Make sure you check at places such as BBB about your local Firestone, a number of Firestones are less than honest and will tell you your car needs repairs when it doesn't.
TnMountainMan
Ancient Member
posted: Oct. 10, 2009 @ 9:47p
As will lot's of places that do automobile maintainance and repairs. Just listen to their spill and politely tell 'em you're not interested. Then if they persist, stop being polite . . .
STAY AWAY !!! These guys are in business of selling tires and repair services - not oil replacement...
It's one thing when they just offer you unnecessary repairs... A few years back, after getting through a free offer of oil change, they found 5 nails in my friend's tires and conveniently offered to replace the tires (or pay $5 for each nail removal). Barely fought our cars off (arguing that with this amount of nails, we wouldn't ever get to shop in the first place ;o), and would never go for this again...
vile10 said: any oil change specific place would just try to ruin you, Jiffy Lube is probably the worst i've ever been, now it's either dealer or myself, that's it My Jiffy Lube always trying to sell me stuff I don't need too. I have the ability to say no luckily so I don't have to spend twice as much at the dealer.
cvetic53
New Member
posted: Oct. 17, 2009 @ 7:38p
I got a coupon for a free oil change on eBay, took it in to Firestone in Evansville In, they did the oil change, didn't ask any questions and didn't even ask for the $2.00 fee to discard my old oil.
cvetic53
New Member
posted: Oct. 17, 2009 @ 7:41p
I got a coupon for a free oil change on eBay, took it in to Firestone in Evansville In, they did the oil change, didn't ask any questions and didn't even ask for the $2.00 fee to discard my old oil.
cvetic53
New Member
posted: Oct. 17, 2009 @ 7:43p
I got a coupon from eBay for a free oil change @ Firestone. I used it in Evansville Indiana, they accepted it with no questions asked and did not even charge me for the $2 fee to discard my old oil.
The Firestone in Spartanburg, SC is pretty good too. They've never done any high-pressure tactics on me. Once they told me that my brakes were not far from needing to be replaced. I took the truck home and checked for myself and they were right. A few weeks later I took the truck back to them (with a coupon) and let them replace them.
cvetic53 said: I got a coupon for a free oil change on eBay, took it in to Firestone in Evansville In, they did the oil change, didn't ask any questions and didn't even ask for the $2.00 fee to discard my old oil.
Many years ago, when oil was cheap, the oil change places had to pay pennies/gallon to have somebody come and suck the oil out of their oil change tanks. Somebody comes in a truck that look like an oil deliver truck but instead they pump oil out of things. Then as the oil price went up these same people came and paid to pump the oil out of the tanks. My sense is that the oil change fee was put on like airlines now charge for bags, or phone companies have taxes and fees. Or how I have gone to a dealer and got charged the standard like $8 for miscellaneous lubricants. To make more money.
Since my father(mechanic) has been retired for quite some time, I do not know the latest deal though I would be curious.
Many years ago this junk oil was filtered and conditioned and burned as heating oil and I suspect that is pretty much the same case though it also can be refined. http://www.oilrecycling.gov.au/what-happens.html
In three states oil is a hazardous waste and needs more processing than other states.(CA,MA, RI) http://www.recycleoil.org/faqs/index.html
Sothis
Member
posted: Oct. 29, 2009 @ 1:22p
vile10 said: any oil change specific place would just try to ruin you, Jiffy Lube is probably the worst i've ever been, now it's either dealer or myself, that's it
Amen! I've got the third set (that's right -- both of 'em) of CV joints on my sedan in 58K miles after taking it to oil-change places. They just took a screwdriver to the boots, then showed me the damage and said "oh, we fix those."
I no longer enjoy getting under a car, but I've given up on service places and their "bargains." The dealership isn't any better, sad to say.
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