Jiffy Lube Comments

[DINO55]

My friend brought his 2004 Chevy trailblazer to JIFFY LUBE every 3,000 miles for service like clockwork. They talked him into changing the Differential fluid. 2,700 miles later he noticed a grinding noise as he drove the truck. He went to the Chevy Dealer only to find out that it was empty, Not a drop of fluid left in the front Differential. Bone freakin dry, Powder dry. $3,800 Bucks to repair. Chevy would not stand by it Because Jiffy Lube forgot to fill it up. Jiffy Lube will not cover it either. It has been 1 year since and he is still out the money.......
ANY AND ALL COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.....



This video your about to see is a Grim reminder of why I would rather do everything to my truck MY SELF.

http://www.nbc4.tv/video/9152183/detail.html

[s10blazerman4x4]

Cant see video.

[BlazerLT]

Well, he didn't go after them for the repair? They just said no and he said ok and walked away?

Also, US$3800 for a differential? Looks like he got screwed there too.

[ZL1power69]

Originally Posted by DINO55

My friend brought his 2004 Chevy trailblazer to JIFFY LUBE every 3,000 miles for service like clockwork. They talked him into changing the Differential fluid. 2,700 miles later he noticed a grinding noise as he drove the truck. He went to the Chevy Dealer only to find out that it was empty, Not a drop of fluid left in the front Differential. Bone freakin dry, Powder dry. $3,800 Bucks to repair. Chevy would not stand by it Because Jiffy Lube forgot to fill it up. Jiffy Lube will not cover it either. It has been 1 year since and he is still out the money.......
ANY AND ALL COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.....



This video your about to see is a Grim reminder of why I would rather do everything to my truck MY SELF.

http://www.nbc4.tv/video/9152183/detail.html

i would never take anything to "the lube". one of my friends is the supervisor of the local jiffy lube and u would not believe the kinda shit that goes on there.

[Blazer SS]

Thanks I showed this to my wife. Hope everyone watches this!

[DetroitMuscle]

Jiffy Lube will stand by it, as long as he has a recipt and the tamper mark is on the plug. Contact the BBB.

[Brian R.]

A couple of years ago, I went to a local Jiffy Lube to get the oil changed in my wife's car. While I was there, they said they could change my transmission fluid and flush my radiator (Toyota 45K recommendations).

I figured that it would be a time saver to do it while I was there on the weekend rather than screw around with this during the week at my local mechanic and have to drive her car to work and drop it off, pick it up afterward, etc. So, I said OK, change the transmission fluid and flush the engine coolant.

I should have known something was going to happen when the guy installing my oil filter had to be shown that you have to apply oil to the filter gasket.

The transmission fluid replacement went OK. To change the transmission fluid, they have a cool machine that has a visible movable piston in a vertical cylinder. The piston is initially at the bottom of the cylinder with new fluid above it filling the cylinder. There are two lines connected to either ends of the cylinder. The bottom line is connected to the transmission line that feeds the transmission cooler. The line connected to the upper end of the cylinder is connected to the return connection on the transmission. The engine is run and the transmission pumps the old fluid into the cylinder and the piston is displaced upward and pushes the new fluid into the transmission through the return line. After about 15 min, the fluid comes out of the transmission clean and red and it's done. (The wonders of modern technology).

While this was going on, the guy in the next bay needed his car pushed out of the bay backwards for a reason I didn't determine. The Jiffy Lube guy at the steering wheel held the car door open and was looking backward while the car was pushed through the narrow opening in the rear of the bay. (Do you see where this is going?). The owner of the car was in the parking lot behind the car and started yelling "WATCH THE DOOR, WATCH THE DOOR" to no avail. CRUNCH and the car door was history. He started yelling that he was going on vacation the next day and I guess that got sorted out between him and the manager. I gave him my name and phone number as a witness and lost interest in that source of amusement.

Meanwhile, the Lexus in the next bay was getting its tires rotated with a neat lift that raises the entire car far enough off the ground that the tires can be removed and replaced and the guy in the pit can still work on the oil change. There are four large rubber blocks placed between the lift and the car at the four corners of the lift. After the car was finished, one of the guys drove the car off the lift without remembering to remove the large rubber blocks. The car bounced high enough to bottom out the suspension hard (twice, he kept going after the first one). That was kind of exciting.

Then, they went about flushing my cooling system. For this, they have another machine that provides a reservoir of fresh coolant and a couple of hoses to connect to the radiator return hose (top) and the upper radiator hose connection. The car is again idled and the old coolant is pumped out of the engine and into a tank and new coolant is sucked out of the machine and into the radiator. (This had promise). The guy who connected it to my car was mumbling something about hating this old machine and only liked the new (broken) machine.

I decided at this point that it would be prudent to monitor the temperature gauge in the car while this process proceeded. Sure enough, bubbles started rising into the new coolant reservoir and the enging started overheating. I shut if off and took stock of the situation. Sure enough, he had connected the output hose of the machine to the output connection of the engine and viceversa. Once I showed his the error of his ways, he reversed the connections and it actually went well after that.

After the process was completed and the coolant lines were disconnected from my car, he was ready to start working on another car when I asked him if it would be advisable to start the car and check the coolant level in the radiator. He thought it over and another guy talked him into it before he had time to think about it too much. When the engine started, they put another quart or two of coolant into the radiator and finally got the coolant to where I felt comfortable driving away.

After I left, I felt I would have been pressing my luck to return to there and get the sticker with my next oil change mileage that they forgot.

I think I was lucky to have escaped with my life.

[dmbrisket 51]

all flushes are bad, tranney exchanges, are bad, most quick lubes have atleast one dip shit on the force, they are wanna be machanics who think becaue they change oil means they can tell the guys or the girls at the bar that they 'work on cars'... but, i have no complaints on them, we get a lot of engin, transmission, and radiator jobs from those guys... keep up the good work lol

[ZL1power69]

holly hell, that all happened in like an hr? one time i was at our local jiffy lube visiting a friend that works there. someone brought in a geo metro for a tire rotation and oil change (they have to use the bay with the pit). well the guy driving wasn't paying attention and drove the car right into the pit, almost crushing the guy working in the pit.

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by dmbrisket 51

all flushes are bad, tranney exchanges, are bad, most quick lubes have atleast one dip shit on the force, they are wanna be machanics who think becaue they change oil means they can tell the guys or the girls at the bar that they 'work on cars'... but, i have no complaints on them, we get a lot of engin, transmission, and radiator jobs from those guys... keep up the good work lol

Nothing wrong with a tranny fluid exchange being done through a T-Tech and a good technician.

Quick, easy and replaces all the fluid in your transmission with no wear, tear or problems.

[ZL1power69]

Originally Posted by BlazerLT

Nothing wrong with a tranny fluid exchange being done through a T-Tech and a good technician.

Quick, easy and replaces all the fluid in your transmission with no wear, tear or problems.

i'm assuming that machine doesn't perform a power flush. i think i need a fluid change as the tranny does slip on occasion. what other places use this machine (no way in hell would i trust the local jiffy lube)?

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by ZL1power69

i'm assuming that machine doesn't perform a power flush. i think i need a fluid change as the tranny does slip on occasion. what other places use this machine (no way in hell would i trust the local jiffy lube)?

Not power at all.

It uses the tranny's pump to pump the old fluid out and the new fluid in.

Completely passive and uses no chemicals.

[wolfox]

Originally Posted by ZL1power69

i'm assuming that machine doesn't perform a power flush. i think i need a fluid change as the tranny does slip on occasion. what other places use this machine (no way in hell would i trust the local jiffy lube)?

Try your local Aamco. The one I go to uses a passive tranny fluid exchange machine like BlazerLT describes. Luckily, the manager also works the garage floor and is a GM nut. He took a personal interest in my "classic" Blazer that "still runs perfect". I watched him use a passive plunger type machine to exchange fluid, then watched him pull the pan and replace filter, gasket and then topped up the pan again. All said and done for $120 - I do this every two years; however in between, every other oil change I suck out the sump dry. I grab about 3.5 to 4 quarts of fluid this way and top off with my favorite GM spec Dexron-III synthetic ATF. *Knocks on wood* Thus far, no torubles - not even a single sparkly drop of fluid to be seen and it always looks fresh and cherry red even when I pull the fluids out between pan services.

Obsessive, too much maintainence? Maybe - never had a hard part failure in any of my GM trannies as a result though.

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by wolfox

Try your local Aamco. The one I go to uses a passive tranny fluid exchange machine like BlazerLT describes. Luckily, the manager also works the garage floor and is a GM nut. He took a personal interest in my "classic" Blazer that "still runs perfect". I watched him use a passive plunger type machine to exchange fluid, then watched him pull the pan and replace filter, gasket and then topped up the pan again. All said and done for $120 - I do this every two years; however in between, every other oil change I suck out the sump dry. I grab about 3.5 to 4 quarts of fluid this way and top off with my favorite GM spec Dexron-III synthetic ATF. *Knocks on wood* Thus far, no torubles - not even a single sparkly drop of fluid to be seen and it always looks fresh and cherry red even when I pull the fluids out between pan services.

Obsessive, too much maintainence? Maybe - never had a hard part failure in any of my GM trannies as a result though.

Sounds good to me!

I got one of those pumps now so I can suck the pan dry and refill every once in a while.

[Brian R.]

Originally Posted by ZL1power69

holly hell, that all happened in like an hr? one time i was at our local jiffy lube visiting a friend that works there. someone brought in a geo metro for a tire rotation and oil change (they have to use the bay with the pit). well the guy driving wasn't paying attention and drove the car right into the pit, almost crushing the guy working in the pit.

No, I guess I was there 2.5-3 hours. The tranny flush and the other stuff took a while. My tranny holds alot of fluid. I guess I don't mind Jiffy Lube once in a while when I have to get stuff done in a hurry. I have learned to watch them like a hawk.