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

[racerx000]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8881193/detail.html

 

[Backfire Bob]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8881193/detail.html

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 **** up and *YOU* pay the price for
it.

 

[Body Roll]

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

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

 

[Larry Weil]

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.

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).

 

[John Rethorst]

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).

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.

 

[shopsis]

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.

 

[Phil Marshall]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8881193/detail.html

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~~

 

[Body Roll]

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.

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.

 

[shopsis]

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.

 

[Sheldon]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8881193/detail.html

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.

 

[lkreh]

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

 

[newsreader]

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

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

 

[lkreh]

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

 

[Edward Hayes]

It appears that the Jiffy lube company does not have much of a
requirement for their service people. That being said you are lucky to
have found a good one that a least hired someone who does a reasonable
job. In my town of Cape Coral FL we were not so fortunate. Ed

 

[Phil Marshall]

It appears that the Jiffy lube company does not have much of a
requirement for their service people. That being said you are lucky to
have found a good one that a least hired someone who does a reasonable
job. In my town of Cape Coral FL we were not so fortunate. Ed

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~~

 

[Phil Marshall]

Guess again. I take my Outback to the dealer for everything but oil
changes .....(snipped)... I don't speak for everyone, but neither
does the original poster.

-LK

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~~