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Hay we make mistakes too. I’ve left my new battery light under a customers truck and on my lunch break I went to there house and nerver told them and crawled underneath it and got it out of the driveway
Funny, I can't place a comment, but I can reply to one. I was (am) going to thank you for sharing mistakes made by the mechanic and not "the other shop"... We have all been there, not looking or forgetting things like a rag, or temporarily placed tub with oil ... Putting a bit too much force on a part that didn't give, and faced the consequences hahaha.
@@OldDood For every nice old Mustang getting trashed like this, there’s gotta be dozens or hundreds of regular cars it happens to (but maybe not a ton of Corollas!) Knowing that makes me feel a tiny bit better.
After all the ribbing we give those "another shop" excuses, this video reminds us why we should be very grateful if we have found a good shop to deal with. Thanks to all the honest, competent, hard-working techs and shop owners out there.
Not necessarily a auto shop, but I needed a welder to fix my wrecked car + rust holes. Guy did it all in a few days and he has unreal skill. He's a younger guy but has the skills of a real old fashioned ironworker. And yes it cost a lot, but the work is quality and my car is saved. Every other shop I went to told me the scrapyard was 2 blocks away, and to go there and never come back. I later took a antique sewing machine table and flower kettle to him that were made of cast iron and they cracked apart. He sewed them back up literally in less than 30 minutes!
I tend to do my own work but there is a shop near me that I fully trust 100% to do work when I don't want to, know I shouldn't or just to have an inspection done to make sure things are good (having someone put a vehicle up on a lift makes it much easier to spot any protentional issues). Twice they have told me that the best option for a repair was the option that resulted in them making less money, the quality of their work is great and I don't have to worry about it being done correctly. JJ's Auto in Neenah, WI is amazing.
anytime someone tells me the shop down the street will do it cheaper i give them their number and let them know it will cost double when it comes back to me.
thats the natural response so to condemn it is foolish, and usually people are willing to risk a little bit higher chance of bodily harm to themselves if it means they dont lose their job or have to pay for damage to a customers car. usually it doesnt pay off, but sometimes it does and its really worth it then
people really do not understand how dangerous quick reaction times can be. obviously they know they can’t stop a car from falling, their body just reacts before their brain gets the chance to actually understand the situation
I saw a similar incident some years ago at a papermill. A 3000lb reel of paper fell off a truck and just momentarily, the banksman considered catching & stopping it. Common sense prevailed & he let it go, realising he'd have been squished!
I have been a mechanic for over a decade. I have donated various tools to various cars, ranging from leaving a ratchet on the roof, to a wrench dropped behind a seat, and the fact I have never used a magnetic lamp twice. This has happened maybe a dozen times, and I have failed to install a bolt properly twice. That is 15ish failures out of hundreds, maybe thousands of vehicles ranging from class 1 all the way to class 7. I cannot tell you what I worked on today, but I can describe every single failure I have had in doing a complete and proper job. This is funny to me because I have been that guy, and those moments will live on long after every memory of finally getting something fixed.
I remember finding my vise grips back after they had been clamped to a frame bolt underneath my pickup truck bed for years. They were a little rusty but still worked just fine.
Poorly trained, poor systems in place, probably because your lazy and inconsistent probably a stoner or an alcoholic. You should be ashamed of yourself
Great episode. This is when "confidence" meets reality. Some ( and I use this term loosely, very loosely) mechanics have the confidence that they can do the job and reality when the shop has to pay thousands of dollars for theirs repairs.
@@stargazer7644 re reading my comment and I don't see where I said it was the owner? Simply put, it would have been better to just put oil in it outside, there was no need to drive inside first
@@chargerdave2046 laziness, fueled by the fact it doesn't really matter. Likely pulling it in to replace the engine anyways, so who cares if the old one has oil
I see 2 problems that caused the ladder fall. First is he had the base a LIL too far away from the wall so the ladder angle was wrong. And second the bigger problem being he had the ladder feet flipped back into the dirt/grass position so the rubber feet weren't on the floor to stop it from sliding out.
I learned from Essential Craftsman 1) ladders are more dangerous than I thought, 2) extension ladders should be leaned by putting your feet at the feet of the ladder and reaching straight out from your shoulders to the ladder. No more, no less. This was much more. He's lucky he's not injured or killed 😅
When was the last time any of us have seen a mechanic's workshop floor that wasn't a smooth, painted, concrete surface to prevent vehicle-tyres scrubbing?
I've left a flashlight in a door panel. Customer came back because they could see the light in their garage at night. Also left pliers, knew it, customer was going to just come back next visit. Unfortunately the manager informed me that she crashed and totaled that car so I will not get those pliers back. Don't ask me about the lost 10mm sockets, they are old wounds.
Oh the magically missing 10mm's! I used to work in the paint and hardware depts. at Sears and we couldn't keep 10mm sockets in stock. We had the low inventory limit set at a high number so they were always arriving with new stock shipments. My dad was a mechanic and hated metric sockets. Every time he'd lose a 10mm he'd tell me to put one or two aside for him so he could buy them. He also had a standing order for them with his Snap-on rep so every time his rep came by he'd have a handful of 10mm's for my dad to buy/exchange. LOL
@@LazyLexus No, mechanics shops are subcontracted now. If one cannot do the work they will send it to another shop, have the work done, then send it back there. South Main Auto on youtube gets fix jobs from major dealerships that they couldn't fix. He does the work then ships them back off to them.
@MrWolfSnack you TOTALLY missed my point. I am referring to the ppl that attempt to fix their own cars and fail miserably then bring it into a shop and stating "another shop" did the work. See it all the time.
@@MrWolfSnack not all shops do that, subbing out machine work sure but otherwise your taking on responsibility for a 3rd party's work. A sensible shop won't subout a timing job just bc they don't have the right tools or xp to do it.
As a tow truck driver seeing that mustang fall off the tow truck really hurts. Drivers like that are the reason why tow truck insurance is so expensive and people wonder why it’s $200,$300,$400 to tow your car.
PSA: if your leg gets ran over by a car, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. Crush injuries can have systematic effects that don’t manifest until hours or days after the injury happened
Seeing how the guy at 3:10 didn’t even stop to absorb what happend and just started rolling the door back up, I don’t think this is the first time this has happened
I've walked out the door of a church I was doing a security patrol check on just as the Armed Offenders Squad pulled up in the carpark - training exercise in the building across the road - and I can confirm it was damned near a code brown moment.
These are the same mechanics that will puff out their chest and act like they want to fistfight while proclaiming 'Are you a mechanic?' if you dare to ask them a question.
That clip makes my balls hurt. Were I the driver picking up a mint classic mustang, you'd be certain I am treating that thing better than my woman. I can find another woman, but old 'Stangs in great condition are rare enough. Dumb-as% towers.
I know nothing about mechanics and have never been to the mechanics, but I'm glad YT recommended this channel to me 😆likely because i watch dashcam compilations
As always these videos are quite entertaining! And it’s strange how many people say another shop did a repair but go somewhere else to get it fixed again! Makes you wonder!
5:48 I had a 1997 Expedition towed on a flat bed once without being chained down. It did not roll off which shocked me. The winch might have been still hooked up. The back ujoint broke. I tried to explain to the driver that the emergency brakes didn't work and that he should chain it down because the drive shaft will not be holding the truck still. He insisted that it be in park...
1:30 the old “get arrested in order to get out of paying” trick. The cops never show up at the start, only when the job is almost done. The second time I saw it happen, they impounded the car too.
A bad rattle in a customer's 1969 Boss 302 mustang yielded a free snap on prybar i still have, this had been a problem with this car for several years according to my boss. A real favorite was a customer who didn't like our price quote for a brake job, so he paid a buddy of his in beer to do the work. Guy couldn't figure out how to retract the rear calipers to get the new pads in, so let it go without pads at all in the rear, the guy REALLY didn't like the new price for replacing the calipers and rotors!
At [4:05] the mechanic that caused the transmission fail on vehicle quit a little after.🤔 You know that is the most polite way of saying " You can keep working, just not here".
1:35 See what happens, when you write bad checks?!!! Bad Boys, Bad Boys, what ya gonna do? What ya gonna do when they come for you??!!!! 😂Don't write checks, your #@$ can't cash!!!
I lost a socket in a friends engine area once. Fell down into a spot we couldn't get to. Forgot about it until he drove down the road and saw something shiny bouncing down the road. Got my socket back!
We've all been there with that flashlight, man. I once left one under a car, balanced between the frame and transmission bell housing. One of those affordable stick lights from Harbor Freight. Car left, came back four THOUSAND miles later for an oil change, and the light was STILL THERE. Battery was shot, but the LED still worked. Made for a hilarious little desk lamp. I still have that in my toolbox, waiting for the day I find one with a busted LED, but a working battery, so I can merge 'em together and restore the little trooper. I also own an electrical pick, flathead screwdriver, and possibly some other tools I found from under other cars with similar stories. No clue where they came from. But the pick was in the cowl panel below a wiper blade for so long, it rusted all the way around. Works, though, so I ain't complaining. No clue HOW the customer never noticed that one.
I've found screwdrivers under the hood after services. Since most younger people don't know about car mechanics anymore, my daughter had her car serviced, so I showed her how to open the hood, and the oil cap had been left jammed along the edge on the guard. So therefore oil had spurted all over the place! Took it back to the official car manufacturer dealership mechanics (where it was serviced) . Showed the Manager what happened by his mechanic, he said I can book you in next week to clean it up! I don't think the customer service really exists any longer.
If there were more home mechanic fails, that would be awesome. I was working on my 96 GS-R Integra back in the late 90s, and had the car safely on jack stands. To lower the car I jacked up the front point with the pump jack and then went to to take out the two jack stands from the front sides. Right after I took the 2nd one out, the front jack slipped off the pad for it and grabbed the radiator bottom, popping the radiator out of the engine bay like a piece of toast as the car fell. Nice big green puddle. All safe, funny to look back on now. Took 2 days to get a new radiator.
@@stargazer7644 Whenever someone goes to the effort to correct a flaw or fix something they broke or anything like that, it is worthy of praise. Maybe you would know that if you had any morals.
@@whyjnot420 Sorry you didn't get that participation trophy. I can see you're still butthurt over it. You've got a lot of nerve talking about morals when you apparently don't realize you're supposed to do whats right because it is right, not because you get praised for it. And stop upvoting your own posts, you look like a tool.
#1: I'm glad I was a fleet mechanic and never a commercial mechanic. I would never drive a vehicle out of the shop with no brakes. More than half of these idiots need to be fired. They're dangerous and careless. When I worked on airplanes, we had a thing we called "sight inventory" where every tool had its place and you could see that one was missing right away. More auto/truck shops should adopt that method.
I had new wheels installed. Heard a grinding noise and returned to the shop immediately. The wheel distributor had sent the shop my new wheels with incorrect offset so they were grinding on the brake calipers. They got the correct wheels the next day and installed them. Only the incorrect aluminum wheels got damaged. I lost some time having to come back for another wheel installation.
Back in my days as a lube tech one time I found a sharpie marker jammed into the hvac drain tube on a camry. I guess it was dripping on a previous tech and they used that to plug it so it wouldn't, but forgot to retrieve it before the car left.
As a mechanic I can relate to a lot of the incompetence and carelessness that I have witnessed over the years, many guys are too busy fucking around or socializing in the shop and then when they fuck up they always look really stupid, when I complete a job I will spend 10 t0 15 minutes staring at it to see if everything is tight, got all my tools (never rest tools on a vehicle) and test it to make sure what you did is right. It is not that hard to do it right the first time!
1:12 yeah that lift is fked too. After that much movement I wouldn't use it again until I had verified no damage to the concrete and replaced everything bent
I like the part where the ladder goes out from under the guy, and he just rides it down, keeps his balance, sticks the landing with a bounce and walks off completely unfazed. Badass.
I did for 17 years, kind of miss it, I had a few mess ups, never cost anyone a bunch of money, maybe myself once - not a lot juist a couple hundered dollars
I had one of my cars in the garage this week, a place where I’ve always had great service, for a problem with the drivers door window randomly opening. They spent several hours and replaced some parts but couldn’t find the problem. Result, as they didn’t fix the problem, no charge for labour or parts. Now I have to go to the main dealer who charge £126 just to look at it. Guess where I will continue to go after I get this problem fixed, not the main dealer.
I have always insisted on paying in such cases. Even when there is no result, the mechanic has expended his effort and earned his pay. My cases have been such that it was not a mistake on the mechanic's part but just reality being a b*itch. Once I had to return to the shop the same day due to a fault after a service believing the mechanic had made an error. Turned out I had a worn out part that just happened to begin showing symptoms on that day. When the root cause was found and fixed, I apologized profusely and tipped the mechanic generously, due to having raised false suspicions on him. Karma is a thing so remember to be honest and respectful.
At 4:52 in this episode, did the customer own a wide-body C7 Corvette? I had two cracks in my driver's side rear wheel. OEM wheels are cast aluminum which is not structurally able to support the weight and driving stress for those cars. So I replaced all the wheels with forged ones. And yes, the cost brought a tear to my eye 🙂
I got to see the classic overflow of an oil container once, when I was delivering some parts to a store. It took forever to cleanup. Even i threw in a few minutes to help keep it from spreading.
I’ve seen plenty of young inexperienced and cocky techs overfill the drain bucket like the last guy. It’s always funny watching them try and figure out some way to stem the overflowing! But by far the best was when guys would mess up the old BG trans flush machine! In their defense the machine wasn’t super user friendly or intuitive. Regards, if the tanks weren’t checked and filled/drained correctly, the hoses were hooked up incorrectly, or one of the valves was in the wrong position or turned at the wrong time, the results were a spectacular and often hilarious mess.
Service truck on a site oil change. Mechanic was doing an oil change on an excavator, 800 litre I was told. The mechanic forgot to drain the waste oil tank before going on the job. Due to the slight slope the oil drained away from the machine so the oil change was completed before the lake was noticed. OOPS. Oil travels further than most people think.
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Hay we make mistakes too. I’ve left my new battery light under a customers truck and on my lunch break I went to there house and nerver told them and crawled underneath it and got it out of the driveway
Funny, I can't place a comment, but I can reply to one. I was (am) going to thank you for sharing mistakes made by the mechanic and not "the other shop"... We have all been there, not looking or forgetting things like a rag, or temporarily placed tub with oil ... Putting a bit too much force on a part that didn't give, and faced the consequences hahaha.
That Mustang that fell of the tow truck got me.
Such a nice classic car, one of my neighbours used to own one.
That one physically hurt 🥲
Seriously.
Of course it could NOT be a Corolla or any other common vehicle.
It had to be a Classic Mustang.
@@OldDood For every nice old Mustang getting trashed like this, there’s gotta be dozens or hundreds of regular cars it happens to (but maybe not a ton of Corollas!) Knowing that makes me feel a tiny bit better.
@@Sashazur not really so much .
@@Sashazur😂 yea, come to think of it, I've never seen a corolla on a tow truck..
That's gotta be one of the most awkward calls ever... doing your job when suddenly your customer gets arrested.
guess his getaway car was out of order
Strange even during the morning and afternoon
That one goes on the "best of" reel for sure.
He was police, scoping the place before the raid.
He's got a great story to tell, and video proof.
No notes, I just love this channel one of the few car clip channels that isn't stolen ai voice over garbage.
Keep up the good work!
I appreciate that, thank you!
And not ruined by "random" "music".
Second that comment. 👍
I like the no fluff intro to this channel as well, straight to the topic and well presented.
That earned him my sub & like.
After all the ribbing we give those "another shop" excuses, this video reminds us why we should be very grateful if we have found a good shop to deal with. Thanks to all the honest, competent, hard-working techs and shop owners out there.
Not necessarily a auto shop, but I needed a welder to fix my wrecked car + rust holes. Guy did it all in a few days and he has unreal skill. He's a younger guy but has the skills of a real old fashioned ironworker. And yes it cost a lot, but the work is quality and my car is saved. Every other shop I went to told me the scrapyard was 2 blocks away, and to go there and never come back. I later took a antique sewing machine table and flower kettle to him that were made of cast iron and they cracked apart. He sewed them back up literally in less than 30 minutes!
I tend to do my own work but there is a shop near me that I fully trust 100% to do work when I don't want to, know I shouldn't or just to have an inspection done to make sure things are good (having someone put a vehicle up on a lift makes it much easier to spot any protentional issues). Twice they have told me that the best option for a repair was the option that resulted in them making less money, the quality of their work is great and I don't have to worry about it being done correctly. JJ's Auto in Neenah, WI is amazing.
I've done my own work for so long I wish I knew of a shop I could trust.
I used to have a Nissan Skyline. The mechanic I went to also had one so he knew what he was doing. I only took my car to him until he retired.
You'd think, but give it 15 seconds and all the geniuses will back to their old "customer states" antics.
"The Other Shop" actually exists 😂
Heh, I was just thinking that.
@@nuclearmedicineman6270 me also
Every 6 months they do exist 😂
@@JustRolledIn or year
anytime someone tells me the shop down the street will do it cheaper i give them their number and let them know it will cost double when it comes back to me.
That brake clean in garbage was hilarious😂
*BOOF*
_"Whoopee!"_
We used to get a brake klean that wasnt flamable, you could actually put out fires with it- dont ask how I know.
Hilarious in a certain way where I would fire that guy. He's never going to have an idea you'll miss out on.
Sure escalated quickly.
Sparky used to be a mortar man in the Army. Now he's a motor man in the car business.
2:06 that SMILE on the mechanic's face!!! I fell but I GOT THE BOLT OFF!!!
Yeah I know that feeling!!!
1:31,great mechanic for finishing the job and not leaving the car bricked, even if it meant that he wasn't getting paid.
"Professionals have standards!"
0:11 That mechanic was really lucky. Ignore your instincts. You are NOT Superman, and you CANNOT stop a car from falling off the rack.
I don't have to ignore my instincts, because my instinct isn't to try to stop 4k pounds of metal from falling with my body.
thats the natural response so to condemn it is foolish, and usually people are willing to risk a little bit higher chance of bodily harm to themselves if it means they dont lose their job or have to pay for damage to a customers car. usually it doesnt pay off, but sometimes it does and its really worth it then
people really do not understand how dangerous quick reaction times can be. obviously they know they can’t stop a car from falling, their body just reacts before their brain gets the chance to actually understand the situation
I saw a similar incident some years ago at a papermill. A 3000lb reel of paper fell off a truck and just momentarily, the banksman considered catching & stopping it. Common sense prevailed & he let it go, realising he'd have been squished!
@@jackradzelovage6961 I can assure you that grabbing onto a falling car is NOT a "natural response".
It's a relief to learn that it is not just the owners
I make mistakes at work. It's almost as if it'll happen when you spend all day working.
It makes me feel better about some of the battles I have endured in the driveway.
I have been a mechanic for over a decade. I have donated various tools to various cars, ranging from leaving a ratchet on the roof, to a wrench dropped behind a seat, and the fact I have never used a magnetic lamp twice. This has happened maybe a dozen times, and I have failed to install a bolt properly twice. That is 15ish failures out of hundreds, maybe thousands of vehicles ranging from class 1 all the way to class 7.
I cannot tell you what I worked on today, but I can describe every single failure I have had in doing a complete and proper job. This is funny to me because I have been that guy, and those moments will live on long after every memory of finally getting something fixed.
I installed a shock upside down on my old Tacoma once. I was a worn out, broke college student, that's my excuse lol
That's a very interesting "range". But pretty sure everyone has been that guy at least once.
@@RedfishCarolina i bought a rear shock for my truck when i was doing a front one. rushing to get it done was the cause.
I remember finding my vise grips back after they had been clamped to a frame bolt underneath my pickup truck bed for years. They were a little rusty but still worked just fine.
Poorly trained, poor systems in place, probably because your lazy and inconsistent probably a stoner or an alcoholic. You should be ashamed of yourself
Seeing that classic Mustang fall off that flatbed (5:48) broke my heart.
I cried....
That's worse than killing bigfoot with a HiPoint
Same.
Likewise
Then again, it‘s just another Ford.
3:33 "Accidents will happen."
Yep. I'd say this whole episode is evidence of that.
Was having a rough day. Sat down with my anxiety around an 8. After watching mechanic fails my anxiety is now a solid 10.
Great episode. This is when "confidence" meets reality. Some ( and I use this term loosely, very loosely) mechanics have the confidence that they can do the job and reality when the shop has to pay thousands of dollars for theirs repairs.
So, all the oil drained out and you drove into the shop with the motor knocking.... A+
So you're blaming the car owner for this?
All that is shown, is the mechanic pulling it into the building.
That motor was already long gone at that point.
@@stargazer7644 re reading my comment and I don't see where I said it was the owner?
Simply put, it would have been better to just put oil in it outside, there was no need to drive inside first
@@chargerdave2046 laziness, fueled by the fact it doesn't really matter. Likely pulling it in to replace the engine anyways, so who cares if the old one has oil
My truck has zero brakes, so lets put in new ball joints.
Yeah thats one job i'd tell the customer to find another shop for.
I dread the day when my mechanic retires. He is the best and most honest guy I know.
I see 2 problems that caused the ladder fall. First is he had the base a LIL too far away from the wall so the ladder angle was wrong. And second the bigger problem being he had the ladder feet flipped back into the dirt/grass position so the rubber feet weren't on the floor to stop it from sliding out.
I learned from Essential Craftsman 1) ladders are more dangerous than I thought, 2) extension ladders should be leaned by putting your feet at the feet of the ladder and reaching straight out from your shoulders to the ladder. No more, no less.
This was much more. He's lucky he's not injured or killed 😅
I like his reaction though.
You mean those aren't concrete grabby spikes!
You think?🤣
When was the last time any of us have seen a mechanic's workshop floor that wasn't a smooth, painted, concrete surface to prevent vehicle-tyres scrubbing?
I've left a flashlight in a door panel. Customer came back because they could see the light in their garage at night. Also left pliers, knew it, customer was going to just come back next visit. Unfortunately the manager informed me that she crashed and totaled that car so I will not get those pliers back. Don't ask me about the lost 10mm sockets, they are old wounds.
Losing 10 mm sockets is something few manage to recover from.
Lol, 10mm sockets have to be the hottest item sold on the tool truck😂
OMG! 😂😂😂 10 mm sockets. I swear that there’s a place where they all end up. 😂😂😂
@@MsAubrey Socket heaven!
Oh the magically missing 10mm's! I used to work in the paint and hardware depts. at Sears and we couldn't keep 10mm sockets in stock. We had the low inventory limit set at a high number so they were always arriving with new stock shipments. My dad was a mechanic and hated metric sockets. Every time he'd lose a 10mm he'd tell me to put one or two aside for him so he could buy them. He also had a standing order for them with his Snap-on rep so every time his rep came by he'd have a handful of 10mm's for my dad to buy/exchange. LOL
This one was the best yet.
"Bluetooth nut for the tie rod" 😆
Five years of watchjng your content - thanks for it all.
JRI is one of my favorite channels.
👍🏻😎
I've been watching your videos for years....and still get excited to see a new one. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you spend.
I LOVE💞 the "other" shop.... it's made me lots of money over the years 👍
Also, the truck with the motto "Accidents happen" while having an accident is super appropriate.
I give you an automatic thumbs up because you never fail to share great clips.
The mechanic fail moments in this video are so funny. Thanks for the fun moments you bring to our lives.
I think I will use my regular garage for car servicing and not use the "another shop" they don't appear to do very well there.
But every shop is another shop to another shop....
half the time its stated as serviced at "another shop" its the owner of vehicle not claiming his diy fuck ups
@@LazyLexus No, mechanics shops are subcontracted now. If one cannot do the work they will send it to another shop, have the work done, then send it back there. South Main Auto on youtube gets fix jobs from major dealerships that they couldn't fix. He does the work then ships them back off to them.
@MrWolfSnack you TOTALLY missed my point. I am referring to the ppl that attempt to fix their own cars and fail miserably then bring it into a shop and stating "another shop" did the work. See it all the time.
@@MrWolfSnack not all shops do that, subbing out machine work sure but otherwise your taking on responsibility for a 3rd party's work. A sensible shop won't subout a timing job just bc they don't have the right tools or xp to do it.
As a tow truck driver seeing that mustang fall off the tow truck really hurts. Drivers like that are the reason why tow truck insurance is so expensive and people wonder why it’s $200,$300,$400 to tow your car.
PSA: if your leg gets ran over by a car, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. Crush injuries can have systematic effects that don’t manifest until hours or days after the injury happened
blood clots......
These mechanic fails are pure gold-can't believe what just rolled in! Part 2 is even better than the first!
5:40 Huh... so that's what Dollar Signs sound like.
5:58, I don’t like Mustangs but anytime a classic car is damaged, it hurts..
Finished the job and left without getting paid...know when to hold em, know when to fold em.
Should have just handed the Police his bill and asked them to tack it on to his list of felonies. 😳
....know when to walk away, know when to run.
I have to give special thanks to my Dad for teaching me how to do my own automotive repairs!🙏🏻👍
Seeing how the guy at 3:10 didn’t even stop to absorb what happend and just started rolling the door back up, I don’t think this is the first time this has happened
Mobile mechanic updating the car when the fuzz roll up. Yup, my shorts would be loaded.
I've walked out the door of a church I was doing a security patrol check on just as the Armed Offenders Squad pulled up in the carpark - training exercise in the building across the road - and I can confirm it was damned near a code brown moment.
These are the same mechanics that will puff out their chest and act like they want to fistfight while proclaiming 'Are you a mechanic?' if you dare to ask them a question.
I'd just say "I'm not an ASE certified mechanic and apparently you aren't either "
There seems to be very few actual mechanics around these days. Plenty of part swappers, but genuine mechanics . . . Rare as hen's teeth!
Hope the guy with that old mustang that got wrecked is living large right now with two mint condition old mustangs.
That is bad. How does one forget to secure a car they just loaded onto the flatbed?
@@HighSierra1500 Betty Lou was shaking her thing on Tic - Toc. 😂
That clip makes my balls hurt. Were I the driver picking up a mint classic mustang, you'd be certain I am treating that thing better than my woman. I can find another woman, but old 'Stangs in great condition are rare enough. Dumb-as% towers.
The owner must not have been around when it was loaded up. I would watch my car like a hawk being put on a flatbed even if it was a Kia!
@@chrismaverick9828 our tow driver forgot the hood open on one. luckily there was no damage. still don't know how
I know nothing about mechanics and have never been to the mechanics, but I'm glad YT recommended this channel to me 😆likely because i watch dashcam compilations
After the Mustang, I thought that 'Vette was gonna have a bad lunch too. Nope, just some gymnastics shenanigans..phew
I like this format a lot, I hope we get more like these soon!
As always these videos are quite entertaining! And it’s strange how many people say another shop did a repair but go somewhere else to get it fixed again! Makes you wonder!
Yes!!! I love these mechanic fails videos.
More entertainment per minute than any other RUclips channel! 💪🙏🙌
Oh that poor Mustang!
0:23 the customer: "who needs bakes anyway"
the mechanic: THIS IS WHY U NEED BAKES!
1:32 now thats some dedication to the work :D
5:48 I had a 1997 Expedition towed on a flat bed once without being chained down. It did not roll off which shocked me. The winch might have been still hooked up. The back ujoint broke. I tried to explain to the driver that the emergency brakes didn't work and that he should chain it down because the drive shaft will not be holding the truck still. He insisted that it be in park...
1:30 the old “get arrested in order to get out of paying” trick. The cops never show up at the start, only when the job is almost done. The second time I saw it happen, they impounded the car too.
3:38 I have done the same mistake when I got the wires for the temperature sensor caught between the block and the head.
Twice.
2:19 At least everyone got a good laugh out of that one!
1:30 Its the Car Wizzard's long lost younger brother
0:50 Mechanic in car "Hey, starter fuel's working, I guess I can just drive now."
A bad rattle in a customer's 1969 Boss 302 mustang yielded a free snap on prybar i still have, this had been a problem with this car for several years according to my boss. A real favorite was a customer who didn't like our price quote for a brake job, so he paid a buddy of his in beer to do the work. Guy couldn't figure out how to retract the rear calipers to get the new pads in, so let it go without pads at all in the rear, the guy REALLY didn't like the new price for replacing the calipers and rotors!
RIP that 60’s Mustang 😢
At [4:05] the mechanic that caused the transmission fail on vehicle quit a little after.🤔 You know that is the most polite way of saying " You can keep working, just not here".
best one of your videos yet
What a legend on the ladder 😂
that was nice to see a long video like this...thanks😃
1:33
Mechanic "so yeah, it'll take like an hour to update"
Customer (visibly sweating) "an hour, you say?"
1:35 See what happens, when you write bad checks?!!! Bad Boys, Bad Boys, what ya gonna do? What ya gonna do when they come for you??!!!! 😂Don't write checks, your #@$ can't cash!!!
Fair's fair, I am glad you started posting these too. haha
I lost a socket in a friends engine area once. Fell down into a spot we couldn't get to. Forgot about it until he drove down the road and saw something shiny bouncing down the road. Got my socket back!
We've all been there with that flashlight, man. I once left one under a car, balanced between the frame and transmission bell housing. One of those affordable stick lights from Harbor Freight. Car left, came back four THOUSAND miles later for an oil change, and the light was STILL THERE. Battery was shot, but the LED still worked. Made for a hilarious little desk lamp. I still have that in my toolbox, waiting for the day I find one with a busted LED, but a working battery, so I can merge 'em together and restore the little trooper.
I also own an electrical pick, flathead screwdriver, and possibly some other tools I found from under other cars with similar stories. No clue where they came from. But the pick was in the cowl panel below a wiper blade for so long, it rusted all the way around. Works, though, so I ain't complaining. No clue HOW the customer never noticed that one.
I've found screwdrivers under the hood after services. Since most younger people don't know about car mechanics anymore, my daughter had her car serviced, so I showed her how to open the hood, and the oil cap had been left jammed along the edge on the guard.
So therefore oil had spurted all over the place! Took it back to the official car manufacturer dealership mechanics (where it was serviced) . Showed the Manager what happened by his mechanic, he said I can book you in next week to clean it up! I don't think the customer service really exists any longer.
If there were more home mechanic fails, that would be awesome.
I was working on my 96 GS-R Integra back in the late 90s, and had the car safely on jack stands. To lower the car I jacked up the front point with the pump jack and then went to to take out the two jack stands from the front sides. Right after I took the 2nd one out, the front jack slipped off the pad for it and grabbed the radiator bottom, popping the radiator out of the engine bay like a piece of toast as the car fell. Nice big green puddle. All safe, funny to look back on now. Took 2 days to get a new radiator.
Always makes my day better and my mistakes less costly
I like it when parts come with spare bolts. Always nice to have spares around.
I know accidents happen, but with some of these, just damn. Points for any shop that makes it right if they mess up though.
You don't get bonus points for doing what is decent and right. You're supposed to do that.
@@stargazer7644 Whenever someone goes to the effort to correct a flaw or fix something they broke or anything like that, it is worthy of praise.
Maybe you would know that if you had any morals.
@@whyjnot420 Sorry you didn't get that participation trophy. I can see you're still butthurt over it. You've got a lot of nerve talking about morals when you apparently don't realize you're supposed to do whats right because it is right, not because you get praised for it.
And stop upvoting your own posts, you look like a tool.
@@whyjnot420that is the bare minimum. Don't praise people for being normal.
You break, you buy. Kindergarten shit
@@some-replies You must be a very unhappy person. Who hurt you? Likely just yourself.
2:45 I was thinking that sure is a clean shop
thanks for posting longer format video
It's just his last few uploads out together
#1: I'm glad I was a fleet mechanic and never a commercial mechanic. I would never drive a vehicle out of the shop with no brakes. More than half of these idiots need to be fired. They're dangerous and careless. When I worked on airplanes, we had a thing we called "sight inventory" where every tool had its place and you could see that one was missing right away. More auto/truck shops should adopt that method.
I had new wheels installed. Heard a grinding noise and returned to the shop immediately.
The wheel distributor had sent the shop my new wheels with incorrect offset so they were grinding on the brake calipers.
They got the correct wheels the next day and installed them. Only the incorrect aluminum wheels got damaged. I lost some time having to come back for another wheel installation.
“The mechanic was ok and got the bolt loose” lmao that’s amazing
Love the self-opening hood on the Mustang
Great episode dude 👌 exploding garbage can 💥🤣 and the oxygen sensor wire trapped in the head 😮🤣🤣 have an awesome weekend bud 👍
Exploding garbage cans always make me laugh 😆and you as well. Enjoy your weekend!
Back in my days as a lube tech one time I found a sharpie marker jammed into the hvac drain tube on a camry. I guess it was dripping on a previous tech and they used that to plug it so it wouldn't, but forgot to retrieve it before the car left.
As a mechanic I can relate to a lot of the incompetence and carelessness that I have witnessed over the years, many guys are too busy fucking around or socializing in the shop and then when they fuck up they always look really stupid, when I complete a job I will spend 10 t0 15 minutes staring at it to see if everything is tight, got all my tools (never rest tools on a vehicle) and test it to make sure what you did is right. It is not that hard to do it right the first time!
Woah….. over 8 minutes!!! You’re spoiling us 😘
Kudos to the guy who finished his work despite his customer getting arrested right in front of him.
Who knew working on cars doesn't make you a good driver?
1:12 yeah that lift is fked too. After that much movement I wouldn't use it again until I had verified no damage to the concrete and replaced everything bent
Mud flap guy has me completely flabbergasted.
Flappergasted ?? 🙃
I like the part where the ladder goes out from under the guy, and he just rides it down, keeps his balance, sticks the landing with a bounce and walks off completely unfazed. Badass.
The tow op forgot to say "That ain't going no where." If they had, they would have realized they forgot to strap it...
1:31 I'd be shitting my pants if i saw such patrol XD
Watching these remind me why I'm So glad I don't turn wrenches professionally, anymore.
I did for 17 years, kind of miss it, I had a few mess ups, never cost anyone a bunch of money, maybe myself once - not a lot juist a couple hundered dollars
I had one of my cars in the garage this week, a place where I’ve always had great service, for a problem with the drivers door window randomly opening. They spent several hours and replaced some parts but couldn’t find the problem. Result, as they didn’t fix the problem, no charge for labour or parts. Now I have to go to the main dealer who charge £126 just to look at it. Guess where I will continue to go after I get this problem fixed, not the main dealer.
My guess is third place - one that can actually fix the problem and also not overcharge you!
I have always insisted on paying in such cases. Even when there is no result, the mechanic has expended his effort and earned his pay. My cases have been such that it was not a mistake on the mechanic's part but just reality being a b*itch.
Once I had to return to the shop the same day due to a fault after a service believing the mechanic had made an error. Turned out I had a worn out part that just happened to begin showing symptoms on that day. When the root cause was found and fixed, I apologized profusely and tipped the mechanic generously, due to having raised false suspicions on him.
Karma is a thing so remember to be honest and respectful.
At 4:52 in this episode, did the customer own a wide-body C7 Corvette? I had two cracks in my driver's side rear wheel. OEM wheels are cast aluminum which is not structurally able to support the weight and driving stress for those cars. So I replaced all the wheels with forged ones. And yes, the cost brought a tear to my eye 🙂
The mechanic that succeeded at the locked bolt looked happier than the people that win a lottery. Yes, it does feel that good.
It's man versus bolt out there, boy...
Watching these videos I don't know who's scarier, the customers or the mechanics.
One of your best ever!
5:30 tech did not get the release fork around the bearing and punched it through the pressure plate while tightening the bellhousing bolts.
I got to see the classic overflow of an oil container once, when I was delivering some parts to a store. It took forever to cleanup. Even i threw in a few minutes to help keep it from spreading.
I’ve seen plenty of young inexperienced and cocky techs overfill the drain bucket like the last guy. It’s always funny watching them try and figure out some way to stem the overflowing!
But by far the best was when guys would mess up the old BG trans flush machine! In their defense the machine wasn’t super user friendly or intuitive. Regards, if the tanks weren’t checked and filled/drained correctly, the hoses were hooked up incorrectly, or one of the valves was in the wrong position or turned at the wrong time, the results were a spectacular and often hilarious mess.
Service truck on a site oil change. Mechanic was doing an oil change on an excavator, 800 litre I was told. The mechanic forgot to drain the waste oil tank before going on the job. Due to the slight slope the oil drained away from the machine so the oil change was completed before the lake was noticed. OOPS. Oil travels further than most people think.
Stay humble, nobody's perfect and look out for each other and your customers.