I MISSED THIS DANGEROUS FAULT (THIS WAS LIFE THREATENING) | Life of a Mobile Mechanic
Vložit
- čas přidán 17. 10. 2023
- INSERT JOHN SNOW'S VOICE Winter is coming!
What a brilliant day... well, I say that but I failed myself big time!
We started the day by replacing Front Brake Pads and Discs, and also Rear Pads on an Audi A6 2016(7). The reason why it needed a brake replacement is....? Watch the video to find out more!
The biggest job of them all, diagnosing a check engine light on a Nissan Qashqai 2019(20). If you wanna find out what the fault was... well, keep watching!
Later that day... something VERY unexpected happened....
*Olsa Low Profile Spanner*: t.ly/I8qL7
Audi A6 Front Brake Pads Replacement | Audi A6 Front Brake Discs Replacement | Audi A6 Front Brake Pads and Disks Replacement | Audi A6 Rear Brake Pads Replacement | Audi A5 Front Brake Pads Replacement | Audi A5 Front Brake Discs Replacement | Audi A5 Front Brake Pads and Disks Replacement | Audi A5 Rear Brake Pads Replacement | Audi A4 Front Brake Pads Replacement | Audi A4 Front Brake Discs Replacement | Audi A4 Front Brake Pads and Disks Replacement | Audi A4 Rear Brake Pads Replacement |
Citroen Relay Rear Brake Pads Replacement | Citroen Relay Rear Brake Discs Replacement | 2016 Citroen Relay Brake Pads and Discs | 2016 Citroen Relay Rear Brake Pads and Discs Replacement | DRAMA ALERT | Life of a Mobile Mechanic | Mobile Mechanic | How-to | Lifestyle VLOG | Work VLOG
I wish you guys were north of the border, I've been looking for a decent mechanic for years. keep the videos coming mate.
We as mechanics always tend to leave our vehicles till last, never mind mate I've done it and I can guarantee we're not the only ones.
Mate I wouldn’t beat yourself up over it. We’ve all done it, and you don’t have to justify yourself with cleaning new brakes. If you know then you know. If people question stuff like that then they quite clearly not mechanically minded. Great work as always mate. 👍🏼
Lol he Dramatising it for views
At least you caught it before the piston got pushed too far out! It happens though, don't stress over it mate, and respect for actually putting it in the video.
You're human and, more importantly, HONEST. You've been completely transparent about the mistake...hey ho, it happens. Great videos...
I feel no matter what coating the disc manufacturer puts on the very basic thing is to clean off the grease and dirt that has come off your gloves while handling them. Loving the videos 👍
Imagine what other vans are like, ones that aren't owned by a mechanic. I've seen some shocking commercial vehicles on the road.
Props to you for sorting the issue right away!
Having a fleet of personal vehicals that all need work is what makes a real mechanic 100% 👍👌👍
And the fact,your not hiding it bro,humans....we all can make a mistake ❤❤❤❤bro,love your channel man..🤜🤛
just in time, its not too late, fixable so no worries :)
Thank you for the vid. always enjoy watching
A plumbers tap always drips.....😉.
Fixing your own stuff always comes second cos it makes no immediate money & costs valuable time!
No time to look after your own things you have to do ...your are not the only one it happens to all trade people ..like the honest video.
You know the old saying the cobbler's children are the worst shod 😂 keep em coming lads 👍
😂 "The cobblers son goes bare foot"
Protects the rest of the brake discs as well, good choice to go to imop
Nice blogger kana Ngayon Good job😊
Nice video again! What cleaner do you use in the pump?
Strange you didn't get a code up for an open circuit on them sensors. Good shout on the Audi sensor with the corrosion, so many modern mechanics can only work from the book and not use a bit of logic to solve a simple wiring fault.
When the woman walked passed and asked if was a puncture 😂
Great video,loving your channel and the work you do seems top notch 👍👍 As an old man I’d advise you to invest in a mask for when your cleaning the brakes or parts - look after your lungs 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I was going to post this 👍
The guys acknowledged the use of axle stands in conjunction with the jacks before and had a near miss with the coil spring compressor. Hope they take this advice onboard too. We all learn everyday, exactly as said in the video
all good when working outside in the wind, plus no asbestos etc used anymore so not so bad.
The calipers look nice painted but as you quite rightly pointed out, unless you strip them down it causes problems when it comes to brake efficiency.
It happens matey you aren't the only one and won't be the last lol. But yeah at least changed it now and not left it till it gets bad. Brakes are important so good job all round.
What a Truthful video. Thanks. See you in the next one. 👀👀
Thank you for watching
I agree I brought few cars and always have service history but they seem to not replace the cabin filters done where from manufacturers genuine that never been changed
22 years iv been doing what your doing fair to say Citroen and Fiat
Seen with pad sensers on and they never come on when pads gone low
First time I have seen you adjust the park brake lol
Great videos, what do you use the grease the pins?
Great vlog as always, I use wd40 electrical contact cleaner for components and the maf sensor kind regards to you and everyone out there Mark from Billericay 😃👍
Love it how you’re an elite mechanic but the dash of your own van is lit up like a Xmas tree 😂😂
Citroen its normal 🫢
Don’t worry about it! I’m not a mechanic if my own van doesn’t have an engine light 😂
Easy fix that doesn’t really affect anything so I just don’t bother 🫠
😂 true mate, last thing I wanna do when I get home is get my tools back out and work on my own house
I understand mate. I have to explain to my wife every time something breaks I was going to do it this week....
Happens to the best of us, one of my caliper pistons was sticking but not enough to smell of burning, wore my pads and disc down sharpish.
I was 100000% sure that I had so much pads it could last me another month or two. Mind you I do a lot of motorway drives and not city. Bit annoying but it was due anyway, just very dangerous 🫣
@@themarvelousvloghandbrake cable might be a bit sticky....🤷♂️
Please, please, use a kneeling mat. Take it from someone who spent 10+ years crawling under F4 Phantom jets on hard concrete floors, it takes a toll on your knees that only shows when you're in your 50's & they go creaky, cracky & crunchy.
Thank you for your concern mate. Really appreciate it. You’d be glad to know that our trousers have built in knee pads in them, hence why they look square 😂
you don't need to justify your work to anyone buddy. too many trolls and keyboard gangsters with too must time to hate on others. nothing better to do that criticize people that are doing well. keep up your content i love it, i usually watch the USA mechanics cause the UK ones are annoying but your content is brilliant. love from a Heather up in Glasgow xx
Thank you sir! 🫡
😂😂😂We get it now about cleaning the brake discs
Gotta put an exclamation mark on it. This will be the last time I’ll speak of it 😂
Don't beat yourself up at least you repaired it when needed done , I bet there is many that run for weeks or months like that . I maintain 4 cars in my family and I just prioritise the jobs , daughters clio is being one of them atm lol .
18:49 love your humour 😂
When cleaning brake or clutch parts with a rotary wire brush use brake cleaner first and ALWAYS use a mask
unless working outdoors in the fresh blowing
air, plus no asbestos etc used these days.
Pagid, Delphi, Brembo or Apec for my mk4 Mondeo in the next month? It might be you fitting them 🙂
... even the best can overlook things
if its the oil viscosity light then it wont always last 1 year because if you have dpf issues it affects the oil in the engine so reducing viscosity
Hy mate..how much is discs and pad replace on mercedes benz a class A170 ,1.7 petrol,2005?
what grease do you use on your brake discs
YoU nEeD tO SaNd It DoWn.... nah joking lol, so glad i found your chennel.
Your lucky You found the fault before it found You, Lesson learned Bro
Happens to the best of us.....
Hi we are happy with your super work Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery
We all leave our rides to last always the way every 1 else first 😂😂😂
on elecky handbreaks I saw a guy a while ago put a 9v battery that winds it out can you do that? or is it a recipe for disaster I genuinely not sure
Hi! I need to check my Citreon C4 Grand Picasso 2016, which made about 76000 miles but I have an untimely Gearbox fault on and off I change gear select and the new battery still starts and stops works sometimes could please let's me know if you can fix thanks
none of the vans i work on have "pad sensors" every oilchange requires all 4 wheels to be pulled and brakes checked... only high end vehicles have them. and it happens ive had my own van hit metal on metal but mine was caused by a fused slidepin (welcome to canada) no matter how much heat we ended up shearing off the top of the pin even though we nearly had the bracket redhot... quick run to the parts store and cannot buy the bracket alone but we ordered 2 new pins and bought a new bracket from a wrecking yard and rebuilt it.. things happen at least you addressed it quickly ive had vehicles come in or i went to that the pad was non existant and the backing plate was worn halfway though.. come work on some canadian vehciles and dont be surprised when half the car falls apart, i had a car come in where one fuel tank strap was half missing and the other was hanging on by about 1/4 of metal.. i have safety failed cars that are less then 10 years old due to ROT and yes i have the ability to prevent an owner from driving a vehicle away by seizing there number plates i hold a Motor Vehicle Inspection Station Licence... i am an ex ASE certified Tech aswel..
Hi my name is John DAWKES I'm also a mobile mechanic from Ramsgate Kent I've been watching your vlogs and noticed that you never show winding back the caliper piston for those people out there learning
You could also do a video on it and bleeding the brakes soon as he never shows that….
Plus winding back a piston ain’t hard and if you need instructions on how to wind back a piston it’s best they stay away from doing a brakes altogether it other ppl that pay the price
Most trades neglect their own possessions.
Wait until you visit a network Tyre specialist you don't normally go to, who while they have your wheels off to change the tyres try to upsell and inform you your brakes are "metal to metal", a week after you've just replaced them.... The following conversation resulted in 4 waiting customers going elsewhere.... They learnt not to try and rip off a master tech.
protect your lungs young man , that rusty brake dust is bad for your health buddy
All John's fault, blame him :)
every mechanic I know all their personal vehicles are leaking something or need something lol, hard to work on stuff when no money, lol, you're normal
My rotors came sealed in a plastic bag, no grease at all.
What's you're opinion on Blueprint pads and discs. Just put them on my mx5.
They’re actually decent!
So you check your van regularly. Maybe check out your local "Specsavers"..... they do hearing aids as well 😂😂😂
you could put a dab of dyelectric grease on it so the moisture stays out longer.
I did, and a lot of silicone grease externally 😂
That is the Textar cera tec grease you using for brakes?
Specifically designed for brakes
The disks may not ship with the anti corrosion oil on them anymore but you Still need to clean all the thick oily fingerprints off.
Okay
Why not stick some tape over the reg plate. Then less work to do when creating final video
You wouldnt believe it my dads honda civic ran out of oil on the mway cant be as bad as neglecting your pads and brakes. Imma check my front pads coz ive done alot of miles in 4 months and i had free eichers in the boot cant expect much outta them
You might as well Chuck a block of cheese in there than use those eicher pads
@xboxcrazee they're not that bad actually put them on at 156k miles now at 10k still got loads of meat left
Your DA Guvnors i l like your videos
Why don't you get knee pads?
My dad was a window cleaner we use to have the dirtiest windows In the street are machines who look after area BT van’s most of them had cars that were not in the best shape my mechanic who looks after my wife’s and mine car will not fix the rear wiper on his parents car he did fix my wife’s a few months ago i am a now retired telephone engineer and we had old extensions all around the house and a lost wire from are pole down the wall just before a retired I sorted them out it is called a busman’s holiday you don’t want to do for you self What you do for other people During the week 😅
And I thought you would blame John 😅😅😅😅
If it wasnt that obvious, I would have haha!
I work on ducatos and boxters all day 6 days a week🤣so the same set up as your relay, the brake pad warning 9 times out of ten do not work. Majority of the vans I do brakes on or even work on the sensors are snapped. It’s useless having the sensors on them🤣
Also everyone knows mechanics neglect their own vehicles for the most part too🫠
I think the sensors on this is ‘ground sensitive’ so if it touches the metal part of the disc, it will get triggered. Weirdly, I’ve never seen it get triggered so that’s probably why they just chopped it short so it doesn’t touch a metal? 😂
I totally agree haha
18:10 did you just do up wheels bolts/nuts with an impact (without a torque bar/extension).....😬😂
Just because it’s not in the video, doesn’t mean i didn’t do it 🤷🏽♂️
@@themarvelousvlog I mean your vans wheel, when you did them up with an impact at the end, honestly I presume you just nipped them with that and torqued them after but with the bmw thing lately I thought it a relevant joke.....
@@themarvelousvlog btw when I say torque bar extension I don't mean an actual clicky torque bar, I mean the torque stick things that limit impact drivers torque, they look like extensions and give a pre set torque (weight) allowing impacts to be used on things like wheel bolts, check them out if you didn't know about them already I have a set of 4 in different colours for different torques.......
The MOT history on the Van ain't great
😂😂😂 had meat 2 weeks ago .. then 2 days ago ... weekly checks every month 😂😂😂😂
my dad took is car for tracking and new tyres to national tyres and they said to him come back in 2weeks as we cant seem to track the wheels theres a issue so my dad told me i found strange i looked under and the subframe was cracked and you can easily see the crack as it was in the eye of the tracking area and i told my dad they fobbing you off on sales and that why tracking cant be sorted so my dad rang them said i want my full money back as the car is now going to the scrap and they said we would of noticed but soon as i sent photos they shxt it so i then posted it online and then they said will refund if you remove the review and they promised to refund once we give the tyres back so i took the wheels off my dads car they took them and didn't refund so he threated with the newspaper and he ended up with is money back this took a full month. so be warned if a garage saying we cant track it come back in a week or so that means they fault a serious issue
Always an issue on a used vehicle
If the wires are joined you won't get a signal that's another private dealers trick if they don't won't to spend more money on a vehicle there selling
Got a puncture?🧐
Do you use kneepads dude. As a 46 yr old I'd advise
Absolutely. Out trousers have built in knee pads in them. If you look closely, the knee/shin area is very square due to the pads inside it
@@themarvelousvlog quality
Thank you for the concern!
More videos coming so keep an eye out. Thank you for your support 💪🏽 🫡
@@themarvelousvlog top man. apologies advise the wrong word to use
Why does John look like he could be part of Manilla grey
Hahaha! I always tell him this 😂
A plumbers bathroom is never finished
Plz Plz wear mask...this dust is not good for health
It happens mate also I have sent you two emails on your site but still no reply
Hello!
We get bombarded by emails all day and we absolutely try to reply to everyone. Is it possible for you to flag it so it comes up?
Send us a direct email:
admin@marvelous-cars.com
Thank you!
I have tried to send another email to the email address you just gave but it won’t send
That is definitely our email. Have you tried using another email service?
@@themarvelousvlog not yet I will try again later 👍
"I wouldnt do the job like that if i were you" every comment on CZcams be like
Everyone’s perfect here on CZcams 😂
@themarvelousvlog im getting into the trade how did you get into your first job and building up your first toolbox and milwaukee or dewalt?
@@DarkReaper-or9el you don't have to start with top of the range tools but try and upgrade with every other job make the job pay for the tools required don't go and buy loads of tools straight out the gate just buy what you need as you go and before long you will have your full kit
@grawalk6 because i dont wanna buy twice i currently work at a hardware store so i was thinking about getting a milwaukee ratchet and impact because its £579 but with my discount its £463 one my mates was saying the halfords advanced socket set is best as it has everything you need
First job I can still remember till this day. It was very nerve wracking but that goes for every job though, isn’t?
Tbh I started with just a toolbox, no power tools. First profit I spent on impact gun, then a basic diagnostic tools that is capable of doing DPF and EPB support. It was Autel’s MOT Diagnostic tool- very good, I still use till this day.
Tbh, it depends on what path you take. I seemed to have found myself that I just buy whatever tools I need for that moment, it the following day
wtf did you do mate, every cut scene I saw this f'ing blur flew away and it makes me sick lol :D check your editing skills like checking brake pads pls :D
CZcams is also a work in progress for us...
And this is the proof that "Owned by a mechanic" when someones selling a car is not necessarilly a good thing 😂
I would not let you do my car
Bro people where i work, drive daily company cars with that type of brakes and the firm wouln't change them....and you complain for a 1 day of bad brakes? you're fine, move on
Wear a mask you’ll be sorry in a few years time.
Hi just keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery
do you replace brakes on a vw golf r estate 7.5 because the next time i think i will come to you . dealership prices are astonishgly expensive .