Comments on: Car Battery Replacement at Canadian Tire

By: John Goodman

John Goodman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:29:57 +0000

Nothing but bad service, just went for tires replacement and end up with 3 rims badly dammage, yes 3 out of the 4 rims dammage. The manager did not argue after showing him the rims, guess they do that often!!! The mecanic who did that said muah!! Had to go back many times because they did not have any rims to replace the ones I had, so they had to send them one by one, to be resurface and paint, a real nightmare. Just don’t go there, kids who don’t know much and really don’t care about, and the price is high!!!

By: john

john — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:54:40 +0000

re-battery replacement. some chrysler cars require front wheel removed plus two or more brackets, therefor added cost.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:45:45 +0000

Canadian Tire is a great place to buy things and install yourself … changing a battery isn`t that hard to do … i know i just did it last weekend … saved myself $150 install fee too … and no i do not have a garage and it was -20 … we all must learn from our mistakes …

By: Big Bob

Big Bob — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:20:02 +0000

If you knew it was cheaper at Costco why not just go there and get it?

By: I.G.

I.G. — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:03:07 +0000

I had a battery put in my car today at Canadian tire. The total installed cost was around $150. It took them 5 minutes to install. A comparable battery at costco was around $80……..

I’ll never go back to Canadian Tire as I was hosed on this deal.

By: L.H.

L.H. — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:50:48 +0000

My daughter had the same thing happen to her. They charged her to check her battery, sold her a high priced battery saying it was the only one for her car, charged her to put it in and then charged her extra because they said it took them longer to put it in her car.

By: E

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:50:09 +0000

Sadly, your experience at Canadian Tire is typical. They do shoddy work and they always charge more than they initially say, that’s been my experience. I wasn’t smart enough to stay away after the first bad experience, though.

By: grumpy

grumpy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:08:58 +0000

to all owners be careful and do your homework and do a reference check on your service provider to avoid rip offs

By: grumpy

grumpy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:37 +0000

all of these flat rate shops should fold up and go away they don’t work and makes the real mechanics look bad

By: grumpy

grumpy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:04:51 +0000

we i can tell you from a mechanics point of view i wouldn’t take a piece of crap for them to do anything with because they have no knowlege of how to do repairs or are what i call WANT TO BEE’S mechanics who think they are mechanics

sorry for your loss but your repair should have been carefully assessed before starting and if any added cost should be sucked up by the service manager if it was not disclosed to you

the bear

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:55:14 +0000

We went there to the auto centre to get something routinely done. They took out the spare tire and couldn’t get it back in properly. So they left it half in and half sticking out. When we asked politely to have someone place the tire back in the car properly, they said that they found it like that! They did not have the knowledge to put a spare tire back in place and they blame the customer for their incompetence.

By: SS

SS — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:10:59 +0000

I have had nothing but horrible service at Canadian Tire auto centre and I don’t go anymore…I don’t believe a word they say and when I was going to them I kept having to go back with the same problem but miraculously when I switched to somewhere else the problems stopped recurring (and with my brakes no less!!)