PART 2
(SEE PART I UNDER
REVIEWS FOR BIG-O
ON JUAN TABO IN
ALBUQUERQUE, NM)
It is never adviseable to take one's car to the Big-O store on Menaul, unless they feel like having greedy, stupid, under-educated service advisors/mechanics destroy the car! A few days after receiving the rude and threatening phone call from Mark/"Mr. Cigarettes and Whiskey" at the Juan Tabo store, I called the Menaul store to see if they could do the A/C job and use the estimate from the Menaul store since they evaluated my car. I spoke to a service advisor named Chris. He was very nice on the phone. He said he would honor the A/C estimate from Mr. Cigarettes and Whiskey's Juan Tabo store. Chris scheduled the appointment for me the next day, and said he would be there to help me. Guess what? Chris called in sick the next day. I had made up my mind years of guessing how to have the work done, and was resolute the work be done that day!!! Very bad idea. The new service advisor, Hunter, was not privy to the arrangement I had with Chris. Hunter was a total scheister. Hunter said they had to do their own inspection - would not allow the one from Mr. Cigarrettes and Whiskey's store on Juan Tabo. (**To do an A/C job correctly, the the Condensor, Dryer, Compressor, etc., vacuum and recharge must be done at the same time). Hunter refused to allow the A/C kit that Chris and I agreed Big-O would use for my car. Hunter would not allow the replacement of the Condensor and Dryer: obviously because he thought I would ask to have them replaced after the their work was done, and he was going to charge $870.00!!! Hunter wanted to discuss the check engine light. I told him all about the P-0420 Catalytic Converter code and testing since January to make sure it wasn't something else. Hunter ignored the stack of hard copies I had in my hand from O'Reilly's of check engine scans; stated a bold-faced lie that it was NEVER a check engine light for the Catalytic Converter; that the Check E gine Light was for an Oil Pressure Sensor. I hsd never heard of that part, and there was never a problem with anything like that brought to my attention. Hunter swore if I replace the Oil Pressure Sensor that the check engine light would extinguish itself. Hunter was very sneaky; there was no discussion about price; Hunter got my signature to start work on the A/C Compressor. I told Hunter several times I was only interested in doing the work on the A/C that day. When I showed interest and began asking questions, Hunter had already typed $758.00 on the signed work order on the computer, and said, "It will be $758.00" and walked away as though it was all signed and done - but it was not: excuse me, we ere gettimg ready to talk prices!!! Twenty minutes later I told Hunter "Forget the Oil Pressure Sensor job because I have never had a check engine light for an Oil Pressure Sensor, and just do the A/C, please." Hunter said, "NO. I will not stop that job." Hunter returned the car later in the day. I backed the car out of the parking space, put the car in forward and the check engine came on again!!! I told Hunter ASAP. He said come back in four days on Thursday, and I will refund your money. Hunter was not there Thursday or Friday. Saturday, he changed his tune and said he was only interested in doing work pertaining to the work he did to replace the Oil Pressure Sensor - I told him I didn't want him to do so many times. By doing that "job," Hunter created new problems with the car that were never there before - IN ADDITION TO CRACKING A FAIRLY NRW RADIATOR BECAUSE HUNTER DID NOT ADVISE REPLACING THE WATER PUMP, THERMOSTAT, GASKET, APPLICABLE HOSES BEFORE THE A/C JOB WAS DONE, AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RADIATOR AND TO THE CAR WHEN TRYING TO USE THE A/C THAT WASNT DONE RIGHT? I asked to use the A/C kit promised by Chris. Hunter made sure he was very parental amd said "NO," but wrote on the receiot an A/C kit was used. Did his mechanic replace every gasket and seal that was in the kit just as Chris had promised? The A/C job was not done right. I complained. The clowns at the Big-O store on Menaul made me sign a waiver that they are not responsible for what they did to foul up my car; and, will not warranty the parts, workmanship. Jerome, their Manager, doesn't seem to understand the difference between terrible, incompetent work done on Jerome's watch that Jerome should be accountable for as the store Manager, VERSES someone in Jerome's personal life that has nothing to do with crappy quality of services and abusive treatment given to customers breaking their cars under Jerome's watchful eye- JEROME!!!! read more