Why would he remove the spark plugs after draining the water and turn the engine over?. Maybe he should've did the opposite drain the water put in proper oil and left the plugs in then turn the motor over,maybe repeat the process.
@@ozzypawsborneprinceofbarkness ..Yeah, but did he put the level of oil in the motor before turning the motor over. Seems he could've went a different way,may have taken a couple of drains before removing the plugs instead of just turning the motor over knowing the combustion chambers were full of water and bending the rods.
@@darthwolfius7746 agreed. I would never send my kids to do something they have no clue. Ive showed my wife what each cap means. But Told her not to open or add anything to the oil, power steering and brake fluid caps. Water is ok for wipers and if needed coolant caps only, otherwise let me know 1st 🤣
@@adamr9215 and your very right, common sense isn't a real thing and nothing should be assumed, especially when it's your child who your responsible for teaching these things
@@echo5827 This parent EXPECTED the child to know. I’m sure there’s more to the story but I learned these things from observing my father. I am extremely observant but my brother was not, and made plenty of errors because my father was a terrible teacher. An excellent teacher is someone who understands the student.
@@echo5827that was an expensive way to teach your son. You can let them learn for the price of a bottle of washer fluid or you can let them learn for the hourly price of a mechanic
some kids are less useful than a bag of rocks. example if i use a bag of rocks for a temporary weight it stays put. bag of rocks doesnt ask stupid off topic questions.
Crazy story, i have a 2011 hyundai Genesis 3.8 sedan, i hit a dip and the cold air intake sucked up water and froze the engine. Had to tow it 100 miles home. Removed spark plugs, removed the intake, MANUALLY cranked the engine and vacuumed the water out. Let it dry for several days in summer heat. Put cheap oil with water remover chemical. Changed the oil after 50 miles of driving it to more high quality and been working perfectly ever since. Its been 3 years since that happened.
You got super lucky! It's not often that you can get away with that after the engine locks up and won't turn over! A co worker lost his mercedes engine driving through a huge puddle. I used to bust his ass for it because he knew how deep that puddle would get and he still drove through it, totalled the car because the interior filled with water too.
@bluefordpickup how can you say they ripped them off? The final bill isn't mentioned here, so you're just pulling that out of your ass. Water in the engine will literally destroy the engine 99% of the time.
I've been lucky so far. I've drowned a couple of trucks in the past, but haven't had to replace an engine yet. Last one was in a mud hole that was deeper that anticipated. Lucky the front of the truck made it out of the water before dying so we didn't have to work on it over waist deep water. We drained the air box, pulled the plugs, cranked the engine over until it was done spitting water out. Put the spark plugs in and continued on our way. I changed the engine oil and differential fluid the next day. All was good, just wanted to make sure.
The icing on the cake would be picking the car up after the engine replacement, starting the car up for the first time, and seeing the washer light is still on lol.
Lol wouldn’t surprised me with this guy saying how he’s scamming that engine does not need replaced. This guy clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing or he’s just openly scamming people.
@@fubarmofo6969i’m confused how you could visually see water being drained out of the engine and being spit out by the pistons during the compression check and not concede that at the very least, the engine MIGHT need to be replaced due to internal damage.
Not necessarily. If you have to get everything done YOURSELF, you'll wear yourself out, and end up getting VEERY little done. Train your kids and your staff/team properly. Outsource to professionals when necessary.
You make no sense and no kid will and never ever will incorrectly pump gas. Literally even kid in kindergarten knows to pump gas on the side of the car in the gas tank hole.
Not really a better way once its in the cylinders, trying to get a vacuum down in there just risks introducing further contaminants in, and it's not gonna hurt anything doing it this was as long as the plugs are pulled and there is basically no compression.
happened twice at the shop I work at. Worst was the guy who filled his BMW M850i engine with a gallon of coolant. He "realized" his mistake but im pretty sure he drove it for a bit. When it got to the shop it was seized, 45k engine and his insurance covered it.
@@mikemata623 hey I mean good on him he got insurance at least she wasn’t like those people who thought they wouldn’t need i insurance like they wouldn’t need an oil change
If we assume 'junior' knows absolutely nothing about cars except they are to ride in, the mistake isn't too crazy. The biggest mistake was daddy telling the kid what to do and not teaching him how to do.
I wouldn't even use pipe water in my washer fluid and I don't even drive a car expensive as their's and I can guarantee my cheaper car is maintained to a higher standard than their own
@@19910602011i wouldn’t even use anything but distilled water to mix my coolant with. people say it’s fine to use normal hose water but for me that shit rusted all my water passages
Hey guysss! ChrisFix here! Today I'm gonna show you how to top off your washer fluid AND your blinker fluid! First, you're gonna need some soapy wooder!..
@9The0Unkowm7 Tell me your kids gonna put you in a home without telling me. Imagine thinking kids are dumb for not automatically knowing how a combustion engine works. This sorta condescending attitude is exactly why kids don’t want to learn. Get a grip
The pops is definitely the one with out common sense. Why send your son who knows nothing out to your car? Plus use actual washer fluid not water like a peasant
The thing is, most kids (but also people in general), lack reading skills. Not comprehension of a book, but just the mindset of “scan and read everything you see”. I do that, and therefore even if I wasn’t a mechanically inclined person I wouldn’t do this because I would read that the oil cap is not the washer reservoir.
I mean sure but also supervision would have gone a long way here, ignorance is fine so long as you have someone watching your back ready to correct your mistakes, would have taken a couple seconds to say "wrong cap buddy, it goes in the blue cap"
Dads didn't learn, they don't teach common shop classes like they used to. Cars these days are very expensive machines now and never take anything for granted when you ask a good kid to do anything.
As a 19 year old, I tend to do my fair share of research before I do anything to my truck. But this doesn't take research it has a label that's pretty obvious 😭.
@@tonyjordan1320I'm 12 and I don't even understand how people just ignore the giant sign on the oil cap saying engine oil and filling it with washer fluid. Genius, society is going to hell right now I just watched a movie that shows how humans devolved to cave man's in the year 2100 and I'm scared that we will someday end up there
@@XCCCP2 Hang in there son, if you are smart enough to know that and see what is going on in our society it gives me a glimmer of hope for the future....
Or, show them around the engine bay of any vehicle you want them to assist with, and have a couple of pop quizzes before you trust them alone. Parents are there to teach too...
Nah anyone can do shit like this, I met a lady who broke down because she had a massive leak in her coolant system and the engine locked itself up and she was like "no it doesn't need to be towed"
I am not even surprised...my neighbor had a heat warning in his car and I see him filling up engine oil when his coolant reservoir is empty. some reason he thought engine is hot because there is no engine oil
My mom left my dad after I graduated high school, moving 1,000 miles away to Phoenix to be around her family. I came by for a visit a few years later, and while there told her I'd do any routine maintenance her car needed. I asked her if she had any issues, and she told me that her car leaked washer fluid really bad, like she was filling it up every day or 2. So I took a look at it, and the washer fluid tank was fine. Asked her to come out and explain it to me. She brought a gallon of washer fluid and proceeded to fill the radiator. In Phoenix. In the summertime. RIP mom, miss you!
I did this by mistake once, but I caught it before I ruined the paint. Had to stand outside the car spraying it with a hose while someone else ran the washer fluid tank empty. I'm just glad I learned that lesson on the washer fluid system instead of another system...
Reminds me of I mistake a did by confusing the brake fluid/clutch fluid cap by the power-steering fluid cap. I was a big rookie in terms of mechanic at the time and didn't knew the brake fluid tank is always on the driver side. Glad I did this mistake in school rather than anywhere else.
1st: Do Not use water for washer fluid - especially from a garden hose. 2nd Do NOT let your "kid" touch your vehicle to perform a task unless you explain & show him how to do it, then watch/supervise that task.
@@tomr6955 If that is the case, the son should not be touching the vehicle period including driving because the son is totally incompetent. And/or the Father is not competent because he showed the wrong way. "When you play "Stupid Games," you win "Stupid Prizes."
@tomr6955 If the kid doesn't understand the task after having done it with supervision 50.000 times, it still a mistake on the parent's part to think they will magically understand it if they do it without supervision the 50.001st time they do that task. 🤷
I replace a 3.0 turbo diesel engine on a new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van because the driver add 2 gallons of D.E.F. into the engine oil fill cap instead the D.E.F. fill cap, then he did it again a week later after replacing the engine
You'd think you'd really make sure after the first engine. Maybe check the owner's manual before you just start dumping DEF in any random hole. But that's the difference: you'd think
I work at Mercedes dealership and this lady accidentally poured water into her engine oil cap instead of the coolant reservoir. She started the engine and it died on her. Got it towed to the shop right away after she noticed her mistake. Drained oil, came out muddy but no pure water. Couple of oil changes and checking the cylinders, the car ran fine. She got very lucky.
@@KnightFilms32 cuz they have no inclination of what the fuck. Like if u never fucked with tech and decide to swap out ur laptops bad cpu without research. Might just end bad
@@ShadowFanQuills3 No, that has nothing to do with it at all. I don't feel sorry for him (the car owner) because he was stupid enough to send his kid son to do an adult job. Also because he was too lazy to do it himself.
@@ShadowFanQuills3bro really think people feel jealous of a Mercedes 😂 it’s a cabby’s car in every other part of the world. They have like 3 good models. The rest are just cab cars. They aren’t even that expensive. For the longest you could lease one for the cost of a Toyota note😂. Nobody mods them and people ride the warranty so no real reason to get attached. BMW has the same issue. Old big bodies are cheap and a nice ride for 25k though 😂 not exactly breaking the bank
I work in a delivery company and one day we were starting our shifts and loading on the packages we nees to deliver and I saw one of my coworkers trying to open the engine oil tub to fill up the washer fluid, we stopped him seconds before and saved the day!
This reminds me, when I was 8. I overheard my mom and dad talking about how there wasn't much gas in the car, and they didn't know where they were going to get money to fill it. I remembered seeing a story on Sesame Street, about putting rocks in a container of water, to raise the level. So, yea... He had to get the tank pulled, and cleaned out.
This is surprisingly wholesome. Sure, it was never gonna work but your idea came from a good place - you knew your parents were struggling with money and you wanted to help. Which is something I would not expect from an 8 year old.
My friends from India and Africa said they always just put water in instead of washer fluid. Here in the midwest that won't work cuz we got like 3 hot months and the rest can get to freezing temps. Plus washer fluid cheap and its soap so why not.
We used to have an old man with dementia bring his car to our workshop and he constantly topped off every fluid with water and we would have to drain, clean and refill brake fluid, power steering and engine oil & filter, after 3 times of this my boss managed to contact his son and the old man lost his car due to his illness which was a shame because it was his freedom, he passed away 6 months later, the car was an old 1994 Ford fiesta (uk)
@@dreamcrusher112and yet there's tons of them on the road. I worked at a butcher shop in old rich town and man half these geezers would come in all bumped and bruised up from falls and I'd be like I know damn well y'all shouldn't be driving... Same thing with parents not keeping these bad driving kids off the road. Same workplace the owners daughter has been in 3 at fault wrecks in 4 years... He's yet to take her license, nah he just buys her a new car every time. He went with the Volvo SUV this time need that 5 star JD crash rating lmao
some old lady tanked my bike and nearly my foot on a zebra crossing because she couldn't see. Had to walk home with my bike bent in half.@@broken_clock_right_twice
yo if i got my car diagnosed with bent pushrods and the mechanic told me "yeah you need a new engine" i would never in a million years even think of going to them again.
friendly advice for the owner after the $9700 engine swap: Do NOT let the shop(dealer or independent) refill the washer fluid for you! they charge too much!
@290TrafficCone yes but he would have said "it just started for no reason " or something along those lines. Not connecting the dots of it starting after he added fluid
As a service advisor, the worst thing I had a customer do to their own car was pour wiper fluid in the coolant res. Actually, their elderly father did it and only up to the full line, so very little. She drove it to the shop just for that and was SO worried. I told her the car would be fine since wiper fluid is 99% water. She insisted on paying for a coolant flush, so I took the $$ 😂😂
You still had people back then who thought a car’s electrical system ran off the battery instead of the alternator. We’ve been surrounded by stupid people for eons.
If the engine hydro-locked, then a rod is probably bent. I don't know much about working on modern car engines, but it seems a bit wasteful to scrap the whole engine for probably $6k+ when it just needs a rebuild. Maybe MB engines are so complicated and have such tight tolerances that the labor would be more than a new engine?
@@thelight3112 rebuilding a Mercedes engine is no different than any other engine (it's mostly connecting all the electronics afterwards you have to be prepared for) but at the end of the day replacing the engine is often going to be cheaper and or faster than rebuilding it
@@thelight3112. That is not a simple build.... Most likely damaged rods, crank, probably bent valves, and so when you piece all that stuff together, you may as well just buy a brand new engine with warranty from the manufacturer
Thank you for this comment op ...see my comment elsewhere. This guy trying real hard to sound smart when he said "the pcv was filled with water"...in his mind therefore a check valve that fits in your hand holds enough water to hydro lock that engine..
You'd be the first shop to top off the washer fluid. I've never had a "premium" service facility go out of their way to check anything they don't have a labor code for.
Reminds me of the time my oldest son was going to pump gas while I paid, he was 16-17 at the time, I go back out and he is cursing the nozzle because it won’t fit right, I see it is the green diesel and stop him immediately, but some how he had pumped about 6-7 gallons in, and probably spilled a couple. All I knew to do was go back in and pay to fill it the rest of the way up with 93, it smoked slightly but didn’t hurt anything, thank God, it was my wife’s car.
@@tonyjordan1320 I meant thank God it didn’t hurt anything because it was my wife’s car, not thank God it was my wife’s car that it happened to, trust me, I still catch hell about it and it was 15 years ago.
@@vladtheimpala5532 right, that would be catastrophic, me and my buddy put premix from our dirt bikes in his built 70 T/A 455 SD when it ran out of gas on the way home from the MX track, he had a converted boat trailer for our bikes and that 455 pulled the shit out of it, even with premix lol, at least it was hi octane racing gas with premix, light blue smoke just like the bikes.
The engine was not broken until you tried to turn it over. That means you broke it. Should have given it a couple cranks with a torque wrench on the harmonic balancer first?
@illustriouschin why? It won't hurt an already blown engine. Cranking the engine won't provide enough torque to bend rods. You need an empty cylinder or 2 to fire to cause damage. All damage was caused before it was brought to the shop.
@@michaelhoolahan5717drained the pan and replaced the plugs. If there is possible water ingress you don't stop with just this. You check intake, bore-scope top and bottom, all part that water can go into. Its like filling diesel into petrol car and technician just drains the tank without checking filter
I know a lady who accidentally filled the tank on a new diesel truck with gasoline. Very fortunately, she realized her error when she replaced the filler nozzle. It was fixed without damage.
i was in a similar situation except my dad just yelled at me the whole time while making sure i was doing it right. now i maintain my own car. thanks dad
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !* _Tappin' in from South Central LA_ In my line of work I came across a couple whose car overheated. They said they let it cool off, added water and drove it. But it did it again. We popped the hood and the showed me where the added water. They got a good laugh when I showed them that's where the washer fluid goes !
When I was a kid in the late 1970s and 1980s, many of us knew how to check vital fluids, change a tire, read guages and how to jump start a vehicle before starting junior high.
Alright, when I worked at an oil company 40 years ago. There was this driver filled the truck engine full of oil and it started and oil was leaking out every where . Blowing it out all over the place under the hood. The driver drove the truck like that for the rest of the month or so.
Having your kid put water in your Mercedes washer reservoir says it all. Do that in a cold climate and see how well that turns out lol. We all were 16 and needed something in a pinch when on the road to get home. But, to choose water over washer fluid to begin with probably penny pinchers. Lol
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Most expensive gallon of washer fluid in their lives
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It's a Mercedes what do you expect.. 😅
Why would he remove the spark plugs after draining the water and turn the engine over?. Maybe he should've did the opposite drain the water put in proper oil and left the plugs in then turn the motor over,maybe repeat the process.
@@enochrry6024to get the water out of the combustion chamber.
@@ozzypawsborneprinceofbarkness ..Yeah, but did he put the level of oil in the motor before turning the motor over. Seems he could've went a different way,may have taken a couple of drains before removing the plugs instead of just turning the motor over knowing the combustion chambers were full of water and bending the rods.
Sorry buddy you’re up for adoption
I think the father should be given for adoption he was the imbecile that sent his child to do something without properly teaching him first.
@@darthwolfius7746 agreed. I would never send my kids to do something they have no clue. Ive showed my wife what each cap means. But Told her not to open or add anything to the oil, power steering and brake fluid caps. Water is ok for wipers and if needed coolant caps only, otherwise let me know 1st 🤣
@@jaekamacho1416 I did exactly the same with my wife and when my kids will be old enough I will teach them the same.
Yuuuuuuurp
Damn right
My dad would rip my ass up for that mistake, especially cause he taught me from a young age, and it’s so damn obvious which one the fluid goes in.
Especially if you wreck his nice Benz! 😅
It goes in the one with the picture of an oil can right? Not the one with a windshield wiper picture?
Yea, if the kid put the water in the wrong place, it’s because his parents didn’t teach him better. So that would be 100% on his parents.
@@adamr9215 and your very right, common sense isn't a real thing and nothing should be assumed, especially when it's your child who your responsible for teaching these things
My parents wouldn’t even trust me with that
Dad told junior to “do something, even if it’s wrong, just do something”! Junior learned from the best.
RIP his entire college fund
Lol do ppl have college funds? When i arrived to LAX in 2017 as a student i had 200$ in my pocket 😂
@@watchmehojgoggle a 529
Knowing this, it would have been a waste of money anyway.
@@watchmehojOkay? Good for you I guess…
@@watchmehojI had about $36.50 😂😂
Fathers are supposed to TEACH children about these things.
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He gone learn now
@@echo5827
This parent EXPECTED the child to know.
I’m sure there’s more to the story but I learned these things from observing my father. I am extremely observant but my brother was not, and made plenty of errors because my father was a terrible teacher. An excellent teacher is someone who understands the student.
@@echo5827that was an expensive way to teach your son. You can let them learn for the price of a bottle of washer fluid or you can let them learn for the hourly price of a mechanic
Most fathers these days are just as stupid. Especially the ones driving an overpriced german chrysler
some kids are less useful than a bag of rocks. example if i use a bag of rocks for a temporary weight it stays put. bag of rocks doesnt ask stupid off topic questions.
Crazy story, i have a 2011 hyundai Genesis 3.8 sedan, i hit a dip and the cold air intake sucked up water and froze the engine. Had to tow it 100 miles home. Removed spark plugs, removed the intake, MANUALLY cranked the engine and vacuumed the water out.
Let it dry for several days in summer heat. Put cheap oil with water remover chemical. Changed the oil after 50 miles of driving it to more high quality and been working perfectly ever since. Its been 3 years since that happened.
Amazing car, congrats
You got super lucky! It's not often that you can get away with that after the engine locks up and won't turn over!
A co worker lost his mercedes engine driving through a huge puddle. I used to bust his ass for it because he knew how deep that puddle would get and he still drove through it, totalled the car because the interior filled with water too.
Yeah, these guys ripped off the car owner
Lucky you didn't hydro lock which usually breaks a crankcase.
@bluefordpickup how can you say they ripped them off? The final bill isn't mentioned here, so you're just pulling that out of your ass. Water in the engine will literally destroy the engine 99% of the time.
I've been lucky so far. I've drowned a couple of trucks in the past, but haven't had to replace an engine yet. Last one was in a mud hole that was deeper that anticipated. Lucky the front of the truck made it out of the water before dying so we didn't have to work on it over waist deep water. We drained the air box, pulled the plugs, cranked the engine over until it was done spitting water out. Put the spark plugs in and continued on our way. I changed the engine oil and differential fluid the next day. All was good, just wanted to make sure.
The icing on the cake would be picking the car up after the engine replacement, starting the car up for the first time, and seeing the washer light is still on lol.
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Lol wouldn’t surprised me with this guy saying how he’s scamming that engine does not need replaced. This guy clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing or he’s just openly scamming people.
@@fubarmofo6969yeah that's why he posted it on youtube 🤦♂️🙄
@@fubarmofo6969oh yeah i would certainly trust you anonymous than a certified mechanic
@@fubarmofo6969i’m confused how you could visually see water being drained out of the engine and being spit out by the pistons during the compression check and not concede that at the very least, the engine MIGHT need to be replaced due to internal damage.
Moral of the story… if you want something done right, do it yourself!
Clearly he didn't educate the son properly
Not necessarily.
If you have to get everything done YOURSELF, you'll wear yourself out, and end up getting VEERY little done.
Train your kids and your staff/team properly. Outsource to professionals when necessary.
At this point, the dad is at a crossroads with how he raises his son. His next words/action towards the son will be very decisive...
@@zel948I agree, wise thought you gots my guy!
Is that what the kid said?
"Change the coolant, will ya?"
"Right-o! Does your car take Pepsi or Diet Pepsi?"
Well pepsi is cool
Don't they use Pepsi and Coke to unseize engines sometimes?
Perfect example of "if you want something done right, do it yourself".
"Go top it up with gasoline son".
Comes to gas pump, opens sunroof...
You make no sense and no kid will and never ever will incorrectly pump gas. Literally even kid in kindergarten knows to pump gas on the side of the car in the gas tank hole.
@@datnihromeo8581 its just a joke
@@datnihromeo8581 Bro, take chill pill.
@@datnihromeo8581always that one guy that takes it seriously
@@datnihromeo8581 you are seriously one brainless individual lmao
“REMEMBER SON THE BRIGHT BLUE CAP”
“GOT IT DAD! THE CAP THAT SAYS “OIL” ON IT!”
But it didn't say OIL it said 710!
They put pictures on the caps . I suppose that's what confused Junior.
It says oil buddy @@volvo09
@@volvo09it does indeed say oil
@@markkissel1997 never heard of the lame "710 cap" joke?
Gotta be a way to drain the fluid before turning over.
Not really a better way once its in the cylinders, trying to get a vacuum down in there just risks introducing further contaminants in, and it's not gonna hurt anything doing it this was as long as the plugs are pulled and there is basically no compression.
That's when you tell him he's adopted. And not you chose him. . . .someone else will have to choose him now. Goodbye my child 😢
Mistaking, the oil cap for the washer fluid is crazy 😂
happened twice at the shop I work at. Worst was the guy who filled his BMW M850i engine with a gallon of coolant. He "realized" his mistake but im pretty sure he drove it for a bit. When it got to the shop it was seized, 45k engine and his insurance covered it.
@@mikemata623that’s fucking horrific for someone with such little sense to have such a high end luxury performance car
@@Blade_88 more money than sense that's what I always say
@@mikemata623 hey I mean good on him he got insurance at least she wasn’t like those people who thought they wouldn’t need i insurance like they wouldn’t need an oil change
If we assume 'junior' knows absolutely nothing about cars except they are to ride in, the mistake isn't too crazy. The biggest mistake was daddy telling the kid what to do and not teaching him how to do.
You had me at "grabs the water hose".
I wouldn't even use pipe water in my washer fluid and I don't even drive a car expensive as their's and I can guarantee my cheaper car is maintained to a higher standard than their own
Yeah seriously what kinda jabroni uses water for washer fluid
@@19910602011i wouldn’t even use anything but distilled water to mix my coolant with. people say it’s fine to use normal hose water but for me that shit rusted all my water passages
@@19910602011washer fluid is just water dyed blue in most cases lol
Thought the same… no hose water for anything except washing
Dan YOURE one of the FUNNIEST mechanics on RUclips ! Love your videos and your humor KEEP IT UP
That ending though... LMBO!!!! EPIC!
Kid needs that Chrisfix baby book 😂
Underrated
Top comment lol
@@MrNabmilf my comment is underrated. Needs more likes haha
Ayee chrisfix frr
Hey guysss! ChrisFix here! Today I'm gonna show you how to top off your washer fluid AND your blinker fluid! First, you're gonna need some soapy wooder!..
Blame the parent for not teaching them basic car maintenance skills.
Car maintenance 101 to be exact. Who the hell is using water for washer fluid?
@@LordCommandor cheap people who can't buy washer fluid for $4 a gallon
@@OneManOnFireIn my experience being cheap on car maintenance ain't that worth it
Reading* the cap clearly says oil
@@OneManOnFire So you can afford to by a Benz but can't afford washer fluid. That math is so not mathing.
Luckily he wasn't asked to check the blinker fluid 😳
That Benz is a lil bit excited 💀
Compression Stroking 😭
“Don’t worry son. Your mom and I were looking at getting a new Mercedes anyway. We’ll just take it out of your inheritance.” 😂
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Hold of you to think he still had it at that point anyway 😂😂
Or the boy's College fund
Exactly😅😅
Rich enough and it won't matter to that trust fund kid ... 😂🤑💰
Moral of the story is some people have more money than sense. Go teach your kid, they are all dumb until you make them not dumb.
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Exactly! I'd have to see my son do fluids at least 5 times with me there before I let his ass do it alone!
@9The0Unkowm7 Tell me your kids gonna put you in a home without telling me. Imagine thinking kids are dumb for not automatically knowing how a combustion engine works. This sorta condescending attitude is exactly why kids don’t want to learn. Get a grip
@@colonelcrackerz2320 bro i knew about this shit when i was 9
@@JordyLaFordge throughout conception i alone am the exception
Oh ya, love the spin the engine over with the plugs out. Son how come I got water coming out of the spark plug holes. ??? 😅
"This guy made a car that runs on water. It runs on water man!!" 😂
This is why it’s important to teach your sons common sense
This isn't something you teach this is something you either have or you don't and if you don't you shouldn't be allowed to be in our society.
The pops is definitely the one with out common sense. Why send your son who knows nothing out to your car? Plus use actual washer fluid not water like a peasant
No such thing as common sense
The thing is, most kids (but also people in general), lack reading skills. Not comprehension of a book, but just the mindset of “scan and read everything you see”. I do that, and therefore even if I wasn’t a mechanically inclined person I wouldn’t do this because I would read that the oil cap is not the washer reservoir.
I had to learn it on my own and now I can fix my own van easy and right the first time
This is why its really important to educate your kids and wife for that matter..
I learned this the hard way.
I mean sure but also supervision would have gone a long way here, ignorance is fine so long as you have someone watching your back ready to correct your mistakes, would have taken a couple seconds to say "wrong cap buddy, it goes in the blue cap"
It's a Mercedes. Odds are Dad doesn't know much better himself.
Simple as that🤣🤦♂️and you gotta supervise them a few times after to make sure, and I still wouldn't let them do anything unsupervised 🤣💀
Some just tune you out just like when you tell them to bring a coat.
As an owner of an agricultural equipment sales business “Kubota and Massey Ferguson “ ! This happened many times ! But not by children ?? By adults 😢
Dads didn't learn, they don't teach common shop classes like they used to. Cars these days are very expensive machines now and never take anything for granted when you ask a good kid to do anything.
As a 19 year old, I tend to do my fair share of research before I do anything to my truck. But this doesn't take research it has a label that's pretty obvious 😭.
You sound like a smart kid, sad fact of life that now most of them don't even know what gender they are...
@tonyjordan1320 yeah modern society is going to Hell, lmao. I just don't understand people. They don't think they just do.
@@tonyjordan1320I'm 12 and I don't even understand how people just ignore the giant sign on the oil cap saying engine oil and filling it with washer fluid. Genius, society is going to hell right now I just watched a movie that shows how humans devolved to cave man's in the year 2100 and I'm scared that we will someday end up there
@@XCCCP2 Hang in there son, if you are smart enough to know that and see what is going on in our society it gives me a glimmer of hope for the future....
@@tonyjordan1320 wait a second this isn't a 12 year old at all
Moral of the story: don’t ask your TikTok raised kids to top up fluids in your expensive car.
Or, show them around the engine bay of any vehicle you want them to assist with, and have a couple of pop quizzes before you trust them alone. Parents are there to teach too...
TikTok has nothing to do with this. My cousin did the same around 30 years ago....
@@solracarevirthe point is dumb kids do this, and tiktok doesn't make them any smarter and they sit on it all day.
Nah anyone can do shit like this, I met a lady who broke down because she had a massive leak in her coolant system and the engine locked itself up and she was like "no it doesn't need to be towed"
@@IanBPPK Most of them these days need Subway surfers game play in order to comprehend what's being taught to them. It ain't happening
I am not even surprised...my neighbor had a heat warning in his car and I
see him filling up engine oil when his coolant reservoir is empty. some
reason he thought engine is hot because there is no engine oil
My mom left my dad after I graduated high school, moving 1,000 miles away to Phoenix to be around her family. I came by for a visit a few years later, and while there told her I'd do any routine maintenance her car needed. I asked her if she had any issues, and she told me that her car leaked washer fluid really bad, like she was filling it up every day or 2. So I took a look at it, and the washer fluid tank was fine. Asked her to come out and explain it to me. She brought a gallon of washer fluid and proceeded to fill the radiator. In Phoenix. In the summertime. RIP mom, miss you!
This is why you teach your kid car maintenance before entrusting them with it. Lol
I came here for "antifreeze added to washer tank, sprayed on paint and ruined it". But this kid gave so much more.
I did this by mistake once, but I caught it before I ruined the paint. Had to stand outside the car spraying it with a hose while someone else ran the washer fluid tank empty. I'm just glad I learned that lesson on the washer fluid system instead of another system...
Wait what... I've heard of brake fluid damaging paint - but antifreeze? 🤔
Dad learned the lesson lol.
Reminds me of I mistake a did by confusing the brake fluid/clutch fluid cap by the power-steering fluid cap. I was a big rookie in terms of mechanic at the time and didn't knew the brake fluid tank is always on the driver side. Glad I did this mistake in school rather than anywhere else.
1st: Do Not use water for washer fluid - especially from a garden hose. 2nd Do NOT let your "kid" touch your vehicle to perform a task unless you explain & show him how to do it, then watch/supervise that task.
Well maybe the dad already did show him like 50,000 times.
@@tomr6955 If that is the case, the son should not be touching the vehicle period including driving because the son is totally incompetent. And/or the Father is not competent because he showed the wrong way. "When you play "Stupid Games," you win "Stupid Prizes."
@tomr6955 If the kid doesn't understand the task after having done it with supervision 50.000 times, it still a mistake on the parent's part to think they will magically understand it if they do it without supervision the 50.001st time they do that task. 🤷
Using water for washer fluid doesn't matter... he probably will have sold the long before it could cause any issues
calm down, ma'am@@MrCuckoobox
I replace a 3.0 turbo diesel engine on a new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van because the driver add 2 gallons of D.E.F. into the engine oil fill cap instead the D.E.F. fill cap, then he did it again a week later after replacing the engine
Unbelievable he was setting you up
My boss did something like this in his new tricked out titan, now he drives a jeep.
You'd think you'd really make sure after the first engine. Maybe check the owner's manual before you just start dumping DEF in any random hole. But that's the difference: you'd think
"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense."
It literally has a picture of oil on the cap and oil is on the lid when you remove it smh
Dad to his son:
"Hello darkness my old friend......"
Oh man, that kid just learned some HARD lessons!!
I work at Mercedes dealership and this lady accidentally poured water into her engine oil cap instead of the coolant reservoir. She started the engine and it died on her. Got it towed to the shop right away after she noticed her mistake. Drained oil, came out muddy but no pure water. Couple of oil changes and checking the cylinders, the car ran fine. She got very lucky.
How do you accidentally add water to the engine?
@@KnightFilms32 cuz they have no inclination of what the fuck. Like if u never fucked with tech and decide to swap out ur laptops bad cpu without research. Might just end bad
Then a person who buys that same car will wonder why his engine needs rebuild after 50.000 miles.😂
But you missed out thousands of easy dollars 😏
Well, on the upside, the engine ran cool no overheating issues and warped cylinder heads! Maybe some busted cylinder heads! 😅
Sometimes being lazy and sending your kid out is costly
Serves the owner right. I don't feel sorry for him.
@@bobby1970why? because he has a mercedes?
@@ShadowFanQuills3 No, that has nothing to do with it at all. I don't feel sorry for him (the car owner) because he was stupid enough to send his kid son to do an adult job. Also because he was too lazy to do it himself.
@@ShadowFanQuills3bro really think people feel jealous of a Mercedes 😂 it’s a cabby’s car in every other part of the world. They have like 3 good models. The rest are just cab cars. They aren’t even that expensive. For the longest you could lease one for the cost of a Toyota note😂. Nobody mods them and people ride the warranty so no real reason to get attached. BMW has the same issue. Old big bodies are cheap and a nice ride for 25k though 😂 not exactly breaking the bank
@@bobby1970also too lazy to teach his son how to do it right
Last line was gold. LOL
Dad was busy drinking a beer to do it himself
I work in a delivery company and one day we were starting our shifts and loading on the packages we nees to deliver and I saw one of my coworkers trying to open the engine oil tub to fill up the washer fluid, we stopped him seconds before and saved the day!
How is even a person got a permission to drive a truck without even knowing how to fill vehicle fluids 🤦
Remember these same people are trusted to make an informed decision when they vote😂
@@TheTutch that explains why we got some dodgy leaders around the western world right now
@@TheTutchA.K.A. tRump supporters
"dad" "sorry,who r u again?"
who are you !? I dont have a Son , gtfo of my house!
‘This simple trick could save you thousands’ except this isn’t a scam like those ads and is all honesty. Much love.
I hope he gets his dad an excellent Fathers day gift! ....like a vette...or a rad tie!
It’s why you teach your kids about car maintenance and repair early in life and supervise their work until they’re comfortable doing it.
The kid will probably never have to touch a ICE car (assuming the child is young and couldn’t read the ‘oil’ word on the wrong cap)
That kid certainly learned a lesson.
This reminds me, when I was 8.
I overheard my mom and dad talking about how there wasn't much gas in the car, and they didn't know where they were going to get money to fill it.
I remembered seeing a story on Sesame Street, about putting rocks in a container of water, to raise the level.
So, yea...
He had to get the tank pulled, and cleaned out.
Get your brain checked
@@hhhhj5831 Huh???
This is surprisingly wholesome. Sure, it was never gonna work but your idea came from a good place - you knew your parents were struggling with money and you wanted to help. Which is something I would not expect from an 8 year old.
@@hhhhj5831 He was 8 years old, he didn't know any better. I can guarantee you did some stupid shit when you were 8 that you regret today.
Amazing initiative and idea even though it ended badly. 😅
Makes me cry. I asked a guy from Auto Zone to top off my steering flui for me, as I was weari g white silk..He poured it into my MASTER CYLINDER 💀
My friends from India and Africa said they always just put water in instead of washer fluid. Here in the midwest that won't work cuz we got like 3 hot months and the rest can get to freezing temps. Plus washer fluid cheap and its soap so why not.
if you cant distinquish between oil filler cap and washer filler cap then you shouldnt be driving
Well, it was - allegedly - his kid who did it, so yes, they shouldn't and aren't driving! 🤣
Not yet, at least
We used to have an old man with dementia bring his car to our workshop and he constantly topped off every fluid with water and we would have to drain, clean and refill brake fluid, power steering and engine oil & filter, after 3 times of this my boss managed to contact his son and the old man lost his car due to his illness which was a shame because it was his freedom, he passed away 6 months later, the car was an old 1994 Ford fiesta (uk)
Rather not share the road with someone suffering that badly from dementia.
how the heck the car could drive with that
Buddy an old guy who can barely remember his name is more dangerous than a 13 year old in a car.
@@dreamcrusher112and yet there's tons of them on the road. I worked at a butcher shop in old rich town and man half these geezers would come in all bumped and bruised up from falls and I'd be like I know damn well y'all shouldn't be driving... Same thing with parents not keeping these bad driving kids off the road. Same workplace the owners daughter has been in 3 at fault wrecks in 4 years... He's yet to take her license, nah he just buys her a new car every time. He went with the Volvo SUV this time need that 5 star JD crash rating lmao
some old lady tanked my bike and nearly my foot on a zebra crossing because she couldn't see. Had to walk home with my bike bent in half.@@broken_clock_right_twice
yo if i got my car diagnosed with bent pushrods and the mechanic told me "yeah you need a new engine" i would never in a million years even think of going to them again.
I took a car care class in high school in the early 70s.
Learned quite a bit.
Dad comes out of the woods with a shovel and axe.
_"Son🤔 What Son? Never had one."_ 😅
Ye lets lowball crimes against minors. Sure no dad ever did this.
@@polster1404 joke
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noun
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline
@@polster1404
Find your safe space, stay there & wait till November...🤔
_Then cry some more_ 🤗
@@polster1404 It's time for you to get off the internet buddy
@@polster1404ever heard of a joke?
friendly advice for the owner after the $9700 engine swap: Do NOT let the shop(dealer or independent) refill the washer fluid for you! they charge too much!
Washer fluid is free fym
@@CivEtzio When I brought my Mercedes to the dealer for 'A' service back 10 years ago, the dealer charged me 25 dollars for washer fluid.
@@xcmskim4 because you have a Mercedes. Anywhere else they'll do it free, bmw is free, vw free, Honda free. Etc
Independent garage. It's so cheap to buy in bulk we will gladly give you some.
We charge nothing to top off fluids and set tire pressure
I see a Durex advertisement on this tbh
Lucky he didn't use blinker fluid instead. 😬🤣
Don’t forget to top off the blinker fluid
Blinker fluid and also some premium air right? XD
😂😂
@@freduah4253There unironically are people who buy premium air.
Yes, and change out the D size batteries for the rear defroster! 😁
So many important tips to know here! Thanks everyone. XD
The father is probably too embarrassed to admit he did it himself.
He wouldn't have known he did anything wrong if that was the case.
@@silversonic99 don’t you think he would realize something is wrong when his Mercedes runs like a jalopy after he topped it off with washer fluid
@290TrafficCone yes but he would have said "it just started for no reason " or something along those lines. Not connecting the dots of it starting after he added fluid
the fact u think that shows how dumb u are if he did this he would just turn it off and call tow truck
@@290TrafficCone Not even washer fluid. TAP WATER TO THE TOP
As a kid I never used the hose to fill up the washer fluid because I didn’t know water would work
We had one customer put coolant into the oil cap. Luckily someone realized the mistake before starting it and towed it to us.
As a service advisor, the worst thing I had a customer do to their own car was pour wiper fluid in the coolant res. Actually, their elderly father did it and only up to the full line, so very little. She drove it to the shop just for that and was SO worried. I told her the car would be fine since wiper fluid is 99% water. She insisted on paying for a coolant flush, so I took the $$ 😂😂
Honestly though, you love to see a customer that just wants the empirically correct thing done to their car. So many want to cut costs and corners.
Honestly I’d flush the coolant too. Better safe than blowing the head gaskets lol
@@mitchelldake7203seriously
It wouldn't do any damage but draining the coolant would still be advised@@ashkechum101
@@ashkechum101 The washer fluid will actually float on top of the coolant. It happened to me and you could see the 2 different fluids.
Kid: this is for tricking me into thinking that there was blinker fluid.
The ending tho 😂😂😂😂
Somebody is going to be grounded until they're 90. 🤣🤣🤣
This is why cars in the 50's came with manuals showing you how to adjust your valves, and today it says don't drink the battery fluid.
But the battery fluid is so tasty to drink
@@jenkathefridge3933 But it's for the eels. they gotta recharge somehow
@@dogdog357 ohhhhh
The manuals dont say that
You still had people back then who thought a car’s electrical system ran off the battery instead of the alternator. We’ve been surrounded by stupid people for eons.
Low compression does not mean bent rods. Could be 100 other things,
If the engine hydro-locked, then a rod is probably bent.
I don't know much about working on modern car engines, but it seems a bit wasteful to scrap the whole engine for probably $6k+ when it just needs a rebuild. Maybe MB engines are so complicated and have such tight tolerances that the labor would be more than a new engine?
@@thelight3112 rebuilding a Mercedes engine is no different than any other engine (it's mostly connecting all the electronics afterwards you have to be prepared for) but at the end of the day replacing the engine is often going to be cheaper and or faster than rebuilding it
@@thelight3112. That is not a simple build.... Most likely damaged rods, crank, probably bent valves, and so when you piece all that stuff together, you may as well just buy a brand new engine with warranty from the manufacturer
Thank you for this comment op ...see my comment elsewhere.
This guy trying real hard to sound smart when he said "the pcv was filled with water"...in his mind therefore a check valve that fits in your hand holds enough water to hydro lock that engine..
You'd be the first shop to top off the washer fluid. I've never had a "premium" service facility go out of their way to check anything they don't have a labor code for.
Bro is so chill with the fact his kid flooded his Mercedes engine with water
That Mercedes ate Taco Bell 😂
Underrated comment
Yo quiero taco bell
Right he's a Mercedes owner. So he actually did that and blamed it on his son just so he didnt have to embarrass himself
@@user-ut3ck8ok5m possibly
Reminds me of the time my oldest son was going to pump gas while I paid, he was 16-17 at the time, I go back out and he is cursing the nozzle because it won’t fit right, I see it is the green diesel and stop him immediately, but some how he had pumped about 6-7 gallons in, and probably spilled a couple. All I knew to do was go back in and pay to fill it the rest of the way up with 93, it smoked slightly but didn’t hurt anything, thank God, it was my wife’s car.
Thank God it was my wife's car...LOL..
@@tonyjordan1320 I meant thank God it didn’t hurt anything because it was my wife’s car, not thank God it was my wife’s car that it happened to, trust me, I still catch hell about it and it was 15 years ago.
It’s not good to put diesel fuel in a gasoline engine but it’s not as bad as putting gasoline in a diesel engine.
@@vladtheimpala5532 right, that would be catastrophic, me and my buddy put premix from our dirt bikes in his built 70 T/A 455 SD when it ran out of gas on the way home from the MX track, he had a converted boat trailer for our bikes and that 455 pulled the shit out of it, even with premix lol, at least it was hi octane racing gas with premix, light blue smoke just like the bikes.
"I don't know officer, I told little Billie not to drive so close to the cliff."
Dad is just blaming his child for his mistake.
The engine was not broken until you tried to turn it over. That means you broke it. Should have given it a couple cranks with a torque wrench on the harmonic balancer first?
They bent when the owner started it.
Nobody should have started it. The mechanic should have known that much.
@illustriouschin why? It won't hurt an already blown engine. Cranking the engine won't provide enough torque to bend rods. You need an empty cylinder or 2 to fire to cause damage. All damage was caused before it was brought to the shop.
did u watch the video? they drained it first...
@@michaelhoolahan5717drained the pan and replaced the plugs. If there is possible water ingress you don't stop with just this. You check intake, bore-scope top and bottom, all part that water can go into. Its like filling diesel into petrol car and technician just drains the tank without checking filter
I know a lady who accidentally filled the tank on a new diesel truck with gasoline. Very fortunately, she realized her error when she replaced the filler nozzle. It was fixed without damage.
An engineer is laughing somewhere right now. 😂
The kid sounds like he's already well on his way to becoming a future Mercedes purchaser 😂
i was in a similar situation except my dad just yelled at me the whole time while making sure i was doing it right. now i maintain my own car. thanks dad
Nice tip.
I thought it would help the engine become "cleaner".
If that's a joke it doesn't land well.
Wow that’s actually impressive!
That Mercedes Benz sure was mad!
Gentleman owning this Mercedes doesn't deserve it. Please hand it over to me. I'll take care of this beauty
One of the brightest students in my class asked why we mix some diesel with petrol while filling up moped tank. (This was during 2T engines era)
Few people know of the dry sump system.
Why'd someone moan after the fluid busted 😭
"Okay, that's enough"
"ah 😩"
Update son has been disowned & now live with his mother!
I’m very glad my dad taught me the proper way when I was like 7 and I have never forgotten 🤣
I was 16
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !*
_Tappin' in from South Central LA_
In my line of work I came across a couple whose car overheated. They said they let it cool off, added water and drove it. But it did it again. We popped the hood and the showed me where the added water. They got a good laugh when I showed them that's where the washer fluid goes !
Sounds like two years at community college instead of high tuition college.
I immediately laughed so hard, this is rich people coded. "Mercedes, your son" geez people.
When I was a kid in the late 1970s and 1980s, many of us knew how to check vital fluids, change a tire, read guages and how to jump start a vehicle before starting junior high.
@ls4965 sure you all did 🤣
Alright, when I worked at an oil company 40 years ago. There was this driver filled the truck engine full of oil and it started and oil was leaking out every where . Blowing it out all over the place under the hood. The driver drove the truck like that for the rest of the month or so.
Americans. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Stefan_Dahn
Bigot
@@Stefan_DahnAs an American, we do not claim him.
No he didn’t and this never happened.
@@Stefan_Dahn
People named Stefan 🤡👎
Having your kid put water in your Mercedes washer reservoir says it all. Do that in a cold climate and see how well that turns out lol. We all were 16 and needed something in a pinch when on the road to get home. But, to choose water over washer fluid to begin with probably penny pinchers. Lol
It did with my w205 but we changed the injectors ..3 years later still driving it