Jiffy Lube Comments

[Brian R.]

Not all trannies need the filter changed regularly either. Neither of my vehicles have the tranny filter in the recommended periodic maintenance. They are nothing more than screens.

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by dmbrisket 51

you did not, markgc did...

Ah, ok, kewl!

[Markgc]

you did not, markgc did...

That was the wrong word - they are not techs but people who need a job and who have had some basic training on how to change oil. Some have obiously never been near a car before. It is a nasty greasy job with low pay. No wonder they aren't very good, they don't care about their work and don't stay for long.


Mark

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by Markgc

That was the wrong word - they are not techs but people who need a job and who have had some basic training on how to change oil. Some have obiously never been near a car before. It is a nasty greasy job with low pay. No wonder they aren't very good, they don't care about their work and don't stay for long.


Mark

And hence why we shouldn't take our trucks there.

[Markgc]

I wouldn't take a bicycle there!

[Southern Comfort]

About two or three weeks ago, One Saturday morning I was watching the Weekend today's show, it's weekend edition of the Today's show. The topic was Jiffty Lube. Thet had an investigative reporter go there for tranny flush and oil changes. They had hidden cameras in the cars. They found six out of nine Jiffy Lubes in California ripped them off. Telling them they needed belts changed and tranny flushes, and did not do the tranny flushes and such and was charged for it. The end result was the tech got fired and Jiffy Lube Corporate told the reporter, they where unaware that was going to investigate all of they Jiffy Lube places and install cameras into all the bays, so the customers can watch their cars being worked on, and see that they are getting what they are being charge for. What a joke.
SC

[dmbrisket 51]

by buddie got power steering fluid in his (89 or 87, dont remember) honda crx... theres no power steering pump, but he was charged for the fluid

[blazee]

Originally Posted by dmbrisket 51

by buddie got power steering fluid in his (89 or 87, dont remember) honda crx... theres no power steering pump, but he was charged for the fluid

The scary thing is that they might of actually poured it into something.

[dmbrisket 51]

no, greese monkey admitted to just checking the list off, admitted to not checken the fluids at all

[BlazerBoyLT98]

Well I used to own a a 1999 Dodge Stratus, I brought it to JiffyBoob to have the oil changed where I used to hand the kids I knew $30 bucks in cash and he would pocket the money and put in full synthetic and have someone clean out my car. Well one of the BOOBS working there put on a faulty oil filter and then they filled her up with oil. They proceeded to start my car and boom the oil filter blew open and was shooting oil everywhere!!! I was standing right there watching it happen and was yelling "SHUT HER DOWN!!!!!" The moron underneath the car said lets just see if the oil leak stops............... I screamed about 30 4 letter words and literally ripped the kid who started the car out of the drivers side and shut her down. Then the manager yells at me for touching his employees, yelling and swearing, and he swears the oil leak (was more like a flow) would have stopped with some time!!!!!!! I asked to see the oil filter they put on which looked used and I showed him the faulty gasket on the filter and I said yea that leak would have stopped. I was so upset and I told the manager I said listen, at least out of all these kids here you should know something about vehicles but I guess not. Ever since then, I have changed my own oil. I do not reccomend going to any fast oil change place, but to each there own. So good luck.

[DINO55]

BlazerBoyLT98 has yet another happy ending to a wonderful Jiffy Boob Story..........

[magnum3456]

yea so i remember somebody posting something about how jiffy lube is bad. and i just kinda thought yea...just one bad experience...haha it was on tv last night...the reporter went to 9 jiffy lubes and asked for a transmission flush....they had installed cameras but the employees didnt know that...5 out of 9 jiffy lubes NEVER even flushed the transmission...they would also pull out a dirty air filter and go tell the customer about it and got the customers consent to replace....once again...they charged for a new air filter...and never put it in...they went to go find the manager and once they found him...he said he was just a customer...and pointed out "his car" a camaro...they found the real owner of the camaro...not the manager...same with fuel filters...they wouldnt replace them...they would show the employees on the hidden cameras the the employees themselves...they didnt know what to say...thats bad...

[blazes9395]

Thats exactly the one I saw about a month ago...so sad, whats even worse, is they get away with this all the time, and many customers have no idea. This is also applies to many quick lube places too, not just jiffy lube.

[Markgc]

If the manager lies then the whole place is rotten to the core - a den of thieves. A bit like my expereince at an auto repair place in VA. I walked and never came back after they jacked up the price of an exhaust box replacement with the story that there were two different exhaust systems fitted to 89 S10 4.3l Blazers and mine was the expensive version - blah

Mark

[excheezhead]

my brother flunked out of ASE tech school, got hired by jiffy lube on the spot, made it a month before he got fired for not telling customers thay need stuff they don't.i don't know if your hip to this, but the grease monkey and the manager get comission for the extra junk you get done. the 2 times i was there, they put in 1 full qt. overfill, and the last and second time in another state, the told me the fuel filter was over due for replacement by the maint. cycle, it was raining and cold, so i let them do it, forgot to order them to show me the old part removed, 3 days later, i'm under the truck trying to scrap off a melted wal-mart bag off my exhaust, happened to look at the fuel filter, the dirty, slightly rusty, with gm factory sticker is still in my truck. got the money back, after everyone from grease monkey to manager tried to get me to let them replace it. i took the money, bought one at autozone, put it in in 5 minutes, and used the change to buy a 12 pack and go home to bbq.
there are no mechanics there, just oily dirt labor guys some give a crap and the rest just want the check to keep up the payments on the '88 civic with the k-mart fart pipe and tin-foil spoiler.