We normally take tires that need a patch to a “mom & pop” tire store, but I came home from work around 6 PM with a flat tire and they had just closed. Needed the car the next day (and didn’t want to drive on the “rubber band” spare), so decided to take the tire to a fairly new NTB in the area (Raymore, MO). The nail was right in the middle of the tread – easy place to fix. Their fee was over double what the “mom & pop” store charges, but considering the late hour, went along with it. WRONG!!!
About two weeks later, the tire is losing air. Assuming it’s probably something else (and knowing NTB doesn’t guarantee their tire repair, anyway), took it to the “mom & pop” place. Come to find out, NTB RUINED a $280 Goodyear tire that still had 10,000 miles left in the tread life because they don’t know how to put on a patch. When a tire is prepped for a patch (normally), they “rough-up” the area where the patch will be placed so it will stick good. NTB roughed it up until they ground down into the CORE of the tire! The “mom & pop” place tried to put on two patches, but there was too much core gone in that area, and neither patch would hold air. They said the tire is “done.” (They didn’t even charge for their efforts!)
Don’t go to NTB. All they have working there is a bunch of kids that don’t know anything (or care) and managers that don’t know anything and don’t care!!! (If you’re from the Raymore-Belton area, the “mom & pop” place is Harmon Tire in Raymore – good people!!!)
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