I Bought a $1,400 RANGE ROVER at Auction with MYSTERY Mechanical Damage SIGHT UNSEEN!
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I found a really mint looking, clean title, Range Rover at the Copart Salvage auction; so I bid and won it for only $1,400. It was marked as a non running nor driving car, so I started taking stuff apart and here's what I found.
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What other unreliable cars do you want to see me gamble on at the auction???
V12 Mercedes
Samcrac alfa romeo... or any Fiat company car
Samcrac Mini Cooper 🤙 I picked one up at Copart fixed the damage from accident. Immediately afterwords everything in the fuel system Started to fail lol
Alfa Romeo would be great
I want an Alfa so bad, but like one that I'll actually have, use and drive (I'm watching a couple)
Land Rover owners don't wave when they pass each other because they already met at the service center in the morning.
Hankyeol Kim I LOLed
I though when they passed each other they held out a hand with the fingers up indicating home many head gaskets they have replaced...
Best comment of the day!
Lol. Excellent
Hankyeol Kim Land Rover owners don’t have hands as they had to fork over an arm and a leg for the repairs.
There is a VW Phaeton in the background? Love that car ❤
Just buy an audi A8. much nicer car.
I'm watching Adam Sandler fix a Range Rover and I don't even know how I got here
not in a Range Rover.
Me too. It's actually 5am and I'm still watching. What's wrong with me??
sgleewsmd that was pretty good ngl
Yup me too. At least I didn't end up to the end of the world illuminati videos again.
Loool
I was expecting him to lift the hood and just see it completely empty 🤣
Funniest thought ever! A comedian's mind!
Same thoughts here😁
😃😄😃
Was hoping for the Buick engine...
Mystery?
Closes door at 2:45 with no "door closing sound"....mysterious...
battery was dead that's why you don't hear the thud
Wilber Alvarado hmmm
bob bob hahahahahaha
It never really closed
@@bobbob-wf8ho Lmao🤔
Very suspicious car for sale
Sam: say no more and take my money!
Wahahaahahahah😂😂😂😂
Nothing suspicious on a cheap RR. It's sure it won't run or drive don't even question that.
He beat hoovie to it
Land Rover, " Above and beyond" Above my price range and beyond repair before it's time."
Having working as a tech at Land Rover Jaguar dealer .i feel sorry for the customers who bought them ,the poor quality and reliability of these vehicles is a under statement...head gaskets on these was as common as oil changes ...
125k on my Lexus and never put a dime into it. I ca understand cheap cars cutting corners but on luxury brands well built leads to more repeat sales, crap cars leads to crap sales
@@fladave99 ya most bmw now a days people lease them or sell them right at 50k when warranty expires...
@@ryzen397 I drove for Uber for a while and the most popular dealer run was always the BMW dealership
@@fladave99 makes perfect sense, i used to own a bmw and after the fuel pump failed twice in 1 week i sold it.
I immediately thought this was Tyler Hoover's buried Range Rover
Me too.
The oil in the spark plug area has nothing to do with the head gasket ;) they are called valve
cover gaskets LOL
He is basically a paid advertiser playing clueless on CZcams
I cant believe sam actually thought the oil from the spark plugs was from the head gasket....
Smokey Bear it doesn’t..... until you pull the plug the oil in the spark plug shaft stays there and causes miss fires once pulled in runs into the cilinders if you then start the engine it will smoke like a mofo for 20 seconds
Particularly as the oil on the plugs is just black but the pan oil is mayo. Doh!
He is an idiot, what did you expect. Mabe he thinks it leaks though osmosis. What a clown.
11:04 mechanic squirrel came to say "HI!"
Yes!! I have been looking for a place to buy shop manuals for ever!
4:25
me: why did he dress up like that
4:32
me: Oh god damn it
Don’t hate the player. Hate the game
@@futbolplaya07 no hate
He really looks like he just came from a black market with some knock off garbage.
This guy is excellent in embedded advertisements
@Gossip Heart congrats your a scammer and you flex fake jewelry
Oil on the back plugs is a valve cover gasket leak and very common for this engine.
Captain obvious is that you?
@davew - Came here to say that! Thanks for saving me the trouble!
Yep, Spark plug tubes seals, also a compression test is inconclusive for this purpose, a cylinder leakage test is the way to go, topping off the radiator for bubbles and checking for bubbles
Agree! This happened on my BMW 740il with the same engine. Heat in the back of the engine bay causes the gasket to fail. Valve cover gasket replacement isn’t too difficult.
yea i did them on my X5
I love these kind of videos. Thanks for taking the time to produce this one. One of the great joys in life is getting something that appears to be broken - whether that be a car , a relationship - whatever - to work again . Of course being tooled up in this life is very important.
By the way we have a decent TV series on fixing up motors in the UK - its called Wheeler Dealers
Waw, like a mechanic seminar or workshop, I am not a mechanic but learn a lot. Thanks
I have a lot of appreciation for this forklift driver. He super-gentle and foreplanned with his vehicle moves, he actually cared for what you bought.
More like he gets fired if he keeps fucking up people’s cars and drawing complaints.
Real proffesional 👍🏾👍🏾
"So I bought this Range Rover."
Stop, I think I just found the problem...
great video and well presented/explained, thank you for sharing!!!
very entertaining site, love it, where did samcrac get all his knowledge? were you a car tech sam?? great channel
Never begin a journey in a Range Rover if you have a reasonable expectation of completing it.
How I feel. I have an 08 supercharged that I only use locally
@Robert McGuire .....HAHAHAHHAHAHHHA
Or going throu the end of the block.
Tim Biller So long as your not driving to the moon, you'll get there!
@Robert McGuire, saying they're more reliable doesn't mean they're "reliable". And that's coming from owning several Range Rovers. Even the BMW versions are really pretty decent if you just take care of the Vanos and timing chains every 15 years or 150k + miles the finer optic BS in the jaguar based vehicles are also terrible.
Give that loader operator a high five! That dude is awesome!
I love your videos, you’re great in what you do!!! What states don’t require a dealer or broker license?
Thank u man..very cool and informative
11:03 SQUIRREL!
Been subscribed since the Flooded '15 Chevy, watched through the Dominoes Shake Down, and Continue to watch.
Keep it up Sir!
1:45 Somebody had that 2 star wanted level🙃
Fell in love with this video lmao ! Love your sense of humor! New fan. Just bought a 2012 Range Rover HsE. I will definitely be reaching out to you often.
Both cylinder head gaskets (you wouldn't do just one of them) on that rig, done by a shop that knows what they're doing (such as resurface and pressure check the heads, for a start), would run at least about 6-7000 dollars. Honestly it's usually better to just find a solid used engine from a wrecker and swap that in, rather than spend all that money gambling that the bottom half of the engine is going to hold up much longer, after having been run with coolant/water contaminated oil for who knows how long.
Naked news
The oil on the plugs is a valve cover gasket. It's all about what side of the threads the the oil is on.
Is it me or do Sam looks like Adam Sandler 🤔
Or that guy from Man Vs Food
He also sound like Raymond Romano.
Been wondering the same thing. SAM ARE YOU A JEW?
NO HE LOOKS LIKE THE DOMINOES PIZZA GUY IN HIS LITTLE SPARK THAT DELIVERED A PIZZA EARLIER. I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM.. GEEZ. I BEEN WANTING TO BUY THE SPARK.
Defo Adam sandler 😂
This was super interesting and surprisingly informative. Thanks for the video
I love how you say "These old Range Rovers are really unreliable". Dude, I used to built these things and trust me, the NEW ones are shit, never mind the old ones!! They spend more time on a ramp than they do on a road!
Your guess that there was a major oil leak on that first spark plug was all wrong. The oil was on the outside of the plug; the part that stays outside the engine. So, if there is oil there, then you are guaranteed to have a valve cover gasket leak. It would tell you nothing about the compression on that one cylinder.
It's really annoying to see people misdiagnose quite obvious problems and be so confident in their diagnosis....SMH
actschp1 - I was going to comment on this as well. The BMW engines have a bad trait (several actually) with the valve covers leaking oil into the spark plug wells. That’s all that is. It’s usually worst on the back ones as the engine is at a slight angle back (like most engines) so the oil pools back there inside the valve covers. It can lead to misfire faults on those plugs as the oil and dirt will conduct and lead to a current path to the block inside the well / outside the cylinder when the coil discharges. I have an 04 RR. About to start a series here on CZcams restoring it. Gonna be a great series.
actschp1 i came here to comment the same thing. Dont get me wrong i think this range rover is junk and is worth parts but oil on the outside of a spark plug is a valve cover gasket not telling on where the head gasket may be leaking from. There are other places that water could be coming from and a coolant compression visual check might help find it. I hate when misinformation is put out on some of these channels.
Omg...its so obvious he isent a real mecanic, but just a car guy with a youtube Channel.. 🤷🏼♂️
Hes used to seeing american cars with 1960's engineering made from rock.
Doug called and said he want his Range Rover back
that was the first video of yours that i watched and i think its great work. i like your up beat approach.
Oil on the plugs is from leaking plug tube seals. Very common on those engines, along with valve cover and head gaskets.
11:05 ohhh look a squirrel in the background :-D and now back to the Range Rover :-)
The Hoovie is strong on this one
Hoovie has a field and an excavator ready for this one...
@@aftonline well seeing how Sam went to Hoovie and dug up the old Range Rover I know that engine from that one is going into this one.
@@someone28 didnt that Range Rover end up on somebodys ranch or something to be used for target practice? Hopefully nobody fired any heavy rounds into the engine block.
@@someone28 that was tavarish
Keep going with this one, looking forward to it.
Keeping up the great tradition of the old Range Rover, repair.
Landrover owners are two times happy, when they buy the car and when they sell the car.
Next Nexit because they make so much money.
IF, if they sell the car.
I don't think they're happy selling it because it depreciates so much, it's worth a grain of sand after 4 years
@@stccoleman3296 not all of them. People could also buy one for cheap as hell used...
@@stccoleman3296 That's a good joke
11:00 - There is a squirrel running around in the background. Made my day haha
Best part of the vid, thanks mate
Really good content Sam! Subscribed!
99% of Range Rovers are still on the road .....the other 1% actually made it home ! Sorry couldn't help myself.
True
😂
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Pure gold!!!!
Brilliant
id rather buy british than american junk such as a shelby
Looking at this junk the way it’s engineered I really appreciate Honda and Toyota
Toyota is a rust bucket.
Toyota's are legit
Toyota's get u from a to be ,end of.
Great video and even better production value. Very much appreciate your audio mix between narration and music. Clean and balanced. Nicely done!
Most owners of brand new RR or LR get rid of them after the 3/36 warranty.
Assuming it lasted 3/36
Sam, this rover’s hood has service mode, and could be fixed at 90* degree. Makes much easier changing battery for example
Ride like a dream..break like a nightmare😂😂in short endless money pit.
Do you have a detailed video on buying from this auction? I’m interested in trying but I’m curious as to what you look for? I’m see they have non-salvage vehicles. I’m looking for a working Honda Element.
First Samcrac vid for me - excellent!
Ah, I can see the problem from here. The words "Range Rover" appear on the vehicle.
There goes 21 minutes and 54 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
😂
HA!!! Love it!!!
Tbh it's better then any thing in it's league that's manufactured from the states by far , I mean by far
Haha, that is not being honest at all.
Wait, I just realized something: You've got a LOT of land there, why haven't you built an actual garage for all these cars?
The cows needs that space to eat.
the chickens wont let him
He's going to get inflatable ones from the Internet.
Looks better that way
He's waiting for you to do it for him.
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION & VERY CLEAVER ~ EDUCATED MECHANIC !!!! ENTERTAINING.............THANKS !!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK *
MECHANIC? Debatable!!!
“Totally sight unseen” does not apply if you’ve seen ten photos
Woah woah. You are supposed to take Land Rovers TO the junkyard.... not AWAY from the junkyard.
LMFAO 😂
Ugh, milkshake in the oil
Where is the update? Would love to know how this progressed.
Owners call them boats for a reason , boat stands for Break Out Another Thousand $$$
17:21
"Testting"
dereko140 Teslla, testticles, testtify.
I see nothing wrong here
Well there are two Ts in battery.
Spoiler for future vids: He'll never actually drive it
Ouch
I've managed to change the head gasket using a maual.. What gets me is the electrics.
Great Video!!! I see you're using the RayJay truewireless earbuds. How do you like them? Worth the investment?
“There’s alot of extras this car has”....yeah extra problems 😂
Those are all loaded models in that case.
WHY DID THE DOOR HAVE NO CLOSING SOUND
Battery was dead, that's why you didnt hear it.
@Will Chatham what freak me out more that i didn't even noticed that🤔 Lol..
I thought I was the only one who noticed hence because my uncle owned a very clean low mileage one with extras like TVs and all sorts
Great video! Subscribed!
Can you do a 4th Generation 4Runner please? 2003 to 2009
The more actual fixing videos I see the more I am enjoying your channels. Def stick to this type of format. And who ever put the music over chose really well.
Doug DeMuro: "But did you get that bumper to bumper warranty?"
Ask rob Pitts about bumper to bumper warranty he has a good story about that lol
Matt Nobody would give you warranty on this crap car.
Only if you paste the rear bumper to the bull bar.
As soon as I saw this video I was wondering if its Doug's. 🤣
"Bumper to bumper?"
"Bumper to bumper."
Those rear spark plugs were coated in oil but only on top, not the electrode, so that oil was likely just from leaking camcover gaskets.
Dont spoil the fun for the people who dont know anything about cars lol thats how youtubers make money... SCARY RANGE ROVER
YIKES! At 10:34, looks like someone making a mocha Frappuccino in the oil pan!
Love the trick to get the dead battery to show on the charger,I,ll remember that one cause I,ve got a smart charger too,awesome vid. Best wishes to you, from, Auckland, New Zealand.
What the hell happened to the Gallardo?
As a mechanic I keep seeing mis diagnosis after mis diagnosis
A lot of mechanics just pull a code and guess on what code they saw never doing any real testing.
In this video or in your work?
@@ElwoodPDowd-nz2si in his work. that is why he has no clue on possible reasons
Yes you are correct. He is not a mechanic.
Ppl like this say needs new starter. They go buy starter, install, and it don't work.
Then they remember that the last thing they did b4 it quit was raise the steering up as high as it goes so a 7-foot man could drive. Disconnected the wires in the column... d'oh.
Never let customer troubleshoot.
Damn hidden screw covers on the rocker top covers, I remember having to ring a friend about opening the hood on a transit van, the key hole was hidden behind the FORD badge 😉🤣
They always break down, they are good to own if you need to get mechanical
Experience
200000 miles my tundra was just getting broken in
Those will run forever as long as you do scheduled maintenance. Excellent vehicle of choice as well!
Well, I've got 147k on my 1995 YJ. (And that is the 4 cylinder not the i6.) I feel like people should throw roses as I drive by.
You will have to put another 200k on your vehicle to even come close to my level of bragging rights. ; )
Elwood P. Dowd - 💐💐💐
@@Bacnow Finally.
Thank you, thank you...
Some guy in Phoenix has one about to roll 1,000,000..
Toyota is buying it back when it does!!
Sam, when you eventually start the RR it will throw an Air Suspension Inactive message on the dash (always after a battery disconnect). With the engine running turn the steering wheel lock to lock (full left then full right) and back to centre and the message will clear. Have fun!
Spoiler alert - he doesn't start the car. You got a great deal there anyway, the body is mint - put a 350 small block in it and go for another quarter million miles.
Cheers, saved me a lot of time!
Cool workman very cool. I used to work on cars with my father. I love the fact that he taught me that.
So that’s how testing is spelled in China.
This dude is definitely related to Adam Sandler
love these vids!
This is exciting, it is a clean car and looks well cared for, so it has value. Getting it running that will be a big bonus.
your a good and interesting person to watch thumbs up and subscribed, now let's see what happens to the Range Rover.
There ain't no such thing as a mint Range Rover
Maybe in america
There are, but you probably just look on facebook marketplace and craigslist.
Mint as long as they are in the StealerShip showroom
Maybe like a Polo Mint, if it has a hole in the middle
Fuckin mint 👌
Just came across your channel so looks like I'm binge watching it Nothing like trouble shooting
4:25 ive never watched this guy before and when he stepped into the screen i lowkey thought he was adam sandler
Benny on the Beat same
Adam sandler🤣😂
Land Rover "Discovery" - named as such because each day you would discover something else that was wrong with it 🤣
Richard William Johnson Good one.
Goddamn that's funny!
I mean iv had my discovery 4 for 7 years haven't had any major issues! With maintenance on timeit's been the perfect off-roader and family car.
@@reduxbg2392 they are bound to get a few right
It was once owned by NASA, hence the mileage 😂
@5:18 "...even Super Knit Shops" Huh, even for knitting... who'da thunk... :P
Just subscribed!! Love the content 👌
How do you use the io website? Do you enter in the vin? Please explain...thank you!
For some strange, unknown reason, I want this Range Rover to live again...
11:03 Squirrel jumping around in the background
Sam you're a genius man.
All the way from,
Mozambique
The noise of those tires sliding on the metal trailer as it touched down was so satisfying.
Looks to have paint blending work down the left hand side.
Great video! I love the content. You give me hope that normal people can own nice high-end cars with just a little bit of elbow grease. I’ve been a mechanic for about 20 years. So I have never been scared of mechanical issues. It’s always the cosmetic stuff that scares me. The more of your videos I watch the more I gain the confidence to try to attempt a rebuild. On a sidenote the reason that the spark plugs were saturated with oil was because the valve cover tube seals are leaking.Keep up the great work Sam!
Thanks for he heads up on Honey.