3:00 This exact same thing happened to my sisters 94 Accord, many years ago. She was coming down a parking garage ramp from an upper level and was turning hard right at the bottom when the right front tire caught the concrete pylon. Broke the lower control arm and pulled the CV shaft apart. Easy enough fix got it aligned afterwards and only sold the car after it hit 450K miles.....still ran fine!
My dad had gotten back in 2008 a used 2001 Toyota Camry with a V6 and automatic transmission. Had 80k miles on it. Had it for 10 years until 2018. It had been wrecked multiple times where it should've been totaled, needed piston rings, needed an whole new exhaust system, needed rear shock absorbers, needed all new shocks all the way around, and needed an engine rebuild due to the mileage. When he got rid of it it had like 410k miles on it with no rebuild.
Many times on the road I see stopped cars with emergency lights on. Almost all of them match models that include ecoboost engines with wet belts. One of the most frequent breakdowns of these engines is that the oil pump becomes clogged with belt debris, causing the engine to run out of oil. This causes blocked cylinders, camshaft breakage, and head gasket failure.
Seems like Ford still don't know how to make good reliable engines. The old cast iron head engine also was a quite stupid thing. It wore out camshafts like nothing else and you either had to remove the head or punch a hole in the firewall to replace the camshaft. If you opt for the latter - remove the ash tray first.
@@ehsnils Apparently the design is made to adapt to the increasingly restrictive European anti-emission regulations. A cheap three-cylinder engine that seems intentionally designed to break.
@@ehsnils I dunno. the V6 on the german markets as well as the OHC, once the first issues were fixed by Ford, are reliable engines. I drive one from 1974, and the block is still going strong, while the head comes from a later model with valve rings. the camshaft thing came from inaccurately hardened camshafts, and the OHV Kent engines had that too, for a while. it got fixed, then apparently someone started to pinch pennies again, because the problem returned... I agree that the ecoboost things are not very sturdy.l I once had a 3cylinder where the head broke up along a water line right above the intake channel, filling the engine with coolant quite quickly. customer came in for that issue, and when he wanted to drive home 10 min later the engine was already waterlocked.
OPel/GM has the same problems, coming from improper oil. these engines need THIS oil and only THIS one, because any other specs lack the right additives, and then the belt wears out causing the issues you described. or they snap right away.
Maybe at the end of each clip you can circle what were supposed to see. I know part of the fun is to find the mistake but in a dark engine bay a little help would be appreciated.
If people are that stupid that they don’t care to stop check and fix or take to a place where they can. YOU DON’T DESERVE TO DRIVE WALK it will be safer for all.
A lot of these clips are just sad nowadays. Too many folks out there don't have the money to fix the vehicle they have or to get one in a better shape. Especially with the sub $5k market being what it is now. Too many folks out there had the magical 3yr old thinking that their job was always going to pay enough to take it to a shop or to buy another vehicle, and never bothered to tool up and skill up in the better times. Tools cost money, but they only cost money once. Busted knuckles suck, but the skin will heal and you get to keep the experience!
At 3:00 that one look like the ball joint is rusted and failed, and just pulled out the rod out of the transmission. Yes it can happen in a parking. I saw that to a old civic near a red light. Lucky for them it didn't broke at high speed.
Had a lady have her v6 rodeo towed in on the truck and she said that the needle was at the top but she kept on driving untill it stopped. No water in the radiator when we checked so we filled it up and cranked it with no radiator cap. The car had a carwash with its own radiator. Final diagnosis, a little bit F*UCKED
1:04 I once bought a used tire and something like this happened to it. Was taking it out of my trunk when I noticed a bubble on the side wall. Took it back to the shop where I got it from and when they took the tire off the rim the bubble was still there like a pillow. Never seen that before. I still wonder how the air got in like that and stayed in, and if I cut the outside of it what it would have done.
The belt was probably removed during diagnosis to isolate where the sound was coming from. Common practice during an inspection of an odd noise from the engine.
Because they don't know how to hold a camera correctly - in landscape not portrait mode. Kids these days record all videos vertically for Tik-tok. Future movie theaters will have to rotate the screens vertically. ;-)
this channel would be a lot better if someone who actually knew about cars did a voice-over on all the clips, the silence betrays your ignorance of things mechanical...
You say yet another ecoboost what you meant to say is yet another escape with a 1.5 ecoboost the other ecoboosts ford puts out are good engines just not the 1.5 the 1.6 is essentially the same thing if your escape or transit connect has one of the 2 in it. Fords tsb is to put a updated engine block and new head gasket in it because the ones that don’t have the updated block have a saw tooth like design between the cylinders that cut the head gasket and allow coolant into the cylinders the updated block revises the previous design to one that won’t cut the head gasket
@4:50 The seized brakes I don't get it !!!! Do these people not feel something weird with the brakes before this happens? I don't even have to see it to know that the customer has driven the brakes beyond metal to metal!!!!!! Hey this time I did not spell it medal to medal for you spelling Nazi's!
My 95 f150 trans sounded like it had rocks in it. Reverse popped out of gear and we hen I went to fix it the bearing came apart and got chewed up by other gears. I just cleaned it all out and replaced the berring and still drive it. Now 5th makes a nasty chunkin so I don't use it just 4th on the highway.
That little device saying "STOP - DIESEL!" seems like a good invention 🤣
Some people will still fill it with petrol and then try to leave the gas station without removing the nozzle.
But it obviously didn't work for that driver!
Isn't the diesel nozzle on the gas pump thicker than the petrol one in your country, so you can't fit the wrong one?
unfortunately you can't fix stupid so it didn't work at all.
Old Top Gear has you covered
3:00
This exact same thing happened to my sisters 94 Accord, many years ago. She was coming down a parking garage ramp from an upper level and was turning hard right at the bottom when the right front tire caught the concrete pylon. Broke the lower control arm and pulled the CV shaft apart. Easy enough fix got it aligned afterwards and only sold the car after it hit 450K miles.....still ran fine!
Just a Accord thing to change into ACCORDion. They are known to do this.
The featured car's headlight and suspension is a giveaway since I've owned one, Its a 6th gen Accord so between Model years 1998-2002
My dad had gotten back in 2008 a used 2001 Toyota Camry with a V6 and automatic transmission. Had 80k miles on it. Had it for 10 years until 2018. It had been wrecked multiple times where it should've been totaled, needed piston rings, needed an whole new exhaust system, needed rear shock absorbers, needed all new shocks all the way around, and needed an engine rebuild due to the mileage. When he got rid of it it had like 410k miles on it with no rebuild.
Peak Honda
Many times on the road I see stopped cars with emergency lights on. Almost all of them match models that include ecoboost engines with wet belts. One of the most frequent breakdowns of these engines is that the oil pump becomes clogged with belt debris, causing the engine to run out of oil. This causes blocked cylinders, camshaft breakage, and head gasket failure.
Seems like Ford still don't know how to make good reliable engines. The old cast iron head engine also was a quite stupid thing. It wore out camshafts like nothing else and you either had to remove the head or punch a hole in the firewall to replace the camshaft. If you opt for the latter - remove the ash tray first.
@@ehsnils Apparently the design is made to adapt to the increasingly restrictive European anti-emission regulations. A cheap three-cylinder engine that seems intentionally designed to break.
@@ehsnils I dunno. the V6 on the german markets as well as the OHC, once the first issues were fixed by Ford, are reliable engines. I drive one from 1974, and the block is still going strong, while the head comes from a later model with valve rings.
the camshaft thing came from inaccurately hardened camshafts, and the OHV Kent engines had that too, for a while. it got fixed, then apparently someone started to pinch pennies again, because the problem returned...
I agree that the ecoboost things are not very sturdy.l I once had a 3cylinder where the head broke up along a water line right above the intake channel, filling the engine with coolant quite quickly. customer came in for that issue, and when he wanted to drive home 10 min later the engine was already waterlocked.
OPel/GM has the same problems, coming from improper oil. these engines need THIS oil and only THIS one, because any other specs lack the right additives, and then the belt wears out causing the issues you described. or they snap right away.
That’s why they are called found on road dead
Maybe at the end of each clip you can circle what were supposed to see. I know part of the fun is to find the mistake but in a dark engine bay a little help would be appreciated.
"Is my car supposed to be smoking this much?" I'm no mechanic but I do believe ANY smoke coming from your car is too much.
0:18 I find the tilting dowel on the oil pan much more interesting than the oil sludge.
Good video, but need to blur out people's information. That had someone's full name and address in there.
I was going to comment the same thing....
Sometimes, even a talking car can’t help you. 🤦♀️
@1:45 you gotta blur that or something... straight up doxed my guy lmao
3:20 i actually believe it, usually ball joints fail at low speed so they were probably exiting a parking spot when it happened
Saw a parked vehicle at Walmart that had that problem.
Ball Joints and and control arms are pretty strong you have to do something very bad to break something
@@ryans413 ball joints pop out if they're worn too much it's what happened to that car and it pulled the axle out too
Of all the times I have been mad at people for whatever reason (even my ex) I never once thought about vandalizing their cars.
You've never been hurt deep enough to pray to the devil.
On the Lamborghini
I'd say cheating partner that got caught
or one of those eco terrorists that attack suvs
or crazy ex, or "stop oil" protesters
If people are that stupid that they don’t care to stop check and fix or take to a place where they can. YOU DON’T DESERVE TO DRIVE WALK it will be safer for all.
3:20 This customer can be happy the axle didnt destroy the oil filter when it fell apart.
At 2:22 i was thinking :"Is he or she making his or hers own moonshine in that copper still?!?"
3:47 That is a nice clean fatigue crack!
Mechanic in the first clip definitely has the voice for radio or commercials!
A lot of these clips are just sad nowadays. Too many folks out there don't have the money to fix the vehicle they have or to get one in a better shape. Especially with the sub $5k market being what it is now.
Too many folks out there had the magical 3yr old thinking that their job was always going to pay enough to take it to a shop or to buy another vehicle, and never bothered to tool up and skill up in the better times.
Tools cost money, but they only cost money once. Busted knuckles suck, but the skin will heal and you get to keep the experience!
A lot of people these days also seem too stupid to do basic maintenance. Even with tools they could not help themselves.
I swear, people just don't care about their vehicles. I hear a noise, and I want to fix it. I'm a certified mechanic, I need my car tip top shape.
i hope you are becouse thats what they thought no insult towards ye
@3:35 - Just in time for Halloween - Bubble... bubble, toil and trouble!
1:45 suggest maybe blurring out customer's personal info
it's my clip, really was hoping he would...
@@sambowman350 you have to do it yourself before submitting you lazy bum
that broken crank looks like a manufacturer defect.
6:54 Not sure what they want us to see but that heater hose is hooched!
Uncensored F-bomb = SUBBED
At 3:00 that one look like the ball joint is rusted and failed, and just pulled out the rod out of the transmission. Yes it can happen in a parking. I saw that to a old civic near a red light. Lucky for them it didn't broke at high speed.
Had a lady have her v6 rodeo towed in on the truck and she said that the needle was at the top but she kept on driving untill it stopped. No water in the radiator when we checked so we filled it up and cranked it with no radiator cap. The car had a carwash with its own radiator. Final diagnosis, a little bit F*UCKED
And this is why I am so glad I work on airplanes and not cars.
1:31 i swear that diesel thing was on tog gear news a long time ago
I did like the self-locking car. "You are not going anywhere"
It was self UnLocking!!!!
1:04 I once bought a used tire and something like this happened to it. Was taking it out of my trunk when I noticed a bubble on the side wall. Took it back to the shop where I got it from and when they took the tire off the rim the bubble was still there like a pillow. Never seen that before. I still wonder how the air got in like that and stayed in, and if I cut the outside of it what it would have done.
It was full of baby spiders.
Retreads
Don't ya just hate it when someone puts a transmission in your rocks?
0:54 Same thing happened to me at work today, only it was on a cattle trailer loaded with cows.
The self Unlocking car was probably a safety system to keep them from getting locked out!!!!
What was the device used in the Ford Ecoboost coolant reservoir?
That's a block tester. The blue fluid turns yellow when exposed to exhaust gases confirming a blown head gasket.
@@scottmichael3745 thank you.
Harbor freight has them
Rocks in my transmission? How about no belt on the pully's?
The belt was probably removed during diagnosis to isolate where the sound was coming from. Common practice during an inspection of an odd noise from the engine.
Oh that hurts seeing that black wing that way.. 😔 New York car ?
Remember…they drive among us
An engine is not the place to make oatmeal.
Probably stupid but why does everyone record with that blured filter? Really takes away from the videos
Because they don't know how to hold a camera correctly - in landscape not portrait mode. Kids these days record all videos vertically for Tik-tok. Future movie theaters will have to rotate the screens vertically. ;-)
@@chrishebert5672 Actually its because a phone is a lot easier to hold one handed when vertical thand horizontal.
@@chrishebert5672 "Future movie theaters will have to rotate the screens vertically". That's funny.
this channel would be a lot better if someone who actually knew about cars did a voice-over on all the clips, the silence betrays your ignorance of things mechanical...
6:15 Evidence that these customer states videos are full of it...that "truck" is clearly a skid steer
i agree !
long video yessss
That jeep 4.0 still has 100k left on it
What is going on at 7:00. Am i seeing small wisps of steam? No explanation, just the camera moving around.
Looks like smoke from the radiator fan motors. So they could be seized and burning up.
Well…guess I’m telling the wife to get rid of the eco sport….heard nothing but bad news with them.
6:55-7:37 ………what the hell is that?? How about subtitles or a description of what we are supposed to be looking for??
You say yet another ecoboost what you meant to say is yet another escape with a 1.5 ecoboost the other ecoboosts ford puts out are good engines just not the 1.5 the 1.6 is essentially the same thing if your escape or transit connect has one of the 2 in it. Fords tsb is to put a updated engine block and new head gasket in it because the ones that don’t have the updated block have a saw tooth like design between the cylinders that cut the head gasket and allow coolant into the cylinders the updated block revises the previous design to one that won’t cut the head gasket
Agree I fucking love my 3.5 eboost good motor
Kia calipers love to seize up
@4:50 The seized brakes I don't get it !!!! Do these people not feel something weird with the brakes before this happens? I don't even have to see it to know that the customer has driven the brakes beyond metal to metal!!!!!! Hey this time I did not spell it medal to medal for you spelling Nazi's!
My 95 f150 trans sounded like it had rocks in it. Reverse popped out of gear and we hen I went to fix it the bearing came apart and got chewed up by other gears. I just cleaned it all out and replaced the berring and still drive it. Now 5th makes a nasty chunkin so I don't use it just 4th on the highway.
Kia/Hyundai have the worst calipers
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Ya man, customer states...now fucking fix it.