He better not have more than two fingers!!!

[ChrisOIFdoc]

Got lazy a month ago and had the wife take the CTS to Jiffy Lube. A few days ago the wife called me at work and said the car was acting funny and making a rattling noise when going around corners. Rearend? Maybe. Got around to checking it out today, drove around the block and sure enough I heard what she described. Sounded like a steel rattlesnake. No noise during idle or reving when parked, oil pressure good, no slipping when going through the gears and holding the brake, but as soon as you start from a stop to cruising speed the sound would be there intermittently through each gear change. First thought was SON OF A BISCUIT!!!!....the tranny's about to take a dump. But wait....it's not slipping and it can't be rearend because I hear it coming more from under the car, and sure as hell ain't the engine because I've got no codes, don't hot rod it, change the oil religiously, doesn't burn or leak oil EVER. Well, knowing I was wasting my time, I pulled the dipstick and MOTHER FLUFFER!!!....the oil wasn't even touching the dipstick, and DOUBLE MOTHER FLUFFER!!!...it took 3 and a 1/2 quarts to put it in the hash marks. This is probably the first time I've gone more than a month without checking the oil weekly in this car because my wife only drives it about once a week, and like I stated earlier, it is never low. Lesson learned. Now I just have to go to Jiffy Lube, find the two fingered jiffylubetarted SOB that changed the oil and teach him how to count with his other hand!!

 

[Trainmaster]

Jiffy Lube gave me an oil filter that was marked "For Air Filter Use Only". Their corporate headquarters never bothered answering my complaint letter. Imagine that these hacks do brake jobs too.

And folks wonder why I change my own oil.

 

[justKen]

Jiffy Lube gave me an oil filter that was marked "For Air Filter Use Only". Their corporate headquarters never bothered answering my complaint letter. Imagine that these hacks do brake jobs too.

And folks wonder why I change my own oil.

I agree with you - It would almost lead one to have the thought that the whole operation has to be a tax shelter for someone up the line. No way ANY business can accept the numbers and expense of constant damages that are the result of absolutely nothing more than incompetence/ inattention or combination of these, and then choose to venture into a new area in which such failures will have catastrophic consequences.

To boot, it's an area that is completely foreign to the running business model, meaning garage re-fit, training (ha!, but at least on paper), inventory, etc. Someone is burning money.

/K

 

[1955moose]

Pretty hard to believe you could screw up an oil change, but there you go. When I bought my 2000 about 4 years back, the drain plug was cross threaded. I was lucky and was able to run a 14 mm tap into the pan to fix. What's so amazing is these days the computer tells them how much oil to put back, on top of that, we've got that funny yellow top 3 foot stick, that's a fail safe. But in spite of all that 3 1/2 quarts low. Un fricking amazing.

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[markfrei]

Welcome to the era of 15.00$ minimum wage employees! Can't count past two without a calculator.

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[ChrisOIFdoc]

Welcome to the era of 15.00$ minimum wage employees! Can't count past two without a calculator.

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I should've seen the writing on the wall 33 yrs ago when I got a high school job at McDonald's and the cash registers had pictures on it instead of numbers.

 

[JExpedition07]

I should've seen the writing on the wall 33 yrs ago when I got a high school job at McDonald's and the cash registers had pictures on it instead of numbers.

Yep, this is why I change my own oil...

 

[justKen]

Welcome to the era of 15.00$ minimum wage employees! Can't count past two without a calculator.

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Amen to this.

I remember working in my Great-Uncle's auto shop after school for minimum wage - and I began by sweeping, moving & emptying oil vats, and about any other mundane task that could be passed my way, and minimum wage was $3 and change.

By the time I had made it to $6/hr, I worked my ass off for some $80.00 or so per week, but I was damned proud of that $80.00.

/K

 

[Habbibie]

Welcome to the era of 15.00$ minimum wage employees! Can't count past two without a calculator.

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Damn your state is generous, I know jiffy lube in IL starts techs at $9.25 an hour, maximum $12, that right there is solely the reason I dont go to jiffy lube, at $9 an hour you know damn well the person working that job doesnt give two flying birds about his job and the quality of his work.

 

[1955moose]

$3.00 per hour! In 1969 my first real job, besides throwing newspapers was $1.65 per hr at the Arco gas station. I did oil and lube, repaired tires, mounted and balanced new ones. Batteries. Pretty much everything but the skilled stuff like brakes and motor diagnostic work. Even then I knew to put back 4 quarts recheck and add 1-2 more if in doubt. All that without any computer screen to look up specs.

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[ManUpOrShutUp]

I've had more oil change f***ups than I can count. On one trip to STS several years ago, they managed to knock something loose and get my engine covered in oil. They didn't even notice it. They left my truck running, I paid, and as soon as I got in I smelled something burning. When I popped the hood I saw it was oil cooking on top of the engine block. I had to wait another hour for them to send a tech out to find out what he knocked loose. Of course they don't have parts laying around so he ended up "fixing" it with a spring clip. Doh!

That wasn't as bad as what Meineke intentionally did to my wife's car though. She took it in for an oil change and the guy comes out and tells her her brakes are shot. He takes her out to the car and shows her how spongy the brakes are and tells her it would be dangerous to even drive home. He presents a bill for $800, she calls me, and I tell her to drive home very carefully. When she gets home I check the car. Damn, those brakes ARE spongy - but they were fine yesterday?! I check the brake fluid, which I had just topped off a couple days prior, and find the reservoir is more than half empty. I searched up and down for a leak and found nothing. I added fluid and never lost a drop in the weeks that followed. F***ers at Meineke drained it to sell her on an $800(!) brake job.

Since then I swapped out her cartridge filter for a spin-on (the main reason I avoided it due to how much time it took w/ the cartridge) and do her oil changes as well as my own.

 

[jeff kushner]

That sucks but hope you caught it before any major damage but of course that won't show up for a while. I pay to have my oil changed now that Ford has made it such a pita BUT I take 6 qts of oil, all measured out in 1 or two jugs that I HAND to them....along with the filter. They have done great for me at the local Grease & Go because I take away their excuses for screwing it up!

jeff