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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.
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.
