Jiffy Lube - Horror Story!!!

[jdshift]

I hear you loud and clear man!! Same exact problem with Midus..........trust the Midus touch my a$$, never been back since.

[stopatnothing]

I hear you loud and clear man!! Same exact problem with Midus..........trust the Midus touch my a$$, never been back since.

Midas has never done me wrong, its actually one of the ONLY places I trust to take my car to. If I have them diagnose something and they cant figure out what it is they wont charge me a thing for it

[jdshift]

Thats great they did you no wrong......me on the other hand have.

[SEV6]

Local friendly non shady mechanic's FTW!!!!

[FoxFire]

do it at wal mart.

if you even ask for the manager they will pretty much pay for anything you ask for

one of my first jobs was at a wal mart lube center

i seen a guy that didnt want to wait in line, so he procedded to tell our manager that he had been waiting there for 2 hours and no one came out to see what he wanted. he demanded a free oil change and a 50$ gift card for his " wasted time "

manager gave him everything he asked for plus a free detailing by a local company, then told us that the customer is always right even if their lying.

trust me, if you ask for the manager, they will do ANYTHING to keep your voice down

[Jesda]

Jiffy Lubes, Nissan dealers, and Infiniti dealers all suffer from the same problems. Dealers assign their newbie wrench-turners to routine work like oil changes, so its no better than Jiffy Lube if they hire the wrong people or don't have a grasp of quality control.

One good thing about JL is that its very easy to stand and watch very closely as they perform the work.

If you find a good dealer, stick with it. If you find a good lube place, stick with it. There's even one place in Bozeman, Montana that I've used quite a few times while on road trips.

[frapjap]

THe problem with these places is that they put in plugs that are over or undersized and ruin the threads that were originally there. This happens far more often than anyone would ever expect.

[Jesda]

THe problem with these places is that they put in plugs that are over or undersized and ruin the threads that were originally there. This happens far more often than anyone would ever expect.

Why the hell wouldn't they just reuse the old drain plug? Do you 240 guys have ones made of magic disappearing metal?

[hsckris]

Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LTJjqr0QbIkPart 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5h1j5jMJI(couldn't find part 2)

In that part one the Jiffy Lube charged the news for fuel filter and didn't change it. I was wondering though, they marked the filter in the gas tank... it was on a Jeep so I don't know if it has another one or not but most cars have an inline f.f. somewhere.

[alms24sebring]

LOL this thread is funny. I actually used to work there and ive seen it plenty of thimes. This one dude I guess didnt tighten the drain plug tight enough one some car and it fell out 4 days later...done motor and dude got fired.

another time this oldschool mercedez came in with a canister filter. this man tightnened it, then turned it another full turn. " he was like i wanna make sure its tight". oil change was done, someone drove it around, I come outside and see the car on the side of the building with 4 quarts of oil on the ground and a busted canister housing i told him it was too tight.

Also one of my bosses could DRIIIIIIIINK some mothersukin hennessey. Everyday this guy would drink atleast a fifth of it and still work on cars, with the costomer right there!!!, he was like 50 too with a fake eye.lol i forgot about that. He almost fell in the pit multiple times, and he fell alot too, all f*cked up. Well him and this other dude were smokin and drinkin hennessey in a costomers car!! STUPID!!!, and of course they got cought and fired.

There were lots of horror stories but Jiffy Lube was cool though, man we used to smoke all the time out the back door and of course it all flew right bak in and went upstairs, owell, never got cought haha. I guess that shows that people are people.

personally, i never f*cked up anything, i did my siht right. Go to http://www.jiffylubeproblems.com.. store #111 was the one I was at, there might be somethin new

[generic808]

Now we know what really goes on down in "the pit"

[frapjap]

Why the hell wouldn't they just reuse the old drain plug? Do you 240 guys have ones made of magic disappearing metal?

That blows my mind, I have no idea why they don't. Usually I re use mine so long as my gasket looks okay. Thats probably saccreligious to a lot of people on here, but they can get bent.

A buddy of mine has worked at Tire Kingdom for years now and has relayed to me that there are way to may idiots who would rather assume they have the right thread/bolt and force it in rather than take the time and get the right one like he does.

[zerepdivad]

That blows my mind, I have no idea why they don't. Usually I re use mine so long as my gasket looks okay. Thats probably saccreligious to a lot of people on here, but they can get bent.

A buddy of mine has worked at Tire Kingdom for years now and has relayed to me that there are way to may idiots who would rather assume they have the right thread/bolt and force it in rather than take the time and get the right one like he does.

I've always reused my drain plug and have never had a problem.....

[bcar240]

Also, crossthreading problems happen a lot at those places when the techs try to just run the plugs in with an impact wrench instead of starting by hand to make sure they are started right.

As for changing your own oil, that's good and I recommend it, but for a newer car under warranty make sure you keep all the receipts for oil and filters and such. If you have to take the car in for warranty reasons I have seen people who didn't keep that stuff shafted b/c the couldn't prove they ever changed their oil.

If I were you I would try to get something in writing from JL or the dealer that specifically states if the car ever suffers problems related to previous oil starvation they will cover it. It would be a real stretch to go to JL in a year or so if they car develops issues and say, "you guys f***ed up my car a year ago" and expect they would do anything.

[BoostFab]

for any of you guys not yet changing your own oil; it's about time you do. it's so easy. do it yourself and do it right; i never trust these local lube shops.

your car probably have acute bearing damage. it may not show up right at this moment. better get jiffy lube to pay for it if the engine start knocking.

[stopatnothing]

for any of you guys not yet changing your own oil; it's about time you do. it's so easy. do it yourself and do it right; i never trust these local lube shops.

Seriously... +1

[sub9lulu]

i dont understand why people go to jiffy lube in the first place, same goes with wal mart oil change

[Jager]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8DM...lated

part 2

[alms24sebring]

dam ionno about using a air gun/ratchet for a dam drainplug..thats stupid. we changed them if the threads were f*cked up or if something was wrong with it.

I guess its not so bad if u think about uit, in fact u can get a free motor. every car at jiffy lube that the drain plug fell out of, no oil, etc, got new FREE motors. Go there, get an oil change, go home, put the old wrench ion the plug and loosen, drive it down the road and wallah!! new motor.

[Pashdut]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MX15B4CDYKo

[Driftcardotnet]

i need to make a claim, but where, i've already got the jiffy lube incident paper, i need the manger to call me, and explain why after my engine spilling 2.5 quarts out of the oil filter location of my SR20det why it would have not created any damage. i mean i would like them to pay for what ever i need, be at a rebuild or a new turbo, or a boost of confidence.

[SHIFT_2.5S]

I've heard too many stories about Jiffy Lube...especially ones where they do not actually change the oil or use oil of poorer quality or do not change the filter, etc. I will never visit Jiffy Lube.

[otterman]

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Hmmm I never been to a Jiffy Lube but I will never go now haha

[Driftcardotnet]

hey your in burbank? how are you handling this situation? i had the same problem with the oil filter though.

[s14_girl]

I'll comment as a former store manager. Jiffy Lubes can be good depending on the staff. That's a gamble. The stores on the west coast and the southeast are actually different. Related in name only. The stores down here in the southeast are owned by a company called Lucor. So any claims in Ca. shouldn't be held against the ones down here, and vice versa. Having hired people there before, I know that many of the applications I received were from people who didn't know much about cars or former convicts. Also know that when you go to these shops, the employees are under a lot of pressure from above to sell things to you. I had a guy who drove me crazy, told customers conventional oil "is bad for your car", "hustled" on the side, and sexually harrassed me every single day for a year and a half. Some locations are better than others. There are good people in the company, but the fact of the matter is that for the pay offered, they don't exactly get the cream of the crop all the time. After I resigned management to make more time for school, they replaced me with a jerk who made demeaning comments and hired idiots like one who filled someone's radiator with oil. The idea of the business is good in itself, but to improve, the quality of employees has to improve vastly.

[mchkc240]

any update???

[TWILIGHTBOY101]

Thats sucks... stupid Jiffy lube..

[danielekfuj]

This is why I change my own oil on all of my vehicles.

[alms24sebring]

some places just hire ppl that need a job and have no idea what they're doing. I think they should have tleast a general knowledge of cars, ex. coolant goes in to radiator, not oil. haha how did you explain that one.

[deeznuts]

I know this is a nissan forum but my friend's civic wit a 01 b18c Integra Type-R swap and they put brake fluid instead of motor oil!! his swap was almost $5,000. His engine seized up before he left the parking lot and Jiffy Lube had to buy him a new swap!! he now has a K20 courtesy of Jiffy Lube