10:20 Turn your air bag into a claymore with this simple trick. Mechanics hate it.

😆 yep

Great comp. Thank!

Can you start another channel where you try to reproduce these issues in a semi-scientific way? I really, really want to know how to turn engine oil into jello!

@@fredygump5578 if I had the space I definitely would. Hopefully one day I'll have my own garage and can do some experiments. Trust me there's lots of experiments I want to try 😂

Booooo! 😂😂😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Genius 😆

New cars don't even have a spare anymore. Duct tape or nothing. I guess it's fortunate cell phones now work everywhere,

Hey, don't diss the "Handyman Secret Weapon"

Flex seal ftw!

What's the tread wear rating on Gorilla tape?

“My mate reckons”

Australian humour , nothing unusual, like the septic tank cleaner who said, 'some tanks have a smell that will outlast religion'. 😅👍🇦🇺

Tragedy unveiled

They break way too easy these days had one break off too luckily the handle-end.

always impressive when people turn a 10 dollar problem in to a 5000 dollar problem. sad tho it seems like they werent irresponsible just ignorant of the risks.

yeah absolutely, I was watching that part and like "the dip stick broke off? oh well how bad can...it...oh my god...the dip stick breaking basically just totaled the engine. I did not know that was possible." MAYBE MAKE IT A LITTLE THICKER GUYS WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY COST LIKE 5 BUCKS!?!?!?!? I remember when my mitsubishi eclipse broke a timing chain...I threw the entire car away because it was going to cost like 6 grand to fix everything that broke and the car wasn't worth half of that.

I have a Mini with that same engine - i am now horrified of touching my dipstick

That's what, unfortunetaly, MOT's are for. Yes it sucks, specially if you have an older vehicle, but because of asshats like those in the video, we have to make them do this. Only in the US I've seen this shit roaming the public roads. At least half of the vehicles shown here would fail MOT.

But what amaze me the most is that people will actually drive that shit.I mean how bat shit crazy you have to be to think it's ok to drive that piece of garbage.

And they are able to vote.

These are like the same people who fix a broken guitar headstock with Epoxy, and then don't mop up the excess that comes out, so it looks kinda like if a 4 year old dumped a can of paint over his head. ... I've looked at a *lot* of _poor_ guitar repair photos this week. Ugh.

@@jamesrichardson559 and have kids. or worse, dogs and cats... 🙄

When I make some new merch I might put him on a tshirt 😂

Don't forget to Spay / Nutur your BMW! 😸

@@JustRolledIn I'd buy it!!

@@2405jacko I'll work on it! Lol

@@JustRolledIn Sweet!!

a coworker blew the bumper off a civic with just one of his tires exploding while sitting at a red light

He wasn't filling this old wheel and tyre with air though. It was just sitting there. How the hell does it randomly just explode? I'm completely fascinated by this wheel/tyre exploding! Never seen or heard of that before. Please explain

@@jack.crv-Roverinflation

@@jack.crv-R power of the sun/heat. if a tire is filled near/to the max pressure it can explode by exposing it to direct sunlight (or any heat source) for too long. air expands and the combo of age of/damage to the tire can cause it to go boom. had that once with my bicycle, it popped while standing inside the warm hallway at my jiu jitsu training place. winter combined with old well pumped up tire and 20~25°c difference in temp (at home my bicycle stands in a shack thats not heated/insulated) caused it to make a very loud boom and scare the crap out of us all lol. its why they warn to not leave pressurised canisters/fuel jerrycans etc in the sun or to close to a heat source

13:09

Did the kitten recover well?

@@ianthomas1201 Well, they named him, so that was implied.

@@borderlineiq People name their kids, and they turn out retarded.

@@ianthomas1201 Yes, but the ones on KZfaq can typically pick up context clues from stories that prevent asking questions that imply retardation.

@@borderlineiq Obviously you're not a Buzkashi player.

I usually say my father-in-law did it.

Good way to make their blood pressure jump 30 points. :)

It looked like it was home brewed

"Where did they find this 'other shop' at, Craigslist? And then they can't tell you where it's located, or the place's phone number, or eMail address or anything!"

I actually believe it. I have seen that kind of crap happen to other people's vehicles at certain shops. People can be lazy and be horrible at their job or a shop can be extremely cheap.

What made it blow up?

@@ronalddurkee8542 There was an airline into it so he must have been inflating and lost track of how high the pressure got.

Pretty sure it would be a shrapnel danger if the airbag went off😶

@@shuryougospel5424 that's what makes it the best

homemade claymore

Nothing like turning your airbag into a clamore

She'll just turn the new one into another grenade.

especially since they run with peugeot engines. and those work only when used in actual Peugeots.

It's hard to blame the car. If I was a Mini Cooper, I'd off myself too.

Sucks they're so unreliable because they're pretty slick and unique looking cars. But damn if I'll buy a car that's lucky to get 50k.

@@gottagofast4531 oh, and Ford had the idea to use the onboard computer to actuate the alternator. for reasons unkn own that one single cable, coming out of the black box on the left side of the engine compartment and runnign all across the engie to the alternator, tends to oxidize as the insulation becomes brittle. and then you run out of electricity... I had fun a couple times trying to replace that brittle worm, because of course the connectors are corroded, too... and you can't get them from somewhere else than Ford.

Yessir! They are absolute fucking trash! My buddy had a Mini Cooper S that was also turbocharged, obviously making it compound charged, had mild cams in it too, but everything was gone through and rebuilt properly and it was pretty fucking fast. I think it was like 300hp at the front wheels, but then it caught fire in his driveway and burned to the ground, lol....

gotta commit

"But the oil on TV is always black! Every time _I_ check it it's BLACK! That's not oil in my car!!!"

Had the same situation once , the shop foreman took a bottle of new oil , had the customer put their oil indicator in it , just to show them what clean oil looks like , didn’t here much from him after that 🤣

Had the same one time. Manager came to me asking if I put oil in it because the lady is on phone saying there's no oil. I said tell her to look closer, which she managed to do.

Wow, the dumbness is more common than I thought! Thanks for sharing these.

They aren’t laughing cause they are the ones that are going to have to fix the problems.

@@cannednolan8194 oh no u r wrong. I meant "laughing because its gonna be a long day" 😁

And, Cha Ching! All the way to the bank.

Broo im a service advisor at a ford dealer, and some of the shit you see or that customers tell you is absolutely comical lol. I saw a truck like 3-4 months ago that the guy made his own lift kit from wood blocks that he cut. Was so fucking ghetto lol

Yeah until they have to drive and the anxiety sets in knowing that half the cars on the road are not roadworthy

I'll call them that from now on

Speed holes make the car go faster , according to The Simpsons . 😁

Or the usual tweaker suspects doing the psycho chop shop job just to get to a stupid catalytic.

Had a similar situation. It was near closing time, and guy was on his phone, and ignored us when we asked if he wanted anything other than an oil change. We were done in less than 9 minutes, and he accused us of not even doing anything but charging him for the service just the same. Showed him the fresh oil, said I'd dipped his dipstick in a bottle of fresh oil, not the engine. I was like, "Really? I was standing two feet away from you. You *watched* me check it, wipe it, check it again and walk it over to you."

@@nephicus339 At that point I would have told his stupid ass to do an oil change himself next time. An oil change is so easy to do for most vehicles I feel like the only reason anyone would take it into the shop for just an oil change is because they're lazy as hell.

Bruh the FA20 was super easy to change oils for... Even I can do it and rotate his shitty Chinese rotas in 30 minutes if I have a lift

Mechanics should be payed more to put up with this

I could do that in 15 minutes with a 30 point inspection.

Yes, but do not let the smoke out of your wiring though.

@@BigLisaFan Exactly!

Also keep the headlights topped up with headlight fluid and make sure to add all the fluids to the engine that your car could need.

And always use new synthetic smoke when you do a flush

I want to give this a thumbs up but it’s at 69 so I can’t 🤣🤣🤣

ofc it’s a subaru too

Even with company?

Yep… that will be $89.95 for diagnosis. 😫🤦🏼

The cat clip is awesome 😊

If you can't afford oil changes, sell your car for a cheaper to maintain one while it's still worth something...at least that way you won't leave yourself without a ride eventually.

@@JustRolledIn Your "new cat dad" caption is the best part!

@@VraerynDaDragon If they can't afford an oil change then invest in some tools to do it yourself. It's going to cost them an entire engine or car by ignoring some essential services. I take mine to a shop because it's just easier and I can keep on working despite knowing how. It's also a pain in the a** to near impossible to get the nuts off without using a power tool.

@@Midala87 People that just stop getting oil changes because they can't afford it aren't exactly going to be of the mind to be willing to do it themselves now are they? Changing the oil may be "easy" and simple to do, but most drivers don't care and you couldn't convince them to try if you paid them. For the general public, recommending a cheaper to maintain car is a better solution to offer.

Appreciate that! Thanks for being here.

What's the weirdest thing you've seen?

You should do a show called "Just Towed In" 😁!

I noticed that, too. I’m actually surprised they had info enough to know not to put sparkly things on the airbag.

@@CTrunde pretty sure they still Claymore'd the passenger though 😬

Last time go for oil change, The mechanic broke the oil stick, For now the stick stick still not found…

More of a FRAG grenade, wouldn't it?

@@DGFishRfine1 Oh, I didn’t spot that one the first time watching 😳.

Or at least a new engine, that one is ruined beyond repair.

poverty begets poverty. Ever heard of the Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness? A very simple anecdote that gets at the heart of the problem.

@@HinrikS There is also a german saying that goes : "Dummheit schützt vor Strafe nicht" Which is saying that stupidity doesn't protect you from punishment. Everyone who can afford to own a car, can afford a yearly oil change. Pretty much everyone can do it, in a shop it costs maybe $140, or even less, doing it yourself will cost maybe $50. It's just stupid people getting punished

@@rowdy6274 guess it depends on where you are from, but I got an oil change for $34 the other day

@@gu244 that's a great deal, if you know what they're putting in there and they do it right. I usually pay around 60€ just for good oil and filter

That one cracks me up lol

Yeah, what a loser! He could have just taken it out and hammered it a little until it's long enough, like I do!

@@horrovac Nothing better than a hammered, beaten, & oiled dipstick!

The guy who sold me his camaro had installed a short throw dip stick. I had to order an oem dipstick to get the proper level reading.

@@kevinrodriguez9701 - why? i mean, why the short stick in the first place?..

Had someone tell me once that split rims were the only thing you had to worry about. He was wrong

​@towcat no state in America allows split rims not for over 45 years

@@dwh5512 Well, they may not be ALLOWED, but they're certainly still USED...

How much PSI are those tires? that damn thing went off like a bomb.

@@rm25088 I run my tires at 110 Tires are also overinflated often in order to get the bead to set and then deflated again

Engine running temperature is way over snow melting temperature

@@habafflof Snow isolates really well

What kind of car allows that to happen even? I've driven through many blizzards in a BMW and never had that happen. We get plenty of blizzards here in Finland every winter.

@@Manakuski I think the car at 2:25 is a Mustang

@@JussiValkila to me looks like a dodge charger

Good Idea I drive tractor trailer,and about 5 am one morning,a driver started his truck. He didn't flip the hood for the pre-trip engine oil check. Instantly there was a horrible noise. The raccoon took out the fan,radiator,intercooler,and A/C condenser, along with other ancillary equipment. But,since he is somebody's "friend",nothing happened. If I did that I'd get 3 days off.... RIP Rocky Raccoon

Many years ago, I went down to the machine shop I used for my auto repair shop. The assistant machinist was under a jacked up car. I hear screaming, turn around and drag him out from underneath the car. There is a CAT on his HEAD raking him with it's claws. He had on leather welding gloves, though, so his HANDS were OK...

that's how I got my cat years ago. I was a paperboy. one of my customers discovered a kitten had climbed on top of the catalytic converter. unfortunately it was after they had driven around for a hr locally. surprisingly his pads weren't burned! had him for a good 15+ years afterwards.

I chopped a green, grass snake that way. I had street-parked my '79 Cutlass Supreme the night before, and the next morning, I kicked the gas to set the carb choke, turned the key, and heard a thumping under the hood, then my battery light came on. I shut off the engine, popped the hood & got out. Raising the hood, I saw parts of a 'green rope' all over, and my busted fan belt on the ground. It took me a minute to realize a snake had been under my hood when I cranked the engine. Oops. No more snake! :-)

yeah your right when i used to go uncover my bike i would slap really hard on the seat then kick the air under the bike so if a cat was under the cover it would move and be safe

Ya thats rough, not his fault at all and now his car is totally fucked. Pretty shitty design on the dipstick for it to break off for one and for two for it to come into contact with moving parts inside the block.

Someone else pointed out that the engine failure likely caused the dipstick to break, not the other way around.

@@karlrovey The dipstick shouldn't be anywhere near moving parts to begin with, It detached and got pulled into the engine. not sure how the engine could fail, cause the dipstick to be severed, then get it intertwined in the engine...

To be fair, he bought a modern mini cooper, so he knew what he was signing up for. Don't buy Mini if you don't want catastrophic engine failure to be a regular occurrence in your life lol.

i've seen car tires do this too. always check the rim stamping for size irregardless of the tires that came off them

Man once while airing one of those semi wheels , i went to get the valve and left right when the tire blew up. Tire was almost new and everything but no warnings when it blew.

How does this happen?

​@@bluezitrone9731 If the tire had been previously on a truck, many things could lead to failure and blow. The most common cause for explosion in my experience is when a driver continued to drive on a flat tire for several miles. This causes what's known as a zipper blowout. The steel cords inside the tire get stressed as they're being manipulated in a way outside of their intended behavior. They will bend and twist until the air pressure inside the tire becomes too great to hold it back and ultimately blows. Tires that are old, dry-rotting, cuts in the sidewall, etc can also lead to failure. It's important to inspect tires for scuffs, cuts, bruises, darkening, hissing, and weird noises. These are all warning signs that a tire could blow. You'll often hear the sound of rubber bands snapping or popcorn when those steel cords start to break internally. You may only get a second or two at most of warning before a tire blows. Sometimes they can also just go instantly without warning. The air valves are usually not near the tire so air can be shut off from a distance if you do hear signs. Sometimes you can even see the sides start to bubble out. But for the safety of other techs, I tend to let them blow if it is safe to do so, while in a cage, with no one near it. A few months ago we even heard one start to go, stopped the air, and grabbed the two new techs we had and let them blow up. Good learning experience.

@@yahiravila3639 I had one late last year I had just walked away from it, about 70psi and it went without a warning. A few weeks after that one, another blew without any warning while I was standing next to the cage. Thankfully it was a zipper and blew on the side I wasn't standing on. I would have broken my leg at minimum with how hard that one went. I've only had 1 brand new tire blow. A few virgin tires and a few recaps.

I think they used the bucket to douse the fire and then just left it in the truck.

As an Australian, I'm still wondering how they managed to get out of that without any serious injuries.

I knew a guy that passed out behind the wheel, hit a guard rail and it followed the steering column right through him. It was an El Camino. His jaw was in the bed, still had teeth in it..

Glad you pointed that out. I was thinking it was a good thing they didn’t have a passenger.

"No serious injuries" ... Somehow

I did this with my 2013 ford focus se, this bitch is built like a manual, for all mechanical and other purposes is a manual, speeds like a manual, its fucking automatic. This bitch will complain if you drive it like an auto tho. Does mean nobody wants to steal her tho

My roommate had that happen, I told him it was most likely a sub $20 part and he was like nahhh. A year later he agreed to let me do an oil change, my dad happened to be at the house so the moment he gave me his keys we popped the hood and after 40s my dad found the problem. He had a giant rip in his intake tube so he was getting uncensored/unfiltered air. We replaced the tube with one from a junkyard for $20 and it fixed the problem. His entire exhaust fell off his shitty pontiac wave and he’s been driving it like that since august. Open headers

GET OFF THE ROAD

Ha that was clever!

You know it just blows your mind my mom bless her soul asked me if I could look at her automatic shifter. She stated it’s hard to put into park that she really has to push the shifter up pretty hard I take a look and within 5 seconds I know the problem I took all the crap she hand hanging around the shifter off she had hair bands around it a garbage bag some I phone cords all wrapped around the shifter. Once all that came off it worked fine just ugh

@@cayenigma Indeed

@@ryans413 it's often the simplest solutions that work :)

@@ryans413 And those damn girls with 20 keys and 50 key chains putting weight on the ignition cylinder. "Why did the key thing go bad". its not designed to hold 15 lbs of crap.

Knew what was gonna happen and got scared the same

Man I lucked out with one exploding. I was heading back from a road trip in my truck, ex gf in the passenger seat. I wasn't really speeding so I come to a big rig with a trailer just barley going faster, get in the left lane to go around still keeping my sluggish pace. For whatever reason I felt like I needed to hit the gas cause if not the rear right tire on his trailer would blow sending shit through my windshield at her. No idea why I thought this. So I do and as soon as I pass by that tire, it explodes and sheds apart sending it right where I was and would have gone where I thought..

How did that happen? Did it get too hot from being in the sun or something?

@@Nate_doggy_dawg it's pretty common for truck drivers to run their tires to the limit like that, once a month it so I'll hear what sounds like a hand grenade on the highway a bit behind my house. You should never stay beside a truck longer than you have to even if you know they can see you.

@@boneless8473 so it was just a worn down to the wire and the high pressure made it kaboom. I’ve only seen one tire explained in person and the was a minivan that hopped a curb at a 45 degree angle at 60 miles an hour in a residential right in front of a house.

Holy cow he got lucky.

Headache might've been a concussion, so I wouldn't call him totally uninjured.

Sounds like my last GF. The juice really isn't worth the squeeze. 🤭🤭🤭🤭🙄🙁

That takes dedication and patience 🤣🙄

Stupidity to a whole new level

Very unlikely. Probably a kid who cut his muffler off to be "cool," then got caught and came up with a story.

Nah, methheads are dumb enough to confuse a catalytic converter with a muffler.

how about the guy who thought the diff was a cat

decades ago i did sportsman class pickup racing at an IHRA strip in suffolk, va. we were last to run, so i was in the stands with my grandsons watching funny cars, and someone must've done similar. when they fired it up to bring it to the christmas tree, the intake grenaded and the fly-catcher and blower shot straight up doing flips, came back down and banged right back down into the hood cut-out. the crowd went insane.

I was thinking the same thing. That car blew that guy off his feet, flipped him upside-down. Gave him 3rd degree burns. And shredded his pants.

He probably needed new underwear after that too.

The comedy almost writes itself . .

Another, how does this happen? Moment? Lol

Thankfully most guardrails these days are designed to deflect on impact, and all the older ones that have an inadequate bend and buffer system on them are being replaced. Minimum these days is the fully rounded buffer that's deflected about 45-90 degrees to the side already, while preferably an attenuator device or a flat push pad that deflects the guardrail internally should be used

I saw this when I was a kid in the early 1970’s when a van hit a guard rail and it went through the front of the van and out the back about 10 feet. Don’t know what happened to the driver though.

Someone being caught under that will be a kill in the next Final Destination movie

Years ago a friend told me about an accident at work that left most of the employees throwing up at a rural Canadian service & tire shop in Alberta that he worked in just after finishing high school. He had a co-worker who never bothered with the safety chains when working on split rim semi-tires. Said co-worker managed to decapitate himself as well as spraying half his co-workers with blood and tissue, when half of a semi rim got stuck in the roof,. My friend had warned him not to do that the day before but didn't tell the boss as he didn't want to get anyone fired...

@@davidhollenshead4892 yea, that's pretty gruesome. Lots of people don't seem to comprehend the real danger of inflating a tire especially split semi rims. Your friend must have felt terrible.

@@michelleberry_mikef8552 Yes, he did. He later became an mechanical engineer who made certain that no one skipped safety procedures and that his work was always perfect. He worked for an automotive supplier on production issues and defects...

Where you able to get your hearing back later?

Brake bias… Fixes understeer. =)

Most cars that have both disc and drum have the discs on the front. Was the Civic different?

Best part is that there's no reason to use disk brakes on the back of a daily driver Civic. The vast majority of the braking is done by the front brakes and the drums are more than adequate. If you are overheating the rear drums, you're doing something you shouldn't be doing even with disk brakes.

@@Crosshair84 that’s absolutely true. “Golden era” Hondas from the 80’s and 90’s in particular are pretty meticulously engineered and it goes without saying weight bias etc are taken into consideration during the design process. However: Honda also made cars, such as the Civic Si, which executed the same such meticulous design which had rear disc brakes. I suppose the idea is that if you do a “swap” of a powertrain of a civic base model to one from a Civic Si or Acura Integra you may as well follow up with a likewise brake upgrade. Example if you have a 99 Civic DX and you put a b16a from the 99 Civic Si into it, you’ve added almost 60 horsepower, as well as adding about a hundred pounds under the hood. Adding the larger front brakes, rear disc brakes and larger wheels from the Civic Si makes sense.

@@sethallison5682 Larger wheels almost never makes sense. Ever wonder why race cars usually have taller sidewalls? It's for a reason.

That's why it's called quick lube 😜😆

Pretty much the standard practice of quick lube shops. 😂

Exactly why I always go to an actual mechanic for oil changes.

I always initialed the filter then put it on top of the oil fill cap. Hard to miss it. Techs complained a lot, but it never got left off.

That made me think perhaps the driver was on a diet by his wife and had to quickly hide the Twinkies.

Twinkies were NOT what I was expecting to be in those foil packs, tbh

Never go to jiffy lube or any quick lube if your not gonna do it yourself take it to a good mechanic I've heard so many horror stories about quick lube a family member of mine they didn't put any oil in the car and ruined the engine

@@joshuamast5128 I went there once and they put a nail in my tire. IT wasn't there before I went. I checked all four tires.

Ill never use one of those places again. In my younger days I used one for lack of time to do myself before a road trip halfway across country. Towing a boat on the turnpike I noticed smoke coming from the back. The idiots didn’t tighten the oil filter. It was blowing oil onto the exhaust and luckily I wasn’t too far from a rest stop to refill with oil and screw filter on tight. I either do it myself if I have to pay or use the dealer for my free oil changes

I used to work at a jiffy lube. Its more common than i would like to admit. Sometimes we would run out of oil filters and instead of telling the customer, or in what was the usual case, not forgetting to order more after the manager was told 30 minutes ago to order some from a nearby autozone or O'Reily's, the customer would be told that it was changed and would be charged full price. Not even "Hey, we couldnt change the filter since we ran out and since you say you cant wait, we'll give you a discount." Nope, just straight up lie and take your money

@@illjustice2002 Yeah, it's immoral, unprofessional. My dad worked as a mechanic for a place liek that a long time ago and he quit because of the evil shit the owner would try to make them do to people.