I love the fact that repairing these cars has become a game of whack-a-mole. I'm just really glad you've got the spares cars they must be absolutely invaluable!
So out of three (two?) full codas, you're up to 0.9 working codas! That means you just need to buy one more coda and you'll have one fully working coda!
This reminds me of the critic who joked that Ben Folds should call himself Ben Folds 1⅔ now that he's gone solo, since Ben Folds Five was only three people.
This is why I like this guys channel. Anytime I ask my self what my life would be if my wife would let me do all of my project / interest…I just think of how many different cars Robert has.
I’m pretty sure Codas are one of those mathematical problems that can never actually reach 1.0. So adding more gets you closer, but the returns are always diminishing.
Okay, first off, GREAT video. Love the content, love what you do, love your channel, been following since the "how to drive a trabant" video. Secondly, the sound of the auto-ratchet screaming immediately after you said Three-Phase-Box made made my electrician brain think "Oh God he just fried himself" before I realized it was the auto-ratchet and not you getting hit with three phases of whatever that pack voltage is, glad you're safe but you gave me a heart attack lol.
Yeah, my non-electrician brain thought the same thing. Gave me a fright when that happened. lol! And the "How to Drive a Trabant" was the first Aging Wheels video I saw too. Been hooked ever since. :)
All the flaws of electric cars with all the maintenance of a diesel and all the quality of a Yugo... What a car the Coda was, and how I love seeing it on your channel so. Also, the dying at 70% reminds me a lot of your old Wheego range video. Some things never change!
@@jimmydesouza4375 Diesels are generally higher maintenance. Whenever I've been considering a diesel or petrol version of a vehicle, my mechanic has always said "what the diesel will save in fuel economy, it'll cost you in maintenance." Now that (at least here in Australia) diesel fuel costs considerably more per litre than petrol does, diesels sadly make even less financial sense. At first I thought electric vehicles were (essentially) zero maintenance. This Coda series has taught me otherwise. I get the impression VW EVs (although looking awesome and probably driving great) are still at risk of being an expensive game of whack-a-mole.
@@something2sea I mean, most of the mechanical bits that are *not* the drivetrain are completely identical to ice cars. You don’t have head gaskets and mass air sensors to deal with any more, but you still have motor mounts. Although the fact *this* car has such shocking motor mount issues is something I’d ascribe to it being practically a prototype car where the EV bits are amateurishly hacked into an existing chassis, and real series production EVs should not have that issue. Nor should their battery BMSes be so kludgy.
Tesla: engineer a car for reliability, styling comes second Coda: over engineer a car u tol it doesn't work in 100 miles, styling comes last, and forget that one bolt somehow.
Considering the base car Coda used was a Chinese car based on a 90s Mitsubishi and the Coda engineering seems shoddy at best I'm surprised they made and sold any of these, not surprised they folded...
I’m extremely glad to see a surprise cameo by that laminated Baltic birch block, And I hope that we can see more of it in the future. I always appreciate recurring characters, and I think that it really just has a great energy and is obviously passionate about helping with projects.
That Baltic Birch Block looks vaguely like an attempted part for a dust collector. Which someone took your design, make Thingiverse files, and gave you props! Nicely done.
Thanks for torquing the halfshaft on the wheel bearing hub, sort of! And "the BMS is a little confused right now" has to be the mother of all understatements.
I'll elaborate more on this in a future video, but the BMS was only off by about 10%! There seems to be only one or two weak cells in the pack according to my scanner thingy
@agingwheels Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoying your EV videos! Your devotion to keeping these machines going (the obscure dinosaur juice powered ones too) is admirable!
Me personally i couldn't care less for hypercars testdrives, nor superduper moneyhyped car building channels. Just a mad man and the will to keep awkward cars going on a reasonable budget actually teaching stuff. Truly blessed content.
Seeing an Aging Wheels video appear on my RUclips stream is such a thrill (I know... I need to get out more). I know it must be a pain to come up with something to video, and then it takes all that time to shoot while doing a repair, change setups between shots, and then do all the editing and uploading, but dammit... we need to see you more! You have one of the more entertaining channels (at least among the 500+ channels to which I am subscribed), and now I have to stay in suspense while I wait to find out if you got home safely, fixed the Coda, fed the various and sundry fowl(s?), and had a nice Thanksgiving. Well?
My brother used to work for Coda. They hired people like him; industry long timers and innovators. He worked for several big car companies before being hired by them. It was the first and only startup he would ever work for and from what I’ve heard they had him doing a ton of parts procurement and things. The issue wasn’t the company so much it was the base they were starting with. As many faults as Tesla has today they had the right idea of winning over the wealthy customers with a sporty car not some Chinese base sedan upgraded with clearly off the shelf parts. Glad you are keeping them alive! Also they are relatively wrench friendly, simple cars it seems. Not like these modern EVs.
Lovely to see an Update! As for your 3-phase motor connection at like 12:45 , I'm sure you checked your own footage (and assuming you didn't "dramatically reenact" the first unboltening at 1:30), they seem to be in the same orientation? Was that after you had flipped it already? Well I guess it got corrected by the flip since it didn't work before but did work after. Side note/guesswork: assuming that really is a straight 3 phase motor connection, flipping the connector is the equivalent of swapping 2 wires (the outer ones, specifically), which should do nothing but just reverse the thing. Of course I assume there's sensors and stuff involved, and the controller would be kinda confused by it going the wrong way and stop (repeatedly), which could also explain the sound I guess? Anyway, still weird behaviour that it doesn't just throw a code for "3-phase not connected correctly" or something...
For it to say that, it should be programmed first. MAYBE there is such a message in the OBD side but regular customer shouldn't have to touch that so there's no good reason to have it as an error message in the driver end. And cant exclude lazy programming either.
You're fantastic! I love what you do and how you do it, and I'm so glad there's people supporting you. Every video is enjoyable and you're an inspiration to anyone wanting to learn new skills or embrace something they love no matter how weird, niche or different it might be from things they're used to. Just wish I could get started myself; I'm inspired, but still missing a key ingredient to my own success. Keep rescuing those odd balls and doing your unique, wonderful projects!
It's fantastic to see an enthusiast mechanic's full process on display, warts and all. Laughing at your own screw-ups and then learning from them is a big part of what makes fixing old/bad/broken cars such a rewarding hobby!
I watched this earlier today and laughed. I'm sorry, I really laughed hard. Why? Your videos are the closest I've ever seen to what I call 'normal life'. How many times I've worked on things and gone through the same scenarios I can't tell you - but I can guarantee you it's been a whole lot. Thanks so much for your videos; I myself find multiple reasons to like every one of them!
I want to like the Coda, I do, but it seems like it was engineered to break. Repeatedly. On the other hand, Robert takes the lemons this car gives him and turns them into informative and entertaining content. Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving. Edit: My comment was approved! Cool!
Coda heard that electric cars are easier to build than gas cars and said "how hard and expensive can it be, really?" and proceeded to do the cheapest and worst engineering. I admire your dedication to keeping obscure crappy cars on the road. This, the Wheego, the Reliant, your old first gen Smart. The constant cycle of breakdowns and unnecessarily complicated repairs is part of the love of cars like these.
Yay more Coda stuff👍Here I was thinking only Prelude owners get the deal with this sort of problem lol (lovingly known as the Prelude curse). Fix it just to have something completely irrelevant to the last repair break either instantly or a day or 2 later 👌
The kebab is back! I was wondering since that video came out what have you done with it, thanks. Now I can sleep peacefully that it went on to serve as support. As most kebabs are during a long night drinking.
Quality engineering of Chinese made budget cars, retro-fitted with prototype EV tech, and then add the company is long out of business and these cars have been sitting. And there are no spare parts in production, and things are going as expected. I commend Aging wheels for sharing his insanity. 👍
5MM difference in the axles? Whyy! It's like when I'm machining something at work a there's a .010 difference making a part non-symmetrical, with a .005 tolerance 🙄
Absolute "Vintage Robert"! There is just nobody else who does what you do. But then, I still watch your Trabant engine rebuild just for the 'Zen' of it all. By going to rediculous lengths to rescue hopelessly flawed and poorly conceived vehicles you've created a one-man genre. Well done good sir! Whatever you do... keep it coming!
You need to ask Santa for a better creeper for Christmas! I've had 2 of the exact same creeper you have leaning up against your lift, and both of them had a wheel break off of them. Plastic Chinese junk!
Your quality of videos is just incredible, the combination of your fabrication skills and also your video editing is great. I enjoy every video you make! Please update us on the BMS, I can't even imagine what it's like trying to tackle software faults on a car like this..
Glad to hear you got it mostly working and moving, and figuring out the proper axle placement should help a lot of issues. Happy turkey day, hope you and your family are chowing down right now 🦃
Yeah, I'm still waiting to see what he does about that busted seat. I thought maybe it was such a simple fix that he just did it off-screen, but it was still missing when he had Alec drive it a few months ago.
I would have found a pipe to slip inside the bar mount and drilled holes in the bar and plug welded it. Used thin shims to space the bar mount before welding to allow for shrinkage.
At this point dude you'd almost be better-served to just start from raw materials, the Coda amazes me with how many things break for how "young" it is. Certainly gives you lots of things to keep you busy, lol.
There’s a lot of invisible engineering that goes in cars to make them more reliable considering how obscenely powerful and heavy they are. Doubly so for electric cars, that are very powerful and very heavy and have no business staying in one piece and applying torque all the way to the road surface.
Robert, you can't blame yourself for breaking stuff if it's poor quality crap to begin with! I love watching you videos! Makes me can't wait to run out and buy me an electric car!!!! The only thing different about a modern electric car and one made 110 years ago is that the 110 year old car is built better. !
hey bud. what you did was probably fine and all, but just a little tidbit for you in the future if you gotta do something like that again with the welding. when you put bracing on, you generally do not want to weld the ends. that causes a new stress point and your next break... sort of a new stress riser. you generally get better results by JUST welding perpendicular to the fracture and parallel to the tube being braced. not the end of the world or anything at all!!! just one of those little tips that can make a difference someday down the line. nice work. you're a riot to watch! love it:)
Your workshop lighting is really good. Well done. You have breathed life into the coda :-D Perhaps you can do that to the reliant robin, well fix the wheel....maybe.
Man, you always get the worst of luck. Just when you think your car is sorted, it leaves you stranded again. But hey, it makes for good content though. I've been watching since 2017. The first video I watched from you was the introduction to your Trabant. I've been hooked ever since.
I have 2 of these in glider form - both with less than 5 miles - never driven. No batteries. Kept covered. I'm looking to sell both, contact me if you are in need - not parting out - selling whole. If you have a spare battery - I would be willing to swap one car for one battery. That way we would both come out of the deal with running vehicles and no money exchanged. Let me know.....
I've never gleaned so much enjoyment from something I don't know or care about. I never miss a video from your channels, and yet cars hold no interest to me. Fantastic work!
I will never tire of secretly lording over my in-laws that I told them not to buy one of these things when they were "on sale" but they did it anyway. (me): "Don't do it, they're obviously going out of business and the last thing you want is an orphaned electric car". (dad who knows everything): "It's electric, there's nothing to go wrong with it. It's like a vacuum cleaner." (me) "No, seriously. Mechanical problems aside, these things are made of software and from what I've heard about this company it *will* have bugs. Get a Nissan Leaf instead?" (dad): "laaalaalaa, not listening, it's cheaper and has a bigger battery, I'm buying it!" First time they drove it 60 miles: bricked on a tow truck. Less than a year later, after many more tow truck rides and killing multiple 12v batteries because of mysterious standby gremlins: main battery short, permanent limp mode. Good Jorb, Coda!
Heyyy I'm pretty sure I've broken down at that ZX before! I've always wanted a RUclips mechanic nearby, so I'd have someone I know is more talented than me, to take my collection of poorly maintained and reengineered projects to. At least I got the first half! I kid. It's obvious you have a lot of skill. It's nice to see the humility and self-deprecating humor. Makes my mistakes seem less severe somehow. Keep up the good work!
Take notes guys, this is what hooptie-EV life will look like... a lot of work to find out your battery is dying. When all the good petrol cars will be too old to maintain, and parts become scarce, this is what we're doomed to, if we can't afford a brand new EV, just some 15-20 year old junk, that's been made to only last the warranty period. Hang on to your reliable old cars, we'll need them... it'll be like Cuba, we have to keep them running by whatever means to stay mobile, and don't have money for the ever more expensive new cars.
1:12 - I was just thinking about that high voltage connector, and then that sound scared the living shit out of me! 😂 And yes, I watched too many ElectroBOOM's videos recently.
that all looks like fun !!! Jay the Florida pool pump motor repair guy. When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 2 know /see👨🔧good job !! Aging Wheels
Coda: American engineering at it's... normal? Being British myself, and with the weight of Lucas hanging around the collective British neck, are you absolutely sure it wasn't engineered in the UK? Next up a Boeing 737 Max video.
My 10 year old kangoo z.e. has a wopping 55km range now cold, months age warm max 70. Canze app says 67% health. Most I charged was 15kwh and that is just dipping in the red ¹/8th zone with orange light on. But I don't dare to go near full empty. So I did math and 15 usable out of a 22kwh battery is about the same canze app health says. Ze is slow, ze doesn't get very far, ze hates uphill, ze hates highway speeds. If you use all 40kw the motor has to drain is high and still she is slow.
It always amazes me how much tedious bullshit you are willing to endure to make a shitty vehicle, marginally less shitty. My hat is off to you, Sir. P.S. Chickens suck. And ducks... ducks are anathema.
I think you already know this, but if you set a VW (Jetta, Passat, Golf Coda) on it’s wheels, without CV shafts installed, (10:07 into the video it appears you might have done that), the wheel bearings are ruined. Hopefully you know that and didn’t cost yourself more trouble.
You know.. I really am not much of a car mechanic guy.. but I have a masters in E-Engineering.. when this buzzing sound came on the first thing I thought was "That sounds like the motor is out of phase" and I have to say I am a bit proud of it 😂
Hey Robert, heres some new and revised ideas for a durango and ferd explerer (yes i spelt it like that intentionally) destruction review: (part of the options segment) rear wiper on both cars and how they "function", options the car has, rage test, weather test, father does some destruction for the review segment, tannerite in trunk, chair gods round 2, chickems/geese/other naughty birds in the front seat, offroading tests, crash testing both cars together, and whatever else comes to mind
This is the first time I've really paid attention to what's under the hood of that thing. It just registered with me that the motor, gearbox, and extra electronic doodads take up that whole engine bay that was originally meant to hold a combustion engine. No breathing room at all! I'm so used to electric cars leaving a big enough vacancy to fit a small storage compartment, and this probably isn't even as big a motor as most of those cars have.
Id love to know how high the overlap between your viewers and the garbage time community is... I mean, you have somewhat similar, yet amazingly different channels. like, garbage time is basically your channel with whacky music and in aussie lol
If it has a good battery management system, you should charge the battery to full, and then discharge it completely until the battery disconnects and then recharge it. Then the capacity should be updated and the state of charge should be more reliable. But bad bmsses or bad configured ones won't do anything with it (like iphones going dead at only 20% SoC after a few years).
If you have a picture of the fracture in the steel tube I or somebody more skilled could tell you from the shine/corrosion how it failed. If there was an initial break or if everything failed more and more and more over time starting somewhere near the weld ok the tube. I assume the car had a hard bump or curb (rims original?) but could just be all codas want to puke out their motors on acc. because of badly torqued bolts. Could also be sbd. used the threads to pull the motor in place torquing down, but that person would have had todo it twice with a lot of shavings on the ground. Also I always wondered what happens if you attach thw three phases wrong, now I know :D.
I don't get his love for this car. Unlike the Yugo or Trabant, which are at least lousy in a historical, interesting way...the Coda is just lousy engineering, put together with the cheapest materials they could spec. Plenty of plastic parts, failing in the same way, at about the same time, implying it just wasn't engineered properly. At least a Trabant is somewhat enduring: it goes on being a pile of poo for longer than it has any right to.
On two separate occasions my internet has gone down while I was watching videos about your attempt’s to fix your coda. That’s right, your coda is so broken it’s breaking my internet.
I love the fact that repairing these cars has become a game of whack-a-mole. I'm just really glad you've got the spares cars they must be absolutely invaluable!
This is exactly I've fallen so far behind on repairs!
That's just like owning a Rover in the uk 🤣
I play wack a mole when ever I see my mechanic. 🤣
Most RUclips channels eventually run out of content - that's cos they don't own a bunch of incredibly unreliable cars...
@@agingwheels But by the looks of it you'll be a qualified Tesla mechanic in no time, in 10 years you can replace the Coda with a early Tesla!
Every car I have ever owned was a game of whack-a-mole
So out of three (two?) full codas, you're up to 0.9 working codas! That means you just need to buy one more coda and you'll have one fully working coda!
By my calculations, one extra coda would get him up to 1.4 working codas. So, yes, the maths work out.
So he has 2 spares cars, and still has to patch up the subframe on the only running car?
This reminds me of the critic who joked that Ben Folds should call himself Ben Folds 1⅔ now that he's gone solo, since Ben Folds Five was only three people.
This is why I like this guys channel. Anytime I ask my self what my life would be if my wife would let me do all of my project / interest…I just think of how many different cars Robert has.
I’m pretty sure Codas are one of those mathematical problems that can never actually reach 1.0. So adding more gets you closer, but the returns are always diminishing.
Okay, first off, GREAT video. Love the content, love what you do, love your channel, been following since the "how to drive a trabant" video. Secondly, the sound of the auto-ratchet screaming immediately after you said Three-Phase-Box made made my electrician brain think "Oh God he just fried himself" before I realized it was the auto-ratchet and not you getting hit with three phases of whatever that pack voltage is, glad you're safe but you gave me a heart attack lol.
Same.
My non-electrician brain thought exactly the same, I was waiting for pics of charred, bandaged flesh
Yeah, my non-electrician brain thought the same thing. Gave me a fright when that happened. lol!
And the "How to Drive a Trabant" was the first Aging Wheels video I saw too. Been hooked ever since. :)
OMG me too! My heart literally skipped a beat!
I thought the same thing lol, I think he did that on purpose
All the flaws of electric cars with all the maintenance of a diesel and all the quality of a Yugo... What a car the Coda was, and how I love seeing it on your channel so.
Also, the dying at 70% reminds me a lot of your old Wheego range video. Some things never change!
Are diesels higher maintenance than petrol? Thought it was the opposite.
@@jimmydesouza4375 Diesels are generally higher maintenance. Whenever I've been considering a diesel or petrol version of a vehicle, my mechanic has always said "what the diesel will save in fuel economy, it'll cost you in maintenance." Now that (at least here in Australia) diesel fuel costs considerably more per litre than petrol does, diesels sadly make even less financial sense.
At first I thought electric vehicles were (essentially) zero maintenance. This Coda series has taught me otherwise. I get the impression VW EVs (although looking awesome and probably driving great) are still at risk of being an expensive game of whack-a-mole.
@@something2sea I mean, most of the mechanical bits that are *not* the drivetrain are completely identical to ice cars. You don’t have head gaskets and mass air sensors to deal with any more, but you still have motor mounts. Although the fact *this* car has such shocking motor mount issues is something I’d ascribe to it being practically a prototype car where the EV bits are amateurishly hacked into an existing chassis, and real series production EVs should not have that issue. Nor should their battery BMSes be so kludgy.
Tesla: engineer a car for reliability, styling comes second
Coda: over engineer a car u tol it doesn't work in 100 miles, styling comes last, and forget that one bolt somehow.
Considering the base car Coda used was a Chinese car based on a 90s Mitsubishi and the Coda engineering seems shoddy at best I'm surprised they made and sold any of these, not surprised they folded...
I’m extremely glad to see a surprise cameo by that laminated Baltic birch block, And I hope that we can see more of it in the future. I always appreciate recurring characters, and I think that it really just has a great energy and is obviously passionate about helping with projects.
basically, the codas self-destruct system has been activated I know it was you that turned it on🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 Computer, initiate destruct sequence. Code One, One A.
That Baltic Birch Block looks vaguely like an attempted part for a dust collector. Which someone took your design, make Thingiverse files, and gave you props! Nicely done.
@@DABrock-author you forgot two, two a, two b, three, Destruct, Destruct, Destruct🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for torquing the halfshaft on the wheel bearing hub, sort of! And "the BMS is a little confused right now" has to be the mother of all understatements.
I'll elaborate more on this in a future video, but the BMS was only off by about 10%! There seems to be only one or two weak cells in the pack according to my scanner thingy
@agingwheels Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoying your EV videos! Your devotion to keeping these machines going (the obscure dinosaur juice powered ones too) is admirable!
Well you should be able to swap out the bad cells, you should have plenty to choose from.
@@agingwheels Let me guess, they're wired in series with the working ones so it's like having a bulb go out on a string of Christmas lights?
@@stevethepocket Yes it's in series. If they were in parallel the electrical system would need to handle tens of kiloamps.
Holy shit, you've been pumping out content like a madman the past two months. I like it !
I fixed it and how does it repay me by braking yet again the wheego has taught it well🤣🤣🤣
Me personally i couldn't care less for hypercars testdrives, nor superduper moneyhyped car building channels. Just a mad man and the will to keep awkward cars going on a reasonable budget actually teaching stuff. Truly blessed content.
Seeing an Aging Wheels video appear on my RUclips stream is such a thrill (I know... I need to get out more). I know it must be a pain to come up with something to video, and then it takes all that time to shoot while doing a repair, change setups between shots, and then do all the editing and uploading, but dammit... we need to see you more! You have one of the more entertaining channels (at least among the 500+ channels to which I am subscribed), and now I have to stay in suspense while I wait to find out if you got home safely, fixed the Coda, fed the various and sundry fowl(s?), and had a nice Thanksgiving. Well?
Really got lucky with getting the torque spec right!
did he, did he? it broke which makes me think the random guess was wrong think about it🤣🤣🤣
My brother used to work for Coda. They hired people like him; industry long timers and innovators. He worked for several big car companies before being hired by them. It was the first and only startup he would ever work for and from what I’ve heard they had him doing a ton of parts procurement and things. The issue wasn’t the company so much it was the base they were starting with. As many faults as Tesla has today they had the right idea of winning over the wealthy customers with a sporty car not some Chinese base sedan upgraded with clearly off the shelf parts. Glad you are keeping them alive! Also they are relatively wrench friendly, simple cars it seems. Not like these modern EVs.
That, and the base sedan being based on a late '90s mitsubishi mirage.
It's nice to see Robert Happy :)
Robert, I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy your DIY videos... You always put a smile on my face. Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Lovely to see an Update! As for your 3-phase motor connection at like 12:45 , I'm sure you checked your own footage (and assuming you didn't "dramatically reenact" the first unboltening at 1:30), they seem to be in the same orientation? Was that after you had flipped it already? Well I guess it got corrected by the flip since it didn't work before but did work after.
Side note/guesswork: assuming that really is a straight 3 phase motor connection, flipping the connector is the equivalent of swapping 2 wires (the outer ones, specifically), which should do nothing but just reverse the thing. Of course I assume there's sensors and stuff involved, and the controller would be kinda confused by it going the wrong way and stop (repeatedly), which could also explain the sound I guess? Anyway, still weird behaviour that it doesn't just throw a code for "3-phase not connected correctly" or something...
For it to say that, it should be programmed first. MAYBE there is such a message in the OBD side but regular customer shouldn't have to touch that so there's no good reason to have it as an error message in the driver end.
And cant exclude lazy programming either.
Simple: That is supposed to never happen, so why even bother having a error-code for it? Or even detection logic.
I bet you are the most qualified Coda technician on the planet.
Nah, I'm number 2 at best
You're fantastic! I love what you do and how you do it, and I'm so glad there's people supporting you. Every video is enjoyable and you're an inspiration to anyone wanting to learn new skills or embrace something they love no matter how weird, niche or different it might be from things they're used to. Just wish I could get started myself; I'm inspired, but still missing a key ingredient to my own success. Keep rescuing those odd balls and doing your unique, wonderful projects!
Man you're so talented with fixing things. Just watching how you can problem solve and engineer solutions and make it look so easy.
It's fantastic to see an enthusiast mechanic's full process on display, warts and all. Laughing at your own screw-ups and then learning from them is a big part of what makes fixing old/bad/broken cars such a rewarding hobby!
I watched this earlier today and laughed. I'm sorry, I really laughed hard. Why? Your videos are the closest I've ever seen to what I call 'normal life'. How many times I've worked on things and gone through the same scenarios I can't tell you - but I can guarantee you it's been a whole lot. Thanks so much for your videos; I myself find multiple reasons to like every one of them!
I want to like the Coda, I do, but it seems like it was engineered to break. Repeatedly. On the other hand, Robert takes the lemons this car gives him and turns them into informative and entertaining content. Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving.
Edit: My comment was approved! Cool!
Robert, your videos are the absolute best!!!!......I was hoping the Coda was finally fixed, but oh well...never give up , never surrender.....cheers !
A car that is a knock off body with hacked together EV bits isn't reliable. Who knew. Great for youtube tho. Youll never run out of content.
Coda heard that electric cars are easier to build than gas cars and said "how hard and expensive can it be, really?" and proceeded to do the cheapest and worst engineering.
I admire your dedication to keeping obscure crappy cars on the road. This, the Wheego, the Reliant, your old first gen Smart. The constant cycle of breakdowns and unnecessarily complicated repairs is part of the love of cars like these.
I absolutely love your content. Good ol' fashioned tinkering, and your sense of humor is amazing. Thank you for you!
Great work! So happy you got it going again, and then so sad when it died on you moments later.
Not sure if this is understated comedy or a tragedy of errors.
Yay more Coda stuff👍Here I was thinking only Prelude owners get the deal with this sort of problem lol (lovingly known as the Prelude curse). Fix it just to have something completely irrelevant to the last repair break either instantly or a day or 2 later 👌
The kebab is back! I was wondering since that video came out what have you done with it, thanks. Now I can sleep peacefully that it went on to serve as support. As most kebabs are during a long night drinking.
Robert I always enjoy watching you fix things, you’re an inspiration to folks like me who get anxiety over this sort of stuff. Thank you!!
I love how this car is just flat out screaming at you to let it die, yet you refuse to oblige lol
Quality engineering of Chinese made budget cars, retro-fitted with prototype EV tech, and then add the company is long out of business and these cars have been sitting. And there are no spare parts in production, and things are going as expected. I commend Aging wheels for sharing his insanity. 👍
Totally, and without development tools/interface details. That error code is going to be a tough one!
I love this thing. It's a really handsome little car!
Wanna know what I'm thankful for?
This man's existence. This amazing's man existence.
That's what quality manufacturing looks like.
keep it on the charger for several days. It will balance over long time and the BMS can relearn what's 100%
5MM difference in the axles? Whyy! It's like when I'm machining something at work a there's a .010 difference making a part non-symmetrical, with a .005 tolerance 🙄
Absolute "Vintage Robert"! There is just nobody else who does what you do. But then, I still watch your Trabant engine rebuild just for the 'Zen' of it all. By going to rediculous lengths to rescue hopelessly flawed and poorly conceived vehicles you've created a one-man genre. Well done good sir! Whatever you do... keep it coming!
You need to ask Santa for a better creeper for Christmas! I've had 2 of the exact same creeper you have leaning up against your lift, and both of them had a wheel break off of them. Plastic Chinese junk!
Ohh I was so ready for this. For the last couple of days I bingewatched nearly all of your videos and my effort is well paid off!
This is car is an absolute crap box. It's so much worse than the car it's based on. This is an achievement on it's own.
I need to make my way over to China one of these days and drive an original Saibao
A special abiliity you have to buy unreliable cars! Especially awful fire death trap EVS
Your quality of videos is just incredible, the combination of your fabrication skills and also your video editing is great. I enjoy every video you make!
Please update us on the BMS, I can't even imagine what it's like trying to tackle software faults on a car like this..
Well, guess what! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more zip-ties! heh
Glad to hear you got it mostly working and moving, and figuring out the proper axle placement should help a lot of issues. Happy turkey day, hope you and your family are chowing down right now 🦃
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math checks out, well done RUclips
Your dedication to this absolute POS makes me feel better about my land rover problem lol
I am genuinely disappointed that at 11:40 you didn't splice in the sound of a starter motor turning over.
Can you make more videos on the trabbi? Been a while. Love from sweden! ❤️❤️❤️ btw the trabbi seems more reliable than the Coda
Yeah, I'm still waiting to see what he does about that busted seat. I thought maybe it was such a simple fix that he just did it off-screen, but it was still missing when he had Alec drive it a few months ago.
Definition of insanity "repairing a Coda over and over and expecting a different result"🤣
I always love the cars that companies make right before they die
I lost it at 12:27. "My professional opinion is: there's something wrong with it!"
I would have found a pipe to slip inside the bar mount and drilled holes in the bar and plug welded it. Used thin shims to space the bar mount before welding to allow for shrinkage.
You should of put a metal rod inside the metal rod before welding. It would of been strong
three videos posted at the same time. can't decide which creator to watch first.
wait no. i don't need to choose. robert posted.
"Car is a lot slower than I remembered" says man who has spent the last six months in a Polestar.
The Codas back and you are happy now looks like it needs a good long charge
Most aluminium sand castings are lovely to weld, compared to die castings.
Happy holidays Robert! Enjoy a good meal and know that we appreciate all the quality content you put out
At 13:00 RIP sound listeners lol.
I saw a bunch of red liquid trickle out when you started putting in the fresh transmission fluid. Was it supposed to do that?
Yep! Fill it up until fluid comes out of the high port
At this point dude you'd almost be better-served to just start from raw materials, the Coda amazes me with how many things break for how "young" it is. Certainly gives you lots of things to keep you busy, lol.
There’s a lot of invisible engineering that goes in cars to make them more reliable considering how obscenely powerful and heavy they are. Doubly so for electric cars, that are very powerful and very heavy and have no business staying in one piece and applying torque all the way to the road surface.
Got 2 of these for sale near me if for whatever reason you want more parts cars
Robert, you can't blame yourself for breaking stuff if it's poor quality crap to begin with! I love watching you videos! Makes me can't wait to run out and buy me an electric car!!!! The only thing different about a modern electric car and one made 110 years ago is that the 110 year old car is built better.
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The vintage electric might survive 110 years, while the Chinese one won't last 110 hours!
@@sunbeam8866 Well said!!!
hey bud. what you did was probably fine and all, but just a little tidbit for you in the future if you gotta do something like that again with the welding. when you put bracing on, you generally do not want to weld the ends. that causes a new stress point and your next break... sort of a new stress riser. you generally get better results by JUST welding perpendicular to the fracture and parallel to the tube being braced. not the end of the world or anything at all!!! just one of those little tips that can make a difference someday down the line. nice work. you're a riot to watch! love it:)
That's a really good tip, thanks!
I swear with these codas he is forever living in Missouri
Your workshop lighting is really good.
Well done. You have breathed life into the coda :-D
Perhaps you can do that to the reliant robin, well fix the wheel....maybe.
I normally watch YT videos at 2x speed but I have to go to normal speed for yours so they can last longer :(
Have you considered setting the thing on fire?
Man, you always get the worst of luck. Just when you think your car is sorted, it leaves you stranded again. But hey, it makes for good content though. I've been watching since 2017. The first video I watched from you was the introduction to your Trabant. I've been hooked ever since.
I have 2 of these in glider form - both with less than 5 miles - never driven. No batteries. Kept covered. I'm looking to sell both, contact me if you are in need - not parting out - selling whole. If you have a spare battery - I would be willing to swap one car for one battery. That way we would both come out of the deal with running vehicles and no money exchanged. Let me know.....
The folks behind coda are now using their battery technology towards companies with experience making cars........ perhaps its better this way.
Lol what a small I didn't realize u
You live near by. You want to reveiw my Mitsubishi mini truck? 660cc of 4wd Japanese fun..
Yep, this is a wonderful channel. Absolutely love it. It's the bollocks!
I've never gleaned so much enjoyment from something I don't know or care about. I never miss a video from your channels, and yet cars hold no interest to me. Fantastic work!
I will never tire of secretly lording over my in-laws that I told them not to buy one of these things when they were "on sale" but they did it anyway.
(me): "Don't do it, they're obviously going out of business and the last thing you want is an orphaned electric car".
(dad who knows everything): "It's electric, there's nothing to go wrong with it. It's like a vacuum cleaner."
(me) "No, seriously. Mechanical problems aside, these things are made of software and from what I've heard about this company it *will* have bugs. Get a Nissan Leaf instead?"
(dad): "laaalaalaa, not listening, it's cheaper and has a bigger battery, I'm buying it!"
First time they drove it 60 miles: bricked on a tow truck. Less than a year later, after many more tow truck rides and killing multiple 12v batteries because of mysterious standby gremlins: main battery short, permanent limp mode. Good Jorb, Coda!
Surely the BMS wouldn't forget the state of charge when the 12v battery dies. That would just be poor design.
Heyyy I'm pretty sure I've broken down at that ZX before! I've always wanted a RUclips mechanic nearby, so I'd have someone I know is more talented than me, to take my collection of poorly maintained and reengineered projects to. At least I got the first half!
I kid. It's obvious you have a lot of skill. It's nice to see the humility and self-deprecating humor. Makes my mistakes seem less severe somehow. Keep up the good work!
Take notes guys, this is what hooptie-EV life will look like... a lot of work to find out your battery is dying.
When all the good petrol cars will be too old to maintain, and parts become scarce, this is what we're doomed to, if we can't afford a brand new EV, just some 15-20 year old junk, that's been made to only last the warranty period.
Hang on to your reliable old cars, we'll need them... it'll be like Cuba, we have to keep them running by whatever means to stay mobile, and don't have money for the ever more expensive new cars.
1:12 - I was just thinking about that high voltage connector, and then that sound scared the living shit out of me! 😂
And yes, I watched too many ElectroBOOM's videos recently.
Who Coda seen that coming!
that all looks like fun !!! Jay the Florida pool pump motor repair guy. When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 2 know /see👨🔧good job !! Aging Wheels
Coda: American engineering at it's... normal? Being British myself, and with the weight of Lucas hanging around the collective British neck, are you absolutely sure it wasn't engineered in the UK? Next up a Boeing 737 Max video.
My 10 year old kangoo z.e. has a wopping 55km range now cold, months age warm max 70. Canze app says 67% health. Most I charged was 15kwh and that is just dipping in the red ¹/8th zone with orange light on. But I don't dare to go near full empty. So I did math and 15 usable out of a 22kwh battery is about the same canze app health says.
Ze is slow, ze doesn't get very far, ze hates uphill, ze hates highway speeds.
If you use all 40kw the motor has to drain is high and still she is slow.
It always amazes me how much tedious bullshit you are willing to endure to make a shitty vehicle, marginally less shitty. My hat is off to you, Sir.
P.S. Chickens suck. And ducks... ducks are anathema.
Only thing less reliable then a 6.4 diesel
I think you already know this, but if you set a VW (Jetta, Passat, Golf Coda) on it’s wheels, without CV shafts installed, (10:07 into the video it appears you might have done that), the wheel bearings are ruined. Hopefully you know that and didn’t cost yourself more trouble.
You know.. I really am not much of a car mechanic guy.. but I have a masters in E-Engineering.. when this buzzing sound came on the first thing I thought was "That sounds like the motor is out of phase" and I have to say I am a bit proud of it 😂
Hey Robert, heres some new and revised ideas for a durango and ferd explerer (yes i spelt it like that intentionally) destruction review: (part of the options segment) rear wiper on both cars and how they "function", options the car has, rage test, weather test, father does some destruction for the review segment, tannerite in trunk, chair gods round 2, chickems/geese/other naughty birds in the front seat, offroading tests, crash testing both cars together, and whatever else comes to mind
This is the first time I've really paid attention to what's under the hood of that thing. It just registered with me that the motor, gearbox, and extra electronic doodads take up that whole engine bay that was originally meant to hold a combustion engine. No breathing room at all! I'm so used to electric cars leaving a big enough vacancy to fit a small storage compartment, and this probably isn't even as big a motor as most of those cars have.
Him touching the 3 Phase HV lines with bare fingers while knowing the main power is taken off....
My Heart rate ft. Anxiety 📈📈📈📈
I don't know what RUclips is on. The video was posted 54 minutes ago, but I see comments from 18 hours ago. I also see 542 Views and 1700 likes.
So glad those Codas are with you and not crushed. Anyone else would have thrown in the towel by now!
This may sound stupid, but I actually like the shape of the coda... Would you consider ever turning one into a... regular, reliable ICE car perhaps?
Id love to know how high the overlap between your viewers and the garbage time community is... I mean, you have somewhat similar, yet amazingly different channels.
like, garbage time is basically your channel with whacky music and in aussie lol
If it has a good battery management system, you should charge the battery to full, and then discharge it completely until the battery disconnects and then recharge it. Then the capacity should be updated and the state of charge should be more reliable. But bad bmsses or bad configured ones won't do anything with it (like iphones going dead at only 20% SoC after a few years).
Just curious why you didn't weld a pipe section within the broken top brace for internal reinforcement?
If you have a picture of the fracture in the steel tube I or somebody more skilled could tell you from the shine/corrosion how it failed. If there was an initial break or if everything failed more and more and more over time starting somewhere near the weld ok the tube.
I assume the car had a hard bump or curb (rims original?) but could just be all codas want to puke out their motors on acc. because of badly torqued bolts. Could also be sbd. used the threads to pull the motor in place torquing down, but that person would have had todo it twice with a lot of shavings on the ground.
Also I always wondered what happens if you attach thw three phases wrong, now I know :D.
I don't get his love for this car. Unlike the Yugo or Trabant, which are at least lousy in a historical, interesting way...the Coda is just lousy engineering, put together with the cheapest materials they could spec. Plenty of plastic parts, failing in the same way, at about the same time, implying it just wasn't engineered properly.
At least a Trabant is somewhat enduring: it goes on being a pile of poo for longer than it has any right to.
One thing I immediately noticed was that the motors were made by UQM (also known as the legendary Unique Mobility, which made that wack ass Elektrek)
On two separate occasions my internet has gone down while I was watching videos about your attempt’s to fix your coda. That’s right, your coda is so broken it’s breaking my internet.