The Jiffy Lube Air Filter Saga

DRaider90

DRaider90

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A guy takes his Land Rover to Jiffy Lube, and the say he needs his filter replaced. Quote included for those that don't like to click links:

http://www.landroversonly.com/forums/f2/jiffy-lube-broke-my-rover-33800/

I went to Jiffy Lube today to have my tires rotated and balanced and I had a coupon for a free inspection and point check.

So while working on my car one of the "mechanics" told me that my air filter looked dirty and that I should replace it. After looking at it myself and noticing it was the original land rover one that came with the car and with my car being 60K and I def should replace it.

So he "replaced it" and charged me $35.00 for the new filter.

So then I go out to eat (The restaurant is right by the lube).
When I go to start my to leave the restaurant.
The car turns on engine starts but then 2 seconds later the engine turns off rpm goes to 0. So I quickly turn off my entire car.

I pop the hood.
Open the air filter box and BAMN the air filter is soaked in water and there is drops of water all over.

The so called "mechanic" didn't replace shit he just washed the filter out.
WTF is that???
He didn't even dry the thing.

Is my car broken?
Is my engine hydro-locked?

What should I do?

I've already taken the air-filter out to dry (I think I might buy a new one a REAL new one).
I've tried the inside of the box and intake tube with paper towels.

Someone told me I should remove my spark plugs and try to start my engine.
This will flush out any water that made it into the cylinders.

Is this correct?

Please Help Me!!!
I really don't want to burn down the jiffy lube haha
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(I don't think changing an air filter counts as tech... at least I hope not so I posted this here)
 
yota4me said:
the first mistake was taking his vehicle to jiffy lube
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And second mistake was not immediately driving back over there, gonna be hard to prove or argue anything now...
 
Jiffy Lube is no different than a lot of those type places. Some will do excellent work and straight up honest, while others,... well you see what can happen. As said, first mistake was not taking it back immediately.
 
One of my coworkers just had jiffy lube work done. They tried to slam a metal spray can (for cleaning winshield) between hood and passenger 1/4 panel. amazing what that did to her hood and 1/4 panel.
 
DRaider90 said:
If you actually fallow the link and read some of the replies it gets very interesting discussing that and other things.
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Yeah so I just wasted 5 misn of my life parusing that thread. About 10 posts on this, and 10 pages of BS swapping insults about preferences in women, who knows more about tire pressure, racism... usual BS I'd expect from the jackass Rover crowd.

What I love is that once teh vehicle started again and seemed to run ok, this kid just blew off the whole thing quote "no harm no foul."
 
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