How long should one wait to go to Jiffy Lube with a new car of a new generation model?

Dealership lube techs are different? Entry level (to the workforce), minimum wage jobs here. No experience necessary.

Changing oil doesn’t require a chemist. It requires any warm body with at least one hand. That’s it.

Funny reading in the last few years people talk absolute shit on everybody who works for a living and has anything to do with cars, yet all of us are the bigger asshole because we’re car enthusiasts who get wrapped up in a product nobody else gives a hot shit about. I’d be curious what the haters do for work, chances are most “morons” at Jiffy Lube can be the same level of trained monkey as anyone else here is. Unless you’re curing cancer, of course.

 

This one is good because it has info on engine flushes and transmission flushes...which it looks like are all BS.

Places like Firestone have been pushing transmission flushes for years and I think I got one years ago on my Ranger.

 

The guys at the dealership only work on one type of vehicle for the most part. So they know what their doing on that one type of vehicle pretty quick.

That being said I do all my own work on my vehicles. From oil change to engine swap

 

My dealer charges 42 for an oil change. You can do it yourself for 28.

 

There is a reason you frequently see employees at a quick lube place by the street with a sign that says "open bay"!

 

Or, Now hiring.

 

One type? They do any vehicle that comes in for service. Anything with that brand name or any other vehicle that comes in for discount lube service.

It’s an oil change. It’s not complicated, that’s why it doesn’t pay shit and any kid can do it straight out of high school.

 

You could probably train a monkey to cure cancer.

 

Training is training.

Most people can do most things with training to do it.

 

I've used lots of Quick Lube places over the last 30 years without an incident. All it takes is a few people posting a problem and suddenly you have an epidemic of problems which is rarely the case. It's just an oil change not brain surgery, so I wouldn't stress over it too much.

 

I would let Jiffy Lube work on my vehicle just after the Earth crashes into the Sun, not before.

 

I'm willing to bet that he's gonna abandon his 5,000k oil change plan in favor of the 10,000k oil change plan

BTW that seems way more involved than my 2001 Ranger oil changes...but at this point I am willing to take a "hobby level interest" approach to this. No way would I trust anyone at the fast lube, slow lube or KY lube places to go through that process to change oil.

 

Well I used one once, and they screwed it up. 100% failure rate for me.

So long as I can reach my oil filter and drain plug without jacking up my vehicle, I will do oil changes myself.

 

Most of the time they are ASE certified, yes a jiffy lube place could hire a ASE tech but that doesn't necessarily happen. And a lot of times are overseen by a Master tech. I know plenty of friends who work as mechanics at dealerships. All of them have some sort of trade level school training. A dealership would also probably be more accepting of fixing ones mistake than a jiffy lube.

Jiffy lube has a lot more "entry level techs" because the good ones would probably go to a dealer or independent(better pay, benefits, etc). I would be more concerned about being ripped off, like actually not getting an oil change. Of course dealers could do the same thing, and I've seen plenty of people get no oil!

I've never encountered a problem at a dealership yet. I did take my wheels to walmart to get swapped cheaply, and they screwed it up. Took it again to discount tire and they screwed it up. The dealership didn't. So the majority of time I will pick the dealership or a reputable independent mechanic.

 

They will do any brand vehicle but at a Toyota dealership probably 99.9% of what they work on is toyota.

At the quik-lube places they see every type of make and model. so its basically something they have never worked on every time they do a job

I do all my own work mainly because I don't trust anyone to do right like I will. why should they they don't have to drive it or pay for parts if it breaks. Secondly I'm a cheap ass and would rather spend money on mods

 

I've taken my Tacoma to Jiffy lube many times with no issues . I do however stay right next to the truck inside the service bay and watch them as they drain the oil then fill it .I even ask them to fill the oil filter prior to install

That little tiny yellow chain that has a sign saying no customers beyond this point at the entry of the service bay doesn't scare me away at all

 

For the first 20 years of driving cars I always did my own oil changes until a neighbor saw me dumping the old oil in my flower beds. He told me that I could get a big fine from the EPA for doing that. I told him that the oil came from the ground and that it made sense to put it back where it came from. He was not amused. Ever since then I had others do it for me. The first time I took it to a quick lube place and they stripped the drain plug. After that I always took it to the dealer for the last 30 years. I never really saved that much money by doing it myself anyway.

 

Yeah dude you're supposed to take the oil to a collection place. Auto zone or whatever. No shit you're not supposed to dump the dirty old motor oil!

I have like 10 5-quart bottles full of old dirty oil in my garage waiting to be dropped off. But I'm not dumping them anywhere!

I'll admit I did once get caught by my neighbor letting antifreeze run down my driveway the first time I flushed my radiator. I was 16 and I never did it again. I wouldn't have tried that with motor oil but I think I figured it was 'water'

 

There is no ASE cert for lube techs, and look at any Craigslist posting for lube techs. Lube techs don’t work with “master tech,” which is an ASE title BTW, there isn’t a master tech at any shop. There are service techs and they all work under the shop foreman.

Service tech doesn’t require ASE and ASE isn’t all that relevant, it’s just a resume booster to have certs. Locally, lube techs have options to advance to service techs at some point, and that doesn’t require ASE or formal trade training either.

“Entry level, no experience necessary, will train. $10 (minimum wage) to start.”


Maybe things are completely different in SoCal, but I’d guess not.