Jiffy Lube
One day I’m feeling lazy so I decide, “Hey, instead of changing my own oil in 100 degree heat, why don’t I take it in for service, it’ll cost me money, but save me frustration.” I took both the Neon and the Frontier in that day to Jiffy Lube.
As I watched them work on my two vehicles the first thing I noticed was that they could not remove the casing for the air filter on the Neon. Normally while at one of these places they come to you and report the status at some point, along the lines of “yeah you need a new air filter”, even when you just put in a new one, however the tech I had stated while looking me direct in the eyes, “The air filter on your Neon is fine, it will last a while yet”… now how he could gather this information without removing the casing, I would love to know.
A few thousand miles later my AC belt on the Frontier, which is completely unrelated to Jiffy Lube, is loose so I get under the truck to tighten it up. While under the vehicle I notice mass amounts of oil dripping from the shield, my mind is thinking “crap, I have an oil leak, just what I don’t need”.
It turns out that the oil was from the oil filter Jiffy Lube had replaced, they had not tightened it on so I was slowly losing oil, had I not noticed it I’m certain my engine would have seized. After a stop at Autozone, with Ben and Ryan, we replaced the filter, and tossed in some new oil. I think my truck is much happier now.
I, however, am not at all happy with Jiffy Lube, and plan to never return there again.