Gondez Tires

I have been going to Gondez tires for years now. Thank goodness when I say years, I mean for the past 10 years, I have HAD to stop in a few times. I prefer to stay away from any sort of repairs as often as I can haha
BUT the other day I was on the Westside of Santa Cruz. Walked out of the house and saw my wheel had a small tack in it. Wasn’t sure it was very long or really had punctured my tire so I pulled it out… OOOPPPS. Began to hear a slow leak.
We had our two kids in the car, had to be somewhere in an hour and the closest place I could think to bring it was wheel works across from Walgreens downtown. A few minutes later we were there. Ran in to the office (Of Course it was their busiest day, Saturday) So I waited in line. When I got to the counter I explained my troubles and they came out to check my wheel… a couple minutes later after assessing my problem he asks if I can come into the office to review options. I do, and before I know it he is telling me that he cant do anything for two hours b/​c of the people before me, also that I would need a new tire because he won’t patch it, and its not patchable either way and if I’m getting one tire I should probably buy the 2^nd one so they are the same… So two tires out the door were almost $ 400.00 with tax and labor. WHAT??? YEAH RIGHT. Luckily my mama taught me right and always taught me to get a second opinion & find other options. I got outta there real quick and a little nervous that my tire was going to pop on the way, BUT I booked it to GONDEZ Tires. As soon as I pull up within a minute I tell them what happened, he looks at my tire says its a perfectly good tire, has plenty of tread and the tack didn’t do much damage— he tells me he can patch it up and literally 40 minutes & $ 25 bucks later I was out of there with a perfectly patched tire! It has now been about 6 months on that same tire. No problems at all. THANK YOU GONDEZ TIRES. YOU GUYS ROCK!

I got a nail in my tire and had to use a can of fix-​a-​flat to get me going again. Gondez Tires was one of the few places I found in the area that will repair a tire after you’ve used fix-​a-​flat so that was awesome and it only cost $ 20 which was nice. The only draw back to me is that none of the staff could speak English but it gave me a chance to use my rusty Spanish from high school so that was a bonus in a way. I’ll definitely go back.