Every time I take my car to this fletchers for an oil change, they call me later that day and explain there's a $300-$500 fix that MUST be done or my car is essentially done for. They ALWAYS made me feel like my car was being held hostage and I had to pay for some expensive repair in order to get it back!
Cory the manager told me once that I had to replace my hoses because they were completely busted and needed to be replaced. He said it would cost me $500. He even showed me where there was a little bit of old dried radiator fluid(I'm guessing) on the side of one of the hoses. I have an uncle who is a mechanic so I took it to him for a second opinion. My uncle told me that one of the hose clamps was a little loose and it literally took 15 seconds for him to tighten the hose clamp and it fixed the problem. My uncle said my car hoses were in perfect shape. Fletcher SCAM! Either that or Fletcher mechanics are completely incompetent.
Later, I took my car in to get an oil change and JR called me and said that my oil pan threads had been stripped out and that it would be $475 to replace the oil pan. I only take my car to Fletchers for oil changes so I tried to fight them on it and they said it was not their responsibility, but that they'd replace the oil pan for $475. My uncle said he could do it for $150(he wouldn't charge me for labor). I told JR to put the new oil into the car and to plug up the oil pan with an oversized plug and I'd pick it up and take it to my uncles. JR said that his manager (CORY) was not comfortable with that and that they(fletcher's) could either replace the oil pan or I would have to have my car towed away. I had AAA come tow my car away and when the AAA guy lifted my car onto his flatbed tow truck, oil from my car spilled everywhere onto his truck bed because Fletchers hadn't emptied out all the old oil, nor plugged it up with anything. Luckily the AAA guy was a good sport about it and was super helpful.
Another time I took my wife's car in for an oil change and Cory said they wouldn't rotate the tires because the tires were too worn. After going in and seeing the tires myself, I admit to seeing a little wear, but not to the extent Cory had exaggerated. He then tried to sell me four new tires and an alignment which would run me around $700.
I could go on. The reason I kept taking my car to Fletchers for oil changes is because I have a prepaid oil change card I bought so my oil changes are "free" (already paid for). Cory the manager even told me once that I can just bring my car in for free oil changes once all my oil changes are used up. I used to think he was just being a nice guy, but now I know that they will do anything to get people to bring their cars in so they(Fletchers) can tinker and mess around with your engine and find out how they can charge you for a repair that doesn't need to be done.
Don't take your car here! I promise your car will leave Fletchers worse off because of all the messing around they do to your engine. I swear, every time Cory or one of the other scammers call me and tell me I need to make an expensive repair to my car and I tell them NO, I leave Fletchers with my car sounding and feeling weird and just off as opposed to when I bring it in.
If you're not an expert on cars (which I'm not) or have a trustworthy uncle who will fix your car for you (like I do), Fletchers will easily SCAM money from you for repairs you probably do not need. Get someone else to change your oil or learn how to change it yourself like I do now.
Lastly, after the oil pan fiasco I was talking to a buddy of mine who is a huge car guy and an excellent mechanic. I told him about all the problems I had had at Fletchers on Tatum and Cactus and my buddy told me that he had heard from several other people that the Fletchers on tatum and Cactus were SCAMMERS and to NEVER take my car there again. It's sad because I bet not all Fletcher's are like this but I've had such a bad experience with Fletchers on Cactus and Tatum that I will never go back to any Fletchers. Goodbye forever Fletcher's. read more