Customer States My Ford Focus Won't Start | Just Rolled In
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:05 Not much info from the technician on this one. But 2008-2010 Ford Focus has a TSB (technical service bulletin 09-19-15) for this issue and with the ignition key binding in the ignition cylinder.
0:27 You're never supposed to try and patch/plug a sidewall. Also, these tire plugs look like their the ones you are supposed to use for bike tires.
0:39 From the looks of it, they installed a wheel that wasn't the correct size. The center bore seems like it was too big for the hub. The technician said just 1 wheel was like this. They bought a new wheel/tire and installed it for the customer.
0:49 Traffic spikes are meant so you don't drive through a gate/spot that you're not supposed to. Such as going the wrong way in a parking garage or parking lot.
1:04 You simply cannot bleed a brake caliper placed in an upside-down position since the bleeder is not at the high point, which can lead to air getting trapped inside the caliper that will not readily come out during bleeding.
1:20 You should never drill a hole in/modify a brake booster. If you want to read more about what a brake booster is, you can here - help.summitracing.com/app/ans...
1:29 The technician said this was on a Jeep Wrangler. Looks like the power cables for the winch were rubbing against the p/s pulley. They are lucky it didn't possibly catch on fire.
1:52 The technician thought it was interesting to see a KIA with wheels from a Cadillac.
2:02 The technician said this was on a 1st gen Toyota Tundra.
2:15 The customer never removed the plastic on the K&N filter and that's why it couldn't start.
2:22 A VERY disgusting/muddy air filter on a truck. (Looks to be a Dodge Ram 1500). I've seen this lots of fleet trucks that get abused pretty hard.
2:28 The technician said the following as well.
1. the vehicle wasn’t sold it was in transit to another dealer when it failed
2. warranty paid for the repair
3. I don’t know what happened to the vehicle since it was repaired.
4. The entire engine was not replaced, only known or possibly compromised components were replaced
5. haven’t seen another failure like this for this engine
6. this doesn’t mean that all of these engines are going to possibly turn out like this
7. if you own a Tacoma don’t worry about the chain, worry more about your valve guides in bank 1.
2:42 This clip was sent in from a viewer of some really nice cars he gets to work on.
2:58 Outro. Thanks for watching! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
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Great stuff as usual! As noted by my username, I am a Chevy guy. That said, the Shelby convertible at 2:50 is freakin' awesome. 1967 GT350 perhaps? Fantastic piece of automotive history.
Bicycle shop edition: Customer states they bought a bike a couple of years ago to get fit and left it on the balcony how much to make it nice again?
Technician asks as he pokes a 2mm Allen key through the salt coated frame which beach do you live by and what ever you paid for the bike.
Now way would I have worked on that garbage scow. The garbage in the car tells me the maintenance history of the vehicle. It hasn't had any recently if ever. Besides, that car would attract rats, mice and seagulls to my garage.
Good grief that's a lot of stuff
@@alexeatonexploresamerica5511 It's created it's own bio eco system.
Some days I'm not sure what's worse: the scary cars or the disgusting ones.
atleast for the most part the disgusting ones actually get serviced and maintained lol
scary cars kill people, disgusting ones don't...they are just not appealing to look at.
Always the disgusting ones. ALWAYS.
The disgusting ones are so much worse
The scariest one here, I think, is the one that drove over tire-shredders.
1) they were driving the wrong way through a carpark.
2) they popped all four tires.
3) they were (apparently) oblivious to both the above facts.
This channel serves a perpetual reminder of just how much crazy there is out there.
Some wild stuff out there...
Kinda sad really.
And there's no shortage of stupid people so this channel will never run out of content
And to think these same people will or do have children!
Sure does. Keep safe out there people.
Customer: Ford Focus won't start.
Technician: And it never will.
Ford Granada =
Big Nothing
I don't blame the car, I wouldn't want to start either....
Ford service manual says that's normal and not covered under warranty
Out of focus with reality! 😛
If I had to work on that thing I’d quit 😂
0:50 Well, if they're only flat on the bottom, then just rotate them and use the part that's not flat.
LOL 😂
Shit, u right
You're hired!
That's like wrecking the car and collecting the insurance to make the car payment.
@@JohnDoe-ut7wu For the car they don't have anymore. I like that idea.
I feel for the technicians who deal with cars like the first one. I would never, I'd tell them to clean it or just turn it away.
It’s a marker of mental illness.
@@charlesjames1442 not always. I've personally known people who live like that who are just lazy or disgusting. Either way no technician gets paid enough to deal with that potential health hazard.
"You can't leave that car here unless you're willing to pay $40 an hour in labor for someone shovel all that shit out of there and into the dumpster, or we can push it over there near the dumpster and you can do it yourself."
@@canaan5337 exactly!
If their car looks that bad, I wonder how bad their home looks?
I like how the car is completely full of garbage, yet they have a steering wheel protective cover.
He/she prolly bought the car from someone and it just came with it lol
Hoarding isn't about logic, it's a flaw in the brain. The same instinct gone overboard that makes them hang on to all that crap may be what makes them put the wheel protector on. You can sometimes look at stuff like that to try to guess what is going on in their brain to cause the behavior.
These are people that are forced or choose to live out of their cars. Sign of the times. Not a good sign, either. It signifies the erosion of our rights, freedoms, happiness, health and prosperity through the spread of narcissism.
That was a far cleaner car-full-of-stuff than most we see on this channel.
The bags of chips were unopened, and no (major) infestation of crawly critters.
It would still benefit from the solid application of a half hour of throwing things away.
@@edwardguillen4381 Who is Prolly?!
Jeez, I lived in my car for a bit and was a bachelor during college...but I still understood the concept of a trash can. 🤷♂️
Mental illness just like people who hoard trash in their house
But you never know when you might need that thing...whatever it used to be.
So does the customer, they have a four wheeled one made by ford.
Actually seemed like lots of fresh groceries too🤷♂️
@@helidude3502 yeah super weird. So much trash but it all looks pretty clean, like they were moving and loaded up the car but also dumped a bunch of newspapers/magazines on the driver seat
I used to be an Aircraft Mechanic. There is lots of paperwork, but you still get a work ticket for the tasks. One day an older mechanic got one that stated from the pilot " it sounds like little men beating the outside with hammers" so for the comment section of the repair he wrote "took away hammers from little men" they almost fired him, but I bet they thought it was funny too.
I used to work at a stealership and we had this one old woman we called Crazy Annie that drove an old pickup that was full of trash and she'd come in occasionally for work on her vehicle. We used to draw straws to see who had the "privilege" of working on her old truck and one day the guy in the next bay got the honors. He was doing something under the dash and let out a big scream as a rat chomped down on his hand. We ended up calling animal control and the thing was infested badly. They also went to her home and the county ended up digging a big hole and pushing the house into it. I'll always wonder what they found. She ended up in a nursing home. It was pretty sad.
Oh wow. Thats pretty sad.
What a story.
@@JustRolledIn It really sucked for all concerned. After that we refused to work on rolling trash cans.
@corey Babcock It must have been unlivable for the city to condemn it so quickly.
@@randall1959 and to legit bury the house
@@TechDove It was pretty sad to be honest. Her cheese had slid off her cracker and she wound up in a home.
The thing I love the most ab this channel is that the thumbnail looks like clickbait but he really comes through with it and you don't have to wait to see it
I would say that the Ford Focus clearly has a bigger problem than the ignition one
At least, the owner certainly has a bigger problem--and IS a big problem!
I was surprised it wasn't in for lack of brake or acceleration. Wow!
I think the problem is somewhere between the steering wheel and the driver's seat.
@@jpowens2253 That is their job....mobile land fill operator.
I would ignite it once for good. And for free.
I had a customer with the same exact problem with the air filter. Her boyfriend put it in for her and left the car in the garage. It wouldn't start when she went to leave the next morning. He's a keeper for sure!
You can search for a good long time before you come up with a keeper😂
You'd think removing the old one without a bag would be a clue.
Well, the allegedly most intelligent species in the world unfortunately proves very often that it is not really intelligent ;)
@@lo1bo2 But that's how the old filter got dirty; if you leave the bag on, the new filter will stay nice and clean! 😉
@@lo1bo2 That would need logical thinking or common sense. Common sense is rare and logic is no where to found.
The first car reminds me of my favorite manager who used to turn away customers due to unsanitary conditions. Sure they'd lose they're minds but we didn't have to climb into a garbage bag to make a few bucks.
I was replacing a heater core in a car, removed the cover under the dash and had a whole bunch of roaches fall out on me not one or two but an infestation. got out closed the door called the client to pick up car refused to do the job
That was a good manager.
Probably a toilet at night time too.
I lived in my car for 3 1/2 months in 2013, and I was adamant with myself that it stay clean the entire time. I took everything out of it twice a week and vac'd it, took it through the DIY car wash once a week, and cleaned it thoroughly once a month. I didn't have to eat in it, having a job (in a hospital, so ate in the cafeteria, as well as other places), so food garbage was never an issue.
Don't ever want to repeat that experience, but if I did, I'd have to be even more on top of cleanliness, now having a considerably smaller car.
Nearly similar to me. I was employed, but I had nowhere to stay between apartment rentals. It was only three nights, but I had to keep finding safe and hidden places to park overnight.
I got Caddy wheels on my flatbed trailer, I get looks all the time
Lol thats awesome.
The guy with the K and N filter should meet with the guy with the second filter covered with mud.
Good point, he’s probably thinking that last one got so dirty I can fix that.
They're the same person. Replaced the muddy filter with the wrapped one.
@@mattz1230 Problem solved.
2:00 Is that the new Kiadillac? Talk about up-badging! lol
That's awesome 😆😂
For the Cadillac right?? :-))
Seriously tho, i was in China during the 08 Olympics and did some tourist stuff, one was a mountain with a big citadel at the top, there were all these mini busses carting tourists up the winding road, they were all some weird Toyota or Nissan knock offs, but the Chinese drivers had bought and stuck on the grill a Mercedes star. Apparently after talking to a driver through our interpreter, it was an option from the factory! :-)))
1:53 When you drive a Kia, but still wanna feel like a king.
1:30 I saw the same problem when we Subletted a Wrangler to the local Jeep dealer to have a plow installed. They drilled the hole from inside and through the back of the booster. Oh, the loving touch of dealership expertise... 🤣
Oh God 😂😂.
The amount of people that drill through stuff without knowing what they are doing.
When I was in high school my buddy (who liked radios but didn't know cars) got a job as a best buy radio installer. He drilled a hole through a brake booster a few months after starting.
If I ever run a wire I always just poke it through an existing plug, there's usually space to add another (and keep it water tight) or a spare plug you can pop a hole in. I won't drill unless absolutely necessary. Not that it's a high rust area, I just don't want to drill.
I used to install car phones and I dont think I ever had to drill through a fire wall. Its something that should be avoided since you are usually drilling into the unknown. Drilling into an obvious fitting on the fire wall is an unfathomable level of stupid
@@volvo09 You are so right! I have installed my share of stereos and other accessories over the years, and never had to drill a hole in the firewall. There are always several plugs which you can poke a hole in, and run the wire through, or just run the new wire right next to an existing wire. There is always a way!
They do realise that there's a thing called A USER MANUAL that will tell you where you can and can't drill and why your brakes suddenly stopped working after drilling through THE FLIPPING BRAKE BOOSTER PUMP. Every car has at least 1 manual and the will to read them or not.
Looks like an episode of Hoarders. I mean I've had so much trash in the floorboard of my car before I had to clean it out with a snow shovel but it was only level with the seat on the passenger side the driver side was unobstructed. That's unsafe to attempt to drive because piles of garbage under the brake pedal could prevent you from being able to stop quickly.
If it was towed in, that stuff could have just fallen over to the driver's side from the mountain on the passenger's side. It's still unsafe to drive because of limited visibility and stuff shifting around while driving.
I bet that truck with the winch wires will eventually need a power steering pump.
Running power through bearings puts zillions of little arc blasts all over the bearing balls and races.
There's actually a notice in the transmission rebuild community (I believe it isn't a ford TSB) about older 7.3l power stroke trucks eating transmissions when the chassis grounds are all broken. Power runs through the trans input shaft and through the fluid pump and eats it away rapidly. It leaves a telltale mark. If you don't fix the grounding issue the truck will cook another trans in no time.
You are right...
It could have damaged many more items as well.
That reminds me of an issue that disabled several satellites, including major space telescopes. They have "reaction wheels" which are small flywheels used to adjust rotation, and many of them have failed. The suspected cause is sparking caused by radiation and solar flares putting pits in the bearings.
What years on the 7.3, I just bought an
01
@@Br3ttM I'm going to watch for that the next time I drive into space.
That's shocking...
It's scary to think idiots like this are driving all around you 😳
Yep. Even scarier, 75% of drivers think they are above average
i mean if you have drove anywhere ever in your life you should already know how stupid and insane most people actually are. zero awareness, zero cares about anyone but themselves and even that is shaky.
this is a flaw with peoples reasoning/logic processing skills. it's widespread and it's very very alarming.
@@richardmillhousenixon I'd say it's closer to 90 from what I've seen driving all over this country. I've seen all kinds of crazy drivers on the road.
@@jackson5116 It may be, but surveys have only shown 75%
scarier to think these people could be your neighbor, and dabble in electrical as well.
We had a car come in and the inside was not only stuffed and filthy, every surface was covered in mold, the whole interior, even the steering wheel. We refused service. Couldn’t make one of our guys get in that thing for a test drive and be able to sleep at night.
And they’re the ones who complain you didn’t wash their car 🤣
We had one crawling with roaches inside... we put tires on and got them to drive it out.
@@bd8439 Who did you ask to drive it out? The owner or the roaches?
@@soaringvulture 👏👏👏
@@soaringvulture LMFAO
That winch on that jeep had power wires that make me more confident in my ability to run cables in vehicles.
@corey Babcock Thats what im scared to do. I have 0 gauge jumper cables i want to run to a 2000 watt inverter 7nder the back seat in the cab of my chevy. I have no issue running fog lights or a light bar or radar detector, but running heavy cable under and into the cab sketches me out.
The hole through the brake booster was such a clever idea 💡
Yeah, right 👍 😂
I often wonder how some people get through the day.
They live among us!
Be vigilant, stay alert!
🪶
among us?
**Memories of my 19yo self beating a Renault Laguna brake booster into shape with a hammer to make it fit my Renault 12**
**shudders**
To be fair... it seems that he drilled the hole from the inside.
Still stupid... but with a little bit of bad luck, too.
I wish there was a cure for stupid.
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey 😂😆😂
Sounds like something my brother would have done! He once put a marble in his trumpet thinking he'd be able to blow it out. That didn't happen! He should have taken it to an instrument repairman. He didn't! He begin tapping on it with a hammer 🔨
It was ugly 😂
Scrap Brass...
Had to order a new trumpet 🎺
Love these - this time especially that air filter. I don't like to feel superior or anything, but surely you can work out that air is supposed to pass THROUGH a filter? Hence the name?
Is that how it works...? 😜
No you definitely need to seal in that new air filter freshness.
@@chuckles3295 OK, that's true.
@@spacemanmat Ah yes, can't have those bad smells getting in the vehicle. Maybe I was wrong about it.
@@JustRolledIn Well, I just don't know now.
Who needs a brake booster when you have an amp?
Just amp up the brakes!
Guy thought he was installing a bass booster.
Priorities, man!
@Steve Hensley. I thought you said "Its a bass booster".
This channel just proves their is no hope for humanity anymore. Peoples stupidity truly knows no bounds. These videos do a fine job demonstrating that.
We are their hope, should they strive to do better. 😂
I know exactly what you mean, most of these i PMSL at, but some i question how someone that moronically stupid be allowed to drive on the roads. :-)
It's people like this that keeps mechanics busy 🤣
my two friends did a roll race down a hill behind a grocery store wirh speed bumps. my friend knocked his oil pan off, picked it up, drove across town then drove to work the next day where it seized and said his car was running rough.vw vr6 engine destroyed.
You and that highly thought of guy who said in the Great Depression that "America will never again have prosperity" are both pessimists. If you wanna go shoot yourself in both feet with that logic, you can go right ahead, but it doesn't make you help anyone.
EDIT: And yes, I realize you might be joking here. You're still coming across seriously at least to someone, *you're using the neutral communications medium of text.*
Living in Australia it used to annoy me that once a year you need to take your car for a safety inspection.
After seeing some of the cars on the road in this Channel I've never been more thankful. More than half these would not be allowed on Aussie roads
In Missouri, USA, it used to be annually. It is now every 2 years. Cars newer than 10 yrs old are exempt. Also, after watching some of these videos, I think it should be required everywhere. Especially, the vehicles that are rusted so badly, I don't see how they even drive down the road.
@@swmovan Newer than 10yrs old exempt? I've seen major dangerous faults in 2yr old cars. I can't believe a supposedly advanced nation like the US can't instigate a national safety inspection of vehicles to keep the public safe.
@@andrewlaw Many states don't have vehicle inspection at all. (That is evident by many of these videos) They do have the right to stop and inspect a car if it is suspected the vehicle is defective, but I've never heard of it happening.
neither on roads in germany, austria, or switzerland.
In the UK inspection yearly but cars under 3 years excemp. I've seen cars mechanically written off at one year. Part of the trouble is there is no mileage limit, and some people don't get even new cars serviced.
"You can't fix stupid" - Ron White
" I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability" -- Ron White
The K&N filter with the wrapper still on made me piss myself. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That Focus in the first video looks very similar to what one of our customer's Focus looks like ('08 to '11 model year body style). Every time it comes in for service, I flatly refuse to work on it.
I'm sure somewhere on the box or on the bag of the K&N filter it says to remove from bag before installing.
It will now.
We have a lot of customers come in with those filters and don't know that you can clean them. We say, "hey you should totally clean it. We don't do that service, since it takes time to do it right." They say, "oh just throw it away and give me a new paper filter." Or, "oh just wash it out with a hose and throw it in."
But you have to read it. Some folks don't do that stuff.
It probably says DO NOT EAT on the suppository box. But you know there's got to be someone. . .
@@johneyton5452 I know guys who got drunk in the military and tried it. Had to taken them to the base hospital for a stomach pump.
PLEASE tell me the dealership refused to work on that first vehicle! I know I would. Cops should pull them over for unsafe operating conditions!
People are crazy, anyone who deals with the public much probably has a story or two. So many of us are oblivious of our surroundings that it's scary.
Almost every job I've had since 1996 has been dealing directly with the public. The first thing you learn is that the public is stupid. Some admit they're stupid about certain things. But the rest....the rest are not only stupid, but they don't realize it, and they're rude about it.
so much for evolution, clearly we are de-evolving..
I drove a tow truck as a youngster 50 years ago.
Yes, there are stories.
@@joevk6274 lolollllllllllllllllll
Like cops, right?
@@jskyg68 yeah, we're de-evolving because there are mentally ill hoarders out there. lol tf. do you think we were more evolved when we would fight wars by standing in big block formations and firing muskets at each other? or we were more evolved when we thought animals just spontaneously generated from their environment?
It's okay to drill a brake booster for an amp wire, as long as you use enough flex seal on the hole afterwards. Same thing with the fuel tank and the oil pan. Ask me how I know...
PMSL
lol 😆
JB Weld works great for oil pans as well.
Dont ask me how I know
@@RedMo46 someone, won't say who(mr master mechanic), didn't want to replace my rotting oil pan that was leaking like a sieve in an old durango i had... the location is a complete pain in the ass, so i get it. he decided to use some goop? brought it back home, by the next day i had no oil left. he ended up having to remove the axles or something, whatever it was hidden behind that made it so painful, and putting in a shiny brand new one after all... i hated that thing anyhow, the 1999 was so tippy.
I have sealed a fuel tank with JB weld.. it only held for a couple weeks but it bought me some dry time
Just imagine what their house looks if their car is that packed of stuff
Probably the same, that’s untreated mental illness.
Judging by the clutter, that was there house.
Could well be that they're living in the car itself---in which case, the trash in there is even worse, because why keep one's environment so dirty, it's impossible to move around a bit? (rhetorical question)
@@jb6712 It's not rational. It's mental illness. You can't apply logic to it.
If they even have one
that first one... i admit that i dont keep my car the cleanest. but that is just insane.
Whenever I think my car is messy....I just watch one of your videos and feel better....thanks!!!!
I know with Covid and the economy basically falling apart like some of the rusted out cars featured here over the years that there are sadly a lot of people living in their cars. That said if you do need to bring your car in for work, be enough of a human being to clean it out of the actual trash for the sake of the people doing the work.
Don't ruin some other guys life just because your life isn't the greatest at the moment.
We've told customers to take their car and clean it out before we'll look at it. Most of the time they at least tried. A few never came back. No big loss.
Desperation and living in your car won't fill it up that badly. There has to be something psychological going on.
@@Br3ttM That too is also very likely.
@@Br3ttM yeah, all that crap on the driver's seat? Prob not living in it.
Which car was yours...?
Even after working on vehicles all day, it just relaxes me for some reason to watch these!
It does make you appreciate you know what your doing. Stupidity keeps us employed!
@@richceglinski7543 HA! good point!
Every time i see pics of some idiot putting bicycle puncture repair patches on the OUTSIDE of the tire, and expecting it to work, i wonder if they should be even allowed to drive a vehicle :-))
There entire though process must consist of "Hole in tire. Get tire patch. Put patch on hole." They might have also wiped the tire clean so it would stick.
Hahaha That hole in the brake booster is the funniest fkup I have ever seen.
Beautiful mini Jay Leno Garage at the end.
2:16 I seen the memes about leaving plastic on your air filter, and the meme saying... you should not work on your own car. But i never thought that meme was legit. Now we need to see a legit video of someone leaving the plastic on the battery terminals.
There's been a couple already.
Along with people using hose clamps as terminal connectors.
Or using screws to attach the cables to the terminals....
I've seen that happen too, no video, sorry.
@@dposcuro You mean a couple *dozen* on these videos.
The caps on the battery have been on here. Customer complained they installed a new battery but now their car won't start.
@@BigLisaFan I have not watched all the videos here, so it is good to know that really happens, i almost gained faith in humanity
That was a close one!
Just burn that focus to the ground, its the easiest solution.
It'd probably burn for a week, tho.
Bloody hell fire!
I never knew that they do storage units on wheels.
What a marvellous, wondrous age we live in.
I had to have some work done on my car that required removing my tires. I left the wheel locks in a labeled pouch on top of the cubbie in my car. When I picked my car, the mechanic actually left me a note thanking me for leaving the wheel locks out for him to find. I never knew that such a simple act would mean so much to someone. I need to be more thoughtful of mechanics!
imagine paying hundreds for a tow truck just to find out you left a plastic wrap on your air filter.
Hope those people remove the foil wrap before the chicken goes in the oven.
@@markusberndkrause2858 I hope they don't (reproduce)
that first car should be labeled a biohazard
I work in auto retail in Australia, and I have definitely seen a K&N filter installed with the wrapping before (The complaint is that the filter must be faulty)
The kind of people suffocation warnings on bags are made for.
Lol! When I worked at this Ford dealership we wouldn't touch any K&N air filters. Too many issues with customes and those filters. Never cleaning them and trying to blame us etc.
Yeah, the filter's crap. Let me sell you a new one.
I've bought 7 K&N motorbike filters and 1 car filter, all of them have turned up in K&N boxes. Never once have I ever seen an K&N wrapped??
@@FozzyZ28 they should be in a box and have plastic around them in the box so they can't get dirty before getting used.
Love how this video is just right to the point and doesn't waste so much time talking each issue to death. Looking forward to viewing the others!
Those two filters really got me on both ends. WoW. Also loving the highlighter yellow/green vehicles in the images!
Years ago I worked as a mechanic for a guy that ran a construction company. I got to work on all kinds of stuff, from earthmovers to weedwhackers, but he wasn't keen on spending a lot of money on some stuff. So, he'd tell me to just make it run, so he could swap it off to another guy, that was having his mechanic do the same. I got to talk to his mechanic one day, and we both agreed not to screw each other over, and make the both of our bosses cough up the money to repair stuff right. Both of our workloads went down.
The boss bought a Maserati Bi Turbo, at an auction, and told me to go pick it up, because it had something wrong with the steering. After an exciting drive back to the shop (I'm surprised I didn't get pulled over for drunk driving), I found out that the rack and pinion had no connection to the frame (did i mention it was an exciting ride back to the shop). All the clamps were missing. Parts were also an issue, since Maserati had pretty much closed down. I was able to find a place on the East Coast that had some parts, and on speaking to one guy, found out that these cars were complete lemons. It seems that Maserati, in its haste to compete with BMW, had installed a race car engine in these BiTurbo models. The oil galleries were undersized, starving the engines of oil. The guy said he'd only seen a few that made it to 20,000 miles.
That was sad, this car was beautiful, leather interior, and ran like a scalded dog, and had 18,000 miles on it. My boss was not a happy camper, on hearing this news.
There was a guy that was rebuilding the engines, with all the galleries bored out, but even then, they were lucky to run for 60,000.
Makes me feel like a master mechanic, keeping my saab 93 aero(2004) rolling.
You hit the nail on the head with that comment!
I notice you said "rolling," not running. Trying to slip one by us???
This HAS to be satire! It has to be. This is insane. I've ran a couple cars into the ground, but this is a whole new level for me...
"After they drilled a hole in their brake booster..." 🤦🏼♀️
I would have refused to work on that first car at all at least until is was cleaned up, debugged and deodorized. You know that car had to at least have roaches in it and probably some bed bugs too.
Imagine what their house must look like.
@@chiroquacker2580 That might be the house for all we know. Some people live in their cars. I suspect that is what is going on her.
@@magoolew5131 There's nowhere to sleep!
The intellectual prowess of some of your customers is stunning !!!!!
I love these videos, turned me into a razor fanatic regarding proper maintenance.
Awesome as ever dude 👌
Drilling holes in the brake booster 😂😂 K&N in a bag 🤣 mint!!
Have a great week 👍
Yea the brake booster one was something else 😅 and you too man! 👍
Well at least that K&N will not get dirty!
@@ldnwholesale8552 Was trying to make it last longer before needing to change it!
@@ldnwholesale8552 🤣🤣
I knew a guy that lived in his car and it was exactly like the Ford focus. They either use the garbage for insulation or to fill the gaps in their environment to feel more secure. Perhaps both. It's sad. He got a job where I had worked and became pretty successful. Bum to boomer in about a year.
That first one "yeah, sorry my car is a little dirty. Let me just nice some stuff out of the way"
Videos like this make me feel less bad for neglecting little things that need fixing on my car.
yessss, new episode ! greetings from Poland
Greetings from Canada 😁
The classic cars we see at the end of your videos are cool as can be. I have first dibs on the light brown 1961 Plymouth Fury convertible. It's the one with the fins at 2:54.
Best part of the video
I'd take anyone of them
I would just like to walk thru and look at all that hot iron
Hmm. I think that may be more like a 58 or 59. 61 didnt have those giant fins. Edit: I think thats more like Christine, being a 58.
0:35 those puncture repairs are priceless. lol
The bicycle patches on the tire are the best! 🤣🤣
I have to give it too the guy who tried to fix his own tyre with a puncture repair kit! Fairly sure they were pushbike repair patches, had they been on the inside of the tyre, he'd probably have fixed his puncture! Nice try Sir! 😁👍
Nah, that tire was so dry-rotted it was basically a window screen. No fixing that!
You can't repair a sidewall!
they are (before I got my car I always rode my bike everywhere) - but even on a bike tyre (with separate inner tube) a cut sidewall means replacing the tyre asap (you can do an emergency repair but its only safe enough to get you to the nearest bike shop)
@@everready19373 dental floss is handy stuff - i've seen a few clever alternative uses for it, your tyre repair is another great example! 😁
@@everready19373 I've seen a few fixes like this suggested as emergency repairs and they certainly can work, although I'm lucky I live in a part of a country with good bike shops (and we can also get decent bicycle/e-bike tyres from Germany that are reinforced, since I switched to those I rarely get any hassle with punctures or sidewall cuts (and bike paths here are often filled with broken glass and other unwanted stuff)
31 years in the business and I still get amazed at the complaints that the customer caused and blame the car🤨
And the manufacturer, people today must have things done for them because of their inability to take care of themselves, and responsibility for their own actions
@@bryanphillips6666 Exactly!!
0:06 you wont see this in countries where most people could barely afford cars
That air filter one though! I had one last month that had the factory GM AC Delco air filter with 140k miles on it, and the customer declined getting a new one.
2:30 Never seen a Toyota 2GR 3.5 V6 fail like that, those are probably one of the most reliable engines out there.
Yea the tech said he's never seen it before as well. As mentioned though it was that one part that was made by a different manufacturer that cause the issue.
Whenever I see these horror stories, I like to go outside, hug my car, kiss it on the hood and tell it how much I love it.
Great clips. Love the dust cover for the air filter. The collection at the end is awesome.
I love these videos! Keep them coming!
That customer should've _focused_ on cleaning out their car. And 2 back-to-back brake-related problems? These people need to _stop!_
I'll see myself out.
I know why used car prices have gone through the roof after seeing that last clip. People have started hoarding them!
After watching the whole playlist I've learned two important things:
1. Be grateful for the mandatory car checkup every 2 years we have in Germany, it keeps the rust buckets off the road.
2. Be afraid of potholes made in the USA, be very afraid.
I've hit a pothole once with about 40 miles per hour and it felt like getting hit with a huge sledgehammer. It left some damage on the side of the wheel and also a dent in the steel rim of about 5mm out of position. Needless to say I changed both for safety reasons. I can only imagine the Sarlacc-like potholes that left some rims in wrecked condition.
Yea, pot holes are always an issue in the US. Especially those that are within a city. The State wont or can't repair those and the people who have money and run the city don't want to pay to repair them. As for the mandatory car check up every two years, that wont work in the US because parts are really expensive no matter where you go. In some instances you'd be better off just buying another used car as opposed to trying to get parts to repair, but even used cars can cost so much most of us middle class folk simply can't afford it. So a lot of us simply make do with the best we can get our hands on, and it creates this never-ending cycle of potentially dangerous vehicles on the road because we can't afford anything else.
I also would be grateful for a mandatory inspection every two years. Where I live it is required yearly.
That battery cable reminded me of a situation i was in. Only mine rubbed through where in runs down by the manifold, and it was hidden if you were just looking under the hood. I kept losing power, I would go under the hood and wiggle the terminals and it would start up. I was at the house racking my brains(which is not saying much), actually was on the phone to a mechanic running it by him so he could just give me some ideas. I tugged on the positive battery wire and, there was the problem, it pulled the wrest of the way apart. I wound up getting a 10ga splice and splicing that sucker. $100 for that cable. been over a year now and that coupler is working fine. About 6 dollars and a little elbow grease.
If these people have so little regard for the care and attention of their vehicle, just imagine how messed up their own existence must be.
I don't believe that follows. People have different priorities and interests. I'm not interested in cars, I get mine serviced semi-regularly and it gets its mandatory yearly inspection, but that's it. For people who don't have much money for servicing and who live somewhere that doesn't have mandatory inspections I can easily imagine running a car into the ground.
I can't fathom driving a car around with more garbage in it than a dumpster. That's just nasty. I lost part of an Arby's curly fry once in my Lexus. I damn-near unbolted the seat from the car just to find it.
Did you eat it when you found it? 😉
@@andrewlaw yes I gave your mom a ride back home, Cornpop was worried.
Love “ Just Rolled In “ but lord have mercy the drivers that don’t need to be driving !! Wow !!
On those submitted photos, i think I have seen that top kick conversion on 295 near Richmond Va in 2004 or so. Might not be the only one, but it sure caught my eye.
Are they living in it?
Not sure. The technician didn't mention.
My Ford Focus won’t start
Well, it’s a Ford, sooooo.
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@@JustRolledIn haha I’m jk obviously. All models got their issues.
Definitely! Just some more then others.
The 2003-2013 panther platform cars with the 4.6 have Toyota levels of reliability.
This is YOUR daily dose of customer states
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Got to love the person that tried to put tire repair patches on the outside of the tire. That guy must be a genius.
WTF is wrong with these people 😲😲😡
The car owners, or the people who holler FIRST?
That last bit was a showroom full of awesome
My first time watching your videos/channel… These people that bring their cars to you must have heard you’re a miracle worker! Cause they definitely need one 😂
That K&N one! 🤣🤣🤣
This really is an excellent series
I saw this on a sort w no context glad you see it now
That unpacked filter is just hilarious!
I'm impressed by the durability of the fuse at the supply end of that winch power cable. Direct short to ground and it keeps on chugging. Very impressive. 😳
I would be impressed if there was a fuse.
This is gold.
Had a timing chain do that to me too. 0km only rolled it over 2 times . Napa wouldn't take it back cause it's used now.
you didn't do a test drive before buying it?
@@Jacob-W-5570 installed a new one on my engine and it was mismade . Thought it looked funny but tried anyway. Second chain was also mismade and I pulled it apart on the counter at napa
I love these videos because I am a mechanic in south Africa and most of these problems also occur in here
With so many cars now not have spare tires I understand these"field repairs". I have used Fix-a-flat several times.I know service people hate to have to clean up the goo when they service the tire,but they do work.I had one fix a flat work for 6 months during Covid lock down.Iam not proud of that but "You gota do,what you gota do". Well worth the $17 for a can to keep in the trunk.