Honolulu, HI
It's unfortunate, really. I am so bummed that I went from giving Lex Brodie's five stars to one, but I they really disappointed me today. Last weekend, I went online and made an appointment for an oil change for Saturday (today). I figured since I got such awesome service from them when I got my new tires, I would go to Lex Brodie's from now on for my other car services. So rather than go to Jiffy Lube as I have done in the past for my oil changes (you can look to see my past reviews on Jiffy Lube), I opted for Lex Brodie's. I received an email from them earlier in the week stating that they could not service my car at the time slot I originally wanted (I think I picked 7:30 or 8:00 am--sometime in the morning) and gave me the option for noon. Though I really wanted the morning time I'm flexible, so I chose the time they said was available--12 noon. So today, we show up at 11:45 am. I tell the lady in the gray shirt that we have a 12:00 appointment and she finds my name and says that someone will be right with me. Another lady in a red shirt this time comes over and tells me that they are running a "little" behind and that it will take a few hours. A few hours!?! For an oil change? She apologized and said they only had 1 guy working and that there were two or three cars in front of mine, and would I mind leaving my car because they close at 5pm. Well, what were we supposed to do, walk home? This is my issue. I get that things happen unexpectedly. People call-in sick, don't show up for work, there is a glitch in the matrix. I get that not everything goes according to schedule, especially in an automotive repair environment. But for a company that is so adamant about making appointments--this has been their whole thing since back in the day, it's all over their website: for the best service make an appointment--you'd think they would at least have the courtesy to call those who have made an appointment and say "hey, thanks for making an appointment but unfortunately blah blah has come up and we are running behind. Did you still want to bring your car in today? If so, there will be a three hour wait so you may want to make arrangements to have someone pick you up" or something to that effect. It's not like they didn't know until I showed up at 11:45 am that my oil change was going to be a few hours later. I'm sure they knew from pretty early on that day that there was going to be a backlog when they realized they only had one person doing oil changes that day. If they could email me and tell me that my 8:00 am appointment had to change, then why not send out a courtesy call saying the above? I would have SO appreciated that and even though it would have been lame to have my appointment changed again, my gratefulness for the heads up would have trumped the overall inconvenience. Like I said, I'm pretty flexible--but not when I come at the time THEY gave me (12:00 noon) and then tell me that they are pretty much going to hijack my Saturday afternoon for a very simple routine oil change. When my husband and I told the lady we would go somewhere else she went to talk to one of the service technicians, came back and told us again it would take a few hours. So guess where we went? Back to Jiffy Lube. And guess what? They took my car in right away, and even though there were 6 cars already there--that was not a problem. We went across the street to eat lunch, got back at 12:45 and my car was done and waiting for me. Yes, it's Jiffy Lube and say what you will about them, they got the job done and I didn't even have to make an appointment. Will I go there for all of my future car services? Probably not, just for my oil changes. But will I ever go back to Lex Brodie's for anything? Nope. Customer service goes a long way with me, and they really let the ball drop on this one.