American Tire Depot: Who Owns It, Its Warranty and Its Stores

American Tire Depot is a tire and auto repair chain with 94 stores, nearly all in California, owned by Big Brand Tire & Service since a purchase announced in November 2021. It keeps its own name, but its website runs on Big Brand’s templates and prints Big Brand’s Terms of Use and warranty word for word. On 17 October 2026 we read its warranty, flat repair, services, credit, military discount, directory, careers and Terms pages, six store pages, Percheron Capital’s release on the purchase and an SEC search, and compared each page with Big Brand’s as read the day before for our Big Brand Tire page. This site has no commercial relationship with American Tire Depot or any tire seller.

Who owns American Tire Depot

Big Brand Tire & Service does. Percheron Capital’s press release of 22 November 2021 “announced the acquisition of American Tire Depot (‘ATD’) by Percheron’s portfolio company Big Brand Tire & Service.” It calls ATD, “founded in 1991,” “the largest independent tire and automotive service business in California,” and says the combined company “will operate over 160 high-quality service centers.” The deal was “expected to close by year-end,” and its financial terms “were not disclosed.”

American Tire Depot’s careers page gives a different year: “In 2022 we joined forces with Big Brand Tire & Service, and together we have over 50 years of success.” Neither company prints the closing date.

The website names its owner only indirectly. The Terms of Use say “This site is owned and operated by The American Tire Depot Corporation” and mention its “parent or subsidiary companies” without naming any. The privacy policy speaks for “Majco LLC DBA American Tire Depot,” every footer reads “© Copyright 2026 Majco LLC,” and the contact e-mail in the Terms is at Big Brand’s bigbrandtire.com domain. Majco LLC is the company our Big Brand page found running Big Brand’s own stores. Of the pages we read, only the careers page and a blog post dated January 2, 2025, “Visualize Your New Wheels with Big Brand Tire & Service,” name Big Brand.

Above Big Brand, our Big Brand page (read 16 October 2026) records Percheron’s 2 October 2025 “closing of a $1.625 billion recapitalization” through “a single-asset continuation vehicle” co-led by funds of Blue Owl Capital, ICONIQ and Warburg Pincus, and a Blue Owl 10-Q listing a loan to “MAJCO LLC (dba Big Brand Tire & Service).” An EDGAR full-text search for “American Tire Depot” on 17 October 2026 returned 0 filings.

This updates our Big Brand page, which said a day earlier that the shared Majco copyright and identical pages were the only link it had found. Percheron’s release and the careers page settle the question for American Tire Depot, and Percheron’s 2024 update does the same for Robertson Tire.

94 stores, most of them in Southern California

The directory lists 94 store addresses: 92 in California, one in Casa Grande, Arizona, and one in Central Point, Oregon, the same count our Big Brand page found. The fleet page agrees (“94 locations across Arizona, California, and Oregon”), as do the renamed stores’ notices (“94 stores across 3 states”). The home page prints “94+ Locations nationwide” for a chain in three states, and the careers page claims “nearly 100 service centers in California” against 92 in the directory.

The directory gives cities, not regions, so we grouped its 86 California cities by county ourselves. Where a store page names its county (Atascadero, San Luis Obispo County; Jackson, Amador County), it agrees with ours.

By our arithmetic, 72 of the 94 stores, 76.6 percent, are in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties. The other 22 are on the Central Coast (6), in the San Joaquin Valley (11), farther north in California (3) and outside the state (2). Within Big Brand’s group it is the second-largest name: 94 of the 326 stores our Big Brand page counted across the five chains with a Majco LLC copyright, or 28.8 percent. With Big Brand’s own 182, the two chains list 276 stores, against the “over 160” Percheron gave for the pair in 2021. The site “does not ship products”; online orders are collected and fitted at a store.

Stores American Tire Depot renamed, and their old warranties

Big Brand renames most chains it buys, and American Tire Depot has done the same on a small scale. We did not open all 94 store pages. In the directory’s page data, though, 89 stores share one internal origin code and five carry others. We opened those five and one of the 89 as a check. All five carry a “Formerly” notice and a short FAQ; the check store, in Arroyo Grande, has neither. There may be other renamed stores we did not open.

Every FAQ answers “Yes,” as do the FAQs of all 67 renamed Big Brand stores on our Big Brand page. The notices are less sure: four of the five stop short of saying warranties transfer, and none says whose terms apply, the old shop’s or American Tire Depot’s. That matters because the written warranty covers tires “purchased at a American Tire Depot facility” and says “Your purchase invoice must be presented.” A Sterling Tire receipt shows neither. Bring the old receipt and ask the staff to write on your paperwork which terms they will honor; the FAQs promise only “available” records.

The written warranty, word for word Big Brand’s

“American Tire Depot offers a limited 6 month or 6,000 mile warranty on all repairs.” We compared the page sentence by sentence with Big Brand’s warranty page as read on 16 October 2026. With either company’s name swapped for a placeholder, every sentence matches, down to the typo “tread warn off” and the slip “a American Tire Depot facility.” The page had not changed since the day before. The terms:

• Repairs. The “Parts & Labor warranty period” is “6 months or 6,000 miles (whichever occurs first).” By our arithmetic, a car driven 1,000 miles a month reaches both limits together; drive more and the mileage ends cover first.
• Tires. A tire that becomes “unsafe or unserviceable due to defects in workmanship or materials” is “replaced on a pro-rata basis charging for only the portion of tread warn off, down to the last 1/16 of an inch of tread.” Out-of-round claims count only “during the first 10% of the tire’s life.” “Road hazards are not covered by this warranty.”
• Wheels and trailer tires. Custom wheels are warranted “for the first year”; trailer tires that fail “within 2 years from date of purchase” are replaced pro rata.
• Twelve exclusions, including “Premature tread wear out,” “Repairable punctures,” “Vehicle Misalignment,” under-inflation, accidents and vandalism.
• Claims. “ALL TIRES MUST BE RETURNED TO A AMERICAN TIRE DEPOT FACILITY AND ACCOMPANIED BY THE ORIGINAL RECEIPT” for any adjustment. A tire not in stock is ordered and “will be available usually within 10 days.” Cover “is provided to original consumer purchaser only.”
• Salespeople’s promises. The warranty excludes “any undertaking, representation, or warranty made by dealers or third parties selling our products,” so get any extra promise written on the invoice.

Pro rata means you pay for the tread used: a defect found halfway to the 1/16-inch floor leaves you paying roughly half a replacement. The page does not say whether that is half the price you paid or today’s price, so ask. Early wear is excluded; that claim goes to the tire maker, whose mileage warranty, the alignment page warns, does not cover “uneven tire wear” from misalignment. The chain’s maker-warranty directory links 96 brands’ warranty pages, and our guide to how tire makers prorate explains them. Although headed “Manufacturer’s Standard Tire Warranty,” this is the store’s promise: it prints it, limits it to its own sales and handles the claims.

The “in lieu of” line. The page says “These warranties are in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied.” Under 15 U.S.C. 2308, “No supplier may disclaim or modify” an implied warranty if it “makes any written warranty,” and such a disclaimer “shall be ineffective.” The page itself concedes “Some states do not allow limitation on how long an implied warranty lasts.” A repair that fails just after 6 months may be outside the written warranty but not outside state law.

In all we set 18 American Tire Depot pages against their Big Brand twins. Twelve match apart from the name: the warranty, Terms, privacy and shipping policies, flat repair, rotation, alignment, maker warranties, military discount, services list and two service-partnership pages. Six differ: the About page lacks Big Brand’s Belle Tire news, the fleet and careers pages give American Tire Depot’s own counts and history, and the home, oil change and credit pages have their own copy and layout. The home page’s three customer reviews are the same three shown on the home pages of Big Brand and its three other banners, so they say nothing about any American Tire Depot store.

Can you claim at a Big Brand store or a sister chain?

Not on the strength of anything printed. American Tire Depot’s warranty sends tires back to “A AMERICAN TIRE DEPOT FACILITY”; Big Brand’s, Burt Brothers’, Robertson Tire’s and Tucker Tire’s each name their own (all read 16 October 2026). None of the five warranty pages says one brand’s receipt is good at another’s counter. Even the broader promises stop at the brand line: the military discount is available “at all American Tire Depot locations,” and “Every one of our 94 locations offers fleet services.”

The family keeps growing. Percheron says Big Brand bought Robertson Tire in November 2024 and closed on Burt Brothers in October 2025; Tucker Tire shares the templates and Majco copyright. Big Brand agreed in July 2026 to buy Belle Tire, not shown as closed on 16 October 2026, and Percheron’s sitemap on 17 October listed no closing notice. Belle Tire’s plans are on our Belle Tire page. A sister store may choose to help you, but nothing printed obliges it to. Claim where you bought, and if another brand helps, ask it to note on the paperwork that it is honoring an American Tire Depot warranty.

No road hazard plan, and certificates nobody defines

Road hazard cover exists for nails, potholes and debris, and American Tire Depot’s warranty excludes them. The page is titled “Tire Warranty & Protection Information” and its search description promises “details on coverage and road hazards,” yet its only road hazard line is “Road hazards are not covered by this warranty.” No page we read sells or describes a road hazard plan; we did not open a cart to look.

One phrase hints at something. A tire promotion on the home and deals pages requires “purchase of tire maintenance certificates,” the wording our Big Brand page also found. No page says what a certificate covers, costs or how long it lasts. Under 16 CFR 702.3, for products costing “more than $15.00,” a seller with a written warranty must make its text “readily available for examination by the prospective buyer,” so ask to read it before you pay.

What the chain does print is free flat repair for any tire that can be safely fixed: a nail in the tread, not a sidewall cut or a blowout. For how road hazard cover works where a chain sells it, see Discount Tire’s Certificates and Les Schwab’s road hazard warranty; those are other companies’ terms and do not apply here.

Free flat repair, rotation and checks, and the rules

“Flat Tire Repairs are always free. Even if you did not purchase the tires from us.” Staff first “remove the tire from the rim and inspect it inside and out,” and the repair must pass six “Tire Repair Requirements,” as printed:

• “The puncture must be in the tread area of the tire”
• “The puncture must be less that 1/4 inch in diameter”
• “There must be at least 2/32″ of tread surface remaining”
• “The tire must not be severely weather checked”
• “The overall condition of the tire must be good”
• “The tire must not be older than 6 years old”

The page admits “Many customers are surprised by our decision not to repair old tires,” and rests the rule on a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advisory on tire aging, which it says cited makers’ advice that “tires should be replaced within six to ten years, regardless of tread depth.” Read the date code on your sidewall first. By our arithmetic, the 2/32-inch floor equals 1/16 inch, where the pro-rata tire warranty also stops. Run-flats follow the maker’s repair advice (see run-flat repair). The home page claims “475K+ Flats fixed free.”

Rotation and checks. “We rotate your tires at no cost,” with no condition that you bought them there, and the page recommends rotation “every 6,000 to 8,000 miles” (see our rotation intervals). The Car Services page heads 15 services “FREE”: flat repair, rotation, and checks of pressure, TPMS, alignment, brakes, battery, heating and cooling, engine, fluids, belts and hoses, shocks and struts, alternator and starter, and lights, plus a full inspection. Wheel balancing, tire changeover and the tire consultation carry no such heading. A check is a measurement, not a repair: the alignment page promises “Recommendations for adjustment if your alignment is out of spec” and prints no price, so get any quote in writing and compare it with our pages on when an alignment is due and brake pads. Every oil change includes a free rotation, “Basic Underhood Inspection,” brake inspection and tire air pressure check. The sitemap lists a smog check page, but it showed no content, so we cannot say which stores do smog checks.

Service contracts. American Tire Depot says it is authorized to inspect and repair cars covered through SilverRock, for buyers from “Carvana®, DriveTime®, or another dealer,” and the Shield Repair Network, for “CarShield® or American Auto Shield®” contracts. What gets paid depends on your contract; see our Carvana warranty, DriveTime and CarShield pages.

The store card, the military discount and price promises

The American Tire Depot Credit Card offers “6 or 12 Months Promotional Financing” on “purchases of $199+ (6 months) or $1199.99+ (12 months).” It is deferred interest: unpaid in full in time, “interest will be charged on the promo balance from the purchase date,” and minimum payments “may or may not pay off the promo balance.” The amount “must be on one receipt,” and gas station purchases do not qualify. The dated account terms: “New Accounts as of 7/31/25: Purchase APR 34.99%. Penalty APR 39.99%. Min Interest Charge $2.” There is no annual fee. By our arithmetic, $199 needs $33.17 a month to clear in 6 months, and $1,199.99 needs $100.00 a month to clear in 12. These match Big Brand’s card terms on our Big Brand page.

The page never names the bank. Its “Apply Now” and “Prequalify” buttons lead to Synchrony’s application site and “Manage My Account” to mysynchrony.com, so expect a Synchrony account agreement, which we did not read. Big Brand’s card page said its card is “Valid everywhere Synchrony Car Care™ is accepted”; American Tire Depot’s says nothing about other chains, so ask. A limited-time cardholder rebate with an end date is left out, and we did not use the prequalification tool.

The military discount. “Active-duty service members, military retirees, and veterans receive 5% off purchases in store,” with a valid military or veteran ID. It “does not extend to spouses or family members,” is “applied in store only” and “cannot be combined with other sales, coupons, discounts, or promotions,” though the store applies “the one that saves you the most.” The home page offers it to “active duty, veterans, and reserves,” so reservists who are neither veterans nor retirees should ask.

Price promises. There is no price-match policy. The contact page invites questions about “warranties or price match,” and the About page says “Value is our objective, we will not be undersold” and “Shop our competition and see for yourself,” with no rules on competitors, time limits or refunds. Bring a written quote, but there are no terms to hold the store to. The sales event, oil change cash back and makers’ rebates on the deals page are promotions and are not recorded here.

Terms of Use, disputes and public records

The Terms of Use are Big Brand’s, sentence for sentence. They are undated, and the company may “change, modify, add, or remove portions” at any time. California law governs, and “the California courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction,” so a court elsewhere may still hear a case. We found no arbitration clause or class-action waiver in the Terms, warranty, privacy policy or credit page; the card agreement, unread, may differ. Liability for the website is capped at “THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE”; work on your car falls under the warranty and the law, not that cap. The company also “does not guarantee the accuracy of the information at all times,” one more reason to rely on your invoice. The Terms bar links to the site “without American Tire Depot’s written permission,” so we name its documents rather than link them.

The privacy policy says the company “will not trade, sell, or share” personal information without consent, except with “its franchisee dealers, or third-party business partners”; no other page mentions franchised stores. Text messages come “from Majco LLC.”

Public records. The SEC search found no filing naming American Tire Depot, and web searches on 17 October 2026 found no Federal Trade Commission or state attorney-general news release about it. Repair-shop registrations sit behind the bureau’s lookup, which we did not use, and CourtListener’s robots.txt closes its dockets to AI agents.

Where American Tire Depot’s own pages disagree

We recorded 14 places where the chain’s documents contradict each other or Percheron, or leave a promise unfinished. The ones a buyer should know:

• When it joined Big Brand. Percheron announced the purchase on 22 November 2021, expecting it to close by year-end; the careers page says 2022.
• Who owns it. “The American Tire Depot Corporation,” an unnamed “parent,” Majco LLC, a contact e-mail at Big Brand’s domain, and Big Brand named on two pages.
• Store counts. “94+ Locations nationwide” for three states, and “nearly 100 service centers in California” against 92 listed.
• History. A footer link labelled “History” that opens an About page with none.
• Road hazards. A “Protection Information” page that promises “details on coverage and road hazards” and only excludes them, and certificates no page defines.
• Renamed stores. FAQs that say warranties transfer, notices that mostly do not, and a warranty limited to tires “purchased at a American Tire Depot facility.”
• Price match. An invitation to ask about it, and no terms.
• Reviews and the discount. Home-page reviews shared by all five banner sites, and “reserves” on the home page against “military retirees” on the discount page.

Before you buy tires or a repair at American Tire Depot

Register your tires so the maker can reach you about a recall. Under 49 CFR 574.8, a dealer must either give you “a paper tire registration form” with “The entire tire identification number” filled in, or send it to the maker “at no charge to the tire purchaser and within 30 days.” No American Tire Depot page says which it does, so ask. NHTSA says makers notify registered owners “within 60 days of notifying NHTSA of a recall decision”; its recall lookup covers tires, and our page on tire recalls explains more.

Common questions

Who owns American Tire Depot?

Big Brand Tire & Service. Percheron Capital, which has backed Big Brand since 2021, announced Big Brand’s acquisition of American Tire Depot on 22 November 2021, and American Tire Depot’s careers page says it joined Big Brand in 2022. Its privacy policy names “Majco LLC DBA American Tire Depot,” the company behind Big Brand’s stores.

Is American Tire Depot the same as Big Brand Tire?

Same owner, separate name and stores. Its warranty, Terms of Use, flat repair rules and military discount are Big Brand’s word for word, but each brand’s warranty sends claims to its own stores, so stay with the brand on your receipt.

What is American Tire Depot’s warranty?

Repairs carry a limited parts and labor warranty of 6 months or 6,000 miles, whichever occurs first. Tires bought there get a pro-rata warranty against defects down to the last 1/16 inch of tread; custom wheels are covered for the first year and trailer tires for 2 years. Claims need the tire and the original receipt, and cover is for the original buyer only.

Does American Tire Depot have a road hazard warranty?

Not on any page we read. Its warranty says “Road hazards are not covered by this warranty,” and no plan is printed. A promotion requires “tire maintenance certificates,” which no page defines, so ask in store.

Does American Tire Depot fix flats for free?

Yes, “Even if you did not purchase the tires from us.” The puncture must be in the tread and under 1/4 inch, with at least 2/32 inch of tread left, and the tire must be in good condition and no more than 6 years old.

Does American Tire Depot price match?

It prints no price-match policy. The About page says “we will not be undersold” and the contact page lists price match among things to ask about, but no page sets rules. Bring a written quote and ask.