I was great at taking things apart, putting them back together came later. I was in the garage with my dad from about age 4, and was working in his motorcycle and small engine shop by the time I was 10. The Car Wizard a favorite.
Mechanic since I was 18 I own my own shop with 6 bays and 7 employees now and one of if not the only 5 star review shop where I live next to one of the biggest military bases in the u.s on the east coast. I learned more about mechanics working on a fishing boat in the middle of the ocean keeping it running for 6 months because I didn’t have any other options and really perfected it working on a full functioning farm in the middle of nowhere with no service facilities within 100 miles working on old tractors, skid steers mulching machines and anything that is mechanical on a farm. Those two experiences taught me there is always a way to fix something sometimes you just have to take your time think it out and exicute
When I was young I used to take my RC cars apart when they'd break and combine the two together to make a functional one or Repurpose the motors for science projects cuz, i had fun doing it. Now I can fix some little stuff in my own cars when it breaks.
Similar story to Wizard’s, always took things apart like VCRs and the family computer because I was curious about how they worked. I even managed to install Windows 95 on the 98 Gateway machine my uncle gave us when I was 8 or 9. I just wanted to see what each disc had on it and was hoping it was a game. My parents weren’t happy with it but now I’m the person everyone contacts to fix their stuff.
I love the videos where Dave gets into his business ethics and why he makes the decisions he does. That's where Car Wizard shines the most because it puts the lie to the myth that every car mechanic has to be a shady bastard or he doesn't stand a chance of earning a living. Always great to see a Dave appearance on a Hoovie/Ed/Tavarish video, you know you're in for a cool experience then
I was surprised at 2:30, he said it takes a lot of destruction before construction, but he's repairing. And then I learned depairing isn't a word. If everyone starts using it, it'll become a word
My dad got so tired of me taking things apart he got free broken lawnmowers for to me to play with a manual. By the time I was 11 I could fix any mower. I had my own tools including a torque wrench and serviced every one of the neighbors within 10 blocks. I had a car & street motorcycle before I turned 16 both broken and fixed before I turned 16. I was the only kid who drove to shop class in high school. In grade 10 we would work on my car in shop class brakes, oil changes paint job that 1974 Mavrick was fully restored by kids. The Shop teacher even had us working on other teachers' cars once he seen how well of a job I could do and teach other kids I was like the shop Forman/ assistant teacher. Mr. Hog would let us stay after school and work in the shop we had a business running out of the school shop fixing cars mowers boats. I had a job in a shop before I quit school got a free scholarship to college for auto mechanics and fully certified by 1998 to do safety inspections and register cars for road use.
@@jrs4ex Way back then, when gas didn't go bad overnight like this new crap. They all still had points and condensers spark was the first thing to check. I don't think I ever got one out of gas. Someone showed me that a typical business card was .030 thick the perfect gap. I collected cards and old paper match packs. When I got lapping compound for reseating valves a tinny dab would clean up the points quick, and easy to set gap. I had a jar of gas I would soak old fouled spark plus in, clean them with a wire brush dry and reuse. I took old pistons out of motors that threw a rod reuse them in, hand cut carb gaskets,hand file blades sharp. It was just about 100% profit I never bought parts they came from blow up's. New oil was about the only thing I had to buy. You might not be old enough to remember the wind up spring starters, they had a crank handel on top of the motor you turned it 5-7 times hit a release button and it would spin the motor. Well the spring would break right at the locating dowel, I would heat them in the wood stove and bend a new j hook on them. I got very craetive as how to fix things and rob parts from one to fix another. Any time I seen a broken mowwer on garbage day it was tied to the back on my bike and towed home. My mother was so glad when I got into cars and cleaned all the junk out of the laneway, untill I started draging home broken cars LOL.The rest of my life I have been getting broken junk fixing it and selling it.
I watched Hoovies for a bit until the Car Wizard started and I haven't stopped watching since. Its great to see the Wizard bringing Daniel San up to make his content too!
By popular vote I’d probably have to say Derek Bieri of Vice Grip Garage is YT’s most popular mechanic - due to the crazy humor, revival of long-dead vehicles of all types, family atmosphere, and nationwide touring. But I also don’t (nor think anyone should) have a personal favorite because they all do great work, have great insights, and personal style. Another honorable mention would be Alex of Legit Street Cars, and easily a dozen others.
Such a big fan of David! Good ol' American work ethic. A RUclipsr but unlike most of the rest of them.... one simple guys like me can relate to. A guy who earned his stripes and now enjoys the fruits of his hard work. I wish you lots of success, sir!
@@jrs4ex I was thinking more like Venom "At War with Satan" That would be creepy as fuck, Teddy Ruxpin telling you the story of how Satan and his Demons broke thru the gates of Heaven and dethroned God.
I took everything apart and sometimes got it back together. I got good enough at it that I started my own VCR repair “business” at age 12. After honing my skills from 10-11. Then I moved to installing and repairing car stereos. By 18 I had a job in the field and going to college. Now as you can imagine I find all of this take apart stuff rather boring and build things from scratch for big companies.
Great story! I remember when I was a kid, my dad gave me a really cool miniature radio, the size of a cigarette packet. Inside of a week I had "disassembled" it into molecules =) A few years later, our neighbour gave me an engine from an old van for me to disassemble. Great fun!
Well, he's a dying breed, these kinds of men are less and less common and young people aren't interested in that kind of hobbies/work so there isn't much demand.
He isn't a dimwhit. Successful is better than famous any day. Who wants to be famous and have your life invaded all the time and on display for the public.
So the tl,dr of it all is... •Be curious about how things work •Learn how to fix things and how to do so efficiently •Accumulate knowledge from experienced piers •Go do business your own •Establish a mutually beneficial partnership •Film the process and monetize it.
I thought you'd started your own channel after 10 years of the Hoover. AND YOU WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SKILLED WHEN TYLER STARTED. (I wach you for about 20 years alredy) That's how internal clock work.
My high school had all of the shop infrastructure, but I was the poor family in the very much old money city of San Marino. We had the auto shop with all the hardware including car lifts I believe. I only ever peeked in through dusty windows. But why would the doctor and lawyer parents ever want to have their child become an auto mechanic? That's clearly a peasants job. It was fun driving around town on Christmas morning and seeing all of the new shiny cars with giant bows on. I did have one classmate whose father was probably a corporate layer or CEO but had an interest in cars. Together they rebuilt an Austin Healy to concourse quality and sold it for stupid money. With his half, my classmate bought a boring pickup for innocent daily driving... And a Renault R5 Turbo 2 back when they were cheap imports you could pick up for $15,000. San Marino has some great hilly and twisty streets that did not lend themselves to Crown Vics. He'd take it out once a month to have fun and pick up a trail by one of the local cops. He'd then proceed to lead them on a wild goose chase, drop them out of sight in the rear view and park the R5 safely in his garage. Then drive the boring pickup for another month...
He tells it as it is. takes smarts to troubleshoot correctly, without throwing parts at a problem. theory before practice. the best is , he tells you cost. very few give you the reality of cost. certain cars are going to cost more than others, what can i afford to fix. then, make an informed decision. thanks for the info
Car wizard is a great mechanic. His tips on the LS trucks were a big help to me once. However Ed... he's nowhere near the most popular mechanic on RUclips. That'd be Derek of Vice Grip Garage. 😅
Haha, I was like the Wizard when I was a kid. Now I'm not a mechanic (although I always try to fix my own car) but my line of work is related with tech.
This was me I stripped down a radio control robot my grandpa got Me i borrowed my dad's tin snips got a Coke can took my mom's hot glue gun popsicle sticks all kinds of stuff and made a radio control boat with the motor And the battery pack and all that out of the robot parts lol I was 8
Stopped watching him after he said he was "afraid"!a gun in a customers car "might just go off". Apparently the Army doesn't teach soldiers how guns work.
I am pro 2A myself but leaving a firearm in your car that strangers will be using is dumb. Also it’s a liability for the shop as well. Wizard is not the only one working on cars, he has employees and even if they passed background check you never know when someone can start criminal mischief.
i would not say wizard is the most popular " mechanic" on youtube..that being said i like his stuff but he is not really focused on how to and diagnosis and really getting into the weeds on repairs...
Incredible that he became so popular. I thought the majority of his videos is just ranting about other people's work - other mechanics or developmenent engineers.
I did the same thing as a kid with computers and toys from putting them in the bathtub to smashing them with a hammer to later taking everything apart and slowly figuring out how to put things back together and make them work again.
I always love David's take on life, work, and success. Thank you as always Wizard!
An honor to be on VinWiki. Thank you as well Ed.
When I think of the wizard as a little kid pulling apart lawn mowers and things I see him with a big beard 😂
I was great at taking things apart, putting them back together came later. I was in the garage with my dad from about age 4, and was working in his motorcycle and small engine shop by the time I was 10. The Car Wizard a favorite.
Mechanic since I was 18 I own my own shop with 6 bays and 7 employees now and one of if not the only 5 star review shop where I live next to one of the biggest military bases in the u.s on the east coast. I learned more about mechanics working on a fishing boat in the middle of the ocean keeping it running for 6 months because I didn’t have any other options and really perfected it working on a full functioning farm in the middle of nowhere with no service facilities within 100 miles working on old tractors, skid steers mulching machines and anything that is mechanical on a farm. Those two experiences taught me there is always a way to fix something sometimes you just have to take your time think it out and exicute
Were you better at taking things apart or putting them back together?
Im so good at putting things back, that I even do it with fewer parts! Its not a finished job until there are leftover parts. Aircraft included!
@@RipRoaringGarage Its called "lightened up for racing" 🏁
@@cumulusvapes7 I know but the FAA had a problem.pffft
Anyone can take things apart. Putting them back together correctly is the hard part.
When I was young I used to take my RC cars apart when they'd break and combine the two together to make a functional one or Repurpose the motors for science projects cuz, i had fun doing it. Now I can fix some little stuff in my own cars when it breaks.
Similar story to Wizard’s, always took things apart like VCRs and the family computer because I was curious about how they worked. I even managed to install Windows 95 on the 98 Gateway machine my uncle gave us when I was 8 or 9. I just wanted to see what each disc had on it and was hoping it was a game. My parents weren’t happy with it but now I’m the person everyone contacts to fix their stuff.
And that’s the story how I became a maintenance technician. 😅
I love the videos where Dave gets into his business ethics and why he makes the decisions he does. That's where Car Wizard shines the most because it puts the lie to the myth that every car mechanic has to be a shady bastard or he doesn't stand a chance of earning a living.
Always great to see a Dave appearance on a Hoovie/Ed/Tavarish video, you know you're in for a cool experience then
I was surprised at 2:30, he said it takes a lot of destruction before construction, but he's repairing. And then I learned depairing isn't a word. If everyone starts using it, it'll become a word
My dad got so tired of me taking things apart he got free broken lawnmowers for to me to play with a manual. By the time I was 11 I could fix any mower. I had my own tools including a torque wrench and serviced every one of the neighbors within 10 blocks. I had a car & street motorcycle before I turned 16 both broken and fixed before I turned 16. I was the only kid who drove to shop class in high school. In grade 10 we would work on my car in shop class brakes, oil changes paint job that 1974 Mavrick was fully restored by kids. The Shop teacher even had us working on other teachers' cars once he seen how well of a job I could do and teach other kids I was like the shop Forman/ assistant teacher. Mr. Hog would let us stay after school and work in the shop we had a business running out of the school shop fixing cars mowers boats. I had a job in a shop before I quit school got a free scholarship to college for auto mechanics and fully certified by 1998 to do safety inspections and register cars for road use.
God bless Mr. Hog & men like him
You learn by doing. Sounds like you had a great start.
@@TAD050486 Old war vet tough as nails 6'4 250. He made men out of boys. RIP Mr Hog.
Bet you learned early on to always check the easy stuff first! "Mhmm it ain't got no gas in it"
@@jrs4ex Way back then, when gas didn't go bad overnight like this new crap. They all still had points and condensers spark was the first thing to check. I don't think I ever got one out of gas. Someone showed me that a typical business card was .030 thick the perfect gap. I collected cards and old paper match packs. When I got lapping compound for reseating valves a tinny dab would clean up the points quick, and easy to set gap. I had a jar of gas I would soak old fouled spark plus in, clean them with a wire brush dry and reuse. I took old pistons out of motors that threw a rod reuse them in, hand cut carb gaskets,hand file blades sharp. It was just about 100% profit I never bought parts they came from blow up's. New oil was about the only thing I had to buy. You might not be old enough to remember the wind up spring starters, they had a crank handel on top of the motor you turned it 5-7 times hit a release button and it would spin the motor. Well the spring would break right at the locating dowel, I would heat them in the wood stove and bend a new j hook on them. I got very craetive as how to fix things and rob parts from one to fix another. Any time I seen a broken mowwer on garbage day it was tied to the back on my bike and towed home. My mother was so glad when I got into cars and cleaned all the junk out of the laneway, untill I started draging home broken cars LOL.The rest of my life I have been getting broken junk fixing it and selling it.
Awesome! Car Wizard! Love the stories keep em coming!
I could listen to him talking for hours. Such an interesting way to tell the story.
I watched Hoovies for a bit until the Car Wizard started and I haven't stopped watching since. Its great to see the Wizard bringing Daniel San up to make his content too!
I'm really digging the Fiat Turdbo!
By popular vote I’d probably have to say Derek Bieri of Vice Grip Garage is YT’s most popular mechanic - due to the crazy humor, revival of long-dead vehicles of all types, family atmosphere, and nationwide touring. But I also don’t (nor think anyone should) have a personal favorite because they all do great work, have great insights, and personal style. Another honorable mention would be Alex of Legit Street Cars, and easily a dozen others.
Such a big fan of David! Good ol' American work ethic. A RUclipsr but unlike most of the rest of them.... one simple guys like me can relate to. A guy who earned his stripes and now enjoys the fruits of his hard work. I wish you lots of success, sir!
i love when a 10min. vids feels like 20-30minute video...
this is good
The Car Wizards videos have saved me thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars worth of bad decisions.
I had a Teddy Ruxpin as well. Bro when those batteries got weak it sounded like a demon was reading to you lol!
Throw a Motley Crue cassette in there little shout at the devil!
@@jrs4ex I was thinking more like Venom "At War with Satan" That would be creepy as fuck, Teddy Ruxpin telling you the story of how Satan and his Demons broke thru the gates of Heaven and dethroned God.
This is awesome. The first minute explains everything.
story of my childhood mr wizard. i started working at a shop at 12 or 13.
I took everything apart and sometimes got it back together. I got good enough at it that I started my own VCR repair “business” at age 12. After honing my skills from 10-11. Then I moved to installing and repairing car stereos. By 18 I had a job in the field and going to college. Now as you can imagine I find all of this take apart stuff rather boring and build things from scratch for big companies.
The Wizards soft tone is very intimidating. Like a very strong person holding back.
Great story!
I remember when I was a kid, my dad gave me a really cool miniature radio, the size of a cigarette packet. Inside of a week I had "disassembled" it into molecules =)
A few years later, our neighbour gave me an engine from an old van for me to disassemble. Great fun!
Love hearing his backstory! Wish his shop was closer, I’d take my cars here. It’s hard to find a trustworthy mechanic.
Why aren’t you more famous?!
He should be, you gotta love the wizard.
Cause he's happy!
Well, he's a dying breed, these kinds of men are less and less common and young people aren't interested in that kind of hobbies/work so there isn't much demand.
Because so many peoples cars got repossessed in this economy
He isn't a dimwhit. Successful is better than famous any day. Who wants to be famous and have your life invaded all the time and on display for the public.
So the tl,dr of it all is...
•Be curious about how things work
•Learn how to fix things and how to do so efficiently
•Accumulate knowledge from experienced piers
•Go do business your own
•Establish a mutually beneficial partnership
•Film the process and monetize it.
thanks for the amazing insight about " taking things apart" as a kid.
I thought you'd started your own channel after 10 years of the Hoover. AND YOU WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SKILLED WHEN TYLER STARTED. (I wach you for about 20 years alredy) That's how internal clock work.
The car wizard is a great storyteller
We need Matt's Offroad Recovery on the channel to talk about some of his crazy stories!
The accidental sacrifice of my Nerf ratchet blaster was what led me down the path of tinkering and repairing on machines.
Love a good origin story
We all need a Car Wizard in our area. Most shops are very dishonest, and are not able to service unique vehicles.
Hello Wizard
Lol my grandparents owned a VCR and tv repair shop... I took so many things apart that never made it back together 😅😂
So does Mr Hoover get the money from this video 😂. It's all good love all the channels you guys have 👍🇨🇦🔧
Master mechanic experience:
Chrysler guys: fixin fords
Ford guy: fixin chryslers
My high school had all of the shop infrastructure, but I was the poor family in the very much old money city of San Marino. We had the auto shop with all the hardware including car lifts I believe. I only ever peeked in through dusty windows. But why would the doctor and lawyer parents ever want to have their child become an auto mechanic? That's clearly a peasants job. It was fun driving around town on Christmas morning and seeing all of the new shiny cars with giant bows on. I did have one classmate whose father was probably a corporate layer or CEO but had an interest in cars. Together they rebuilt an Austin Healy to concourse quality and sold it for stupid money. With his half, my classmate bought a boring pickup for innocent daily driving... And a Renault R5 Turbo 2 back when they were cheap imports you could pick up for $15,000. San Marino has some great hilly and twisty streets that did not lend themselves to Crown Vics. He'd take it out once a month to have fun and pick up a trail by one of the local cops. He'd then proceed to lead them on a wild goose chase, drop them out of sight in the rear view and park the R5 safely in his garage. Then drive the boring pickup for another month...
Definitely one of your top uploads so far!
Car Wizard is great I loved him in Farscape!
Scrap Life Garage is a pretty cool channel i just found lately. The LeeCParts guy probably has some good stories I bet!
I wish I had a mechanic local with me that was as fair as you are
He tells it as it is. takes smarts to troubleshoot correctly, without throwing parts at a problem. theory before practice. the best is , he tells you cost. very few give you the reality of cost. certain cars are going to cost more than others, what can i afford to fix. then, make an informed decision. thanks for the info
Thank you for the bag of candy and set of spark plugs you sent when I subscribed
The Doug demuro Butterfly Effect
Living the dream...congrats
Most popular mechanic on RUclips? That's a strong statement!
Bricked a Teddy R., legend
Love this story of the Car Wizard ❤
Two words "Tyler Hoover" is how he got popular.
I've been watching the car Wizard since Hoovies Garage bought an S class with a blown motor and the car wizard replaced it for him
Car wizard is a great mechanic. His tips on the LS trucks were a big help to me once. However Ed... he's nowhere near the most popular mechanic on RUclips. That'd be Derek of Vice Grip Garage. 😅
i like a fella hes knows his stuff but he is not a mechanic you cant take your car to him to work on
Carwizaaaard!!!!
Wow i had to do a double take on that opening
That's one of the greatest cold opens of all time.
A wrench wraith irl! Subscribed in the hundreds; I'm og fan of the man lol
New segment of tips, tricks, and life lessons "Up the Wizard's sleeve"
All you need is cheap long haul rates, and you would have my Jaaaaag on your lift.
Best to you all
The Wizard is the man!❤
Haha, I was like the Wizard when I was a kid. Now I'm not a mechanic (although I always try to fix my own car) but my line of work is related with tech.
Hoovie is a legend
We need car ninja and Cleetus McFarland on here
Car wizard - 1 million subscribers.
Scott Kilmer - over 6 million.
Why even try to claim that 😂😂😂
He is the highlander.
The wizard is cool but I would love to see Eric O. One here
The Wizard is a good person. ❤
I like how you realized opportunity and took the challenge on! Bet we could have some fun! #40+
Love seeing the Wizard
Most popular mechanic? Nah, not by a looong shot.
Thank you was looking for this one.
Wizard!!!! Hi from Spain 😁😁
I destroyed my Teddy Rupskin too lol
Wizard is a real salt of the earth kinda guy
Ahh gotta love this guy…..
From Bradleys to Lambos lol
Nobody can be a car wizard except Dave lmao.
he is a wiz!
Great story.
Bluetooth raccoons are all the rage now, you can’t find one anywhere 😎
Wasn’t this posted a while ago???
Now I want to know how the Wizard removes rivets.....
The Wizard's OK but he's no Rainman Ray.
I understand anger but, watching 2 grown ass men scream at each other, I wondered why does 1 think the other will now work better, harder, etc....
This was me I stripped down a radio control robot my grandpa got Me i borrowed my dad's tin snips got a Coke can took my mom's hot glue gun popsicle sticks all kinds of stuff and made a radio control boat with the motor
And the battery pack and all that out of the robot parts lol I was 8
Wizard is the bomb
Legend!
Is Ms Wizard Sleave on TikTok related to you?
I miss the days when his anger was more likely to show. Angry angry man.
When I think of the Wizard I think of all the money he has made off of Hoovies Garage.
what youtube creator hero is going to put a C64 tape into a teddy ruxpin and film for our amusement?
They shoulda got you some Legos!
His parents should have given him Lego instead...
I found him by searching “car fixin”.
The wizard!
That’s a bold claim haha
#1!
Stopped watching him after he said he was "afraid"!a gun in a customers car "might just go off". Apparently the Army doesn't teach soldiers how guns work.
I am pro 2A myself but leaving a firearm in your car that strangers will be using is dumb. Also it’s a liability for the shop as well. Wizard is not the only one working on cars, he has employees and even if they passed background check you never know when someone can start criminal mischief.
Wizard could you have picked out an uglier shirt??? Just kiddin... Love you and Tyler, and the whole group!!!
i would not say wizard is the most popular " mechanic" on youtube..that being said i like his stuff but he is not really focused on how to and diagnosis and really getting into the weeds on repairs...
Incredible that he became so popular. I thought the majority of his videos is just ranting about other people's work - other mechanics or developmenent engineers.
I did the same thing as a kid with computers and toys from putting them in the bathtub to smashing them with a hammer to later taking everything apart and slowly figuring out how to put things back together and make them work again.
Most popular? Hmm
Chris Fix is far more popular