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OIL CHANGE INSTRUCTIONS FOR WOMEN:

1) Pull into Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000-miles since the last oil change.
2) Drink a hot cup of coffee and relax.
3) 20-minutes later, write a check and leave with a well-maintained vehicle.
MONEY SPENT:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
TOTAL: $21.00

OIL CHANGE INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEN:
1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree; write check for $50.
2) Go by Qwik-Stop and buy a case of beer; write a check for $20.00, drive home.
3) Drink a beer to "get started."
4) Jack car up. Spend 30-minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6) In frustration, have another beer.
7) Place drain pan under engine.
8) Look for 9/16" box-end wrench.
9) Give up and use crescent-wrench instead.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Accidentally drop drain plug into pan of hot oil, splashing hot oil on you in process.
12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on oil drops.
13) Another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Spend 30-minutes looking for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off.
16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing hot oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among debris in trashcan to avoid environmental fee. Beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener.
18) Sunday: Skip church because, "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in backyard instead of taking it to be recycled, and avoid environmental fee.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer? No, drank it all Saturday.
21) Walk to Qwik-Stop, buy more beer.
22) Install new oil filter, making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Suddenly remember drain plug from step 11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Recall that the used oil is buried in a hole in the backyard -- along with drain plug.
27) Beer.
28) Shovel out hole and sift through oily mud for drain plug. Shovel oily dirt back into hole. Steal sand from kid's sandbox to cleverly conceal oily patch of ground and avoid environmental fee. Wash drain plug in lawnmower gas.
29) Discover first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor. Throw kitty litter on oil.
30) Beer.
31) Crawl back under car, get kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with oily gas rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug rapping knuckles on sharp edge of frame.
32) Bang forehead on exhaust manifold in reaction to step 31.
33) Cussing fit.
34) Throw stupid crescent wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10-minutes.
36) Beer.
37) Clean up hands and head, and apply bandages to stop blood flow.
38) Beer to stop pain....
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush remaining case of new motor oil.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil from steps 23-43.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Pulled-over and arrested for DUI.
48) Car towed and impounded
49) Call loving wife; make bail.
50) 12-hours later; bail out car.
MONEY SPENT :
Parts $50.00
DUI $2,500.00
Towing Fee $175.00
Impound Fee $75.00
Bail $1,500.00
Beer $40.00
TOTAL: $4,340.00

BUT, YOU KNOW THE JOB WAS DONE RIGHT ! ! !

can't take credit for this- found on another forum:rlaugh:
 
StangVert00 said:
I wil NEVER take ANY of my cars to a Jiffy Lube! :nonono:
I have heard too many horror stories!! :nono: And a very good one from my own Father!

I agree with this 100%. I worked there and there is a lot of stuff that went on in the pit and behind the customers backs I was shocked. That is why I ended up quitting I just couldn't handle it anymore. I would do the job properly and my manager would freak because it took more time. I tried reporting what was going on to corporate and they didn't do ****.
 
Jiffy Lube and other similar places.

Stripped oil filter threads.

Forgot to tighten rear end fill plug.

Forgot to tighten tranny cooler lines to radiator.

Over filled oil by one quart. Nice smoke trail.

Forgot to put brake MC reservoir cap back on.

Parked car on downhill grade without using e-brake, resulting in loud thud when putting car in gear.

Telling me my air filter was clean?????????
 
69Rcode_Mach1 said:
I agree with this 100%. I worked there and there is a lot of stuff that went on in the pit and behind the customers backs I was shocked. That is why I ended up quitting I just couldn't handle it anymore. I would do the job properly and my manager would freak because it took more time. I tried reporting what was going on to corporate and they didn't do ****.

Yeah, I remember hearing a story about a car that went into a Jiffy Lube and the tech said that he needed his radiator flushed. It seems that the tech used too much pressure to do it so that Jiffy Lube wound up giving this guy a new engine for his car. :rolleyes: :shrug:
 
I had an "interesting" experience at a Castrol GTX quick change oil place recently. I took my daily driver 4Runner in for an oil change. I know I shouldn't use these places, but I live in an apartment in the city and don't have a proper place to work on anything. That's why my car is 2.5 hours away. Also, changing the oil on this Japanese POS is on a difficulty scale with brain surgery!! :Damnit: You can't get to the damn oil filter without tiny Japanese hands!! But, I digress.
I knew it had a slow oil leak, but I had slacked and not checked it as often as I should have. :notnice: Normally the leak was no more than a quart at oil change time, though. I should also mention up front that this place changed the oil the previous time it was changed. Well, they start working on it and tell me it's bone dry!! :nonono: Next, they tell me the drain plug is stripped out and leaking, and they can't change the oil. They also inform me that the transmission pan is leaking and the whole bottomside is covered in fluids. Finally, they tell me all they can do is add some oil until I have it fixed. I pay them for what they did and get my free carwash. Needless to say, I was pretty damn bummed. :(
A couple of days go by while I am constantly monitoring oil levels and adding oil like crazy. Then, my son notices that the fuel door on the passenger side is missing on top of everything else!! :mad: I look at the carnage of the filler door, and it's obvious it was ripped off. After pondering how in the hades that could have happened for a while, :shrug: it hit me that the guys at the oil change place accidentally pulled the lever to open the fuel door, which was subsequently torn off in the "free" carwash. :bs: I had accidentally opened it trying to pop the hood when I first bought the vehicle, so I know that's what happened. Great huh?? Hold on, it gets better.
The next weekend, I go to my parents house 2.5 hours away, adding oil along the way of course, in order to have a place to work and tools so I can see how fubared my vehicle is. To cut this long-winded story down, guess what was the cause of all of these various problems they had diagnosed? First, the oil drain plug was not stripped; it was tightened with a damn impact to the point I had to put a breaker bar on the ratchet to remove it. crapola Luckily, the threads were fine. Second, the oil filter was not even close to hand-tight!! Oil was apparently blowing right by the gasket it was so loose. :bs: Third, the transmission pan was not leaking at all. The only freakin' leak was coming from an oil filter those dumbasses didn't even put on hand-tight!!!! crapola I'm lucky I didn't disintegrate my engine due to their incompetence.

Moral of this story? Never take a vehicle to these shops that specialize in a comedy of errors if you can help it. Another moral perhaps? If you drive a ***damn Toyota, just carry good insurance and run it off a cliff at oil change time and never look back. :Word: If you read all this :hail2:, and thanks a lot for listening to my diatribe. :SNSign:
 
I will tell you something...... my assistang manager was trying to sell **** to someguy that didn't need it. The assistant manager got pissed because he didn't make as high of commission on it. So he goes to the basement and unloads a whole tube of alumaseal into his oil filter. His 70 year old wife was driving his car on the freeway and the car siezed up. Destroyed the whole engine. Guy ended up going to court on a felony, I didn't find out what happened to him in the end but I hope the bastard got what he deserved. Can you really trust another human being, not to mention the people that usually work there are shifty.(manager was a recovered cocaine addict who was a complete *******, and believed in half assing everything to get the car out faster)
 
Man that's funny but even at only 23 I've got my oil changing to a fine art where I rarely let more than a drop of oil hit the driveway and can have it all done in half an hour, using the last change's bottle for the old oil.

I save my beer for relaxing after it's all over, don't have time during, it's all over too quickly. :D

Oh and don't tell me that oil should be changed as soon as it turns black because my family has never owned a car that the oil lasts more than a week before it's black again. My car however, a 31 year old classic, not a stang, not even really a desired classic, seems to still have a half black half clean look to it's oil after 3 weeks.