Even a free tire patch turned into a nightmare. I brought one of my tires in on a Sunday to be patched. I was fine with dropping it off at 10:00am and coming back at 1pm to have it swapped with the donut spare.
One would think a large corporation would put the donut spare back into the storage compartment for the customer. I tipped the kid $5 as to not leave me hanging. Much to my surprise when I went to go load $300 worth of groceries, I see a dirty spare tire donut smudging up the back seat instead.
Then on the way home I hit the freeway and right as I hit 60mph the steering wheel is waving back and forth, so I call tire works to have them fix it. Mike who I assume is the manager, was apologetic about his tech not correctly balancing the repaired tire and not putting away the spare. I made my way back to the store where they rebalanced the tire but much to my dismay, the spare tire was still not put back into place. By now it's 4pm and I just want to get home. Overall a decent experience, considering I only paid with my time. but now I know why discount tire is superior. Next time I will wait until a normal weekday to get a flat tire.