@@tim3172 no. Having a brakes or steering failure during normal use will make you lose control and crash, that's safety critical. Engine failure requires a specific setup to be a danger, even your "when merging" needs the other drivers to not notice and just crash into you, have a big enough vehicle and enough speed. The difference they are making in vehicles between systems is not just "it may cause danger some times", otherwise anything becomes safety critical and defies the point. WHat if for example you are the only one with a car and must bring somebody to the hospital or something? If the car breaks down that's a "danger" to this guy but it's also a wildly specific circumstance. This is one of the reasons why aircraft are more expensive, a lot more components are safety critical
@@tim3172 well let's say would u rather have all cars on the road lose propulsion at the same time or lose their braking power at the same time... in this hypothetical scenario id at least take the propulsion. Losing propulsion isn't THAT dangerous compared to losing brakes. On a downhill would u rather lose propulsion.. or brakes.. I think you'd take the propulsion. on a highway would u rather lose propulsion or brakes... I think even then you'd take losing propulsion over your brakes. Cars aren't planes or helicopters, when they lose propulsion they won't fall out of the sky and crash. If anything they'll just roll to a slow stop be it on a country road or highway. Even if I lost propulsion while merging id still be able to brake after somebody rear-ends me or bumps into me and I won't fly into a ditch. Also as another point pretty much everything is a danger.. some things just way more.. like losing brakes in a car, bike, motorcycle, etc. on the list of dangers in cars losing propulsion is somewhere near the bottom or middle and losing brakes at the very tippety top Im not defending companies and factories that make garbage replacement parts for engines but just as a fact losing propulsion is less dangerous than losing your brakes in 9 out of 10 cases.
And even though he didn't imply it... it's *_also true_* about our Man Nuggets _(our Berries),_ because *every damn thing can legitimately cause cancer now!!!* (not even referring to the meme where everything causes cancer in California, due to the "Known to cause cancer in the State of CA" warning label everything has)
Enshitification is waiting for me driving a 22 year old car which isn't an amazing car and I'm waiting for something to go wrong and a mechanic to say "Nah mate not worth the trouble just get something else" (2002 magna, I wish I had the brains to rebuild it myself)
@@callumsutherland8750 Twice in my life (when young) I bought a twenty-year-old car and kept it until it was thirty. I had no mechanical knowledge and paid for any work being done. I found a car at thirty years of age can start and cost its market value in annual maintenance. That's when you get the next clunker (if you're on a modest income like I was).
I repair and resell laptops as a side hustle and if a new keyboard doesn't work I'll assume the new keyboard is broken before I blame the connector or mainboard, same with screens, trackpads, basically anything. Shouldn't have to assume the new part is a dud and be right most of the time :/
Thanks for the mention! Also, I completely relate to the message of this video. I can't tell you how many times new parts failed immediately on installation or just did not fit AT ALL. Not to mention the numerous brand new tools that were so bad they were essentially single-use. It makes the hobby extremely frustrating and cost-prohibitive. I hope it changes but at this point I'm not getting my hopes up. Maybe that's why I've transitioned to tinkering in the virtual realm...
Happened to me just 2 week ago. Took me 3 water pump with the final one being crazy expensive genuine Mercedes part they reintroduced because non of the Chinese junk in euro paper boxes worked. It cost 350 EUR instead of 100 but it works. And I was lucky. Mercedes cannot make reliable modern car for life of them but they still somewhat supports even cars from 60s and 70s. Parts cost crazy money but the quality is there (with rare and spectacular F up). It is even worse for American classic cars unless it is a Chevy with endless aftermarket. Thank for the work on the Engine Simulator. Looking forward to next version. 😁
Uncle Tony has done several videos on this. Cams are misground with no taper and the lifters don't rotate and fail on flat tappets. Fuel pumps that burn up on turning them on... You can't even trust certain big names now...
After 50 years of service, the original General Motors AC Delco fuel pump on my 1974 GMC 1500 finally quit. The diaphragm blew out and started puking fuel everywhere. Rest easy comrade. Your work here is done. So I went to the parts store and bought a brand new Delphi. It was cheaper, but whatever its a mechanical fuel pump, what could go wrong? (Foreshadowing.) About a week later I was out late night cruising and it started acting funny. Figuring it was probably the fuel filter I headed for home so I could change it in the morning instead of the dark on the side of the road. I pulled away from a red light 5 minutes from my apartment and pop, engine shuts off. Shit, the fuel filter completely clogged. Good thing I have a spare in the truck. (I was still running the original tank after it sat in a field for 18 years, it went through an inline filter about every 100km and I had changed so many times I could do it in 10 minutes) Coast into a parking lot and quickly slap a new filter on. Still wont start. Shit I must be out of gas. (The fuel gauge didn't work at the time so running out of gas was common) Grabbed the 5 gallon can out of the back of the truck and walked to the gas station a block over. Make it back and put 5 gallons in. Still wont start. Needle and seat stuck? Hit carburetor with hammer. Still wont start. Pour gas right down the carb. Starts and runs until the bowls are empty. What? Its not getting fuel? No puddles under the truck, no broken lines. Crack the inlet to the pump and fuel spills out, no clogged lines. At this point it was 11PM. I didn't want to bother anyone with having to come get me and I needed to get the truck towed home anyway so I called for a tow truck. "Well the truck might be there at midnight or 9AM. We're not sure." Whatever, its summertime and the weather is perfect, they'll probly be here in 30 minutes. But my phone is almost out of battery, I need to conserve it in case theres an emergency, and I am pretty tired. I guess I'll lay down on the bench seat and take a nap. I awake. Theres no tow truck. Look at my phone. Its 230AM. Fuck. I slept in my truck all night, it was cold and uncomfortable. The silver lining was that I happened to break down next to a 24 hour Denny's and they let me use the bathroom. Sure enough, 9AM the next morning the tow truck showed up. Towed it home and I regrouped. Invited my friend over to help me diagnose. He told me to check the new fuel pump. It was the fucking fuel pump. THE BRAND NEW FUEL PUMP catastrophically failed and cracked the pump armature in half after only about 150km of driving. Took it back and warrantied it and bought the more expensive Carter pump I should have bought in the first place. Its holding up now about 3000km later. Fuck you Delphi. (Yes I know I mixed metric and imperial measurements, I'm Canadian)
damn. Question: Is that 1500 one that has bluetooth rockers and flooring, or was it one that somehow managed to avoid the metal murderer that is salt and moisture?
Wanna know something funny? Delphi isn't even second hand. GM sold the AC Delco development branch but retained the name, thus, Delphi. Both parties kept the patents and production for the fuel pumps. They're the exact same. Delphi's parent company literally just cuts costs, but like, same spec same patent same product same materials. I went down a rabbit hole buying a new sender assembly for my Sonoma.
The legal mandate that corporations do the bidding of shareholders, and the subsequent financialization of the economy has been a disaster for the planet.
@@SixArmedSweater don't know about that. No real knowledge of SM. But investors are the real problem I see. Yes, they are part of SM, but it was kinda working 80+ years ago.
Had an old XD falcon, door handles crapped themselves (as is usual and expected) Ford genuine part was bloody expensive (can't remember exactly, but over 50 Aussie dollarydoos) and apparently made from cheese. Went to a wrecker who also sold aftermarket parts, he grinned and picked up set of four taiwanesium handles, less than 40 dollarydoos total. He claimed they wouldn't break. The looked identical, but each seemed to weigh at least 50% more. Took a punt and fitted them... he didn't lie.
Clockspring for a Prius. Nothing special about it, but OEM is 4x the price of any other OEM clockspring. I've also never had a clockspring fail in anything other than a Prius. Tried pulling from the junkyard and those were all bad, too.
Something important about this too is that it's NOT limited to just older combustion engines - newer ones still use the same parts OEMs, not to mention if and when Enshittification starts invading the electric car market, we'll be right back in the same leaky boat.
It's already hit the EV market, just the electronuts are quiet about it hoping us petrolheads won't notice they're goin' through the enshitification too. My local repair shops are _flooded_ with EVs with common problems (bad batteries, burnt out motors, fried motor control units, broken touch screens, faulty charging circuits, the list goes on) that gas and diesel cars and trucks don't have issues with, but even they have their own laundry list of issues too.
You're absolutely right. We are having the same thing in the US. My Corvette had a brand new water pump installed by the dealer, and 1 year later, the AC Delco name brand bearings from the $300+ water pump completely exploded, nearly totalled the car. Pulled the engine apart, found an old stock water pump at a local parts store from 2015, and it's WAAAYYY better despite being 3rd party. Much stronger bearings with a larger impeller. On my volvo, I can no longer find gaskets for the thermostat housing that will last longer than 6 months. I even polished the mating surfaces just to make sure. I had to sell the jeep because I was burning through 2 chinese sensors per month. They'd randomly die and cause downstream damage.
it's not only cars. it's actually everything that used to be repairable. the enshittification is real but way more abrangent that the gaskets. and that's really effin sad
This is why Louis Rossmann moved away from only shitting on Apple after he realized the problem was so much worse. Laptops, cars, tractors, softwares, smartphones, everything. It is all trash. Utter garbage.
imo its because chinese factories have killed traditional locations where there were actual regulations and now companies are stuck with either not selling a product at all or just accepting chinese companies cutting corners wherever they can. I think this is why a lot of the push to rebuild local stuff will happen as shareholders dont want to be held hostage by chinese companies racing to the bottom and they can now charge a premium for products which would be considered the norm.
I work at a mechanic shop in the US and every 10 jobs we have problems due to quality control and bad new parts, very irritating and sometimes the customers don’t understand that new parts can be bad, we don’t charge the customer more than once for the job so then shop ends up eating the job
I love a parade of sadness every once in a while. I don't like it because it's happening, in fact it's awful that it happens at all. I like it because it's another voice talking about the problems they're seeing with products they trusted and WANTED to work, and because it helps to get the word out there - especially to anyone else who may be running into the same issues now or in the future. Thanks for shining a light on the problem, again and again. Don't let the enshittification win, don't go down without a fight.
As a learning mechanic the one thing I always have to remind myself: just because they're new parts, doesn't mean they're any good. I work at a Ford dealership, regularly I have to reorder and send genuine OEM parts back to ford because they're either the wrong part for the part number, built incorrectly, damaged, or just straight up don't work.
The first and only time I took my own vehicle to a mechanic was the first time I ever replaced a master cylinder. I bench bled it and did everything correctly but I just had no pedal. So I took it to a shop and paid 500 bucks for them to replace the master cylinder I had just replaced 3 days prior. At least I was under warranty so I got my 17 dollars back from Napa. 😡😡
Good on you OP for actually double checking the parts are good rather than just taking the manufacturer's word for it! Good to see there's still folks out there looking out for the consumer, and I'm sure your customers are happy to keep returning to you because of it 😊
@agustinusreynaldi7101 I saw that video too. I think it was supposed to be for some farm equipment. New one had absolutely no dampening to it like you said. Was painted gold and they glued in a rubber o ring.
It's really bad when _"They Just Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To..."_ went from being something only people over 70 said, and then >50 said, to now being something people who are barely 30 experience and say! 😮💨😞 I'm 41 and have been saying/noticing it for quote awhile as well. 😟
Man I'm only 17 and I'll say the same thing too, I got an old Toshiba laptop that was low end in 2007 and a mid range 2018 HP, the HP laptop died and the Toshiba is still alive
This happened to my poor father who bought my sister a car. As soon as he got it, he replaced the battery because it was bad. A few months later, it would take too long to start the car, and at one point, it just stopped starting altogether. He took it too many mechanics and not even his own "James" couldn't figure it out. Recently, he wanted to scavenge the battery to hook it up to a UPS and that's when he finally saw that the battery had the white light on (which just means the battery is cooked). To all the mechanics that he went, they would always ask him about the battery and he would say "It's brand new! It shouldn't have any problems!" so no one ever checked it. He recently got it replaced with a (hopefully) good battery and the car now works perfectly.
It's not so much the investors as executives worshipping Jack Welch. The whole make money by driving up the share price at all costs rather then actually selling product method. Sure you still have to sell some product but all it's really there for is to advertise to investors.
This reminds me of Techmoan's point on cassette players. All the new ones are the exact same junk and the best ones are from the sort of "golden age" of cassettes.
@@render1802 Techmoan made a whole video on how to identify "that one turntable mechanism" that absolutely plagues the $50~$150 range on Amazon (he estimates the mechanism itself probably cost less than £5). Also, sadly, "that one cassette player mechanism" aka "don't waste your money on crowdfunding projects that 'bring back the cassette'".
@@render1802 the record players aren't that bad compared to your usual 70s crapper. the weight of the needle is usually on spec and you can often change the cartridges. anything will wear down a vinyl collection though.. well maybe not that optical readout system(bounces off a laser kind of a thing, as opposed to the optically working needle pickup that's also a thing). it's also a lot simpler to just straight up make your own record player vs. making your own cassette mechanism. really it's the heads on the mechanisms that are too hard to make without a big production line. vinyl players have a lot of choice and variety on the market though still compared to cassettes with which it simply makes no difference how expensive of a modern unit you buy.
@@render1802 What!? The modern Audio Technica (i.e., Japanese brand) record players are fine. The tracking force is perfectly reasonable and they are well-engineered, if not match to the heady 70's and 80's.
It's like we're playing telephone with parts. 50 years ago, you could get decent parts and tools at reasonable prices. And with each successive generation someone thinks they can do it cheaper which leads to them getting a little bit worse and a little bit worse. We have arrived at the purple monkey dishwasher stage and it needs to stop!
We need quality competition! Imagine how quickly these big greedy low quality companies would go down if people started selling good shit for slightly more price!
For awhile, I couldn't afford actual repairs, so my thought process was, for a time "if it's leaking [name of fluid], it needs another bottle of the stop leak goop". I've gooped just about everything I can feasibly goop in my car.
"Only a matter of time until OE parts are crap" We are already there. Had an $2000 oem AC compressor dead on arrival. Mercedes dealer did 12K in suspention work, couldn't fix it, blamed aftermarkt rear air srings we had instalked a year earlier. The suspension compressor they installed was junk. Hard to offer the customer quality if you're not even confident of the OEMs.
the fact that he went adding not just the single or double schmoo layers, but the TRIPLE LAYER AFTER ITS IN THE ENGINE because he lost trust in it just makes it so.....sad.
Chasing the bottom line is a race to the bottom. I’ve had so many cars I’ve diagnosed and fixed, that didn’t stay fixed because the parts failed soon after. So I have to do the job twice and my shop starts getting a bad reputation.
Fountain pen collector and enjoyer here, the best pens I have ever written with are vintage (30s- early 60s) Pelikan pens, nothing compares and newer Pelikan nibs aren't as springy and often have overpolished tipping, also they changed the barrel material and it isn't transparent inbetween the stripes anymore so you don't even know how much ink is left :/
@@JaegerYukari ah yes, communism is when ... [checks notes] ... giant corporations owned and controlled by private shareholders operate in a manner to generate as much wealth for themselves as possible, at the cost of everything and everyone else. you never were the brightest bulb, were you?
@@JaegerYukari nah china litterally have REBRANDED Civillian issued RC-XD's, literal BOMBS for CARS. i mean for fuck sake, EVEN WHEN COMPARING THEIRS TO THE FUCKING SOVIET UNIONS CARS. THEY MAKE THE SOVIETS CARS *LOOK ABOUT AS RELIABLE AS A TOYOTA HILUX. WITH A **_REASONABLE PRICETAG_*
Yep, yep, yep. I'm not a car person- but I've seen it in so many other things! My hubby is a tech whiz. He built me my computer. He kept my 12-year old laptop running absolutely fine because he bought the "Professional" version meant to be tinkered with by the office IT guys. He collects old computers and uses them for really random stuff. COMPUTERS AND PHONES F*ING SUCK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUILD YOUR OWN PC! (Hmm, right, Dankpods has a thing on that too...) I'm also still using my old Xbox 360 controllers with just some of the joystick coating cracked off, but my friend has had to get her switch controller fixed twice in the last couple of years. I'm a professional seamstress. Industrial machines have barely changed in 50+ years, thank grod, but the DOMESTIC machine market? Oh my GOD. You just can't *get* anything made to last unless you have a ton of money (Thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands for the highest end brands) or buy a vintage machine. Where it used to be metal, easy to fix and running forever as long as it was cleaned and oiled (I sewed my entire prom dress on one of those old beasts, complete with clanking broken gear and the zig-zag stitch cam about to crack in half) it's horrible cheap plastic that will break with a pair of jean hems, and if you get a computerized model (I have a computerized embroidery machine because I need one, but I will NEVER own a computerized regular sewing machine), you CAN NOT fix your own machine if something breaks. Singer used to be a quality brand, and now it's all cheap garbage. Notions, too- I'm still using vintage ones inherited from my Grandma that were made in the 60's and 70's (The packages say "Made in West Germany" and "Czechoslovakia" if you need an idea) and they are SO durable. If I buy new hooks, snaps, buttons etc. in the sewing store, even the bulk supplier I use for my business who caters specifically to professionals? They're even worse than fast fashion ones! "Oh hey, my fasteners all bent again because I ate dessert...." We both enjoy baking as a hobby bordering on an obsession (we make basically all of our own bread products and desserts). WHAT THE HELL, NEW BAKEWARE?!?!?!? MY GRANDMA'S 80-YEAR OLD PIE PLATES THAT NEARLY GOT TRASHED ARE STILL DOING A BETTER JOB THAN THESE NEW THINGS!!!! Mixers? You have to look SO hard to find one that's meant for heavy home use that won't have the motor burn out trying to knead a heavy dough (we have a solid metal pro version which we've repaired a few times over the 10+ years we've had it, and it still fights to knead bagel dough...). FURNITURE!!! I don't even bother with anything new, it's all beaver puke that weighs a ton, gets scratched to hell and falls apart in a few years, thankgod I don't care about home decor trends because the only real wood I can find now is midcentury modern in the antique shops. I'm typing this while sitting at a desk that was made in the 70's that didn't even get scratched when it crashed down a flight of stairs, with a chair that I haven't even had five years but is already on its last legs...and my bedroom set wouldn't even survive a house move! Hell, even the damn vacuum cleaner! I need to vacuum a LOT (seamstress who specializes in fluffy, furry stuff. It is MESSY.). After my Mom's ancient 80's beast broke for good because the last vacuum and small appliance repair shop finally closed in town (Thankfully it was a canister vacuum, no bag because those things are near impossible to find now, but anyway, it sucked up EVERYTHING. Nothing ever managed to kill it, and I accidentally sucked an entire shirt up it once) all these new vacuums have these stupid bells and whistles but won't even hold a room's worth of dirt and are all plastic that breaks in no time at all! Both of us said screw that and went back to using a basic old shop vac, they're loud as hell with no bells and whistles but IT SUCKS EVERYTHING UP WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE and I can actually clean the whole house on one emptying!
Reliability is bad for business, why charge someone 200 dollars for something once and have it last 30 years, when you can charge someone 200 dollars for something, have it last 30 days and then make em come back for another 200 Dollar part, that's Double profits right their.
My '66 Olds will be the same way. All metal. I will EV swap it and run it on solar power, or replace the entire fuel system and make it run on 100% ethanol (which would make me mad to have to do because I despise ethanol as an automotive fuel) before I buy a modern EV. They could make a cheap electric car, but they don't, instead they pack them full of BS, my guess is to drive up the cost as much as possible.
My triumph dealer knew NOTHING about how to fix my 2012 Speed Triple in 2023. They knew nothing about the immobilizer, or ECM, or any of the electronics and just wanted to throw parts at it until it worked. Not only are the parts crap, but the dealers are crap too!
the theory is that you can just train anyone to the job. in practice it is that it needs to be a special mindset nerd to do it proper. you can't teach that stuff how it works to just anyone if they don't have interest in it.
@agustinusreynaldi7101 No it's worse than that- they only rise to the equivalent proficiency that their customers demand and women control 80% of purchasing power.
This is every industry. "Technicians" are now just "the person who actually applied for the job, and showed up two days in a row." Most people are not good at their jobs.
They start giving you a more convenient option by making the cutrent option inconvenient, then, when there's only one option, they'll charge through the nose for the privilege
An easy solution can be applied its called NOT RELLYING ON MEGA CORPORATIONS ie learn how to make stuff or buy the most simple things possible interesting engineering just means that its easier for the conpanies to controll their stuff
@@fernadogonzalez2940 You tell your fifty year old family members this and then get back to me. I know not all of your family are mechanics. And even if they happen to have someone like you to help them, not everyone's family does or knows a lot about this type of stuff. You're blaming the victims here instead of the real culprit.
@@fernadogonzalez2940 The problem with that is that it's impossible to make things from scratch without relying on mega corporations. I sew, and unless I also got into mining and steelsmithing, I have to buy needles from a corporation. I have to buy yarn for my crochet, because I don't have the land to keep sheep. If I did have the land to keep sheep, I'd have to buy shears. In order to overcome crappy replacement parts for this engine, Wade would need to start growing rubber trees.
Unsurprisingly, this is how the US Auto industry became to powerful in the US. They pretty much destroyed all other means of transportation and successfully changed laws and standards to make dense, walkable cities practically illegal to build.
@@fernadogonzalez2940 I don't disagree with you one bit, but the problem remains, be cause we consumers lack the ability to make stuff like this which can stand up to petroleum products. A weird, but good example: grab an every day syringe, and then stuck up some motor oil with it and let it sit for a month... Come back and its rubber plunger will be swollen, starting to deteriorate! I did a quick check though... and seems like TPU (Thermoplastic PolyUrethane) IS apparently petroleum resistant, much to my surprise... That's the very flexible ("rubbery") 3D Printer filament! However, as we know, a consumer printed part does not guarantee it'll be water/air/oil tight and won't peak, whereas a cast part will be........ at least, as long as it's *_not_* from whatever company they got that first oil seal from... lmao
Yep. Used to be it was cheaper to rebuild a starter motor yourself than to buy a remanufactured one, same with brake calipers and master cylinders. Now its easier to go roll the dice down at the FLAPS. Everything is junk now. That's why cars go through headlight bulbs like crazy now, but the 35 year old truck I pulled out of the weeds, slapped together from junkyard parts and daily'd for three years was fine running the original headlights. Ever get home from the store with a new alternator, install it only to find its not working? - I always ask for the store to test it right then and there before I go through the effort of install/remove/return.
I have a '97 Saturn DOHC that had really bad valve cover leaks. The previous owner had it all siliconed up and it was just POURING oil. Well, me being a reasonable owner, I bought the fancy Fel-Pro silicone gaskets, cleaned all of the surfaces, reinstalled the valve cover, and torqued every bolt to spec. It still poured out oil. Turns out, the plastic/composite covers deform over time and will NEVER seal correctly. Luckily, the engine design was the same as the first Gen which had an aluminum cover, so I bought one of those and slapped it on there. Boom. No leaks. Not only do aftermarket parts often suck, sometimes the manufacturer cheaps out too. (Ref. Modern CVTs. Wonder why cheap automatics hardly push 150K now?) My BMW has valve cover leaks too and I'm definitely considering buying an aftermarket aluminum one just to have that extra reassurance. (M54 for those curious.)
That was an issue with the AMC 6 cylinder. They switched to a plastic valve cover, which, of course, soon would warp. I don't know if w metal one from an older one will fit, but there are hot rod aluminum ones that will.
A similar thing is happening to bikes, but it’s counterfeit parts causing the problem! You think you’re getting a genuine Shimano brake callipers, you pay Shimano money, but you get a genuine SHIMENG part instead…
Also motorcycle parts. "Oh that air intake vent tube is cracked?" For 4 inches of rubber in the shape of a U is between $40 and $80... Or my favorite is when the parts aren't discounted but it's been on backorder since 2019.
@GrumpyIan not trying to discount your point all, I agree with what you're saying, but honestly if I had to pay 50+ for a cracked intake pipe I'd probably just wrap the crack in flex tape or something XD
Had a similar thing on my old moped, old clutch cable broke after 50 years of use. Bought a new cable, broke after a day. Bought a new cable, broke after 2 days. Bought a new cable, broke after a day. Managed to salvage a cable from the same model but junk moped, cable still works after a month and it probably will for many years to come.
My husband and I just bought a '73 square body 3/4 ton, not running but complete, for $160 (basically value as scrap). I've had to drill it into him that even though the truck has been sitting for 20 years, and even though the plastics and rubber is probably that old if not older, do not replace anything unless it absolutely needs replaced. It's not a cost thing, it's because the replacements (especially when the engine/vehicle are no longer supported by OEM) are of such dodgy quality. His brother went through three alternators on his 01 F250 before getting one that worked out of the box, and that's a better scenario because it's easier to diag and replace. Tearing down an engine to replace a gasket only for the gasket to crumble when the engine is put back together?! Absolute nightmare.
Nice. sounds like you're quite the handy one. Always neat to see the folks out there who wrench and grease like everybody else workin' with their significant other to make something beautiful (and I don't mean those little screaming things called "children," I mean making a piece of mechanical art SING again.)
I've recently bought a used 2014 citroen from a really reputable (and expensive) local used car dealer. 1 week after I bought it, the engine stops working. Sent it to the mechanic (it has 1 year of insurance, so no money spent), and 3 days after it came back, the engine started burning oil and releasing loads of smoke through the exaust. sent it in again, 21 day full engine rebuild job. I pick the car up monday, on friday after all my classes, the car took 30 minutes to start, engine light turned on, another 2 day repair, and after I picked up the car for the third time, 20 FUCKING MINUTES after I picked it up, it stopped working in the middle of traffic. 3 months into me buying the car, I ended up using it for about 12 days, the other 2 and a half months it stayed on the mechanic. Thanks to enshitification, even buying a used car is turning into a fucking nightmare.
Holy fuck dude, I really hope luck will swing back your way. I thought a couple master/slave cylinder and a coolant pipe blowout on my BMW was bad, but Idk if I'd be able to handle all that, especially if I had JUST bought it AND had it happen after each repair.
@@MathewWithOne_T I have seen 3 separate BMW 3 series blow the same coolant pipe due to aged plastic in the last year alone. German cars got a head start on the enshittification about 15-20 years ago when they realized that most people lease them new for 3 years then trade it in.
As an electrician, EVs are awesome, but I'm terrified of how companies are doing things now. If they're cutting this many corners imagine just how unsafe it'll get. Enshittification is not just in parts, it's in products in general...
That's my worry with EVs too. I'm wondering if they'll be cutting corners in the battery packs sealing or anything like that to make a budget ev. I'm waiting for some chaos
There's a video series of a guy that bought an old Jeep for $2 and got it running for not much more. That's what cars should be. Back when you'd buy a Model T or Model A, you'd use every last drop of your ingenuity to keep it going for as long as you could, which used to be the norm.
1:38 I have had great experience with third party parts too, my truck has had a few different mode door actuators for some reason. The factory one, then an aftermarket one, and then a doa part which got replaced with an oem part. But third party parts have always worked great, even better than oem on our lawn mower
@@ghoulbuster1 That was the point of my comment. Infinite growth was never possible in the first place, but many companies consistently trim down their expenses until they inevitably cut too many corners and the product suffers. It's not a sustainable way to do business, but they do it anyway.
Where companies that were started by engineers etc, are now run by bean counters who know nothing of the product and old push for more and more profits. If you work for a company where the founders get replaced by bean counters, it's time to move on and get a new job, as it's all downhill from here.
Had to replace three hoses for water to an outdoors bath, all three just ruptured with no warning. Enshittification is real and is making life awful garbage.
Yeah, my mom had a short bit of plumbing attached to her home water pump replaced last year. Thank goodness it was exposed pipe and in the garage, because it took 3 tries from a reputable plumber to make it not leak gratuitously (at his own expense). Turns out our local Home Depot got a BAAAAD shipment of PVC pipes/fittings with internal cracks and voids, and he bought a portion of it for on-hand supplies. He got scared after round two and called up all his recent customers to check his work for leaks. Felt really bad for him. :/
@@TheAechBomb Yep, and if they had a problem due to this issue he didn't charge for replacement parts or the service call. He was at wit's end after the third time doing the same fix, which finally worked. We ended up giving him $50 as a thank you.
I have had my own workshop for 12years, for the last 6 of those I will only use genuine seals for the engine after constant failures of aftermarket seals. Genuine seals are usually very expensive, especially if Euro cars. Hyundia/ Kia and Isuzu all have reasonably priced engine seals. Also the reason EV's are so cheap second hand is that they are even more unreliable than the worst ICE cars and are far more expensive to fix. I rarely have many problems with well maintained ICE motors mechanically, what consistanly fails are the electroncs. The most reliable car I know which has never ever failed to start and run properly, my 1995 Camry 2.2L with 270,000KM on it. I bought it for $250, spent $2430 on it and replaced every seal and sensor, suspension bushing, clutch, all new oils, including diff & Gbox, new coilover suspension all round. It costs $137 in parts each year to fully service it. If you truley want to be green, buy an old 1990's car and give it some love. I checked and it has produced less CO2 in it's entire lifetime both being built and running it than is produced by the manufacture of one Polestar battery.
Had an oil leak and needed some gasket replaced. Don't remember what part exactly. Mechanic used a third party part and told me up front that it should be fine but they just don't have any OEM in stock. Not 15 miles later whole thing fails. Luckily it's a good local shop who paid for my tow back to their shop and overnighted an OEM part to replace it with all free of charge after the initial cost. Said it was the last time they stock garbage third party parts as they've been burned too many times. Even that was back in 2018. If you're in SE Michigan in the US I give a proper recommendation to Rusty's. Honest guys.
@@deanchur when you find your guy, you rely on your guy. don't matter if they are a decent distance from home, just matters that they're good, honest, and hard working. obviously don't drive halfway across the continental united states just to visit a mechanic, but you know what Im trying to say here, Im just adding this for the little pedantic shits who think themselves the next great comedian.
The real fun is when you hit the combination of "all the aftermarket parts suck" and "the OE has stopped supporting it", and not even just for weird low-volume cars. The Jeep 4.0 everyone loves to rave about? It's already there today. Nearly everything OEM for it or the vehicles it came in is discontinued.
Same problem starting to crop up on crown vics of all things. Ford stopped making the intake manifolds for these so now your options are dorman, or if you can even find a leftover OE one, pay out the ass for the part.
@@x2006charger dude its ridiculous how expensive 4.6's are getting to work on, still millions chugging about, still costs $4500 dollars for a fresh new set of stock cylinder heads, couldnt imagine the price of new 4v heads LOL better off trying to find low mileage junkyard parts for everything these days
@@x2006charger This is the reason why I LOVE living in the deep Southeast. Crown Vics are still a common sight, as are Mercury Grand Marquis (THIS CAR is seen so often down here that it's comical considering the average age of a Grand Marquis driver is 130 years old). Thankfully, I also still see a LOT of Police Interceptors, as well. They're common down here in the junk yards.
Needed to replace a timing belt so I looked on Amazon. A belt, water pump, idle pulley and gaskets was about $70 but from an unknown source. Looked at true Mopar replacement and it was just over $300 for the same parts. I spent the $300 and fixed it. Cheap is just that, don't buy bad parts.
Ive noticed this too. I restore old cars here in canada, and its honestly better 99% of the time for me to find a used part on a junkyard car than to buy a brand new one. A used part, on a 50+ year old car thats spent unknown amounts of time in the woods before being hauled to the junkyard, and these parts still manage to be better than brand new over the shelf parts. Its also the reason i drive only old cars in the first place. Its the only mode of transportation i can rely on day to day because they were built during a time when durability sold vehicles, not pointless bloatware and useless features.
I've been a professional mechanic since 2007. It used to be that except for the worst of the worst you couldn't really go wrong with third-party parts. Slowly it became that you had to only trust higher tier third-party parts suppliers. Now I am down to TWO brands of third-party suppliers that I know I can trust, and both of them are commonly used as OE suppliers (basically the big brands just take their parts and shove them in a different box before throwing a $100 upcharge on them). The only real exceptions to this that I've seen are for the old-school V8s (OG GM/Ford/Mopar big and small blocks) and LS-family V8s and that's only because the hot-rodding companies still give a crap about supplying parts that can keep things going (of course those companies have had 60ish years to get their act together)
@@Games_for_James you didn't ask me, but from personal experience working on my own cars for >10 years (6 cars so far): Febi or Febi-Bilstein (all sorts of parts), Lemforder (suspension bushings), Corteco (seals, gaskets), ATE (brake parts), Bosch (brake parts, filters, other), INA (bearings, timing parts, pulleys), Mann (filters). Some parts only OEM or used OEM, never aftermarket (like complex electrical parts like throttle bodies, solenoids, MAF sensors, from a junkyard with warranty, or take a bad one apart and fix it/rebuild it if it's stuff like a switch with worn contacts or worn brushes on a motor). Mercedes-Benz has an official web shop where you can buy OEM parts, I use that to check OEM prices and see what I get OEM or aftermarket, sometimes it surprises me when some stuff I'd otherwise buy aftermarket is sometimes same price or cheaper OEM.
As a German: brakes: ATE, Maybe TRW Seals: Elring or Victor Reinz Suspension: Lemförder ( do not buy anything else if available) TRW or maybe if nothing else is available PU, then go Japanparts or Yamato or whatever. Necessary sadly. Engine: Mahle ( maybe) or Kolbenschmidt Waterpumps: SKF, nothing else Bearings: SKF, FAG ( I work there) or INA Belt: Continental, Gates or INA, maybe SKF. It's sad. I have thrown away FAG parts before, Just because they were shit, and bought Lemförder.
All spare parts are shit now. The last new starter motor I bought lasted 6 weeks before the solenoid crapped out. I'm at the point where I look for used parts from wrecking yards rather than buy aftermarket parts.
Took me a whole year to find out why my 71 mercury cougar would die as soon as it got hot. The problem was an edelbrock ignition coil died nearly as soon as I installed it. It would get hot and loose continuity because of thermal expansion. I will never 100% an ignition coil again, I use an oem coil from 1970 (that i pulled off of a junk engine) as a spare because i have more faith in it
Back when my dad was still into classic cars (Oldsmobile), the only aftermarket mods he did were an HEI conversion on a 69 Toronado and aluminum intake & carbs on his Cutlass. Kept the coils like it was nothing. Hell, my 40 year old garden tractor (one that’s been owned by my family most of its life) is still running with all of its factory original parts from 1981! Only major work that tractor has seen in its life was a deck rebuild back in 2020
Up until about the mid 80s, most American-made vehicles and equipment were designed to be repairable and even rebuildable by the owner, and rebuilt over and over and over again. By the end of the 90s, they were made to be impossible for the average person to repair.
As someone who worked in the oem parts industry for 20 years, I can tell you that "genuine" replacement parts are the biggest scam. If its for a car currently in production, that service part is likely a quality reject. "Just sell it for service" is a real thing. If that part is for an out of production car, even worse, it's either a previous quality reject that's been sitting on a shelf for years, or it's cobbled together with ancient parts using machines that haven't ran for years.
At least in music you can find small operators that are owned/run by people who actually want to make something that works and works well. Cars and computers are so complicated and expensive you're basically never getting that.
@@skeptic_lemon massive counterfeit issues, to the point of companys printing the original text/logos/numbers on parts only for it to rub off with isopropyl alcohol
@@skeptic_lemon Absolutely. I won't get into paragraphs about what's been happening, but the reliability of computers has plummeted in combination with non-replaceable batteries and glue instead of screws becoming standard. It's starting to become impossible to repair many laptops which is beyond depressing as someone who keeps their computers for decades. I want to be clear when I say that I'm not someone that looks at the past with rose-tinted goggles; I've been living my best life in the last 2 years compared to my childhood, teenage years, and even my early adult years. When it comes to computers though, they, quite literally, aren't made the way they used to be made and nowadays if you want to repair something it's either impossible without high-end repair equipment or, worse, straight-up impossible without remanufacturing some parts.
Back when I was in tech school fresh out of high school, one of the instructors, drummed it into all of our heads “just because a part is new doesn’t mean it’s good”.
I had a local shop put a ball joint on my old truck and asked what parts they used. "We use good stuff." A few years of driving around with an odd clunking noise later and I replaced everything myself with parts I bought (the rest needed to be done). It was a bad new ball joint the entire time. This was over a decade ago.
I work on diesel dewatering pumps. The quality of parts is killing us. We are replacing a major pump seal every 1k hours. 5 years ago you could get 10k+ out of the same brand.
It does feel like the 8:14 enshittification of everything these days. You cover big problems but smalls problems I had a pickleball bat made by a “certain big company” from 5 years ago. The handle was a little worn so I bought new one. So we were bouncing the ball on the new and old and the new one has half the bounce.
Had to replace a water pump on a 1999 GM minivan, the old water pump had a milled impeller fan and it lasted 25 years before it started leaking. I only had one option at my local auto parts store. a cheap stamped sheet metal impeller fan and it was made out of nothing. everything is like that now.
I've heard from stock exchange people that there's a massive focus now on quick growth with rapid return rather than a steady investment these days, which only makes the problem worse.
For some reason this made me think of trains. All the recent derailment disasters and everything, once this kind of garbage part quality bleeds over and takes hold in that industry it’s game over. It might already be. Places that restore vintage steam engines (which require just as much precision) often have to forge and cast their own parts, either from original drawings or from literally cloning the existing part from scratch. So your vision of shops fabricating replacements in-house probably ain’t far off.
it's how US freight railroads operate, to my knowledge. trains so long they block level crossings and cannot be parked or sidings, empty trains being sent around because the yards are too small, in general operating to make the most money at the expense of everything else - passenger trains, the environment, quality of service, workplace rights.. "the most profitable railroad is the one that owns no track and sends no trains"
Had a similar issue here in the United States, kept replacing axle seals in my rear axle because they kept blowing out every few thousand miles and spewing oil everywhere all over my tires and rims and brakes, replaced each side twice if not 3 times and every time I had to replace the seals, I had to cut wheel bearing off since they were a press fit. Went through this so many times that I said screw it and bought genuine spicer branded seals and finally fixed the issues, auto part stores china made seals caused me great grief. I’ll never forget that.
My brother in law owns his own shop and he agrees with you. He used to get 3rd party parts from AZ and OR, but after doing a lot of "warranty" repairs for people because his fix didn't stick, he decided to only use OEM dealer parts. He lost some customers to this because in some cases it was a significant markup - my tailgate on my toyota 4runner broke, the dealer part is $1500 while the 3rd party part is $25 (the 3rd party cable is the wrong length...). seen the same stuff with my old BMW, I tried using 3rd party electronics for the speed sensor and brake wear sensors, both ended up dying not even a year into using them. They had warranty, but after the 3rd time of replacing them, I forked out the money for OEM and never had them fault again.
as a matter of fact, modern batteries have probably gotten significantly worse. i have li-ion batteries for cameras and stuff that are 2 decades old and they still hold a good charge. that could be survivor bias, but still, there at least were batteries that survived that long, could it be the form factor? flat pack lithium ion batteries having worse lifespan than 18650s? /edit: it seems to be mostly sony and maybe nikon batteries. i've seen a Canon pack that didn't last very long, and a Panasonic pack that was completely dead. all were similarly old, from about 2002-2005
@@segarallychampionship702 my dad pulled a Nintendo DSi out of the closet one day, the battery wasn't even dead.. it had to be sitting for at least 6-7 years at that point without charge.
@jwalster9412 i have a ds lite that still will turn on after not being charged for 15 years its basically fully dead on charge but its still holding enough after that long to turn on for a minute or 2 before shutting off which is impressive to the least my phone after about a year of use has lost rougly 12 percent battery health roughly idk for sure but it hols about 2 less hours of charge per charge cycle after a year and this is a a54 im using
I’ve noticed this with video game console replacement parts, the joy con are shitty as they are but if you buy new parts online there’s a good chance the button won’t click the way it’s supposed to, like all I want is a replacement that feels like the old one
i had been running a workshop in Adelaide for the past 10 years, in the last month i have decided to call it quits, i am doing more warranty work from poorly made parts then im actually doing jobs, funny enough 90% of them barra's, ive had one customer that i have done a real main seal under warranty 4 bloddy times and it still leaks.
@@Mar-uc7kk He was good and honest too. Over 15 years as my mechanic. After he quit, a YWCA day care bought it (partially with taxpayer funds) and promptly demolished it. Real shame.
@@marcogenovesi8570 To be fair, the good Japanese auto makers (i.e., Toyota, Honda, Suzuki) are usually pretty good on auditing supplier's parts and being strict about their supplier's quality control. It's generally the cost-cutting automakers who have select the cheapest tender who have patchy parts quality (Ford, VW etc).
@@TassieLorenzoI agree Japanese is the only decent option for vehicles anymore. I thought Hyundai was improving but then the engine of my 2013 Santa Fe destroyed itself because some plant workers didn't clean the metal shavings out of the engine block during manufacturing, and those metal shavings clogged the oil journals. Lucky for me Hyundai did the right thing and covered replacement. That vehicle had so many recalls for various other fixes too.
@@TassieLorenzo They might be better but they certainly aren't immune from enshittification. One of the older generations of Nissan Nevaras had a lot of engine issues that caused meltdowns. My dad got real lucky and sold his only a few months before it got sent to the great parking lot in the sky. There's also mitsubishi who had a big scandal about their quality control issues which I believe they tried to cover up. It was such a shitstorm that Mitsubishi almost went down. It's why they seem to be a different company these days, they're basically a corpse being puppeted like weekend at bernie's...
Replaced my leaking radiator with an aftermarket one. Instantly started leaking from the seams where the plastic tanks connect to the aluminum. Contacted the parts store, I had to send it back to them, for them to then send it to Nissens who would conduct a leak test on it. I'm not going through all the shit of taking it out again, not having a radiator for a while only for them to tell me that it did not leak during their testing and me not getting my money back. So I took it out, crimped the seams with pliers and it hasn't been leaking ever since lol. I really fucking hate companies and their lack of quality control. They are just screwing us over and we can't do anything about it
I work adjacent to the medical industry, and we have this problem with high-end multi-thousand dollar, PRECISION, surgical tools. We've had precision sapphire lenses exploding after autoclaving when the scopes were cold, ready to ship back to clients, and the only thing we can put it down to is the glass is being cut on the wrong plane, but I don't have the gear to test that theory.
perhaps it's just a thing a certain % will do. it could just be that before the manufacturer ate that loss % and tested them. even if they compensate for them breaking, it's still like a deferred loss and if it just sits on the shelf it's just profit.
I have had a manager tell me "PLASTICS" as a one word answer to solving a similar issue. As a designer who has had to deal with plastics design: 3rd party stuff will never ever be as good as the original design because plastics are a lot like baking. THE RECIPE REALLY MATTERS AND IT MUST BE FOLLOWED. GET OEM OR FACTORY SEALS EVERY TIME. NEVER BUY SEALS FROM CHINA
yeah "plastics" is a generic word like saying "soup". What's in it? Who knows. There are many types of soups with different flavors, textures and properties
@@alexthemorgan This is indeed true that country of origin does not dictate quality. A LOT of USA-made products are pretty shit. But let's be honest here: nearly all of this shit is made in China because literally *_NO ONE_* cares about the exploitation of children in China to make these garbage products, yet complain about shit being too costly and not understanding the reason why labor costs in China are so low. On the flip side, I've seen some Chinese-made products that blew me the hell away with *_Q V A L I T Y_* that was on par with the Japanese products, but without the Japanese price tag. I still hate buying Chinese-made products, though.
@@JaegerYukari I dont think anybody here said that china isn't making shitty products, look at anything wish sells and there you go, shittiest china can offer. But what people (or atleast I am)are saying is that china also does make good products its just an issue of cost. Paying those really cheap factories 5 percent more gives you 50 percent better quality but do some crappy companies do so... of course not, they're saving 5 percent on everything even if its half as good of a product. But OEM companies usually just have more money for quality control and to pay those factory workers a tiny margin better so their stuff is good or at least a lot better. 3rd party companies don't have the money, the need, the want or all three to pay the workers and suppliers of materials more.
Remember that brake and suspension parts are also relying on enshittified rubber parts. Even with EV's. And also bearings and CV shafts etc. that are more loaded with torque
@@Fred_the_1996 i replaced the electric motor on a 1 year old Toyota Proace electric at work, theres like 3 more waiting. Everything is shit trash garbage, new cars suck
@@MadMaxx570 idk much about EVs, the repair shop where i work at doesnt get many EVs, and when it does its just stuff like changing tyres or lightbulbs
My friends caprice was overheating. We replaced the water pump but still had the issue. After doing the head gaskets and reassembling, and many bleeds of the system, it overheats again. The new pumps impeller wasn't properly swaged to the shaft. New, not remanufactured. New parts are intentionally of a lesser quality and fail far sooner. And yes the head gaskets were fine so new gaskets and headbolts and labor from a bad part.
3D printing qont solve it unfortunately, because as you can see, it comes down to the materials themselves that make the parts, and the processes behind forming them that give the materials the right properties of flexibility, durability, etc. it turns out manufacturing is actually pretty complicated, and materials science even more so! Wade should start a quality parts business that actually holds firm spec requirements and is just marginally cheaper than the official parts. Someone actually doing that is really the only way that will keep the price for good parts from spiralling out of control.
The o-rings were used out of spec. Engineers said not to launch until the ambient temperature was higher. Management overrode them. O-rings failed and disaster ensued. It wasn't a quality issue.
I had something similar happen with the first car that I had ever bought outright. After about a year the water pump blew a gasket. I took it to my mechanic to fix it, and two months later it happens again. He replaced it again under warranty, sounded alright until it happened two more times after that. On the fourth trip, my mechanic just said he can’t fix it again. I ended up selling the car as a junker. Almost made it two years and I was out $4000. And that’s why I drive cheap old cars; much easier to fix and not nearly as expensive.
The Enshitification is in every single industry. Bought a new Pitchos oven/stovetop after my old one (also a Pitchos) gave out after almost 20 years. In the first year the fan had rusted so much it would disintegrate if you turned it on, no back plate, buggy functions (like the oven cooling fan would sometimes turn on while the oven was still working), a bit later one of the stoves also stopped working.
@2:40 - I bought 2 replacement idler wheels for my 35 year old Maytag dryer. Got them from Ebay. They lasted exactly HALF a load of laundry. Found a legitimate local appliance supply house with legitimate OEM parts. They wanted - I sh*t you not - $130 PER WHEEL! The lady looked at the price, looked at me in a panic and said "Oh, don't you own an appliance repair business, sir?" while giving me that "knowing look." I said, why yes! Yes I do. She gave me the contractor price and I paid $48 total for 2. That was 5 years ago. They're still installed and flawless. This is the same dryer that I crafted my own UHMW/leather guides for about 8 years ago.
@@nopenoperson9118 It's a layered rim guide for the drum. The originals were riveted in and not replaceable I couldn't find OEM replacements.) They had worn completely through and I was about to have metal to metal contact. I got creative and used a leather backing with a HDMW plastic shield. Drilled rivets, made 2 custom pads and used rivets to reattach. Used contact cement to sandwich the materials together. I'm kind of a cheap ba**rd. I still use these machines to this day. At this point, I think they were manufactured before I even graduated HS and I am mid-50's.
Count yourself lucky you could buy component parts. Motor brushes wore prematurely in my washing machine but OEM parts suppliers would only sell me an entire motor assembly or nothing. Had to gamble on eBay, and pay more for shipping than the parts, to fix it.
@@TechGorilla1987 Sounds like it works a mint. Curious how the leather would hold up over many cycles of being exposed to high heat and ambient humidity.
I have a Miele frontloader washing machine that I got for free when I moved to uni, from a farmer who had it sitting in the barn. After washing farm coveralls for years, it is still going strong. I saw a production date inside at some point, dont recall exactly but '70/'80. It is at least 20 years older than me and going strong... Needs a new main bearing (whiny noise when spinning) and shock dampers (it walks a bit when centrifuging), but those parts are actually easily replaced, in contrast with a modern machine where they are impossible to replace. Also, the electronics are rock solid, I can just spin the knob to the correct setting and use a switched outlet to turn it on at the right time. I use a smart power socket to control it from my phone, and the current measurement can tell me when it is done. Meanwhile, my girlfriends washing machine needs time to boot up and has at one point even crashed the software 😂
Just the thought of things like this going downhill makes me hear Chrysler's Electronic Voice Alert system saying to me "Your sanity level is critical. Prompt service is required.".
I replaced the upper motor mount on my Renault Nissan 1.5dci engine (K9K) because it had perished even though it didn't make any noise or vibration (so much for preventive maintenance), new part would make the engine rock back and forth and make a horrible knocking sound. Second part was fine, but all that rocking it made during the time I waited for the new part, ripped the lower motor mount, causing a terrible vibration. I also replaced the screen and digitizer on an old samsung tablet I had, both parts were broken from the box. Digitizer would refuse to work properly, LCD had faulty backlights.
Or you could do like those shops in India or SE Asia (as seen on RUclips) that make their own molds for making parts like that and/or RTV everything to keep some old Chinese Kawasaki clone from the 1980's running in some fashion. It's crazy how determined some of those guy are to keep that shit going, but maybe enthusiasts can learn something by watching regardless of any language barriers.
This is so real. I just spent an entire Saturday replacing inner tie rods, outer tie rod ends, and CV axle shafts. And it turns out the inner tie rod that was supposed to be a guaranteed fit. Was too short, and now I can't align my car. It's crazy the crap people are selling.
It's not uncommon to find the wrong part in a box that has the correct part number. In 2020 my son gave me his '05 Dodge Neon that I bought for him as a high school graduation present. The driver's door window regulator had gone out in January so he ordered one from AutoZone. The first five shipped had the RH door regulator in the box with the LH regulator part number. It took AZ over a month to find a LH regulator by going thru the boxes at their warehouses.
@@billwilson-es5yn Sounds like what happened to me when I needed a new CV joint for my Plymouth Grand Voyager - two different boxes had the wrong part in them.
Not even going to lie, this is why I bought a discounted Chevy bolt. I was being nickeled and dimed trying to keep my last car going. Water pumps lasting 4 months, idler pulleys spitting their bearings out before a year of use, sensors failing out of the box ect.
It's happening with genuine parts too, my brother bought a genuine water pump and gaskets for his 240sx and it immediately started leaking, he changed the gaskets and it continued to leak, he then got a pump from a different third party and it stopped leaking, it wasn't machined correctly from Nissan
or he installed it wrong, or he just got unlucky 2 times, or he got lucky the third time with the third party ones, or the genuine parts were just crap. you never know
I have worked in IT retail/repair for 10 years (until last year when I finally went *shutters* corporate) and over that time I saw both third party and genuine OEM parts, decrease in quality so badly, that there are now precious few trusted sellers that ANY decent pc repair shop should buy from. The last place I worked at before going corpo, was an aussie home grown shop, prides itself on quality repairs and quality pc builds/laptop sales/parts etc... we were the most expensive place around, they still are... purely cus we only bought the best. did this turn away people? sure, but they came crawling back a month later when their AC/DC branded PSU almost burnt the house down or their no brand battery with Chinese writing on it puffed up into a spicy pillow after a month. they still have a dedicated and loyal customer base purely due to the fact that we didnt use cheap shit, and if something was faulty (cus everything sucks at least a bit these days) 99% of the time, they came in saying things along the lines of " hey the part that was installed must have been a dud" not " YOU DID DODGY WORK YOU CROOKS" like our competitors got. Yet through all of this, our competitors make fucking bank and are still the number 1 shops around, meanwhile our store does well enough, but will never compete fully...you have to sell out to get anywhere these days.
My brother got burned by some genuine Seagate hard drives (not literally). One of them failed right out of the box, and the other two failed less than a day after having backup data loaded up and accessed a few times. I had no idea Seagate had turned into a dumpsterfire like that. :/
@@render1802 like most things it comes in waves, for example, up until all the shananagens of the last 2 years, Asus was the absolute go to for quality pc parts, while MSI and gigabyte you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole (MSI especially) and now MSI and gigabyte are kicking ass and Asus is the RMA nightmare of crappy parts we know today... basically just depends how many lines the shareholders snort and how many dumb decisions they make as a result.
I have a GMT400 I was dealing with the crankshaft seal leaking after about 200 miles on every. fucking. seal. No matter how new or well it seated. Still would leak. I feel your pain.
Quality control issues in car parts should be criminalised. They are genuinely dangerous.
there are safety critical parts like brakes and steering where the rules are different. If the engine breaks or leaks oil it's not a danger
@@marcogenovesi8570 Losing your propulsion when merging isn't a danger?
@@tim3172 no. Having a brakes or steering failure during normal use will make you lose control and crash, that's safety critical.
Engine failure requires a specific setup to be a danger, even your "when merging" needs the other drivers to not notice and just crash into you, have a big enough vehicle and enough speed.
The difference they are making in vehicles between systems is not just "it may cause danger some times", otherwise anything becomes safety critical and defies the point. WHat if for example you are the only one with a car and must bring somebody to the hospital or something? If the car breaks down that's a "danger" to this guy but it's also a wildly specific circumstance.
This is one of the reasons why aircraft are more expensive, a lot more components are safety critical
@@tim3172 well let's say would u rather have all cars on the road lose propulsion at the same time or lose their braking power at the same time... in this hypothetical scenario id at least take the propulsion. Losing propulsion isn't THAT dangerous compared to losing brakes. On a downhill would u rather lose propulsion.. or brakes.. I think you'd take the propulsion. on a highway would u rather lose propulsion or brakes... I think even then you'd take losing propulsion over your brakes.
Cars aren't planes or helicopters, when they lose propulsion they won't fall out of the sky and crash. If anything they'll just roll to a slow stop be it on a country road or highway. Even if I lost propulsion while merging id still be able to brake after somebody rear-ends me or bumps into me and I won't fly into a ditch.
Also as another point pretty much everything is a danger.. some things just way more.. like losing brakes in a car, bike, motorcycle, etc.
on the list of dangers in cars losing propulsion is somewhere near the bottom or middle and losing brakes at the very tippety top
Im not defending companies and factories that make garbage replacement parts for engines but just as a fact losing propulsion is less dangerous than losing your brakes in 9 out of 10 cases.
Yeah it hurts seeing this stupid shit, new parts just seem to fucking suck
Enshitification is real and it will come for your nuggets
And even though he didn't imply it... it's *_also true_* about our Man Nuggets _(our Berries),_ because *every damn thing can legitimately cause cancer now!!!*
(not even referring to the meme where everything causes cancer in California, due to the "Known to cause cancer in the State of CA" warning label everything has)
Enshitification is waiting for me driving a 22 year old car which isn't an amazing car and I'm waiting for something to go wrong and a mechanic to say "Nah mate not worth the trouble just get something else"
(2002 magna, I wish I had the brains to rebuild it myself)
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Have you seen the study on balls being full of plastic now?
@@ragea1 I saw a news headlines about it and that was enough for me... 😒
It's absolutely nuts, and I say that with the maximum amount of pun intended.
@@callumsutherland8750 Twice in my life (when young) I bought a twenty-year-old car and kept it until it was thirty. I had no mechanical knowledge and paid for any work being done. I found a car at thirty years of age can start and cost its market value in annual maintenance. That's when you get the next clunker (if you're on a modest income like I was).
In computer repair, the new part is the first suspect, funnily enough.
True, and it's been like this for well over a decade, hand-in-hand with the term "known good parts".
depends on the pc imo, i ddr3/ddr4 era stuff its always the ram for me if its a "doesn't boot/stopped working" new ram usually fixs it
I repair and resell laptops as a side hustle and if a new keyboard doesn't work I'll assume the new keyboard is broken before I blame the connector or mainboard, same with screens, trackpads, basically anything. Shouldn't have to assume the new part is a dud and be right most of the time :/
Yup i inspect every part as much as possible before even thinking of installing and that is for work or in my own works
True, Its interesting to see those rich youtubers who buy top of the line PCs that end up breaking or burning something.
Thanks for the mention! Also, I completely relate to the message of this video. I can't tell you how many times new parts failed immediately on installation or just did not fit AT ALL. Not to mention the numerous brand new tools that were so bad they were essentially single-use. It makes the hobby extremely frustrating and cost-prohibitive. I hope it changes but at this point I'm not getting my hopes up. Maybe that's why I've transitioned to tinkering in the virtual realm...
I adore your engine sim! 👏👏
are you going to add broken parts to change the way the engine sounds???
Happened to me just 2 week ago. Took me 3 water pump with the final one being crazy expensive genuine Mercedes part they reintroduced because non of the Chinese junk in euro paper boxes worked. It cost 350 EUR instead of 100 but it works. And I was lucky. Mercedes cannot make reliable modern car for life of them but they still somewhat supports even cars from 60s and 70s. Parts cost crazy money but the quality is there (with rare and spectacular F up). It is even worse for American classic cars unless it is a Chevy with endless aftermarket.
Thank for the work on the Engine Simulator. Looking forward to next version. 😁
Uncle Tony has done several videos on this. Cams are misground with no taper and the lifters don't rotate and fail on flat tappets. Fuel pumps that burn up on turning them on...
You can't even trust certain big names now...
Just quit buying Asian-made.
“Stop the fun music, this isn’t a fun video!”
Me, sitting up in my seat: “Woah…”
I felt the same, you know shits serious in one of wades videos when there’s no fun music
Seeing a green background on a garbage time notification is just.. weird
Not weird... Wrong
If being wrong is wrong then I don’t wanna be right
Wasn’t even a green iPad 😫
Offputting I dare say
That's the 'pay attention' color now.
After 50 years of service, the original General Motors AC Delco fuel pump on my 1974 GMC 1500 finally quit. The diaphragm blew out and started puking fuel everywhere. Rest easy comrade. Your work here is done. So I went to the parts store and bought a brand new Delphi. It was cheaper, but whatever its a mechanical fuel pump, what could go wrong? (Foreshadowing.)
About a week later I was out late night cruising and it started acting funny. Figuring it was probably the fuel filter I headed for home so I could change it in the morning instead of the dark on the side of the road. I pulled away from a red light 5 minutes from my apartment and pop, engine shuts off. Shit, the fuel filter completely clogged. Good thing I have a spare in the truck. (I was still running the original tank after it sat in a field for 18 years, it went through an inline filter about every 100km and I had changed so many times I could do it in 10 minutes) Coast into a parking lot and quickly slap a new filter on. Still wont start. Shit I must be out of gas. (The fuel gauge didn't work at the time so running out of gas was common) Grabbed the 5 gallon can out of the back of the truck and walked to the gas station a block over. Make it back and put 5 gallons in. Still wont start. Needle and seat stuck? Hit carburetor with hammer. Still wont start. Pour gas right down the carb. Starts and runs until the bowls are empty. What? Its not getting fuel? No puddles under the truck, no broken lines. Crack the inlet to the pump and fuel spills out, no clogged lines. At this point it was 11PM.
I didn't want to bother anyone with having to come get me and I needed to get the truck towed home anyway so I called for a tow truck. "Well the truck might be there at midnight or 9AM. We're not sure." Whatever, its summertime and the weather is perfect, they'll probly be here in 30 minutes. But my phone is almost out of battery, I need to conserve it in case theres an emergency, and I am pretty tired. I guess I'll lay down on the bench seat and take a nap.
I awake. Theres no tow truck. Look at my phone. Its 230AM. Fuck. I slept in my truck all night, it was cold and uncomfortable. The silver lining was that I happened to break down next to a 24 hour Denny's and they let me use the bathroom. Sure enough, 9AM the next morning the tow truck showed up. Towed it home and I regrouped. Invited my friend over to help me diagnose. He told me to check the new fuel pump. It was the fucking fuel pump. THE BRAND NEW FUEL PUMP catastrophically failed and cracked the pump armature in half after only about 150km of driving. Took it back and warrantied it and bought the more expensive Carter pump I should have bought in the first place. Its holding up now about 3000km later. Fuck you Delphi. (Yes I know I mixed metric and imperial measurements, I'm Canadian)
damn. Question: Is that 1500 one that has bluetooth rockers and flooring, or was it one that somehow managed to avoid the metal murderer that is salt and moisture?
@@airplanemaniacgaming7877 Its got most of the rockers and all of the floor. Its the fenders that got deleted on.
@@hungrymoose7627 weight reduction, it's a race truck
Wanna know something funny? Delphi isn't even second hand. GM sold the AC Delco development branch but retained the name, thus, Delphi. Both parties kept the patents and production for the fuel pumps. They're the exact same. Delphi's parent company literally just cuts costs, but like, same spec same patent same product same materials. I went down a rabbit hole buying a new sender assembly for my Sonoma.
@@farcore2044 AC Delco and Delphi are gangsta till Delco-Remy (now Remy International) steps in with a 60 year old voltage regulator that still works
The legal mandate that corporations do the bidding of shareholders, and the subsequent financialization of the economy has been a disaster for the planet.
"Globalization" is the disaster.
Yes indeed
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. has been a disaster for the country
There have been as many cases where the shareholders are ignored. So who are they answering to? They're getting their marching orders from somewhere.
Well if you build too many crap parts your brand name will suffer and people will buy elsewhere, which is not good for the shareholders
its upsetting that we cant do anything about the mass enshittification of replacement parts, like, what are we gonna do
Purge, purge, purge
This is the result of companies continually cutting corners to pay shareholders. Abolish the stock market.
@@SixArmedSweater don't know about that. No real knowledge of SM. But investors are the real problem I see. Yes, they are part of SM, but it was kinda working 80+ years ago.
Abolish the stock market
The French made a really good invention that would help 😏
The worst is when the OFFICIAL repair parts are like 3x times as expensive and are also shit
ACDelco
Or 3 times expensive just for the exact same part from the same factory...
Had an old XD falcon, door handles crapped themselves (as is usual and expected) Ford genuine part was bloody expensive (can't remember exactly, but over 50 Aussie dollarydoos) and apparently made from cheese. Went to a wrecker who also sold aftermarket parts, he grinned and picked up set of four taiwanesium handles, less than 40 dollarydoos total. He claimed they wouldn't break. The looked identical, but each seemed to weigh at least 50% more. Took a punt and fitted them... he didn't lie.
Clockspring for a Prius.
Nothing special about it, but OEM is 4x the price of any other OEM clockspring.
I've also never had a clockspring fail in anything other than a Prius. Tried pulling from the junkyard and those were all bad, too.
Lamborghini with it's Ford parts with 99999% Mark up 😂
Something important about this too is that it's NOT limited to just older combustion engines - newer ones still use the same parts OEMs, not to mention if and when Enshittification starts invading the electric car market, we'll be right back in the same leaky boat.
It's already hit the EV market, just the electronuts are quiet about it hoping us petrolheads won't notice they're goin' through the enshitification too. My local repair shops are _flooded_ with EVs with common problems (bad batteries, burnt out motors, fried motor control units, broken touch screens, faulty charging circuits, the list goes on) that gas and diesel cars and trucks don't have issues with, but even they have their own laundry list of issues too.
You're absolutely right. We are having the same thing in the US. My Corvette had a brand new water pump installed by the dealer, and 1 year later, the AC Delco name brand bearings from the $300+ water pump completely exploded, nearly totalled the car.
Pulled the engine apart, found an old stock water pump at a local parts store from 2015, and it's WAAAYYY better despite being 3rd party. Much stronger bearings with a larger impeller.
On my volvo, I can no longer find gaskets for the thermostat housing that will last longer than 6 months. I even polished the mating surfaces just to make sure.
I had to sell the jeep because I was burning through 2 chinese sensors per month. They'd randomly die and cause downstream damage.
We live in an age where the customer is the real product, and shareholders the real customers
Holy shit that's exactly it
Yea there’s a word for it; capitalism
@@allantoft9961 find a different type of economy that works better
@@allantoft9961 I would argue we've gone past capitalism and are in full socialism for the rich.
Bro just came from r/im14thisisdeep with that one.
it's not only cars. it's actually everything that used to be repairable. the enshittification is real but way more abrangent that the gaskets. and that's really effin sad
This is why Louis Rossmann moved away from only shitting on Apple after he realized the problem was so much worse. Laptops, cars, tractors, softwares, smartphones, everything. It is all trash. Utter garbage.
@@NothingXemnas It's all garbage except price and that's premium.
imo its because chinese factories have killed traditional locations where there were actual regulations and now companies are stuck with either not selling a product at all or just accepting chinese companies cutting corners wherever they can. I think this is why a lot of the push to rebuild local stuff will happen as shareholders dont want to be held hostage by chinese companies racing to the bottom and they can now charge a premium for products which would be considered the norm.
@@checker297 it was american companies that outsourced everything to china in the first place.
I work at a mechanic shop in the US and every 10 jobs we have problems due to quality control and bad new parts, very irritating and sometimes the customers don’t understand that new parts can be bad, we don’t charge the customer more than once for the job so then shop ends up eating the job
I love a parade of sadness every once in a while. I don't like it because it's happening, in fact it's awful that it happens at all. I like it because it's another voice talking about the problems they're seeing with products they trusted and WANTED to work, and because it helps to get the word out there - especially to anyone else who may be running into the same issues now or in the future. Thanks for shining a light on the problem, again and again. Don't let the enshittification win, don't go down without a fight.
As a learning mechanic the one thing I always have to remind myself: just because they're new parts, doesn't mean they're any good.
I work at a Ford dealership, regularly I have to reorder and send genuine OEM parts back to ford because they're either the wrong part for the part number, built incorrectly, damaged, or just straight up don't work.
The first and only time I took my own vehicle to a mechanic was the first time I ever replaced a master cylinder. I bench bled it and did everything correctly but I just had no pedal. So I took it to a shop and paid 500 bucks for them to replace the master cylinder I had just replaced 3 days prior. At least I was under warranty so I got my 17 dollars back from Napa. 😡😡
Good on you OP for actually double checking the parts are good rather than just taking the manufacturer's word for it! Good to see there's still folks out there looking out for the consumer, and I'm sure your customers are happy to keep returning to you because of it 😊
@agustinusreynaldi7101 I saw that video too. I think it was supposed to be for some farm equipment. New one had absolutely no dampening to it like you said. Was painted gold and they glued in a rubber o ring.
It's really bad when _"They Just Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To..."_ went from being something only people over 70 said, and then >50 said, to now being something people who are barely 30 experience and say! 😮💨😞
I'm 41 and have been saying/noticing it for quote awhile as well. 😟
I'm in my 20s, I've had the same sentiment for the past 6 years or so.
@@nikkiofthevalley 😦 We're officially doomed, then... 🫤
It's late stage capitalism. Like that slide from Goldman Sachs asking "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?".
Man I'm only 17 and I'll say the same thing too, I got an old Toshiba laptop that was low end in 2007 and a mid range 2018 HP, the HP laptop died and the Toshiba is still alive
Im 22. Been saying this about cars since I was 15. When new cars are blowing up faster than the old shitboxes everyone I knew had
This happened to my poor father who bought my sister a car. As soon as he got it, he replaced the battery because it was bad. A few months later, it would take too long to start the car, and at one point, it just stopped starting altogether. He took it too many mechanics and not even his own "James" couldn't figure it out. Recently, he wanted to scavenge the battery to hook it up to a UPS and that's when he finally saw that the battery had the white light on (which just means the battery is cooked). To all the mechanics that he went, they would always ask him about the battery and he would say "It's brand new! It shouldn't have any problems!" so no one ever checked it. He recently got it replaced with a (hopefully) good battery and the car now works perfectly.
Seems it is important to go through all the common failure points even if a the suspected part is new.
@@Loanshark753I agree 100%. Never EVER just "take the customers word for it" Always verify.
In conclusion: Blame the investors.
It's not so much the investors as executives worshipping Jack Welch. The whole make money by driving up the share price at all costs rather then actually selling product method. Sure you still have to sell some product but all it's really there for is to advertise to investors.
Ever since the dodge brothers sued ford for prioritizing employees over investors things have gotten horrible
This reminds me of Techmoan's point on cassette players. All the new ones are the exact same junk and the best ones are from the sort of "golden age" of cassettes.
Same with the commonly available modern record players. They'll straight up destroy a vinyl collection.
@@render1802 Techmoan made a whole video on how to identify "that one turntable mechanism" that absolutely plagues the $50~$150 range on Amazon (he estimates the mechanism itself probably cost less than £5).
Also, sadly, "that one cassette player mechanism" aka "don't waste your money on crowdfunding projects that 'bring back the cassette'".
@@render1802no they fucking won't, that's a god damn myth put out by assholes who don't want new people in their hobby
@@render1802 the record players aren't that bad compared to your usual 70s crapper. the weight of the needle is usually on spec and you can often change the cartridges.
anything will wear down a vinyl collection though.. well maybe not that optical readout system(bounces off a laser kind of a thing, as opposed to the optically working needle pickup that's also a thing).
it's also a lot simpler to just straight up make your own record player vs. making your own cassette mechanism. really it's the heads on the mechanisms that are too hard to make without a big production line.
vinyl players have a lot of choice and variety on the market though still compared to cassettes with which it simply makes no difference how expensive of a modern unit you buy.
@@render1802 What!? The modern Audio Technica (i.e., Japanese brand) record players are fine. The tracking force is perfectly reasonable and they are well-engineered, if not match to the heady 70's and 80's.
It's like we're playing telephone with parts. 50 years ago, you could get decent parts and tools at reasonable prices. And with each successive generation someone thinks they can do it cheaper which leads to them getting a little bit worse and a little bit worse. We have arrived at the purple monkey dishwasher stage and it needs to stop!
fam the call is coming from inside the house
But then watch as we loop back and get something like the "homer".
We need quality competition! Imagine how quickly these big greedy low quality companies would go down if people started selling good shit for slightly more price!
@@Code7Unltd You mean it's not already here with the Cybertruck? My Simpsons meme group lied to me! 😂
@@SoundShinobiYuki The Cybertruck isn't strong like a gorilla and soft like a Nerf ball.
They've adopted the "if it's leaking oil, it has oil" thought process
For awhile, I couldn't afford actual repairs, so my thought process was, for a time "if it's leaking [name of fluid], it needs another bottle of the stop leak goop". I've gooped just about everything I can feasibly goop in my car.
My mind immediately jumped to a line from a popular children's movie. “If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it.”
@@Keenasalwayscars 2 I’m pretty sure
@@fyretnt Well, I wasn't actually going to name the franchise. This is YT after all. Things get nerfed for the most nebulous of reasons.
@@Keenasalways true haha
"Only a matter of time until OE parts are crap"
We are already there. Had an $2000 oem AC compressor dead on arrival.
Mercedes dealer did 12K in suspention work, couldn't fix it, blamed aftermarkt rear air srings we had instalked a year earlier. The suspension compressor they installed was junk.
Hard to offer the customer quality if you're not even confident of the OEMs.
Yeah look at Hyundai lol engine was fine but everything else around it was cracking and snapping
i feel bad for James, you can just hear the sad disappointment in his voice.
yeah, I like his enthusiasm, his knowledge and his sheer balls. he's an inspiration to me to just "go for it".
the fact that he went adding not just the single or double schmoo layers, but the TRIPLE LAYER AFTER ITS IN THE ENGINE because he lost trust in it just makes it so.....sad.
had to replace a waterpump that was leaking maybe 3 weeks ago, same car got back because it's leaking coolant, from the waterpump that got replaced.
cylinder 2 lost pressure, got new valves, lapped them in, lasted 5000km, cylinder 2 lost pressure, got new valves, lapped them in, ...
@@lit_for_20lasted 5000km and cylinder 2 lost pressure?
@@lit_for_20 head gasket on a rav4, shipped it, came back 3 times to replace the valve cover gasket under warranty. Just! Kept! Leaking!
The exact same thing happened with my Mom's old Subaru Forester.
Sounds like a warped head..
Chasing the bottom line is a race to the bottom.
I’ve had so many cars I’ve diagnosed and fixed, that didn’t stay fixed because the parts failed soon after. So I have to do the job twice and my shop starts getting a bad reputation.
Fountain pen collector and enjoyer here, the best pens I have ever written with are vintage (30s- early 60s) Pelikan pens, nothing compares and newer Pelikan nibs aren't as springy and often have overpolished tipping, also they changed the barrel material and it isn't transparent inbetween the stripes anymore so you don't even know how much ink is left :/
You will own nothing well made and be grateful for the experience.
- every company
-Communism
Ftfy
@@JaegerYukari ah yes, communism is when ... [checks notes] ... giant corporations owned and controlled by private shareholders operate in a manner to generate as much wealth for themselves as possible, at the cost of everything and everyone else.
you never were the brightest bulb, were you?
Alternatively: You will own nothing to begin with, and be happy anyway cause there is no alternative.
@@JaegerYukari nah china litterally have REBRANDED Civillian issued RC-XD's, literal BOMBS for CARS. i mean for fuck sake, EVEN WHEN COMPARING THEIRS TO THE FUCKING SOVIET UNIONS CARS. THEY MAKE THE SOVIETS CARS *LOOK ABOUT AS RELIABLE AS A TOYOTA HILUX. WITH A **_REASONABLE PRICETAG_*
@@JaegerYukari Funny way to say capitalism, because that is the system we are experiencing enshittification in.
It's destroying every single good thing.
Cars, electronics, the internet itself; everything is dying cuz of this
Yep, yep, yep. I'm not a car person- but I've seen it in so many other things! My hubby is a tech whiz. He built me my computer. He kept my 12-year old laptop running absolutely fine because he bought the "Professional" version meant to be tinkered with by the office IT guys. He collects old computers and uses them for really random stuff. COMPUTERS AND PHONES F*ING SUCK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUILD YOUR OWN PC! (Hmm, right, Dankpods has a thing on that too...) I'm also still using my old Xbox 360 controllers with just some of the joystick coating cracked off, but my friend has had to get her switch controller fixed twice in the last couple of years.
I'm a professional seamstress. Industrial machines have barely changed in 50+ years, thank grod, but the DOMESTIC machine market? Oh my GOD. You just can't *get* anything made to last unless you have a ton of money (Thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands for the highest end brands) or buy a vintage machine. Where it used to be metal, easy to fix and running forever as long as it was cleaned and oiled (I sewed my entire prom dress on one of those old beasts, complete with clanking broken gear and the zig-zag stitch cam about to crack in half) it's horrible cheap plastic that will break with a pair of jean hems, and if you get a computerized model (I have a computerized embroidery machine because I need one, but I will NEVER own a computerized regular sewing machine), you CAN NOT fix your own machine if something breaks. Singer used to be a quality brand, and now it's all cheap garbage. Notions, too- I'm still using vintage ones inherited from my Grandma that were made in the 60's and 70's (The packages say "Made in West Germany" and "Czechoslovakia" if you need an idea) and they are SO durable. If I buy new hooks, snaps, buttons etc. in the sewing store, even the bulk supplier I use for my business who caters specifically to professionals? They're even worse than fast fashion ones! "Oh hey, my fasteners all bent again because I ate dessert...."
We both enjoy baking as a hobby bordering on an obsession (we make basically all of our own bread products and desserts). WHAT THE HELL, NEW BAKEWARE?!?!?!? MY GRANDMA'S 80-YEAR OLD PIE PLATES THAT NEARLY GOT TRASHED ARE STILL DOING A BETTER JOB THAN THESE NEW THINGS!!!! Mixers? You have to look SO hard to find one that's meant for heavy home use that won't have the motor burn out trying to knead a heavy dough (we have a solid metal pro version which we've repaired a few times over the 10+ years we've had it, and it still fights to knead bagel dough...).
FURNITURE!!! I don't even bother with anything new, it's all beaver puke that weighs a ton, gets scratched to hell and falls apart in a few years, thankgod I don't care about home decor trends because the only real wood I can find now is midcentury modern in the antique shops. I'm typing this while sitting at a desk that was made in the 70's that didn't even get scratched when it crashed down a flight of stairs, with a chair that I haven't even had five years but is already on its last legs...and my bedroom set wouldn't even survive a house move!
Hell, even the damn vacuum cleaner! I need to vacuum a LOT (seamstress who specializes in fluffy, furry stuff. It is MESSY.). After my Mom's ancient 80's beast broke for good because the last vacuum and small appliance repair shop finally closed in town (Thankfully it was a canister vacuum, no bag because those things are near impossible to find now, but anyway, it sucked up EVERYTHING. Nothing ever managed to kill it, and I accidentally sucked an entire shirt up it once) all these new vacuums have these stupid bells and whistles but won't even hold a room's worth of dirt and are all plastic that breaks in no time at all! Both of us said screw that and went back to using a basic old shop vac, they're loud as hell with no bells and whistles but IT SUCKS EVERYTHING UP WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE and I can actually clean the whole house on one emptying!
All by design. "You'll own nothing and be happy." wasn't an empty threat.
Reliability is bad for business, why charge someone 200 dollars for something once and have it last 30 years, when you can charge someone 200 dollars for something, have it last 30 days and then make em come back for another 200 Dollar part, that's Double profits right their.
@@sundog. Bro you are smoking crack if you think this is anything but capitalism run wild
I have a 1974 Honda, and it is still solid. Everything is metal. It will outlive me, you, this website, our language, the concept of time, etc.
My '66 Olds will be the same way. All metal. I will EV swap it and run it on solar power, or replace the entire fuel system and make it run on 100% ethanol (which would make me mad to have to do because I despise ethanol as an automotive fuel) before I buy a modern EV. They could make a cheap electric car, but they don't, instead they pack them full of BS, my guess is to drive up the cost as much as possible.
LOL .. nice one 😄
They refuse to make non computerized vehicles.
You should ALWAYS suspect the things you just fixed. That's troubleshooting 101.
found the guy who hasn't taken advanced troubleshooting 201 yet
My triumph dealer knew NOTHING about how to fix my 2012 Speed Triple in 2023. They knew nothing about the immobilizer, or ECM, or any of the electronics and just wanted to throw parts at it until it worked. Not only are the parts crap, but the dealers are crap too!
the theory is that you can just train anyone to the job.
in practice it is that it needs to be a special mindset nerd to do it proper. you can't teach that stuff how it works to just anyone if they don't have interest in it.
@agustinusreynaldi7101 No it's worse than that- they only rise to the equivalent proficiency that their customers demand and women control 80% of purchasing power.
This is every industry. "Technicians" are now just "the person who actually applied for the job, and showed up two days in a row."
Most people are not good at their jobs.
@@nickwallette6201 Where are all the esteemed female degree-holders?
@@actually5004 Uh, pretty much everywhere.
What is your deal? You just get here from 1950?
They start giving you a more convenient option by making the cutrent option inconvenient, then, when there's only one option, they'll charge through the nose for the privilege
An easy solution can be applied its called NOT RELLYING ON MEGA CORPORATIONS ie learn how to make stuff or buy the most simple things possible interesting engineering just means that its easier for the conpanies to controll their stuff
@@fernadogonzalez2940 You tell your fifty year old family members this and then get back to me. I know not all of your family are mechanics. And even if they happen to have someone like you to help them, not everyone's family does or knows a lot about this type of stuff. You're blaming the victims here instead of the real culprit.
@@fernadogonzalez2940 The problem with that is that it's impossible to make things from scratch without relying on mega corporations. I sew, and unless I also got into mining and steelsmithing, I have to buy needles from a corporation. I have to buy yarn for my crochet, because I don't have the land to keep sheep. If I did have the land to keep sheep, I'd have to buy shears. In order to overcome crappy replacement parts for this engine, Wade would need to start growing rubber trees.
Unsurprisingly, this is how the US Auto industry became to powerful in the US. They pretty much destroyed all other means of transportation and successfully changed laws and standards to make dense, walkable cities practically illegal to build.
@@fernadogonzalez2940 I don't disagree with you one bit, but the problem remains, be cause we consumers lack the ability to make stuff like this which can stand up to petroleum products.
A weird, but good example: grab an every day syringe, and then stuck up some motor oil with it and let it sit for a month...
Come back and its rubber plunger will be swollen, starting to deteriorate!
I did a quick check though... and seems like TPU (Thermoplastic PolyUrethane) IS apparently petroleum resistant, much to my surprise... That's the very flexible ("rubbery") 3D Printer filament!
However, as we know, a consumer printed part does not guarantee it'll be water/air/oil tight and won't peak, whereas a cast part will be........ at least, as long as it's *_not_* from whatever company they got that first oil seal from... lmao
Yep. Used to be it was cheaper to rebuild a starter motor yourself than to buy a remanufactured one, same with brake calipers and master cylinders. Now its easier to go roll the dice down at the FLAPS. Everything is junk now. That's why cars go through headlight bulbs like crazy now, but the 35 year old truck I pulled out of the weeds, slapped together from junkyard parts and daily'd for three years was fine running the original headlights. Ever get home from the store with a new alternator, install it only to find its not working? - I always ask for the store to test it right then and there before I go through the effort of install/remove/return.
I have a '97 Saturn DOHC that had really bad valve cover leaks. The previous owner had it all siliconed up and it was just POURING oil. Well, me being a reasonable owner, I bought the fancy Fel-Pro silicone gaskets, cleaned all of the surfaces, reinstalled the valve cover, and torqued every bolt to spec.
It still poured out oil.
Turns out, the plastic/composite covers deform over time and will NEVER seal correctly. Luckily, the engine design was the same as the first Gen which had an aluminum cover, so I bought one of those and slapped it on there. Boom. No leaks.
Not only do aftermarket parts often suck, sometimes the manufacturer cheaps out too. (Ref. Modern CVTs. Wonder why cheap automatics hardly push 150K now?)
My BMW has valve cover leaks too and I'm definitely considering buying an aftermarket aluminum one just to have that extra reassurance. (M54 for those curious.)
That was an issue with the AMC 6 cylinder. They switched to a plastic valve cover, which, of course, soon would warp. I don't know if w metal one from an older one will fit, but there are hot rod aluminum ones that will.
A similar thing is happening to bikes, but it’s counterfeit parts causing the problem! You think you’re getting a genuine Shimano brake callipers, you pay Shimano money, but you get a genuine SHIMENG part instead…
Also motorcycle parts. "Oh that air intake vent tube is cracked?" For 4 inches of rubber in the shape of a U is between $40 and $80... Or my favorite is when the parts aren't discounted but it's been on backorder since 2019.
@GrumpyIan not trying to discount your point all, I agree with what you're saying, but honestly if I had to pay 50+ for a cracked intake pipe I'd probably just wrap the crack in flex tape or something XD
How about those piggyback shocks where the reservoir is decorative lol
@@GrumpyIan but at least the theirs still factory parts for 10 year old bikes in-stock, which was a blessing for me when I had to repair my cbr500r.
@@midlifehemi88 I'm replacing it with silicone tubing. Holds up just as well to the heat and infinitely more cheaper.
You know it's bad when the old timey music gets told to stop.
Had a similar thing on my old moped, old clutch cable broke after 50 years of use. Bought a new cable, broke after a day. Bought a new cable, broke after 2 days. Bought a new cable, broke after a day. Managed to salvage a cable from the same model but junk moped, cable still works after a month and it probably will for many years to come.
Incredible.
My husband and I just bought a '73 square body 3/4 ton, not running but complete, for $160 (basically value as scrap). I've had to drill it into him that even though the truck has been sitting for 20 years, and even though the plastics and rubber is probably that old if not older, do not replace anything unless it absolutely needs replaced. It's not a cost thing, it's because the replacements (especially when the engine/vehicle are no longer supported by OEM) are of such dodgy quality. His brother went through three alternators on his 01 F250 before getting one that worked out of the box, and that's a better scenario because it's easier to diag and replace. Tearing down an engine to replace a gasket only for the gasket to crumble when the engine is put back together?! Absolute nightmare.
Nice.
sounds like you're quite the handy one.
Always neat to see the folks out there who wrench and grease like everybody else workin' with their significant other to make something beautiful (and I don't mean those little screaming things called "children," I mean making a piece of mechanical art SING again.)
I've recently bought a used 2014 citroen from a really reputable (and expensive) local used car dealer. 1 week after I bought it, the engine stops working. Sent it to the mechanic (it has 1 year of insurance, so no money spent), and 3 days after it came back, the engine started burning oil and releasing loads of smoke through the exaust. sent it in again, 21 day full engine rebuild job. I pick the car up monday, on friday after all my classes, the car took 30 minutes to start, engine light turned on, another 2 day repair, and after I picked up the car for the third time, 20 FUCKING MINUTES after I picked it up, it stopped working in the middle of traffic.
3 months into me buying the car, I ended up using it for about 12 days, the other 2 and a half months it stayed on the mechanic. Thanks to enshitification, even buying a used car is turning into a fucking nightmare.
Holy fuck dude, I really hope luck will swing back your way. I thought a couple master/slave cylinder and a coolant pipe blowout on my BMW was bad, but Idk if I'd be able to handle all that, especially if I had JUST bought it AND had it happen after each repair.
Buys French car, is surprised it's broken
@@MathewWithOne_T I have seen 3 separate BMW 3 series blow the same coolant pipe due to aged plastic in the last year alone. German cars got a head start on the enshittification about 15-20 years ago when they realized that most people lease them new for 3 years then trade it in.
French cars I’m afraid. 1 in 4 French cars won’t run well ever.
@@MANTHELEXUSthe other 3 don't even run lol
As an electrician, EVs are awesome, but I'm terrified of how companies are doing things now. If they're cutting this many corners imagine just how unsafe it'll get. Enshittification is not just in parts, it's in products in general...
Enshittification just in general
That's my worry with EVs too. I'm wondering if they'll be cutting corners in the battery packs sealing or anything like that to make a budget ev. I'm waiting for some chaos
@@crazycoffee Look no further than the Chevy Blazer. I don't think it's gonna be mechanical problems that kill ev's, it's gonna be software.
@@crazycoffee Check how many corners they cut on the cybertruck
Not physical corners though, those are still nice and bare and raw and will cut *you*
EVs have no reason to be internet connected *to function*. Fuck Tesla for setting the standard.
There's a video series of a guy that bought an old Jeep for $2 and got it running for not much more. That's what cars should be. Back when you'd buy a Model T or Model A, you'd use every last drop of your ingenuity to keep it going for as long as you could, which used to be the norm.
Low Buck Garage is the man. He does things the way a true old-school mechanic does, instead of a new-wave parts changer.
1:38 I have had great experience with third party parts too, my truck has had a few different mode door actuators for some reason. The factory one, then an aftermarket one, and then a doa part which got replaced with an oem part. But third party parts have always worked great, even better than oem on our lawn mower
This is what happens when you seek infinite growth
Degrading the product is the opposite of growth.
@@ghoulbuster1 That was the point of my comment. Infinite growth was never possible in the first place, but many companies consistently trim down their expenses until they inevitably cut too many corners and the product suffers. It's not a sustainable way to do business, but they do it anyway.
@@ghoulbuster1 it isnt, think again. Its all about money
Where companies that were started by engineers etc, are now run by bean counters who know nothing of the product and old push for more and more profits.
If you work for a company where the founders get replaced by bean counters, it's time to move on and get a new job, as it's all downhill from here.
Had to replace three hoses for water to an outdoors bath, all three just ruptured with no warning. Enshittification is real and is making life awful garbage.
Yeah, my mom had a short bit of plumbing attached to her home water pump replaced last year. Thank goodness it was exposed pipe and in the garage, because it took 3 tries from a reputable plumber to make it not leak gratuitously (at his own expense). Turns out our local Home Depot got a BAAAAD shipment of PVC pipes/fittings with internal cracks and voids, and he bought a portion of it for on-hand supplies. He got scared after round two and called up all his recent customers to check his work for leaks. Felt really bad for him. :/
@@render1802hey, he called the customers that might've been affected? that's a great plumber
@@TheAechBomb Yep, and if they had a problem due to this issue he didn't charge for replacement parts or the service call. He was at wit's end after the third time doing the same fix, which finally worked. We ended up giving him $50 as a thank you.
This is why mechanics are bailing out of this industry
I have had my own workshop for 12years, for the last 6 of those I will only use genuine seals for the engine after constant failures of aftermarket seals. Genuine seals are usually very expensive, especially if Euro cars. Hyundia/ Kia and Isuzu all have reasonably priced engine seals. Also the reason EV's are so cheap second hand is that they are even more unreliable than the worst ICE cars and are far more expensive to fix. I rarely have many problems with well maintained ICE motors mechanically, what consistanly fails are the electroncs. The most reliable car I know which has never ever failed to start and run properly, my 1995 Camry 2.2L with 270,000KM on it. I bought it for $250, spent $2430 on it and replaced every seal and sensor, suspension bushing, clutch, all new oils, including diff & Gbox, new coilover suspension all round. It costs $137 in parts each year to fully service it. If you truley want to be green, buy an old 1990's car and give it some love. I checked and it has produced less CO2 in it's entire lifetime both being built and running it than is produced by the manufacture of one Polestar battery.
Had an oil leak and needed some gasket replaced. Don't remember what part exactly. Mechanic used a third party part and told me up front that it should be fine but they just don't have any OEM in stock. Not 15 miles later whole thing fails. Luckily it's a good local shop who paid for my tow back to their shop and overnighted an OEM part to replace it with all free of charge after the initial cost. Said it was the last time they stock garbage third party parts as they've been burned too many times. Even that was back in 2018.
If you're in SE Michigan in the US I give a proper recommendation to Rusty's. Honest guys.
My mechanic is an hour's drive away. When people ask why I drive so far for a mechanic, I reply that it's because he's honest.
@@deanchur when you find your guy, you rely on your guy.
don't matter if they are a decent distance from home, just matters that they're good, honest, and hard working.
obviously don't drive halfway across the continental united states just to visit a mechanic, but you know what Im trying to say here, Im just adding this for the little pedantic shits who think themselves the next great comedian.
The real fun is when you hit the combination of "all the aftermarket parts suck" and "the OE has stopped supporting it", and not even just for weird low-volume cars.
The Jeep 4.0 everyone loves to rave about? It's already there today. Nearly everything OEM for it or the vehicles it came in is discontinued.
Please don't tell me these things. I am not looking forward to getting new parts for my WJ if its going to be this bad
Toyota 1ZZ - discontinued 2008, but good f@#$ing luck if you need any internal engine parts.
Same problem starting to crop up on crown vics of all things. Ford stopped making the intake manifolds for these so now your options are dorman, or if you can even find a leftover OE one, pay out the ass for the part.
@@x2006charger dude its ridiculous how expensive 4.6's are getting to work on, still millions chugging about, still costs $4500 dollars for a fresh new set of stock cylinder heads, couldnt imagine the price of new 4v heads LOL better off trying to find low mileage junkyard parts for everything these days
@@x2006charger This is the reason why I LOVE living in the deep Southeast. Crown Vics are still a common sight, as are Mercury Grand Marquis (THIS CAR is seen so often down here that it's comical considering the average age of a Grand Marquis driver is 130 years old). Thankfully, I also still see a LOT of Police Interceptors, as well. They're common down here in the junk yards.
Needed to replace a timing belt so I looked on Amazon. A belt, water pump, idle pulley and gaskets was about $70 but from an unknown source. Looked at true Mopar replacement and it was just over $300 for the same parts. I spent the $300 and fixed it. Cheap is just that, don't buy bad parts.
Ive noticed this too. I restore old cars here in canada, and its honestly better 99% of the time for me to find a used part on a junkyard car than to buy a brand new one. A used part, on a 50+ year old car thats spent unknown amounts of time in the woods before being hauled to the junkyard, and these parts still manage to be better than brand new over the shelf parts. Its also the reason i drive only old cars in the first place. Its the only mode of transportation i can rely on day to day because they were built during a time when durability sold vehicles, not pointless bloatware and useless features.
I am in myb20s with the same sentiment...my grandfather is in his 70s with the opposite sentiment
“It’s all because of those crappy ass parts.”
-Kevin Harvick
Nascar comment on a Garbage Time video is always something to appreciate
Now this ain't what I expected
I've been a professional mechanic since 2007. It used to be that except for the worst of the worst you couldn't really go wrong with third-party parts. Slowly it became that you had to only trust higher tier third-party parts suppliers. Now I am down to TWO brands of third-party suppliers that I know I can trust, and both of them are commonly used as OE suppliers (basically the big brands just take their parts and shove them in a different box before throwing a $100 upcharge on them). The only real exceptions to this that I've seen are for the old-school V8s (OG GM/Ford/Mopar big and small blocks) and LS-family V8s and that's only because the hot-rodding companies still give a crap about supplying parts that can keep things going (of course those companies have had 60ish years to get their act together)
Which brands do you trust?
@@Games_for_James you didn't ask me, but from personal experience working on my own cars for >10 years (6 cars so far): Febi or Febi-Bilstein (all sorts of parts), Lemforder (suspension bushings), Corteco (seals, gaskets), ATE (brake parts), Bosch (brake parts, filters, other), INA (bearings, timing parts, pulleys), Mann (filters). Some parts only OEM or used OEM, never aftermarket (like complex electrical parts like throttle bodies, solenoids, MAF sensors, from a junkyard with warranty, or take a bad one apart and fix it/rebuild it if it's stuff like a switch with worn contacts or worn brushes on a motor). Mercedes-Benz has an official web shop where you can buy OEM parts, I use that to check OEM prices and see what I get OEM or aftermarket, sometimes it surprises me when some stuff I'd otherwise buy aftermarket is sometimes same price or cheaper OEM.
Supposedly Blue Print is pretty good for Asian parts, the air filter I got was the right shape and looked pretty decent.
@@tubesnstuff503do not buy Febi!!!!
As a German:
brakes: ATE, Maybe TRW
Seals: Elring or Victor Reinz
Suspension: Lemförder ( do not buy anything else if available) TRW or maybe if nothing else is available PU, then go Japanparts or Yamato or whatever. Necessary sadly.
Engine: Mahle ( maybe) or Kolbenschmidt
Waterpumps: SKF, nothing else
Bearings: SKF, FAG ( I work there) or INA
Belt: Continental, Gates or INA, maybe SKF.
It's sad. I have thrown away FAG parts before, Just because they were shit, and bought Lemförder.
All spare parts are shit now. The last new starter motor I bought lasted 6 weeks before the solenoid crapped out.
I'm at the point where I look for used parts from wrecking yards rather than buy aftermarket parts.
Took me a whole year to find out why my 71 mercury cougar would die as soon as it got hot. The problem was an edelbrock ignition coil died nearly as soon as I installed it. It would get hot and loose continuity because of thermal expansion. I will never 100% an ignition coil again, I use an oem coil from 1970 (that i pulled off of a junk engine) as a spare because i have more faith in it
Back when my dad was still into classic cars (Oldsmobile), the only aftermarket mods he did were an HEI conversion on a 69 Toronado and aluminum intake & carbs on his Cutlass. Kept the coils like it was nothing. Hell, my 40 year old garden tractor (one that’s been owned by my family most of its life) is still running with all of its factory original parts from 1981! Only major work that tractor has seen in its life was a deck rebuild back in 2020
Up until about the mid 80s, most American-made vehicles and equipment were designed to be repairable and even rebuildable by the owner, and rebuilt over and over and over again. By the end of the 90s, they were made to be impossible for the average person to repair.
As someone who worked in the oem parts industry for 20 years, I can tell you that "genuine" replacement parts are the biggest scam. If its for a car currently in production, that service part is likely a quality reject. "Just sell it for service" is a real thing. If that part is for an out of production car, even worse, it's either a previous quality reject that's been sitting on a shelf for years, or it's cobbled together with ancient parts using machines that haven't ran for years.
Or, it's straight up counterfeit.
Suggestion for getting good parts for out of production cars? I've heard auto parts stores are even worse than "genuine".
@@b-chroniumproductions3177 find part.im the scrap yard, maybe? Or fix them yourself.
At least in music you can find small operators that are owned/run by people who actually want to make something that works and works well. Cars and computers are so complicated and expensive you're basically never getting that.
There's a reason cycles are on the rise...
Do computers experience enshittification?
@@skeptic_lemon Consider Windows over the past few eons...
@@skeptic_lemon massive counterfeit issues, to the point of companys printing the original text/logos/numbers on parts only for it to rub off with isopropyl alcohol
@@skeptic_lemon Absolutely. I won't get into paragraphs about what's been happening, but the reliability of computers has plummeted in combination with non-replaceable batteries and glue instead of screws becoming standard. It's starting to become impossible to repair many laptops which is beyond depressing as someone who keeps their computers for decades. I want to be clear when I say that I'm not someone that looks at the past with rose-tinted goggles; I've been living my best life in the last 2 years compared to my childhood, teenage years, and even my early adult years. When it comes to computers though, they, quite literally, aren't made the way they used to be made and nowadays if you want to repair something it's either impossible without high-end repair equipment or, worse, straight-up impossible without remanufacturing some parts.
Back when I was in tech school fresh out of high school, one of the instructors, drummed it into all of our heads “just because a part is new doesn’t mean it’s good”.
I had a local shop put a ball joint on my old truck and asked what parts they used. "We use good stuff." A few years of driving around with an odd clunking noise later and I replaced everything myself with parts I bought (the rest needed to be done). It was a bad new ball joint the entire time. This was over a decade ago.
"You can have a workshop and a James!"
"All the tools you need!" 😂
I have a James, but he's not a mechanic. But he is just as good a friend :)
Youre already halfway there@@PAWaviation15
I work on diesel dewatering pumps. The quality of parts is killing us. We are replacing a major pump seal every 1k hours. 5 years ago you could get 10k+ out of the same brand.
It does feel like the 8:14 enshittification of everything these days. You cover big problems but smalls problems I had a pickleball bat made by a “certain big company” from 5 years ago. The handle was a little worn so I bought new one. So we were bouncing the ball on the new and old and the new one has half the bounce.
Had to replace a water pump on a 1999 GM minivan, the old water pump had a milled impeller fan and it lasted 25 years before it started leaking. I only had one option at my local auto parts store. a cheap stamped sheet metal impeller fan and it was made out of nothing. everything is like that now.
Pro tip: you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet. Companies don't realize this. The line can't always go up.
Oh, they know. They just don't care, because their leaders know they'll be dead by the time it matters.
Companies realise it, they're all just trying to please the dumbfuck investors who are looking for short-term gains above anything else
Won't stop them trying.
I've heard from stock exchange people that there's a massive focus now on quick growth with rapid return rather than a steady investment these days, which only makes the problem worse.
We're pretty much reaching the limits of capitalism. We need a new system entirely
For some reason this made me think of trains. All the recent derailment disasters and everything, once this kind of garbage part quality bleeds over and takes hold in that industry it’s game over. It might already be. Places that restore vintage steam engines (which require just as much precision) often have to forge and cast their own parts, either from original drawings or from literally cloning the existing part from scratch. So your vision of shops fabricating replacements in-house probably ain’t far off.
Now that you mention it trains. Worries me about aviation. Already seeing it with Boeing.
@@callummclachlan4771 100%
it's how US freight railroads operate, to my knowledge. trains so long they block level crossings and cannot be parked or sidings, empty trains being sent around because the yards are too small, in general operating to make the most money at the expense of everything else - passenger trains, the environment, quality of service, workplace rights..
"the most profitable railroad is the one that owns no track and sends no trains"
My thoughts exactly. My friend is an engineer in manufacturing and the thing he tells me scares me half to death…
Had a similar issue here in the United States, kept replacing axle seals in my rear axle because they kept blowing out every few thousand miles and spewing oil everywhere all over my tires and rims and brakes, replaced each side twice if not 3 times and every time I had to replace the seals, I had to cut wheel bearing off since they were a press fit. Went through this so many times that I said screw it and bought genuine spicer branded seals and finally fixed the issues, auto part stores china made seals caused me great grief. I’ll never forget that.
My brother in law owns his own shop and he agrees with you. He used to get 3rd party parts from AZ and OR, but after doing a lot of "warranty" repairs for people because his fix didn't stick, he decided to only use OEM dealer parts. He lost some customers to this because in some cases it was a significant markup - my tailgate on my toyota 4runner broke, the dealer part is $1500 while the 3rd party part is $25 (the 3rd party cable is the wrong length...).
seen the same stuff with my old BMW, I tried using 3rd party electronics for the speed sensor and brake wear sensors, both ended up dying not even a year into using them. They had warranty, but after the 3rd time of replacing them, I forked out the money for OEM and never had them fault again.
The 'Enshitification' of batteries could be interesting
as a matter of fact, modern batteries have probably gotten significantly worse. i have li-ion batteries for cameras and stuff that are 2 decades old and they still hold a good charge. that could be survivor bias, but still, there at least were batteries that survived that long, could it be the form factor? flat pack lithium ion batteries having worse lifespan than 18650s?
/edit: it seems to be mostly sony and maybe nikon batteries. i've seen a Canon pack that didn't last very long, and a Panasonic pack that was completely dead. all were similarly old, from about 2002-2005
Has been a thing since forever. Aliexpress is full of questionable quality lithium cells and battery managment boards.
@@segarallychampionship702 the health of the battery probably depends on how much/often it was used. But it is true not all batteries are made equal.
@@segarallychampionship702 my dad pulled a Nintendo DSi out of the closet one day, the battery wasn't even dead.. it had to be sitting for at least 6-7 years at that point without charge.
@jwalster9412 i have a ds lite that still will turn on after not being charged for 15 years its basically fully dead on charge but its still holding enough after that long to turn on for a minute or 2 before shutting off which is impressive to the least my phone after about a year of use has lost rougly 12 percent battery health roughly idk for sure but it hols about 2 less hours of charge per charge cycle after a year and this is a a54 im using
They broke the James! Crappy parts broke the unbreakable James!
I’ve noticed this with video game console replacement parts, the joy con are shitty as they are but if you buy new parts online there’s a good chance the button won’t click the way it’s supposed to, like all I want is a replacement that feels like the old one
i had been running a workshop in Adelaide for the past 10 years, in the last month i have decided to call it quits, i am doing more warranty work from poorly made parts then im actually doing jobs, funny enough 90% of them barra's, ive had one customer that i have done a real main seal under warranty 4 bloddy times and it still leaks.
My mechanic gave up & closed his shop because of parts-enshitefication. Great vid.
See this pisses me off. Not only is it making everything we buy and use utter garbage, it’s driving people away from their passions! Breaks my heart.
@@Mar-uc7kk He was good and honest too. Over 15 years as my mechanic. After he quit, a YWCA day care bought it (partially with taxpayer funds) and promptly demolished it. Real shame.
@@Mar-uc7kk The Distopia is slowly beginning
Too many companies realizing “well is anyone checking this is to spec before we sell it?”
too many companies not giving a rats butt because it's not what makes them money
@@marcogenovesi8570 There is a direct correlation between the amount of migrants coming into the country and the amount of shit parts.
@@marcogenovesi8570 To be fair, the good Japanese auto makers (i.e., Toyota, Honda, Suzuki) are usually pretty good on auditing supplier's parts and being strict about their supplier's quality control. It's generally the cost-cutting automakers who have select the cheapest tender who have patchy parts quality (Ford, VW etc).
@@TassieLorenzoI agree Japanese is the only decent option for vehicles anymore. I thought Hyundai was improving but then the engine of my 2013 Santa Fe destroyed itself because some plant workers didn't clean the metal shavings out of the engine block during manufacturing, and those metal shavings clogged the oil journals. Lucky for me Hyundai did the right thing and covered replacement. That vehicle had so many recalls for various other fixes too.
@@TassieLorenzo They might be better but they certainly aren't immune from enshittification. One of the older generations of Nissan Nevaras had a lot of engine issues that caused meltdowns. My dad got real lucky and sold his only a few months before it got sent to the great parking lot in the sky.
There's also mitsubishi who had a big scandal about their quality control issues which I believe they tried to cover up. It was such a shitstorm that Mitsubishi almost went down. It's why they seem to be a different company these days, they're basically a corpse being puppeted like weekend at bernie's...
Replaced my leaking radiator with an aftermarket one. Instantly started leaking from the seams where the plastic tanks connect to the aluminum. Contacted the parts store, I had to send it back to them, for them to then send it to Nissens who would conduct a leak test on it. I'm not going through all the shit of taking it out again, not having a radiator for a while only for them to tell me that it did not leak during their testing and me not getting my money back. So I took it out, crimped the seams with pliers and it hasn't been leaking ever since lol. I really fucking hate companies and their lack of quality control. They are just screwing us over and we can't do anything about it
I work adjacent to the medical industry, and we have this problem with high-end multi-thousand dollar, PRECISION, surgical tools.
We've had precision sapphire lenses exploding after autoclaving when the scopes were cold, ready to ship back to clients, and the only thing we can put it down to is the glass is being cut on the wrong plane, but I don't have the gear to test that theory.
perhaps it's just a thing a certain % will do. it could just be that before the manufacturer ate that loss % and tested them. even if they compensate for them breaking, it's still like a deferred loss and if it just sits on the shelf it's just profit.
I have had a manager tell me "PLASTICS" as a one word answer to solving a similar issue. As a designer who has had to deal with plastics design: 3rd party stuff will never ever be as good as the original design because plastics are a lot like baking. THE RECIPE REALLY MATTERS AND IT MUST BE FOLLOWED.
GET OEM OR FACTORY SEALS EVERY TIME. NEVER BUY SEALS FROM CHINA
yeah "plastics" is a generic word like saying "soup". What's in it? Who knows. There are many types of soups with different flavors, textures and properties
Makes classic car restoration nearly impossible now because the only parts available are 3rd party
The OEM ones could easily be made in China. Country of origin does not dictate quality
@@alexthemorgan This is indeed true that country of origin does not dictate quality. A LOT of USA-made products are pretty shit. But let's be honest here: nearly all of this shit is made in China because literally *_NO ONE_* cares about the exploitation of children in China to make these garbage products, yet complain about shit being too costly and not understanding the reason why labor costs in China are so low.
On the flip side, I've seen some Chinese-made products that blew me the hell away with *_Q V A L I T Y_* that was on par with the Japanese products, but without the Japanese price tag.
I still hate buying Chinese-made products, though.
@@JaegerYukari I dont think anybody here said that china isn't making shitty products, look at anything wish sells and there you go, shittiest china can offer. But what people (or atleast I am)are saying is that china also does make good products its just an issue of cost. Paying those really cheap factories 5 percent more gives you 50 percent better quality but do some crappy companies do so... of course not, they're saving 5 percent on everything even if its half as good of a product. But OEM companies usually just have more money for quality control and to pay those factory workers a tiny margin better so their stuff is good or at least a lot better. 3rd party companies don't have the money, the need, the want or all three to pay the workers and suppliers of materials more.
Remember that brake and suspension parts are also relying on enshittified rubber parts. Even with EV's. And also bearings and CV shafts etc. that are more loaded with torque
EV parts are slightly less enshittified since they're still new, but when the current EVs become obsolete their parts will get even more enshittified
@@Fred_the_1996 Not all of them. The Nugget is pretty old by EV standards, for example.
Yup. Threw a new control arm in my car, and the bushing shit the bed not long after...
@@Fred_the_1996 i replaced the electric motor on a 1 year old Toyota Proace electric at work, theres like 3 more waiting. Everything is shit trash garbage, new cars suck
@@MadMaxx570 idk much about EVs, the repair shop where i work at doesnt get many EVs, and when it does its just stuff like changing tyres or lightbulbs
My friends caprice was overheating. We replaced the water pump but still had the issue. After doing the head gaskets and reassembling, and many bleeds of the system, it overheats again. The new pumps impeller wasn't properly swaged to the shaft. New, not remanufactured. New parts are intentionally of a lesser quality and fail far sooner. And yes the head gaskets were fine so new gaskets and headbolts and labor from a bad part.
Wow. Once upon a time, we could even buy a parts kit for a water pump
All corporations are finding that when you source from multiple foreign companies it is practically impossible to enforce quality control.
3D printing qont solve it unfortunately, because as you can see, it comes down to the materials themselves that make the parts, and the processes behind forming them that give the materials the right properties of flexibility, durability, etc. it turns out manufacturing is actually pretty complicated, and materials science even more so!
Wade should start a quality parts business that actually holds firm spec requirements and is just marginally cheaper than the official parts. Someone actually doing that is really the only way that will keep the price for good parts from spiralling out of control.
Get the business started by doing parts no longer OEM available. Grow to cheaper or better than OEM parts.
"If they wont bring back manufacturing jobs, we'll make them ourselves"
To be fair, a bad gasket also blew up the Challenger
and an o ring on an f150
The o-rings were used out of spec. Engineers said not to launch until the ambient temperature was higher. Management overrode them. O-rings failed and disaster ensued. It wasn't a quality issue.
@@Oosh21you’re right. o-ring was fine, launch temps weren’t. every engineer said don’t launch, management did, 7 people die.
A bad door lock also took down some certain planes..
@@jwalster9412That plane landed safely. Not defending boeing, they lied about the 737 max and that killed nearly 400 people.
I had something similar happen with the first car that I had ever bought outright. After about a year the water pump blew a gasket. I took it to my mechanic to fix it, and two months later it happens again. He replaced it again under warranty, sounded alright until it happened two more times after that. On the fourth trip, my mechanic just said he can’t fix it again.
I ended up selling the car as a junker. Almost made it two years and I was out $4000. And that’s why I drive cheap old cars; much easier to fix and not nearly as expensive.
The Enshitification is in every single industry.
Bought a new Pitchos oven/stovetop after my old one (also a Pitchos) gave out after almost 20 years. In the first year the fan had rusted so much it would disintegrate if you turned it on, no back plate, buggy functions (like the oven cooling fan would sometimes turn on while the oven was still working), a bit later one of the stoves also stopped working.
@2:40 - I bought 2 replacement idler wheels for my 35 year old Maytag dryer. Got them from Ebay. They lasted exactly HALF a load of laundry. Found a legitimate local appliance supply house with legitimate OEM parts. They wanted - I sh*t you not - $130 PER WHEEL! The lady looked at the price, looked at me in a panic and said "Oh, don't you own an appliance repair business, sir?" while giving me that "knowing look." I said, why yes! Yes I do. She gave me the contractor price and I paid $48 total for 2. That was 5 years ago. They're still installed and flawless. This is the same dryer that I crafted my own UHMW/leather guides for about 8 years ago.
UHMWPE and leather? Those are two materials I didn't expect to see listed together.
@@nopenoperson9118 It's a layered rim guide for the drum. The originals were riveted in and not replaceable I couldn't find OEM replacements.) They had worn completely through and I was about to have metal to metal contact. I got creative and used a leather backing with a HDMW plastic shield. Drilled rivets, made 2 custom pads and used rivets to reattach. Used contact cement to sandwich the materials together. I'm kind of a cheap ba**rd. I still use these machines to this day. At this point, I think they were manufactured before I even graduated HS and I am mid-50's.
Count yourself lucky you could buy component parts. Motor brushes wore prematurely in my washing machine but OEM parts suppliers would only sell me an entire motor assembly or nothing. Had to gamble on eBay, and pay more for shipping than the parts, to fix it.
@@TechGorilla1987 Sounds like it works a mint. Curious how the leather would hold up over many cycles of being exposed to high heat and ambient humidity.
I have a Miele frontloader washing machine that I got for free when I moved to uni, from a farmer who had it sitting in the barn. After washing farm coveralls for years, it is still going strong. I saw a production date inside at some point, dont recall exactly but '70/'80. It is at least 20 years older than me and going strong...
Needs a new main bearing (whiny noise when spinning) and shock dampers (it walks a bit when centrifuging), but those parts are actually easily replaced, in contrast with a modern machine where they are impossible to replace.
Also, the electronics are rock solid, I can just spin the knob to the correct setting and use a switched outlet to turn it on at the right time. I use a smart power socket to control it from my phone, and the current measurement can tell me when it is done.
Meanwhile, my girlfriends washing machine needs time to boot up and has at one point even crashed the software 😂
Just the thought of things like this going downhill makes me hear Chrysler's Electronic Voice Alert system saying to me "Your sanity level is critical. Prompt service is required.".
Or alternatively, Renault's voice synth from the Safrane "(Guitar melody) Warning! Mental sanity, critical. Consult medical personnel."
I replaced the upper motor mount on my Renault Nissan 1.5dci engine (K9K) because it had perished even though it didn't make any noise or vibration (so much for preventive maintenance), new part would make the engine rock back and forth and make a horrible knocking sound. Second part was fine, but all that rocking it made during the time I waited for the new part, ripped the lower motor mount, causing a terrible vibration.
I also replaced the screen and digitizer on an old samsung tablet I had, both parts were broken from the box. Digitizer would refuse to work properly, LCD had faulty backlights.
Profit maximization is the end of everything.
And this, peeps, is the birth of automotive Louis Rossmann
I mean they have right to repair, they just can't excercise said right because parts suck ass
*Rossmann. Why are you people so insistent into turning Louis into an Ashkenazi Jew?
Ah yes, enshitefication
Or you could do like those shops in India or SE Asia (as seen on RUclips) that make their own molds for making parts like that and/or RTV everything to keep some old Chinese Kawasaki clone from the 1980's running in some fashion. It's crazy how determined some of those guy are to keep that shit going, but maybe enthusiasts can learn something by watching regardless of any language barriers.
new just means "untested". I almost always suspect new parts 1st or 2nd when diagnosing new troubles after a repair.
It's not just cars. It's everything produced.
This is so real. I just spent an entire Saturday replacing inner tie rods, outer tie rod ends, and CV axle shafts. And it turns out the inner tie rod that was supposed to be a guaranteed fit. Was too short, and now I can't align my car. It's crazy the crap people are selling.
Shame. They know that there are no machinists, so they feel we are a captive audience.
It's not uncommon to find the wrong part in a box that has the correct part number. In 2020 my son gave me his '05 Dodge Neon that I bought for him as a high school graduation present. The driver's door window regulator had gone out in January so he ordered one from AutoZone. The first five shipped had the RH door regulator in the box with the LH regulator part number. It took AZ over a month to find a LH regulator by going thru the boxes at their warehouses.
@@billwilson-es5yn Sounds like what happened to me when I needed a new CV joint for my Plymouth Grand Voyager - two different boxes had the wrong part in them.
Ah but you see using the correct rubber would cost a fraction of a cent more and we have to scrape the bottom line even lower somehow!
Not even going to lie, this is why I bought a discounted Chevy bolt. I was being nickeled and dimed trying to keep my last car going. Water pumps lasting 4 months, idler pulleys spitting their bearings out before a year of use, sensors failing out of the box ect.
It's happening with genuine parts too, my brother bought a genuine water pump and gaskets for his 240sx and it immediately started leaking, he changed the gaskets and it continued to leak, he then got a pump from a different third party and it stopped leaking, it wasn't machined correctly from Nissan
or he installed it wrong, or he just got unlucky 2 times, or he got lucky the third time with the third party ones, or the genuine parts were just crap. you never know
Counterfeit parts are a big problem so that's a possibility too.
I can almost guarantee Nissan does not make parts for the 240sx any longer so you bought counterfeit parts with a Nissan logo slapped on
Nissan doesn't make parts and aisin is the OEM (at least on the newer internal pumps), made in Japan. He bought knock off parts.
I have worked in IT retail/repair for 10 years (until last year when I finally went *shutters* corporate) and over that time I saw both third party and genuine OEM parts, decrease in quality so badly, that there are now precious few trusted sellers that ANY decent pc repair shop should buy from. The last place I worked at before going corpo, was an aussie home grown shop, prides itself on quality repairs and quality pc builds/laptop sales/parts etc... we were the most expensive place around, they still are... purely cus we only bought the best. did this turn away people? sure, but they came crawling back a month later when their AC/DC branded PSU almost burnt the house down or their no brand battery with Chinese writing on it puffed up into a spicy pillow after a month. they still have a dedicated and loyal customer base purely due to the fact that we didnt use cheap shit, and if something was faulty (cus everything sucks at least a bit these days) 99% of the time, they came in saying things along the lines of " hey the part that was installed must have been a dud" not " YOU DID DODGY WORK YOU CROOKS" like our competitors got.
Yet through all of this, our competitors make fucking bank and are still the number 1 shops around, meanwhile our store does well enough, but will never compete fully...you have to sell out to get anywhere these days.
My brother got burned by some genuine Seagate hard drives (not literally). One of them failed right out of the box, and the other two failed less than a day after having backup data loaded up and accessed a few times. I had no idea Seagate had turned into a dumpsterfire like that. :/
@@render1802 like most things it comes in waves, for example, up until all the shananagens of the last 2 years, Asus was the absolute go to for quality pc parts, while MSI and gigabyte you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole (MSI especially) and now MSI and gigabyte are kicking ass and Asus is the RMA nightmare of crappy parts we know today... basically just depends how many lines the shareholders snort and how many dumb decisions they make as a result.
Gen Alpha is going to have to buy booster packs for car parts and hope they pull the mythic rare non leak gasket.
I have a GMT400 I was dealing with the crankshaft seal leaking after about 200 miles on every. fucking. seal. No matter how new or well it seated. Still would leak. I feel your pain.