German engineering: I can't remember the exact model, but I'm like 65% sure it was a Volkswagen Toureg. Guy brings it in to the shop for a blown O2 sensor, and he just couldn't figure out a way to get to it. Looks up in the repair manual on how to change that sensor, and right there in the manual it said "step 1: remove engine."
My Audi S7 O2 sensor felt that way. Engine is symmetrical left and right, including the exhaust manifolds. One side took 15 minutes to change. Other side took 5 hours of pain. Sensors in the identical spots left and right, but on one side they moved the connector from on top of the engine to the back of it between the engine and firewall in a pit with 2" of clearance with no line of sight into and no way to reach into without dislocating your arm. That and you're supposed to slide the locking tab off the connector, then get leverage to depress the release on the connector in that area. Probably pretty easy if there wasn't a pesky firewall or engine in the way. They could have kept the connector in the same spot on top for both sensors, making them both 15 minute jobs...but no.
All Audi o2 sensors have been that way for 15 years and they are zip tied to the rear coolant pipe making them impossible to reach, impossible to cut the zip ties and impossible to get a socket on the sensor. We used to cut the wires and have to make a tool to reach the sensor
The founder of Honda made Honda a trust that operates only if 4 levels of safisfaction are hit. 1. Consumer satisfaction 2. Repair worker satisfaction 3. Line satisfaction 4. Vendor satisfaction. Those four things determine if the shareholders GET to KEEP their shares or else the company reverts back to full private with language in place that those things must be fixed before any C suite bonus, buyout, or any golden parachute for the holders. Pretty smart imo. I think thats the sole reason Honda is as dominant and yet understandable as they are.
I have a civic. My friend has a Camry and my mom has a RAV4. Toyotas are not solid by any means these days. I make him feel bad by tapping his tim cam hood every time I walk past it @@ayliniemi
@ArariaKAgelessTraveller I don't think that'd help them much. Honda has like 3 cars on the top 10 most sold in US list and only recently got detroned by Tesla model Y as THE most sold car. They're doing just fine. If they wanted to be like everyone else maybe they'd make their luxury brand, Acura, actually their luxury brand and make some fancy yet truly functional cars. But honda tends to let either the race teams do the inventing, or just innovate the thing Mercedes did like 10years ago but actually make it manufacturingly scalable.
First clip "Nah, that's some shit..." - Does it for a living, and knows how ass it can be (but probably happy to legitimately have double the billed hours of the ford shop down the block)
14:22 "built like tanks" WWII german panzer tanks suffered from over engineering as well. German tank operators had difficulty repairing them in the field and often times abandoned them.
Worst German car I worked on was a Smart fortwo. To replace an alternator, you have to unbolt the entire rear subframe, empty and disconnect the air conditioning, raise the body off the subframe, then raise the engine up out of the cradle so that you can get enough clearance to swap in the old alternator.
@@piotrkowalczyk1087 all the engineering is German, I had a Fortwo Diesel, and that little car also had some problems with the engine holders, they would rot and the engine would drop on the ground, the good thing that Peanuts ignores on that miserable little car is the mileage, a micro turbo diesel consuming 3.2 liters every 100 km's was something that even some 125 cc scooters and light motorcycles can't achieve.
Would be cool to hear some personal horror stories from the mechanics they've experienced. They all seem to be passionate and I'd like to hear more personal accounts sometimes than just their opinion/reaction to a video. The reactions are awesome, but I always like hearing personal accounts, they tend to have a lot more emotion than a video you scroll past in my experience.
Sandro is a true tradesman, his knowledge is beyond textbook. You can tell he has a shit ton of hours working on cars. He also mentioned in a past vid that his dad was/is a mechanic. So you know his knowledge runs deep. Also, he gotta get it right because he's doin it for da bois.
see i also would of guessed something small and stupid. hes complaining about having to take the clutch pedal out to repair the clutch pedal. kinda stupid imo
@kevingeezy5176 istg people who think mechanics should get it right the first time 100 percent of the time make me hate people. If you've ever done actual work on a line of cars/trucks you'd know that's not possible. Especially not when you're given stupid questions like I took out the pedal what am I repairing.
@@LittleNicky.My thoughts too. It is exactly where usually the carburetor is placed on that conversion (one of the few places there is space in the engine bay)
Push it again 😂😂😂 Sandro reminds me of my friend in high school he got us in so much trouble but I loved every single minute of hanging out with him 😢 I miss him to this day
I had a Volvo V50 and the cabin air filter was behind the steering wheel 😳🤯. To simply swap your filter: 1) remove the steering wheel 2) remove all gauges 3) swap filter 😂
That's easier than my 1991 BMW 5 Series. 1) Remove glovebox 2) remove a bunch of inner plastic panels 3) remove remove some HVAC vents 4) remove AC module 5) pull out air filter while contorting your body in the passenger footwell.
The coolant is not just dripping on the harness. BMWs use an electrically controlled thermostat, which sometimes leaks internal allowing the coolant to enter the wire. The outside of the harness is water tight, but that doesn’t help when it comes from the inside of the connector. This happens with the oil pressure sensor too.
This is a very common issue on international dt466E the injection drive harness that goes through the valve cover does the exact same thing. We call it wicking. But it does that exactly it will push the oil all the way to the ecm and fry it.
German engineering is basically “how can we ram as much as possible into a small space with the intent of making things better but it becomes so complicated nobody can fix it”
@@Sdizzle7 They were great cars until they went to so much plastic under the hood. One 'simple' repair that would cost $1500 on a GM/Ford/Toyota would cost you $3800 on a 10 yr old audi. Lease one every 2-3 years. It's your best bet with German cars. Unless you have the money, then hell yes! Enjoy because they do drive wonderfully!
Can't argue, but before they started using so much plastic under the hood, they were very reliable. Back then if you had the money to afford an audi, you had the money to maintain one. Not anymore. The plastic wears out so much quicker and that same $1500 in a GM/Ford/Toyo will be $3550 in an Audi. This has actually been seeping in for years. Early 2000's Concorde had to remove a tire and splashguard to get to the battery. Late '90s Buick had to undo a motor mount and tilt the engine to replace the one serpentine belt! It's all about the sticker in the window now days. 70-% of people just look at that. MPG(weight)/HP/Price. They want you to believe you need 240 hp in a daily driver that weighs 3000 Pounds! Sry, ranting! lol.
It is the remnants of the Prussian military culture that dominated Germany for a very long time. It is very hierarchical, and it has a tendency to make the officer class forget about the existence of the enlisted. Basically, the engineers here have a job to do, and that is to make the vehicle work efficiently and reliably. However, "will it be convenient or even workable for the mechanic" does not even come into it - mechanics are not part of their class so their existence does not even fall within their perception. Funnily enough, with NATO the actual German military moved past this boneheaded culture a long time ago. Sadly, its remnants are alive and well and still doing damage in a lot of civilian sectors in Germany (and the militaries of other nations who were modelled after the Prussian army, often with Prussian advisors, in the past).
@@LordKhuzdul thats not even true a little bit 🤣 Especially since manufacturers like BMW, Audi and Porsche are from the very south of Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg), which have NOTHING to do with prussian culture.
I used to work as a mechanic in NJ 15-20 years ago. That time, I hated to work on VW and Audi. All plastic and fragile sensor covers, connectors, wiring harness etc. jam packed under the hood. It was almost guaranteed to break something else before you reach the part you wanna replace. Leaky head gaskets were icing on the cake. I wonder if its still the case.
Probably... but.... I was working on a Chrysler once upon a time. 3.5 v6 I think.. 2004 Concorde.. The entire intake manifold (the molded plastic sort) popped about 6 inches from my face as I was leaned over trying to listen. It was sitting for quite some time. Had a few turn over - no starts prior, apparently something happened timing wise, and the gas didnt leave the valves from the prior start attempts, and it decided to blow.
Love seeing the reaction to the n63 engine out of the car, I’ve spent many an hour working on that nightmare and the car attached to it. You get used to having chafed forearms
The quality went down when American philosophy entered. The numbers every quarter got more important than the longevity. Still better than American made cars, even when the asians beat them in durability these days. But as long as they are still looking this good I’m ok with some extra bucks spent for maintenance. And if you keep up with (preventive) maintenance the are very reliable (except one BMW i had, that was a lemon if I’ve ever seen one. I still suspect the first owner, a chief physician in a big hospital here around, drove it like he stole it in the one year he had it…)
@@erebostd Please refrain from using common sense, science and statistics. The Americans truly dislike it! It a country that defends measuring things with their feet, while braging about NASA, even though Russia carried NASA for decades
True. My mid-life fun car is an M Roadster. When I spun the oil pump nut off (being stupid hooning), it took a few weeks nights & weekends to swap in a new S52. Not bad with no lift considering I replaced all the coolant hoses, new clutch, etc. SAFETY WIRE YOUR OIL PUMP NUT, PEOPLE 🤓
"I'm a BMW guy, oh no" 😂😂 I felt that deep down inside. Just got a 2011 335i and felt so worried about it but it grew on me quickly and I love it too much
In germany we say "Bayrischer Mist Wagen" or "Bring Mich Werkstatt" (Bavarian Shit Car or Take me to the Workshop) Audi and BMW got notorious for over-engineering so you simply cant repair yourself. Bring it to them so they can milk you for more cash.
@@ricktrue8441 LMAO loser thinks he can buy a bmw for 10k and not worry about maintanance. last time I checked bmw are made for perfomance and people who buy them dont life with their parents 😂 😂
My worst German car experience was my 2013 GTI. It had less than 30k miles on it and the DSG transmission failed. 6 months and about 3k miles later, the thermostat failed. Then the intake needed to be changed on a recall. And finally, I had a misfire due to carbon buildup on the valves with less than 45k on the odometer. I took it to VW because I didn’t have the time deal with it and they tell me I need to pay for diagnostics. I pay for it. They inform me that the use of non-OEM coil packs can be recognized by the onboard computer and that I need OEM coil packs to complete the diagnostic. I asked if they swapped plugs or coils to see if the misfire changes cylinders because they were all aftermarket coils and it was strange that the misfire was in one cylinder, if that was the case. They said no they didn’t attempt swapping the coils or plugs. I tell them I’m not buying new coils for a test and they just need to complete a valve cleaning service and charge me for that. The technician had the audacity to tell me that their scan tool could tell if the valves had carbon build-up…as if there was a sensor inside or around the combustion area. I asked for my car back, took it to a local Euro shop, they agreed 100 percent with my assessment and verified it by swapping the coils and plugs around. Cleaned the valves and the problem was solved. I sold that car and refuse to buy another VW/AUDI.
@@nicksokolis6343i dont think youd have much of an issue with carbon build up in Toyotas because they use port and direct injection to clean the valves from carbon build up. At least not at 45k miles. My friend has an Audi and had to get his cars intake cleaned for this same problem.
The coolant isn’t “dripping”‘onto the wire harness. The issue is the 7-series uses an electronic thermostat so the ECU can regulate coolant temperature. The problem is the e-thermostat seals will fail and “wick” coolant inside the wire harness and take out the control modules.
Older German cars are relatively easy to work on as it’s more about mechanical engineering and durability but anything that has a lot of computer controls become much harder to work on, especially diagnostics. But all those computers take up more room so there is less working room in which to even get in and actually service the item. Older German cars really had a philosophy of rebuild and servicing components vs just throwing it out and buying a new one. But they do drive like few other cars do
Exactly, as my 1984 Audi 4000q is the best car I have ever owned but I would never buy a newer Audi. Likewise the BMW 2002tii was a great car but modern BMW's suck to own...
I make small mistake hit a high curb and broke windshield wiper fluid reservoir in my Audi A4, to get to this u need Take wheel off, take inside of wheel-well off. then u have access
As a computer technician I can categorically state that if you let the smoke out of an electric device it will stop working, you need to keep the smoke INSIDE the device.
@@CaptainAlex69 I commented this at the same time. It just took me a couple minutes to do because I had to find the emojis which explains why it says it was 2 minutes after
@@JC_500 it’s not assumed. When I was originally looking, the original comment said 19 minutes ago. Yours (this one I’m commenting under) said 14 minutes ago. There was two other replies to the first comment that each said 15 minutes ago.
I've owned two cars. a 2nd gen mazda 3, and a b8 audi s4. Replacing the all rotors and pads in my mazda took me about an hour. In my audi it takes about 2 hours. Replacing the valve cover gasket in my mazda, takes 40 minutes with watching a tutorial. A couple of bolts and youre done. In my Audi (granted it has 2 gaskets) takes nearly 3 hours. You have to remove the intake, remove a gas line, remove the coolant tank, plastic valve covers, and plastic crank case breather hoses that are designed to break when you remove them...But I still love my S4.
My 05 Mazda sp23 is easy to work on its still going daily driver for my wife over 300,000kms got her 2 new cars since then and she wont part with the Mazda and sold the new cars after about a year. My 80 series Landcruiser is easy to work on when the wife got me a new 4wd she said you have to sell the 80 series or the 2nd gen 4runner, I sold the 4runner and the new 4wd about 12months later. We still have a 1990 80 series Landcruiser and a 2005 Mazda sp23 some cars are just too good to get rid off.
ok yes but you are talking about a car that is a v6 supercharged and has dual everything. Even the b5 s4 was 2 of everything… it would take a little more time.
I also once had an Audi a4 B8 with the 2.0 l tfsi. and that is the engine that is always clogging up the pistons. In any case, Audi repaired this on the American models at their own expense. As a German, the German companies prefer to fuck me, but they simply claimed that 1-2 liters of oil per 1000 km is completely normal for a car from 2009. These pussers. I tell you German customers prefer to fuck German car companies.
2:20 - In a lot of modern German cars you have electronic safety features and sensors. For example, when another car appears in your dead angle, a small light will go off in your driver side mirror to alert you of this. Some manufacturers take it to the next level and let you activate a function that will not let you steer to that side when another car or an obstacle is detected. It will steer back the other way. If you are not used to that, it freaks you out when it happens. Since we cannot see what is happening left of the steering wheel or to the sensor, this could be just someone standing there. I think it does not activate while standing still or driving slowly, because it would be a problem when parking or maneuvering in cramped spaces. If it is an error, it probably is a broken sensor sending false activation signals. Could also be a fried electric motor control.
We used to live in Toronto where if you get into a bike lane by an inch you'll most likely get spit on. Not a great place to have the car steer for me. I worked with someone who had the 4 wheel steering Honda. She absolutely hated it. Overkill is Volvo's ground level ozone detector that turns the interior fans off. I wonder what that costs to fix.
As a former Volkswagen dealership technician, I made a good living fixing German cars, and the illusion that German cars are harder to work on maintains job security.
a lot of people complain about one issue or another, when in reality, any car with the same technology can have them. pretty much all of my automotive tech instructors have said in one form that all cars are sh*boxes in their own right. we just pick the one that we like the most.
@@Swogfishbeen studying mechanics for 4 years aswell as working on my own project cars for 2 now, all of our cars except a prius that we have in the garage are european, mostly peugeots,citroen and some vws (newer and older ones...we even have a wierd 105), out of all i prefer the toyota prius legit the easiest to work on despite me not begin particulary kind to that model of toyota...at least they let you remove the hybrid battery without having to take appart the whole damn interior off, plus the manuals are very easy to read and follow so idk what eu cars you guys working on...but i think im staying with the japanese on this one, more for me :D
The moment I saw Scotty Kilmer my brain just instantly wanted to skip that part. He's not teaching anything in his videos he's just yelling and yapping shit and seemingly can't accept the fact that people have different preferences and opinions.
My boss bought 2023 bmw transmission went at 13.000 then the decals fell off then the electric went fucked . Ggen he bought a tundra.....my best friend bought a Mercedes transmission skipped several gears and smoked at 30.000 and harness fried the totaled the car. .... meanwhile my " pos American truck" had 167.0000 and no issues
As a Skoda owner (vw group), I'm glad my car's platform isn't flawed enough to reach your studio :)) This video was basically a BMW show with a little VW and a touch of Mercedes
Skoda in general are stripped down versions of VW group cars, so you lose some of the technology, but in a good way. As an example, my Skoda will do things like set the radio presets depending on which key fob starts it, but it doesn’t have the driver specific electric seat adjustment that an Audi level car would have. Same platform, same computer, but with a lot less wiring and electric motors that get real expensive to repair after 5 years or so of ownership.
@@King-Kazma Skoda don`t have anything with German`s ;) Yes it`s European but is from Czech Republic. And another thing every new`ish car is mess because ot the PC and every "factory update" that have inside ;) The old cars don`t have 99% of problem new`ish have
@@crybaby1363 probably someone in denial, but yeh really they are all pretty much built on one VW platform or another... and not necessarily a bad thing, for one the engines are far FAR FAR!! better in every way. heck my mates TDI Octavia has the EXACT same engine as my golf. but going further back i think the version starting 2004 was built on the A5 platform (so same as golf,A3,leon ect ect)
@@iskrendinchev5882 Skoda are 98% German. Same chassis platform as Audi/VW/Seat. Same engines. Same electronics. Most parts have VW or Audi stampings. Only the outer sheet metal and upholstery fabric is Czech. This makes it easier to source parts though as more or less the same engine may be in a dozen different models of car.
Mk4 VWs are difficult to put aftermarket radios in for three reasons. 1) the radio on/off is controlled by canbus so to install an aftermarket radio correctly, you need to buy a $100 or so canbus interface adapter. 2) if you're not installing an aftermarket radio correctly, there is no 12V switched power in there, you have to run a separate wire for switched power to turn the radio on and off. 3) there aren't really any nice dash kits since the mounting system they use is proprietary and very very low profile. The dash kits that work are just press fit into the hole since the car doesn't have any ISO DIN brackets and the standard aftermarket radio cages wont sit properly.
Mk4s absolutely have switched and constant 12V at the radio. There's no CAN-Bus at the radio in any MK4. At most the later MK4s had CAN-Bus for ABS, ECU, Cluster and a gateway. These cars have almost entirely standard ISO-Pinouts at the radio. What You're mentioning happened on the next generation of vehicle networks, like in the B7 A4 for example.
Economy car quality? What VWs have you been looking at? We've owned Fords, Hondas, and Toyotas before our VWs and the VW fit and finish, as well as performance, is way above those other three. I'm not denying they're more complicated but you can tell they're more sophisticated when driving.
I've had a few second generation Audi A8, great car the one I have now has 260,000 on it. It has some really funny water intrusion problems, if you don't keep the drains clear the water from the windshield backs up and shorts the transmission control unit located literally in the cowl drain area in a plastic box that says in German that "water intrusion is forbidden." The other thing is once that fills up it leaks into the HVAC system through where the blower motor is (also in the cowl drain area) once it fills up in the heater core it dumps the water through an overflow pipe into the driver and passenger side footwells, the reason that I know they knew about this issue and over engineered it is that it eventually makes it to drain holes that are drilled on the low spot under the driver and passenger seats and it comes out under the car. In Audi's defense the first guy that buys the car for $100,000 keeps it in a garage and won't learn about this "truth in engineering" i keep mine outside and have to spend about an hour twice a year clearing all the drains with compressed air. Luckily 100% of the frame and body of that model is aluminum so it doesn't rust from the water or anything like that.
11:45 I drive an Iveco daily at work, automatic. And if u pull the e-brake and remove the igniton key while the car is running, it will just stay running until u release the e-brake.
VW guy here. Once had my headlight switch randomly catch fire on me for seemingly no reason. After a careful inspection of the wiring, and finding nothing else wrong. I replaced said switch, fixed nothing else, and haven't had a problem with it in 10 years!
Skoda owner here. Brilliant bit of kit, and its VW. My mechanic's fav cars are Minis, Range Rovers, Beemers etc, because they make him the most money. Least favourite? Toyota, Lexus. Almost never have issues, so makes no money😂
Shouldn’t have had a problem to begin with if it were properly designed. I once had a $55k VW Touareg. I drove it from the stealership to its grave at the junkyard in about 79000 miles. Every single thing on that car broke. Never again VAG. Never. Again.
8:05 what scotty meant was like with old toyotas where the valve cover is metal and does not have a plastic shroud on in to hide say, the ignition coils. since there is nothing to trap heat parts run cooler. and when there is less change in temperatures around plastics, plastics crack less often.
@@kenmorrisproducer not that much as compared to a plastic cover because hood is still farther and air anyway gets in through the grill. Metal hood still conducts heat better than plastic shroud
@JobyFluorine-ru4bdthat’s incorrect he actually fixed my 240sx back when he was in Houston and was very well known. So I actually have met the guy and seen him work. Can I ask where you go the information that he’s not a mechanic?
@JobyFluorine-ru4bd he’s not wrong the plastic cover is unnecessary (mechanically speaking) it’s more for a visual view as a mechanic that you say you are you should understand what he meant by it. Yes a shop won’t approve due to any liability responsibility. But your statement is still incorrect as you based your opinion off a video. Trust me when I tell you he is a good mechanic even dealerships fear him in Texas as people had gone to him after service at a dealership or checking out a used car and finding major issues that the dealer knew about but hid from the customer and getting their money back from service or the sales department.
I am from Germany and I work as a hobby on cars. Sometime I fix minor things for friends and family. Nothing big, nothing complicated. Stuff like installing new headlights, radios, swapping breaks etc. By far my worst experience with a German car was BMWs who needed what felt the whole from taken out to change the headlight bulbs. Equally baffling was a Renault that needed a specially molded radio (or a plastic cover ) because of course the radio needs to be part of sloping plastic thing
@@065Tim Look up how to change a cabin air filter on a new Renault Master. It's astonishingly stupid. And, even worse, the new filter comes in two pieces. But for some reason the original one is a one-piece filter that won't fit through the hole you are supposed to take it out through. So you basically have two options: Either cut the filter in half through a small hole you can barely reach through or take the dash apart even further than you already needed to (You need to remove the whole glovebox assembly in order to get to the filter opening).
Based on my time working on a late 90s merc, the worst and most painful part has to be the plastic pieces. They snap easily when taking off, and the worst part is that it is often incredibly difficult to find a replacement piece for them too
Sandro. He has that face. That smile, that says "I know, I got away with it. And I know that you don't know what I actually got away with. And I know that you know that I know that I got away with it and you can't prove any of it!" xD
15 years ago i was working as supplier with BMW AG on N54 and N55 and Prince engine a little (M13/M12) (Munich, Germany) and S85 (M GmbH, Munich, Germany) and N57 and M57TÜ2 (Steyr, Austria). So three things: 1.BMW M GmbH / S85 Guys at BMW M GmbH were working in little team and knew what they were doing and listened to us in what we were trying to help them. It is sad that this V10 became known for its lack of reliability but these are the guys you wanted to work with. They had a McLaren F1 engine at the reception waiting space it was setting the tone but they were WAY more humble than any other engineer from Peugeot or Renault or BMW AG. BMW M GmbH was little then it was really nice to work with them. Their parking lot was crazy and the workshop inside was something of another world. With them it was not really working it was more like an engineering dream come true. I want to thank them. 2.BMW AG (benzin) / N54 + N55 Guys at BMW AG were pretty good for project management and putting suppliers on their knee and cutting cost. But that's about it. They were creating product's specification "GS" (General Specification) that were way too complicated and that were written without taking into account supplier's capability or reality of the product. (to my humble opinion this is what explain that the cars made then were too complicated). Technically they were too proud but were not so good and it was a huge issue in developpement. I understand they can not trust too much suppliers and it is difficult for them to have same experience on a given product than that of the supplier itself. But hey, they were speaking like they knew it all but in the back they were asking us stupid explaination about stupid electric stuff they should have known. They made a mess about everything and they even crashed the only prototype car they had to test our product on the track in Miramas, France. They crash the car while high speed joy riding. The test to be conducted were slow test. High speed test were not relevant and not critical. Many times they would be like project dictators, trying to enforce stupid deadline with a hammer while telling "if you don't do that we will kick you out forever" and things of that magnitude. There was no "farmer's common sense" in Munich. It was much internal politics and reality denial, as it always comes with politics. We can say they were on the technical woke side of the industry. You did not want to work with them. One time they were loud and told my collegue "our next intern is miss playboy oktoberfest". And here she was, a few days later, dressed decently, when we all had seen her before with less clothes on playboy on line. They would complain about us when we were working like crazy with crazy complex stuff. She was here creating 4 lines table (4 lines, yes) and they were happy with her you could tell. That's where they were. At that time it felt like they had a huge gap between the old generation and the new generation. The guys from the old generation seemed like they refused everything and were just here to complain and be the center of the attention. Naturally the newer generation was then not loud and let them be the center of the show. So at the end it was more like a puppet show because the old bmw generation was trying to reject any new things while the new generation was making specifications to built 1 ton rockets with integrated hotel for 86 persons. These old generation had a say on stuff that they had no understanding of it was annoying. It was really a bad puppet show to watch. It is clear that 530i and 325ix from the 80s were good cars but it felt like they just could not comply to the idea that new cars will need new technologies and new bolts. And I mean litterally new bolts because that's what we were arguing about, bolts or welding solution. 3.BMW Steyr (Diesel) / M57Tü2 / N57 They were working in little teams and did more work than double the amount of people at Munich. One or two guys were not that friendly (the youngest one are the less humble ones at BMW this was a common pattern, even in Steyr). But they could manage it and they were not in line with Munich, they had WAY more common sense. Actually at first the Steyr Factory was a tractor factory! It seemed they had kept all their "farmer's common sense". They had very nice workshops and their mechanics were so good you could tell not much explaination needed, they figure things out on the spot and do it so fast, like at BMW M GmbH. I guess many of them were into racing teams before. The city of Steyr and its hotel were very nice, driving there was litterally like going to holidays. I did not enjoy working with the young guys, maybe they were thinking they are the dog's bollocks. The rest of time i was working with Audi both Diesel (Neckarsulm) and benzin (Ingolstadt). What I can say is that if Audi are complicated and not relialable.... well.... no wonder... at all. Really. It was nice to watch W12 and V10 and RS4 DTM pace car driving around the factory or in workshop, but no wonder idf AUDI are complicated cars. A few years after i got to work at BMW internally on other project. I realised that how BMW Munich was treating us a suppliers... got me to the conclusion that these former "collegues" at BMW Munich were complete /*/*/**/*//**-/. Well you get it. A few years later i worked with an inusrrance company as "expert". Most cases were VW and BMW taking fire. It was just sad to see how BMW and VW treated their customers. I make it short: BMW and VW will throw all they can against their customers to accuse them... If it includes heavy trials and courts stuff, they will take that path. if this needs lying in court against you, they will do. In South Korea, they even lied to the government/justice and some BMW executive (German) had to FLEE the country to avoid jail for lying in court. Almost the same happen in USA with VW. Lying is part of BMW daily life, for many projects
Thanks for the interesting story, somehow it does not surprise me. It is similar to other industries, eu is really on its way out as an industrial powerhouse...
The more components the more things that have a chance of breaking increasing your total risk of something breaking. That picture of the engine pulled out is insanely complicated 😂😂
A NASA spokesperson (sorry, don't remember who) once said they aim for a 0.01% component failure rate, but that rockets have over a million parts, so...ten thousand parts could still end up breaking, even with their level of care and precision.
@@theaikidokabut that’s for a rocket ship….. you can’t really be comparing a car to a rocket ship come on now. Have you ever heard the term “it’s not rocket science”?
@@theaikidokaalso just use a little common sense…. When designing/building something, they are going to take pride in there work and try to make it all work together. 1. So unless they had kids working for them something like this would usually not happen, unless it was to make more money buy suppling parts all the time so that it’s not longer a one time purchase. 2. They would have picked up on all these problems in the endless amounts of testing they do on the cars before they are even allowed to sell them to the public.
@@theaikidoka “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” - John Glenn
@@tysonclement4612 The engineers still have to answer to the bean counters and other departments. I was a mechanic for close to 30 years and had a few chances to talk to the actual engineers of certain brands and what they design and what you get, isn't always the same thing. Why do you think there are so many recalls on the newer cars and trucks.
Spent 25 years working for a German multinational as a service tech for specialised equipment and Germans really do over engineer things just for the sake of doing it. Sometimes they get too smart for their own good with the engineers and designers forgetting that somebody has to service these things.
Obviously we’re all proud of our PITA German cars but I think the 4 chain, 9 guide, engine out timing job of the Audi 4.2 deserves an honourable mention.
I don't know about German cars, but my 2004 Dodge Neon you have to take out the whole dash and components along with steering column to get to the heater core.
No, not really. I've worked on many cars where I didn't have to take the whole dash and everything else off the car. Of course I mostly work om cars made before 2000, but there are some newer cars you don't have to take out the whole dash.
Fun times as a BMW tech. Had to program an e90 only for the radio to crash mid process. Subsequently, it took out every other module with it in the process. Fun talks all round with the foreman, service advisor, and customer about why they needed to purchase all their modules.
@@CrossWindsPat Voltage problems. E9x modules especially lightand body module incredibly picky when it comes to voltage especially if they jumped incorrectly
so while the car was in your shop, you caused something to break and billed the customer for it? that stuff only flies in America. anywhere else you and the shop are responsible for any defects caused during your work. You are the expert, you are the one who should have known the voltage can damage other components, you are the one who has all the equipment to check the voltage in the first place. the only way to make the customer take blame is if he did some form of unauthorized modification or repairs on his car that caused the problem.
@@CrossWindsPat Dralership ended up covering it after everything was said and done. It wasn't wholly uncommon for modules to just up and shit the bed during programming sessions, just not always to the point where they would brick the entire car.
5:21 Thank you Sandro, you are super funny and you always bring the "older brother" feel to the channel. You have a lot of really good info, you have a Great way of putting things and you throw awesome jokes into it. Thanks for being so awesome😁👍
I have and old E36 with 140k miles here in Switzerland. Its has the 1.9 105hp petrol engine. It runs and drives great and under the hood it looks like new! I bought it used for 2k€. It has been only serviced at BMW for the past 22 years. Still runs great and no major repairs just the usual wearables.
The plastic coolant pipe at the rear of the head can be pushed out by corrosion causing them to leak and boil. Seen a few do it and its not really visible. The m43b19 is a tough engine alright 💪 iv owned e36s and e46s and they were designed brilliantly, it was at the end of the e46s that they started going very wrong. The n42b20a is a 2l petrol engine which when running is powerful and revvy, but everything breaks 😂 thats what replaced your engine
@@Mrich775I get it, also 2-3 "services" at BMW would be at 2k range probably, so I will dubbel down and say its BS, if true, that car should be at the museum.
Have you seen, theres a video with just Sandro and Angelina, from maybe a few days/a week ago!1 Best thing is, is that they're sitting together so they're rolling off each other, that was hella entertaining
14:22 built like tanks? I wouldnt say so at all. My big mistake was going from Toyota to BMW and treating it the same way; almost immediate mechanical failures. They're built in such a fragile way that they break as soon as you do anything that isnt in the "normal use" category. Where a Toyota will be built in accordance with what is likely and possible in the real life of a car. BMWs are so nice to drive though......
That bullshit with the flooded computer happened to my dad's Audi too. The screen/radio etc in the front doesn't work anymore due to the water damage in the back.
@ 8:00 The reason the engine covers aren't necessary is because of heat retention. In certain HOT states it's worse. Most wire assemblies won't be damaged from moisture considering they're under the hood which protects most damages as well as the fact that moisture cannot reach them. UNLESS you have a massive gap between the bumper and hood or an intake system like a Corvette which pulls air in through the bottom and diffuses it into the brake system as well as the intake system which is why most sports cars with these systems aren't driven proficiently in rainy weather conditions.
12:26 My brother bought a $200 beater and they had spliced the head unit into the headlight wiring so the radio would turn on or off with the head lights.
1:48 What in the H.P. Lovecraft, Dr. Seuss home garage built hell am I looking at?! This nightmare block of pipes, wires, and parts came out of a car?!? How the Hell does it even fit in it! What? Is it some sort of Time Lord "Bigger on the Inside" tech they're using to make that fit??
The problem with BMWs is that each iteration becomes more complex than the one before it, up to the point of lunacy. My E30 was the greatest car I ever owned. Built like a tank, easy to work on, and a hoot to drive. I drove my E36 for three years with a bad head gasket. Took that long for the leak to become unmanageable. As soon as I drove my E46 for a year or so I decided there would be no E90 in my future. Just too much stuff going on between me and the wheels. As soon as I get around to it it's destined for the scrap yard with only 150k on it, as the repair costs greatly exceed the value of the car. Back to Japanese cars for me.
I'm an airplane mechanic, and I can honestly say that Airbus, which is an English, French, and German conglomerate, is exactly the same. Had to remove so much unnecessary, unrelated rigid lines, large flex lines, wire bundles, and structural supports just to get enough clearance to remove a waste tank. Takes most of the day just to get that B.S. outta the way, THEN you can actually start to remove the tank. In contrast, you can have the whole job completed on a Boeing in the same amount of time it takes to get mostly done on an Airbus WITH time to spare to fill out the paperwork, and get it stamped off by inspection.
You're drawing your own conclusions from information made up entirely in your head. The point I was making was that European engineers like to over complicate things, as demonstrated in this video, and as I've seen in real life. You can get more done in a shorter amount of time if you weren't having to take so much apart in order to accomplish a simple task. It's like completely removing an engine in order to change a fuel filter.
My theory is that someone way back a German engineer made a wish to a genie that German engineering would always work the more convoluted the better and longer it would work.
My e46 330ci ZHP ran nearly flawlessly for 185k miles. Outside of normal maintenance the only things i had to replace were a valve cover gasket and a DISA valve. I did have an e63 650i manual coupe that was a nightmare. My 25 year old Porsches are some of the easiest cars to work on I've ever had. They've been great cars too. I had an Audi S4 for awhile that was great to drive but cured me for ever wanting another Audi based on how often I had to work on it. None of my german stuff has been nearly as difficult as my Z32 300zx was to do just about anything.
As a BMW technician I can say most of these cars are designed to be fixed in a certain way with the intention of disposing after a decade at most not that build quality is bad but parts manufacturers want profit too and the tolerances are beyond anything normal that being said they're not hard to work on you just need to be a good tech.
or british. with special mention of Rolls Royce, when it wasn't german engineering. some of french cars, back in early 80's still had ''medieval'' hand crank as starting method. and french cars aren't suited for colder climates, cause hand brake will freeze shut.
Three things to know about Scotty: Any car not a Honda or Toyota is crap. He's always mad as hell or pissed off. His trolling of any one/thing is spot on.
Always use dielectric grease in your electrical connections. Especially under the hood. If your connections have enough dielectric grease in them, moisture can't penetrate the connections and cause a short in the wiring. The rubber seals in the connectors is a good idea. But without dielectric grease it can't stop all the moisture. Every time I pull a connector loose, I put dielectric grease in it before I reconnect it. I also pull all connectors in that area and grease them too. Just make sure you unhook the negative battery terminal before unplugging anything. Especially on modern vehicles
German engineering: I can't remember the exact model, but I'm like 65% sure it was a Volkswagen Toureg. Guy brings it in to the shop for a blown O2 sensor, and he just couldn't figure out a way to get to it. Looks up in the repair manual on how to change that sensor, and right there in the manual it said "step 1: remove engine."
Porsche Cayenne turbo.
My Audi S7 O2 sensor felt that way. Engine is symmetrical left and right, including the exhaust manifolds. One side took 15 minutes to change. Other side took 5 hours of pain. Sensors in the identical spots left and right, but on one side they moved the connector from on top of the engine to the back of it between the engine and firewall in a pit with 2" of clearance with no line of sight into and no way to reach into without dislocating your arm. That and you're supposed to slide the locking tab off the connector, then get leverage to depress the release on the connector in that area. Probably pretty easy if there wasn't a pesky firewall or engine in the way. They could have kept the connector in the same spot on top for both sensors, making them both 15 minute jobs...but no.
All Audi o2 sensors have been that way for 15 years and they are zip tied to the rear coolant pipe making them impossible to reach, impossible to cut the zip ties and impossible to get a socket on the sensor.
We used to cut the wires and have to make a tool to reach the sensor
I'm happy that fixing R1200GS is a bit easier than that
TouAreg bitteschön
"It could be that girl in the back that planted a bomb in there."
Never change Sandro, never change.
Said the same thing.😂😂
she didn't even turn around when it exploded 🤯
@@steverayrapp" cool guys dont look at explosions"
Homeboy is the GOAT
yah that's not so much a German engineering fail, more of an Irish mechanic success
The founder of Honda made Honda a trust that operates only if 4 levels of safisfaction are hit.
1. Consumer satisfaction
2. Repair worker satisfaction
3. Line satisfaction
4. Vendor satisfaction.
Those four things determine if the shareholders GET to KEEP their shares or else the company reverts back to full private with language in place that those things must be fixed before any C suite bonus, buyout, or any golden parachute for the holders.
Pretty smart imo. I think thats the sole reason Honda is as dominant and yet understandable as they are.
Your comment makes me want to get a Honda. Toyota is all the craze right now, but can't forget about Honda.
Brilliant.
I have a civic. My friend has a Camry and my mom has a RAV4. Toyotas are not solid by any means these days. I make him feel bad by tapping his tim cam hood every time I walk past it @@ayliniemi
Honda just needs to drive up their marketing and they will be dominant
They are still dominant in many parts of asia though
@ArariaKAgelessTraveller I don't think that'd help them much. Honda has like 3 cars on the top 10 most sold in US list and only recently got detroned by Tesla model Y as THE most sold car. They're doing just fine. If they wanted to be like everyone else maybe they'd make their luxury brand, Acura, actually their luxury brand and make some fancy yet truly functional cars. But honda tends to let either the race teams do the inventing, or just innovate the thing Mercedes did like 10years ago but actually make it manufacturingly scalable.
I see Sandro, I click. Simple
Jerry's German impression is CRAZY
Exactly 😂
Facts
Easy peasy.
Yes
nice seeing a new face on the show, sandro's the favorite tho cant lie
Until you realize she paid by audi
money makes the world go around, nobody gonna fight you on that.@@geecee12
@@geecee12okay and?
@@geecee12oh no, anything but someone with a job!
Angelina is BAE tho
Bringing in an actual Audi tech is dope
First clip "Nah, that's some shit..." - Does it for a living, and knows how ass it can be (but probably happy to legitimately have double the billed hours of the ford shop down the block)
@@CyberGenesis1 Yepp ... nothing is mor profitable than being a german mechanic (or a mechanic in general working on german cars of course)
Damn right
Money money noney
@@CyberGenesis1then take your car down to the ford shop down the road and have your car worked on by people guessing😂
14:22 "built like tanks" WWII german panzer tanks suffered from over engineering as well. German tank operators had difficulty repairing them in the field and often times abandoned them.
yes
Panther: "Hanz the transmission!!!"
Sherman: "Just swap it out for another one"
@@abitofapickle6255 we first needz zo remove ze engine too remove ze tranzmizzion ja?
That was more propaganda than truth of allied forces
@@IcePhoenixOfTime there's some truth to them being overdeveloped, for sure. They were good tanks but certainly not without faults.
"Any time you push a button and smoke comes out-..."
Sandro- "push it again"!!
I wish I was one of his boys. I'd do anything to ride with that dude.🤘
Get some friends my guy
Get some gays my friends
im gay get me guys
@@Cydro12 what you talking about
@@albinqoqaj925he's gay get him guys
Sandro has an 8 series... Truly a man OF AUTOMOTIVE CULTURE.
Nah, it's the sign of a total Masochist or he got it cheap from a customer because it needed a cheap part that took a huge amount of labor to R&R...
I wonder which generation because it didn't look like he recognised the S63 at 1:50
depends what year though.
I bet E31 @@lemster101
If not e31 then it's a can. E31 840 is actually solid, but the 850 v12 is a lot touchier
Worst German car I worked on was a Smart fortwo.
To replace an alternator, you have to unbolt the entire rear subframe, empty and disconnect the air conditioning, raise the body off the subframe, then raise the engine up out of the cradle so that you can get enough clearance to swap in the old alternator.
For such a miserable little car, just pop into Toys R Us and buy another one
exept that SMART is not german
@@piotrkowalczyk1087 The fact that it was built in France is irrelevant. Daimler engineered it.
@@piotrkowalczyk1087 all the engineering is German, I had a Fortwo Diesel, and that little car also had some problems with the engine holders, they would rot and the engine would drop on the ground, the good thing that Peanuts ignores on that miserable little car is the mileage, a micro turbo diesel consuming 3.2 liters every 100 km's was something that even some 125 cc scooters and light motorcycles can't achieve.
new cars are only good for the crusher ...
Would be cool to hear some personal horror stories from the mechanics they've experienced. They all seem to be passionate and I'd like to hear more personal accounts sometimes than just their opinion/reaction to a video. The reactions are awesome, but I always like hearing personal accounts, they tend to have a lot more emotion than a video you scroll past in my experience.
Yeah that would be sick, anouther little show maybe even with little doodle art to help with the visuals
A cartoon series with them would be great
I'm a mechanic in Norway. German cars are the bane of my existence
Norwegian wood
Nah you are not a mechanic. The only right awnser is french cars. pure trash
I want to know, from Norway, how you feel about American auto engineers.
Fly Lexus! ✈️
@@tedley70 American is second to none
Scotty Kilmer, Donut, and Sandro in one video? One hell of a Jimmy Timmy power hour.
Rev up your va jay jays
Fucking hate scotty
Scotty Kilmer is a hack. He couldn't even wipe Sandro's nuts.
I'm convinced that Scotty snorts a big fat line of coke before he turns on the cameras.
I fucking hate scotty kilmer.
The fact that liquid fuel rocket engines can have less tubing and be easier to work on than these engines is insane.
To be fair, a rocket engine better be built with service in mind. That thing fucks up, you're a lot worse than stuck on the side of the road.
Sandro getting the answer right over the actual audi tech is why Sandro is the goat.
Sandro is a true tradesman, his knowledge is beyond textbook. You can tell he has a shit ton of hours working on cars. He also mentioned in a past vid that his dad was/is a mechanic. So you know his knowledge runs deep. Also, he gotta get it right because he's doin it for da bois.
see i also would of guessed something small and stupid. hes complaining about having to take the clutch pedal out to repair the clutch pedal. kinda stupid imo
that "audi tech" is probably just a secretary in the shop
I hate to be like that but I don't think she really a mechanic. Probably just a cute girl they got to read a script
@kevingeezy5176 istg people who think mechanics should get it right the first time 100 percent of the time make me hate people. If you've ever done actual work on a line of cars/trucks you'd know that's not possible. Especially not when you're given stupid questions like I took out the pedal what am I repairing.
The Audi explosion clip is from Albania and was for real a assassination attempt.
Has to be. There's nothing in a stock passenger cars engine that can explode that violently.
Yeah… cars don’t do that
I was thinking propane conversion that went wrong
Hhahahahahahahah I just commented that with the a video link from Top Channel
@@LittleNicky.My thoughts too. It is exactly where usually the carburetor is placed on that conversion (one of the few places there is space in the engine bay)
Steph was actually pretty cool, gonna need her back
Push it again 😂😂😂 Sandro reminds me of my friend in high school he got us in so much trouble but I loved every single minute of hanging out with him 😢 I miss him to this day
Always love to see Sandro. This my first time seeing Steph. She a real one! Hope to see more of her in future.
I had a Volvo V50 and the cabin air filter was behind the steering wheel 😳🤯. To simply swap your filter: 1) remove the steering wheel 2) remove all gauges 3) swap filter 😂
Should have bought a pre 98 🤣. Big mistake
I had a dodge ram and it broke
Nooooooo😂😂
That's easier than my 1991 BMW 5 Series. 1) Remove glovebox 2) remove a bunch of inner plastic panels 3) remove remove some HVAC vents 4) remove AC module 5) pull out air filter while contorting your body in the passenger footwell.
I knew a mechanic that lost a finger trying to replace the factory stereo in a Mercedes-Benz when the spring-loaded retainer sprung back on his hand.
The coolant is not just dripping on the harness. BMWs use an electrically controlled thermostat, which sometimes leaks internal allowing the coolant to enter the wire. The outside of the harness is water tight, but that doesn’t help when it comes from the inside of the connector. This happens with the oil pressure sensor too.
This is a very common issue on international dt466E the injection drive harness that goes through the valve cover does the exact same thing. We call it wicking. But it does that exactly it will push the oil all the way to the ecm and fry it.
I do hvac and I have seen that happen with just condensation alone.
German engineering is basically “how can we ram as much as possible into a small space with the intent of making things better but it becomes so complicated nobody can fix it”
and they still have good cars.
@@Sdizzle7 They were great cars until they went to so much plastic under the hood. One 'simple' repair that would cost $1500 on a GM/Ford/Toyota would cost you $3800 on a 10 yr old audi. Lease one every 2-3 years. It's your best bet with German cars. Unless you have the money, then hell yes! Enjoy because they do drive wonderfully!
Can't argue, but before they started using so much plastic under the hood, they were very reliable. Back then if you had the money to afford an audi, you had the money to maintain one. Not anymore. The plastic wears out so much quicker and that same $1500 in a GM/Ford/Toyo will be $3550 in an Audi. This has actually been seeping in for years. Early 2000's Concorde had to remove a tire and splashguard to get to the battery. Late '90s Buick had to undo a motor mount and tilt the engine to replace the one serpentine belt! It's all about the sticker in the window now days. 70-% of people just look at that. MPG(weight)/HP/Price. They want you to believe you need 240 hp in a daily driver that weighs 3000 Pounds! Sry, ranting! lol.
It is the remnants of the Prussian military culture that dominated Germany for a very long time. It is very hierarchical, and it has a tendency to make the officer class forget about the existence of the enlisted. Basically, the engineers here have a job to do, and that is to make the vehicle work efficiently and reliably. However, "will it be convenient or even workable for the mechanic" does not even come into it - mechanics are not part of their class so their existence does not even fall within their perception.
Funnily enough, with NATO the actual German military moved past this boneheaded culture a long time ago. Sadly, its remnants are alive and well and still doing damage in a lot of civilian sectors in Germany (and the militaries of other nations who were modelled after the Prussian army, often with Prussian advisors, in the past).
@@LordKhuzdul thats not even true a little bit 🤣
Especially since manufacturers like BMW, Audi and Porsche are from the very south of Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg), which have NOTHING to do with prussian culture.
I used to work as a mechanic in NJ 15-20 years ago. That time, I hated to work on VW and Audi. All plastic and fragile sensor covers, connectors, wiring harness etc. jam packed under the hood. It was almost guaranteed to break something else before you reach the part you wanna replace. Leaky head gaskets were icing on the cake. I wonder if its still the case.
maybe they are like fords now, where you have to remove the body off the frame to do a head gasket on a f150 $5,000 labor to replace a $80 head gasket
Clip 2, that's a bomb trying to kill him...
"why does this look like a crime scene?" I think someone knows some shit! 🤣🤣🤣
Probably... but.... I was working on a Chrysler once upon a time. 3.5 v6 I think.. 2004 Concorde.. The entire intake manifold (the molded plastic sort) popped about 6 inches from my face as I was leaned over trying to listen. It was sitting for quite some time. Had a few turn over - no starts prior, apparently something happened timing wise, and the gas didnt leave the valves from the prior start attempts, and it decided to blow.
That with Audi was car bomb happened in Albania they try to kill the driver
Sandro is so sincere , and you can tell he’s a low key genius under the hood
He knew exactly what was going on with the car leaking water and the clutch. The only guest mechanic that has kept up with him is Ms. A
Love seeing the reaction to the n63 engine out of the car, I’ve spent many an hour working on that nightmare and the car attached to it. You get used to having chafed forearms
"If it's not broken, it doesn't have enough features yet! "
~German Engineer
The quality went down when American philosophy entered. The numbers every quarter got more important than the longevity. Still better than American made cars, even when the asians beat them in durability these days. But as long as they are still looking this good I’m ok with some extra bucks spent for maintenance. And if you keep up with (preventive) maintenance the are very reliable (except one BMW i had, that was a lemon if I’ve ever seen one. I still suspect the first owner, a chief physician in a big hospital here around, drove it like he stole it in the one year he had it…)
😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@erebostd Please refrain from using common sense, science and statistics. The Americans truly dislike it! It a country that defends measuring things with their feet, while braging about NASA, even though Russia carried NASA for decades
You do know that is something all engineers say, right? So your point is that USA got no real or good engineers?
@@VikingRul3s lol you european cry babies are hilarious stay obsessed
BMW inline 6 motors are pretty easy to work on. When they started turbocharging them with the N54 then it reached an entire new level
True. My mid-life fun car is an M Roadster. When I spun the oil pump nut off (being stupid hooning), it took a few weeks nights & weekends to swap in a new S52. Not bad with no lift considering I replaced all the coolant hoses, new clutch, etc. SAFETY WIRE YOUR OIL PUMP NUT, PEOPLE 🤓
"I'm a BMW guy, oh no" 😂😂
I felt that deep down inside. Just got a 2011 335i and felt so worried about it but it grew on me quickly and I love it too much
I worked at a German car shop for a while. we used to say BMW stands for Been Made Wrong.
In germany we say "Bayrischer Mist Wagen" or "Bring Mich Werkstatt" (Bavarian Shit Car or Take me to the Workshop)
Audi and BMW got notorious for over-engineering so you simply cant repair yourself. Bring it to them so they can milk you for more cash.
BMW Break My Wallet
@@ricktrue8441 LMAO loser thinks he can buy a bmw for 10k and not worry about maintanance. last time I checked bmw are made for perfomance and people who buy them dont life with their parents 😂 😂
@@ricktrue8441 odly translatet from german into english " bring me workshop "
Big money wasted
My worst German car experience was my 2013 GTI. It had less than 30k miles on it and the DSG transmission failed. 6 months and about 3k miles later, the thermostat failed. Then the intake needed to be changed on a recall. And finally, I had a misfire due to carbon buildup on the valves with less than 45k on the odometer. I took it to VW because I didn’t have the time deal with it and they tell me I need to pay for diagnostics. I pay for it. They inform me that the use of non-OEM coil packs can be recognized by the onboard computer and that I need OEM coil packs to complete the diagnostic. I asked if they swapped plugs or coils to see if the misfire changes cylinders because they were all aftermarket coils and it was strange that the misfire was in one cylinder, if that was the case. They said no they didn’t attempt swapping the coils or plugs. I tell them I’m not buying new coils for a test and they just need to complete a valve cleaning service and charge me for that. The technician had the audacity to tell me that their scan tool could tell if the valves had carbon build-up…as if there was a sensor inside or around the combustion area. I asked for my car back, took it to a local Euro shop, they agreed 100 percent with my assessment and verified it by swapping the coils and plugs around. Cleaned the valves and the problem was solved. I sold that car and refuse to buy another VW/AUDI.
My 2010 GTI engine blew with 60.000 kilometers chain jumped
Still got it tho love the car
Sound like a local dealer problem rather than a car problem. It can happen with a Toyota.
@@nicksokolis6343i dont think youd have much of an issue with carbon build up in Toyotas because they use port and direct injection to clean the valves from carbon build up. At least not at 45k miles. My friend has an Audi and had to get his cars intake cleaned for this same problem.
Seems like VW customer service is horrible everywhere
I think that German cars are just shy and hiding their sensitive parts
Yeah. They hid them in the middle of the engine
Their sensitivity possession
@@Jimmy_Jones😂😂😂😂
Tsundere cars
The coolant isn’t “dripping”‘onto the wire harness. The issue is the 7-series uses an electronic thermostat so the ECU can regulate coolant temperature. The problem is the e-thermostat seals will fail and “wick” coolant inside the wire harness and take out the control modules.
Older German cars are relatively easy to work on as it’s more about mechanical engineering and durability but anything that has a lot of computer controls become much harder to work on, especially diagnostics. But all those computers take up more room so there is less working room in which to even get in and actually service the item. Older German cars really had a philosophy of rebuild and servicing components vs just throwing it out and buying a new one. But they do drive like few other cars do
Exactly, as my 1984 Audi 4000q is the best car I have ever owned but I would never buy a newer Audi. Likewise the BMW 2002tii was a great car but modern BMW's suck to own...
I make small mistake hit a high curb and broke windshield wiper fluid reservoir in my Audi A4, to get to this u need
Take wheel off, take inside of wheel-well off. then u have access
Most older cars are like that. Not just euros
My 88 300TE is by far the easiest car I’ve ever worked on. Old German vs New is totally different ballgame
@@mateuszzimon8216 that is like 5 mins worth of work....
As a computer technician I can categorically state that if you let the smoke out of an electric device it will stop working, you need to keep the smoke INSIDE the device.
"why can't I burnout with traction control on?"
Me: Sees Sandro in the thumbnail
My fingers: 🆑ℹ️©️K
The fact that you stole this comment, but made it objectively worse is wild.
@@CaptainAlex69 I commented this at the same time. It just took me a couple minutes to do because I had to find the emojis which explains why it says it was 2 minutes after
@@CaptainAlex69 the fact that you assume things like that is wild 🥴
@@JC_500 it's kinda unfortunate people jump to conclusions so fast, really tells you something doesn't it.
@@JC_500 it’s not assumed. When I was originally looking, the original comment said 19 minutes ago. Yours (this one I’m commenting under) said 14 minutes ago. There was two other replies to the first comment that each said 15 minutes ago.
I've owned two cars. a 2nd gen mazda 3, and a b8 audi s4. Replacing the all rotors and pads in my mazda took me about an hour. In my audi it takes about 2 hours. Replacing the valve cover gasket in my mazda, takes 40 minutes with watching a tutorial. A couple of bolts and youre done. In my Audi (granted it has 2 gaskets) takes nearly 3 hours. You have to remove the intake, remove a gas line, remove the coolant tank, plastic valve covers, and plastic crank case breather hoses that are designed to break when you remove them...But I still love my S4.
I currently own a gen 2 Mazda 3 and it’s so easy to replace thing
My 05 Mazda sp23 is easy to work on its still going daily driver for my wife over 300,000kms got her 2 new cars since then and she wont part with the Mazda and sold the new cars after about a year. My 80 series Landcruiser is easy to work on when the wife got me a new 4wd she said you have to sell the 80 series or the 2nd gen 4runner, I sold the 4runner and the new 4wd about 12months later. We still have a 1990 80 series Landcruiser and a 2005 Mazda sp23 some cars are just too good to get rid off.
Ive got a b8.5 S4 and so far most things I've had to do are fairly straight forward. But you are right, they usually take a bit of time hahaha.
ok yes but you are talking about a car that is a v6 supercharged and has dual everything. Even the b5 s4 was 2 of everything… it would take a little more time.
I also once had an Audi a4 B8 with the 2.0 l tfsi. and that is the engine that is always clogging up the pistons. In any case, Audi repaired this on the American models at their own expense. As a German, the German companies prefer to fuck me, but they simply claimed that 1-2 liters of oil per 1000 km is completely normal for a car from 2009. These pussers. I tell you German customers prefer to fuck German car companies.
2:20 - In a lot of modern German cars you have electronic safety features and sensors. For example, when another car appears in your dead angle, a small light will go off in your driver side mirror to alert you of this. Some manufacturers take it to the next level and let you activate a function that will not let you steer to that side when another car or an obstacle is detected. It will steer back the other way. If you are not used to that, it freaks you out when it happens. Since we cannot see what is happening left of the steering wheel or to the sensor, this could be just someone standing there. I think it does not activate while standing still or driving slowly, because it would be a problem when parking or maneuvering in cramped spaces. If it is an error, it probably is a broken sensor sending false activation signals. Could also be a fried electric motor control.
We used to live in Toronto where if you get into a bike lane by an inch you'll most likely get spit on. Not a great place to have the car steer for me. I worked with someone who had the 4 wheel steering Honda. She absolutely hated it. Overkill is Volvo's ground level ozone detector that turns the interior fans off. I wonder what that costs to fix.
As a former Volkswagen dealership technician, I made a good living fixing German cars, and the illusion that German cars are harder to work on maintains job security.
Right!!! Shhh keep it a secret!!! LOL
a lot of people complain about one issue or another, when in reality, any car with the same technology can have them. pretty much all of my automotive tech instructors have said in one form that all cars are sh*boxes in their own right. we just pick the one that we like the most.
Dude... you have to pull the timing set to change the water pump in a 2000 jetta. That's a little much don't you think?
Not an illusion, more like most people don't want to waste their time when simpler standards are already established by Toyota.
@@Swogfishbeen studying mechanics for 4 years aswell as working on my own project cars for 2 now, all of our cars except a prius that we have in the garage are european, mostly peugeots,citroen and some vws (newer and older ones...we even have a wierd 105), out of all i prefer the toyota prius
legit the easiest to work on despite me not begin particulary kind to that model of toyota...at least they let you remove the hybrid battery without having to take appart the whole damn interior off, plus the manuals are very easy to read and follow
so idk what eu cars you guys working on...but i think im staying with the japanese on this one, more for me :D
Dude, a Scotty video in a Real Mechanic stuff video? This is like inception!
“bwuaaammm”
The moment I saw Scotty Kilmer my brain just instantly wanted to skip that part. He's not teaching anything in his videos he's just yelling and yapping shit and seemingly can't accept the fact that people have different preferences and opinions.
@@Iisakki3000 Yeah, when I realized Scotty was more political than educational I also checked out.
My boss bought 2023 bmw transmission went at 13.000 then the decals fell off then the electric went fucked . Ggen he bought a tundra.....my best friend bought a Mercedes transmission skipped several gears and smoked at 30.000 and harness fried the totaled the car. .... meanwhile my " pos American truck" had 167.0000 and no issues
As a Skoda owner (vw group), I'm glad my car's platform isn't flawed enough to reach your studio :))
This video was basically a BMW show with a little VW and a touch of Mercedes
Skoda in general are stripped down versions of VW group cars, so you lose some of the technology, but in a good way.
As an example, my Skoda will do things like set the radio presets depending on which key fob starts it, but it doesn’t have the driver specific electric seat adjustment that an Audi level car would have. Same platform, same computer, but with a lot less wiring and electric motors that get real expensive to repair after 5 years or so of ownership.
@@King-Kazma Skoda don`t have anything with German`s ;) Yes it`s European but is from Czech Republic.
And another thing every new`ish car is mess because ot the PC and every "factory update" that have inside ;) The old cars don`t have 99% of problem new`ish have
@@iskrendinchev5882 How tf doesn't it have anything to do with germans if they're owned by the Volkswagen group for more than 20 years?
@@crybaby1363 probably someone in denial, but yeh really they are all pretty much built on one VW platform or another... and not necessarily a bad thing, for one the engines are far FAR FAR!! better in every way.
heck my mates TDI Octavia has the EXACT same engine as my golf. but going further back i think the version starting 2004 was built on the A5 platform (so same as golf,A3,leon ect ect)
@@iskrendinchev5882 Skoda are 98% German. Same chassis platform as Audi/VW/Seat. Same engines. Same electronics. Most parts have VW or Audi stampings. Only the outer sheet metal and upholstery fabric is Czech.
This makes it easier to source parts though as more or less the same engine may be in a dozen different models of car.
I like how Porsche didn't saw it's way into this video. It didn't had headlights
Mk4 VWs are difficult to put aftermarket radios in for three reasons.
1) the radio on/off is controlled by canbus so to install an aftermarket radio correctly, you need to buy a $100 or so canbus interface adapter.
2) if you're not installing an aftermarket radio correctly, there is no 12V switched power in there, you have to run a separate wire for switched power to turn the radio on and off.
3) there aren't really any nice dash kits since the mounting system they use is proprietary and very very low profile. The dash kits that work are just press fit into the hole since the car doesn't have any ISO DIN brackets and the standard aftermarket radio cages wont sit properly.
german car manufacturer not following german industrial norm😂
Fortunately, they correctly adopted the standard in later years. It was pretty straightforward in my 2013 beetle.
Mk4s absolutely have switched and constant 12V at the radio. There's no CAN-Bus at the radio in any MK4. At most the later MK4s had CAN-Bus for ABS, ECU, Cluster and a gateway. These cars have almost entirely standard ISO-Pinouts at the radio. What You're mentioning happened on the next generation of vehicle networks, like in the B7 A4 for example.
Pretty much any VW, economy car quality, luxury car complexity and prices. Man nailed it when he said "Luxury doesn't equal longevity!".
Uncle has a VW, was debating on spending $5-6k to replace timing chain, which is a known problem for that engine.
Economy car quality? What VWs have you been looking at? We've owned Fords, Hondas, and Toyotas before our VWs and the VW fit and finish, as well as performance, is way above those other three. I'm not denying they're more complicated but you can tell they're more sophisticated when driving.
1:53 In the industry, we call this "Hitler's Revenge".
I've had a few second generation Audi A8, great car the one I have now has 260,000 on it. It has some really funny water intrusion problems, if you don't keep the drains clear the water from the windshield backs up and shorts the transmission control unit located literally in the cowl drain area in a plastic box that says in German that "water intrusion is forbidden." The other thing is once that fills up it leaks into the HVAC system through where the blower motor is (also in the cowl drain area) once it fills up in the heater core it dumps the water through an overflow pipe into the driver and passenger side footwells, the reason that I know they knew about this issue and over engineered it is that it eventually makes it to drain holes that are drilled on the low spot under the driver and passenger seats and it comes out under the car. In Audi's defense the first guy that buys the car for $100,000 keeps it in a garage and won't learn about this "truth in engineering" i keep mine outside and have to spend about an hour twice a year clearing all the drains with compressed air. Luckily 100% of the frame and body of that model is aluminum so it doesn't rust from the water or anything like that.
11:45 I drive an Iveco daily at work, automatic. And if u pull the e-brake and remove the igniton key while the car is running, it will just stay running until u release the e-brake.
VW guy here. Once had my headlight switch randomly catch fire on me for seemingly no reason. After a careful inspection of the wiring, and finding nothing else wrong. I replaced said switch, fixed nothing else, and haven't had a problem with it in 10 years!
Skoda owner here. Brilliant bit of kit, and its VW. My mechanic's fav cars are Minis, Range Rovers, Beemers etc, because they make him the most money.
Least favourite? Toyota, Lexus. Almost never have issues, so makes no money😂
Shouldn’t have had a problem to begin with if it were properly designed. I once had a $55k VW Touareg. I drove it from the stealership to its grave at the junkyard in about 79000 miles. Every single thing on that car broke. Never again VAG. Never. Again.
Why I got an IS350, tho I'm not gunna lie, I like them R32's! Those VR6's, beautiful pieces of machinery.
8:05 what scotty meant was like with old toyotas where the valve cover is metal and does not have a plastic shroud on in to hide say, the ignition coils. since there is nothing to trap heat parts run cooler. and when there is less change in temperatures around plastics, plastics crack less often.
Doesn’t the hood itself trap heat?
@@kenmorrisproducer not that much as compared to a plastic cover because hood is still farther and air anyway gets in through the grill. Metal hood still conducts heat better than plastic shroud
Sandro comfortable as if he’s part of the team I love it
SCOTTY making a guest appearance!
Dudes a joke 😂
@@Mk7Poorscheand jokes are funny
@JobyFluorine-ru4bdthat’s incorrect he actually fixed my 240sx back when he was in Houston and was very well known. So I actually have met the guy and seen him work. Can I ask where you go the information that he’s not a mechanic?
I'd be okay if he'd stop talking and flailing his arms.
@JobyFluorine-ru4bd he’s not wrong the plastic cover is unnecessary (mechanically speaking) it’s more for a visual view as a mechanic that you say you are you should understand what he meant by it. Yes a shop won’t approve due to any liability responsibility. But your statement is still incorrect as you based your opinion off a video. Trust me when I tell you he is a good mechanic even dealerships fear him in Texas as people had gone to him after service at a dealership or checking out a used car and finding major issues that the dealer knew about but hid from the customer and getting their money back from service or the sales department.
I am from Germany and I work as a hobby on cars. Sometime I fix minor things for friends and family. Nothing big, nothing complicated. Stuff like installing new headlights, radios, swapping breaks etc. By far my worst experience with a German car was BMWs who needed what felt the whole from taken out to change the headlight bulbs. Equally baffling was a Renault that needed a specially molded radio (or a plastic cover ) because of course the radio needs to be part of sloping plastic thing
This.
If you think German cars suck, try a French car.
They are overly complicated without any benefits.
@@065Tim Look up how to change a cabin air filter on a new Renault Master. It's astonishingly stupid. And, even worse, the new filter comes in two pieces. But for some reason the original one is a one-piece filter that won't fit through the hole you are supposed to take it out through. So you basically have two options: Either cut the filter in half through a small hole you can barely reach through or take the dash apart even further than you already needed to (You need to remove the whole glovebox assembly in order to get to the filter opening).
Based on my time working on a late 90s merc, the worst and most painful part has to be the plastic pieces. They snap easily when taking off, and the worst part is that it is often incredibly difficult to find a replacement piece for them too
Sandro. He has that face. That smile, that says "I know, I got away with it. And I know that you don't know what I actually got away with. And I know that you know that I know that I got away with it and you can't prove any of it!" xD
OMG im dyin. I thought I was the only one.
Sandro's assassination explanation hahah
It appeared to be one...
1:48 "What have you got under the hood?"
"Flying Spaghetti Monster."
My timeline has been Scotty free for a long time. Yet he sneaks in here, thankfully Sandro makes up for having to watch a bit of Scotty.
As a German VAG mechanic I would say replacing the master cylinder on that car is like normal work. Is it easier to work on American cars?
15 years ago i was working as supplier with BMW AG on N54 and N55 and Prince engine a little (M13/M12) (Munich, Germany) and S85 (M GmbH, Munich, Germany) and N57 and M57TÜ2 (Steyr, Austria).
So three things:
1.BMW M GmbH / S85
Guys at BMW M GmbH were working in little team and knew what they were doing and listened to us in what we were trying to help them. It is sad that this V10 became known for its lack of reliability but these are the guys you wanted to work with. They had a McLaren F1 engine at the reception waiting space it was setting the tone but they were WAY more humble than any other engineer from Peugeot or Renault or BMW AG. BMW M GmbH was little then it was really nice to work with them. Their parking lot was crazy and the workshop inside was something of another world. With them it was not really working it was more like an engineering dream come true. I want to thank them.
2.BMW AG (benzin) / N54 + N55
Guys at BMW AG were pretty good for project management and putting suppliers on their knee and cutting cost. But that's about it. They were creating product's specification "GS" (General Specification) that were way too complicated and that were written without taking into account supplier's capability or reality of the product. (to my humble opinion this is what explain that the cars made then were too complicated). Technically they were too proud but were not so good and it was a huge issue in developpement. I understand they can not trust too much suppliers and it is difficult for them to have same experience on a given product than that of the supplier itself. But hey, they were speaking like they knew it all but in the back they were asking us stupid explaination about stupid electric stuff they should have known. They made a mess about everything and they even crashed the only prototype car they had to test our product on the track in Miramas, France. They crash the car while high speed joy riding. The test to be conducted were slow test. High speed test were not relevant and not critical. Many times they would be like project dictators, trying to enforce stupid deadline with a hammer while telling "if you don't do that we will kick you out forever" and things of that magnitude. There was no "farmer's common sense" in Munich. It was much internal politics and reality denial, as it always comes with politics. We can say they were on the technical woke side of the industry. You did not want to work with them. One time they were loud and told my collegue "our next intern is miss playboy oktoberfest". And here she was, a few days later, dressed decently, when we all had seen her before with less clothes on playboy on line. They would complain about us when we were working like crazy with crazy complex stuff. She was here creating 4 lines table (4 lines, yes) and they were happy with her you could tell. That's where they were. At that time it felt like they had a huge gap between the old generation and the new generation. The guys from the old generation seemed like they refused everything and were just here to complain and be the center of the attention. Naturally the newer generation was then not loud and let them be the center of the show. So at the end it was more like a puppet show because the old bmw generation was trying to reject any new things while the new generation was making specifications to built 1 ton rockets with integrated hotel for 86 persons. These old generation had a say on stuff that they had no understanding of it was annoying. It was really a bad puppet show to watch. It is clear that 530i and 325ix from the 80s were good cars but it felt like they just could not comply to the idea that new cars will need new technologies and new bolts. And I mean litterally new bolts because that's what we were arguing about, bolts or welding solution.
3.BMW Steyr (Diesel) / M57Tü2 / N57
They were working in little teams and did more work than double the amount of people at Munich. One or two guys were not that friendly (the youngest one are the less humble ones at BMW this was a common pattern, even in Steyr). But they could manage it and they were not in line with Munich, they had WAY more common sense. Actually at first the Steyr Factory was a tractor factory! It seemed they had kept all their "farmer's common sense". They had very nice workshops and their mechanics were so good you could tell not much explaination needed, they figure things out on the spot and do it so fast, like at BMW M GmbH. I guess many of them were into racing teams before. The city of Steyr and its hotel were very nice, driving there was litterally like going to holidays. I did not enjoy working with the young guys, maybe they were thinking they are the dog's bollocks.
The rest of time i was working with Audi both Diesel (Neckarsulm) and benzin (Ingolstadt). What I can say is that if Audi are complicated and not relialable.... well.... no wonder... at all. Really. It was nice to watch W12 and V10 and RS4 DTM pace car driving around the factory or in workshop, but no wonder idf AUDI are complicated cars.
A few years after i got to work at BMW internally on other project. I realised that how BMW Munich was treating us a suppliers... got me to the conclusion that these former "collegues" at BMW Munich were complete /*/*/**/*//**-/. Well you get it.
A few years later i worked with an inusrrance company as "expert". Most cases were VW and BMW taking fire. It was just sad to see how BMW and VW treated their customers. I make it short: BMW and VW will throw all they can against their customers to accuse them... If it includes heavy trials and courts stuff, they will take that path. if this needs lying in court against you, they will do. In South Korea, they even lied to the government/justice and some BMW executive (German) had to FLEE the country to avoid jail for lying in court. Almost the same happen in USA with VW.
Lying is part of BMW daily life, for many projects
Thanks for the interesting story, somehow it does not surprise me. It is similar to other industries, eu is really on its way out as an industrial powerhouse...
How long did it take you to type this comment LOL
@@popahontas "eu is really on its way out as an industrial powerhouse"
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that
I could have replaced all the hoses on that BMW engine in the time it took me to read through that...
@@TheComputec i am in europe so i hope its not true...
Man, I'm on my third master cylinder on my Ranger, and it's so easy to replace. Aside from removing some plastic you just unclip, twist, and pull.
Steph has to be the finest mechanic ive ever seen
I'm in love with her
Man, damn you all need fuckin glasses too. 🤮
The more components the more things that have a chance of breaking increasing your total risk of something breaking. That picture of the engine pulled out is insanely complicated 😂😂
A NASA spokesperson (sorry, don't remember who) once said they aim for a 0.01% component failure rate, but that rockets have over a million parts, so...ten thousand parts could still end up breaking, even with their level of care and precision.
@@theaikidokabut that’s for a rocket ship….. you can’t really be comparing a car to a rocket ship come on now. Have you ever heard the term “it’s not rocket science”?
@@theaikidokaalso just use a little common sense…. When designing/building something, they are going to take pride in there work and try to make it all work together. 1. So unless they had kids working for them something like this would usually not happen, unless it was to make more money buy suppling parts all the time so that it’s not longer a one time purchase.
2. They would have picked up on all these problems in the endless amounts of testing they do on the cars before they are even allowed to sell them to the public.
@@theaikidoka “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” - John Glenn
@@tysonclement4612 The engineers still have to answer to the bean counters and other departments. I was a mechanic for close to 30 years and had a few chances to talk to the actual engineers of certain brands and what they design and what you get, isn't always the same thing. Why do you think there are so many recalls on the newer cars and trucks.
Spent 25 years working for a German multinational as a service tech for specialised equipment and Germans really do over engineer things just for the sake of doing it. Sometimes they get too smart for their own good with the engineers and designers forgetting that somebody has to service these things.
My favorite part of Thursday is seeing Sandro and it just got better! More Steph!!
Obviously we’re all proud of our PITA German cars but I think the 4 chain, 9 guide, engine out timing job of the Audi 4.2 deserves an honourable mention.
....there are FOUR timing chains?!?!?
@@CrossWindsPatit’s also on the REAR of the engine.
@@_corteks_ Wtf....
@@CrossWindsPatLook it up. You won't regret it. It's a comedy show. XD I listed the Audi V engines from the new era as worst german cars to work on.
I'm german myself btw. And love a lot of cars made here. These engines... While they run well... I don't like em.
Steph is so expressive. More please
We need her and Ms. A on the same episode too
kissing @@jlGenozzV
8:50 is a great example
I don't know about German cars, but my 2004 Dodge Neon you have to take out the whole dash and components along with steering column to get to the heater core.
I was under the impression most cars' heater cores were "dash out" affairs
No, not really. I've worked on many cars where I didn't have to take the whole dash and everything else off the car. Of course I mostly work om cars made before 2000, but there are some newer cars you don't have to take out the whole dash.
Fun times as a BMW tech. Had to program an e90 only for the radio to crash mid process. Subsequently, it took out every other module with it in the process. Fun talks all round with the foreman, service advisor, and customer about why they needed to purchase all their modules.
Brooo..... Thats fucking insane!!!! What happened? There is no world in which I want to imagine BMW not covering that...
@@CrossWindsPat Voltage problems. E9x modules especially lightand body module incredibly picky when it comes to voltage especially if they jumped incorrectly
@@questionabletaste2700 No I meant to ask how did the situation get handled between the owner and the dealership?
so while the car was in your shop, you caused something to break and billed the customer for it?
that stuff only flies in America. anywhere else you and the shop are responsible for any defects caused during your work. You are the expert, you are the one who should have known the voltage can damage other components, you are the one who has all the equipment to check the voltage in the first place. the only way to make the customer take blame is if he did some form of unauthorized modification or repairs on his car that caused the problem.
@@CrossWindsPat Dralership ended up covering it after everything was said and done. It wasn't wholly uncommon for modules to just up and shit the bed during programming sessions, just not always to the point where they would brick the entire car.
5:21
Thank you Sandro, you are super funny and you always bring the "older brother" feel to the channel. You have a lot of really good info, you have a Great way of putting things and you throw awesome jokes into it. Thanks for being so awesome😁👍
I have and old E36 with 140k miles here in Switzerland. Its has the 1.9 105hp petrol engine. It runs and drives great and under the hood it looks like new! I bought it used for 2k€. It has been only serviced at BMW for the past 22 years. Still runs great and no major repairs just the usual wearables.
Yeah right... for 2k only at BMW...
The plastic coolant pipe at the rear of the head can be pushed out by corrosion causing them to leak and boil. Seen a few do it and its not really visible. The m43b19 is a tough engine alright 💪 iv owned e36s and e46s and they were designed brilliantly, it was at the end of the e46s that they started going very wrong. The n42b20a is a 2l petrol engine which when running is powerful and revvy, but everything breaks 😂 thats what replaced your engine
Would love an E36 but most of them are either fked up from drift boys or insanely overpriced :S
@@Hk7762Tube He said serviced at BMW, not purchased...
@@Mrich775I get it, also 2-3 "services" at BMW would be at 2k range probably, so I will dubbel down and say its BS, if true, that car should be at the museum.
Interviewer : "What is can say about BMW engineering failures?"
Mechanics : "BMW"
Donut doesn’t even need the boys in this series. Just write and direct it and have Sandro, Angelina, Paul and Steph do the hosting!
Have you seen, theres a video with just Sandro and Angelina, from maybe a few days/a week ago!1
Best thing is, is that they're sitting together so they're rolling off each other, that was hella entertaining
14:22 built like tanks? I wouldnt say so at all. My big mistake was going from Toyota to BMW and treating it the same way; almost immediate mechanical failures. They're built in such a fragile way that they break as soon as you do anything that isnt in the "normal use" category. Where a Toyota will be built in accordance with what is likely and possible in the real life of a car. BMWs are so nice to drive though......
That bullshit with the flooded computer happened to my dad's Audi too. The screen/radio etc in the front doesn't work anymore due to the water damage in the back.
2:00 ....I quit.
We need more Steph around here
@ 8:00 The reason the engine covers aren't necessary is because of heat retention. In certain HOT states it's worse. Most wire assemblies won't be damaged from moisture considering they're under the hood which protects most damages as well as the fact that moisture cannot reach them. UNLESS you have a massive gap between the bumper and hood or an intake system like a Corvette which pulls air in through the bottom and diffuses it into the brake system as well as the intake system which is why most sports cars with these systems aren't driven proficiently in rainy weather conditions.
12:26 My brother bought a $200 beater and they had spliced the head unit into the headlight wiring so the radio would turn on or off with the head lights.
6:49 Scotty! Best mechanic ever
Steph was really insightful! Awesome getting an actual audi tech
1:48 What in the H.P. Lovecraft, Dr. Seuss home garage built hell am I looking at?! This nightmare block of pipes, wires, and parts came out of a car?!? How the Hell does it even fit in it! What? Is it some sort of Time Lord "Bigger on the Inside" tech they're using to make that fit??
The problem with BMWs is that each iteration becomes more complex than the one before it, up to the point of lunacy. My E30 was the greatest car I ever owned. Built like a tank, easy to work on, and a hoot to drive. I drove my E36 for three years with a bad head gasket. Took that long for the leak to become unmanageable. As soon as I drove my E46 for a year or so I decided there would be no E90 in my future. Just too much stuff going on between me and the wheels. As soon as I get around to it it's destined for the scrap yard with only 150k on it, as the repair costs greatly exceed the value of the car. Back to Japanese cars for me.
You could just try out something French, they try to make something stylish and still basic mechanically. French diesels are pretty solid.
You will also hate modern Honda's & most Toyota's...
Sounds like a deferred maintenance blame there. If you maintain the car it will last as long as you want it to. Good luck with your Prius.
Audi: Since our cam chains never fails lets put them on the back of the engine.
But they do fail.
Audi: Ohhh
I'm an airplane mechanic, and I can honestly say that Airbus, which is an English, French, and German conglomerate, is exactly the same.
Had to remove so much unnecessary, unrelated rigid lines, large flex lines, wire bundles, and structural supports just to get enough clearance to remove a waste tank. Takes most of the day just to get that B.S. outta the way, THEN you can actually start to remove the tank.
In contrast, you can have the whole job completed on a Boeing in the same amount of time it takes to get mostly done on an Airbus WITH time to spare to fill out the paperwork, and get it stamped off by inspection.
So it's even more so the lazy mechanics to blame when a Boeing is badly maintained? Good to know...😅
Huh? How'd you come to that conclusion?
You're drawing your own conclusions from information made up entirely in your head.
The point I was making was that European engineers like to over complicate things, as demonstrated in this video, and as I've seen in real life. You can get more done in a shorter amount of time if you weren't having to take so much apart in order to accomplish a simple task.
It's like completely removing an engine in order to change a fuel filter.
Yea but the Boeing is gonna take off and kill 150 souls later because they decided profit margin was more important than safety.
Airbus engineering; done by comity.
My theory is that someone way back a German engineer made a wish to a genie that German engineering would always work the more convoluted the better and longer it would work.
Steph is great, please bring her back. And Sandro OF COURSE. We love Sandro!
My e46 330ci ZHP ran nearly flawlessly for 185k miles. Outside of normal maintenance the only things i had to replace were a valve cover gasket and a DISA valve. I did have an e63 650i manual coupe that was a nightmare.
My 25 year old Porsches are some of the easiest cars to work on I've ever had. They've been great cars too.
I had an Audi S4 for awhile that was great to drive but cured me for ever wanting another Audi based on how often I had to work on it.
None of my german stuff has been nearly as difficult as my Z32 300zx was to do just about anything.
Jerry's German impression is CRAZY
Not Scotty "brake clean sniffing" Killmer!😂
As a BMW technician I can say most of these cars are designed to be fixed in a certain way with the intention of disposing after a decade at most not that build quality is bad but parts manufacturers want profit too and the tolerances are beyond anything normal that being said they're not hard to work on you just need to be a good tech.
Loving Stephs reactions and explanations to the videos definitely bring her back on.
6:36 you just have to remove the cowl cover, that`s 6 or 8 screws(10min) and you got excess to the whole engine
sandro's give it the beans hoodie is fire
they havent seen french cars. they are hell
or british. with special mention of Rolls Royce, when it wasn't german engineering.
some of french cars, back in early 80's still had ''medieval'' hand crank as starting method.
and french cars aren't suited for colder climates, cause hand brake will freeze shut.
Sandro needs to straight be a host on donut. That lady is pretty good too, she actually seems to legit know wtf she’s talking about.
ok
You just don't comprehend German engineering.
Three things to know about Scotty: Any car not a Honda or Toyota is crap. He's always mad as hell or pissed off. His trolling of any one/thing is spot on.
Scotty is a Toyota & Honda fanboy and he appears to be obnoxious...
Always use dielectric grease in your electrical connections. Especially under the hood. If your connections have enough dielectric grease in them, moisture can't penetrate the connections and cause a short in the wiring. The rubber seals in the connectors is a good idea. But without dielectric grease it can't stop all the moisture. Every time I pull a connector loose, I put dielectric grease in it before I reconnect it. I also pull all connectors in that area and grease them too. Just make sure you unhook the negative battery terminal before unplugging anything. Especially on modern vehicles