Took my car here for an oil change and was told I needed an addition $700+ worth of work. Rear differential, front differential, pinion leaking, fluids under the hood in dire need of change. Little did they know that I'd had the car looked over with a fine tooth comb 3 months earlier because I found out the dealership I'd bought it from had lied to me about a bunch of things. Because the car had been given a clean bill of health, Midas insisting all this work was necessary seemed...alarming. I told them I would have the car looked at by my mechanic later but they kept trying to pressure me into work. I ended up fibbing and saying I didn't have the money so I'd have to wait. They tried to get me to apply for a Midas credit card. Not even slightly joking. The guy is telling me how awful these issues were and how dire the situation was and I just kept telling him no. Finally get off the phone with him and call my mechanic. He starts laughing and says there is no way the fluids and differentials are as bad as they say and says to bring it by so he can check out this pinion leak. No sooner than I hang up with him I get a call back from a Midas supervisor wanting to ""try to work with me on pricing because its dangerous to be driving my car like this and I could blow the rear up and that will cost $5,000 to rebuild on your make & model."" He says he'll do the pinion fix and oil change for $275. Okay, but what about the other stuff? ""Well, that can wait if you cannot afford it. I would have it fixed by first snowfall though."" So you're not ""working with me on price,"" you're just saying you'll do one thing instead of all the other work. How is that a deal? I told them no. I get my car to my mechanic and there are no issues with the rear or front differential and my trans fluids and everything else are fine, other than the wiper fluid and coolant, which Midas didn't top off during their oil change. I paid nealry $40 for them to not do anything other than try to scam me for hundreds of dollars and not even do what they claim to do in their oil change! The ONLY issue he found aside from Midas not doing their job was the pinion work, which he fixed for $50 less. The guys are dishonest scammers. They can't even do an oil change right. DO NOT GO HERE. I will never go again.
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