Walmart Auto Care Centers

"Walmart is what it is. They don't have a lot of techs. Often, there is just one working. It took them almost an hour to start on my car after the appointment time. I wanted 2 new tires. They did the work just fine it just took awhile."

"I visited the Auto Center 1/22/24 at about 11AM and, well, the two guys @ the Auto Center were pretty awesome. I had a somewhat tricky problem with a TPMS sensor that was replaced on my gf's Honda Element. Besides running around outside in freezing temps, the tech let me try a few things that pointed to a bug in the Bartec TPMS tool software. Bartec is the most common TPMS tool so if you have a car like mine and get one TPMS sensor replaced like me, you're up a creek and get sent away with a permanent TPMS light. But knowing what I know and seeing what I saw (in the extra steps and button pushes he did for me) I deduced that in this case, if the Bartec is in Relearn mode, and the first sensor scanned is an aftermarket (Redi-Sensor) it won't find the OEM sensors scanned afterwards. It would find all of them if the Bartec was in Test-Scan mode but not Relearn mode. This dead ended the TPMS relearn and 6 other shops with Bartec's told me I needed a new sensor for $80 or go to the dealer. Well, being a automotive engineer with access to some scan tools, I knew all my sensors were good and which sensor was causing the TPMS light but I needed a shop with a TPMS tool to finish the job. Thanks to Walmart, I figured out that scanning all the sensors in test mode to register their ID's with the tool, THEN going into the secondary menu to write the ID's to the car was the work-around. I found a shop with both Bartec and ATEQ TPMS scanners and the ATEQ didn't have this problem. Thanks for the help guys, that TPMS light had been on for over a year!"

"Horrible employees. Only certified through "Walmart" certification. Came in for an oil change over filled my car. Brought back next day and the tech working on my car gave me attitude and slammed my hood and broke my cruise control, then accused me of doing something wrong to my car. Will never go back."

"You just won’t get service here. I went here one day, waited 45 minutes at the desk before being helped (despite only one person being in front of me in line) because the employee at the front desk went to help someone look for something on a shelf then inexplicably disappeared. When I was finally helped (by a different employee), I was told testing my car battery would take over an hour (which might be normal but I don’t know). I came back the next day since I had more time only for the center to be closed because apparently the employees decided not to show up. No indication of being closed online or anything. What a joke, this is the bottom of the barrel in terms of auto service."

"Tires aren’t bad but they tell you $15 per tire to install but fail to mention another $60 in fees. Thought It would cost $60 to install 4 tires purchased from Walmart but cost me $124. Extremely understaffed. I waited 30 minutes after I received the notification that my car was done before someone was even at the counter. Better off going somewhere else in my opinion"