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Complaint Review: Meineke - Horn Lake Mississippi
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Meineke
1841 Goodman Road West Horn Lake, 38637 Mississippi, USA
Phone:
4043995385
Web:
www.meineke.com
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Meineke Ladies Beware! Horn Lake Mississippi
FEMALES BEWARE!!!
I went to Meineke off Goodman Road in HornLake MS to have a front end alignment done on my Honda. After sitting there less than 10 minutes I was called over by the Man who initially checked me in, he proceeded to show me a paper lying on his desk which had the words Dangerous with several exclamation marks after it. He then proceeded to tell me that I had a very serious issues with my car that if not addressed immediately would be very dangerous. He then asked me if I had ever seen vehicles on the side of the highway with their wheels collapsed in or out, I told him I had and that I assumed it was due to a wreck or axle problem he told me that would happen to my car. I asked him to show me the problem area so he led me out to the service area and called over another Man who took a jack or metal bar of some sort and put it under my tires and raised it several times while asking me if I saw the massive amount of movement in the spot he was pointing to...I saw no movement!! He tried both sides several times in an attempt to convince me that I was seeing something that was not there.
When I told him I would take the car to a Honda dealership for service he tried several times to discourage me from doing so. After that he told me that my catalytic convertor also needed to be replaced and that would cost me much more than the $459.00 he was trying to charge me for replacing my ball joints. I then said that hearing all that meant that it was time to get did of the car if it was going to cost me excessive repair costs, he quickly told me that was not necessary that my car was suffering from normal wear and tear. I again told him I would sell the car and cut my losses.
The next day I took my car to another repair shop and told them I needed a front end alignment , I left the car for an hour and came back my car was fixed. I asked them if they saw any issues with my ball joints they said there were none just the normal indications of the need for a front end alignment which were corrected by the alignment. Not only did Meineke attempt to defraud me by fabricating issues with my car they told me that they could not perform a front end alignment on my car because of the severely degraded condition of my ball joints but they said they had to charge me $47.00 for determining a non-existent problem. They performed NO Work on my car! As a Woman I have always been terrified of taking my car in for repairs, and until now I have not had to deal with it but sadly the horror stories about certain car repair companies are true.
I left there still terrified that my wheels would collapse under my car because I could not and did not pay out over $500 for bogus repairs. I will say that this has been going on for far too long there have been under cover investigations and exposes but no punishment or serious enough penalty to deter these crooked businesses from taking advantage of mainly females, but thod has to stop and I intend to not only recover my $47.00 but I will make it my mission to bring the full extent of the law to bear on this company.
SHAME ON YOU MEINEKE!
