just got back from walking the pupper and picking up a brew. he's chewing on his new bone and i'm watching my favourite youtube. we'll see how these longer episodes get on - if the little b****r 🐺can spend eight minutes without bothering me! 😄
They're not only driving next to you. They are also driving TOWARDS you in the opposite direction. And not only you, but also your family members and everyone else you love.
Honestly, I think a lot of them just think that buying another car will be cheaper than the 2 grand repair bill. When I turned a wrench for a living, often thats what they ended up doing; sending the one that came in to the junk yard and buying another clunker off craigslist or FB Market place for like 500. Then they drove that till there wasn't much left, then on to the next one.
Once upon a time, Rolls Royces were the ultimate in Quality cars, and they never went wrong. Really. Never. A guy I once knew, had a friend (back in the 1960's this was) who went on a European tour in his RR. On a crappy road in Spain, he hit a dip and ended up with a broken axle. Towed to the nearest town, he reported it to RR in the UK, settled down in a hotel and awaited recovery. Sure enough, a group of engineers with a replacement axle flew out and replaced the axle, sorting any associated problems, and headed off home. He completed his tour and returned to the UK, only waiting for the bill to arrive. It didn't. Finally, he wrote to RR asking what the cost for the broken axle was going to be, anticipating something astronomical. The reply came: "I'm sorry, sir, but you must be mistaken. Rolls Royce axles simply do not break."
Some people are disgusting. Does nobody own a shop vac any more? Or at least a trash can? Actually, you don't even NEED to own a trash can. Every gas station has free ones!
I was a tech at a VW dealer for many years and there is not a chance in hell we would ever have allowed a car filled with garbage like that in the shop
0:51 I have found that warming my pizza on the intake manifold works well, while cooking it on the exhaust manifold is a bonus. Stay tuned for more tips. 👍
@@steveb6103 I found the turbo too hot, used to burn my lunch. Canned beans or chilli worked well on the engine. Open them first to release pressure for anyone trying this.
Whenever you show one of those vehicles filled with garbage I am reminded of something that happened to me back in the 1970's. A friend of mine, who was an absolute pig, had his car, a 1965 Chevy, towed and impounded for safety concerns. Little things like a pair of vice grips for a steering wheel. In any event, he signed the car over to me because he owed me some money and I paid the impound fees and towing to my place. I wanted the car for the motor but I decided to clean the thing out since someone else wanted the seats for $150.00. The only place you could sit in this thing was the drivers seat. Everything else was flush to the top of the dash or the rear shelf and the trunk was much the same As I was cleaning the car out I got quite a haul. There were four or five brand new suits, some shirts, and shoes that had never been worn buried in the mess untouched because they were still in their original packaging. At the bottom on the floor of the back seat I came upon two rifles, one .22 and one 303, along with a 12 gauge pump and a complete set of fishing gear. There were also a fairly extensive amount of hand tools like wrenches, sockets, and screwdrivers. I had everything set outside the car on my driveway when the guy I bought the car from showed up. He started taking things and I asked him what he thought he was doing. He said he was taking his things back and I told him not so fast buddy. My bill of sale says as is where is and that stuff is now mine. We got into an argument and I told him to get to hell off my property before I called the cops. He left but a couple of days later he called me and asked how much I wanted for "his stuff". I told him two grand and he agreed to pay it. I told him cash up front and he bitched and moaned but finally agreed. He came over about a week later and handed me my money and took his things without speaking a word. As for me, well once I got the car cleaned out I didn't pull the motor or the seats. The thing was in better shape than what I was driving so I fixed it and drove it for another two years until I replaced it with another vehicle.......not a bad deal from my perspective....lol
My son bought a beater pickup for $1k a few years back, and the guy said he could keep the tools in the back. Tools included a $250+ Snap-On ratchet and a full set of really nice metric sockets. Son didn't even realize they were anything more than Harbor Freight quality until I showed him the prices.
This is not as juicy as yours. We would get parts shipped to FedEx Stores and we would use the office space for internet and their printing services. One day this old guy comes in and starts to just copy a bunch of stuff. He looked unkept. When I was leaving I noticed he had a Vista Cruiser like the one in That 70's show. It was filled to the bottom of the windows front to back with papers. Some were in like file boxes some just in piles. The only place that was empty of papers was the drivers seat. There were a few news papers and empty coffee cups thrown in for good measure.
Reminds me of the time I bought my step son a really nice Ford Granada Ghia estate for his 18th birthday. I got it at a bargain price because one of the wheel bearings needed replacing. I told him we'd be doing that together at the weekend. Unfortunately before that happened, he'd traded it in for a much older Austin Allegro with some problems. I had quite an argument with him because he'd been scammed into believing that the Granada wasn't worth repairing. Nevertheless I agreed that, come the weekend I'll be helping him sort out this cars problems. Unfortunately, before that happened he'd traded that in for a motor scooter, that although complete, was in pieces. I just couldn't get him to stop making these insane trades. Within a few weeks he'd successfully traded all the way down to just the frame of a push bike. A very nice push bike frame (in his opinion), but it didn't even have wheels, pedals or handlebars. It was just a frame. When I pointed out that he'd effectively swapped a very nice car for the frame of a push bike he claimed "Well when you put it like that it looks bad" yet he still believed that, every single trade he'd done was good. I managed to get a small refund on the insurance policy I'd paid for (covering the Granada) and let him have that to buy some wheels for his bike.
Same in my construction days. Got a job that would require going up a flight of stairs in the house to install an AC cage. Stairs were largely absent, and the support joists were so rotted that I didn't even trust resting a ladder on them to get up to the window. Job declined.
I did a service once on Buddy Hackets RR, just the labor was $2600.00. The most unusual part were the rear spring cleaning, regreasing and sewing the new leather cover back over the rear leaf springs. Did this service while Buddy was on the rice diet in Durham NC. My shop was in Durham NC also.
I'm a safety patrol at a major retailer. This specific store at one time had lots of trees planted in raised beds throughout the parking lot, looked nice. Over time trees have been taken out by drivers gunning it to cut across the lot and not pay attention. Now there's a third of the trees left and the old empty concrete rims of the beds remain. Which causes more tow truck visits because people still try and gun it across the lot while not paying attention, hit those empty tree beds and go bouncing like a kangaroo. The most recent guy almost hit my door and we stared at eachother until I asked if he was okay. He tried to drive away but didn't make it past a few lot aisles.
I got a audi a8 with similar shady stuff. Guess the previous garage couldnt understand air suspension so he butchered the struts and made them longer ! I have a video about it. appalling and dangerous
Only thing I've ever seen done to a Rolls Royce is seeing a guy driving around town with plastic tubs and other junk strapped to the roof. It was an old one from the 1930s but still...
These are usually cars where some poor idiot found a "great deal" on a flood/collision car and wanted to be seen in it so badly that they went and bought a vehicle that they couldn't afford to keep running; dimwits never consider running cost in their purchase decisions. "Hey, I can afford to buy this unreliable marque with no dealer/shop support and parts that cost more than my net worth, so I'm gonna get it and achieve one of my pathetic dreams!" Then they get angry at any shop that agrees to work on it as changing the PCV valve takes 12 hours. When a filthy Rolls or Lamborghini shows up at your shop, you're gonna lose money just from pulling it into a bay; best to tell the owner that you don't work on those as they can't even afford an oil change and are only there because they want you to tell them what's wrong with it so they can fix it themselves... with spray foam and duct tape. These are the dumbest people in society that can still somehow manage to get a driver's license, so do whatever it takes to make them leave. While we could once give morons a wide berth, the population is now so full of them that we can't avoid them all :(. Many people now don't know how to air their tires and think that oil changes are a scam.
I really enjoy your clips. I just wish all the service techs explained what they show, instead of “look at this”, which I (and many others probably) have no idea what we’re looking at and why it’s bad.
True. That’s why I have my husband. Former auto mechanic who explains to me why it’s wrong. These videos make him queasy and thank the maker he doesn’t do mechanic work anymore.
One of the worst i came across, Customer states losing coolant, found heater core leaking, customer approved repair, dash board had to be removed, the problem i had with it, the cig ashtray and whole passenger floor board area was literally inches deep with old cigar butts and the smell..... I gave the job to a co-worker !
@@soaringvulture I mean depends on how the pay works… maybe charge a bit more for having to clean up a bit. XD Someone that needs extra cash might take a rougher job.
I'm the one who shot the clip at 7:55 (I use the handle SpacemanDoug outside of youtube) and in reality I was much further back a distance than how the camera made me look The road I was on was incredibly curvy and bumpy and no joke that multiple times the truck looked like it was on the verge of tipping
1:14 shops (dealers) likely won't splice an airbag component, they will want to remove all chance of any liability and replace the entire harness, a significant cost.
collision repair tech here: no part of the airbag assembly should be reused if any part of the assembly was damaged, even if the airbags did not deploy & a collision was not involved. airbags are far too important to be cutting corners on. damage to any of the assembly components could cause the airbag to deploy incorrectly, possibly leading to injury or death & the shop could be held liable for it.
Came here to say this. Back when I wrenched any wiring repair in the air bag circuit was not allowed. The airbag module reads (measures) the resistance of the circuit. At least on Chryslers the airbag resistance was 2.2 ohms. Not kilo ohms just 2.2 ohms. Good luck soldering that and not changing such a small resistance.
I think that last truck found all the parts that fell off from the customer declined repairs. Shoutout to Saturn owners, yeah the body can’t rust but everything under can. 2008 Outlook, regularly maintained over 200K, I have my mechanic let me look underneath every service, with 16 Chicago winters it still has a way to go.
had someone bring me his car for a wheel bearing. test drive, sure enough, pass 80kph it does the bearing noise. Check the car over, pieces of the inner splash guard was loose. Would only touch the wheel if air was getting through the bumper. It was a perfect bearing noise!
I bought a used car from an estate sale that hadn’t started in a couple years. Got it running and went for a spin only to have the exhaust system catch fire. I guess a squirrel or rodent had stuffed the muffler near full of seeds and nuts.
Hey if he just did that to bring it to his dad, it's not a bad temp fix whilst he gets the pro to look at it. Don't get me wrong i'd want to go over the brake work to be safe, but it's not inherently stupid if its just a short term fix so it can get proper fixed.
Also one of the most common lines on this channel. IDK what it is about truck people but they really think their truck is durable enough they don't need to do any maintenance. Driving a truck as your daily when you never haul a damn thing is about one of the dumbest things you can do. They aren't subject to modern safety requirements and are just as dangerous in a crash as they were 50 years ago. Seatbelts and airbags are irrelevant when the steering wheel comes to you and the transmission ends up in your lap. The only time I've ever daily driven a pickup was when I worked aircraft maintenance. I had a reason to drive a truck. When you actually need one, they are very useful. But when you don't need one, they're just stupid and dangerous and so are the people driving them. When you see someone driving a Cybertruck, give them a wide berth because that will be one of the dumbest, most dangerous drivers on the road. The phrase 'more money than brains' applies to every single Cybertruck owner. Anyone who drives a Cybertruck is virtually guaranteed to be a sociopath and/or be exceptionally ignorant. The Cybertruck is way too rigid and is a road safety hazard to all, including the people who drive them. Then there is the issue with the aluminum castings. That's where they should have used the rocket grade steel, and clad the body in aluminum instead🤦♂🤡
Seeing that I am this early I wanna use this chance to say that as a german hobby mechanic, these partially non regulated and "the customer drove away" incidents, are insane. I am absolutly flabergasted at the state of these cars sometimes. :o
There's a reason that all the roads in the US have a permanent fluid stain running down the middle of each lane and you get to see it every time one of these videos is posted. It's a car centric society full of people that refuse to maintain their cars and state/federal governments that won't educate on much less force even basic maintenance.
I have always had mine repaired when told it needed something fixed. I like to get from home to where I am going and back again with as little problems as possible!
Yeah, the US is about 50 years overdue for a complete legal overhaul. Except for emissions and seatbelt regulations, most car regulations in the US are 6-7 decades old. You have the same problem in general aviation. Not sure why we're still taking cues from a bunch of dead people who didn't even wear seatbelts but here we are.
In Germany we also say BMW= Bring Mich Werkstatt - Bring Me Workshop Bei Mercedes Weggeschmissen - tossed out at Mercedes Busen Müssen Wackeln - Breasts must jiggle Toodles☕️
i am a 68yo F who fought , in the 1970's to be in the automotive classes...i was the only girl........ this channel makes me LMAO every time i watch it.....
@@alicebas377 Well, didya end up wrenchin' or do hard time in some cube farm ala Dilbert & Co..? My mid 70's short shop story is in 7th or 8th grade we hadda switch w/the girls for Two ( groan) Weeks! Day One: Lovely Mrs Gardner teachin' us lil nutsax how to bake cookies:)! Epilogue: I spend remainder of metal shop sorting/disposing type drawers as I was too blind for welding ( mask likely WW2 salvage ) Anyway, almost time for Jeopardy; roll on:)!
But how do you keep your nails looking pretty??🤣 My grandmother was a steamfitter in a Seattle shipyard during WWII. You'd think those attitudes would have been dead by the '70s. Sad that some people want to go back to puritanism and burning witches at the stake in 2024. Misogynism perpetuated by women is still a very real problem.
Notice to all customers: If you bring your vehicle to a shop to get repairs. Clean it out first. It doesn't need a full detail. But at least make sure that it isn't full of garbage or a bunch of unnecessary items. And not just the seating area. If someone needs to get in the trunk/hatch area for a repair. We need this area to be relatively empty. Shops don't have room to store your things while the work is being done. Also, most technicians work on a flat rate scale. They don't get paid to spend all that time moving your stuff, and then putting it back after repairs are finished. They get paid a specific amount for a specific job. And it's usually not enough. So please, think about this before you take your vehicle for repairs. And if you're in a collision and your vehicle is taken to a body shop. If possible, please go get your things out of the vehicle before repairs are done. If it totals, you'll have to do it anyway. And if it gets repaired. Your vehicle will be clean when you get it back. I know this is long winded. But all of us techs of all kinds are thinking it. Thanks
Any tape or adhesive on glass - regular blue windex and a razor blade. Windex melts the adhesive for the blade. Rubbing alcohol and some clean dry towels will finish the clean up after you have removed the adhesive.
Try WD40 on a rag next time, had some great results with it, razor blade for stubborn parts, rubbing alcohol for the oily residue, buff with windex and done. On bare metal parts without paint or plastic/rubber you can go straight for paint thinner or acetone.
3M specialty adhesive remover won't damage your paint or window seals but Windex will. Even ISO is incompatible with a lot of materials, including the neoprene the seals are likely made from.
@@timhartherz5652 WD-40 contains naphtha and, while they say it is aliphatic, I don't trust WD-40 to be completely free of aromatic hydrocarbons which will damage plastics and synthetic rubber.
Those walnuts are no joke. i have a manual transmission 2018 Toyota Carolla iM, (same as the scion iM). A squirrel took a walnut and left it on the top of my transmission. While driving the walnut got underneath one of my shift levers. It was stuck in gear while i was driving. the shift lever was stuck in second, i could use the clutch fine, but i couldn't get out of second and into neutral. I had to force it and heard a cracking noise. I broke some of the fins off the walnut. luckily i found them and was able to remove them, when i stopped. My mechanic was going to change a bunch of stuff he thought was broken.
I'm really craving an ice cream sundae with butterscotch after watching a couple of those videos! I'll accept the zip-tie lugnuts for the missing spray foam videos! Lol 😂😂😂😂
2:43, talk about junk in the trunk. "That quarter is not gonna move, ever." Great line. The last clip has to be the Clampetts moving to Beverly Hills, CA.
@@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley GM is late to the show on that idea. I myself lke gear drive, second option is a wet chain that has been used for well over 100 years.
As a heavy equipment mechanic, I'm pleased to see the semi and that stub shaft from the international. Some of the shit we see here is just incredible. Hope more guys will send in their tractor splitting and loader bucket pins.
@Cobalt985 I'm the one who actually shot the clip at 7:55 (I use the handle SpacemanDoug outside of youtube) and the video made me look a lot closer than I actually was, in reality I was actually a good distance back just in case something would fall off and thankfully nothing did But I will say, the whole time I was on that road the truck looked like it was on the verge of tipping multiple times
I had to look up what the deal was with the taped over door handles. What I'm seeing online is a lot of Uber/Lyft drivers have problems with passengers yanking on the sliding door handles and breaking them instead of allowing the automatic door opener to do it's thing. To be clear, I'm not defending the driver of this vehicle, just that I think that's what's going on here.
A big tip I use: if you have glue stuck on the windows or leather or plastic interior, you can somewhat easily remove it with WD 40. Works on softer glued like duck tape, doesn't work on super glue.
I’m not really into Rolls Royces but seeing such dodgy shit that’s been done to it is enough to make me both cry and trigger my rage. As for the rest being Aussie it’s been decades since I’ve seen the amount of rust I see in these videos and I’m still finding it hard to find a therapist to help me with my love of quirky cars like PT Cruisers, AMC Pacers old VW Beetles and the like. Great video as always thanks for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
More mechanics (and people in general) need to learn that they and their health is more important than their job. No f-ing way that anyone should be working on the mold/cat shit car except for maybe a biohazard clean-up tech (with full hazmat suit and charging appropriately for their time/risk). 8:00 this is another trend I see. Yes, the person hauling way too much in their truck is its own kind of stupid, but wtf is the person following closely and filming it thinking? They’re just as stupid as the rocket surgeon who overloaded the truck. If you watch any kind of automotive fail RUclips channels, you see tons of videos like this. Wheel about to fall off another car? Massive car fire that’s out of control? Truck overloaded with unsecured swords that are just about to fall out and stab you in the face? Better get closer so I can record it!! I swear people are absolutely intent on filming their own death so they can post it on social media.
If you want to cheap out on maintenance, you buy a Toyota or Honda, not a Rolls. 0:53 You'd think you'd get independent rear suspension in a Prius, even in 2007. I guess that's how they kept the price down. Surprised they didn't use drum brakes because this rear suspension is truly from a different era. The only FWD car I've ever owned that had a solid rear axle was an old Caravan that was gifted to me in the mid-'00s. My first FWD car was an '89 Cutlass Supreme and that had a carbon kevlar transverse leaf rear suspension inspired by the Corvette and all wheel disc brakes (first car I had with that feature too). 4:16 Don't see many of these on the roads these days. That's a 350 with a loose conrod. Just mill it for an 0.010 over bearing and re-install it. Job done. Ready to go another 300k mi. They don't make 'em like they used to. This one looks like it has throttle body injection. 4:25. Quit yer whinin', grab a razor and start scraping. Some heat from a hairdryer will help. Or you could go the expensive route and dissolve the residue with 3M Specialty Adhesive Remover, something auto techs with 26 years experience don't seem to know about🤦♂. May say 'Gorilla' on the tape but it is really 3M adhesive anyway. 5:56 Psych! 6:24 12 cracks in a head has to be a record🙃 7:12 Not just a walnut, but a perfectly roasted one, at that. 7:22 At some point, when working on my Jetta, I just said, 'fu*k it' and didn't even reinstall all those plastic fairings. Not worth the effort for an 0.02 CD reduction when you mainly drive around town. German cars have all that so they are more efficient when cruising down the Autobahn at 120mph. Even without the underbody fairings, it is still a much cleaner underbody than any other car I've ever owned.
My wife's cousin drives a dumpster car. And she has a hairy little dog with her everywhere she goes. She offered me a ride and she had to clear out some space in the front seat for me. Took all the trash and just threw it into the back with the rest of it. When I got home, I took off my outer clothes before going into the house and took a shower. Having the laundry room between the garage and house was a fantastic design element that I never really appreciated until then.
"I bet that quarter ain't gonna move.... Ever" Dude has a sense of hum,or in a life threatening situation. Holy shit I would not touch that car even from the outside.
Good thing that walnut was down in the brakes, and didn't fall and hit the roof. Then some cop would open fire and say ' I've been hit, I've been hit ' 🤣🤣
In the UK “customer declined work” shop immediately contacted the police and the car was impounded. If the car has an accident the auto shop would be held partly responsible.
the thing about electric sliding doors on cars, this rideshare for example, yes you can use the handles to open them, what some clueless people are getting wrong however is they then also try to pull the door to slide it open, often breaking the motors in the process because theyre automatic, youre supposed to tug on the door handle once, let go and then the door will open itsself, or by using a button, some cases even being the actual handle is only for emergencies if the powers out, and theres a button close to the handle that is supposed to be used to open the electric doors
The truck at the end, was I the only one who had a flashback to the black and white Beverley Hillbillies, just a thought, and to the mechanic who pet his son do his own breaks, please tell me you slapped the stupid out of that boy. Pmsl
Come listen to mah story 'bout a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer who could barely keep from ending up dead. But then one day, when hunting for some food, a bullet ricocheted and hit him in the dome. -How that story really would have turned out.
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Missing the timestamp breaks with all the extra info. Other than that is cool.
Good job my friend. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.
ALWAYS enjoy your postings! Please keep 'em coming! Thanks!
I do wish you can add a little more context to these so that the audience isn't limited to knowledgeable technicians only.
just got back from walking the pupper and picking up a brew.
he's chewing on his new bone and i'm watching my favourite youtube.
we'll see how these longer episodes get on - if the little b****r 🐺can spend eight minutes without bothering me! 😄
I'm surprised more technicians don't refuse to work on those filthy vehicles.
I'D refuse! The tech is there to FIX, NOT to go "dumpster diving"!
Needs a Has-Mat suit.
When I see those vehicles I imagine a sweaty obese person.
@@jameskennedy673 Haz
I have refused more than a couple of times.
Using zip-ties as lug nuts should disqualify you from even using an electric toothbrush and also doing any other car maintenance ever.
bluetooth lug nuts
we have concepts of a lug nut
lug nut from temu
you vs the lug nut she tells you not to worry about
No shit.
If you're gonna do it right, use spray foam. It will conform to the threads and actually hold!
Right?
Every time I see one of the "customer declined repairs" ones, all I can think of is Those People Are Driving Next To ME!!!
They're not only driving next to you. They are also driving TOWARDS you in the opposite direction. And not only you, but also your family members and everyone else you love.
They also vote, some of them are teachers or local politicians.
And they procreate.
@@mikecumbo7531 teachers don’t usually drive old junk except the shop teacher.
Honestly, I think a lot of them just think that buying another car will be cheaper than the 2 grand repair bill. When I turned a wrench for a living, often thats what they ended up doing; sending the one that came in to the junk yard and buying another clunker off craigslist or FB Market place for like 500. Then they drove that till there wasn't much left, then on to the next one.
Yea, thats a hard no on any of the mold/junk filled cars.......
I mean it's quite technically a health hazard.
I'd just charge an extra $500 for having to wear an NBC suit to work on it.
@@Lurch-BotAnd a respiratory to move it in and out of the shop.
I honestly can’t believe the state of the inside of some of the cars. I can appreciate the person refusing to get inside to repair the vehicle.
Once upon a time, Rolls Royces were the ultimate in Quality cars, and they never went wrong. Really. Never.
A guy I once knew, had a friend (back in the 1960's this was) who went on a European tour in his RR. On a crappy road in Spain, he hit a dip and ended up with a broken axle. Towed to the nearest town, he reported it to RR in the UK, settled down in a hotel and awaited recovery. Sure enough, a group of engineers with a replacement axle flew out and replaced the axle, sorting any associated problems, and headed off home. He completed his tour and returned to the UK, only waiting for the bill to arrive. It didn't. Finally, he wrote to RR asking what the cost for the broken axle was going to be, anticipating something astronomical. The reply came: "I'm sorry, sir, but you must be mistaken. Rolls Royce axles simply do not break."
I've heard that tale as well. It wasn't actually anything to do with your friend's friend though, was it?
Some people are disgusting. Does nobody own a shop vac any more? Or at least a trash can? Actually, you don't even NEED to own a trash can. Every gas station has free ones!
Shop vacs have fallen out of favor.
@@DrEpicPhDMost good car washes have powerful vacuums.
@@andynieuwenhuis7833 You think those type of people use car washes?
The driver of the Saturn can vote, and it counts the same as ours
Let that sink in
@@DrEpicPhD I pretty sure these people need professional help, but sadly are in a situation where they cannot afford it.
The taped over handles are sketchy!
Yeahh..ol' Ted Bundy took the interior handles outta his Beetle to thwart escapees but that's just obviously weird:/
a god damn murder van
Death Proof
If they are automatic doors it's not sketchy. They do exist.
The glued up windows as well. Whe were they keeping in?
I was a tech at a VW dealer for many years and there is not a chance in hell we would ever have allowed a car filled with garbage like that in the shop
Wouldn't blame you for refusing to go anywhere near it, let alone sit inside!
I wouldn’t want my car to be the next one after the tech sat in something like that. So please don’t allow it in the shop.
If your boss says so-you clean it up,but if on flat rate I'd quit.A man's GOT to know his limitations.This is why Pro toolboxes have wheels right?
That car at 2:24 had an excited R2 unit under the hood. lol
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0:51 I have found that warming my pizza on the intake manifold works well, while cooking it on the exhaust manifold is a bonus. Stay tuned for more tips. 👍
I used to heat my lunch on the intake. The potato went on the turbo.
Some critter probably did that. I had a squirrel leave food out of a trash can under the spoiler of my car.
@@steveb6103 I found the turbo too hot, used to burn my lunch. Canned beans or chilli worked well on the engine. Open them first to release pressure for anyone trying this.
I always used a pie sheet on my exhaust manifold
There's no point in throwing away all that heat, I mean, you bought and paid for it!
Whenever you show one of those vehicles filled with garbage I am reminded of something that happened to me back in the 1970's. A friend of mine, who was an absolute pig, had his car, a 1965 Chevy, towed and impounded for safety concerns. Little things like a pair of vice grips for a steering wheel. In any event, he signed the car over to me because he owed me some money and I paid the impound fees and towing to my place. I wanted the car for the motor but I decided to clean the thing out since someone else wanted the seats for $150.00. The only place you could sit in this thing was the drivers seat. Everything else was flush to the top of the dash or the rear shelf and the trunk was much the same As I was cleaning the car out I got quite a haul. There were four or five brand new suits, some shirts, and shoes that had never been worn buried in the mess untouched because they were still in their original packaging. At the bottom on the floor of the back seat I came upon two rifles, one .22 and one 303, along with a 12 gauge pump and a complete set of fishing gear. There were also a fairly extensive amount of hand tools like wrenches, sockets, and screwdrivers.
I had everything set outside the car on my driveway when the guy I bought the car from showed up. He started taking things and I asked him what he thought he was doing. He said he was taking his things back and I told him not so fast buddy. My bill of sale says as is where is and that stuff is now mine. We got into an argument and I told him to get to hell off my property before I called the cops. He left but a couple of days later he called me and asked how much I wanted for "his stuff". I told him two grand and he agreed to pay it. I told him cash up front and he bitched and moaned but finally agreed. He came over about a week later and handed me my money and took his things without speaking a word.
As for me, well once I got the car cleaned out I didn't pull the motor or the seats. The thing was in better shape than what I was driving so I fixed it and drove it for another two years until I replaced it with another vehicle.......not a bad deal from my perspective....lol
What a story. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
My son bought a beater pickup for $1k a few years back, and the guy said he could keep the tools in the back.
Tools included a $250+ Snap-On ratchet and a full set of really nice metric sockets. Son didn't even realize they were anything more than Harbor Freight quality until I showed him the prices.
This is not as juicy as yours. We would get parts shipped to FedEx Stores and we would use the office space for internet and their printing services. One day this old guy comes in and starts to just copy a bunch of stuff. He looked unkept. When I was leaving I noticed he had a Vista Cruiser like the one in That 70's show. It was filled to the bottom of the windows front to back with papers. Some were in like file boxes some just in piles. The only place that was empty of papers was the drivers seat. There were a few news papers and empty coffee cups thrown in for good measure.
In this case, it was the same guy.
Reminds me of the time I bought my step son a really nice Ford Granada Ghia estate for his 18th birthday. I got it at a bargain price because one of the wheel bearings needed replacing. I told him we'd be doing that together at the weekend. Unfortunately before that happened, he'd traded it in for a much older Austin Allegro with some problems. I had quite an argument with him because he'd been scammed into believing that the Granada wasn't worth repairing. Nevertheless I agreed that, come the weekend I'll be helping him sort out this cars problems. Unfortunately, before that happened he'd traded that in for a motor scooter, that although complete, was in pieces. I just couldn't get him to stop making these insane trades. Within a few weeks he'd successfully traded all the way down to just the frame of a push bike. A very nice push bike frame (in his opinion), but it didn't even have wheels, pedals or handlebars. It was just a frame. When I pointed out that he'd effectively swapped a very nice car for the frame of a push bike he claimed "Well when you put it like that it looks bad" yet he still believed that, every single trade he'd done was good. I managed to get a small refund on the insurance policy I'd paid for (covering the Granada) and let him have that to buy some wheels for his bike.
As a former telephone repairman I refused to work in houses multiple times due to unsafe/ unhealthy conditions
I guess your employer allowed you to make that decision. But my guess is a lot of shop managers don’t give that option to their mechanics.
@@Sashazur they did
Same in my construction days. Got a job that would require going up a flight of stairs in the house to install an AC cage. Stairs were largely absent, and the support joists were so rotted that I didn't even trust resting a ladder on them to get up to the window. Job declined.
I did a service once on Buddy Hackets RR, just the labor was $2600.00. The most unusual part were the rear spring cleaning, regreasing and sewing the new leather cover back over the rear leaf springs. Did this service while Buddy was on the rice diet in Durham NC. My shop was in Durham NC also.
Aye I'm in Raleigh
The ice cream and pizza diet is just as effective and more enjoyable.
Even if your story is true, bragging about it in 2024 just makes the kids think, 'Who TF is Buddy Hackett?'.
The labor to replace two belts on my Volvo is also $2600.
I'm a safety patrol at a major retailer. This specific store at one time had lots of trees planted in raised beds throughout the parking lot, looked nice. Over time trees have been taken out by drivers gunning it to cut across the lot and not pay attention. Now there's a third of the trees left and the old empty concrete rims of the beds remain. Which causes more tow truck visits because people still try and gun it across the lot while not paying attention, hit those empty tree beds and go bouncing like a kangaroo. The most recent guy almost hit my door and we stared at eachother until I asked if he was okay. He tried to drive away but didn't make it past a few lot aisles.
“This truck is a piece of shit!” That sums up just about every vehicle on here. Shit’ll buff out
Honestly of the vehicles shown on here it's probably one of the least sketchy. Like that's a new bracket and welding in a patch.
Patch her up with some duct tape
You CAN polish a turd, which we now know thanks to some groundbreaking research conducted by Adam Savage.
That’s my truck currently rebuilding
Always glad to hear the old background music again. It just fits so perfectly.
Miss the narration though.
Imagine doing that shady stuff on a Rolls Royce 😂
I got a audi a8 with similar shady stuff. Guess the previous garage couldnt understand air suspension so he butchered the struts and made them longer ! I have a video about it. appalling and dangerous
Imagine bringing a Rolls Royce to a “shop.”
5 owner flood car, it has to be.
Only thing I've ever seen done to a Rolls Royce is seeing a guy driving around town with plastic tubs and other junk strapped to the roof. It was an old one from the 1930s but still...
These are usually cars where some poor idiot found a "great deal" on a flood/collision car and wanted to be seen in it so badly that they went and bought a vehicle that they couldn't afford to keep running; dimwits never consider running cost in their purchase decisions.
"Hey, I can afford to buy this unreliable marque with no dealer/shop support and parts that cost more than my net worth, so I'm gonna get it and achieve one of my pathetic dreams!"
Then they get angry at any shop that agrees to work on it as changing the PCV valve takes 12 hours. When a filthy Rolls or Lamborghini shows up at your shop, you're gonna lose money just from pulling it into a bay; best to tell the owner that you don't work on those as they can't even afford an oil change and are only there because they want you to tell them what's wrong with it so they can fix it themselves... with spray foam and duct tape.
These are the dumbest people in society that can still somehow manage to get a driver's license, so do whatever it takes to make them leave. While we could once give morons a wide berth, the population is now so full of them that we can't avoid them all :(. Many people now don't know how to air their tires and think that oil changes are a scam.
I really enjoy your clips. I just wish all the service techs explained what they show, instead of “look at this”, which I (and many others probably) have no idea what we’re looking at and why it’s bad.
True. That’s why I have my husband. Former auto mechanic who explains to me why it’s wrong. These videos make him queasy and thank the maker he doesn’t do mechanic work anymore.
I will say we (those that can tell what's being shown) do look at the comments and will happily explain if anyone is asking. No shame in asking.
they usually have more details for each clip with time stamps in the description box
@@gen157 I concur. Just start the sentence with something that tells you are not a mechanic to avoid snarky teenagers.
One of the worst i came across, Customer states losing coolant, found heater core leaking, customer approved repair, dash board had to be removed, the problem i had with it, the cig ashtray and whole passenger floor board area was literally inches deep with old cigar butts and the smell..... I gave the job to a co-worker !
And what did you have against that co-worker?
I used to smoke and even I find that absolutely disgusting.
@@soaringvulture
I mean depends on how the pay works… maybe charge a bit more for having to clean up a bit. XD
Someone that needs extra cash might take a rougher job.
I'm the one who shot the clip at 7:55 (I use the handle SpacemanDoug outside of youtube) and in reality I was much further back a distance than how the camera made me look
The road I was on was incredibly curvy and bumpy and no joke that multiple times the truck looked like it was on the verge of tipping
Whoa, I'm on OT, 'spleen, etc. Weird seeing a name I recognize in a completely unrelated subject.
You just answered what I wondered about when watching that clip. Dang, I hope that was a one-way trip to the scrapper - for the whole lot!
I was expecting music starting with "Let me tell you 'bout a story of a man named Jeb...."
@@for2utube I was expecting to see Donald Duck on top of the heap, trying to remove a plunger from his backside...
0:29 P Diddy running on a budget
Yeah thats an instant A) suspicious, B) safety violation, in most of the 1st world, (not 100% on the US, your safety rules need some major work).
ayo
"This truck is piece of shit" I lost it. lmao
1:14 shops (dealers) likely won't splice an airbag component, they will want to remove all chance of any liability and replace the entire harness, a significant cost.
Yeah it's like 12.46 at cost unless it's the clock spring and then it's just labor.
collision repair tech here: no part of the airbag assembly should be reused if any part of the assembly was damaged, even if the airbags did not deploy & a collision was not involved. airbags are far too important to be cutting corners on. damage to any of the assembly components could cause the airbag to deploy incorrectly, possibly leading to injury or death & the shop could be held liable for it.
@@hehelikemichaeljackson If you only knew 😂
Came here to say this. Back when I wrenched any wiring repair in the air bag circuit was not allowed. The airbag module reads (measures) the resistance of the circuit. At least on Chryslers the airbag resistance was 2.2 ohms. Not kilo ohms just 2.2 ohms. Good luck soldering that and not changing such a small resistance.
that was the poor man's version of the beverly hill billies...that part at the end, I mean
Aint nobody got no time fo 2 trips
I think that last truck found all the parts that fell off from the customer declined repairs.
Shoutout to Saturn owners, yeah the body can’t rust but everything under can. 2008 Outlook, regularly maintained over 200K, I have my mechanic let me look underneath every service, with 16 Chicago winters it still has a way to go.
8:02- The Clampets!
Kinfolk said "Jed Move away from there!"
"So he loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly ", Hills that is, swimming pools and movie stars!!!@@rharbarenko
There isn’t a CHANCE I am following that closely behind.
@@andynieuwenhuis7833 "Black gold..... Texas tea."
@@andynieuwenhuis7833'' Cement ponds '' JC
That walnut is HILLARIOUS, never seen anything like that!
had someone bring me his car for a wheel bearing. test drive, sure enough, pass 80kph it does the bearing noise. Check the car over, pieces of the inner splash guard was loose. Would only touch the wheel if air was getting through the bumper. It was a perfect bearing noise!
If the vehicle spent any time parked outside, a squirrel may very well decided that was a good place to stash some food.
My husband had a squirrel stash a walnut inside his truck because he left his window open for a few hours. 😂
@@MsAubrey That'll do it. :)
I bought a used car from an estate sale that hadn’t started in a couple years. Got it running and went for a spin only to have the exhaust system catch fire. I guess a squirrel or rodent had stuffed the muffler near full of seeds and nuts.
the car at 3:30 was literally a bio hazard. i would have reported him to the police for expecting a technician to drive in it.
Well, more maybe just laughed at his/her face and say you can try find some one else who fix/drive that garbage heap.
charge them for a complete detailing while also asking if they have fire insurance
Dude touched the thing with bare hands 💀
The son did WHAT WITH THE ZIP TIES?!
Hey if he just did that to bring it to his dad, it's not a bad temp fix whilst he gets the pro to look at it. Don't get me wrong i'd want to go over the brake work to be safe, but it's not inherently stupid if its just a short term fix so it can get proper fixed.
Ok, thats the wheelnuts, whats the brakes do look like.. brake pads ziptied or fixed with sprayfoam...
@@darthkarl99 Its not a temp fix. They do literally nothing. You could drive for a bit on 3 lug nuts but I wouldn't go over like 10mph
That's the new spray foam
@@sjorsangevare if spaced well youre fine. I drove on 2 lugs on each wheel for a while, some idiot didnt put the lugs back on.
2:00 The most honest line ive heard on this channel so far:
"Jesus...this trucks a piece of shi.."
Also one of the most common lines on this channel. IDK what it is about truck people but they really think their truck is durable enough they don't need to do any maintenance. Driving a truck as your daily when you never haul a damn thing is about one of the dumbest things you can do. They aren't subject to modern safety requirements and are just as dangerous in a crash as they were 50 years ago. Seatbelts and airbags are irrelevant when the steering wheel comes to you and the transmission ends up in your lap.
The only time I've ever daily driven a pickup was when I worked aircraft maintenance. I had a reason to drive a truck. When you actually need one, they are very useful. But when you don't need one, they're just stupid and dangerous and so are the people driving them.
When you see someone driving a Cybertruck, give them a wide berth because that will be one of the dumbest, most dangerous drivers on the road. The phrase 'more money than brains' applies to every single Cybertruck owner. Anyone who drives a Cybertruck is virtually guaranteed to be a sociopath and/or be exceptionally ignorant. The Cybertruck is way too rigid and is a road safety hazard to all, including the people who drive them. Then there is the issue with the aluminum castings. That's where they should have used the rocket grade steel, and clad the body in aluminum instead🤦♂🤡
The Black walnut was hilarious. Can confirm those things are tough af😆
That's one event I can tolerate. You never know what squirrels will do.
The fact that that truck isnt leaning to one side, shows the man who stacked it is a legend.
I still would stay back a bit more!😂
A Tetris legend
Seeing that I am this early I wanna use this chance to say that as a german hobby mechanic, these partially non regulated and "the customer drove away" incidents, are insane. I am absolutly flabergasted at the state of these cars sometimes. :o
Agreed.
There's a reason that all the roads in the US have a permanent fluid stain running down the middle of each lane and you get to see it every time one of these videos is posted. It's a car centric society full of people that refuse to maintain their cars and state/federal governments that won't educate on much less force even basic maintenance.
Two things come to my mind: TÜV says no. And the word: Zwangsstilllegung. 😂
I have always had mine repaired when told it needed something fixed. I like to get from home to where I am going and back again with as little problems as possible!
Yeah, the US is about 50 years overdue for a complete legal overhaul. Except for emissions and seatbelt regulations, most car regulations in the US are 6-7 decades old. You have the same problem in general aviation. Not sure why we're still taking cues from a bunch of dead people who didn't even wear seatbelts but here we are.
Some poor hungry squirrel somewhere is like "what happened to my walnut and pizza slice i saved for later?!?" 😂
3:15 This is why I always wear gloves when driving customercars😅
If it were me that’s shits getting tossed out the shop by a forklift 😭
Would have to be desperate for work to take that on
Gloves aren't enough for that vehicle.
BMW-- Bring My Wallet! Great episode as always!
In Germany we also say BMW=
Bring Mich Werkstatt - Bring Me Workshop
Bei Mercedes Weggeschmissen - tossed out at Mercedes
Busen Müssen Wackeln - Breasts must jiggle
Toodles☕️
BMW: Bavarian Manure Wagon
I've heard it means "Breaks my Wallet".🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
BMW = Bavarian Money Works
In Hawaii BMW means "Break My Windshield". Seems the local teen thugs don't like "Haole's".
Glad 7:14 was such an easy fix! Just a single loose nut 😂
Egregious pun
2:43: That's not a car, it's a garbage truck!
Cars, they're not for everyone.
Many drivers would be far better suited to pedaling a bicycle.
Wish I bought the Ric Flair edition. Some days you need that “woohoo,”!
4:14 thats a home made spark arrestor! Genius
17 hours to take the covers off the BMW, pull the other one 😂
30 to put them back on
i am a 68yo F who fought , in the 1970's to be in the automotive classes...i was the only girl........ this channel makes me LMAO every time i watch it.....
@@alicebas377 Well, didya end up wrenchin' or do hard time in some cube farm ala Dilbert & Co..?
My mid 70's short shop story is in 7th or 8th grade we hadda switch w/the girls for Two ( groan) Weeks!
Day One: Lovely Mrs Gardner teachin' us lil nutsax how to bake cookies:)!
Epilogue: I spend remainder of metal shop sorting/disposing type drawers as I was too blind for welding ( mask likely WW2 salvage )
Anyway, almost time for Jeopardy; roll on:)!
But how do you keep your nails looking pretty??🤣
My grandmother was a steamfitter in a Seattle shipyard during WWII. You'd think those attitudes would have been dead by the '70s. Sad that some people want to go back to puritanism and burning witches at the stake in 2024. Misogynism perpetuated by women is still a very real problem.
7:27 That is the voice of exhaustion and despair.
And also the realization of how little $$$ he’s going to make on this job 😢
OMG, that Roller!!! OMG, those BMW under-shields!!!
That last one was pure genius, iv never seen junk stacked that well!
"Another shop installed pizza onto the gas tank" 🍕
It must have been a Fiat!
It looks fresh, too.
Sure they did🙄
2:12 the ric flairmobile! 😂
1:45 Please tell me I wasn't the only one who thought he was about to say "he got a hole in his right wing"... Lol
That’s my truck I took it into work to put in a power steering pump, rebuilding it currently while driving
“Babe you quit war thunder years ago, you’re safe from the snail now.”
Me:
@@JesseBarkley At least you're actually doing something about it, unlike most of the people on these episode...
@@Totally_Not_A_Plant Must... Feed... THE SNAIL!!!
Notice to all customers:
If you bring your vehicle to a shop to get repairs. Clean it out first. It doesn't need a full detail. But at least make sure that it isn't full of garbage or a bunch of unnecessary items. And not just the seating area. If someone needs to get in the trunk/hatch area for a repair. We need this area to be relatively empty. Shops don't have room to store your things while the work is being done. Also, most technicians work on a flat rate scale. They don't get paid to spend all that time moving your stuff, and then putting it back after repairs are finished. They get paid a specific amount for a specific job. And it's usually not enough. So please, think about this before you take your vehicle for repairs. And if you're in a collision and your vehicle is taken to a body shop. If possible, please go get your things out of the vehicle before repairs are done. If it totals, you'll have to do it anyway. And if it gets repaired. Your vehicle will be clean when you get it back.
I know this is long winded. But all of us techs of all kinds are thinking it. Thanks
Any tape or adhesive on glass - regular blue windex and a razor blade. Windex melts the adhesive for the blade.
Rubbing alcohol and some clean dry towels will finish the clean up after you have removed the adhesive.
Try WD40 on a rag next time, had some great results with it, razor blade for stubborn parts, rubbing alcohol for the oily residue, buff with windex and done.
On bare metal parts without paint or plastic/rubber you can go straight for paint thinner or acetone.
3M specialty adhesive remover won't damage your paint or window seals but Windex will. Even ISO is incompatible with a lot of materials, including the neoprene the seals are likely made from.
@@timhartherz5652 WD-40 contains naphtha and, while they say it is aliphatic, I don't trust WD-40 to be completely free of aromatic hydrocarbons which will damage plastics and synthetic rubber.
Those walnuts are no joke. i have a manual transmission 2018 Toyota Carolla iM, (same as the scion iM). A squirrel took a walnut and left it on the top of my transmission. While driving the walnut got underneath one of my shift levers. It was stuck in gear while i was driving. the shift lever was stuck in second, i could use the clutch fine, but i couldn't get out of second and into neutral. I had to force it and heard a cracking noise. I broke some of the fins off the walnut. luckily i found them and was able to remove them, when i stopped. My mechanic was going to change a bunch of stuff he thought was broken.
Gotta watch out for chestnuts too. And incompetent technicians.
I'm really craving an ice cream sundae with butterscotch after watching a couple of those videos!
I'll accept the zip-tie lugnuts for the missing spray foam videos! Lol 😂😂😂😂
2:43, talk about junk in the trunk.
"That quarter is not gonna move, ever." Great line.
The last clip has to be the Clampetts moving to Beverly Hills, CA.
In your best hillbilly voice on the last one. " HEY DERRIL! YOU MOVIN' AGAIN OR GO'IN TO THE DUMP?"
That BMW timing chain job just makes me scream internally, those little BMW screws often end up rusty or stripped on older cars.
(E39 owner here.)
@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley
Audi with 4 chains on the back side of the engine has some questions.
@@ducewags And now here come GM with a WET BELT on the back side of the engine. Ugh.
@@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley GM is late to the show on that idea. I myself lke gear drive, second option is a wet chain that has been used for well over 100 years.
Need to barf when you're sick but can't seem to do it?
3:36 👈
You're welcome.
As a heavy equipment mechanic, I'm pleased to see the semi and that stub shaft from the international. Some of the shit we see here is just incredible. Hope more guys will send in their tractor splitting and loader bucket pins.
7:55 some people must be reincarnated dung beetles...
That had me making major IRL "aghhhhhhhhhhhhhh" noises.
That poor filthy Saturn.
LOL 😂😂
Camera needed to back off a LOT so that they didn’t get final destination’d. Way too close.
@Cobalt985 I'm the one who actually shot the clip at 7:55 (I use the handle SpacemanDoug outside of youtube) and the video made me look a lot closer than I actually was, in reality I was actually a good distance back just in case something would fall off and thankfully nothing did
But I will say, the whole time I was on that road the truck looked like it was on the verge of tipping multiple times
3:37 funniest comment ever 😂😂
This show always makes me feel better about myself.
Last one was just flat out impressive.
Yo thanks for posting my pic 3:45
I had to look up what the deal was with the taped over door handles. What I'm seeing online is a lot of Uber/Lyft drivers have problems with passengers yanking on the sliding door handles and breaking them instead of allowing the automatic door opener to do it's thing. To be clear, I'm not defending the driver of this vehicle, just that I think that's what's going on here.
A big tip I use: if you have glue stuck on the windows or leather or plastic interior, you can somewhat easily remove it with WD 40. Works on softer glued like duck tape, doesn't work on super glue.
3:24 cars like this make me understand why mechanics wear gloves now days... should have coveralls in the toolbox just in case too...
6:09
"And a small dent in the back." vibes for sure. 🤣
Starting to believe everyone else when they say new narrator is AI, I ain’t never heard it be called a Saturn V-U-E
Agreed.
I miss the days where everyone didn’t use AI, videos felt like they had more soul.
These video clips just crack me up 😂 and make my day , no further comments at this time 😅
One man will keep a Ford in immaculate condition while another will turn a Rolls Royce into a shitbox.
I guess the latter couldn’t afFORD a Rolls Royce to begin with
I’m not really into Rolls Royces but seeing such dodgy shit that’s been done to it is enough to make me both cry and trigger my rage. As for the rest being Aussie it’s been decades since I’ve seen the amount of rust I see in these videos and I’m still finding it hard to find a therapist to help me with my love of quirky cars like PT Cruisers, AMC Pacers old VW Beetles and the like. Great video as always thanks for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
More mechanics (and people in general) need to learn that they and their health is more important than their job. No f-ing way that anyone should be working on the mold/cat shit car except for maybe a biohazard clean-up tech (with full hazmat suit and charging appropriately for their time/risk).
8:00 this is another trend I see. Yes, the person hauling way too much in their truck is its own kind of stupid, but wtf is the person following closely and filming it thinking? They’re just as stupid as the rocket surgeon who overloaded the truck. If you watch any kind of automotive fail RUclips channels, you see tons of videos like this. Wheel about to fall off another car? Massive car fire that’s out of control? Truck overloaded with unsecured swords that are just about to fall out and stab you in the face? Better get closer so I can record it!! I swear people are absolutely intent on filming their own death so they can post it on social media.
If you want to cheap out on maintenance, you buy a Toyota or Honda, not a Rolls.
0:53 You'd think you'd get independent rear suspension in a Prius, even in 2007. I guess that's how they kept the price down. Surprised they didn't use drum brakes because this rear suspension is truly from a different era. The only FWD car I've ever owned that had a solid rear axle was an old Caravan that was gifted to me in the mid-'00s. My first FWD car was an '89 Cutlass Supreme and that had a carbon kevlar transverse leaf rear suspension inspired by the Corvette and all wheel disc brakes (first car I had with that feature too).
4:16 Don't see many of these on the roads these days. That's a 350 with a loose conrod. Just mill it for an 0.010 over bearing and re-install it. Job done. Ready to go another 300k mi. They don't make 'em like they used to. This one looks like it has throttle body injection.
4:25. Quit yer whinin', grab a razor and start scraping. Some heat from a hairdryer will help. Or you could go the expensive route and dissolve the residue with 3M Specialty Adhesive Remover, something auto techs with 26 years experience don't seem to know about🤦♂. May say 'Gorilla' on the tape but it is really 3M adhesive anyway.
5:56 Psych!
6:24 12 cracks in a head has to be a record🙃
7:12 Not just a walnut, but a perfectly roasted one, at that.
7:22 At some point, when working on my Jetta, I just said, 'fu*k it' and didn't even reinstall all those plastic fairings. Not worth the effort for an 0.02 CD reduction when you mainly drive around town. German cars have all that so they are more efficient when cruising down the Autobahn at 120mph. Even without the underbody fairings, it is still a much cleaner underbody than any other car I've ever owned.
That broken transfer case still working is a miracle but I have a hunch it won't last too much longer.
seal hole with duct tape, add in some butter grease, good to go
Scrapper truck at 7:57. The official truck of ratchet straps and "That ain't goin' nowhere".
I watched this again and it still hits!
"Jesus, this truck's a piece of shit" had me spit out my coffee!
If I can't get out of your car on my own, I ain't getting in.
Such a nice gesture from the owner of the Prius. Left a pizza slice on top of gas tank in case the mechanic is hungry while working on the vehicle.
😂😂😂 great pretrip inspection!
My wife's cousin drives a dumpster car. And she has a hairy little dog with her everywhere she goes.
She offered me a ride and she had to clear out some space in the front seat for me. Took all the trash and just threw it into the back with the rest of it.
When I got home, I took off my outer clothes before going into the house and took a shower. Having the laundry room between the garage and house was a fantastic design element that I never really appreciated until then.
Windshield washer nozzles - a straight pin works wonders to realign them .....
Yeah, until you mess up the nozzle and fluid just dribbles out.
"I bet that quarter ain't gonna move.... Ever" Dude has a sense of hum,or in a life threatening situation. Holy shit I would not touch that car even from the outside.
Just refuse to work on those filthy cars. It's not worth your health.
Good thing that walnut was down in the brakes, and didn't fall and hit the roof.
Then some cop would open fire and say ' I've been hit, I've been hit ' 🤣🤣
2:24, nah that’s the turbo
In the UK “customer declined work” shop immediately contacted the police and the car was impounded. If the car has an accident the auto shop would be held partly responsible.
That BMW customer is about to be... turbo-charged! (I'm leaving now...)
0:15 "It's no good" -Understatement of the year
For all these cars that look like a dumpster inside, what do these people's houses look like? No really, I want to know.
Google 4chan bedrooms.
Just watch an episode of Hoarders.
Careful what you wish for. It might keep you up at night.
1:24 Power adder is now a power subtractor. That's a restriction on the intake and the exhaust.
Enjoy your channel
the thing about electric sliding doors on cars, this rideshare for example, yes you can use the handles to open them, what some clueless people are getting wrong however is they then also try to pull the door to slide it open, often breaking the motors in the process because theyre automatic, youre supposed to tug on the door handle once, let go and then the door will open itsself, or by using a button, some cases even being the actual handle is only for emergencies if the powers out, and theres a button close to the handle that is supposed to be used to open the electric doors
The truck at the end, was I the only one who had a flashback to the black and white Beverley Hillbillies, just a thought, and to the mechanic who pet his son do his own breaks, please tell me you slapped the stupid out of that boy. Pmsl
I was going to comment that they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly... Hills, that is. Swimming pools, movie stars.
Come listen to mah story 'bout a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer who could barely keep from ending up dead. But then one day, when hunting for some food, a bullet ricocheted and hit him in the dome.
-How that story really would have turned out.
5:20 Control arms are literally under $100 for many vehicles. Even with labor it's a job that needs done.
Maybe a big ol' rat put the pizza on the fuel tank. 🍕🐀
"The customer declined repairs" haunts me when I look around in traffic now.
How do you lose the lug nuts? It's not like they're 10mm sockets.
Pizza on the petrol tank. Novel idea to keep the rats from chewing the wires. Might try that one myself.