Cliff notes: Jiffy lube is awful, they broke the heater core looking for the cabin air filter that they were told not to service, and we didn't get the car back for 18 days.
This was the worst retail/service experience I have EVER been a part of. My fiancé took her car to the East Longmeadow jiffy lube for an oil change. She informed the woman behind the counter that she only wanted an oil change, nothing more. When she was asked if she wanted her engine air filter replaced, she said "No." When she was asked if she wanted her cabin air filter replaced, she also said "No."
She was then called into the garage by the technician Tim that was doing the oil change. He told her that while he was checking the cabin air filter, he broke her heater core, and now her car was leaking coolant inside of the interior. This is when she called me. I drove over to the shop at 4:30PM, and talked to Tim, I asked to talk to the manager, and that's when Tim tells me that he is the manager...
I asked him why he was inside of the car looking at the cabin filter when my fiancé told them she did not want the cabin filter service, he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and said the woman at the desk told him to do it. I also asked him how he cracked the heater core, he shrugged his shoulders and mumbled an answer that I couldn't hear/understand. At this point we went into the lobby, and I am plenty angry with how we are being treated. He tells us we can have a rental car, but we will have to go to west Springfield to pick it up. It is 5PM by this point and I inform him that we have to be at Sais school by 6PM, and ask if he can get a rental somewhere in springfield. He shrugs his shoulders again and says that's the only rental I can get you. I then inform him that we do not have time to go to west springfield and be to Sabis by 6PM and we CAN NOT BE LATE. I then explained that my cousin had been killed in a car accident on the night before thanksgiving, and that the Sabis basketball and cheerleading teams were doing a tribute to my cousin. I received another shrug of the shoulders and was told that's how it is going to be. Just so you know, we were a half hour late to the Sabis game.
The car was sent to a repair shop in west springfield. That shop decided that the job was too large, and they didn't have time to do it, so they sent the car to Mazda. 18 days after Tim the manager damaged the heater core we got the car back. I asked Mazda about detailing the car so it didn't smell like anti freeze, they told me that they didn't think jiffy lube would pay for that and they vacuumed the coolant that was spilled. Well on the drive home, the coolant smell was so bad that we both had a headache and felt nauseous from a 30 minute drive, and had to drive with the windows partially down on a 25 degree day. When I called Tim to tell him about the problem and that we would need it to be detailed he didn't even know that the car had been sent to Mazda to be repaired. He called the small shop in west springfield and called me back to tell me that they did not do detailing. This is when I informed him that the car went to Mazda to be repaired. I then told him that we needed the car to be cleaned properly at Balise Mazda, he gave me the run around about it until he realized that no wasn't an acceptable answer. Mazda did detail the car, the smell is no longer nauseating, but the carpet on the passenger side still smells like coolant.
Tim not even knowing where the car was repaired just sums up Jiffy Lube's lack of caring, compassion, and empathy for the customer. Tim did not once check on the status of my fiancé's car, not one person called myself or her(they had both of our numbers) after the car was taken into the repair shop. I had to make all of these calls myself. read more