Central Islip Firestone

My husband and his family have been going to Jimmy for years. He is their mechanic. They don’t bother with going to the dealer (unless the problem is under warranty). Jimmy is much more cost effective and does a quality job. He’s done all sorts of repairs on the hubby’s car including tires, brakes, oil changes, new wiper blades, etc. On our visit this month, Jimmy replaced the brakes. They came out to $ 225 and change, which is significantly cheaper than what my husband was quoted at his last oil change (in NJ). Jimmy thinks that both brother’s are named «Mike» which is funny. (Mike is my brother-​in-​law.)
Overall, you’ll be happy if you get your vehicle serviced here. Good quality work and good prices.

My husband and I have been going to Firestone (Jimmy & Mike) for over 10 years. I consider them my mechanic!
They’re cheaper than going to the dealer; have NEVER did any repairs that I didn’t need. They’ve always explained any actual repairs outside of the normal oil change and tire rotation… even down to arguing with me that I shouldn’t put wider tires on my car. We ended up negotiating the width, but it was done within an hour with free rotations for the life of the tires. He’s honored every slow leak, with fixing them for free… always telling me «they’re my tires» and has several times helped me out with payment being «get out». I attempted to change my headlight. ended up going to Jimmy. He had Mike change it in less than a minute… no charge.

Went there because my car was overheating and I was already in the parking lot. They claimed a 600 $ wire was bad. Got it replaced. 3 days later the entire cooling system burst on the LIE and ended up costing me an additional $ 1,200. I called them to complain (brought it back to my usual, trustworthy mechanic) and they pretty much told me i was poop out of luck. Learned that lesson the hard way,

I went there to get new tires mounted & balanced which I bought online. I have 2009 Maxima which have 19″ wheels. I was quoted 15 bucks a wheel and was very happy with the price. went down there and had them installed. Well I was getting a lot of front end vibrations at speeds 35 and up, heavy vibration @ 60 – 70 I figured oh its the rain or the road. I wait about 7 – 10 days went back to Jimmy and was like well we balanced them, you was even here (I felt like saying «I wasn’t in the garage watching your employees, otherwise would have told them they are using the wrong weights»), but come back any day m-​f before 430 or on Saturday early so we can check it out. Well I work m-​f 8 – 430 and from what I heard from Jimmy it is crazy there on a Saturday. So I was like forget I will bring it to a tire shop, sure enough, they were balanced but with the wrong weights, they used the ones that mount to sidewall but only on the inside of wheel since they look stupid on outside (T Style Clip on). they even removed the ones that were sticker mount weights that go on the dish of the wheel. When I had them balanced the guy @ tire shop put the sticker mount ones and the rides fine now… Thanks Firestone for making me pay an extra $ 25 bucks to fix you error.