If so.. BE CAREFUL :eek:

Take a look at this video and you'll see why! http://mfile.akamai.com/12924/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2006/0503/9152183.200k.asx

This was just talked about a couple weeks ago...

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=91236&highlight=jiffy+lube

It's been around before!!

Bad, Bad, bad!!

pdq67

Garfield, I remember years ago I had one of the Camaros serviced their. Simple oil change and pcv valve changed out. They installed the wrong pcv valve and did NOT tighten up the filter. I have never gone there again...
Dano

Just to be fair, it's not all Jiffy Lubes. That's just the place they picked out for this story. It could and most likely does happen with any company you can take your car to. I know I worked at a JL back in the late 80s while I was still in school and I never saw anything like this report is on. Sure, mistakes happened occasionally like a filter not getting tight enough on rare occasions (at least that's what I'd heard from other guys there, but in the year I worked there I never saw it happen), but nothing deliberate, like charging for something they didn't do. I'm not saying these things don't go on anywhere, because I'm almost 100% certain they do. You have to just take what you learn and use it to be careful anytime you pay for a service; whether it's an oil change or someone sweeping your chimney.

Watch out for body shops too.

I had mine at one to be painted. The paint job sucked but what was very bad was that I went there with about 4 gallons of fuel in it. When I got it back, the genius crew was trying to start it. It was SO out of gas that the bottom of the fuel cell was DRY.
The rear tires looked different too. Like they had roasted them so bad they were ragged.

The car has done pass after pass at 7100 rpm.
So when I do finally get it started, the engine is making a noise. One of the rockers which is usually .024 cold, is now .048!!
Then I do a compression test and its 50 psi or so light on number 5!!!
This motor was fine with 7100 rpm. They must of been past 8 with it.


Most of the body shops in my area I've gone to treat me with contempt.
A friend of mine has an older muscle car too and he gets the same thing.
They want to charge me double for what they will charge someone else ONLY because its an old muscle car.
They see the car and say almost immediately, 10k, minimum. I think they just don't want the business, because most of their business comes from the insurance industry.
This is after I insist that I don't want some mirror smooth showroom paintjob. Just the basics because since I race it, I wouldn't want a showroom job ruined when someone's engine part or parts fly off my car. It happened before to me and it makes little dents all over. I wouldn't want to see a showroom job ruined like that. They tell me for a showroom job, it would be 15 minimum.

Don't trust any of them. They will hot rod your car. (free road test)
And then deny it right to your face.

I'm going to hire someone under the table to do the body work and then just go with primer. Its my only option.

I can't have mine done at a fast lube place.. In order to get my oil filter off, you have to remove the Z bar. When I mentioned that to the fellow, he asked "what's a Z bar?" I promply drove away, and didn't look back. Changing my own oil is a pain, but like many other things in my life.. I'll get over it.

years ago (10) my wife thought it smart to take her saturn to a jiffylube and try to help her "busy husband" by getting the oil done, the "qualified" mechanic did not tighten the pan bolt enough and it fell out/off and the ride home from the shop with no oil in the pan really did not help the engine :mad:
had the car brought to the dealer and the lube shop wanted nothing to do with any of their mistakes. i since then always hate when my wife "helps" me
Mike

Amptech,

First I've heard of having to pull a Z-bar to replace an oil filter OR are you joking??

What type of oil filter system does your car have on it???

pdq67

You would never catch me at any Jiffy Lube grease pit.

If you want your oil changed proper, go to a GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc. dealer with coupons available online, from the mail, or advertised. I have found that because of the super open shops, and the reputation they are trying to maintain, it will be done right. I also go back and BS with those guys working on my car, most seem to like a different person to talk to. It also gives you a chance to look for other problems under your car. I amsure you can get burned anywhere, but I think these dealers are really pushing for your buisness and they have pros, not monkeys.

They won't let me walk the Shop Floor at our big Chevy Dealership here in town..

pdq67