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"He who is without oil shall cast the first rod" - compressions

It's amazing to me how people have no understanding of the difference between catastrophic failure and a minor issue

at 6:35 honestly the customer was spot on, perfect description really.

the fact that these vehicles are out there driving around.. is scary!

When I watch these I'm most impressed by the state of some of the vehicles. I dunno how something can get so completely trashed.

I once had a customer accuse me of not knowing my job very well. He called me an idiot for not knowing he had a factory V12 in his Toyota. I'll give him credit for apologising after the third time I explained how some engines have two plugs per cylinder.

Some of these problems are due to the owners. But sometimes stuff breaks even when maintained and operated correctly.

I literally had that loose oil filter happen to me after going to a Jiffy Lube. Luckily the oil drained out in front of my house and NOT on the 300 mile road trip I had planned the following day. I actually demanded they come out and clean the mess! The manager was out a couple hours later with kitty litter and new oil.

The cheater bar one made me crack a smile. It was just so wholesome.

I’m always impressed what some these people do too their cars

A few years back I brought my suburban in for new tires. Got there at 8:30 am , the manager said they would be done easily by 4pm. I arrived at 5:30 and my truck is still up on the hoist and the left front wheel is off. He said it would just be a few minutes. Twenty minutes later I was on my way. Two days later the front left caliper froze up and I thought that is strange. I went to take the wheel off and two of the studs were missing. The custom wheels on this truck had locking covers that went over the lug nuts so you couldn't see them. I decided to check the others and the right rear axle was missing a stud as well. I knew they were there before I went in as I usually do all my own maintence. So back to the shop I go to see what they would do. I asked the manager if these so called techs that work here know which way to turn a lug nut.The manager just blew me off and said I must have done it. Really I pleaded my case in front of him as well as several others waiting for their cars. He got up and just walked in the back room stating that he was done talking to me. As he did I turned and faced the others who were there and told them; " A word to the wise, these people here have no idea what they are doing and I would never ever trust them to work on my car again, neither should you." The look on their faces made it all worth it as they all looked like they all got it. Went home and had them all fixed in a hour or so. If you find a repair man that is trustworthy and knows what he is doing, stick with him. They are like gold, they won't be the cheapest but you won't have to go back to have the same repair done twice.

How in the world do some of these cars even make it into the shop? Especially the one with the rusted out lower control arm?? You'd think the CV axle would have been pulled out! It's unreal how many cars like this are on our roads!! Frightening!!

14:04 Haha! I do this with the sticky notes my customers stick on their laptop cameras, so satisfying. I always replace it with a proper sliding cover, it just looks and works better and they cost like $0.10

You know after seeing a few of these videos, I am glad that we have TÜV in Germany. Most of these cars would have never gotten a certification to be used on public roads and probably would have landed on the scrap yard long ago.

As to that semi blowout: I had a trailer tire blowout earlier this year and it bent the steel semi wheel in half and shot it off the hub, breaking two lugs and stripping the threads on the rest. The force shoved the trailer 5 feet sideways. Neither I nor the tire guy had ever seen anything like it. It looked like I had hit a pole at 100mph, but I was in a parking lot. The employees of the lot I was in came out guns drawn thinking there was a shotgun blast and an active shooter. lol

Most drivers today don't know anything about vehicles. They know to put in gas, start it, step on pedals and turn the wheel and take the vehicle in for maintenance when the book or dash tells them to. Most don't really know how to "drive", they just steer. Then there is the cost of repairs. Many people just don't have the money required for repairs on modern cars at garage rates, so they ignore things until it's a major problem.

My god, that bmw steering wheel almost made me spit out my beer!!! 🤣🤣 insanity! Best laugh I’ve had in a long time…..

2:03 glad to see other people have a good taste in music

11:00 - Were those guys scared of a CHICKEN?

Get to da choppa!!!! A man of culture I see.

These never get old. Please don't stop uploading.

I had a 2015 Hyundai I 20 in today for a quite violent pull to the right,the customer had already had an alignment check at a place I know and trust and everything seemed to be in order. After removing the front wheels I had a nose around and peered through the small hole in the caliper bridge to check how the pads had been wearing,it looked like the anti squeal shim had shifted forwards so I pulled the caliper off only to find a tea spoon, bent over and wedged between the inner pad and the piston pushing the front of the pad into the disc and forcing the sliding caliper off at an angle causing the sliders to bind and holding the o/s brake on😁

Water in the center console for a A/T Mercedes is bad. Usually it is a spilled coffee that causes the issue or a sun roof left open in the rain. Check out the wiring diagram and see what is located right under the beverage holder. What were they thinking?

Jiffy Lube did the same thing to me put wrong oil filter on it backed off and blew my engine which they replaced free of charge to me

Viewer states: People need to learn to hold their cameras horizontally, not vertically. 😠

I'm suprised there aren't more mechanics in jail for knocking some good sense into customers heads.

I just had to LOL when I saw all that wiring in the footwell. What are they fixing...a lamp? And remember kids, house wiring is for...umm....houses.

seeing these problems almost makes me want to cry.... some people shouldn't have cars, trucks or lawnmowers....

These videos were funny to watch at first till I came to the realization that these are the people we have to share the road with.

Great episode guys can't wait for the next one😉😎👍

I feel smarter already after watching this video.

This is the problem with modern reliable cars, older cars used to get regular maintenance because they were unreliable and would leave you stranded at the drop of a hat, modern cars will do 150-200k miles before this sort of thing happens " without" regular" maintenance, and having any kind of an impact accident in a rust bucket "WILL" most likely kill you and or your kids

What's amazing to me is that people work so hard to purchase what may be the car of their dreams only to fall asleep when it comes to taking car of their dream car.

Critters! Thinking that space is for them. Gotta worry about that with my Jeep now. If birds don't come flying out form underneath, it's a squirrel on both rear tires skatterin' as I approach.

I am surprised these drivers even recognised something was wrong with their vehicles. The phrase I find myself saying in most of these is "Dude, I......" 😮😂

6:44 🤣 “GET TO THA CHOPPA!!”

And that's why, I quit as a car mechanic in 1993. My bay got ALL the shitty jobs. I loved my job but, not the headaches, busted knuckles, suspicious dust and the short time allowed to perform a perfect job. Also, being a little ocd about my work, I double-double check everything I touched on a vehicle.

I was a vehicle safety inspector in the state of Utah until the legislature decided that the inspections were unnecessary. I was an honest inspector, about 2/3rds of the vehicles I inspected failed. But I received so much flak from dishonest inspectors that would just write up a pass certificate, it was very frustrating. And those inspectors are the reason the program was done away with, there was not enough funding for the Highway Patrol to investigate, charge and prosecute these criminally negligent inspectors.

1:55 "You don't say." Is exactly what I think about on almost all this kind of stuff.

@10:50 Now thats what I call free range

15:35 pull the pin, it'll grenade, I bet. 🤦🤣

That scares the hell out of me. Some one is driving that?????

14:14 is like a stick shaker event in aviation but for a car.

Some of these cars have added a new definition to the word 'BOOM'.

Ahh the 11th Commandment: "He who is without Oil shall throw the first rod": Compression 9.4:1

I wonder how many folks said " im gonna go get a second opinion and NEVER MAKE IT

Really wish these weren't all recorded in portrait mode.

Left the grenade pin in on the Subaru timing belt tensioner

16:04 Noooooo, those 8 lug wagon wheels are so rare :(

The one that blows me away is how in every one of these videos, there's at least one or more cars that has a bullet hole through it.

At least the tundra was covered under warranty. Buy a 70k truck, go 8 miles to have it detonate. 😱

I'm so glad we in the UK have to put are car through an MOT to check it's still road legal, not to be confused with road worthy. For example an rust which has eaten a hole in the frame even if it's only big enough to get a screwdriver in. It's a fail, even a chip in the eye line of the driver, fail cracked lamp lense fail. Basically there lots of stuff to do when it's MOT time

Customer states "Every time I hit the brakes, I smell Chicken McNuggets."

Luckily we have a TÜV in Germany, that's life-threatening.

At 2:14 its Ford for sure with a hole in a piston.Faulty injector is causing this....classic....

So many of these cars only only being held together by gravity and paint is terrifying.

11:39 I had that happen to me on a 1999 Nissan Almera (pulsar, N15). I bought the car used, and don't know if the pads were OEM or not. But it cost me a complete new set of rear brakes (pistons were crusty around the seals).

It's ok , no big deal !! They can all be fixed with a couple rolls of DUCT TAPE !!!!! LMAO

It seems like some people are willing to drive their cars into the ground, that's so sad. You gotta love your car, you have to take care of it and it will take care of you, no matter how old it is. I drive a 2006 Jetta 1.9 tdi with 375 k km and it's a wonderful machine really, you just have to maintain it,and it will do you good :)

As a retired mechanic brings back memories

14:26 Those rotors aren’t even close to their runout tolerance. 😜

is there no safety inspections on vehicles in some states? The rust damage is so dangerous, it couldn't get that bad here in UK, I hope.

Imagine, these vehicles are on the road, cutting you off and what not lol.

I dont know whats worse, the condition of the cars, or how each of these videos where recorded vertically.

I wonder how many fatalities there are each year just from catastrophic frame rust.

This is why i change my own oil and brakes. Plus i had a buddy try to change his oil for the first time after going to a quick lube place. Dont know what they did to the oil drain plug but we stopped wrenching on it when we got to the point we were scared we were gonna break it off.

Love watching these Knowing I don't have deal with this sh!t anymore. Drivers only drive until it can't be driven anymore. 🤦

6:55 I took a "tire" off a car like that a few weeks ago, but all that was left were the sidewalls, no tire. The sidewalls were so strong, the alloy rim didn't even have a scratch, lol! 10:15 Had a Mazda "lock-lug" nut shatter like this, leaving the bevel part on the stud. I had to melt out the stud with a blowtorch without destroying the alloy wheel, not fun. The broken edges of the piece of the lock nut weren't even rounded by the torch even after torching the stud out. My guess is that the nut was some crappy zinc alloy that was fireproof, but not shatterproof! I dispose of customer's "lock-lugs", and replace them with standard factory nuts every chance I get. Lug nuts are more affordable than alloy wheels, so I also replace my customers' badly worn lug nuts for this reason!

no, those are the new drumless drum breaks dude! totally the newest trend in uneducated hacks without google auto-shop these days

Literally untill it's falling apart...

These are the same people who think State Inspections are worthless...

Customer states vehicle has a problem......... .....Viewer states they can't see problem clearly as it's shot in portrait-mode!

Clip 1....oh God a pt cruiser just sell it to a junkyard

Remember some of these rolling heaps next time you’re on a 60 mile an hour 2 Lane highway with lots of oncoming traffic😬

11:26 I can hear road noise/wind from the back, and all my doors and windows are closed.

With the amount of blow by that engine was creating I'm guessing that there was a lot of metal in the customer's oil pan.

9:45 what happens when you oil pump installation tool is a hammer seen that one too many times

Thank God I work at a dealership and rarely see cars that are older than 4 or 5 years. Also, many mechanical issues, such as rusted control arms and other stuff linked to the suspension system, we would have to call the customer and tell them the car ain't coming out of the shop if it doesn't get fixed there and the only way to get it out is on a tow truck otherwise we simply deny working on it.

10:59 Two city boys removing a scared chicken from a mall crawler.

And many drove to the shop like that and the mechanic/tech took it for a test drive. Then you lift it up and see all the broken kill you, your neighbor on the road stuff. My other favorite is a fuel tank that's on E, light on and all, like gee thanks...but it never fails, fuel pump is out and the tank is topped off just as full as full can be. I like when I get gas at a station, and the guy on the other side is pulling the trigger to really top it off or get it exactly at 60 bucks, and I ask, I'm sorry to bother you, but does your car ever have trouble starting? And they're like yeah, how'd you know, and so I explain why you really shouldn't keep pulling the trigger after it stops. You may or may not know, but when you do that, you run the risk of pushing fuel back up and into the charcoal canister and other EVPA systems resulting in hard to start. Eventually it won't start at all. Your welcome!

Who knew CV joints are consumables? "They gave their full measure."

Jiffy lube blew my engine up too. 2.8 vw vr6. Needed 15w30, they put in 0w20. Shot a rod 150 miles after change. They would not accept responsibility. I drove it into the shop with no noises.

When going to college a few months ago I saw I dude with a wheel like that, it wasn't as bad but you could clearly see that the wheel was tilted and hanging for dear life(4:08) they didn't seem to be aware of it. we were at a stop a few street away from the highway so I wanted to warn them before they get on it but couldn't in the end. I truly wish someone else told them.

The favorite one I've ever had is honking the horn and the domelight goes on but the horn doesn't honk

I think a lot of this is because of the way people drive, I see a lot of flying up to the red light and then stand on the brakes to stop, then jump on the gas to go, flying over the railroad tracks, etc etc

I did a brake job on a 70 Torino, I could see through the rotor.

I have a Chevrolet Trailblazer extended LS and it has the front fenders and front bumper of a GMC Envoy the transmission was also from the same envoy. The parts were put on by a family friend. What he did not put on was front blinkers so I, a 17 year old male, have to install the front blinkers so it would be street legal.

11:00 nice save. 👍

and in almost every case "customer declined all repairs". You just know that these cars haven't had an MOT or road inspection in years. No way they would pass in Texas much less California

8:11 That is an amazing quality boot

Wait wait wait, you mean I’m not supposed to have a limited slip crank shaft

3:55. Well, it was driven in . . . 😂

You rescued Marcy.

There are some cars from the rust zone, salted roads. Wouldn't you think the drivers, would have realised the massive issues with steering and suspension. It scare the crap put of me seeing this.

Unrelated comment: WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT MODE??

These cars are on the road with us lol…lol 😅

Must have let the magic smoke out it!!!

That Subaru that timing job I've seen that happen before and what that is there's a hydraulic tensioner in there for the timing belt there's a key you need to hold that together when you go to remove it they left the key in it

Seen a brand new lexus catch fire on a test drive & a lexus motor blow 2 rods through the side of the block 3 km after the customer bought it