Hands down WORST service experience in my life!
They messed up a simple oil change. I drove home, next morning go out to my car and there is at least 3 quarts of oil on my garage floor. Called the store, asked them to tow my car over b/c I didn't want to drive it with oil dumping out of it. They asked how far I live, (about 15 minutes). "nope we cannot do that." Late for work had to get friend to drive me to work. After work, got home at 7:30PM. Told them I am heading over now, but you close at 8:00. "can you stay open a little bit late to get this fixed?" "sure we can stay 15 minutes to help you out." Drive over with the smell of burning oil the whole way. Roads closed everywhere, pulled into parking lot literally at 8:05. Doors locked, not a single car in the parking lot. I left my car in front of a bay without the keys, because I did not want them to touch it until they called me, and I wanted to be there in person. I also left a not explaining the situation. Had to get a friend drive me home.
The manager calls me early in the morning, they open an hour after I was supposed to start work, so I am already late for work because I have no car. I explain situation, he tells me I am lying, "nobody would say they would stay open for an extra 15 minutes to help you. We are out the door the minute we close." I say "fine whatever, just come pick me up so I can watch you do the repairs." He says "you are wrong there is no oil leaking." I tell him to go look under the car... "OK ya there is a lot of oil leaking, but we can't come pick you up, my guys have better stuff to do." I get angry at this point, tell him "you guys messed this up, I had to drive over with oil dumping out the whole way (it is still visible all the way down the street out of my neighborhood)." He tells me "I don't care we are going to tow your car and you will pay for it if you don't get down here in the next hour." At this point I am really angry, I tell him if you "tow my car I am not paying for it, and I will contact the BBB immediately." So now I am forced to have my boss drive 30 minutes to my house to pick me up and bring me to shop, because he wants me to get to work.
Surprise surprse, the manager calls me 30 minutes later and says "oh we had some guys push your car into the shop, and we have got it figured out, come on down it is ready." My boss and I get down there, same manager comes to talk to me, no apology for messing up oil change, no 'sorry' for the hassle of getting rides everywhere and missing work. He then proceeds to tell me with the biggest grin on his face ever "you have a problem with your oil sender unit, its going to cost $180 to repair (or something like that.)" Further says "I can tell because if the sender unit fails it will cause a slow leak. I am looking at the car with him and say "slow leak?! the whole undercarriage of my car is covered in oil, and it is all over my driveway." I tell him I am going to get a second opinion, he tells me to give me the keys and he will get the car out of the shop. I am literally walked 50 feet to my boss' car and the manager yells out "oh hey we figured it out, there was a bad O-Ring on the oil filter we put in." We will get it fixed in a few minutes.
So not only did they mess up the oil change, couldn't stay open for 15 minutes late, couldn't pick me up in the morning, but he had the nerve to try and sell me something else that he knew was not needed!!
I then argued with the guy that I need some sort of compensation for this. I asked for a free future oil change, and some minor compensation to clean off all the oil in my garage and driveway. (Seemed pretty reasonable to me.) He then started getting very insulting, telling me "Well you should have just done this yourself and then you wouldn't be in this situation." We argue about this, he continues to tell me I know nothing about cars. I ask him "well you warranty your service I need some sort of compensation?" He literally said "we don't warranty our parts, call China they make that crap." --No lie 100% serious.
I asked him to tell me name of the manager, he says "I am the manager." So I ask what is the name of the owner, he says "I can't tell you that." Long story short we argue for a long time. I get my car back and it works fine. I call the BBB to get the name of the business owner. I called store back and asked for Owner by name, happened to get him on the phone. I explained him all that happened and he seemed apalled at the behavior of his manager, especially the line about "we don't warranty our parts, call China." He told me he would talk to the manager about this. Offered me a free oil change and a jug of cleaner that removes oil stains.
I was so furious over this I just never went back. I even had a groupon with a couple of oil changes and other services on there, I just threw it away. Not worth setting foot in this store. read more