LAST AUTO NEWS – BEWARE: JIFFY LUBE’S “ENGINE FLUSH” COULD DAMAGE YOUR CAR
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Television cameras in Los Angeles accept bent Jiffy Lube and EZ Lube shops affairs casework that can could could cause bags of dollars in amercement to a car’s engine..
California NBC-affiliate KNBC letters that “customers beyond the country” accept apparent “their engines bankrupt down afterwards accepting an engine flush” at a Jiffy Lube or EZ Lube store. Undercover cameras bent a Jiffy Lube artisan cogent a anchorman that Honda appropriate the account every 2 years or 30,000 afar on her Accord, if Honda has in fact “issued a announcement to mechanics advising them not to accomplish engine flushes. Added above car-makers, including Ford, General Motors, and Nissan accept all issued agnate advisories adjoin the service.”
An engine even runs solvents through the vehicle’s engine, evidently in adjustment to breach up carrion that builds up over time as an engine runs. “But car-makers say, pieces of that torn up debris can clog up added locations of the engine and ruin it,” according to the KNBC report. A “fuel bang flush” offered to the anchorman could accept could could cause the aforementioned problem. The botheration isn’t bound to California. One chump told the base that an engine even performed by a Jiffy Lube in Kansas City acquired $5,000 account of accident to his Nissan Sentra.
Consumerist notes, “In a statement, both Jiffy Lube and EZ Lube say it wasn’t adequate for advisers to lie and say casework were recommended by the architect if they weren’t, and the advisers bent would be fired.” But allegedly Jiffy Lube shops absorb the adeptness to accomplish the arguable service, so be cautious. Your car’s owner’s chiral has a absolute account of recommended services. If a artisan tells you it’s time for a accurate service, don’t yield their chat for it – check.
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