Mavis Discount Tire
reviews and complaints

On July 5th, 2022, I Brought my Chevy Trailblazer to Mavis Tire on West Bay Ave in Barnegat, NJ. My Complaint was what sounded like a train running as I drove. The Manager DYLAN informed me that I needed Front Brakes with Rotors and Pads, Upper and Lower Control Arm assemblies and a complete wheel alignment. This procedure took them over 6 hours. It was preformed while I waited. I was charged $1,186.00 for this work. I paid for it with my Mavis Credit Card. When I was driving out of their parking lot, The sound I had originally heard was still happening but now even worse. When I went back into their store, The manager Dylan took my car out and when he returned he said he did not hear anything. The mechanic then took the car out and came back saying he had heard it. I am now being told to bring the car back and they will fix it. I am completely disturbed about the fct that thye preformed all this other work (Without me totally agreeing to it) and expect me to pay them for something I did not need.

On July 8th, I took my car to another Mechanic I use and was told that the work that was performed was not the issue and also that the work had caused additional damage to my Vehicles Front End. They also informed me that they had already replaced my Brakes 10,000 miles Prior to my current mileage. They repaired the problem but did inform me that now the Rack and Pinion on my vehicle was damaged and now needs to be replaced because of the incorrect work performed by MAVIS.

My complaint goes to Mavis tire center in Forked River, NJ.

Two months ago I had Mavis replace my power steering pump. On 13 July 2022 I noticed power steering fluid leaking under my 2004 Chevy Tahoe. On 18 July 2022, I heard a whining noise from the power steering pump. I checked the fluid level and the reservoir was less than half full. I refilled the pump back to its normal fluid level. Two days later I had the same whining from the pump and checked fluid level again and it was almost halfway below normal levels. I also was experiencing 'chattering' in the motion of my steering wheel when I turned it, which I know to indicate air in the lines. Now I knew there was a leak somewhere in the power steering system. Since Mavis did the maintenance on my pump only 2 months ago, it made logical sense to take it back to them to look for a loose line or leaking pump. I dropped off the truck on 28 July. The front desk person didn't call me until three hours into the second day. When they called they asked me why the truck was there? the front desk people never even wrote down my request. The late afternoon of 29 July they told me I had a small leak on my transmission cooler. No power steering leak! I asked them where is the power steering fluid disappearing to. They shrugged their shoulders. I picked up my truck in total disappointment and a loss for words over the incompetency of the front 2 desk persons, the 22 yr old manager, and the mechanic. On 30 July, I checked the power steering fluid level after using the truck around town after picking up from Forked River Mavis shop. The fluid level was down to half again, and after being told by the front counter person and the manager that the pump was full. I have great concern that people may be getting work done on their cars and the maintenance being so unprofessional that safety might be a concern. I am a retired aircraft mechanic and know hydraulic systems. I have only seen this level of mechanical misconduct from lawn mower repairman.

My sense of care for the safety of others and the lack of any professionalism in your team at Forked River Mavis tells me I need to report this to the better business bureau to put more eyes on this.

I want to lastly state a positive note that I had taken my vehicles to the Mavis in Whitting NJ. They were much more professional and their maintenence was more reliable and I had confidence in their work practices.

- Purchased four (4)new tires (Cooper Solarus AS) for my older Buick LaCrosse.

- Store location - #1 Bethel Rd..Somers Point, NJ 08244...I believe store number is ST:0196.

- Invoice dated 7/09/2022...#[protected] - Operator #1962

- While the mechanic was putting on my new tires (I thought), the manager came to me and told me that my brakes were down to the rotors and should be replaced that day...since my son-in-law was paying for my tires I decided to call him first and relay the managers message..I did not, at that time, give permission to do the brake job!...My son-in-law said not to have it done. When I told the manager (about 20 min later), he seemed surprised and said that they had already done the brakes! I refused to pay for it and called my son-in law again...he advised them to put the old brakes back on or else...

- At this time, they complied, replaced my old brakes (?) and finished with my tires. I left feeling unhappy, angry and exhausted.

- My son-in-law advised me to take my car immediately to my trusted mechanic and have the brakes checked...I did...My mechanic assured me that my brakes were fine!

Mavis uses poor business tactics and lying to upsell their products and service.

_ Within a week of this incident I began to feel vibrations in my front seat and floorboard when driving above 45 mph on the parkway...Again, I returned to my mechanic only to find that 3 of my 4 new tires were out of balance! After being charged $79.96 for "computer balance package"!

- I have all receipts, invoices and a typed note from the Mavis manager relating the problem with the brake issue, stating that they made an error and miscommunicated about the brakes. I also had my mechanic make a note that the tires were not balanced correctly.

I can take a pic of these invoices and email them if needed, or mail them...

Took my car into Mavis tires and brakes in Midland Georgia well they perform work on my car that my car didn't need took it in for an oil change ended up getting a brake job changing my rotors out rotating my tires which you can't rotate my tires because my tires are different sizes on the not and back I have low profile tires change my battery out which I did not need I did need a brake job just had my brakes done like 6 months ago well when they rotated my tires they left one big tire on the front and one little tire on the front so therefore it damaged my fender they put aftermarket rotors on my car which

you can see straight threw my rim"s

you see nothing but rust now. talked with Mr Fisher who was going to do an investigation into it well he did his investigation found out that they was in the wrongs and he was going to pay for my car to be fixed and therefore he was going to get me a check wrote out well I never received the check after he said he was sending it out he lied he never sent a check Mr Fisher is very unprofessional at his job so therefor now he leaves me no choice but to take them to court and get Justice for the damages they perform on my car

I had my vehicle serviced at the Hicksville Mavis Discount Tire @ Broadway Mall on 4/30/2022 and as a direct result of their negligent work, me along with my whole family almost got into deadly accident. I had my disc brakes rotors, disc brake pads replaced, and wheel alignment fixed at this location and paid approximately $2200. On our way to a camping trip on 6/30/2022 while driving on the I-87, I lost control of the vehicle steering. I was driving at only 60 miles per hour, but I completely lost control of my vehicle while in the middle lane. Luckily there were no trucks behind me, and the other vehicles were driving very cautiously, so they stopped and/or slowed immediately when they noticed that I had car trouble. Eventually, I somehow managed to slowly drive to the side of the highway which was difficult as the car steering wheel was not working properly. Once there, we called for towing services and they took my vehicle to the nearest car repair store which coincidentally was Saratoga Spring, NY Mavis discount tire.

Not long after checking my vehicle and looking at my Mavis record, the tech/manager told me that the mechanic @ the Hicksville Mavis screwed up. The mechanic had left all the lug nuts on the left rear wheel loose and as a result, one stud had broken. After the vehicle was serviced, my kids were very reluctant to get back into that vehicle because they were traumatized by what had happened earlier.

I called customer service and spoke to regional manager, Samantha T. She basically said that all they can do is investigate the mechanic. I paid two grand for a service that was supposed to make driving safer for me but resulted in almost getting me killed. When I called corporate to file a complaint, I was told that they will give me 2 free oil services for my ordeal. What a joke! I am not going back to them again after what happened!

No one in their corporate ladder seems like Customer Safely is a priority to MAVIS DISCOUNT TIRE.

I have attached the note in the bill that was written by the mechanic from Saratoga Springs.

I bought 2017 mustang in for a tire I bought to be put on in Madison Ms on my front driver side on a brand new rim it took 3 hour's to put the tire on I showed the manager the damage on site he took pictures of the damaged rim and wrote a complaint up on the incident I also took pictures of the complaint and video of him checking the damaged rim and said he would have to send it off to corporate on 7/12/2022 it was filed as documentation

On October 13, 2021, Mavis located in west Berlin on Rt 73 North performed work on my 2006 Nissan Sentra S. It was supposed to resolve vibration and noise issues. Immediately after I picked up the car there was additional noise, I returned after driving about a mile. But it was not solved to my satisfaction. I was unable to return to shop for few months. But I crawled under the car few months later and found the driver side Sway bar link was all rusted and one of the nuts on the vertical bar was missing. I took the car back to the shop. They replaced it at no cost.

This did not resolve the noise issue. So, i again crawled under the car and notice a clam on the inner tie rod boot on the driver side was missing. I took the car again to the shop. They installed the clamp at no cost. As far as the noise they said it is the Drivers side CV axle and gave me estimate of $452.08 before taxes. I got the axle replaced by other mechanic at 60 % of this amount. It did not resolve the noise issue. The mechanic told me the noise is from inner tie rods. I told him it was replaced by Mavis in October. He said the inner tie rods on both sides are original. They have never been replaced.

On March 14th, I had an oil change and got new brakes at Scarsdale Mavis... total came to: $1123.78 which I paid

Mistakenly believing I was due for an oil change I brought it to my local

garage in Upstate New York where we have a house.

They were unable to remove the plug to drain the old oil... I waited 45 minutes and the service order was cancelled.. check paperwork at home, I saw it was only done in March, but,. the service manager said Mavis has a habit of putting on plugs that only they can remove, forcing the customer to return there?

Is this true? I found it to be preposterous, so prior to filing a complaint with thee Better Business Bureau, of the Westchester Consumer Protection agency, I am reaching out to you for comment!

I've been bringing my van to Mavis and only Mavis for oil changes. Today they told me my oil plug was stripped. A 5 dollar plug. They said that now the whole oil pan needed to be replaced. How? The only way the oil plug can be bad is from over torquing the nut. Which is caused by Mavis and inexperienced or 2nd rate mechanics. They proceeded to tell me my oil pan needed to be replaced as well. So my 100 dollar oil change because my car uses synthetic oil was then to be 613$ for their incompetence.

Ran out of there as fast as possible and not going back, YIKES.

Mavis on Paterson Ave East Rutherford NJ

I called the local Ossining NY store on June 14th at around 2PM.

I spoke with Dan who set up an appointment for me to come in on June 15th at 1PM. I asked him how long would it take so I could make arrangements to drop off my car if necessary as 1pm is my lunch hour to which he reply this was just a safety inspection (brand new 2022 BMW) and it will only take 10 to 15 min.

I showed up to my appointment at 1PM and I was told by Dany I had to wait about 30 to 40 min for my car to go in and then 10 to 15 min for the inspection to be completed.

I explained to him I had made an appointment for that reason so I didn't have to wait but he insisted that there was Noone available.

I asked to speak to a manager but Dany stated the manager was not available and to wait 10 min for him. I had to leave to try to get my inspection done somewhere else so I asked for his manager's info but he kept talking and telling me I had to wait for him. I walked away as I was trying to get it done the same day and he followed me to my vehicle. I asked him to step away from my car and left.

At 1:55pm I received a call from a male who introduced himself as the manager and wanted to know what I was there for I advise him I was in the process of following this complaint and I had already done my inspection at a different place.

I went in for a quote they took my tires off broke my hubs didn't put my lug nuts back on so my tire fell off put one tire back on with the hub broken and on top of the tire gauge!tries to charge me for a estimate!so now my hubs are broken tire is flat rim is bent and roter is cut

My name is Tracy 'Tegan' Huebner and I recently went to store 0801 located at 1798 North Hercules in Clearwater, Fl, 33765. I spoke with Dwayne who was very friendly and professional about getting two new tires. I purchased them on 4/3/22 and at that time I also inquired about getting my 130,000 mile maintenance done on the car and requested my plugs be changed, radiator flushed, oil change, rotate and balance my tires and the brake pads be replaced. Mark indicated to me that my cv joints needed replacing as well. After the work was performed the mechanic and manager Mark indicated to me that my cv joints would need replacing. I said ok and on 4/23/22 they did all the work for my 130,000 along with replacing the cv joints. When I got my car back I noticed that when turning the steering wheel it was making a very odd noise. When I went back to the garage another mechanic took a look and told me now that struts needed replacing. I was not happy as they were fine when I took it in as this was a completely new noise. They were adamant that now the struts needed replacing. I agreed to have them fixed and another assistant manager did the job, it was not Mark.

This time when I got the car back it was making yet another loud knocking sound when I went over poorly roads so loud I was very nervous driving the vehicle. Be patient I am getting to the good part where someone actually took the time to help me. The struts were done on 5/7/22.

This time I returned now the 4th time and indicated there was a tremedous knocking sound and first Dwayne and then Mark went on a test drive with me.

Mark indicated almost immediately that my left strut was bad and needed replacing as he was unaware the week before I had just had them done.

When we returned to the garage and I told him that you all had just done both struts he said well let me tighted up the nuts on the top of the struts and that should fix the problem. After watching him try to tighten them I noticed that they all were good. He told me to drive the car for a while and see if this fixed the problem and of course it did not. I went back a fifth time and they told me there was something that needed to be tightened down and the problem was fixed. The car was not fixed and I went back again. I insisted that I have had my car for seven years and it never made this noise before. They did not seem to care and told me that the car is just getting older and will make different sounds when things are fixed.

Later I was sharing this with my neighbor John Braun who has been dealing with store 814 on Missouri in Clearwater and set me up an appointment to go see the very professional Manager Timur. This guy told me to not write you all and that he would make it right. After a day he called me and asked me to come and take a test drive. The problem was still there so he told me they would take off the stutt stabalizing end links to see if the noise continued and it did. So Logan at the shop went over the struts and found that a strut mount bolt was very loose and tightning it FIXED THE PROBLEM.

I am thrilled and very thankful that both Timur and Logan took the time away from doing work on paying customers to help me finally get my car fixed properly and thought you should know that at this particular store #814 your guys go out of their way to make sure things are done right. I will continue to go to this store for all of my mechanical needs. Some of your guys really care about the company and I wanted to make sure you know!

I’m Ugochukwu John, Eze [protected]). I came over to do the alignment on my car on Saturday May 28th, 2022…. Because I replaced my axles and front struts on my 2003 Honda Odyssey exl. They did the alignment under 34 minutes but alignment takes about an hour and half to do on a car to avoid mistakes but they decided to do it for less because they were rushing to go home. I came back on Tuesday to get the adjustments done in order to avoid any damages because the left driver’s tie rods were too tight and heard some knocking sound every time I turn the steering (that sound never existed on the car) but was told to come back today at 9am but arrived at 8:30 am and gave up my keys at 8:42 am for them to adjust it. An hour afterwards, the technician came running but seems scared based off his reaction like he broke something while trying to adjust it and stated “your steering rack is licking on the driver side”…. I told him to try adjusting the tie rods that I need to head home to rest and he said okay. After he was done with the adjustment of the alignment, he went for a test drive for about 5 minutes and came back driving crazy trying to hide that the had damaged the rack completely but was shocked to see me waiting outside for my car. He drove the car back into the garage, jacked it up and I saw my power steering fluid leaking so bad after he did a test drive because before I gave them the car on Saturday, my steering rack was in perfect condition 4.5/5 now it’s a 1/5 just from doing alignments. Other customers came complaining that they did that to them 2 weeks ago and came back to them to fix with but was told to pay for it. I’m hereby requesting that my steering rack should be fixed and alignment done but I’m not paying for their damages….. I came with an excellent steering rack and leaving with a broken one….. not fair at all.

I’m getting 3 different alignment reports, looks like they don’t know the specifications for the alignment of the car….. this is terrible.

My last set of tires were rotated approximately every 10K miles. When I finally went to replace them, I went Mavis on Winchester in Huntsville, AL. Austin was very pleasant and helpful. After getting the tires he suggested rotating them every 7K miles. I took my truck to the new Mavis in Meridianville. I had an appointment and I was curious as to why it was taking so long for an oil change and tire rotation. The technician there said that all of my lug-nuts were swollen and the socket had to be hammered on. I know that they didn’t swell from water and I have Never had any issues about my lug-nuts or tire rotation in the past. I didn’t watch the tire tech at Winchester put my tires on. But mathematically that is the only explanation for 24 swollen lug-nuts. I have purchased 24 new lug-nuts and will go to Meridianville Mavis. I don’t anticipate being reimbursed. But I would genuinely appreciate a response with some form of communication.

Thank you.

Martin B Miller

USCG Retired

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I went to a Mobile, AL location and got an oil change. Left only to get a mile or so down the road and my skid plate fell off my car. I took it and returned to the location and the employee at the front desk blew me off and said "it's just a skid plate". They took my car back in the garage and in stead fixing it properly they zip tied my skid plate to the undercarriage of my car. Less than a week later my skid plate is back off my car and I have not protection for the under carriage of my car. I'm very dissatisfied with the service I received.

I purchased a new tire two days ago and that same evening it started running out of air. I returned the tire today (couldn’t yesterday because I was working from the office), had to remove the tire from a vehicle and bring it into the shop. I have waited more than two hours now ( entered at 10:10am and it is now 12:14 pm and still waiting ) for them to check a single tire that was purchased from them here. Just one tire. This has been a terrible experience. I never submit complaints but have no other choice to do so now. They are saying that that tire is prone to losing air and I told them that this is an unacceptable answer. That this company would not sell tires that are prone to losing air pressure.

The location is Atlanta Georgia on Johnsons Ferry Road. Please help.

On 9/1/21 my car was serviced at a mavis in McDongh, Ga where I evacuated from New Orleans during hurricane Ida rotor, brake pads were supposedly changed. Well on 5/7/22 heard screeching noise from wheel so car was brought to Mavis in Gonzales, La where I was notified not only was the rotor back but also need calibers now cause they were bad first I was told I didn't have a warranty, then I 1was told I'd have to pay 783.00 to correct problem. So a appointment was set for 5/13/22 to bring in at 2:00pm which had me paying 3 labor fees for rotors, brake pads, and calbers. After some calls price was brought down but now come 3:45 pm have wrong calibers take in mind I'm driving down from New Orleans, gas is high, and I called before coming to see if everything was in. Now I was told come in the next day for an appointment at 3:00pm. Next day arrives get a call earlybsame part came early can we come early ni o problem. On the drive up get a call again asking am I still coming answer yes was asked could I reschedule for another day because mechanic is backed up and he'll be leaving at 3:00pm but store doesn't close till 5:00pm and the gave me an original appointment of 3:00 pm the prior day and day of told me to come early cause part was in early. So then I was told I can pick up my parts and go to another location to have then put on.