Why no one should ever take their car to Jiffy Lube...

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Thanks for posting this.......

This act is nothing compared to some of the other horror stories about Jiffy-Boob and Shit-Stop. They have stripped out drainplugs, put the wrong fluids in the wrong places. They contaminate your brake system with the wrong or spoiled brake fluid. They overfill batteries and add TAP WATER to them! They love to sell $15 air filters and overpriced fuel filters.

People...STAY AWAY from these places! Minimum wage high-school kids are NOT Qualified/Certified auto mechanics! They f*ck up and *YOU* pay the price for it.

Reply to
Backfire Bob

I think you're preaching to the choir. By the time people get a Sub they usually know where not to service their cars.

Reply to
Body Roll

"Backfire Bob" wrote in news:w4U6g.2048$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net:

And no dealer service department has ever done any of those things? I had an oil change at my dealer one time, they poured the oil into the engine from an old, dirty watering bucket (the type you'de use to water your flowers, but with the spray head removed).

Reply to
Larry Weil

Which they would have filled from the bulk container they buy oil in. Was the exterior of the bucket dirtier than the rest of the shop? Were you able to determine that the oil itself was dirty?

My worry would have been overfilling.

Reply to
John Rethorst

Where I am in the NYC metro area I've had them use diluted windshield washer fluid, so that you are not protected much below 20 degrees F. NYC temperatures do go below that sometimes, and if you drive into New England for a ski trip, you're in trouble. I learned my lesson when I was caught in a snow storm in upstate NY at night, and my windsheild quickly and repeatedly became coated with an opaque mixture of salt, sand and snow that frozen windshield washer fluid could do nothing about. Could of been killed or killed sonebody!

When I complained, they denied using diluted stuff. Poor bastards probably don't know what they use.

Reply to
shopsis

Yes, they got us too with a stripped oil drain. I won't go there anymore. High school (drop-outs?) kids making minimum wage working on my ride. BAD combination.

~~Phil~~

Reply to
Phil Marshall

I think there is at least two types of windshield washer fluid. The type that is sold in the Cal lowlands has a freezing point of about 32F (or so the bottle says) and the type sold in the places where it snows is antifreeze based and the claim on the bottle is -20F and up. I think it's your responsibility to put the correct washer fluid into the car. I run 32F stuff in the car that does not go into the low temp areas because I don't think the antifreeze based winshield washer fluid is terribly good for the environment.

Reply to
Body Roll

The antifreeze in windshield washer fluid is methanol. Poisonous if you drink it in quantity, but it evaporates readily and is not, therefore, harmful to groundwater or to animals. When I add my own, I always use the -20 or -30 stuff. At the quick oil change places, the staff fills your windshield washer tank without asking, and if they fill it with stuff that freezes, as they did with me, you can be in big trouble.

After this happened, I asked specifically what the protection level was of the stuff they added, and they said -30. The next time the temperature dropped to +15, it forze solid.

Reply to
shopsis

A friend of mine was a manager at a Jiffy Lube. He kept bragging about how much he was making in commissions by talking people into using Mobile 1, and who knows what they actually put in there.

Reply to
Sheldon

yawn...plenty of unscrupulous dealers doing the same thing. Been going to Jiffy Lube for 20 years without a single problem.

Reply to
lkreh

Ya right! What the poster isn't telling is that they probably work in the corporate offices. So ok, maybe they have been going to (work at) Jiffy Screws-ya for twenty years.

Ty

Reply to
newsreader

Guess again. I take my Outback to the dealer for everything but oil changes. It's a big inconvenience to drive all the way to a dealer for that...so I go to Jiffy Lube, as I did with my previous cars. NEVER had a problem with Jiffy Lube. I don't speak for everyone, but neither does the original poster.

-LK

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lkreh

Reply to
Edward Hayes

"Edward Hayes" wrote:

And even IF there were someone working at a Jiffy lube that did a decent job, what are the odds that they would be there next month, let alone next year. Jiffy lube 'Techs' are paid crap. That doesn't speak well for keeping quality minded folks around.

On the other hand the I know many people at my Subie dealer that are still working there from the time we got our 1997 Outback.

~~Phil~~

Reply to
Phil Marshall

The original post, a news story, documented the findings of a local news agency that 5 out of 9 Jiffy Lube were cheating customers.

That speaks volumes in MY book.

~~Phil~~

Reply to
Phil Marshall

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