I ordered my tires and set up an appointment. I drove an hour to get there ahead of time and found…read morethat they did not have my tires.

Okay, so probably everyone knows Walmart auto center is not going to win any awards for their…read moremechanic work, but I just wanted to share my experience. Recently went to Walmart to get some tires balanced (that I bought elsewhere) because I didn't have time to make it to one of the actual tire care shops in Harrison before they closed the week I got my tires, so I went to Walmart. I was there for two and a half hours, which I expected because Walmart is both short staffed on mechanics and just not geared to be a efficient auto center. What really grinded gears tho was the lack of professionalism in the actual service of mounting my tires, along side the fact that they are right up there with the most expensive option for mounting tires. Manufactures put dots on tires so that when you mount then, you can line them up with the valve stem on rims and minimize the use of counter balance weights. Usually, the valve stem should be lined up with the yellow one. All my tires were all out on without regard to these markings and came with a relatively excessive amount of weights needed for premium factory rims. Really is not a huge deal, but a good illustration of quality of Walmarts auto program (in Harrison). At the end of the day I'm sure that my tires are mounted and balanced decently but I had to wait almost three hours for walmart to do a mediocre job for full retail price? The lesson is, go to Walmart only if you have to. You can buy better tires at a better price at a lot of places, and get them mounted by real professionals, likely for less money and in a shorter period of time. Thank you for coming to my TED talk