store in Lonbview.
Sounds like a lot of L.S. places are having problems.Hope it doesnt soread down there.

The deal with replacing calipers when doing brake jobs is that if you get a scar on a piston or cylinder.or even some dirt in them, when you compress the pistons they could stick with the brakes pressed against the rotor.
It doesnt happen very often.But I have seen it a few times.Its all about the gaurantee.If the replace the calipers.turn the rotors(to eliminate vibration)The will have less cahnce of problems down the road.ie,peop[le screemin mad because they are stuck on the road with the brakes stuck on or worse yet 1 brake stuck on.Have you ever had 1 front disc brake grab,and not the other.I've seen serious wrecks caused by it.Once again its the warranty and liability issue.
That given I always do my own brakes.But hardly ever redo the calipers.I do turn or replace the rotors though.

That's funny (not really) but, a friend of mine is visiting and yesterday he went to have his winter tires switched out for his allseasons. He had them on rime already, they just needed to swap 'em out. 3.5 hours later and a bunch of BS, he was done. Personally, I've never bought tires there, I like smaller joints.

hntnfish I understand what you are saying but if it was just a warranty and liability issue I would think it would be the same issue for all shops.

If that were the case then I would also think all calibers would come loaded (meaning with the pads in the caliber).

You can buy brake pads separate without calibers because the manufactures of these parts realize that calibers don't have to be replaced on every brake job.

Just my .02 cents.

Ive had good service and problem resolution at discount, LS once put the calipers on backwards on the wifes van,,can you beleive that>> made a bad noise that resulted in entire replacement of brakes,, kids work there, not that skilled..