My girlfriend bought a car from here several years ago and was given free oil changes and tire rotations for life. She has only taken her car to this particular shop to get any work done. Fast forward to now, where she is dating a car girl who notices EVERYTHING and I am incredibly frustrated with this service department. I went to replace her brake pads and rotors last week, and this is where I have noticed the complete disregard of the service department's work. First, every single wheel well had deep scratches on the rims due to negligence when taking the lug nuts out. Secondly, I was unable to loosen any of the lug nuts with a breaker bar. In fact, the lug nuts were over-torqued SO MUCH that my breaker bar attachment sheared in half.
While failing to be able to take the tire off, I noticed there was a nail in her tire so I decided to take it into the service department to see if it needed replaced, AND honestly to get them to correctly torque each wheel.
When the service department finished, I returned to the car to find the glove box open, and the locking lug key completely missing. I asked if they had it and they began looking in their shop, but I ended up finding it STILL on the rim! THANK GOD I noticed this because it easily could have created more damage to the already scratched wheels, it could have flown off and caused damage to someone else's' vehicle, AND if that key was lost, I would have incurred hundreds of dollars having to buy a whole new locking set and to get the prior locks removed. Thank god I found it.
Now while I was still there, I asked the tech that worked on my car what they torqued the lugs to and he stated "100ft lb/TQ" and I thought sweet, that's exactly what my personal car is and I know that I will be able to take them off.
Well today I tried to loosen the lugs again, and ONCE AGAIN they were WAAAY OVERLY torqued that I snapped ANOTHER adaptor on my breaker bar and no amount of jumping on the spare tire lug wrench will even loosen these lugs. 100ft lb or torque?? -YEA FREAKIN RIGHT.
I am so irritated at the lack of attention to detail this shop has, I am frustrated that there seems to be no one to look over the work that their techs do, and I am frustrated that there is zero regard to trying to be careful to not scratch rims with lug nuts.
I am so mad because these aren't things that my girlfriend (who doesn't know much about cars/car work) would even know to look for. It makes me wonder how many other people they try to slide shotty work by and hope they can just not be noticed.
I will never be letting my girlfriend take her car here ever again for ANY services! If I can't trust them to do the simplest things correctly, then I will gladly pay for and do my own oil changes and tire rotations so that they don't have a chance to ruin her vehicle any further. read more