I'm 64 and this crawling under my cars to do my own wrenching leaves a mark the next day. It must take a toll on people like Jonny, who wrench every day.
BMW owner: "Dealer told me I need an engine. BMWs are crap!" - takes sips of $6 Starbucks coffee Me: "Did you change the oil at its dealer-specified internals?" BMW Owner: "Change oil? I don't have the time or money for that! I shouldn't have to change oil!" - takes another sips from $6 Starbucks coffee
@@LoopBooost Yeah BMW intervals are way too long. I do mine at half the BMW intervals. Diff and transmission fluid at 40k miles too. Preventative maintenance.
I'm turning 53 this month, and when you get to my age, it will be even less fun to to do those kind of twister game's in a car like that lol. You should be okay though, unless you end up cobbled up like i am, then it really gets challenging. G-d bless.
I replaced the water pump and thermostat on my girlfriends 528 xDrive N52 last fall when I was 65. No lift, so I was using a creeper. Fairly easy job on RWD BMWs, not so much on AWDs since you have the extra crossmember. I was sore for the next two days! I now have a lift.
Literally just had my water pump replaced on my N55 2011 335i a couple weeks ago. About 81k on the clock. Thing went boom out of nowhere and lit up the screen with terrifying warnings.
Get rid of it immediately. 106,000 miles on mine. Replaced valve cover and gasket, 3 axles, water pump and thermostat (second time) and a couple other little things. My shop said the transmission is about to fail. Tired of fixing this car, which I loved, and bout a hybrid xse Camry. Not nearly as fast but 40+ mpg and much more reliable. 100,000 mile warranty. On top of the 30,000 it had on it.
People like the perceived prestige of driving a used BMW or any other European luxury vehicle but chances are unless they are the original owner they are stretching their budget to try and impress people they will never meet by driving a vehicle they can't afford to both buy AND properly maintain. They skip or defer maintenance and then complain when problems arise.
M5 with manual transmission ... that's a jewel. Cars are getting more and more disconnected from the driver, so cars like this are the last of their kind.
Only one thing i dont understand. Why is nobody using gloves while work ? Yes I know, its a little uncomfort, but still. When I was working at a shop without gloves I had dirty hands all week. You simply just cant make them really clean, while working every day on cars. In these days I wont work without nitrile gloves, you have the best possible sense and clean hands all the time.
The most important part of this video was getting a used OEM water pump and putting it on until he got the new OEM pump in. Why is this important? He could have easily went and got an aftermarket water pump delivered from a parts store and sent the car. However, that is not what this shop is about. Or he could have said we can't get a water pump from BMW for months so we can't fix your car. He found the perfect solution to six the problem correctly as to what his shop does. As a result, that customer is not gonna go anywhere.
BMW sure does use plastics parts at critical 'hot' locations! Durability overtime is questionable. Maintainability for people like Johnny... a gold mine!
That's crazy lol my 1989 Nissan Laural RB 25Det motor was unknown km but is tight,body was 110 000 km ,lux trim ,got basic link and big fuel pump lol but had few E36s ,E46s dam things are my nemesis lol😅😅magic chassis
All supercharged 3.0t’s should have cold air intake. Sounds amazing! Also, no matter if the coolant pipe is leaking or not, if you are in there doing the pvc just change the pipe. It makes zero sense not too.
Have you tried pulling it out blowing on it and reinserting it. It is an N64 after all, oh sorry your talking about the car not the console. "Never mind". :)
Cool and calm as ever Jonny Ninja. I'm 74yo, finding it's getting difficult to work under the dash of my Mazda MX 5, getting up off the floor after doing an oil change is s full workout. But I'll keep going until I stop.
I had a 2001 Isuzu vehicross that was built like a tank. I drove it to nearly 200,000 miles before a check engine light came on. Then, that was just a sensor. When i traded it at 200k miles, I still got around 9k for it. I don't know why automakers don't build cars like that Isuzu. It was the most solid car I ever owned. Never gave me any problems. The only other car I've had similar to that was a 2016 Mazda cx5. If somebody hadn't of pulled out in front of me at 55mph I would still be driving it. I had 155,000 miles on it and it had never given me any issue. I've also owned 2 bmw's now. They're trash cars. The amount of problems I've seen in bmw's is because of the designers of the cars. Its like the developers are so smart they intentionally design parts on bmw's to fail so greedy dealerships can make more profits. I don't think luxury cars are actual luxury anymore.
Black wheels doesn't look good on any car in my opinion. Just looks like old, black steel wheels that have lost their wheel covers if seen from more than a few feet away...
5:24 I would recommend using a thermal imaging camera to identify hot spots when troubleshooting a battery drain. It would have picked up the running defective water pump.
I think the satin black rep E60 M5 18s on my calypso red E34 nicely match the shadowline trim. Most times they don't match though, not with that light silver body colour. I had those same 18s on the white (chrome trim) E39 sedan while I refurbished the alloys, they looked hideous, I felt almost embarrased to drive it, couldn't wait to get them off it
So, Jonny, did I miss the answer to the obvious question on that BMW.......why does the water pump run when the car is off? I mean, no wonder it burns out water pumps, and did you address that during the repair? I don't get it?
I wonder your opinion on super long oil change intervals (10 to 12 thousand miles) on newer cars today. Is the oil fully protecting the engine or is it just going to last until the engine is out of warranty?
Always 5k oil changes. Starting the interval of 10-15 early on will cause damage over time. Dont listen to the dealers. They want you buying another car in 5 years.
I was thinking it's probably a parts chaser, or a friend in for an oil change/brakes. Probably not in for a full workup like all that Euro-trash (am a Euro-trash owner, friend owns an Odyssey of the same age, that's how it is).
Hi Jonny, you should have not apologize for working on a friend’s behalf. You’re a good person.. I always appreciate your willingness to help someone. Really enjoy your content and channel.
10:07 Ninja, try next time with a folded fender cover as a cushion and lay on your back instead of your side. I found this position much more comfortable. Gotta take care of the body.
I like this format, showing what the other techs are doing as well. Dropping knowledge while working on cars. Thanks GMW for keeping simple and honest.
The “ it’s my shop I can do what I want to “ love that attitude ninja!!
Thanks for showing what a pro shop runs and looks like. Great vids
I'm 64 and this crawling under my cars to do my own wrenching leaves a mark the next day. It must take a toll on people like Jonny, who wrench every day.
Imagine people his age that work outside in the rain, snow, heat working road construction. They have it worse
BMW owner: "Dealer told me I need an engine. BMWs are crap!" - takes sips of $6 Starbucks coffee
Me: "Did you change the oil at its dealer-specified internals?"
BMW Owner: "Change oil? I don't have the time or money for that! I shouldn't have to change oil!" - takes another sips from $6 Starbucks coffee
the 3rd $6 that day ... of course 😅🤣
I hope no one follows bmw change intervals
@@LoopBooost Yeah BMW intervals are way too long. I do mine at half the BMW intervals. Diff and transmission fluid at 40k miles too. Preventative maintenance.
So many of the ZF boxes say "lifetime fill" i.e. they don't HAVE a service interval. Crazy.
@@greebj only according to BMW. ZF say 60-80k kilometres. I’m going with their recommendation over BMW.
I'm turning 53 this month, and when you get to my age, it will be even less fun to to do those kind of twister game's in a car like that lol. You should be okay though, unless you end up cobbled up like i am, then it really gets challenging. G-d bless.
You ain't seen nothing yet. I'm 75 this year and just doing the valve cover gasket on the wife's Camry forced me to sit down the rest of the day.
I replaced the water pump and thermostat on my girlfriends 528 xDrive N52 last fall when I was 65. No lift, so I was using a creeper. Fairly easy job on RWD BMWs, not so much on AWDs since you have the extra crossmember. I was sore for the next two days!
I now have a lift.
Literally just had my water pump replaced on my N55 2011 335i a couple weeks ago. About 81k on the clock. Thing went boom out of nowhere and lit up the screen with terrifying warnings.
Get rid of it immediately. 106,000 miles on mine. Replaced valve cover and gasket, 3 axles, water pump and thermostat (second time) and a couple other little things.
My shop said the transmission is about to fail.
Tired of fixing this car, which I loved, and bout a hybrid xse Camry.
Not nearly as fast but 40+ mpg and much more reliable. 100,000 mile warranty. On top of the 30,000 it had on it.
old pillows and "retired" towels work great to buffer over things like door sills.
I hear ya on the old bit.
People like the perceived prestige of driving a used BMW or any other European luxury vehicle but chances are unless they are the original owner they are stretching their budget to try and impress people they will never meet by driving a vehicle they can't afford to both buy AND properly maintain.
They skip or defer maintenance and then complain when problems arise.
It's called maintenance. If you don't want to check the oil and beat a car to death, get a Toyota it will probably last 150k ignoring every problem
I just polished my 2006 JCW Mini and ceramic coated it…….just wait till you are 73!….i can barely move today!😆😀
Just wait till you're over 80 .. you can't move any day. Jobs for the younger fellas. Bushyboy Oz
@@ewengillies9826 😄
My 2006 X3 has been babied so well that it burns zero oil and just did a 2400 mile run from Seattle to Cabo flawlessly ❤
That M5 had some sweet wheels. 😍
they are so thrashed..... 😅 I can say that because they are mine
E39 M5 is definitely on my buy list 👍🏽🔥
Ninja as always, love your work and personality. Welcome to "The Old mans club" 😂😂
E39 M5: there _is_ no substitute...
M5 with manual transmission ... that's a jewel. Cars are getting more and more disconnected from the driver, so cars like this are the last of their kind.
Always buy facelift model. Looks better and has updated parts.
Only one thing i dont understand. Why is nobody using gloves while work ? Yes I know, its a little uncomfort, but still. When I was working at a shop without gloves I had dirty hands all week. You simply just cant make them really clean, while working every day on cars. In these days I wont work without nitrile gloves, you have the best possible sense and clean hands all the time.
The most important part of this video was getting a used OEM water pump and putting it on until he got the new OEM pump in. Why is this important? He could have easily went and got an aftermarket water pump delivered from a parts store and sent the car. However, that is not what this shop is about. Or he could have said we can't get a water pump from BMW for months so we can't fix your car. He found the perfect solution to six the problem correctly as to what his shop does. As a result, that customer is not gonna go anywhere.
Hence the message at the start of the video.
He may talk shit about your wheel choices, but he will take care of you properly. 🙂
170,000 miles it lasted quite a while 😂😂
my 3 cars have far more than that and still going very strong
BMW sure does use plastics parts at critical 'hot' locations! Durability overtime is questionable. Maintainability for people like Johnny... a gold mine!
Mercedes and Audi are both worse. And also they bury them under any parts you have to take off.
Everyone does. Been going on for 25+ years.
Jaguar crossover pipes- especially the rear and supercharger...
The thing that amazes me the most is how he works on so unnecessarily complicated cars and keeps being so positive! :)
Its called being payed to do work 😂
@@Nightrunnergunner good pay and proper knowledge, tools and software that saves a lot of time and headaches (that also cost a lot 😂)
Whats he going to work on ? Stagecoaches aka American cars ? 😂
He also seems passionate about working on cars... kinda loves his job.
Passion too. Sometimes you admire the products so much you accept technical faults. I'm a VW fan myself
The quality and the format of the videos is absolute perfection 💯
Ironically, those ugly wheels are the most reliable part of that piece of crap car.
Car has 170,000 miles so it lasted a while 😂
I really like how you get right to the point. Great stuff!!!
Great. Old not so flexible but much experience/knowledge. Young flexible but not so much experience/knowledge. I know what I’d rather pay for.
That's crazy lol my 1989 Nissan Laural RB 25Det motor was unknown km but is tight,body was 110 000 km ,lux trim ,got basic link and big fuel pump lol but had few E36s ,E46s dam things are my nemesis lol😅😅magic chassis
An electric water pump that erroneously, and quietly, runs when the vehicle is off draining the battery in 2 hours screams BMW.
All supercharged 3.0t’s should have cold air intake. Sounds amazing!
Also, no matter if the coolant pipe is leaking or not, if you are in there doing the pvc just change the pipe.
It makes zero sense not too.
Nice, a 2nd video in 1 month.
Have you tried pulling it out blowing on it and reinserting it. It is an N64 after all, oh sorry your talking about the car not the console. "Never mind". :)
It’s ok Jon. Decent, late model German pickup trucks are hard to find since Covid. 🤫
Those waterpumps on those BMW's suck
Actually they're pretty easy to replace especially if you have a list. The electric pumps do draw less power from the engines.
Cool and calm as ever Jonny Ninja.
I'm 74yo, finding it's getting difficult to work under the dash of my Mazda MX 5, getting up off the floor after doing an oil change is s full workout. But I'll keep going until I stop.
I had a 2001 Isuzu vehicross that was built like a tank. I drove it to nearly 200,000 miles before a check engine light came on. Then, that was just a sensor. When i traded it at 200k miles, I still got around 9k for it. I don't know why automakers don't build cars like that Isuzu. It was the most solid car I ever owned. Never gave me any problems. The only other car I've had similar to that was a 2016 Mazda cx5. If somebody hadn't of pulled out in front of me at 55mph I would still be driving it. I had 155,000 miles on it and it had never given me any issue. I've also owned 2 bmw's now. They're trash cars. The amount of problems I've seen in bmw's is because of the designers of the cars. Its like the developers are so smart they intentionally design parts on bmw's to fail so greedy dealerships can make more profits. I don't think luxury cars are actual luxury anymore.
Black wheels doesn't look good on any car in my opinion. Just looks like old, black steel wheels that have lost their wheel covers if seen from more than a few feet away...
5:24 I would recommend using a thermal imaging camera to identify hot spots when troubleshooting a battery drain. It would have picked up the running defective water pump.
I'm 75 Jonny, so I don't even want to hear it from a kid like you.😂😅😂😅😂
Why there is country music with German cars?! Techno rave should it be
I feel his pain lol, I had to change the control box cooling fan on an E46 that is in the footwell behind the clutch pedal. Not fun.
That odyssey must feel like poor kid in a country club lol
I was thinking it felt like a person with a cut thumb in a cancer ward.
@@runner3033 😂😂😂
Agree on the X5 wheels. Like I have said often, black wheels look good on nothing!
I think the satin black rep E60 M5 18s on my calypso red E34 nicely match the shadowline trim. Most times they don't match though, not with that light silver body colour. I had those same 18s on the white (chrome trim) E39 sedan while I refurbished the alloys, they looked hideous, I felt almost embarrased to drive it, couldn't wait to get them off it
Try working under an airplane panel then come back and complain.
Another great video from Car ninja. Johnny is such a hard worker and always has a great attitude.
Black wheels are ugly on all cars , no exceptions
Johnny all your videos and staff are fantastic, thank u from nyc
*looks at title pic*
If you know, you know...
About time we see an M54 engine on here. Keep up the awesome videos!
Jonny, you have a beautiful shop.
never been serviced.???. get the money up front
An electric water pump ? You got to be kidding me !
Plako ku e ke dyqonin ti ne ca shteti je???
The editing in these videos is just top notch.
So, Jonny, did I miss the answer to the obvious question on that BMW.......why does the water pump run when the car is off? I mean, no wonder it burns out water pumps, and did you address that during the repair? I don't get it?
Pump was defective.
Why does the M5 have a 5 speed gear knob?
I wonder your opinion on super long oil change intervals (10 to 12 thousand miles) on newer cars today. Is the oil fully protecting the engine or is it just going to last until the engine is out of warranty?
Always 5k oil changes. Starting the interval of 10-15 early on will cause damage over time. Dont listen to the dealers. They want you buying another car in 5 years.
Sooo much plastic 🤦🏽
What’s up with the German Honda Odyssey in the shop?
I was thinking it's probably a parts chaser, or a friend in for an oil change/brakes. Probably not in for a full workup like all that Euro-trash (am a Euro-trash owner, friend owns an Odyssey of the same age, that's how it is).
Ahhhh the M5. Was introduced to me from the original Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2.
Thanks Johnny,
Sure you don't want to come to Australia for some right hand drive action?
Hi Jonny, you should have not apologize for working on a friend’s behalf.
You’re a good person..
I always appreciate your willingness to help someone.
Really enjoy your content and channel.
What a difference a year made 2000-2001 with that E39 M5 accelerator sensor ,dam Johnny i feel for ya! Ninja 🥋😂
Sir just one Thing after a very Hard Day or after a muscle workout on a Vehicle drink a Protein Shake to help Muscle recovery
... and stretch before and after. Got a few years on Jonny and I can still hang.
Johnny got game he still goin
10:07 Ninja, try next time with a folded fender cover as a cushion and lay on your back instead of your side. I found this position much more comfortable. Gotta take care of the body.
It's funny how Johnny makes all these fixes seem so simple. Thanks for always keeping it real, Johnny, you're the best. 😘👍
I like this format, showing what the other techs are doing as well. Dropping knowledge while working on cars. Thanks GMW for keeping simple and honest.
u aren't old. just car technology gets + developed for car buyers to spend more $$$. car brands want + $$$. a car needs a motor and four wheels.
I swear if people just did their maintenance, mechanics will be out of business lol.... not really
People just don't understand, frequent oil changes are cheap insurance.
same car yoga with the motors on the cold-hot air mixing flaps....head down under the dashboard for an hour.
I love when Johnny makes fun of his customers. "These wheels are ugly"
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Yep slim is good !! You obviously don’t do fast foods ..! Keep it so 👍
What would cause the water pump to keep running ?
Thanks for taking the time to do the videos.
2:17: It’s not easy to work on an….🧐👀🤔
I feel your pain Jonny!
odd my mechanical oil pump doesnt cause any parasitic battery drain
Water pump, but yeah pretty common issue on those X5s
Ninja 🥷
Jonny, you and your guys could probably work in F1!
Love this channel. All real work, no BS.
Much appreciated
Bro work on audis , these bmw stuff boring
Nah
yeah so much more interesting to have to drop the engine to do stuff like chain guides tucked up against the firewall, I'm sure he can't wait