Thread: Jobmate

just a note that motomaster oil filters have been recalled due to a problem with them leaking....they are in fact made in China not by Fram along with the motomaster "aw tires" and several others.

Jobmate, for information, manuals, parts et al. can be found @ 1-866-jobmate...
Warning though when I called to ask for the manual on my paticular tool, I was asked for my email address and told "it would take a day or so". Which is fair... I guess!? Though when I asked if they had a web address (all this after a very exhaustive search to find one), the operator told me that he didn't know!! Didn't know?!?!!

Hope the contact number helps you'ze, and keep your eyes on your fries!
TooTawlPawl

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Jobmate, for information, manuals, parts et al. can be found @ 1-866-jobmate...
Warning though when I called to ask for the manual on my paticular tool, I was asked for my email address and told "it would take a day or so". Which is fair... I guess!? Though when I asked if they had a web address (all this after a very exhaustive search to find one), the operator told me that he didn't know!! Didn't know?!?!!

Hope the contact number helps you'ze, and keep your eyes on your fries!
TooTawlPawl

Yeah... should've reg'd first!

I got an 18V JobMate cordless drill combo with flashlight, two batteries and a charger for Father's Day in 2006. Four years later the thing is still working very well, though the batteries are starting to lose their charge more quickly.

Truly, you get what you pay for. You simply cannot expect Makita or Dewalt quality when buying a $30 cordless drill (in my case the combo cost $50). If you are more than a weekend warrior in the workshop, pay for qualtiy and quality is what you'll get. I also have a Concept brand mitre saw from Rona that I paid $130 for (compound mitre saw, 12" slide) and it's still going strong.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I also don't enter into such purchases with high expectations.

I purchased a 18v dual battery jobmate drill about three months ago, I've used it maybe a total of 4hrs and its now toast. Everytime I use it the body will start to smoke and get very hot, because I did not keep track of my receipt I'm stuck with it. The other complaint is with a pressure washer purchased two years ago, I am now on my third adjustable wand end, at $40 per replacement the unit is now edging its way up to the cost of good name brand product. My warning to anyone reading this post is to expect nothing but problems when purchasing a jobmate product from ctc, also dealing with the customer service reps can also be very aggravating, as they tend to be moody and constantly in a pissy mood. (My experience, may not be typical of all csr's but in my instances of late yes.)

So in closing, if you purchase anything from ctc keep the bill, and fight till you get whats your's.

Jobmates quality may not be the best, but Canadian tire will give you no support with any replacement parts. Trying to find carbon brushes for my mitre saw, what a pain in the arse. I will never buy anything from canadian tire again.

Since when is "Fram" a country or "China" a brand? And there was nothing wrong with the oil filters. You conveniently didn't mention they were found to have no problems and were simply being installed incorrectly.

Originally Posted by CT_MANAGER

Since when is "Fram" a country or "China" a brand? And there was nothing wrong with the oil filters. You conveniently didn't mention they were found to have no problems and were simply being installed incorrectly.

Installed by who? Your whiz kids in the service department?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Installed by who? Your whiz kids in the service department?

First of all the "whiz kids" are trained service technicains just like anywhere else. These stories of CT having untrained kids doing mechanic work is simply Bull Shit. As bad as you people think CT is they are still a business and operate as such. And the oil filters are not the highest quality filters around however it is true that nothing was wrong with them. A "temporary stop sales" notice was placed on them while they quality tested a batch becaasue of customer complaints (yes when customers complain CT does react and try to resolve the issue). After investigating the "issue" it was determined that noting was wrong except that people were installing them wrong, primarily crossthreading them (how ever there was an instance where the customer crushed the side putting it on). Now maybe the side wall of say a Fram is stronger and maybe they are harder to cross thread but you pay 6 bucks for a motomaster and 12 for a fram you get what you pay for and there are many people who are happy to buy a cheap filter and take proper carre to install them correctly. Now think of it this was... my one store alone sells thousands of filters a year and has for many years if they were really that bad or had a major defect youd here about it on the news not on a blog site

Originally Posted by Unregistered

First of all the "whiz kids" are trained service technicains just like anywhere else. These stories of CT having untrained kids doing mechanic work is simply Bull Shit. As bad as you people think CT is they are still a business and operate as such. And the oil filters are not the highest quality filters around however it is true that nothing was wrong with them. A "temporary stop sales" notice was placed on them while they quality tested a batch becaasue of customer complaints (yes when customers complain CT does react and try to resolve the issue). After investigating the "issue" it was determined that noting was wrong except that people were installing them wrong, primarily crossthreading them (how ever there was an instance where the customer crushed the side putting it on). Now maybe the side wall of say a Fram is stronger and maybe they are harder to cross thread but you pay 6 bucks for a motomaster and 12 for a fram you get what you pay for and there are many people who are happy to buy a cheap filter and take proper carre to install them correctly. Now think of it this was... my one store alone sells thousands of filters a year and has for many years if they were really that bad or had a major defect youd here about it on the news not on a blog site

Please define what "Bull Shit" is. Where I come from, it's spelled "bullshit", which would be defined as your entire post.