Ooh there’s a surprise Jiffy Lube, the company that’s never seen an air filter that didn’t need to be replaced, ripping people off.
The bread and butter of these quick oil change places is getting you to let them do unnecessary work, which they probably never did half the time anyway. Never ever take your car to any of them, develop a relationship with a real mechanic, their list prices are higher but in the long run they’ll cost you less.
I have used them and found them to ok. They never pushed a air filter on me and they honored a coupon that expired a month ago.
You find cheats everywhere....
As far as pricing - a lot of real mechanics will do a lube/oil/filter for 15 to 20 bucks. The jiffy lube places charge extra for 30 pt. inspection stuff like checking fluids, tire pressure - ALL things that any man or woman could do themselves. They make it seem like you’re getting some great amount of work done. Mostly they’re adding some air to your tires and washer fluid for an extra 20$. Doing it yourself is more fun anyway.
I’ve had reasonably good luck w/ Jiffy Lube
Oh, I take my vehicles to them all the time. Oh course since they are supposed to be "quick" I don't just drop them off. And I don't hang out in their waiting room. I usually stand around watching them.
Funny though, they never ask to clean my K&N air filter.
I used to have a neighborhood mechanic I went to that I could trust (grew up with the guy). Chief mechanic at an independent Shell station 5 minutes from my house. Their repair business was always hopping, everyone in the area knew them and took their cars there for the minor stuff. It was really one of the only garages in the area.
Shell forced the independent out and it became a company store. They were going to take out the garage bays and turn the space into a convenience store. Now it should be noted that at that intersection, there was a Speedway, and a Village Pantry. There was a grocery store and a CVS. But only the one mechanical garage.
Shell's business dried up. (I stopped going there for any reason.) They started to rethink their brilliant decision to take out the bays (they hadn't yet made the transition) and after several months they were working on cars again.
But the damage was done, while they did get a few cars to work on now and then, probably from n00bs to the area who didn't know any better; all the old customers were gone, even for gas.
I think they're going to put in the convenience store again, but I will never patronize that place again. Or any Shell for that matter if I can help it.
Business' can be really stupid. Don't *iss (lie to, steal from etc.) off your customers!
They tried to sell me a new rad cap (the existing one was 4 months old), new coolant (also 4 months old), fluid changes in my tranny and differential (2 years old), and told me that I had the wrong fluid in my power steering pump. I laughed at the flunkie and told him that if the wrong fluid was in the PS pump, he had better get ahold of FORD and tell their engineers that he knows better than they!
When all was said and done, my $20. quickie oil change cost me 3/4 of an hour, $50, and the twit stripped out my oil drain plug’s threads, which cost me 2 hours one Sunday afternoon to repair.
I doubt that I’ll be using any of these lube places again. My time is more valuable than that.