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Tires – Season 2 Episode 12 Recap, Review & Ending Explained
At What Cost
Ronald Dobbins, Winston cup champion and local drunk, shows up at the auto-shop just when things couldn't be any worse. Turns out Phil has paid him to go and do a meet and greet with customers, but he winds up getting served instead. Will has enough problems though, given True Thread have come along and screwed them completely. Will is in the dumps abut this and left with nothing despite putting all his money and effort into Valley Forge.
Interestingly though, we learn that there's a sales rep at True Thread who has been taking bribes, but all of this is overshadowed by Ron smashing up Cal's car.
What does Trish recommend they do?
After Ron is served with a DUI (and a trending video online about how he hates True Thread), the future of Valley Forge is still hanging in the balance. The company are behind on payments and Will's stress is reaching boiling point. Not quite to the same temperature as the whiteboard drawing of the staff dying in lava, but hot nonetheless.
Phil is here too and he listens as Will explains that True Thread have them on probation for a year, so no one else is going to allow them to sell at cost. Their entire business model is in the toilet and they need to figure this out.
They only have 3 or 4 months left, but Will wants to bring in a consultant, Trish, to figure out what to do next. Trish speaks to Phil plainly and gets down to brass tacks, believing they need to significantly cut back on staff. Phil needs to close one of the stores, and Trish suggests they could be bought out by a bigger company too. She also advises they let Will go, given his large salary.
Do Shane and Kelly get together?
Shane arrives at Andiamo's and tries to strike up a deal with the guys. In exchange for getting a new car, he offers up 10% off the services over at Valley Forge for all their cars. They eventually agree to a 'fleet account', prompting Shane to head over and see Kelly. In fact, he does the rounds and manages to drum up a good amount of business. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for his personal life.
Unfortunately, it also comes at the cost of his potential relationship with Kelly. He walks in on her and Ollie kissing. He thinks she's cheated on him but of course they're not together and never have been. She looks at him as a walking red flag and doesn't accept his flowers either.
Meanwhile, Cal finds out that his car is completely screwed, and without insurance, he's going to have to pay for the costs. Cal is contemplating leaving and heading over to another auto-shop to work though and when Will finds out, he's shocked and frantic to try and keep him onboard.
It's Shane who manages to convince Cal otherwise, leveraging his deal with Andiamo to get him his car.
How does Tires season 2 end?
Linking back to the start of the series, Shane can't find his gun and while this is all laughs and smiles, Shane says goodbye to Jerome the turtle outside. He does so with Phil, and the pair attempt to reconcile with their son. They struggle to get their words out though, and while they don't outright say it, it's clear that everybody here is in this together.
Will opens the shop for another day, unsure what the future holds, but knowing that whatever they're faced with, they'll go through it hell or high water.
The Episode Review
So the ending for Tires leaves things wide open for where this could potentially go next. The business is not in a great spot but Shane steps up and actually shows some good business acumen to convince these accounts to come onboard. This is, of course, a nice nod to the first episode where Will was convinced that Shane would be a great manager.
The knock-on effect of all this of course is that it gets their marketing budget down, but it's also clear that the business may not make it in the long-haul either.
Shane finally does get to have an important chat with his father, and while there's more unspoken than anything else, it's a nice way of at least giving them some closure and acknowledging the issues they've had across the season.
Its certainly been a tumultuous ride and this chapter does hark back to earlier jokes, like the issue with the gun.
Of course, Tires is still an acquired taste and very much one of those shows you'll either love or loathe, depending on your humour. However, there's plenty left in the gas tank for a potential third season based on what's here.
