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trent I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting Gender: Male Total Likes: 9 likes
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| | | | Instant Oil Changes < on 4/8/2009 2:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This is just a stupid rant, but I now hate instant oil change places. (not like I liked them previously either) I was about 500 miles past-due for an oil change on my car. I used to change it myself, but now in the 'burbs things are different. Fail 1: I go to a Valvoline Instant Oil Change. They inform me that they don't have my filter and can't do my oil change but my filter will be in tomorrow. They were really apologetic. They actually seemed shocked that I refused a top off of windshield wiper fluid and air in the tires (since it comes free with a oil change anyway). Fail 2: So I decide to drive over to the Midas right next store. They're closed on Sunday. Fail 3: On Monday I decided to to back to the Valvoline since it's the close to my house and they should have my filter. To save them and me time, I tell them right off the bat check if my filter is in stock since it wasn't yesterday. Nope, the need to pull up my record, enter in millage, scan bar codes, open up the hood, check the current oil level, etc. They come back to me and say they don't have the filter like it's a big surprise. I think to myself "no shit". Thankfully they didn't drain the oil first. Supposedly they'll have my filter in 'tomorrow' again. Fail 4: So Tuesday after work I'll try a difference town near my job. I go to a Jiffy Lube that I've also used before and don't mind too much. I pull in, and the place looks closed, but there is a single car in the lot. I drive around back to enter the garage and wait....no one. The place was totally closed. Don't know if they shutdown or relocated or what. Not even a sign or anything. Fail 5: (Partial fail) So now I go to a Delta Sonic and I'm in somewhat of a hurry since I have plans later that evening. They have two oil change bays each with cars currently being worked on. Once car is almost done and good to go, the other looks to be in the middle of service though. They direct me behind the car which is not done. 30 seconds later the car in the other bay drives a way and a new customer pulls in and they direct them to the open spot. I just got passed over by a SUV douchebag. When it's my turn, I explain that I just need a basic oil change. The manager guy asks me to put on my 4-way flashers, I comply. Then stop on my breaks, I comply. Now high beams, and whoa I'm like WTF?. If you didn't already know I'm sort of a privacy nut and also when I say "I just want a basic oil and filter change", it means exactly that. So I ask, "can I ask what all this is for?" He replies something about just checking to make sure all my lights work. Good enough, but I tell him I'm just here for the change. Now I have to fill out paper work with personal information. He's lucky I gave him my address even, I left things like phone number and email address blank. He explains that he needs that info. I explain that I'm just here to pay cash for a basic oil change. Luckily for him he didn't debate that one more. They see that my inspection is past due and ask if I'd like an inspection today. NO thank you, I just want an oil change keeping my composure. They check my air filter and of course they think I need a new one. "NO, I just want an oil change". This time the guy get the fucking death look while I say it. Finally they left me alone and changed the damn oil.
OMFG. How hard does it have to be just to get a no-hassle oil change these days? I need to find some local shop that isn't retarded.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Instant Oil Changes < Reply # 7 on 4/8/2009 7:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Samurai the automotive safety elephant sez: NEVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE YOUR CAR TO ONE OF THESE PLACES. EVER. My cobalt is kind of a pain in the ass to do an oil change on because it sits really low to the ground and the supercharger is right over the oil filter housing. I take it to my GM dealer and have my own oil and filter, they charge me $10 and I am in and out. I stand right there and watch the tech do the change. The car never leaves me sight. I hate changing oil, period, so even my Monte Carlo goes to the dealer. There's a garage right here in town that charges me $8 to use the lift and change my own oil (its because my brother worked for the guy for almost 12 years and i worked off and on for him as well). Nine times out of ten, i still take both cars to the dealer. Those isn't change places are a sham and most of the people (there are always exceptions, and I hate making blanket comments) that work at these places are fucking morons. They use shitty, cheap oil (valvoline excepted... i use valvoline in most of my cars.) and get all pissy when you have your own filter and oil. i remember a Dateline NBC or something like that, that investigated a number of Jiffy Lubes, Midas, etc... half the time they weren't doing the work and charging for it.
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Instant Oil Changes < Reply # 10 on 4/8/2009 10:44 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by sYnOnYx I used to do my own oil changes, but its a pain in the ass , not to mention a mess disposing of the oil. I take my 2008 car to the dealership, Ive heard hyundai is anal about honoring warranties unless your car gets all of the services done there. $30 and a 45min wait gets me the oil change, and a car wash and my interior cleaned. I thought you were going to say you had a BMW or some other car thats hard to oil filters for(My old roommate managed a jiffy lube)
Damn I havent wrenched on a car in about a year, Its starting to make me feel like less of a car guy.
| Hyundai is anal about that. We had one for a little over two years until my stepdad smashed a deer with it. Well, considering how badly the car was damaged, more like the deer destroyed the car. Insurance company decided that they could fix it. It never was right afterwards, but they wouldn't total it, which they should have. We have someone that's a close friend of my family that does all our work, they had a fit when we told the dealership we got the vehicle from that we weren't going to drive 70 miles to Burlington, VT. to their dealership to get a stupid oil change. I trust the guy we always call more than I'd trust a dealership. With the way things are, I'll probably never buy a new car anyway. Shael
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Instant Oil Changes < Reply # 13 on 5/2/2009 2:00 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by junkyard $10 for an oil change?? I can't even but the oil and filter for that. But yeah you get what you pay for. And since there never was and possibly never will be any money in oil changes, I see a problem with the quickie lubes. And yes they can sevice the transmission without dropping the pan. They run 12-14 qts of fluid through the cooler lines with a flush machine. Although I do recomend changeing the filter at LEAST every other time. And some vehicles don't even have a transmission filter, yes on an automatic. Kia is good for that. The service manual says if the fluid is contaminated severely to replace the transmission. NO SHIT, I had to tripple check that one.
| As much as I hated to admit this, GM for a number of years didn't even have a dipstick on their automatics. You had to have the car serviced at a dealer at the 100,000 mile mark. I was going to have the transmission serviced in my 99 Monte Carlo (4T60E 4-speed), but I have talked with a couple of old school GM guys who say that if the thing is shifting ok, leave it alone. Who to believe? As for Kia and Hyundai, their warranties are a joke... You know how they tout their 100,000 mile powertrain warranties? Read the fine print when it comes to the automatic... if you live in a mountainous area (like where I live), the warranty is only 30,000 miles. A friend of mine went round and round the warranty bush with his 07 Tiburon GT V6. I've never heard of someone being so fucked around on a warranty... even horror stories about shitty GM/Ford dealers!
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