A mom of twin toddlers says she paid $325 for a refrigerant recharge at Jiffy Lube after her car’s air conditioning stopped working, only to be told minutes later that the real problem was the compressor and that fixing it would cost another $900. When she took the car to a second shop for a second opinion, they quoted her $2,200 for the same compressor job and told her the Freon she’d just paid for would need to be evacuated and recharged again.
Rhiannon (@relatablerhiannon) is a content creator and events organizer in Las Vegas. Her two-minute, 44-second TikTok shows her sitting in her car, visibly upset, with a caption reading “I’m back at Jiffy Lube.”
“$325 For Freon”
Rhiannon says she drives a 2018 model that is her family’s only car. Her initial concern was about tires, and she took the car in for a full diagnostic, whereupon two separate shops told her the tire issue was cosmetic and instead flagged routine maintenance items: brake pads, air filters, an oil change.
“Tell me why the very next day, Tuesday now, our A/C stops working,” she says. “Now I’m going to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I know they didn’t go and break our A/C, but it’s like, what are the odds, right?”
