If you will be in need of an oil change in the next month, heres a printable coupon to save $20 off of your next synthetic oil change at Canadian Tire.
Personally I take my car to Wal-Mart because if I have to wait I’d have a heck of a time killing an hour or so in a Canadian Tire! It’s really too bad Shopper’s Drug Mart doesn’t do oil changes. Now THAT would be convenient.
But, if you’re headed there anyhow, you have until November 30th to use the coupon.
Here is the link to additional CT coupons…
http://www.canadiantire.ca/affiliates/promo/autoservice/winter2010/
I personally am not a fan of Canadian Tire. Whenever I take my car there, there’s always additional charges and, while I obviously can’t prove it, I find that my car would be in worse shape afterwards. Something always breaks within a week or two of taking it to Canadian Tire. Again, could be coincidence but doesn’t happen when I take my car elsewhere. In any case, I stopped taking any of my cars there a couple of years ago so things may have improved. Just my $0.02.
How much is an oil change there if the coupon is for $20 off? Sounds high
@ hshamshu: OMG, that is EXACTLY what I experienced several times with my car, as well my husband and a few of my friends with their cars! exactly, that is so weird!!!
personally I’d never take my car there again, even if they offered one for free
I wouldn’t trust Canadian Tire to change the oil on my bicycle chain, much less my car. One of the reasons they keep it for so long is because they’re trying to find/create something they can “fix”. You drive in with a perfectly working car to get your oil changed and next thing you know, it’s broken.… Back when I was naive enough to go to them this happened many times and cost me several thousand dollars.….
We have had the same experiences as above, the worst and last one was as Elizabeth said — literally thousands of dollars down the drain and a vehicle not repaired properly.
Interesting that we are all probably in different cities, different provinces, so it’s not ‘one bad shop’.…
Unfortunately, you couldn’t pay me to take my car to Canadian Tire either.
I think it all depends on the town. In my hometown, my dad took my car in to get the tires changed for me (put on the winter tires). I was thankful the mechanic (friend of my father’s), took an extra look at the tires coming off and noticed the uneven wear…turns out my car was out of alignment. I’m glad it was noticed or I would have torn up my winter tires within a month.
I know a few years ago the same store, you wouldn’t take your car there to even get your windshield wipers changed. Now they have decent mechanics.
I won’t take my car to CT either. I took it there once, and was quoted a very high price. Took it to another mechanic and he said it was a computer chip and cost me $96.00. A far cry from the price CT quoted me.
That was nice to read your blog nice source of information about printable grocery coupons
Thank You Anne
Just took my car to CT in Chatham. No hidden costs. Saved 20 dollars on the oil change. My car has to take the synthetic oil. I compared prices and CT charges 59.00 for synthetic oiol change far less than other drop in places, and then the coupon on to of that.
Hey Tim, so how much is the final cost of the $59+coupon+tax?
Canadian Tire hires a bunch of high school kids and one certified mechanic and then charges full rates for fixing vehicles. Don’t go there with your car.
The experience I had at our local CT service centre was that I paid for a seasonal oil change that was supposed to include tire rotation and other things and they never did half of what they were supposed to including the tire rotation. I was out of town for a week right after the oil change and when I got back, one of my tires that was leaking air was still in the same place and hadn’t been rotated so I knew they hadn’t done the work. Then I checked the fluids and they hadn’t topped them up either.
Canadian tire is the worst place to take your vehicle. Like the above mentioned, I as well had the same trouble. Live and learn.….….…at least my children and there children and there children will know not to ever take their vehicles there.
When I went for a so called “Full Service” they charged my $80 just for showing me a very cute card with the colors of my car fluids and a list of things to be “potentially” repaired… unfricking believable!!! Other than that NOTHING was changed or replaced.
Geez, $20 off? That’s basically a free oil change. Unless you’re getting a synthetic oil change. In which case you’ll want to use some <a href=“http://www.syntheticoilchangecoupons.com/” synthetic oil change coupons .
Please send me a free oil change coupon from canadian tire because I always change my oil there.
I didn’t have the best experience with these guys either. But thanks anyways for the great coupon information.