Canadian Tire Associate Stores & Auto Centres

This Canadian Store is actually not bad but the one on Queensway and the East Mall is still easier to get to and get in and out of. I noticed this store is less busier than the Etobicoke store and there is plenty of parking because of it.
The gas prices here are actually not bad considering the prices of gas along this stretch of Dundas but Costco still is the most affordable.
They have a self check out area but I choose to use the regular aisle because it wasn’t busy when I visited (before noon on a Friday).
Canadian Tire is still an all purpose store sort of like Wal Mart/​Home Depot without the food and with more sporting goods, outdoor things and automotive. Housewares, electronics, they have things like that too.
I was just here to get oil for my snowblower and I just bought the house brand synthetic 5w30 which is about 3 to 4 bucks less than Quaker State, Mobil etc.

Parts counter help was okay. Some of the workers have no idea about products located in the store and don‘t even bother trying to help or find someone who could help to locate the product (I had to help a gentleman find a bottle jack because two workers just looked at him blankly). Check out is horrible, lined up for a cashier because I had a discounted product, cashier at self checkout grabbed my cart, scanned everything and walked away without adjusting prices.

The staff at the customer service counter are rude and inappropriate. Returning products here takes forever, and they ask lots of inappropriate questions. No customer service to be found at this store. I will not shop here anymore. I’m taking my business elsewhere.

I was looking for a particular bicycle that only this location had in stock. They were nice enough to put it on hold for me until the end of the day. I drove across the city to pick it up and thankfully it was waiting for me. I would have given 5 stars but the valve caps were missing and the brakes were totally loose.

I brought my car in this past weekend to change my winter tires over to summer tires since they had a 20% off deal that included a free alignment check.
Against the advice from almost everyone I know NOT to take it into Canadian Tire, I did anyway, I figured… they are just putting tires on, there’s not much they can ruin.
Well, I was wrong. The job that was expected to take 45 mins wound up taking an hour and a half… and they didn’t do the alignment check! When I was being cashed out, I noticed on my invoice that it said I had declined the alignment check… having already been there way longer than I wanted to be, I let it go. I was extremely disappointed — but I could live with it. I wasn’t going to write them a bad review until this morning happened.
Turns out they HAND TIGHTENED the bolts on my tires, no torque wrench used. Driving to work it sounded like I was driving over rumble strips… I pulled over into a local garage who informed me that ALL of the bolts were loose on the tires, the front one to the point of almost falling off. In short — I could have killed other people or myself from tires flying off. Comforting thought! So lesson learned… NEVER AGAIN.

Another Canadian Tire another rip off! A friend of mine went there today to have a look at her seatbelt because it was stuck and she couldn’t pull it out. They charged her $ 125.- just to have a look at it and told her that the hole thing needs to replaced and that it will cost an additional $ 185.-
She drove to the next best independent privat mechanic down the road, he had a look at it and said that there was just a screw loose and that’s why it wasn’t working. Fixed it — CHARGE FREE!!!
See my other review about Canadian Tire!