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Old 04-01-2007, 05:27 AM
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That story was on 60 Minutes or one of the shows like it a few years ago.
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James,

You are correct this story was aired on 60 Minutes among other news headlines a few years ago....however this is yet another new story.

I personally worked for this corrupt company...as a District Manager. The upper management was merciful...I could go on for hours. They would do anything to turn a profit...this has to be the fifth or sixth television investigation that I am aware of on Jiffy Lube and or Quick Lubes.

I recognized the District Manager attempting to lie to the reporter....boy was he in hot shoes. I bet he was on the phone with the Regional Manager. I dreaded having to attend the quarterly meetings in Omaha...where you would have to show your entire quarterly P and L statement to the Shareholders, Regional Managers and District Managers. If your numbers happened to be down over prior year you were mercifully scrutonized by the Shareholders in front of your peers....and this meant that your replacement was being flown into your town shortly.

If you or anyone you may happen to know frequents a local Jiffy Lube....I strongly advise you to show them this footage. Perhaps you or they may be there next victim.

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Old 04-01-2007, 05:14 PM
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who here even goes to jiffy lube anyway?? That place is for non motorheads.. we all change our own oil.. no?
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Old 04-01-2007, 06:10 PM
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------Hey Dan,,,Its merciless (destitute of mercy), not merciful (full of mercy), but we all definetly got the point. I too have suffered at the mits of oil change guys as they screwed up a 200R trans for me that wasnt right again for another two rebuilds. still dont know how they managed that........Bill S
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Old 04-01-2007, 07:58 PM
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Bill,

Thanks I always get those two mixed up.

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That place is for non motorheads.. we all change our own oil.. no?

[/ QUOTE ] Please tell me then how you drain and flush ALL the trans fluid in your vehicle.
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Old 04-01-2007, 09:56 PM
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I hate to change oil in my daily driver... to me it is not worth getting dirty for the $25 they charge... then having to get rid of the old oil... I will put a timing belt or water pump or other $$$ ticket item... but an oil change.... give me a break... I much rather do something more rewarding than to change oil...
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Old 04-01-2007, 10:00 PM
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There are also several oil change facilitys here that charge 9.99 to 14.99 for an oil change on special ....go buy 5 QTs of oil and a filter, get dirty, and then find a place to dump the old oil???? i dont even think you can buy the oil and filter for what those places charge.
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Old 04-01-2007, 10:27 PM
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All this lack of pride in your work crap is all over--Years ago I took a buick of mine to the dealer for a 12,000mi check up--When I go to pick up the car I go over the maintenance work done with the service manage and part of the scheduled maintenance was to rotate the tires. I had to laugh when I saw that they had written all tires rotated and told the service manager his mechanics could proably fix any problem ---------All the tires had wheel locks...........True Story-------------Never went back.
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