Tires summary and ending explained

Tires is a comedy series about Will and his feeble attempts to manage a branch of his father’s auto-repair chain. The series is streaming on Netflix.

Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers

Plot summary:

Will’s father owns the Valley Forge Automotive Center chain and he got a job managing the Westchester branch a little over two months ago.

Unfortunately, he is ill-equipped for responsibility and doesn’t have the best supporting crew.

There’s Kilah, the front desk staff who isn’t interested in working and is often found slaking off. His cousin Shane is one of the mechanics, but he’s vulgar, immature, and wastes time regularly.

There is also Cal, a good mechanic who isn’t the best with people and can be a dunce at times. Finally, there is Arnold, an older mechanic who does things at a snail’s pace.

One of Will’s first screw-ups was ordering an excess number of tires, much higher than they required.

He wants to apologize to his dad for the mistake and has an idea to drum up business and fix his problem.

He suggests an initiative to make women more comfortable at the shop so that they can be served as customers more often, and he invites a journalist from the local paper to write a puff piece about it.

Things spiral from there as Kilah hurts her foot and Will asks her to stay till after the journalist is gone.

He doesn’t want Shane anywhere near the guy because he would be inappropriate the whole time, but the journalist wants to interview a mechanic so Shane is called in.

Will also has Dave, his superior and his father’s right-hand man, calling him to scold him about the excess tires and other bad decisions he’s making.

The interview is a disaster as the reporter gets to see everything that is wrong at the shop, and the only way to keep him quiet is to buy ad space in their local paper.

With the sales generally bad, Dave tells Will that he’ll need to send one of the mechanics to the Belmont location because they cannot afford to have 3 there.

Will wants to get rid of Arnold but Dave doesn’t want him for the same reason, because he’s so inefficient.

Dave suggests sending Shane, but Will criticizes Shane’s performance so that he doesn’t have to leave.

A customer walks in and asks if they can get an oil change done quickly so Will asks Arnold to do it, but Arnold delays because the customer is a person of color.

After two hours, Will goes up to Arnold to fire him for not doing his job, but they realize that Arnold died on the job because of his age.

That at least means Shane can stay there instead of moving to Belmont. Things are not looking good and Dave tells the Westchester branch that they’re trying a new scheme.

They are offering cheap oil changes, and incentivizing the branches to sell more by making it a competition with a 300-dollar gift card.

Will doesn’t like the idea because deals like that bring the oddest customers. They get a variety of customers but they still end up losing money on the day.

To make up for their failure, Will comes up with a new idea to sell the excess tires for cheap because it is easier to upsell things when people come in for tires.

He calls in someone to do a PowerPoint presentation, but Shane hijacks the idea to make a poster for a bikini car wash.

Meanwhile, Will hears a rumor that his father might be shutting down one of the branches, Will starts calling around to speak to his dad or Dave.

He discovers that they are having meetings with some people in suits and also that Shane has spread some crazy rumors about him.

Dave finally calls Will and tells him that his father is considering selling the entire chain, which means all of their jobs are in jeopardy.

Will relents and goes with Shane’s bikini car wash idea to improve sales. After a rocky start, they do manage to do good sales.

However, a woman shows up from the company trying to buy the chain and she wants to survey the shop.

She has a terrible experience and to top things off, Will loses his mind and tells her off before she leaves, complicating the deal that his father is negotiating.

Will is certain his father will be disappointed but he ends up going home with one of the bikini girls that day.

Ending explained:

One final pitch

Work is backed up after Will shows up late to work. Kilah already knows what happened because she got explicit details about it from her friends.

She shows Shane the texts right as Will shows up to work smelling horrible. Will doesn’t want to talk about it but does mention that things got quite rough.

He’s also stressed out because his dad is coming in sometime and he wants to sell him on his idea.

He calls Dave who says that the mood is quite fiery with his father and Will should be worried.

Shane tells Will that he cannot be out there serving customers because he smells horrible.

The confrontation

Everyone is in Will’s office fooling around when Will’s father shows up. He shouts at Will for screwing up so many times and doesn’t give him a chance to explain.

He asks for Will’s keys and fires him, so Will hands them over along with his company t-shirt and walks out covered in bruises from the night before.

While he’s gone, Will’s dad and Dave look over the sales numbers. Shane and Cal realize that they should have stood up for Will so they run the numbers and go to Will’s dad.

A good idea

They show Will’s father that while he did have bad ideas, the cheap tires initiative was good. They show him the numbers to back it up.

They add that Will had a wild night with a woman too, allaying fears that Will was bad with women.

Will’s dad is impressed with all of this and calls Will to talk. He apologizes for the confrontation and then tells Will that the idea is good.

Even though they don’t have much time with the negotiations, he wants to give Will’s idea some time to see where it gets them.


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Nadeem Abdul
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Nadeem is an editor for The Envoy Web and an avid fan of films and shows. He has spent a significant amount of time taking in all kinds of genres and has a particular interest in the sci-fi and fantasy realms including series like Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Young Justice among others.

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