3 Mechanic Scams Caught on Camera
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Scotty, I have similar engine codes on my vehicle. In PA, as long as you spend about $125 attempting to fix the engine light, you can get a waiver sticker. I've done it for about 4 years.
Hey Scotty I had some guys pull out some dents on my white Chevy Tahoe and after they were done they put some white putty or spray over the dents. Can you tell me what the white stuff might have been? They said it would smooth out the dents more but it never happened
@@moanimark2446 sounds like Bondo
Scott Thank You for having Integrity and Back Bone because there are too too many spineless jellyfish mechanics, dealerships and aka Ammco's in the world
Love ❤️ Ur show. The truth about cars and engines priceless 🏁🏁
I love how Scotty calls out the scammers. We need more honest mechanics!
In those mechanics defense, they may just be morons.
💯🙂👍
scotty is a rare breed
I just want a mechanic who can do a better job than I could, seems hard to come by these days
Some just don’t know or care and then u got the ones that think they already know everything I been in the business over 40 years- always learning
God bless those young mechanics. I had a good chuckle once when a spick & span guy at a chain repair shop tell me that my power steering fluid was leaking. He ignored all my attempts to tell him that it couldn't be the case - he even called his buddy over, an even newer guy fresh out of technical school, to point out the same fact. Wasn't until the owner walked over & he had a good chuckle too. The car in question was a '77 Corolla, with no power steering.
Watching Scotty is like watching a master professor, a magician, and the king of editing - all in one!!
Do most of my repairs because I Hate getting ripped off ! Good, honest mechanics are becoming a dying breed. Thank you Scotty ! Great Video !!!👌
Scotty is probably one of the last ones
@CHARLES FORTE we definitely are a dying breed unfortunately. I left the shop I worked at for 5-6 years because at the time I was making $12. 50/hr while I was profiting the owner $1,500-2,000/hr and started doing work out of my personal house garage, having people pay for the parts with me in person up front for the parts discounts I've acquired over the years, and for pennies on the dollar in regards to labor, and always make enough to survive relatively comfortably without causing folks to take a second mortgage out on their homes to pay for repairs. There needs to be a level of balance, and unfortunately far too many shops and dealerships charge you your first born for simple things like drive belts, wheel bearings and brake jobs. It's sickening from my point of view, especially when you see the mark-ups these places are charging.
Would you want to work on the over complicated crap with super cramped engine bays? Not me
Cheers
Scotty you're a blessing to the automotive world. Thank you ☺️
Agreed
Hey Scotty, I love your channel. I have had a Dash Cam plugged into My 2015 GMC Terrain Denali V6's port for 2 years and never had an issue.
I've lived in NJ, CA, and AZ. If I'm recalling correctly, in all three states, if your engine light is on, they either will not inspect/test your vehicle or they will fail you. The reason for the engine light doesn't matter.
For ca. that’s correct. You cant “cheat” by unplugging the battery either
True.
For Arizona it is only in Tucson and Phoenix
@@zruthl Yes. I lived in the Phoenix area. I remember their emissions inspection consisted of the inspection station just plugging into your car's OBD port...unless you had recently unplugged your battery or reset your trouble codes. Then I think they would test your tailpipe emissions.
Democrat crap shoots for sure
Never go to ScAAMCO. I've been ripped off by them as well. They can't even fix transmissions
I had a mechanic tell me my car stalling out when stopped was the fuel pump. He never checked a code at all. He immediately jumped to the most expensive thing.
I took it to O'Reilly and they put a computer on it and look at that! A code... That the mechanic reset intentionally with his computer.
It was a IAC valve that was leaking some air. 84 bucks and 5 minutes later no code runs great. That mechanic wanted 2k for the pump replacement. It's an outback... Scammers work in every field but sadly mechanics in my state of Virginia can just call the police and report your car as a "moving violation after inspection" to blackmail the customers.
Buy a computer and give those guys the finger.
I always take mine to Walmart first and get the free diagnostic, then I take that and get it price matched. 90% of the time any place will match it.
Nc here we have the same problem
2000 for a fuel pump replacement!? What vehicle do you have?
An Subaru outback?
Time for a new mechanic and I would give them a bad Yelp review.
Id leave that state !!!!!
Yep IAC will do that and also make it start weird like it is flooded when they are dirty and not letting extra air in for a cold-start , and they sometimes idle too high for no reason when they are stuck in the cold-start position , even though the car is now warmed up.
After watching 8yrs Scotty is still my favourite, he is so entertaining.
We damn sure need alot more like you Scotty... Thankfully we have you helping alot of us
Scotty: Toyota's never break, they last forever.
Customers of Scotty: My Toyota is broken.
Thank you for all your knowledge and experience it’s helped me a lot sir
When this guy passes it's going to be a HUGE Loss to the automotive world.
this is one of the best videos ive seen in a while. good work scotty.
I had a similar issue with tunex. A friend recommended that location because of a tech they knew. They fixed my original issue, but the car broke down on the way home. I took it back, but after week or so they couldn’t figure it out, so they wanted to replace the computer. Seems like an odd fix for something that worked and just died out of the blue - No smoke, no rain, etc. I decided to have it towed to the dealership. It cost me a penny, but they found the timing belt had slipped and had it fixed up within a day.
Don’t be afraid to get a second opinion. Trust your gut.
Well done scotty for calling out these scammers
The only time I’ve ever been upsold on anything is the last time I got tires. Set of tires were $800, they wanted to sell me tire pressure sensors because one was out and I said yes because why not? But also, on my car at least (2010 Lincoln MKZ for those wondering), it’s very difficult if not impossible to find out which sensor was out; I even hooked up an expensive shop grade scanner and along with help from a guy who is a very experienced mechanic, we couldn’t find it. So that was an extra $300. I also bought a full size spare wheel for i think $60, it all added up to about $1,400.
We Dont deserve this man .......
............. he must be protected at all cost.
Had same squeal issue on my 2000 Infiniti G20, drove me crazy for years LOL, like you said, an older mechanic fixed in under 5mins. hahaha
You do a good service calling out these places. I am lucky to be able to 95% of the stuff myself AND I have a trusted mechanic for my cars and tractor. I take care of them and they take care of me.
i think this is how and where you shine Scotty. Making videos just like this. Hard to look away from the screen cause I don't want to miss a moment of your knowledge and witt that makes you so great. Keep at it. Blessings to you.
I have an 04 civic thats rusting out, but the motor and standard transmission still run like a dream!
that sad u didnt care for that care as u should have. i know someone with a older Dodge Power Wagon, 1940/50 or so. in jersey and has little rust and that still runs. wicked 4 speed manual. n yet u failed to manage a 20 year old car. tho u didnt say the mileage. i have a 01 madza with 245k, and moves. lol
LOL you be killing me with the photo clips☠️☠️🤣
LOVED IT, with my old memory I hope I can remember when you do a follow-up on the computer board and inspection too.
Brand New K cars used to jump around like that, which is really sad.
I’m an honest elevator technician but it’s such a niche industry I always explain things in the simplest terms and always do the work I say I’m gonna do 💯
That’s what they all say
Slow them down on the last few inches, not the last few feet! Please
What goes up must come down , hopefully in a controlled manner.🤣
@@WontSeeReplies I hate needless waiting in non- or slow moving elevators, too
Elevator techs have to follow the local government regulations
I love your mechanics informative videos. I never laughed so much and hard. Thank you for opening consumer's eyes. Now if only I could find a good trustworthy mechanic. God Bless You.💪🇺🇸✝️
Jay the Florida pool pump motor bearing repair guy When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 👨🔧Scotty
I've been 3 different mechanics trying to get my ac fixed they all say a different problem..
Dan, what are they telling you? What seems to be your issue?
I had a vehicle that I drove to a local private shop it was stuck in limp mode. Honestly he told me it needed to go to the dealer. Okay, $50 I paid, fair enough. Turned out there was a recall. My tow was covered by my insurance. Got the car back a day later and it was actually fixed properly.
Hmm.. it would be a shame if the customer released the exact location of the business he was scammed at for all of us to leave really bad reviews for on Google maps.... such a "shame" if they did.
Hopefully he didn't replace the O2 sensor with an aftermarket one, they can be bad or fail right out of the box.
YUP autozone , oreilly, napa, rockauto.... ALL LOW QUALITY JUNK PARTS
Agree that kind of part OEM only.
It all appears that the scan tool, with knowledge to interpret the data, is what makes Scotty so unique among technicians.
"Now that the belt is properly tensioned, let's start it up and see what happens." (Sockets and ratchet fall into fan belt)
Truly professional explanation.
I just realized this video was uploaded less than a minute ago
Here are other scams I have personally witnessed while working at dealerships:
employees hoarding extra transmitters then selling and reprogramming them to
other customers for cash, a parts guy hiding a Nissan 370Z wheel in a storage room and offering to sell it to a service customer out the back door, a thieving mechanic who got caught trying to steal a brand new Nissan Altima engine that was ordered for a customer during a time when Nissan was replacing their 4 cylinder engines for an oil problem.
The first activity of this sort I saw was at a Mazda dealer also in S. Florida....
a couple of the more savvy techs would actually go into an area where the filing cabinets were and pull old repair orders and have new ones written usually to replace a bad transmission. Of course it was all bogus but the tech still got paid (until he got caught). Had to have had help from accommodating service writers, and parts countermen.
A dealership is only as good as the honesty and integrity of it's employees.
There is very few Diagnostic Technicians but plenty of Parts Swappers ready to fire the Parts Cannon at your cost.
#3 in canada, cops were hooking up to computers during a DOT inspection and giving truck computers viruses.
once they found out, they quietly stopped doing it.
Wiring problems? Dallas had a huge rainstorm. Lots of flooded vehicles. Insurance totals will be appearing in November for salvage sales. Buyers beware..
AS always Scotty..Thank you for sharing this video. YOU ROCK!! DVD:)
Sounds like aamco is learning from the medical industry. Try to fix it, charge you, fail to fix it charge you again. Try to fix what they broke, charge you. Repeat until customer leaves then accidently double bill them.
Oh your still sick.....
Take another pill 🤣
Scams come with any industry where the service provider supposedly knows more than you, laywers, doctors, machanics, electricians, plumbers. I think most people are good but a bad one can really ruin a large number of people.
Scotty needs to clean the cabin air intakes on those cars.
Original plugs never changed! Unbelievable.
Hello Scotty from Mooresville NC USA
hello!
Great information thank you for sharing this
I Wish they made the north south motors again.....heaps of room to work on everything. Put a highway diff on and everything is right.
#2 - Don't some shops have internet? Literally took me 5 seconds to google the belt tension adjustment on the nissan. I know the shop manual online subscriptions are expensive but dang its your business.
#3 - Two Ford dealerships and $2500 dollars later...WOW!
Have a buddy that works at a shop he says they scam thousands daily by misdiagnosing unnecessary repairs or even damaging parts themselves to charge people thousands.He also mentioned steeling newer parts from 2020 and up vehicles that come into their shop and replacing with old parts.I would get at least 3 shops to look at your car these days.SMH
legal trouble if its true
@Jay Rob - That's what $$ does to society. The crazy thing is weve created an artificial necessity & convinced you need it to survive. You remove the greed for money you'd solve a lot of problems. Its so bad in America we have foreigner's sitting on there own sole scamming Americans. America is the land of scammers & sheep.
That's a million dollar lawsuit waiting to happen
14:12 plug this guy in, MOVE THE SEAT BACK THERE SHORT. Fantastic
Aamco always managed to find enough problems with my car to fill out a $1000 repair bill. My problems ended when I stopped going there.
In NJ, a visit to small claims court will most likely get results. In almost all cases, the repair shop hasn't got a chance.
That’s why I never trust shops like Aamco or Maaco. They know how to screw you over. If this guy lived near Edison, NJ…. I know a shop they could go to….. really sucks for the owner of the Sienna.
The only thing that's ever triggered my check engine light on all my Mazdas is misfire...change the plugs & VOILA! Reset & thats it
Gotta love Scotty 👍
I’d been going to my local garage here in the UK for about 2 years, spent multiple thousands on my car….I trusted them (a self confessed “Christian family business”) all seemed like really friendly legit guys.
However when I got a bill for £500- £700 on a “failed mot” for inner track rods, tie rod ends and a steering linkage ball joint I knew that can’t be right.
A different garage got the car through MOT for £90 with only 2 advisories and went as far to say that my local garage had failed me incorrectly and their explanation of the failure didn’t even make sense.
NEVER just go with it if you’re not sure, always get a second opinion folks 👍
Plenty of even the nicest seeming people will hamstrung customers who aren’t mechanically savvy.
Tue Aamco in Killeen, Texas worked on my friend's Dodge Grand caravan... The transmission was going out. We discovered that the overweight manager was driving the van around town running personal errands. They eventually put in the wrong part, which caused more damage, and they wouldn't work with us at all.
I never heard a fan belt make that tipe of noise before I have heard belt scoeal before but not to the extreme
i find it hilarious that with that Nissan as soon as I heard it I said to myself "sounds like an issue with a belt"... I do not know much about cars but could tell right away but a supposed mechanic couldnt figure it out?!
Wish you could come down to Jackson and help with my explorer. Long story!
Folks, please clean your windshield cowl.
That first shop definitely needs a summons for small claims court . They are ALL EXPERTS . The ONLY question is " will it fix the car " ? Charging. $ 1250.00 and it's not fixed . They will waste at least half a day in court and may have to refund most of the money . Step 1 : I will pay you your NET cost on the parts it didn't need and NO labor to settle this . NO ? See you in court !
Nissan they fired the parts cannon at it LOL
Scotty is mad as hell and is going to fix the scammers mess up. Too bad he can’t bill them back for the customers repairs.
I thought most of the US States was slowly doing away with auto inspections because its just pointless to do them. The thousands of accidents that happen every year aren't due to vehicle negligence, and as mentioned in the video the owner paid $2500 to have the check engine light never fixed only to find out for free it was the spark plugs. Check engine light comes on if the gas cap is bad there's no way the owner can have the check engine light fixed without going through an entire process of internal engine issues to where its physically impossible to make the perfect engine. I know Mississippi recently did away with their auto inspection requirements.
In Missouri , they done away with inspections for cars newer than 10 years and/or less than 150,000 miles . High mileage cars or anything over 10 yrs old - still have to be inspected . You’d think that makes a little sense , but my experience is ….. my 91 Chevy S-10 runs better with 190,000 miles than many new cars . But …. That’s the way it goes .
@@robertfulton6799 Yeah i agree and while your Chevy will get low inspection costs, they'll run up the newer cars with ridiculous excuses.
This man is adorable. As a straight man, can’t say I find other men adorable. He is a character.
Hey Scotty,I wish you lived here in San Antonio. We have alot of shady wanna be mechanics here.I hope your teaching someone all that knowledge you have.
In one of Scotty’s video someone mentioned Scotty is crazy and if we listened to him. I bet you all I have Scotty is definitely on top of his diagnostic skills.
AAMCO is the worse. I had to have them rebuild a transmission due to an aftermarket warranty. I picked up the vehicle and it wasn’t repaired. I had to tell them how to repair the vehicle. They argued with me until I told them I was a truck mechanic in the army for 10 years, then they listened all of a sudden. It’s an incompetent company making lots of money ripping people off who don’t know any better. Sad
modern transmissions are so complex you truly have to find someone that specializes in your specific transmission if you want it done right the first time. Now we have all these cars making a ton of power, but the transmissions are now the big liability factor...
I had the same kind of Nissan Sentra and that car always gave me belt problems. The belts broke or the belts were noisy. I got rid of the car because all of the belt trouble.
Thank you I love listening to you call genius
It’s actually not hard to remove the bulb in the dash to pass inspections
Scotty, you should be an automotive professor...but STILL continue making these videos 📹 I've noticed most places can fix problems if you tell them whats wrong, but most can't diagnose much.
Something inside of me broke hearing those bills and no fix. I just let go of my Nissan at 175K despite the 32 MPG because of a similar situation; almost $4K down the road, I said bye bye while the engine light was not on; replaced the spark plugs at least three times, took it to honest mechanic and dealership mechanic, no clue what was going on.
You are wrong that that Nissan Sentra with 200.000 miles is out of its lifespan. I've seen manual transmission Sentras with 400.000, 450.000 miles
Scotty eats shady mechanics for breakfast
I like the closing riff to the song Gimme Some Lovin. Great video Scotty!
Sounds like "death rattle" with the timing chain or nylon tensioners on the Fusion.
Scotty, let me know when you’re in Albuquerque. I want buy you some beers.
It's all about the money.
So many creatures take advantage of people.
Happens to everyone at one point.
Took my car in for bad brakes and was told I needed new rotors and pads.. ok. After they replaced those things and billed me over $500, my car still had bad brakes. They didn't fix the problem, they threw parts at me for the front brakes.. they didn't check the drum brakes for the back tires. One was missing a brake adjuster and they don't make brake adjusters for my car anymore. They did refund my money.
Remember before serpentine belt adapter kits for old school V8's were available?
Had to buy special deep vee pulleys to keep the belts on @7000rpm.
I understand the tests can be stupid, and testers can be corrupt, and all, but I've lived in states with strict testing, loose testing, and no testing, and . . . in states without testing, you see a lot more vehicles on the road that for safety reasons should absolutely not be out in public.
Nebraska was my favorite, just because we never saw so many vehicles driving around without license plates of any kind. It was constant. Not even close to the worst thing about driving in Nebraska, but kind of funny.
They don't know, shouldn't all shops look it up, this is why the only way I will take my cars to a mechanic is if the job is too big for me to fix.
I hope y’all ain’t buying this stuff. A worn out spark plug will not make an engine run lean.
Easy fix for the legend 🥊 himself
Scotty
scotty, please do a video on how to find a competent , honest mechanic , with out me having to know as much as them!
I'd sue the places that worked on the Fusion if not given money back. Esp. FORD dealer , disgusting.
I need the link for the company that will reprogram an ECM.
Scotty, you got me with that “equilibrate!” I had to look it up to make sure it was a real word.
Gotta watch out or Scotty will try to slip one past you. 😎
My God I wish I could have scotty fix my car right now
If you can't tension a belt you aren't a mechanic. Period.
I won't trust a dealership
It’s his fault for taking it to a shitty place. Take it to a regular mechanic who has certified and educated mechanics and there won’t be any issues .
cheap gas and uber thin oil will kill them every time
The gasoline direct injection turbo engines have gasoline blow by that dilutes the oil. Never go by the factory oil life light
Wrong Scotty I worked as a tech in dealerships for years and the number one cause for harness replacement is critters getting in there and chewing them up. I have replaced many for that. Not sure about that vehicle but the O2 heater circuit may be fused. The belt and the spark plug deal just blows my mind, how can people do that kind of stuff and at the dealer too. 🤯
Main dealers are the worst in my opinion, back in the 90's I worked at a VW one, things weren't great back then but we did have some old school mechanics who knew what they were doing. God only knows what the current young techs are being taught or not,.... most seem to just be fitters, keep changing parts to fix problems which they can't pinpoint in the first place.
@@steveclark.. I also worked at a VW/Audi dealer in the 90`s back when they actually paid pretty good lol. I feel sorry for the guys these days doing headgaskets on Hemi`s for 2.7 hrs. They are getting robbed.
@@helluvatime4562 Yep, the so called book time and the actual time it took to replace a cam belt for example, mechanics are being shafted out of money I agree.
@@steveclark.. Book times are great compared to warranty times, those are very bad. Really it`s stealing. When I last worked for Chrysler I was a transmission tech they were paying 7.6 for a total trans rebuild on minivan. It should pay that just for r&r.
@@helluvatime4562 Customers have no idea, they pay a ton of money, thinking that they are getting the best service,.. the checklist for example. I remember a customer coming back due to the cops saying that the registration plate at the rear wasn't illuminated, the mechanic swore that it was working, he had ticked it on the list after all. OK, a bulb can blow at any time but once the workshop manager removed the rusted screws to the shroud, guess what, there were no bulb present. LOL
There you go… All other mechanics are crooks…
Scotty I'm coming your way to visit family. My 3rd gen 4runner just turned over 609k miles. I want you to see and touch it 😉
The biggest scam to me, is when emissions tests DON'T include testing the actual emissions coming out the exhaust pipe.
Yeah that's good concern, how accurate are these systems to monitor these emissions
@@luvonondlazi4172 Exactly!
Another thing i keep thinking of is mileage.
I have a 2-stroke moped that doesn't get produced anymore because of environmentalist-politicians...
Yet because it does 90mpg, it pollutes less per mile than my car which is still allowed to be produced.
Emissions tests that just look at sensor values and not the bigger picture, are such a scam it's unreal!