stay away from jiffy lube

[I am Carbon]

As You will see the jiffy lube brand has major problems with honesty.

 

[xjwmx]

Wow mechanics ripping people off. Never heard of that before....

 

[I am Carbon]

who would have thunk it

 

[retiredgentleman]

Well sure, the automotive repair industry is full of scams. They pray on people with little mechanical knowledge, and especially women.

My solution is simple. I drive a Toyota Camry, and in over 8 years, its never been in any automotive repair shop. I do all my own maintenance...........oil and oil filter changes, air filters, tire rotation, tranmission fluid change, power steering fluid change, anti-freeze coolant change, etc. Brake pads/rotors have not yet needed changing, but I will do those also when needed.

I will soon be needing the timing belt changed out, but I will go back to the Toyota dealer where I bought the car, to have that done.

 

[xjwmx]

I will soon be needing the timing belt changed out, but I will go back to the Toyota dealer where I bought the car, to have that done.

Write on it with a yellow marker to see if they actually change it. Write on it "Lucky for you sons of bitches that you changed this belt."

 

[501Spanky]

I was asked to leave a Ford dealership once. My wife took her car in and was told she needed all new brakes (rotors, pads, lines, calipers) and was handed an estimate for over $1000. I brought the estimate back to the dealer along with the receipt for the brake parts that I had installed 3 weeks before (rotors, pads, lines, calipers). He couldn't give me a good reason as to why my wife needed to replace her brand new brakes!

 

[xjwmx]

^I saw about the same thing happen to my parents at a Sears garage, but I was too young to speak up. Then within days I heard a report on the news about rip offs at Sears garages around the country. They all do it; it's a major part of their business. Then they discover someone doing it and treat it like they're the only one, for some reason.

 

[retiredgentleman]

Here's another way they boost their profit on sales.

A little over a year ago I needed to put on new winter rated tires. The brand of tire that I wanted was only sold by one tire dealer, but they had many stores in our city. The first store I went to said they had the tires I wanted, and would cost X dollars. Then they immediately said you must have a wheel alinement done as well, for $99.00. I said my steering and tire wear was just fine and I did not want an alinement. They then said its company policy, you must do the alinement, or they can't guarantee the work. I said goodby, and left the store.

I drove over to another store of the same dealer. They quoted the same cost of X dollars, and no mention of any required alinement. I had the tires installed and saved myself $99.00.

I'm sure the first store makes an easy $99.00 off many customers, and it would not surprise me, if they even fail to do an alinement.

 

[vr3506]

And I thought this happend only in Europe...

 

[olddude13]

My buddy went there a few years ago, they removed the fill bolt on his diff and left it out!!!
He drove to west coast and back to Ohio Bad news but they did pay for repairs.

 

[1974jh5]

I have been in the biz for a long time, 95% of it at dealerships. There's scum everywhere. I can't control others, only myself and I do not scam. There's too much honest money to be made!

I did see something that turned my stomach once. I worked at a Toyota dealer in Charleston, SC, had a Corolla come in with a brandy new Meineke muffler on it, logo stamped in the case and all. That car had razor blade cuts in all 4 front CV boots! The deal: the lifetime muffler rots out in 2 years, customer goes back for a free muffler, the smiling Meineke guy will replace it for free but son of a gun lookie what he found!

 

[jd750ace]

I have a good relationship with my home-town Kwik Car, but the one 10 miles away, not the one 6 miles away. Don't take much to run me off. Speaking of 1000 dollar brake jobs "Just Brakes" is notorious for that, and they won't do any work if you don't sign for it all. Happens in Dallas all the time. Our local Fox station has an investigative reporter who gets death threats because she's so good! She done a european auto garage where a little white haired lady had spent $5800.00 in one year on a 740 wagon with 33,000 miles on it. They planted a cam under the hood. The guy wrote E-Z on top of her radiator, so the crew new she was an easy sell on repairs. They done a half dozen more like that, and torque striped bolts and such, and showed them there was nop way the described work could have been done. I stopped going to dealerships for anything, including buying vehicles, a good while ago. I have an independent shop that done my transmission in my truck, and have done the ignition and front hub bearings in our car for fair money and in good time. They call immediately and will send me pics on my phone if something goes beyond, which it seldom does. Shop don't look like much, but the work is top notch, and that's all I care about.

 

[j_wilson315]

The local Texaco Express Lube tried to get me to do a trans flush and filter change on my old Nissan with a manual transmission. I do know that manual transmissions have fluid in them but when he said he checked the dipstick and it was filthy I figured I'd have a little fun. Played dumb and told him I had never even checked the fluid in 3 years of ownership and asked if he could show me where the dipstick was and how to check it. After about five minutes of searching the only admission of guilt was "I must have gotten your truck mixed up with the other one in the bay"

 

[I am Carbon]

The local Texaco Express Lube tried to get me to do a trans flush and filter change on my old Nissan with a manual transmission. I do know that manual transmissions have fluid in them but when he said he checked the dipstick and it was filthy I figured I'd have a little fun. Played dumb and told him I had never even checked the fluid in 3 years of ownership and asked if he could show me where the dipstick was and how to check it. After about five minutes of searching the only admission of guilt was "I must have gotten your truck mixed up with the other one in the bay"

would You just like to kick him in the nuts for that one

 

[1974jh5]

Unfortunately there's thieves in every business. My brother is a contractor, he says it's amazing how many people get fleeced out of a down payment for 'materials' and then the crews never show up.

 

[littlebill31]

I worked mounting tires and oil changes during summer break in high school. I saw the "head mechanic" cut the metal break lines on a car in order to replace something. I can't remember what now. Instead of taking the lines off, he cut them (I remember there was 4) and then repaired them with rubber vacuum tubing and hose clamps.
That guy was a total thief. He even took stuff out of people cars and then blamed it on a guy that was just fired.

I quit, for good reason. I heard later that he was stealing tools from another guy they hired. When the guy found out, he tapped a grease fitting into the "head mechanics" box (as it was locked) and let 'er rip with the grease pump. Filled the whole think up.

 

[jd750ace]

One of the best uses for a can of "Slime" is to fill up a dick hole's tool box. Not that I've ever done it. Twice.

 

[1974jh5]

Had a guy who was a real asshole in one shop. The other techs nailed him more than once, the two most memorable ones: grease under EVERY drawer of his tool box, then he was sitting on the porcelain Honda, another tech lifted a corner of the drop ceiling tile above it and doused him with a dry chemical fire extinguisher.

 

[weekendrider]

One of the most blantent and saddest things I've witnessed is a Mayflower moving van selling peoples things out the back of the trailer........... I'm sure it turned into an insurance claim nightmare for the folks.

 

[MTcycle]

I have a good relationship with my home-town Kwik Car, but the one 10 miles away, not the one 6 miles away. Don't take much to run me off. Speaking of 1000 dollar brake jobs "Just Brakes" is notorious for that, and they won't do any work if you don't sign for it all. Happens in Dallas all the time. Our local Fox station has an investigative reporter who gets death threats because she's so good! She done a european auto garage where a little white haired lady had spent $5800.00 in one year on a 740 wagon with 33,000 miles on it. They planted a cam under the hood. The guy wrote E-Z on top of her radiator, so the crew new she was an easy sell on repairs. They done a half dozen more like that, and torque striped bolts and such, and showed them there was nop way the described work could have been done. I stopped going to dealerships for anything, including buying vehicles, a good while ago. I have an independent shop that done my transmission in my truck, and have done the ignition and front hub bearings in our car for fair money and in good time. They call immediately and will send me pics on my phone if something goes beyond, which it seldom does. Shop don't look like much, but the work is top notch, and that's all I care about.

Sounds like you're DONE! Where's the grammar police when you need them?