Im so pissed at the dealership ok here's the story I had nissan do a oil change so they do it and a day goes by and I drive home a day goes by and I'm happy and joyful as always I leave this morning and I notice a huge oil spot in my drive way so I'm scared its my crank seal, I jack up the car and notice my oil drain plug is HALFWAY screwed in at that point all call nissan with a bad attitude,I was gonna screw it in but I said forget that,that's why I pay them so and yea I'm here in the waiting room eating there stale popcorn and grity coffee sorry just needed to vent sorry

 

i'm sorry to hear about your misfortune.

i've had a similar bad experience with oil changes at my nissan dealership.

1) tech drives into the install bay and bangs the door against the lift when getting out.

2) unbolts maybe 5 bolts and then proceeds to just bend the plastic to get the filter off (this is all while i'm watching behind the glass)

3) Didn't see the note on the invoice to use customer oil and proceeds to use the dealership conventional oil and fills it up.

 

There is absolutely no need to take the car to the dealership, especially for something simple like an oil change. The only time a Z (or any other car, for that matter) should be getting serviced at a dealership is for warranty work. Otherwise, it should be either DIY (preferable) or a reputable independent shop.

Just my

 

true. but icy, slushy, snowy weather + no garage = one miserable oil change.

 

Man I feel sorry for you...

 

Im fine now The reason I don't do it cuz I'm lazy,not a really valid reason but it cost me 20 bucks to get oil change at the dealer cuz I know the guy that works there and he gets me a discount but I'm over doin my own changes Bren doin it to long I need a break hahaha

 

u get what u pay for

 

That sucks man! What if you were leaving on a road trip right after that or something and seriously messed your motor up! Damn...

 

Thanks for the encouraging words,they touched me dearly hahaha

 

sorry to hear that bro. Would you kindly tell us which dealership it was? I never take my car to the dealership for anything...

 

You need to speak to Tom the owner of the "My Dealership". I know the G.M. there too. If you ever have anything done at the My Nissan Dealership, only let Dan, take care of your car. No one else. He used to do all of my work for me.

Sorry for the mishap I expect that from Jiffy Lube, Oh, that's right they only pretend to do an oil changes if you know what I mean.

 

Those fools will just empty out your oil and not put nothin' back in and let customers drive away. The manager of the Newark Jiffy Lube told me this as they were changing my oil. Why that fool was tellin me this I don't know, but my car's (my 240sx back then) oil was already drained and I was kinda held hostage to this tall tales which I believed to be the absolute truth.

It was all true cuz the tech that was changing my MANUAL transmission oil was going back n forth all over my car goin, "YOYOYO where's da dipstick where's da dipstick..." i was thinkin' just look da mirror & you'll find yourself a dipstick. And then as he was looking for my "dipstick", he steps on the guy's head below to get across to the other side of my car.

You see... the car gets driven across the work area and there's a "pit" below where the tech changes your oil and there was a guy below there & his head is stickin' out. The "dipstick" guy steps on his head to walk across. The guy who got stepped on complains loudly to the manager who was telling me these stories and all the manager does is roll his eyes.

Then, this ghetto-*** fool with dreads comes around smoking a cigar talking to the dipstick-guy and they just kinda chill for a bit with the stereo from another customer's car cranked up.

Then after chillin a bit, the dipstick-guy comes in and asks me "Yo wanna oil change aight?" I was like WTF? i said,"The MANUAL transmission fluid right?" Dipstick-guy, "yeah, GL-Fi!" ???????? That was hardly reassuring cuz I was thinking a number of possible scenarios..... drain engine oil and add tranny fluid to engine..... drain tranny fluid and add tranny fluid to engine.... drain manual oil and replace with automatic fluid...... drain tranny and engine cuz he decide which bolt it is and fill up just one...... anything is possible with the level of stupidity I witnessed.

When I got my car, I told the manager how did I know if the guy actually filled my tranny with new fluid. Afterall, he was the one whoi told me about the horror stories. So he tells the dipstik-guy to come in and the dipstik guy holds up a bottle of tranny fluid and says he put da GL-Fi in.... whatever.... I just took the car and checked the oil myself..... thought I'd save a bit of time.... pennywise pound foolish.... my bad. I'm pretty siure they were the ones who torqued my tranny drain bolt down and it froze in place.

This is the Jiffy Lube on Jarvis Ave.next to Raleys in Newark and it's a 100% true story. I'm not sure they call it Jiffy lube anymore. Don't go to Jiffy Lube or any Lube specialist place for that matter cuz the only lubing you'll get is in your *** with a dipstik shoved in.

 

that was just way too much dipstick for me to read.

 

wow that was like a autobiograpy or something yea their idiots everywhere most at kragen to I remember I was changing my brakes on my 240 and I went there and bought pads and 4 rotors,I go home jack up my car take the rims off and I change the fronts no problem but then I come to the rear and relized they sold me 4 FRONT rotors,but yea idiotism is spreading

 

I expect stories like that from 3min oil service places. Got my own, hard lesson learned, but from a dealer? I'd expect more.
Everyone has bad days, but damn...it could've been much worse for you, like a seized VQ from no oil.
Tell dealer you want a bottle of degreaser for your driveway at the very least. Tech could come over and clean it too which would be nice for his fail.

As the old saying goes...it you want it done right, gotta do it yourself.

 

I had this happen to me @ a Mazda dealership once.....People just need to pay attention to detail and slow down...Later I got a free K&N filter element for my troubles.

 

who is it you know at the dealership? was that the person working on your car?

 

Which dealer ship did you go to? If you dont mind.

That's the reason why I never took my car to dealers for oil change. There could be alot of things happened to your car while you werent there physically.

I would rather get dirty myself working underneath the car. The pain gets paid off if you know that your car is well taken care of.

One of the technicians in Firestone scratched my rims last time and It was a quite hassle for me to ask their responsibility for the damage. Luckily, they are willing to pay for
the damage.

 

I never let dealer do my oil change...I only buy the oil filter from them...Do it my self....simple...F... the stealler I mean the dealer...

 

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