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ridr4lif wrote:Hey...im a mechanic. Not all of us are jackarses. The ones at jiffy lube are.
All of the shops in my area are, for the most part, very honest and i would take my car to any of them. Being a mechanic, i guess that says something.

Never said you all were. Just most of them, and geograhically that cliche could change.

i've never had aproblem with my local jiffy lube. all i get is oil chagnes from them, but again, nada on the problems. i want to change my own oil, but my "mobile home community" (lol) doesn't allow it.

brent wrote:Kudos
You will never find a stronger advocate of doing your own work than I. I hate taking things somewere to have work done. Mechanics smell people coming a mile away. Not all of them are Jack***es, but the majority are. Do it yourself, atleast you know it is done right.

or wrong if you fuck up on what your doin lol

i know how it is, not at Jiffy though.. some of the Wal Marts around here do oil changes and such, and my friends have always had good service.. well i took the Saturn in for an oil change and they didnt put any damn oil in the car, or very little.. i was pissed when i got home..

brent wrote:Kudos
You will never find a stronger advocate of doing your own work than I. I hate taking things somewere to have work done. Mechanics smell people coming a mile away. Not all of them are Jack***es, but the majority are. Do it yourself, atleast you know it is done right.

Hey...im a mechanic. Not all of us are jackarses. The ones at jiffy lube are.

All of the shops in my area are, for the most part, very honest and i would take my car to any of them. Being a mechanic, i guess that says something.

CaptainPioneer wrote:Jiffy Screw

Kudos

You will never find a stronger advocate of doing your own work than I. I hate taking things somewere to have work done. Mechanics smell people coming a mile away. Not all of them are Jack***es, but the majority are. Do it yourself, atleast you know it is done right.

Jiffy Screw

My cousin had a nice Toyota truck, took it there for an oil change. Well, they didn't put any oil in it, engine died that day or the next day or something...he lost so much money on that. It's bullshit what they do.

Funny story, One of my rotors on my old Rabbit in the rear left of the car i thought i had tightened the lugs down but i guess i didnt or they were stripped or something... It was like something out of a movie or cartoon... all i heard was a small thud and theni saw the tire roll past me and then the back end thudded down at 30mph... really somethign to see if anyone happend to see me do that on my road. LOL

my friend had his 80s Monte Carlo SS in to a Jiffy Lube for brakes once.
Got the car back, got on I-95 in Washington DC, and was going 70MPH on his way home, when the front wheels flew off of the car.
They didn't torque down his lugnits.. Just finger-tightened them and sent him off.
Car did a nose plant on the beltway and destroyed the front end of the car.. which his father made him get rid of after that, and was replaced with some crappy little toyota tercel or something. What a lousy deal that was.

Anyway, you couldn't pay me enough to take a car to those jokers.