Wow, will not be coming back here. I've been to this location a handful of times and haven't had any issue or noteworthy things to write about. I just go for oil changes. But this time definitely hit different.
When I pulled up, waited a good five minutes for someone to actually come up and acknowledge my car - only one other car there at the time (the other was leaving). Saw some employees just sitting down in the bays, but none of them came over to ask how they could help. Finally, a guy comes over and flatly introduces himself. I let him know I just want an oil change, no frills. They always try to upsell me on extra crap at this location, probably because they assume I'm a young woman who knows nothing about cars, but that's not the case anymore! This time they didn't offer me anything extra, maybe because I came in all business. Or they just don't care now. The guy tells me to just wait there and starts to walk away. I'm like, "umm, well how long is the wait?" He says 20 minutes. Okay...I mean, I'm the only other car here and there's like seven employees here right now but...okay.
He proceeds to ask me to wait in the lobby. Last time I came in March, I was able to pull right into the bay and watch while they changed the oil. That has also been my experience at other similar businesses like Oil Changers. His response was that they only did that during the pandemic and that they "now advise" customers to not be in their car during service. Suspect. First of all, the pandemic is still happening, so that's a weird excuse. And even pre-pandemic, I've been able to stay in my car. He didn't offer further explanation. So, they would rather advise you to wait in their dingy lobby that smells like literal toxic chemicals while you look at grapes and other grossness on the floor, and watch freaking Duck Dynasty on the dinky little TV? Interesting.
Now for the actual work on my car. Dude couldn't even start my car. I watched from the lobby window as he sat in my car, and then called another employee over, who had an equally perplexed look on their face. Look - as a disclaimer, I know my car is old and has high mileage (just need it to hang on a little longer!). It has had a lot of badness in the recent past. I asked the guy if there was an issue and both the employees said my car wouldn't start. Uhh, that's funny, because I just replaced the starter and the key two weeks ago. And I don't have any problems getting my car to start. I told the guy to just put some gusto into it and there you go. Car starts as it always does.
All in all took 40 minutes to get an oil change when I was first in line. During the duration of my visit, several other people showed up and waited. I couldn't really see my car while it was being serviced and I didn't like that at all. I saw all of the employees buzzing around, coming in and out of the lobby, but for some reason it took so long to change the oil. It should really only take 5 or 10 minutes once your car pulls into the bay!
Worst yet is that these people wrote on the service list that they cleaned the windows and vacuumed the floors. I saw the guy cleaning the windows, and guess what? He left dirty ass streaks all over EACH WINDOW! Unbelievable. I had to use my own wiper fluid on the windshield after this "service" and my back window has dirt all the down the middle where he didn't actually wipe anything. I don't believe they vacuumed the floors as they claimed because there were still just as many debris and leaves all over my floors when I got it back. So now I'm doubting whether they even performed any of the other services under the hood, because I couldn't get a good look while this was happening.
So to recap - cold customer service, shady new business practices, and minimal effort put into the actual work. I will never come here ever again. Hopefully my car doesn't leak oil and blow up. read more