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0:00 Intro
0:05 Truck is 11th gen, F-150. As mentioned you can see how rusty the upper ball joint is and that it's probably been making a noise/clunking for quite a while. So if you hear a noise, be sure to get it checked out as soon as possible.
0:21 Not the best ignition design for this ATV but I'm surprised the customer did not see this. Also, a good reason to have less stuff attached to your keys.
0:31 2016 Audi A7, 67,000 miles / 107826 kilometres. Whoever use to own this Audi sure butchered it! Looks like the engine mounts on broken and not even properly bolted in. I'm sure there's a huge list of other issues it needs. That's the risk when you buy from an auction.
0:59 As you can see in the clip the oil is up to the valve covers. That's the spot where you add oil to the engine. The technician said: "Drained it, pulled the plugs and cleared the cylinders then filled with 5 quarts. Once it started it smoked as Iâve never seen before."
1:10 No extra info.
1:30 No extra info, but why? lol
1:40 This issue is a recall - more info here. media.ford.com/content/fordme....
1:54 The brackets on the rear axle housing of this Jeep rusted through. Those broke and the same with the rear shocks, so it's caused quite a bit of excessive bouncing from the rear end.
2:11 Looks like they drove on a flat tire for a while. Never seen this happen though.
2:18 Thought I'd share this so nobody else accidentally jump-starts a vehicle backward. The technician said: "My Apprentice called me over and said he couldn't jumpstart a car. I go over and hook up the booster pack and he says "Wait, aren't you hooking that up backwards?". I say "What? No." and look closer at the battery. The sticker was factory installed backward. I only rely on the embossed + or - symbols so didn't even notice it at first. Start the car, misfiring. 2 burned injector drivers in ECU, and the cluster was damaged from his attempt to jump-start backwards. $3500 repair but I really couldn't even be mad at the apprentice for this one haha."
2:30 A little hard to see in the clip but it looks like a rear control arm bushing that is worn out causing the wheel to go back and forth.
2:43 The person who filmed this started up this VW by spinning the rear tire which started up the engine.
2:56 Outro. Thanks for watching! - Auta a dopravnĂ prostĆedky
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As well if you have any ideas for merch designs, let me know đ. Working on some new designs to giveaway and sell. đ
You also have a good weekend as well. Thanks.
Maybe one that says "Just Rolled In" with rolled crossed out and Towed written around itđ€Ł
A sign with a troubleshooting chart for dummies. Does it wobble/shake/vibrate/hum/squeal/smoke/smell funny? ---> Did you hit something/re-wire or zip tie something yourself (like the suspension maybe?)/ Have you ever opened the hood or looked at the frame? A 'How would you prioritize the following in basic car maintenance' checklist would be cool too.
I had a ball joint fail at a breakfast spot
Appealing??? Well,, orange you funny.
That upsidedown battery sticker would trick alot of people, especially if the connections were hiding the moulded symbols.
Definitely. Thats why I shared it. Never seen that before.
@@JustRolledIn I would imagine the battery manufacturer could be held liable for damage from their mislabeled battery. Moulded marks can be really hard to see depending on lighting and when there is a black-on-white label telling you what the polarity should be, you may not be particularly inclined to examine the housing in detail to confirm it. The manufacturer needs to design its stickers and battery housing so the sticker cannot be fitted backwards without looking out of place. Easiest way would be to move the battery health indicator inside the sticker such that it gets covered when the sticker is on backwards.
Similarly is the situation where someone has replaced the battery cable(s) and used a red cable for ground. It is easy to assume that red is positive and hook up the cables backwards.
Several decades ago I was giving someone a jump and let him connect the cables on his car. The cars were parked nose to nose. We had both just walked back to our respective driver's doors when I head a loud bang. He had connected his battery backwards and his battery exploded spraying plastic and battery acid all over his engine compartment and under the hood.
Fortunately, the raised hoods shielded us from the getting hit by the flying parts and acid. A few seconds earlier and he would have got it in the face. After that, I always double-check the polarity and do the connections myself.
The battery manufacturer put the sticker on upside down, and unfortunately it's more prominent than the molded markings, especially in poor light. Factory inspector should have noticed it.
@@treefarm3288 yeah, I know the factory put it on upside down. It's kind of obvious.
I love the bump start Karman Ghia. you just need a guy to yell "CONTACT" before he spins the tire like starting a plane
The tailgate falling open had me laugh out loud
It's Mario kart mode. So you can drop shells and banana peels.
Ok your right. It got me good too lol
Hahah, yeah! It reminded me of that delightful short movie "The Plank" with Eric Sykes.
Not Maxxworthy!
I guessed that it was gonna fall before it did and still laughed out loud.
30 quarts of oil? You'd think after 20 quarts he would question I'm I really saving money.
Lol. Should have gave some to the guy with the tractor in the next clip đ.
When i first started in the trade we had a customer do this. I didn't know much at the time but couldn't believe somebody filled up an engine to the valve cover.
I Had A Guy That Put 18 qts. In A Feiro...similar results...
Drowning an engine in oil. Crazy stuff. At least it wasn't low.
Had an apprentice do this to a Honda GX160 powered generator when I worked in tool hire / repair. He couldn't pull the rope & said it was seized, so we drained the oil to the correct level, removed the spark plug & pulled the rope a few times to clear the cylinder, then fitted a new plug & left it smoking outside until it cleared itself.
As a former dealer tech, I have seen it.
More than once.
I donât know whatâs more hilarious, when customers do this, or when they install their own batteries without removing the caps.
That reversed battery one threw me off. I could see where a well seasoned mechanic could get that one backwards. If I saw that I'd check the polarity with a VOM just to make sure.
Usually you can tell by the color of the cables too but that design makes them a bit less visible too.
Looks like a VW battery. The terminals are of different diameter, to reduce the risk of doing something like this.
Whoever designed that sticker should be fired. Ditto for whoever approved it. Yeah - the battery case was marked correctly, & the battery cables were color coded correctly, but why would anyone put a sticker on the battery with BIG + & - symbols in the opposite positions? Well, duh!
Possibly a mistake when placing the stickers on the batteries at the assemble line rather than a design flaw, so bad QA job
@@mojoich2736 Or just someone who tried to refill the cells and didn't put it on properly.
Guy turns into a gas station and wheel comes off...
Someone heard him singing Kenny Rogers but something sounded off.
He sang "You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel!" đ
Good 'un !!!
Groan! đđ
Here đNow take it and leave.
Aaaargh!
Omg! I love it!!!!!đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
1:54 gives new meaning to the term "air suspension"
Loved the VW start procedure!
Jack up back wheels.
Turn key to On
Select First
Spin TireâŠ
All I could think was open diff.
5. Prepare to sprint if the jack fails
did the same with my trabant once when the starter died, just jacked it up on one side, ignition on, second gear and then i kicked the Wrench that i put onto the axle nut. it started immediatly and the wrench flew off. Now to pull it out of gear and lower the jack, lets drive
its probily select 4 but whatever
Push-starting the easy way.
That ATV clip gave me flashbacks to my time as a Service Writer at a new car dealership.
We had this lady with a minivan who kept coming in with the same complaint. That it would just shut itself off randomly while she was driving.
The techs drove and went over this thing several times, but could find nothing wrong with it.
After like the 3rd or 4th time this minivan was in, and this lady getting progressively madder and madder, she drops a little tidbit of info I assume she just thought nothing of, or thought it was unimportant. This usually happened when she was going through an intersection.
So the Service Manager decided to take it for a drive with the customer. They go through a few intersections, and sure enough, the van shut off.
This lady had so many decorative items on her key ring, that when the van when over a good sized hump in the road, like you get when crossing some intersections, the weight of the accessories combined with the rebound from the hump would turn the key, shutting the van off.
We advised her to remove all the accessories from her key ring, which I assume she did as I never saw her again till the time I left.
The only place you see more shit hanging from a key ring is at a gas station for the restroom door lock. Worst I saw was a 14" rim! đ
the benefit of push button start, i don't need to worry about the too many keys i have(two house keys, 3 garage keys, mail keys, trailer and trailer lock keys etc) and the two fobs for both vehicles... ruining the cylinder from weight. though.. it is annoying when i switch to the ram and have to remember to get my keys out. i've seen people pile a ton of shit on their keychains and wonder why they have issues too. keys are fucking expensive now.
I hate it when people do that.
In the mid-eighties, in the UK, the Rover 800 (Sterling in the US) had a weak ignition barrel, that did not like heavy keys. A few extra keys dangling, and the barrel would wear, and hold it in the start position, leaving the starter engaged with the engine. The internals of the starter would explode. New starter, new ignition barrel, and remove all the extra weight.
I remember when GM had a recall for the ignition switches in a large swath of their cars (Intrigue, Alero, Grand Am, etc.) because of random shutoffs when you had too much weight on your key ring.
From 77k until 238k when the intake manifold gaskets blew and the car was too rotted to invest in, both my mother and I NEVER had that problem in our '99 Intrigue. Of course, the key rings contained a) the key, and b) the fob, and c) nothing else at all. All of our other keys we kept on a separate key ring (with a spare for the car, just in case). I had always been told by family as a child NOT to have a ton of crap hanging from the ignition switch because the weight would cause premature wear of the switch. Been driving almost 30 years, that habit is permanently etched into my brain.
No, wait, I take that back, I did have unintended shutoffs - quite a few when I first got the car. But that was my error, because as soon as the engine started I just let go of the key without any resistance, and the spring was tight enough to flip the switch back to Accessory. It really had me scratching my head for a few days and I was ready to bring it in under warranty before I realized my error (and felt like an @$$).
I love the people that "FILL" their engings with oil.
I got pretty good at swapping out engines because of customers over filling and bending con-rods and cranks.
Had a customer do it, twice!
An official GM dealer did this to my car - filled it so much it came ALL the way up to the top of the dip-stick. It happens because they have each service bay equipped with an automatic oil dispenser system that is fed from a bulk tank. They drain the old oil out, replace the drain plug, pull out the filler cap and insert the dispenser hose. The dispenser slowly pumps in a metered quantity of oil while the mechanic attends to whatever else needs doing. Trouble was, they had serviced a truck with a huge V8 in it, and the mechanic forgot to reset the dispenser for the much smaller quantity of oil my car needed.
I've heard of mechanics forgetting to drain the old oil out first. It's not picked up because the automatic dispenser means that the mechanic has no need to check the dip-stick level.
So don't just think car owners are stupid!
Still, the service manager told me that the cost of the wasted oil and consequent repairs to my engine was deducted from the mechanic's pay, so I guess HE won't make that mistake again.
@@keithammleter3824 Thats why you always check the dipstick even if you have auto fillers.
I did my most recent Oil Change Myself if you go to Advance Auto Parts they sell an entire kit with the jug of oil and new filter and oil pan and if Arnold and you jack up the car with the doctor comes with can you put a block on Earth so doesn't fall off and break your ribs my car takes a surprisingly high amount of oil Advance Auto Parts so you measure jug for a lot of different cars some are about 3 quarts of oil and some are 20
'Wasn't very appealing" I see what you did there.
I was driving onto the highway, but there was a small dip, and when I hit it, something got wonky in my front end. I pulled into the breakdown lane to look, but couldn't see anything obvious. I decided to get off at the next exit and limped along with my hazards on. Took the next exit and there was a Firestone just at the bottom, so I took a right at the ramp bottom, then another right into their lot, then another right into a parking spot, and when I went to straighten up in the spot I finally turned left- and the drivers front wheel fell entirely off. Zoinks!
Guess you made the right choice! *snicker*
i was on my 3rd trip to a town named barrie and back up to where i lived about an hour north, pretty much only a 5 minute stop, then returning to the computer store(mr mechanic broke my computer, so we decided a rebuild was in order), as we learned we needed something.. it was a stupid long weekend friday... and i mention the town because it has for people in ontario the notorious 400 hwy going through it. it's a nightmare at the best of times, but on a friday with everyone from toronto trying to escape up to their cottages to the north ... it's a horror show of bad driving.
as i was leaving the store a final time, i felt a clunk from the front end, but since i had just left a parking lot and the roads there are pothole hell i thought "meh, i didn't avoid that one as well as i thought i did". then i proceeded to make my way to the 400... on the onramp, i knew i was in trouble and limped over to the side, as it felt like the front end was about to fall off my old escape. pulled over, called mr mechanic as assholes were making my vehicle shake, since i was now fully on the 400. even in the brake down lane that hwy isn't safe. my hazards are on, but we decide it's insane to stay there, even if i might have busted something. so i limp down the hwy in the lane and pull off to one of those fastfood/gas stops, pulling into one of the nearest spots. getting out i can't see anything wrong. so he tells me to get it towed and he'll meet me at our garage. sometimes having an awd vehicle sucks and 2 hours later the tow truck arrives and i get towed to our garage... it was a loose tire about to fall off(LF). when i parked it had just happened to line up right.
it had been well over a month since i had my tires switched and it had been torqued at least 2x since, since i drive a lot for parts and customers. i honestly do not understand people who don't notice there's an issue before their tire goes off to wander.
@@kellynnd5361 sometimes the wheel comes off so quickly you cant do much about it. I bought new tires on my truck once, made it about 4 ish miles from the shop. 2 miles on surface streets, and 2 miles down the interstate. Felt a shimmy in the steering, decided i better slow down and get to the shoulder, had slowed down to about 30 or 35 mph and there went my left front wheel. Idiots at the tire shop somehow put the wrong lugnuts off someone elses truck on my wheels.
@@henrydillard6217 I had something similar happen to me a couple of weeks back, but it's been my fault i guess... i bought a 1970 F250 4x4 and got some new alloy wheels and tires cause the previous owner had some disgusting humvee wheels on it.
When i test drove it the front driver side fell off after 15 minutes and the truck slammed on the ground. This isnt a good feeling when driving with 35"s. Luckily i was going like 10 mph at the time. Turned out my studs were to short even though the truck had spacers on before that were only slightly less thick than the wheels.
I now have twice the lengh of studs now and my lug nuts are shank style ones with more than 2 inches in lengh. This isnt gonna happen again...
Of all the things to ever happen to my vehicles i never thought i would lose a tire...
Good thing it went when it did instead of at highway speed. Isn't it crazy how ball joints always seem to let loose at low speeds?
I just yelled at this lady in traffic cause her wheel was wobbling like it was missing three lugs. She laughed and said ok and I think she headed to the highway
Oh boy. Coming to an episode soon đ
@@JustRolledIn one can only hope! But, I work in auto body repair. She gonna be a total for sure
Or she will be on one of those dash cam channels featuring idiot drivers. Those are entertaining and educational as well.
I hope car price and replace cost go up and up and up because this idiot spend so much money and take a lesson
Also this force poeple to take care of their car
You could have told her car was on đ„ and she probably would have đyour off and not given a đ©. If we're a male by ourselves, we MUST BE SOME KINDA PERV OR A--H--E
The smell wasnt very ...a pealing LOL. I love the dad jokes!
weird stuff happens, I once backed out of parking spot at 7-11 and my steering column shaft snapped in 2, steering wheel just spun freely. It had been rubbing against the sheet metal of the firewall and cut it like a pipe cutter, weird, I had been blasting around mountain roads the night before, could have been much worse.
My word--you got lucky. So was this a design error? Misplacement of the firewall at the factory? Did you ever find out?
@@josepherhardt164 it was a beat up old pickup, I hogged out the hole and installed a replacement. Dont remember exactly what caused the mis-alignment it was 30 years ago, but yeh, luck was on my side that day.
That clip of the tailgate coming down after shutting the door. Idk why that made me laugh but I needed that. Thanks.
As a Audi/VW technician I was kinda shocked at that battery. Because thats a genuine VW replacement part. (the three zeros upfront gave it away.) I will be fucking caution now.đ
You can see the sticker is on upside down from factory either got flipped in the line by machine or an idiot employee stick it on backwards (the writing is upside down to other sticker)
@@XxTWMLxX yeah but still. You could fry a lot of ECU and sensors at once with hooking up the wrong. Just because the sticker was on the wrong way.
surprising for me too, i'm an independent VW/Audi technician, I'll have to pay attention more, thats awful.
1:37 if the customer is from Hong Kong or China, then it's probably because we Hong Kongers and Chinese have a weird habit of collecting old orange peels. Usually, we would let these orange peels dry outside for a while, then put them in a jar for god knows how long, maybe 20-30 years, or even a century in the family. These dried out orange peels can be used for Chinese medicine and can be very expensive, sometimes up to five figures.
One of the few channels I watch where the like button is hit before the play one. It's always interesting to see new and inventive ways people fail at looking after their vehicle. Thanks for posting :)
I appreciate you being here. Cheers!
Always love when a new one drops. Seen some pretty insane things.
Me too! I love your channel. I get a good laugh but it's also quite scary to how poorly people care for their cars.
That battery sticker is freaky, it even seems to be a genuine Volkswagen battery. I hope that they tried to go the legal route with this (even though the chances are slim), cause I can see this confusing alot of people. On the other hand, theres a reason you should always put the negative lead on ground.
You've got to know that ball joint was popping and creaking for a long time before it failed. Turn up the radio....
mr mechanic hubby always tells me to turn up the radio... it used to drown out my screaming wheel bearings well.
"Ride till the wheels fall off" literally.... works ok for a atv but not a car. Lol
I am so glad that I live south of the rust belt. But wow, it's amazing that some of those folks didn't get killed.
While the last six vehicles were nice, that Gia was the prized vehicle in this videođđ (that thing would probably outlast Me)đ€Ł
Great video as usualđđđđ
I work at a shop in Iowa I can tell you about the rust belt I used to live in Utah there you had to do safety inspections ever year Here most of the cars I work on would not be allowed on the roads Back home my own truck rusted in half almost lost my gas tank.
@@dmclegg66 I know all too well. I used to work at a shop (and do vehicle inspections) in North Maryland.
I did find that, if I could get vehicles cheap enough that weren't road worthy, I could trade them to junkyards for the parts I needed to fix other cars thoughđđ
I live (and work at a shop) in a state now that doesn't have vehicle inspections and isn't in the rust beltđ I use a lot less penetrating oilsđ
I think every school should teach basic car care, like changing a flat, changing/checking/adding oil. Plus other stuff we deal with as grown ups that's not car related.
I made my daughter change the oil and a tire on her care before I let her get her license.
Geez, schools don't even really concentrate on knowledge anymore. Let alone practical knowledge and skills.
Here in Brazil, we have this for everyone who wants their licenses. It's basically 10-15 one-hour classes about safety measures, proper care with the vehicle, and even some first aid situations, before even touching a real car. Then we go for some more 4-6h simulators and only then we take the car, where we proceed to do another 15-20 one hour lessons. The person only gets their license at the end, when 2-6 months have been passed, depending on the availability of the person for the classes.
When they say Math and science is racist? I doubt they can even get to car care. We're talking about modern scho- Indotrination centers here.
@@matthewbowen5841 they focus on turning your kids into LGBT and BLM activist.
I bought a used "warrantee return" mower deck from Lowes for $30 as is. looked new, but someone stole the coil and the blade from it. Took it home, threw a coil and some old oil in, and it filled my yard with a cloud of smoke and it knocked like hell. Tore it apart and everything in the bottom end was smoked, like someone ran it for a whole season with no oil, engine was trashed. It just so happens that my old mower which I bought for my dad like 20+ years prior, had a good motor but a rotted deck. Well, it also got a new carb and tins.
And some idiot would have thrown whole thing away with the engine and all.. then throw the old one since deck was rotted... people are idiots.
30 quarts of oil. Remember these people can have children.
thats why ive never used tiktock, its where their kiddos hang out, i can understand why we want electrics now, supposedly safer from user intervention, but then someone will make a video saying you can get more hp from licking the wires, what can you do. let them lick wires
That's VW for ya. So damn simple you really don't need a starter motor.
I used to work at a small engine repair shop, and seeing that craftsman GT5000 with the engine in more pieces than it started out with made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside for some reason.
You just know that Audi is goin to a âBuy here, Pay hereâ dealerships
âThe smell wasnât very appealingâ, took me a few seconds to pick up on that one!
Another great video of people who donât need to own vehicles or even riding mowers. Always enjoy the videos that make međ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł, keepâm coming
Appreciate you being here đ
That engine with piston McNuggets as Eric calls them...some people are just brain đ§ compromised. Eric would love that engine for his channel. He is real hadcore engine carnage guy.
Aye, 6.3 a few weeks back was epic with the balancer
@@cirian75 someone used one too many ugga duggas on that balancer. Ecstatic to see what he has in store for us tonight.
@@TheGhost28 A BMW N54
I have the privilege of saying that I, first-hand, watched some poor strangers engine blow out the bottom of the block on the highway at about 70mph. fantastic sight to watch, but still feel bad for the poor girl who couldnt understand why her car wouldnt turn over so she could drive it home.
And the rod mcnuggets from the atlas 5 cylinder that was in a Chevy Colorado last week
Hey! Thank for showing my video! Didnât expect it in your next one! Iâll have to send you any more good ones I have!
Thanks for sharing it with us. Appreciate it again đ
Which one is yours
@@jayasmrmore3687 the lawn tractor one which had only half a cup of oil in it
That oil level sensor clip, I honestly expected some speaker wire to be in that splice-fest.
Probably is somewhere on that car đ
Or undercar LED strips đ
"Just fix the sensor. The rest is fine, I know what I have."
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Never seen an engine on a VW karmen gia get started that way, pretty cool. I know, its equal to a push start, but still different.
on our 1930 John deer you throw the flywheel to start it but watch them fingers or it will rip your hand off
It made me laugh . My Uncle had an old Model A Fird and you gotta crank it , bet a lot of people have never cranked a car manually before đ
If I had a motorcycle stand, I'd do that with my Batavus Starflite.
@@ehcanadiankid1 my 48 Farmall is the same, watch out or itll kick back and break your arm. I think one of the dodge brothers died that way.
My Grandad's both said they cranked Model As that way. Also had a late Uncle that was a local legend for putting a rope start on a VW beetle đ€Ł
Love your video's keep'em coming
Thanks for being here!
@@JustRolledIn I'm here all the time wouldn't miss a video
2:18 Is there any legal recourse for something like that?? You really have to have the sticker on the correct way even if its embossed elsewhere. Both sets of markings need to be correct.
China
@@dizzy2020 Volkswagen Original Batterie is just German
@@dizzy2020 if you want to consider German as bad English...
@@caecium695 Reads like Frenchified English
If it actually resulted in damage, you might be able to sue them for the cost of fixing. Otherwise just tell them to fix it before someone does fry their electronics.
Yep I bet the Orange peels were not appealing. I love that one. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Lol me too. Have a great weekend my friend!
Back in elementary school, we used to bring dried orange peels for some charity project. I dont remember the exact usage, but there were kilograms of that. Maybe someone still collects it...?
Citrus is a good mosquito Repellent.
Flew into Florida one time and the rental vehicle reeked of oranges. Not sure if it was from actual oranges or just cleaner/air freshener (maybe to cover the smell of smoke) but it was very unpleasant to experience.
@@chaos.corner thatâs funny. Hear in Oklahoma they donât even try to cover up smoke. I thank itâs a requirement.
My worst was when I had to wire a truck for trailer lights. The people owned a pig farm and it was their yard truck. I was lucky we had a spray and wash next door, it was still nasty.
Gross đ
Worst mess I ever heard about from another tech: guy parked Astro van on cool night. Cat found a warm engine and a serp belt to act as a hammock. Guy starts up van, belt flies off and van dies. Tows it in. Think about the mess.
I love the Karmann Ghia! I have push started my bug by sticking one leg out the door like I was sitting on a skateboard.
Half your car is not connected to the other half..
"Just fix the sensor, don't fix the critical stuff"..
Good ol dealerships. Hope they're not going to try and sell it to somebody like that.
30 quarts of oil! I almost died laughing! đđ
Just when you think youâve seen most of the weird quirks from ford, another one pops up!
I worked at a home improvement store in the late 90s. A customer bought a brand new lawn mower. They brought it back later and said it only ran a few minutes and died and would not start back up. They wanted to exchange it. They put gas in it but forgot to put oil in!
when I was a kid working in a gas station that was a service station back then, they were repaving a road in front of the gas station. They took all the asphalt off of the old brick foundation of the road and they were going to re-apply asphalt. The sewer lids and manhole lids were sticking up very high about four or 5 inches. A car struck one of these manhole covers and practically ripped the entire bottom of the oil pan off. They pulled into the gas station I worked at, it was about 8 oâclock at night. All parts stores and car dealers were closed. Not that they would have an oil pan in stock. We put the car up on the lift, and we could see the crankshaft, we could actually reach in there with both hands and touch the crankshaft. We told the driver that it canât be fixed tonight.. so the driver got back in his car and drove awayâŠ
I went to one of those sleazy looking car lots where they sell older cars that the dealers donât want to have on their lot, so they sent them to these dump lots to be sold. I went there with a buddy of mine that was interested in one of the cars they had. We walked into the old gas station bays that that car lot was using as a repair area and the office. We were talking to the salesman that was working on a car. It was a Mercedes up on the lift. They had the oil pan off of the engine, and all of the main bearing caps and rod bearing caps were off the crankshaft.. they were very discolored sitting on the workbench, the bearings were all smoked/gouged, obviously either the oil pump quit working or the car did not have engine oil. They were using steel wool to clean the blackened crankshaft where the bearing caps were, and they were just putting new bearings in the caps, and putting the engine back together. When my friend saw that and I saw what was going on at the same time, he was looking at me with his eyes and his mouth wide open like he was thinking, WTF. He completely lost interest in the car he originally went there to see..
my friend ended up buying a Camaro that was in a car show inside an arena where they were holding the rod and custom car show. From a distance this car looked beautiful. They had done some type of a grafting of a Corvette rear window to the back of this Camaro. It was a nice looking car all black with black interior, but it had Recaro front seats with red centers..
it had a for sale sign on it. My friend was in love with the car and bought it.
driving the car home, it kept stalling. It had a fantastic looking sound system, but it was not hooked up. It had power windows but they didnât go up and down. It had Recaro seats but they were held onto the adjustment rails with just zip ties. The speakers mounted in the back deck did not even have wires going to them. the engine had all stainless steel braided hose covers and a big chrome air cleaner and a new gigantic carburetor and it was very clean under the hood. My friend took the car to a garage and told them to hook everything up, get everything in the car working, and -by the way, the big rear tires rub the inside of the back fenders when going over bumps, and the front tires rub when you have the wheels turned. So he had to buy four different wheels that actually fit the car and four new tires to fit the new wheels. My friend ended up putting $3500 into this car⊠that was in The early 1990s, when $3500 was like $10,000 today
I dont know why, but 1:50 made me laugh. XD
It probably looks too "cartoonish" when they close the car door and it completely falls apart.
mech: "Your car can't be driven". cus: "You're just trying to rip me off!" mech:"No, your car literally can't be driven". cus: "I'll be right down to pick it up and drive it home". mech: "..."
I have several guardian angels looking out for me.
I had my passenger side front axle break; while it was parked, after having just driven 15 miles down a busy interstate.
I also had a ball joint break about 10 feet after pulling out of a parking spot. I was headed toward the freeway.
These clips never do anything but amaze me on the ignorance and the intelligence of techs who actually do their jobs. Kudos to the techs!
I ran into an uncannily similar example of that first clip just about a month ago- a Chevron employee was leaving her work and made one turn and her wheel "fell off"
I happened to be driving by and saw people pulling around her at a stoplight, so I went and grabbed my car's scissor jack and lug wrench and went over, thinking it might be loose lug nuts or something hopefully roadside-repairable.
I see all five lug nuts tight, and the strut leaning wayyy out on the bottom with the axle pulled off and just flopping around. Her lower ball joint had snapped clean out of socket; I relayed the information to her, got a blank stare and a "what's a ball joint" and then she came up with the idea that someone just *had* to have sabotaged her car. She was a friendly lady, very sweet, but I just didn't know how to tell her that the ball joint wasn't really likely to be sabotaged lol
I hope car price and replace cost go up and up and up because this idiot spend so much money and take a lesson
Also this force poeole to take care of their car or learn
Love these...and everyone I watch makes me thankful for MOT in the UK!
My neighbors hate it when I watch this channel.
I keep on shouting "No Way!" or "Really????"
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I think the F150 emblem had more to do with the failure.
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Nice feature...close the driver door and tailgate has auto open. My Tundra is old school lazy way.
Back in the 1970's I made and sold rope start kits for VW Beetles. The rope pulley attached to the generator pulley. If your battery would not turn the engine over or your starter quit working you would take the rope out of the glove box, wrap it around the rope pulley, open the throttle and set the choke high idle cam to keep the throttle open, turn the ignition on, and pull the rope to start the engine running. It was easily done. It cought on quickly and soon J C Whitney was selling copies of my rope starter.
I like the Corbin Sparrow at the end! Never saw many of those.
Unpopular opinion: state inspections are definitely necessary. I find so many potentially life threatening issues when doing state inspections.
Oh I believe it! Why do you think some states don't do them?
@@JustRolledIn Freedom!
No, really. I've argued with people about this. They say that
1) Government overreach. If I own the vehicle, "They" have no right to take it away. Also something about Socialism.
2) It's a stealth tax. All taxes are evil.
3) It's ineffective because you can just go to That Guy who pencil-whips any darn thing for a fee. (But I'd never do that!)
For some in the US, individualism is the highest virtue.
@@j_taylor we have those types in canada too unfortunately. all the mechanics i know of, want required inspections. it gets some of the vehicles that give you tetanus by glancing at them off the road... and we garages do make more money on the repairs of course. we do safeties and people have of course wanted us to ignore shit, but it's not worth the license lost if caught.
@@JustRolledIn Every study I've seen shows no conclusive evidence that mechanical inspections prevent a significant number of accidents. Every person I know in states with mandatory mechanical inspections has been screwed by an unscrupulous mechanic during an inspection.
@@j_taylor I'm a fairly Libertarian guy, and like as much freedom as I can get, but even I can see where these people that argue those points have no idea what they're talking about.
"Do whatever you want as long as no one else is being harmed." Running your vehicle until it falls to pieces on the road is definitely grounds for someone getting hurt.
I can't agree to the tax point because the government isn't taking the money for making sure you're maintaining your vehicle.
I used to live in a town with Pencil-whip Willy. Shops like that exist, and are more common than anyone should be comfortable with.
I work at a tire shop and my husband is a mechanic at another location for the same company. When he was the mechanic for my location we had a red Chevy Silverado 2500 or 3500 roll in couple years ago did 4 tires as he was going down south that same day and we advised the cust his upper ball joint was bad. Well I went to go bolt the wheel onto the LF and the ball joint decided it wanted to give away right then and there. Ended up ratchet strapping the suspension back together to get it back to his side.
Ok, show of hands. Who else thinks that if you canât solve the problem of why your four-wheeler shuts off on a right turn, you should immediately surrender the vehicle to the proper authorities? đ„žđ
i've seen sledders forget to pop the switch back up and try to start, and or have their kill switch if installed... not attached... and they're like wtf? did i break it?
Or just hand the keys and title over to an adult with a higher IQ than yourself.
Dont worry, that problem will solve itself eventually......
I may catch some flak for this, but my response to a customer like that depended on whether or not they were a jerk.
Nice guy who just made a mistake, he gets a "No charge" for the total due.
If a guy came in being a total a$$ and treating us like it was our fault, well he gets a minimum of an hour "diagnostic time" at full rate.
@@mikesmith-po8nd asshole tax.... we apply it a lot on labour for DYI people who know just enough to be dangerous and not enough to stop them doing something stupid.
Used to start my VW by rolling backwards down the driveway and popping the clutch.
That last one is neat. Pop starting an old car. My mom had a Chevette that you had to start this way because parts were busted. She pushed it down a hill and jumped in.
I was at a McDonalds when a Toyota pickup backed away from the building and the front *dropped*. The bolts holding the lower right balljoint to the lower arm had broken. Someone had replaced the balljoints but for some reason used cheap Grade 2 bolts instead of the Grade 8 ones that should've come with the new joints. The bolts on the left joint were partially broken.
There was a very lucky man and his son in the truck. He'd come to pick up the boy from his ex-wife for the weekend and the kid wanted to stop for an ice cream cone. If they hadn't, they would have been going down the highway at 65MPH when it came apart.
I offered to go get my floor jack and give the guy a ride to a hardware store for some Grade 8 bolts, and fix it for FREE. Naww, he'd rather pay a bunch of money to a mechanic. A mechanic who was attempting to reinstall the ball joint onto the wrong side of the arm, struggling with it because it wouldn't fit up flat to the arm. After watching that for a while I took pity on the "mechanic", went outside the McDonalds and pointed out how the left one was assembled and how he was trying to put the right one on the opposite side. (IIRC the joint flanges went on the underside of the arms and the "mechanic" was trying to put it on the top.)
Would you pay a "mechanic" not smart enough to have a look at how a thing is assembled on one side of a vehicle to learn how to reassemble a self-disassembled assembly? Nevermind not smart enough to figure out that if the thing isn't fitting on one side of the arm it most likely fits onto the other side.
I watched a 1st gen CR-V hit a sunken manhole cover as she was slowing for a red light a few years ago. The car stopped, the left front wheel, tire, hub, brakes, and a few other various parts ran the red light.
Best thing I ever saw was when a customer forgot her keys inside their car and locked it up. We opened the door, customer was grateful and locked herself out barely 30 seconds later AGAIN. You had to be there to believe it.
THIRTY QUARTS of oil????????? And they get to vote too!
LOL!!!! I remember people used to do that with carburetor vehicles that wouldn't turn over.....they'd spin the rear tires or have some friends push them until it started!!!! LMAO!!!!!
The peel joke was fuckin hilarious. What a Golden dad joke.
Incorrect placement of the sticker on the car battery would actually catch out most people.
Thanks for sharing. đđđ»
Definitely! Thought id share it so hopefully it doesn't happen to anybody else.
"the smell wasn't very appealing" đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€ŁI can't
He said "The smell really wasn't a pealing" ... ZING
For those who don't know: the tire spinning trick is basically the same thing as starting with a hand crank like in early cars before the invention of the electric starter. It works the exact same way.
That was a nice treat 4 a sat evening love the episode can't wait for the next one đđđđ
Watching these videos further convinces me humanity has peaked
The battery thing I had on my last car! The colors of the cables were switched and the actual icons were rather hidden and hard to spot. Besides a failed attempt from a neighbour to jump start me, I bought two different jump starter power banks before I figured it out. The first powerbank only flashed weirdly, but the second one started a very loud alarm whenever I connected it...
Oh wow. That car start so smoothly. Never saw that kind of start by turning a wheel XD
I owned a Karman Ghia and that's the way you start them.
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I can relate to the one that's all over the road. Lately our car feels that way too. LIKED
Hopefully it's nothing too bad! đ
@@JustRolledIn so far its still on the road. But for how long remains to be seen.lol
That last method works better if you have a buddy to dump you off the jackđ
I love your guy's videos but boy some of those cars that come in with trash in them I'd have to tell them to get out of my shop. Lol đ
"the smell wasn't very "a-peel-ing" đđđ
We all joke about filling them up to the very top, but someone actually gone and did it. Crazy it won't start đ
Learned a new way to start a ghia.
Starting a beeltle in gear wheel up ,reminds me back in the 70s, when we raced them 1200cc as light as could be....even no starter....lol
Working at a powersports shop gives some entertaining stories- we had a guy come in complaining of a backfire during hard riding and turns on his Honda Rancher ATV. We check out the vehicle, and we can't get it to backfire at first. He picks it up with no charge since we couldn't confirm his issue, and comes back not a week later with the same complaint. He hands us his keys (last time we got his spare, this time was the main set) and we go for a test ride and the thing is backfiring all over the place. We can rev it up just fine with not so much as a stutter, but once we're moving, it snap crackle pops away and won't stop. We chased after it for a while until my coworker saw the screen flicker during a backfire and thought it might be the key switch, but then noticed the customer's decorative key dangle! This dude had a sense of humor like a kick in the balls, and I only say that because of the fact that the whole issue was centered around a heavy key dangle cast to look like a set of hairy bronze testicles.
The second clip reminded me of that one story ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
This stuff never Ceases to amaze me
1:32 brings a whole new meaning to a âorange peel paintjobâ haha
Clearly the best time:content ratio, of anything I watch on CZcams.
Major Whoops đ đ€ŁđŹđ
All of them...
The smell wasn't very a peeling. Hahhaha
Enjoyed đđ
learning so much here
The last 2 WOW!!!
Love the TURN start on the VW at the end of the video. :-)
Love it every Time ;-)
Love that Karmann Giha !
My Toyota Stout will start that way also.
That last clip was pretty cool.
I've done a pop-clutch start on few cars, but I've never thought to try it like that.
I'm not a surgeon, but ball joints should be covered with grease.
How do you manage completely to remove all the grease from the joints, driving in a sea?
1:08 -Was it 7 litres or gallons?
-I don't remember. Better play safe. Put gallons.
2:47 Impressive. Not sure is that good or bad.
A year or more of nobody checking, or declining the service when someone says "Your right front upper ball joint has play."
@@matthewbowen5841 They will wear out, that is true. Dust always find a way, but completely rusty is a different matter.
First guy is a great magician, turning in to a gas station. đ
Gotta love a Kachow! moment to start off the vid
Holy crap I made it! 2:30 this is truly the best channel ever
Thanks again for sharing the clip!