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Yes! Definetely need more of that. Id love to talk to him, or do a video, SubLime Cuda with my SubLime Challenger. New and Old, yet both the same! Say hi to fam.
I borrowed a car from a friend once who said to be careful with the clutch as the biting point is really low and to be fair, it was quite low and occasionally a gear would grind when engaging but something else didn’t quite feel right with the pedal. I pulled over and took a quick look and when I pulled the foot mat out from underneath the pedals there were no more clutch issues I have no idea how long they were driving like that
How are you supposed to ignore the more concerning sounds then? Obviously the only way to fix those is by having a different clunking sound so they cancel each other out.
@@smilerbobI had a similar thing happen. Someone said their clutch was sticking so I said I'll take a look. The pedal wouldn't come back up on its own. At least until I removed the floor mat that was holding it down.
I work on driveshafts, those accordion style ones are total pos, if the slip spline goes bad you need a whole new driveline. Also they use a thin wall tube with a friction weld so theres no internal support compared to a press fit part and a conventional mig weld Edit: I’ve also seen big rig 4-1/2 inch diameter tube .134 wall twist like that if someone leave a brake on or pops the clutch
Most likely they tell the shop that they did it themselves whereas they probably did it at another shop and once correctly diagnosed to go back to the other shop to get it done properly and for free
I love the confidence of someone looking under their motorized seat, seeing wires, are immediately identify it as a GPS tracker and start cutting random wires.
It's not just motorized seats that have wires. My car has entirely manual seats but it has wires running into the driver's and passengers seats for the in-seat side airbags, as well as the seat position sensor on the driver's seat and the weight sensor on the passengers seat for the dual mode airbags.
0:23 Had a similar issue once in my dad's 98 Tahoe. We were on a road trip and out of nowhere the doors start sporadically trying to lock themselves. It'd happen in bursts where they'd just start clicking trying to lock themselves over and over again and then it'd just stop. Eventually we noticed it'd happen over bumps and once we were finally able to stop and check, we found that a foldable chair in the back had fallen near a hidden lock switch in the storage area. Neither my dad nor I, who have both owned several Tahoes & Suburbans from that era before, had known there was a lock switch back there. It's actually super convenient since you can lock the car before closing the rear hatch, it just threw us for a loop when it was accidentally triggered.
ha ha ha, i was on a job once and we were traveling to another state,as was customary me and the lead man both had keys to the truck,while getting in on the passenger side i left my keys stuck in the door,while we are traveling we keep hearing this noise sounds like a bird chirping(the extra keys and the fob were hitting the door) we would stop to check and look under the truck but i would open the door all the way and of course the keys were hidden behind the door,we must have pulled over at least 5 times to check on the noise, finally we stopped for lunch and figured it out once i closed the door,we had a good laugh.
Downside of that I experienced personally. My van was intermittently not starting and after diagnosing the issue to be a failing starter motor (beyond my understanding to replace) I had it towed to the mechanic. Where I explicitly told them to replace the starter motor as that is the only thing wrong. TWO WEEKS LATER they say it is good and all they did was reattach the battery that I had unattached while while diagnosing I didn’t even bother moving the van out of the parking spot I just turned it off and on again, did it a handful of times until it failed to turn on went back in It took every ounce of my will not to yell that an unattached battery would cause complete failure to start not intermittent failure
I got a new snowblower, and it worked great the first time. The second time, it wouldn't start, so I took it in. The new one had a key that you had to turn to start it. I felt stupid, but at least it was cheaper than an actual problem.
The last time I took my car in for a service, they'd changed all the settings in the car without telling me. If you don't know how things work in the car (never turn them off) I can see how you'd miss that someone had pressed a button
To be fair, a lot of modern owner's manuals just say "take it to the dealership" for every single problem. Although watching these videos, that might actually be the best advice...
@@drunkenhobo8020 To be fair, and I say this as a technician FOR a dealership, those owner's manuals have gotten STUPIDLY long due to the amount of unnecessary bull@%it that manufacturers shoehorn into their vehicles these days. I legitimately don't understand why most don't eliminate half of those features for their budget base models, they would sell far more of them due to how much less they would cost.
That laundry detergent in the p/s reservoir "because it was all i had" left me dumbfounded.... what major malfunction went on in their head for them to do that!
Oh my god that wiper motor sound at 1:32 sounds exactly like the one on my Fiat punto 1 from 1999. For years I've been telling myself that I'll fix it for once but that day has yet to come.
That driveshaft probably never passed the heat-treating phase. If it would have been properly heat-treated, it would have snapped (as you may have seen happen before). Twisting like this happened because the metal was never heat-treated, and thus much softer than intended. Also note that the Jeep wasn't modified at all, so the driveshaft would have been able to handle the torque of the stock engine if it had passed heat-treating. Lovely quality control on Chrysler's part there.
That driveshaft failed because some bean counter thought that a hollow splined shaft was a great idea. Heat treating is not going to salvage a stupid, cheap design.
@@countryjoe3551 No lol. As bad as a hollow splined shaft may be, even a hollow shaft would not twist this way if it was properly hardened. This shaft was likely twisted repeatedly over each acceleration until it finally got bad enough to cause a noise, prompting the visit to the shop. 100% a manufacturing defect. I can definitely agree that Chrysler cuts corners, but even a hollow driveshaft must hold up to the full power of the stock engine in the vehicle. And, again, even if it didn't, a properly heat-treated driveshaft would have _snapped_ because it needs to be hard enough to withstand that torque. The reason this shaft _twisted_ is because it was not sufficiently hardened, and kept twisting under normal loads.
I promise you i could twist/break the front driveshaft in almost any jeep. Can they handle full power in 4-High? Probably, if you don't brake-torque the drivetrain. Even then, i think if you had wheel hop/shock loading you could twist it, especially with locked diff. Now put it in 4-Low.... The driveshaft will experience 2.7-4 times more torque now... If you brake-torque it in 4-Low, which i have done on a beater 4.0 WJ with 2.7 ratio t-case, it will absolutely twist or break that shaft. Im sure you could do the same from shock loading/wheel hop/being rough with clutch.
Something reset many of my car's settings recently and it started making beeping noises out of the speaker system at seemingly random times. My mom was with me and she wanted me to bring it to the service shop to make it stop. It turned out the navigation had defaulted to beep certain warnings where it thinks there's road work, cameras or other things to watch out for. Good thing I didn't listen to her, or my car might have ended up in one of your videos.
incredible how many issues can be solved by reading the manual, cleaning the car, and simply using one's eyes to just look for where the issue originates from. no tools required
2:39 The brake pads used on cable cars in San Francisco are made of wood. They press against the steel rails in the street. If they were a harder material, they'd wear down the rails. If I recall correctly, the pads last less than a week.
Over here searching non stop to find what is acceptable power steering fluid for a friend's vehicle. Meanwhile someone sees a bottle of laundry soap and thinks to themselves "Looks close enough, bet it'll clean it too" Nothing cleaner than a new power steering system
I get the feeling that they somehow did something immensely dumb. Like putting it in drive while rolling backwards or something. Not going to consider how that's even possible but i've seen things on this here channel so wouldn't surprise me.
1:57 as a dumb kid ~25 years ago, i had a few fallen seeds under my floormat germinate in some spilled sprite, and a few small plants of something now legal in many states start growing up from the edge of the mat. 😂
Bravo to the techs that diagnose the oddball sounds and save the customer a lot of money. They are one part detective and one part mechanic. The good ones are worth the money spent.
That twisted Jeep drive shaft had to have been very soft metal. A heat treating step or something was missed in the manufacturing process for it to have twisted and not break.
I had an annoying thump on passenger side of my current vehicle when I first bought it 20 years ago. It was the lever for seat slide bouncing every time I went over bump.
The barracuda,s were so awesome. Sometimes it's the content that you provide. Sometimes it is the cars you show at the end. This is a at the end video!
I have a friend who I was hanging out with and I noticed his car was sounding funny. Turns out his oil level wasn’t reading on the dip stick and his radiator fluid was low. Topped both off and his car sounded much better. Turns out he was checking the transmission fluid and not the motor oil. His car had been sounding like that for a year and he drove across the country like that. Very thankful his engine didn’t seize.
Friend bought a Chrysler Sebring from a reputable dealership back in the day. Three days later, t boned by an idiot. Engine crushed the firewall. Made no sense given the trajectory. No mounting brackets on the engine. 😮 Not just that, but the dealership had scraped the VIN in two areas. Our shop helped him out. He got a hell of a check.
I love the fact that many of the strange occurrences of a car doing some with when a certain thing is done can be fixed by the simplest thing of ✨troubleshooting✨
As I watch more of these, and learn more about my cars and have confidence to take care of them... Its a fine line, to define what I can work on that will save myself and my mechanic some work... and what would cause him to film and submit something to this show xD
The amount of paranoia around vehicle trackers is insane. In my 20+ years I went from never having a concern about them too usually once a week someone is saying they’re being followed. Obviously I’ve never found any such devices and yet oddly enough every single customer never suspects that it might be ask in their head or it might be the smart phone in their pocket.
im sure the average paranoid person isnt important enough to be worth a passing thought to any alphabet agency nor do they have the man power to follow all these unimportant schizos.
GPS trackers are accessible and useable by private parties now, to include jilted lovers, stalkers, and organized crime. Some folks are nuts, some have real cause for concern
@@Gunvaldtheoneandonly No doubt! I’m well aware of such devices. But considering that all of these people had no reason to be tracked by anyone except perhaps a jilted lover, I would expect the tracker to not be somewhere super concealed. For instance it’s not gonna be buried in a dash somewhere that takes significant mechanical skill and time to get to. Nearly all of these people had some form of tracker locator in there car, nothing more then radio detection devices, and none of them ever found anything. Several hours of investigation and disassembly on all these cars never found anything suspicious. No indications of people messing with stuff. No witness marks on fasteners that shouldn’t have ever been touched based on the vehicle’s service history and so on. Nothing bent, missing, tampered with, out of alignment, and so on. My point is paranoia is on the rise but also no one ever considers that the easiest, cheapest, and most reliable way to track someone is the spying device that nearly all of us have with us at all times. Our phones.
My ex bish put trackers on my car. After our car chases would end up at the police stations and the cops detained her, I'd go to a mechanic to find the tracker. I moved 1000 miles away and traded the car and bought a new car.
My brain is trying to twist itself to understand how a drive shaft will twist like THAT! I never heard of that happening. Twist, yes, but that kind? Great video man! I laughed at the Dacia wiper motor...but those Cude Challenger pair, just fire!
It twisted like that because the splined shaft is hollow, not solid as they have been traditionally. Welcome to bean counters taking precedence over the engineers.
@@JustRolledIn Im doing ok. Had a million things go wrong this week, but tackling them. Such is life, but overall feeling good. Back to working out, and even looking decent. But cardio doc said its all looking good. The channel is inching up. Had a video that jsut hit 23k lol. Its nothing big, but made me think, and I have some plans. Ill tell you more on FB lol. Its kind of nuts, but the world is changing again, and I think it may be for the better, once the dust settles.
I’ve seen something similar to that driveshaft after a tow truck driver brought in a box truck. The driver failed to remove the driveshaft, and the transmission actually broke in two large pieces while on the freeway. Guessing it engaged a gear at 65 mph. Costly repair that was!
On rear wheel drive cars people dont understand how dangerous a driveshaft can be, my Dad had a buddy that had a Cherokee i believe or something along those lines,this was back in the late 80s,he was traveling down the highway around 80 or so and the driveshaft came loose up front, buried itself in a hole in the pavement and catapulted that vehicle about 50 feet in the air and slammed it against a light pole, he was killed instantly,i was around 17 when that happened and i drove by the scene probably 30 minutes after it happened, if i hadn't seen it i wouldn't believe it.
Since my auto parts left me and said goodbye, (It's in pieces, bits and pieces) Now I've got an empty wallet and cry, (It's in pieces, bits and pieces). -- parody of The Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces".
Wow! I did damage to my rear end. I'll refuse to let you fix it, even though I am in your shop, and tow it to another shop. Geesss that makes about as much since as throwing money into a river and waiting for it to come back to you. The Plymouth at the end was hot. The engine sounded great, like an engine should. It didn't need any glass packs or loud mufflers.
Me thinks that customer at 1:41 wanted a real life “Clean Steering” badge from Forza 😉 How much of the steering system was not replaced after that one as I can’t imagine the seals being good for long after that
Sometimes when driving, I have a very loud , metallic bang coming from the back. Makes me jump every single time -.- It is the door of my dogs carcage slamming shut.....
1:21 my personal “hack” is to film myself & what i’m doing whenever im working on my own car. that way, i can go back and see how to correctly reassemble something. doing this has definitely saved my ass several times
To be honest, I am a victim of that backup sensors “not working”. First time owner. “4000” page owner’s manual does not help either. I finally figured it out after “playing” with the buttons. Went 1 week without sensors lol. Question though: why is there even a switch to turn it off?
Why a switch? Reversing while towing a trailer would quickly become annoying if you couldn't turn off the parking sensors. As would having e.g. a bicycle rack mounted on your tow ball. Or having your sensors covered by snow, ice or mud. Or being in a crawling speed "bumper to bumper" queue. Et c., et c.
GPS tracker? Customer might be schizophrenic or has a very scary ex. Either way it's hilarious to imagine them rummaging around their car finding electronics and screaming "YOU'LL NEVER TRACK ME" chopping at every wire they could find.
Who doesn't have the brain power to move an object away from a door to stop the window from rolling down? Oh yeah, the mouth breathers who are driving next to us everyday.😂
These videos always make me feel better about my life choices and my ability to use common sense. But, knowing that these people are on the road terrifies me.
No Kidding. Maybe they were thinking someone planted it there. AND if that was the case it would be much simpler to use one with a magnet and put it on the frame under the wheel well. LOL
What's the point of taking it to the other shop? Hoping that the other guy be like "Naah, you alright, just spray some WD and apply some duct tape and it's fixed" ?
We don't know the whole story. Maybe he has a donir truck at home for the axle. Maybe when he said "he" installed the underlift, he meant another shop did it, so he's taking it back to them because they installed it incorrectly.
2:39 Gives new meaning to the term "wooden brakes". Although I suppose one could argue it's a "Retro Mod" as in the early days vehicles literally used blocks of wood as brakes...
As a 2000 Silverado owner, I can say that I have put a knock sensor in the passenger side head before, and it didn’t fix it. But it was only after I replaced them once, and it was clear that the last guy also replaced them because he put silicone down on the caps. Same code both times for the rear one, voltage low input, but I literally checked continuity from the sensor all the way to the 2 ecm pins and ground and it was good so I just have no idea. And even the sensor I took out and put in was within whatever the ohms spec was at the time. Cleaned the block threads, torqued to 15 ft/lbs. But it has always run fine without it, 312k right now on the 5.3
Doing that might make the check engine light go out but you could have undetected engine knock going on inside the cylinders without knowing it. The manufacturer placed the knock sensors where they originally were located for a reason. Knock sensors are basically microphones. They listen to the sound of the combustion inside the engine and and adjust the ignition timing to eliminate any detonation. Relocating the sensors may fool the engine computer into thinking there is no knocking when in fact there is. Over time the engine could become damaged as the detonation hammers away at the engine's internals. This is the risk you take whenever you modify the design of a car's engine. And by the way, the way you test knock sensors is by connecting them to an AC voltmeter and tapping the cylinder head with a wrench near where the sensor is screwed into the head. Each time you tap the cylinder head the AC voltage on the meter should jump.
So....if a customer says i know what's wrong with their car & brought the parts, i gotta tell them to chase the rainbow, give'm a pack of skittles & a goodbye 😂
Stuff like this makes me think that Texas stopping State inspections is not a good idea. Yes, I know the State Inspection system is a joke, but if it stops SOME of this, it's worth it.
Pennsylvania has just proposed getting rid of annual vehicle safety inspections. would save me a bunch of money since I have many vehicles but not sure the trade off is worth it after watching these videos!
Problem is, most state inspections don't catch the really scary things. Eric O. comments on how many inspections just collect the fee and slap a sticker on. In all the places I have lived that had inspections, I never ONCE had anybody drive the car to see if the brakes worked at all. Just step on the pedal to see if it drops to the floor. Turn the lights on. Sell me a 30-second headlight "alignment." 💵
@@TheDisgruntledMechanic Are they price capped like they are in the UK? The most garages can legally charge in the UK is £54.85. Although if you had a few cars that could still add up!
@@drunkenhobo8020and the government wants to increase that to every two years, given the state of some cars out there, it’s a disaster in the making. Lots of not very old Vauxhalls, Renaults with chronic subframe corrosion would just carry on regardless, but in many owners minds the MOT = a service so they only have to ‘maintain’ their car once every two years!
Awesome carnage in this one dude!! 😮 Unbelievable how the joyride pixies come in the night .. take a guys car over every obstacle imaginable .. And put it back in the same spot so he wouldn't notice 🤔🤦♂️🤣🤣 have a great weekend my friend 👍
Every time I click on a video here I think: "It cant be worse than last time what the complains are". And then boom .. tide as powersteering fluid or wood as a brake pad. I'm done with society
I had a weird rattle after I had my truck worked on, I tracked it down under the hood. It was a 10mm socket. I kept it as payment for rattle tracking lol
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Yes! Definetely need more of that. Id love to talk to him, or do a video, SubLime Cuda with my SubLime Challenger. New and Old, yet both the same! Say hi to fam.
Had to have some serious heat building up. I can see if that was the case. Wouldn't the shaft snap with all that torque otherwise?
Man I love in Manitoba if a mechanic saw this they can legally take some of these cars off the road
I love how so many clunking noises can be fixed by cleaning out your car.
I borrowed a car from a friend once who said to be careful with the clutch as the biting point is really low and to be fair, it was quite low and occasionally a gear would grind when engaging but something else didn’t quite feel right with the pedal.
I pulled over and took a quick look and when I pulled the foot mat out from underneath the pedals there were no more clutch issues
I have no idea how long they were driving like that
Or mysterious rear passenger door windows automatically opening every time the rear door is closed.
How are you supposed to ignore the more concerning sounds then? Obviously the only way to fix those is by having a different clunking sound so they cancel each other out.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 That's why cars have radios. With volume knobs.
@@smilerbobI had a similar thing happen. Someone said their clutch was sticking so I said I'll take a look. The pedal wouldn't come back up on its own. At least until I removed the floor mat that was holding it down.
Now I'm wondering how well the wooden brake pad worked. Probably better than the laundry detergent in the power steering pump.
thats that new organic polymer brake pads from home depot
I was run over on my 7th birthday whilst on a crossing by someone who’d tried wooden pads. They obviously didn’t work😂
Now I know how car fires start on the freeway.
Probably is one of the reasons forest fires are in mountainous areas.
that was just hilarious how people like that exist, i understand not being a mechanic or not know anything about cars but damn people are stupid
I cant imagine the amount of Torque that went into that shaft. And more importantly, how tf it didnt break.
I'm surprised it didn't break!
Advise the customer to drive in reverse for a few hundred miles and it will untwist itself 👍
I work on driveshafts, those accordion style ones are total pos, if the slip spline goes bad you need a whole new driveline. Also they use a thin wall tube with a friction weld so theres no internal support compared to a press fit part and a conventional mig weld
Edit: I’ve also seen big rig 4-1/2 inch diameter tube .134 wall twist like that if someone leave a brake on or pops the clutch
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@@JustRolledInno kidding
The number of times a customer brings a vehicle in for a problem, gets a diagnosis, and then leaves without doing anything is baffling
What's worse is they probably vote.
And reproduce.
It’s being thrifty. You get the knowledge without the repair cost and DIY the cost.
Most likely they tell the shop that they did it themselves whereas they probably did it at another shop and once correctly diagnosed to go back to the other shop to get it done properly and for free
They go home and 'fix' it only to end up on a future Just Rolled In.
"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."
- Mark Twain
Tolerance is the lube that helps to slip the dildo of dysfunction into the ass of a civilized society.
- Plato
ie " slapping one's leisure hat upon desk and going " f**k's sake"
Ignorance? Complete stupidity
“There’s a lot of stupid people driving cars out there”
Also Mark Twain
"When I was 20, my old man was a fool. But, by the time I was 30, it was amazing how much he'd learned in just 10 years!" -Also Mark Twain
I love the confidence of someone looking under their motorized seat, seeing wires, are immediately identify it as a GPS tracker and start cutting random wires.
Well, in movies, they always cut the right wires when neutralizing a bomb in the last seconds. So, why not? 😂
It's not just motorized seats that have wires. My car has entirely manual seats but it has wires running into the driver's and passengers seats for the in-seat side airbags, as well as the seat position sensor on the driver's seat and the weight sensor on the passengers seat for the dual mode airbags.
That customer’s gonna have a field day if he ever opens up his washing machine.
I can guarantee you, that person also thinks vaccinations are full of microchips to brainwash them.
@@richardmillhousenixonWhich means cutting the wires could potentially fire the airbags if you happen to clip the wrong pair at the same time. Nice.
0:23 Had a similar issue once in my dad's 98 Tahoe. We were on a road trip and out of nowhere the doors start sporadically trying to lock themselves. It'd happen in bursts where they'd just start clicking trying to lock themselves over and over again and then it'd just stop. Eventually we noticed it'd happen over bumps and once we were finally able to stop and check, we found that a foldable chair in the back had fallen near a hidden lock switch in the storage area. Neither my dad nor I, who have both owned several Tahoes & Suburbans from that era before, had known there was a lock switch back there.
It's actually super convenient since you can lock the car before closing the rear hatch, it just threw us for a loop when it was accidentally triggered.
Was in a button on the D pillar? My 1999 GMC Yukon Denali had that.
ha ha ha, i was on a job once and we were traveling to another state,as was customary me and the lead man both had keys to the truck,while getting in on the passenger side i left my keys stuck in the door,while we are traveling we keep hearing this noise sounds like a bird chirping(the extra keys and the fob were hitting the door) we would stop to check and look under the truck but i would open the door all the way and of course the keys were hidden behind the door,we must have pulled over at least 5 times to check on the noise, finally we stopped for lunch and figured it out once i closed the door,we had a good laugh.
Explorers have it too
The issue here was is was a Chevy. Pure american trash. 🤢
@@MadScienTEST Everything breaks at some point, ding dong.
My favorites are always the ones where the solution is something obvious, like turning on the sensors or having a loose roof rack.
Downside of that I experienced personally. My van was intermittently not starting and after diagnosing the issue to be a failing starter motor (beyond my understanding to replace) I had it towed to the mechanic. Where I explicitly told them to replace the starter motor as that is the only thing wrong. TWO WEEKS LATER they say it is good and all they did was reattach the battery that I had unattached while while diagnosing
I didn’t even bother moving the van out of the parking spot I just turned it off and on again, did it a handful of times until it failed to turn on went back in
It took every ounce of my will not to yell that an unattached battery would cause complete failure to start not intermittent failure
I got a new snowblower, and it worked great the first time. The second time, it wouldn't start, so I took it in. The new one had a key that you had to turn to start it. I felt stupid, but at least it was cheaper than an actual problem.
@@zekiah2yup write that shop of your list , smh.
@@zekiah2yup write that shop of your list , smh.
The last time I took my car in for a service, they'd changed all the settings in the car without telling me. If you don't know how things work in the car (never turn them off) I can see how you'd miss that someone had pressed a button
Can you imagine if people actually read their owner's manual. The possibilities of success are endless!!
The what?
To be fair, a lot of modern owner's manuals just say "take it to the dealership" for every single problem.
Although watching these videos, that might actually be the best advice...
It’s the little book of secrets and answers.
@@drunkenhobo8020 To be fair, and I say this as a technician FOR a dealership, those owner's manuals have gotten STUPIDLY long due to the amount of unnecessary bull@%it that manufacturers shoehorn into their vehicles these days. I legitimately don't understand why most don't eliminate half of those features for their budget base models, they would sell far more of them due to how much less they would cost.
In the 70's your owner's manual told you how to set valve timings, today your manual warns you not to drink the battery fluid.
I'm constantly astounded how the people who own those vehicles even made it this far through life.
This channel always fascinates me by just how stupid some people are. Actually somewhat frightening.
That laundry detergent in the p/s reservoir "because it was all i had" left me dumbfounded.... what major malfunction went on in their head for them to do that!
Then they had to use gasoline in their washing machine.
@@j.frankparnell3087You joke, but people used to do home dry cleaning with gasoline to save paying a dry cleaner.
Lucky that they didn't have to take a pss at that moment.
when you use up all the p/s fluid in your laundry what else are you going to do
@@CatMom-uw9jlNGL I love it when this happens. Somebody making a joke about crazy stuff, and then, “Oh yeah, that actually did happen.”
Oh my god that wiper motor sound at 1:32 sounds exactly like the one on my Fiat punto 1 from 1999. For years I've been telling myself that I'll fix it for once but that day has yet to come.
That driveshaft probably never passed the heat-treating phase. If it would have been properly heat-treated, it would have snapped (as you may have seen happen before). Twisting like this happened because the metal was never heat-treated, and thus much softer than intended. Also note that the Jeep wasn't modified at all, so the driveshaft would have been able to handle the torque of the stock engine if it had passed heat-treating. Lovely quality control on Chrysler's part there.
That driveshaft failed because some bean counter thought that a hollow splined shaft was a great idea. Heat treating is not going to salvage a stupid, cheap design.
@@countryjoe3551 No lol. As bad as a hollow splined shaft may be, even a hollow shaft would not twist this way if it was properly hardened. This shaft was likely twisted repeatedly over each acceleration until it finally got bad enough to cause a noise, prompting the visit to the shop. 100% a manufacturing defect. I can definitely agree that Chrysler cuts corners, but even a hollow driveshaft must hold up to the full power of the stock engine in the vehicle. And, again, even if it didn't, a properly heat-treated driveshaft would have _snapped_ because it needs to be hard enough to withstand that torque. The reason this shaft _twisted_ is because it was not sufficiently hardened, and kept twisting under normal loads.
I promise you i could twist/break the front driveshaft in almost any jeep. Can they handle full power in 4-High? Probably, if you don't brake-torque the drivetrain. Even then, i think if you had wheel hop/shock loading you could twist it, especially with locked diff. Now put it in 4-Low.... The driveshaft will experience 2.7-4 times more torque now... If you brake-torque it in 4-Low, which i have done on a beater 4.0 WJ with 2.7 ratio t-case, it will absolutely twist or break that shaft. Im sure you could do the same from shock loading/wheel hop/being rough with clutch.
Me Chinese; me play joke, now your drive shaft twists off yoke
Quality control:
Chrysler: What's that?
Lol, they put Tide laundry soap in the power steering reservoir?😂 I'm baffled at their logic😂😂
But it was the only thing they had, so it had to do! Unreal eh!?
They are completely interchangeable, haven't you ever ran out of laundry soap and used power steering fluid instead?
"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute."
- Mark Twain
@@LeFrez Wonder what happens when they run out of coffee.
I mean really, any fluid will work, right?
As a former tech, I watch these as a reminder of what I used to see roll in.
Now, they remind me that these people are on the road with us 😮
It never fails. The most expensive "repairs" are done by the customers
Something reset many of my car's settings recently and it started making beeping noises out of the speaker system at seemingly random times. My mom was with me and she wanted me to bring it to the service shop to make it stop. It turned out the navigation had defaulted to beep certain warnings where it thinks there's road work, cameras or other things to watch out for.
Good thing I didn't listen to her, or my car might have ended up in one of your videos.
Driveshafts in many designs are meant to be a sort of “fuse”. You want that to twist and break instead of your harder to repair joints and gears.
For me, you could have just had the phantom GPS clip in and I would still have loved this week's video! That one absolutely had me!
incredible how many issues can be solved by reading the manual, cleaning the car, and simply using one's eyes to just look for where the issue originates from.
no tools required
Next generation car owners, i guess. Or they are all women
These people need to declare a State already & just stay there! I will happily avoid it.
It's like making an appointment with a Dentist so they can wipe the dribble off your chin.
I always love the ones where the fix is SO simple and it doesn't require an expensive fix. Just a click of a button.
2:39 The brake pads used on cable cars in San Francisco are made of wood. They press against the steel rails in the street. If they were a harder material, they'd wear down the rails. If I recall correctly, the pads last less than a week.
@1:32 You don't need a mechanic, you need an exorcist. That car is speaking in tongues!
i like how the rear sensors have a dedicated BUTTON on that car. wish all cars did that
Indeed, every warning buzzer or chime should have an option to turn on/off.
Good ol' Toyota. They keep it simple
seems like every car from ~2016 has one
i have a mercedes van that has a button to turn them off. turns them back on at startup though.
Mine does, but it also puts a big warning on the dash that it's turned off.
Over here searching non stop to find what is acceptable power steering fluid for a friend's vehicle. Meanwhile someone sees a bottle of laundry soap and thinks to themselves "Looks close enough, bet it'll clean it too" Nothing cleaner than a new power steering system
Tide, its what power steerings crave.
@@vs-ww7cbthat keeps them tidy...
Those wipers were monster-sounding. But nothing beats the Wiper episode with "die die die die". Lol
there really are some creative "fixes" on this channel!!! another great one!
Thanks! I'll be sure to use tide laundry soap for p/s fluid from now on lol
@@JustRolledIn I think if it would have been the non scented Tide it would have worked!
@@TheDisgruntledMechanic 😂😂 don't give them ideas
There's a burning smell from my brakes. Hmm?
yes, I am learning a lot here. A few more videos and I think I am ready to do my own vehicle maintenance too.
will the mystery of the broken driveshaft ever be unravelled? 😂😂
😂😂
I think it's the dogs fault!
The axel lost it’s temper. 😡
May have been straightened at one time with an acetylene torch.
_"What a twist!"_
@@BuriedFlame Chubby Checker would be proud of that driveshaft!
That has to be the softest drive shaft ever created. How it didn't break is beyond me.
Impressive huh lol. Smh
Only the finest Chinesium
@@The_Ballo No, Chinesium would have snapped
I get the feeling that they somehow did something immensely dumb. Like putting it in drive while rolling backwards or something. Not going to consider how that's even possible but i've seen things on this here channel so wouldn't surprise me.
Something must have gone horribly wrong during the manufacturing process.
The fix for Dacia (@1:32) is actually very easy. You just have to put some garlic in the car.
1:57 as a dumb kid ~25 years ago, i had a few fallen seeds under my floormat germinate in some spilled sprite, and a few small plants of something now legal in many states start growing up from the edge of the mat. 😂
So we know now you weren't picking up tomato and squash seeds at the garden store. Hmmmm.
Bravo to the techs that diagnose the oddball sounds and save the customer a lot of money. They are one part detective and one part mechanic. The good ones are worth the money spent.
Still waiting on that payment mike.
That twisted Jeep drive shaft had to have been very soft metal. A heat treating step or something was missed in the manufacturing process for it to have twisted and not break.
Just imagine the amount of vehicles that would fail an MOT test if it was enforced in the states
Wouldn’t work. A lot of states already have inspections. But you can easily ask around and find someone who can give out a fake inspection
@@crazy4gta1 ah, not a surprise there. Everyone always knows someone, who knows someone, who knows…..
@@crazy4gta1 that's why you have government agencies which do random checks on shops and can remove their licenses for corruption
imagine if they had a law against that or some sort of regulation @@crazy4gta1
@@dawetwtt And suddenly bribes were born
Great palet cleanser. The wood breaking pads about gave me a seizure 😂
hope you're okay lol
I wonder if they used iron wood 🤔
Funny thing is, is that the first brake shoes were made out of wood.
@@jeffreykindron7162 That would have been much more expensive than premium pads
@@cojones8518 when your breaks just light on fire 🔥
It’s stunning how many of these problems are customer created, even the catastrophic damage to the undercarriage is customer created.
I had an annoying thump on passenger side of my current vehicle when I first bought it 20 years ago. It was the lever for seat slide bouncing every time I went over bump.
I had an annoying noise from my passenger side a few years ago as well….
Then I divorced that bitch
The Cuda pallet cleanser at the end.... I love that Sassy Grass Green. 😮😍💚
The barracuda,s were so awesome. Sometimes it's the content that you provide. Sometimes it is the cars you show at the end. This is a at the end video!
Always such good content. Thank you all for submitting clips.
I have a friend who I was hanging out with and I noticed his car was sounding funny. Turns out his oil level wasn’t reading on the dip stick and his radiator fluid was low. Topped both off and his car sounded much better. Turns out he was checking the transmission fluid and not the motor oil. His car had been sounding like that for a year and he drove across the country like that. Very thankful his engine didn’t seize.
Its a good day when this channel uploads 🥳
Friend bought a Chrysler Sebring from a reputable dealership back in the day. Three days later, t boned by an idiot. Engine crushed the firewall. Made no sense given the trajectory. No mounting brackets on the engine. 😮 Not just that, but the dealership had scraped the VIN in two areas. Our shop helped him out. He got a hell of a check.
Im amazed that these people drive and hold a job😮 ✌️
I love the fact that many of the strange occurrences of a car doing some with when a certain thing is done can be fixed by the simplest thing of ✨troubleshooting✨
It's always funny to hear customers say they have no idea how their car got completely destroyed.
Your Majesty
That wooden brake pad brings a whole new meaning to "my brakes feel like wood"
I get this annoying whine whenever I go driving with my wife.
As I watch more of these, and learn more about my cars and have confidence to take care of them... Its a fine line, to define what I can work on that will save myself and my mechanic some work... and what would cause him to film and submit something to this show xD
That Dacia wiper motor sounds like it would bring 1000 years of darkness if given a chance
Summoning the angry spirits!!
Maybe it had an abusive owner.
Those two lime green cars at the end were beautiful.
The amount of paranoia around vehicle trackers is insane. In my 20+ years I went from never having a concern about them too usually once a week someone is saying they’re being followed. Obviously I’ve never found any such devices and yet oddly enough every single customer never suspects that it might be ask in their head or it might be the smart phone in their pocket.
im sure the average paranoid person isnt important enough to be worth a passing thought to any alphabet agency nor do they have the man power to follow all these unimportant schizos.
GPS trackers are accessible and useable by private parties now, to include jilted lovers, stalkers, and organized crime. Some folks are nuts, some have real cause for concern
@@Gunvaldtheoneandonly No doubt! I’m well aware of such devices. But considering that all of these people had no reason to be tracked by anyone except perhaps a jilted lover, I would expect the tracker to not be somewhere super concealed. For instance it’s not gonna be buried in a dash somewhere that takes significant mechanical skill and time to get to. Nearly all of these people had some form of tracker locator in there car, nothing more then radio detection devices, and none of them ever found anything. Several hours of investigation and disassembly on all these cars never found anything suspicious. No indications of people messing with stuff. No witness marks on fasteners that shouldn’t have ever been touched based on the vehicle’s service history and so on. Nothing bent, missing, tampered with, out of alignment, and so on. My point is paranoia is on the rise but also no one ever considers that the easiest, cheapest, and most reliable way to track someone is the spying device that nearly all of us have with us at all times. Our phones.
My ex bish put trackers on my car. After our car chases would end up at the police stations and the cops detained her, I'd go to a mechanic to find the tracker. I moved 1000 miles away and traded the car and bought a new car.
@@derpderpington5433 Did she hide them under the seat?
I'm not a mechanical savant by any means, but watching your videos makes me feel like the Einstein of Mechanics.
My brain is trying to twist itself to understand how a drive shaft will twist like THAT! I never heard of that happening. Twist, yes, but that kind?
Great video man! I laughed at the Dacia wiper motor...but those Cude Challenger pair, just fire!
I've never seen a driveshaft twist like that as well! They usually break before looking like a twizzler.
And that's man! Hope you're doing well.
It twisted like that because the splined shaft is hollow, not solid as they have been traditionally. Welcome to bean counters taking precedence over the engineers.
@@JustRolledIn Im doing ok. Had a million things go wrong this week, but tackling them. Such is life, but overall feeling good. Back to working out, and even looking decent. But cardio doc said its all looking good. The channel is inching up. Had a video that jsut hit 23k lol. Its nothing big, but made me think, and I have some plans. Ill tell you more on FB lol. Its kind of nuts, but the world is changing again, and I think it may be for the better, once the dust settles.
2:45 At least now she knows what it is. Some people, once they know what it is, they ignore it. Hopefully the shop will see her again! 😂🤣🤪👍👍
I'm guessing the folks that have their car towed away to get fixed at another shop do so because the first shop couldn't stop laughing at them.
That first one is one of those “if you’re gonna screw up, do it in a way that no one can explain it.”
I have to wonder how some people make it to adulthood...
"The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know it because I have tested it."
- Mark Twain
Pure luck. If luck wasn't on their side then they would very quickly be in the history books of "Natural Selection" by Darwin.
Ah yes, the Thule cargo case: a crucial part of the uniform of the "no I'm not from around here; how could you tell?" Californian.
I’ve seen something similar to that driveshaft after a tow truck driver brought in a box truck. The driver failed to remove the driveshaft, and the transmission actually broke in two large pieces while on the freeway. Guessing it engaged a gear at 65 mph. Costly repair that was!
On rear wheel drive cars people dont understand how dangerous a driveshaft can be, my Dad had a buddy that had a Cherokee i believe or something along those lines,this was back in the late 80s,he was traveling down the highway around 80 or so and the driveshaft came loose up front, buried itself in a hole in the pavement and catapulted that vehicle about 50 feet in the air and slammed it against a light pole, he was killed instantly,i was around 17 when that happened and i drove by the scene probably 30 minutes after it happened, if i hadn't seen it i wouldn't believe it.
Since my auto parts left me and said goodbye,
(It's in pieces, bits and pieces)
Now I've got an empty wallet and cry,
(It's in pieces, bits and pieces).
-- parody of The Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces".
Wooden brake pads are organic unless there are nails, in that case they are semimetalic.
Officer asks. "Why you in such a hurry?" The reply... "Just going to get some brake fluid." Good video.
I feel bad laughing because I can see myself doing something like this. Lol
Please watch more of these videos so you DON'T!
@@thetaekwondoe3887 Lol, I will do my best.
If I was the shop I would keep that over torqued shaft as a memento. That is nuts.
Wow! I did damage to my rear end. I'll refuse to let you fix it, even though I am in your shop, and tow it to another shop. Geesss that makes about as much since as throwing money into a river and waiting for it to come back to you. The Plymouth at the end was hot. The engine sounded great, like an engine should. It didn't need any glass packs or loud mufflers.
that first one is jaw dropping!
Me thinks that customer at 1:41 wanted a real life “Clean Steering” badge from Forza 😉
How much of the steering system was not replaced after that one as I can’t imagine the seals being good for long after that
Tide might have cleaned them out real good.
Sometimes when driving, I have a very loud , metallic bang coming from the back. Makes me jump every single time -.- It is the door of my dogs carcage slamming shut.....
2:45. Now I've seen everything. That's a fire hazard waiting to happen from the friction if the wood kept rubbing up against the rotor.
1:21 my personal “hack” is to film myself & what i’m doing whenever im working on my own car. that way, i can go back and see how to correctly reassemble something. doing this has definitely saved my ass several times
To be honest, I am a victim of that backup sensors “not working”.
First time owner. “4000” page owner’s manual does not help either.
I finally figured it out after “playing” with the buttons. Went 1 week without sensors lol.
Question though: why is there even a switch to turn it off?
Why a switch? Reversing while towing a trailer would quickly become annoying if you couldn't turn off the parking sensors. As would having e.g. a bicycle rack mounted on your tow ball. Or having your sensors covered by snow, ice or mud. Or being in a crawling speed "bumper to bumper" queue. Et c., et c.
Thank you for the visual purge at end..even I don't like lime green or..mopar all day baby!
"Customer declined repairs and took it to another shop" means the customer will tell the other shop that another shop did it.
"Living in the Limelight, the universal dream." - RUSH. Nice Mopars.
GPS tracker? Customer might be schizophrenic or has a very scary ex. Either way it's hilarious to imagine them rummaging around their car finding electronics and screaming "YOU'LL NEVER TRACK ME" chopping at every wire they could find.
Nevaaaa!
Who doesn't have the brain power to move an object away from a door to stop the window from rolling down? Oh yeah, the mouth breathers who are driving next to us everyday.😂
I would love to know what that driver did in the first clip to get that drive shaft to twist like that, its absolutely insane!!
Tide in the power steering, marvellous!
These videos always make me feel better about my life choices and my ability to use common sense. But, knowing that these people are on the road terrifies me.
Ok, homemade wood break pads - that beats them all. LOL.
This was an especially crazy one. What are DIY people thinking?
The person that thought there was a GPS under the seat had to be high on meth to be that paranoid.
No Kidding.
Maybe they were thinking someone planted it there.
AND if that was the case it would be much simpler to use one with a magnet and put it on the frame under the wheel well. LOL
What's the point of taking it to the other shop? Hoping that the other guy be like "Naah, you alright, just spray some WD and apply some duct tape and it's fixed" ?
Probably hoping to get a lower price to fix that clusterfuck they made lol
We don't know the whole story. Maybe he has a donir truck at home for the axle. Maybe when he said "he" installed the underlift, he meant another shop did it, so he's taking it back to them because they installed it incorrectly.
1:31 possessed wiper motor
Darn, really wanted to know how the customer described the sound of that wiper motor
Just said it was loud
@@JustRolledIn I'll use the description of "constipated elephant"
2:39 Gives new meaning to the term "wooden brakes". Although I suppose one could argue it's a "Retro Mod" as in the early days vehicles literally used blocks of wood as brakes...
As a 2000 Silverado owner, I can say that I have put a knock sensor in the passenger side head before, and it didn’t fix it. But it was only after I replaced them once, and it was clear that the last guy also replaced them because he put silicone down on the caps. Same code both times for the rear one, voltage low input, but I literally checked continuity from the sensor all the way to the 2 ecm pins and ground and it was good so I just have no idea. And even the sensor I took out and put in was within whatever the ohms spec was at the time. Cleaned the block threads, torqued to 15 ft/lbs. But it has always run fine without it, 312k right now on the 5.3
Doing that might make the check engine light go out but you could have undetected engine knock going on inside the cylinders without knowing it. The manufacturer placed the knock sensors where they originally were located for a reason. Knock sensors are basically microphones. They listen to the sound of the combustion inside the engine and and adjust the ignition timing to eliminate any detonation. Relocating the sensors may fool the engine computer into thinking there is no knocking when in fact there is. Over time the engine could become damaged as the detonation hammers away at the engine's internals. This is the risk you take whenever you modify the design of a car's engine. And by the way, the way you test knock sensors is by connecting them to an AC voltmeter and tapping the cylinder head with a wrench near where the sensor is screwed into the head. Each time you tap the cylinder head the AC voltage on the meter should jump.
OMG those cars at the end are GORGEOUS! Please those who restore these old girls.
Laundry soap as power steering fluid? How can one ever in his right mind think that's a good idea? How? 🤨
Nobody in their right mind had anything to do with it.
So....if a customer says i know what's wrong with their car & brought the parts, i gotta tell them to chase the rainbow, give'm a pack of skittles & a goodbye 😂
Stuff like this makes me think that Texas stopping State inspections is not a good idea. Yes, I know the State Inspection system is a joke, but if it stops SOME of this, it's worth it.
Pennsylvania has just proposed getting rid of annual vehicle safety inspections. would save me a bunch of money since I have many vehicles but not sure the trade off is worth it after watching these videos!
utah too
Problem is, most state inspections don't catch the really scary things. Eric O. comments on how many inspections just collect the fee and slap a sticker on. In all the places I have lived that had inspections, I never ONCE had anybody drive the car to see if the brakes worked at all. Just step on the pedal to see if it drops to the floor. Turn the lights on. Sell me a 30-second headlight "alignment." 💵
@@TheDisgruntledMechanic Are they price capped like they are in the UK? The most garages can legally charge in the UK is £54.85. Although if you had a few cars that could still add up!
@@drunkenhobo8020and the government wants to increase that to every two years, given the state of some cars out there, it’s a disaster in the making. Lots of not very old Vauxhalls, Renaults with chronic subframe corrosion would just carry on regardless, but in many owners minds the MOT = a service so they only have to ‘maintain’ their car once every two years!
Awesome carnage in this one dude!! 😮 Unbelievable how the joyride pixies come in the night .. take a guys car over every obstacle imaginable .. And put it back in the same spot so he wouldn't notice 🤔🤦♂️🤣🤣 have a great weekend my friend 👍
Every time I click on a video here I think: "It cant be worse than last time what the complains are". And then boom .. tide as powersteering fluid or wood as a brake pad. I'm done with society
I have watched so many of your videos... this one I have to say shocked me the most...
Lets say all you had was gasoline, and you were thirsty. Would you drink it because you didn't have anything else?
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
- Mark Twain
@@septembersurprise5178and this why momma sends some to bed hungry
There's this weird "engine" noise when I drive my car. Oh wait, it's just the engine. 😆
Another excellent week of videos. Thank you.
I had a weird rattle after I had my truck worked on, I tracked it down under the hood. It was a 10mm socket. I kept it as payment for rattle tracking lol