"Fixing" my Fiat Niki Maluch.
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Oh, so James is THAT guy. Like, the guy you bring up whenever someone says “I’m gonna have to have this professionally looked at” and you go “Nah, I got my buddy James, he’ll sort you out.”
YUP
Yepp!
His internal Hispanic.
Fixed my car, my fridge, and my grandma's hip.
It’s like the classic “Nah don’t worry, I know a guy”
Polish viewer here. Tell James he did a better job himself than the factory that made that car.
It must be a car that was assembled on Friday, better be quick to finish as we need go for some Vodka.
Come on 1990 it was still some Communistic approach to a lot of things :D
I'm Polish myself so I just laugh my ass off out of those things. One Maluch can close the speedometer, the other one can't, guess this is none existing quality checks on production line :D
Polish viewer here too, my family has a pimped out maluch it has a new sound system and its strong it's in mint condition and new engine parts. It drives smooth
Im from poland and my grandfather has one in perfect condition and he dont want to sell it even when an guy fron Germany wanted him for 55 000 PLN- €12 000
@@bnk8577 that's so much money
that's so true lol
Imagine a cop pulls you over
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No."
"Yes, I was going 0km/h!"
He would probably be pulled over for going so slow 😹
3mph
I said that once and the officer just replied: "well i do"
my german uncle once drove us in his car with a broken speedometer
lets just say that’s what we know him for now
Poles used to make "water bottle fixes" all the time and engineers sometimes adapted them and put them into production in newer versions.
That is why we can say that it is the first open source car in the world.
Shame they used water bottles. If they'd used ketchup bottles, it would have been the world's first "open sauce" car. 😂
The scope of James' engineering genius literally knows no bounds
Behoooollllld my genius!
we cannot begin to comprehend the bounds of his forthcoming genius
Sometimes his genius… is almost terrifying.
Sometimes his genius... It generates gravity.
everyone needs a james in their life
stereo's broken? ring james
car won't start? ring james
nuclear power station melts down? yep u guessed it mate, ring james
I have a feeling that James needs to make a "budget" fixing channel for cars and stuff called "That'll Work".
If I make another another channel I’m stealing that name
Yeah
Unfortunately there's already a budget Dude Perfect channel with that name
"Srill gonna fix it"
"Uh, yeah sure"
Soon I saw the test light repair, I knew James was a Scotty-level legendary engineer; the rest of the video only confirmed it
Chrisfix: ok guys were going to use genuine parts and torque every single bolt to spec
Dank/James: water bottle go berrrrr
Just imagine of James collabed with ChrisFix? Chris would never have to buy any new parts again.
cable tie go ZIPPP
difference between a mechanic and a parts changer
Hey here’s a fun drinking game
Take a shot whenever he says “noo James”
Dear god, are you trying to kill people?
An alcoholics favorite game.
@@matthewdyer1568 yesn’t
Update:im dead. Typing this with the free wifi in hell
@@DeadpoolPlayz how fast was the WiFi?
Is no one talking about how James put a frickin LIGHT BULB back together?
Is no one going to talk about your pfp?
@@carlweeks2399 it gets noticed often 😂
Do you prefer to be the master or be mastered?
@@ej22_gc86 is that a question? I’m the master, just call my name cause I’ll hear you scream.
I don’t get the profile picture, can someone explain?
Oh god. I work at an auto parts store in a very rural area in Eagleland, the mechanics here go on and on about how they're the best at fixing broken stuff to be usable, but they got nothing on James. I gotta show this to my boss lol
Somehow, an Aussie scream-shouting over lashing rain about a broken nugget is better than most of what I’ve watched on CZcams in the last year
To summarize the video:
James, no. No James. James. Jaaames. James. Stop it please.
You forgot, "Oh wow, that actually worked"
James repairs cars like he is a protagonist in a survival game. Bottle and cardboard? We can go miles with these.
"Hmm... Gonna need some raw materials to craft a fabricator..."
🤔
*goes outside and starts punching a tree to death*
😂
Turns a fucking leaf into rubber alloy
@@johnreich1878 that's the Australian engineering 😂👌 yeah na she'll be right mate 😂💀
he lives in australia, that basically is a survival game
“Grab yourself a moist square of surplus office carpet”
Probably the best intro to a video I’ve ever seen
James reminds me so much of my grandpa. He had rooms full of spare parts and what my grandma called 'junk'. Imagine James's toolbox but roomfulls. Not even just the closets. Full on floors covered with stuff. As a kid him opening those rooms felt like a magical mystical portal. He was always making and fixing and upgrading things. I remember him making a electroshock therapy machine out of an old radio for my mom when she was sick. I miss him so much. Even now people can't figure out how he made stuff just work.
So your grandpa was an Ork?
Nice of him to do that for your mum, but he really shouldn't have.
@@blakksheep736 why not?
@@blakksheep736 why not?
@@namayra299 somehow I don't think that's safe.
"Hello Officer"
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No the speedo isn't working, but it can't have been _that_ quick."
"far enough ill let you off with a warning, have a good one mate"
No, sir. This highway has a 45 mph minimum speed. That thing isn’t safe for highway use.
Fun thing, this thing can go VERY fast.
@@kptparker Just change out the KPH for MPH and your done.
@@kptparker Since YT has decided that I like these cars since watching this vid, and I watched one of the suggested vids just then, I know that speed is 106 kp/h.
*item disintegrates; turns to literal dust*
James: I can fix it!
*Trust me, I'm am engineer*
@@pitekargos6880 what the fuck just happened there
*gathers the individual atoms and reassembles matter back into its original form*
@@somewd4032 with epic tools and epic gear
The pullstart part killed me 🤣
As a Polish person, I apologize for the difficulties in repairing our national pride, which is MALUCH. We were guided (at that time... and maybe now too) by other values (this is supposed to work, not look good or profesionally made). However, we are glad that you decided to correct our mistakes and it will be remembered by us
Honestly that sounds like a value I'd like. If it works, I can love any appearance.
The chaotic energy this man brings to every vid makes me so happy to watch
This “car” is the best
This is no "car" it's a nugget!!
Its a car.
*_ITs A cAr_*
Him yelling over Increasingly loud rain is the most stereotypical him thing he has ever done
Him shouting over the rain so we can hear him is hilarious to me, for some reason.
"I don't hate it" is the highest compliment anything can get from Wade. Like if he likes or loves something, it means it's just a good thing.
But if he says he doesn't hate something - that means it's something that's better than it has any right to be, and frankly I think that'll always be the higher compliment.
It's a bit like polite applause vs awestruck silence - idk which is better, but one has definitely surprised the audience more.
Other CZcamsrs with 1 mil subs:*buys expensive car*
Dank:
That's what happens when all your videos get demonetized for graphic and violent content
@@thenarstar The fierce 1 grit
@@Kalvinjj
"Oh no, my PKCELL..."
what are you talking about? this is obviously better than a ferrari
We used to have a saying about these in Poland "just like in a mercedes, the crumple zone ends on the engine"
There is a big difference in engine placement though, good luck Dank
@Godz Amoongus that was indeed the joke
@@tigerbattle really?
Hadn't fuckin noticed
@@godzamoongus cause you have to explain it to mąkę it funnier
@@pludrak1455 Mąkę it tortową
I'm from Poland and I'm watching:) James would do just fine as a car mechanic in Poland in the 80s. He can create tools out of almost nothing, that's a usefull skill:)
James reminds me so much of my granddad it's wild. We had a car that you had to flip toggle switches in in a specific order for it to turn on, a air conditioner with a light switch in it to restart the motor and so many old mate fixes on everything it was truly magic.
James is the kind of guy you want to be friends with in the post apocalypse.
Building: collapses, crumbles into pieces
James: Hold me beer
"okay we need a car. But I only have a bucket and a paper clip"
James: I got this
I mean I’d want to be friends with him regardless
*in poland
James is the guy that gets to level 100 in fallout 4 JUST from settlement building
James “fixes” DankPods’s “car” while Wade “helps”
"his"
yo his name is wade?
To everyone asking, his name is most definitely NOT Wade. Wade runs the Dankmus channel and seems to share apartments with DankPods, but they're not related.
Wade yo
This is a historically accurate recreation of a typical maluch repair. Also, you need to film all your material during thunderstorms.
11:06 tiny pedal for tiny acceleration
James just has such chaotic energy, I love it.
"James no!"
"James, yes."
everything is cooked
james: lemme drag it on the floor a bit and some zip ties
I want an entire 2 hour podcast about James’ life with the 124 nugget…
NGL, if this is what this channel becomes, I'll probably enjoy it even more than Dankpods
I’m torn between letting James rebuild my car from scratch, never letting him anywhere near my car.
Do both
Also hello fellow mgs and doge fan
“What!? James it’s gone!”
James, “no it isn’t”
I want to be James’s friend.
My country's a 'James' factory (Argentina)
we are so used to jerry rigging stuff that other south americans *ALMOST* call it an "Argentiniada"
Now I understand why we share the exact same wall plugs as the Aussies :D
@@absurddive Por supuesto hermano, un poco de alambre, unos precintos y el 126 está andando como nuevo. Me hace acordar a la vez que armé un karting casero con un motor de zanelita jajaja, cuando lo llevaba andando se salió el volante y me clavé contra unos libustros.
if you want a james like friend get a poor friend since they will find ways to fix a fucked pc just to use it instead of buying a new one
4:03 is the timestamp I play repeatedly
@@DecisionsRQuestionable can confirm, I am that type of person. If it didn't blow up or fry we'll find a way to make it run again.
Dziękuję za zrobienie naszej pracy
I had one of these as my first "car", imagine that the ones shipped to the western countries were even higher quality than the ones we had in the eastern block. 20 years ago it was already a challenge to keep them rolling in proper conditions, the after market parts were crap, the whole car was crap to start with, but I still loved that pile of shit. in 2021 I would just take the money out to my garden grill, and light it on fire. faster and less painful that way.
You're right they are crap...I have three water cooled ones, I'm in the UK...they gave a big following over here...they sell pretty quick when they are advertised....they are such fun tho...😂😂
@@njkip wow, I haven't seen water cooled versions ever. Yepp they're fun, until you're shorter than 180cm and below 80kg :D
In the winter, when it was snowing, we used to go out at night in empty parking lots to do some circles, it was hilarious.
But nowadays, life got boring and I really like if my cars are just running, and if I can fut some lumber in them for my hobby.
The Niki Nugget Fix sounds like a B-Grade movie about high school students trying to run a McDonalds.
Also jack black is the manager for some reason
"Damnit, James. If you weren't already my mate; you'd be my hero"
Oof, old mate just got matezoned, mate
Is this the same sorta ranking system that canadians have? Guy, friend, buddy etc.
Mate > hero anyday
@@joed9188 **Sniff**
Fair dinkem take, mate
Man, I can't believe this is actually happening on the other side of the world. Mad respect and thanks for finishing the work for us on that taillight xd
James is quickly becoming my favourite person on this channel
Why does this seem like an Aussie version of Top Gear with James May but James just jerry rigs everything
I think it’s a mix of Clarkson and May, tbh.
James May with the absolute opposite of OCD
@@asutoshvariar and Wade is Hammond
Probably more so like an Aussie version of Top Gear than the actual Aussie version of Top Gear. Probably.
@@JosephWithaG That's what I was going for
This just makes me want to buy a nugget car...
Also, more of this please
Because who doesn't want a bite of a delicious, rusty piece of nugget?
check SeAZ-1111, another nuggetmobile
Omg it's battleforge
Ikr
Get an MOT failure fiat Cinquecento or something
This is literally one of the greatest videos I have ever witnessed. The pure genius that is James just baffles me. I love it.
dank here is living the peak musician life where he arrives in gigs in an old beater while lugging hundreds of dollars worth of audio equipments
as an enthusiast, I can 100% ensure that a vehicle with that large of a rust hole is just weight reduction for performance. Also, James' test light is the definition of "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to consider whether or not you should."
Based jp reference
As a Pole, I thank you for doing my job
Also seeing you find that factory card, which I can tell was literally from my fucking city and the factory I worked at (Not at the time of the production but rather couple of months ago) gave me goosebumps
Thing to know what they have to buy you for your birthday a drill 😂😂
What do they make there now?
@@ryanthompson2893 Well, when I worked there they were still making engines for cars such as the Fiat Tipo, but now that Stellantis took over and put pressure on electric cars, the factory has been slowing down in production, they started laying off massive amounts of people and there are serious talks of shutdown which would be a massive shame since its what I'd call a historic site for the Polish motor industry
@@shai3691classic Stelantis shit
James is capable of fixing anything; makes me want to move to Australia to humbly ask for his training.
as a fellow jazzer, this channel only confirms that i never subscribed because of the subject matter, but the personality behind the camera. never been into cars but golly do i need me an old shitbox right about now.
I love that he didn’t even empty the second water bottle
What for? It cools the tool while cutting.
There's an old Polish man somewhere, still trying to find his glasses 😢
Nah, he made himself a new set using some pipe cleaners and a couple of milk bottles. Envy of his mates.
Probably not Polish. 126 Niki has never been available in Poland (as I remeber): 1. It was only an export car, 2. It has a steering wheel on the right, which the authorities hated until recently
Mr. Hilary, do I remember correctly?
Yes lol
This is infinitely more entertaining than any mainstream car restoration/repair show on TV.
I can’t tell if James is just that good at fixing stuff, or if he just knows every cheat code.
James is the kinda friend we all need in life. Such a confident engineer that he doesn't understand the meaning of "broken" and refuses to learn it.
James designed the whole Apollo program with a bottle and a stick.
There's a nonzero chance that James can make a spare tire out of lime and salt Lay's chips
James is like a right mate, he just has a solution for everything
“Are we screwed?”
“We’ll figure it out!”
Not no. Not yes. Basically IDK
That 'car' needs a frank compartment ASAP
Bump
Engine hotspot and frunk cold spot
the “car” isn’t big enough for frank’s girth
The whole car is Frank compartment
@@JeanMarceaux wow what a frank.. living its best life.. its got its own car for goodness sake!!
About the messed up rusted to hell metal bits.
You can always "fix" it the polish way. Put a ton of plaster and epoxy reisin there let it cure, then sculpt something that resembles the previous shape, paint it over and prettend rust was never there haha. Much cheaper than cutting rotten stuff out and weld healthy stuff in. Some people claim it's not safe to drive around in something like that but maluchs were coffins on wheels even in factory new state lmao
12:04 God that laugh
It's not rust, it's weight reduction. They're not just holes, they're active aero
I love James repairs he needs to make a channel of his own
This man is like the modern time McGyver "Car doesnt work? Just need some screws and a ziptie mate"
And a bottle
I would LOVE a series of you and James fixing cars. PLEASE
watching James work is genuinely mesmerizing, he's a living legend
I don't remember ChrisFix sounding like this.
@ChrisFix shouldn't see this
In making chrisfix see this
It's MightyCarMods
look at what chrisfix has to do to mimic a fraction of james power.
Nor aging wheels for that matter
“James what’s that in your mouth”
-jerry rigs faster-
“NO”
Time?
I swear James being "narh it'll work" is the best comedic value I've experienced every in DIY
Respect from Poland for having enough will power to deal with maluch.
The fact that James fixed the paddle stick with a plastic botthe top is actually ironic
Its like iron man given junk to make his own iron man suit😂
What do you think he's first suit was made from?
@@chrisheartman9263 redstone? duhh
I mean it's probably a better solution than whatever the original part was made of lol.
@@chrisheartman9263 a box of scraps
@@thatone3590 exactly, junk.
James maxed out his repair and crafting skill trees, but only for fiats.
I feel this channel on such a deep level, absolute bodge jank ingenuity i love it.
4:35 anchors aweigh
Of all the places I'd think of hearing this song this wasn't on the list, nothing but surprises from the nuggets
I love old "cars" being repaired!
Nugget*
"repaired"
Being enjoyed lets say 😅
"Rust is lighter than carbon fiber"
no wonder we cant make flying cars right lets build cars made out of pure rust now
Lancia engineers: write that down, write that down
@@kimjong-oink6217 Italian engineering at it's finest
funfact about 800km road trips in Maluch.
There is polish adventurer Arkady Fiedler (grandson of famous Arkady Fiedler) who drove in his Maluch all around Poland, across the Africa and across Asia!
There are free to watch series of him doing that with eng subtitles on YT. "In Maluch across Africa" etc. I highly recommend to watch these
btw i know that before covid he was planning to do an across both americas but i lost track on that adventure.
I love the two unique laughts at 12:04, just makes me smile along
James is a true Pol with those fixes. He'd be a real hit in Russia too
Russia were poor dad get surgery hell jary rig this car till it’s new!
surg!
him what!?
Me: “Mom, can we watch mighty car mods?”
My mom: “No, we have mighty car mods at home.”
The mighty car mods at home:
Wait but this is better
Wayyyy better
They gotta meet up
I sooo want more of James and his amazing fixes
James’ mentality:
Jerry Rig EVERYTHING
More of James' mad-science fixes!! Also, you should name this nugget "Craig".
You cannot dishonor the brand Craig like that.
Craigmobile
i named my 1999 toyota camry LE Craig lmao
@@pourgoi_6100 Hahaha, amazing!
How much time did James spend just *fixing his tools* so that he can carry on with his work???
because why spend 1 hour going to the hardware shop or 2 days waiting for an order when you can spend 10 minutes repairing your tool
JAMES! STOP FILLING
y e s
I'm not a car fanboy by any means but my god this is my favourite channel about cars because I just love the personalities and humour of these two.
I received a great amount of enjoyment from this. Fantastic artwork 👌
I was just watching like "no way hes doing that no way james is fixing the gear stick with a water bottle no way hes done it" anyway I'm so pumped to see the deathtrap get fixed
Deathtrap? Those things until recently were a common sight on polish streets. I've driven in some where you could see the street down below in the cracks, but they worked! (And I only had to push one twice)
@@SmokersTars I meant deathtrap in an endearing way I love these things, I'm sure they fail every modern crash safety test though, it looks like the entire car is a crumple zone
Actual story:
The ppl manufacturing those cars used to rip off some minor details (like a mirror or a handle) from the export models so they couldn't be sold and some lucky bastard could buy it
:shrug:
When you yell, I can hear the smile behind it. How ? Makes me smile too. Thanks for being dank.
Fine Italian engineering right there, the boys from Turin really gave it their best.
Can you believe this was the successor to the Fiat 500? Never in my life have I seen a Fiat 126 on Italian roads, but I've seen plenty of 1950s Fiat 500 still running like they're new.
"Are we screwed?" "Nah, We'll figure it out." pretty much describes the whole video.
My Summer Car is looking a lot better than I remember.
God imagine if Wade and James played that on stream.
6:03 thank you for finishing the job i didnt do many years before i was ever conceived
Not even a car guy but man is the chaotic energy here off the charts yet relatable.
i like how James is reparing everything like my family in Poland.
Bad idea: Take a nugget and load it with the most distasteful rgb everywhere and like 6 subbies. Dream car material.
wicked
Everyone needs a good friend like James in his life
This is honestly one of my favorite videos, I’ve watched this like 4 time lmao