how much oil????

She sounds like one that would actually fall for the blinker fluid, headlight fluid, wiper belts, load bars for the flatbed, load straps for tankers, jake brake shoes, and elbow grease!

 

I worked in an automotive shop and had a guy come in who wanted some free work done. One of the mechanics in the shop went upto the guy and whispered in his ear and said:

"I'll let you in on a secret. This whole thing about bringing your car to a mechanic is really just one big money grab. All you gotta do is go out into the store and buy a bottle of 'mechanic in a can'. Just pour it into your engine and everything will be solved."

You should've seen the look on this guys face! He was smiling and so happy to hear about it.....like we tipped him in on some world wide conspiracy!

Later that day, one of the guys from the store came back and laughed that some guy came upto him saying he had looked everywhere for some mechanic in a can and was wondering if we were sold out. HAHA.

I like muffler bearings, and metric pipe wrenches too. The 710 cap on the valve cover is a funny one too ("OIL" turned upside down).

 

One of my first jobs was at a Jiffy Lube. I got yelled at because I told an old lady that her car did NOT need a new air filter. I said "but it's fine, looks like it was put in yesterday". Boss said "Whenever somebody's air filter is clean, we grab a dirty one from that box over there, find one that looks like the one in the car and show it to the customer and tell them they need a new air filter".

I was only 17 but I knew how to use a tape recorder and call the local newspaper! That place ended up shut down. No legal action was taken but the story hit the local paper and nobody went there, so it closed.

 

I am glad you did something about it! Your a good man

Those kinds of places really piss me off. I have spent a lot of time delivering tires and auto parts and cringe at some of the crap I see.

 

when i moved into an apartment i had to quit changing my own oil.......the first time i ever went to a jiffy lube i marked my oil filter with a sharpie.....got my truck back, black mark still on the oil filter and raised hell

they went back and changed the filter and offered me 3 free oil changes.....i said they would never be going near my truck again

 

I have a friend, back when we were teenagers he worked at a different Jiffy Lube. He used to tell me stories about how they would tell old women that their car needed a new "johnson rod" or a "ka-nooter valve" and would charge them for the "replacement" and pocket the cash.

Another time I had just started a road trip in my Ford Ranger to head back out to Iowa to my company's yard after a vacation. It was a 600 mile trip and I was around LaSalle, IL and remembered I'd forgotten to change the oil in that thing and it was way overdue, and it had only been about 1000 miles or so since that engine was rebuilt. I pulled into a Jiffy Lube in LaSalle or Ottawa, IL, somewhere around there. The teenage boy tried to tell me that the whole inside of my recently rebuilt engine was covered with black sludge and they wanted to charge me $40 to have them put some kind of chemical in the oil, run the engine for 10 minutes before they drained it, and that would clean my engine. I told him no, said it was just rebuilt and had only been run about 1000 miles, and it only needed changed to get the metal shavings out. Apparently he didn't notice the fact the engine was spotlessly clean, while the trans was filthy and greasy. I ended up going down into the pit and watching to make sure they ACTUALLY changed the oil and filter. I do my own oil changes now.

 

thats bs......taking advantage of people like that

 

If a shop wont let me watch them work on my car, I take it someplace else. The biggest problem I have is them putting too much oil in. My Civic only takes 3.5 quarts and have had a few times when it got drastically over filled.

 

LOL, you drive a.. LOL... a .. ha ha .... HONDA CIVIC??

It says you're from the SF Bay area, oh that explains it!

Is it a hybrid too?

What about the ground effects and spoiler? Does it have that too?? Does it sound like a weed eater?

Sorry, .. I'm only picking on you because I drank WAYYY too much coffee this AM and I'm about to go outside and start running around doing my hummingbird impersonation.