Mavis Discount Tire

For snow tire mounting and balancing, Mavis is the best deal. Most tire stores charge $ 20 per tire and Goodyear gets $ 25. Mavis is $ 14. It’s a basic service and they do it well. Mavis is no different then the other automative chains and some New Car Dealer service departments. They make their commission on service. The consumer needs to be prepared to refuse unnecessary service and to get a second free opinion before you permit any service to be performed on your vehicle.
Read up on unnecessary repair tactics and be armed with the knowledge to be a smart consumer.
Avoid these services:
Engine Flushes
Fuel-​Injection Cleaning
Oil Additives
Gas Savers
I brought my 2 year old Mazda 3 to Mazda of poughkeepsie for inspection and they tried to sell me a new battery to insure the car would start in the winter. Considering the car has a three year warranty, you would think they would not pull a stunt like this. Just goes to show you can’t trust any car service providers unless you have a good relationship with the mechanic.

An all round terrible experience, with a small exception:
— they pushed super hard with the up-​selling. I get that these guys most likely make the majority of their money on commission, but making your customer uncomfortable and distrustful by pushing for something they really don’t need at the time is not the way to go.
— I was told ‘about an hour’ to get the job done (replacing struts and shocks, rotating tires) and was there for 4 HOURS with NO UPDATE at any point until I insisted they talk to me. Even when the job was done, I sat there for another 15 minutes while they answered the phone or talked to each other before checking me out.
— once I got home, my husband realized that the alignment, which was fine before we went to Mavis, was off by 30 degrees. He had to bully a manager to get them to fix it for free.
The exception: I was able to turn the blaring TV’s sound down to silent and read in relative peace in the tiny waiting area.
Takeaway: GO ELSEWHERE FOR ALL YOUR TIRE NEEDS!!!

My gf went here for tires, and they screwed her over by flushing her power steering pump and lied to her about her struts. When a customer goes in to purchase tires, you have NO reason to open the hood at all whatsoever. The lug nuts are on the outside and certainly not in the power steering pump. I can almost guarantee every car that pulls into their parking lot, has «bad struts». Here’s the kicker, they gave her an alignment… YOU CANT ALIGN A VEHICLE WITH BAD STRUTS!!! These people are victimizing women, taking advantage of them and taking their money. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Be careful, you go there for a car inspection or other services and these guys will find a way to jack the cost. They up-​sell constantly. I was a faithful Mavis customer for years and was even told by the mavis on RT 9 in poughkeepsie that i was their best customer. That might have been, but when I realized that they were up-​selling and looking problems to jack revenue, I decided to go elsewhere. If you call their main # for customer service, they won’t help, they’ll forward your call to the local mavis (who caused your bad service in the 1^st place and who won’t help)