Who else but Hoovie? 😂

Yeah, Wizard should do one of these videos just about Hoovies’ strange requests

The first time I saw a Hoovie video I had no idea who he was, but I thought this guy must be an idiot buying an exotic car sight unseen and THEN sending it to a mechanic for a POST-purchase inspection

People are very cheap and want everything for free and think they deserve it😂

But he ALWAYS PAYS

Pretty well guarantee it!

💯 % 😂

It seems he was smoking that porcelain because he was nuttier than a train load full of peanuts.

He dropped the camera on the spark plug !

That sounds pretty damn plausible now that you mention it.

You should have told her the factory's hours are from 3 am to 11 am for that very reason and that the staff leave for home at 11 am.

So you lied?

yes@@asensibleyoungman2978

@@asensibleyoungman2978 Crazy people get lied to sometimes

​@@asensibleyoungman2978he's a salesman

Some people just don’t have the money. If four gets them down the road today for another month then that’s just what they have to do.

I've had people insist on changing bad brake pads on only one wheel, for the same reason.@@thatairplaneguy

@@thatairplaneguy Some cars where a bank of plugs is blocked by the intake manifold people just do the accessible ones.

This is very common. Some plugs are super hard to get to.

Reminds me of how me and my late brother bought a '00 E39 BMW M5 back in 2009 (I still have it and it's still on the road), and one of the first things we did was to change the spark plugs just in case - found out that one bank of the V8 had OEM plugs, the other bank had completely different non-OEM iridium plugs. And the coil cover wiring harness boots were both just flapping in the wind, likely since they're pretty difficult to align correctly so that stay in place at the hole at the firewall end of the cover. Some people...

It's cheaper and easier to not care about repairability

@@jamesmiddleton4741until it fails under warranty and your paying your mechanic to disassemble the entire dash to get at the hvac actuator

@@ogonbio8145 They pay half time for warranty work they couldn't careless.

They manufacturers used to have an access panel to the fuel pump in the trunks of cars.

Yeah especially the Lambo transmission

Yep, this is plain to see with most 'influencers'.

Or cheap.

And there is absolutely no reason they need to bury it like that, whatsoever, and they KNOW it will need replacing long before the car's design life is through.

many really older cars had the heater core and valves sitting pretty as you please right on the firewall. A 20 minute job to replace.

@@adotintheshark4848 just how it is supposed to be. Many people would even be able to do the job themselves.

I miss those older cars, like the ones I had in my youth. I wouldn't get much deeper on anything newer, than routine maintenance and spark plug changes. Everything else is ridiculous to work on.@@jkeelsnc

There r vehicles that require a dash removal for a cabin air filter

Yes people think someone running a business has infinite funds.

Businesses appear to be fair game for all the 'charity grifters '

Eh, that really depends on the customer and the shop owner. I befriended a local shop owner and we both benefited from that relationship immensely. I got a bunch of discounts and even some freebies out of it while they got several new clients I sent over (I'm a car guy, non-car people ask me about this stuff) and of course all of the work they did on my cars since I owned quite a few in the last few years. It helps that they do good work in general of course. I think everyone's pretty happy here.

Disagree - like the other reply states, depends on the individuals. My dad and now me have a great relationship to our mechanics.

Well unless he's a millionaire idiot with a KZfaq channel!

You have to know who to choose. People who have money and understand business are okay. People who don't have money or not willing to spend the money is not okay. At the end of the day it's a business and we need money to stay in operation. I'm okay cutting a deal or doing a favor, but I can't go so far that I'm being taken advantage of. I don't hangout with customers or anything because that normally turns into them doing me a favor and I don't need that. If cases of emergency arise, then I can cut a deal. We had a customer that a water pump relay went bad for a condominium irrigation system. We cut him a deal because a hurricane was coming. Sadly the water pump and generator went under water in the building during the hurricane.

David and Tyler would've never had the friendship they have today if they left things as "just professional"

he wouldn't have lost all brakes? don't you have 2 separate circuits working diagonally?

@@ithecastic yes, but most master cylinders have 2 pistons feeding 2 completely independent lines. designed this way for security.

@@francoisloriot2674 YES rear Brake line rusted out. My Guy Replaced all in back $500 Super Cheap

​@@francoisloriot2674there isn't typically two separate pistons at least not that I've seen but maybe there is on something idk haven't worked on everything, there is just one but it has o rings/seals that separate it so in effect it functions as two and the fluid reservoir is split in half also so failure of one half isn't a complete failure, for safety/redudndency.

@@francoisloriot2674Not on old cars. Even in the 70s most cars had a single master cylinder. If the brake lines leaked anywhere, you lost pressure in the entire brake system, no more brakes. I have a 60s car with this system still in place and I just have to keep the brakes well maintained to prevent the loss of brakes - but upgrading the brakes to a dual circuit setup is a really common mod for safety reasons and is on my list of things to do.

The phrase "We don't do that sorry"

Sometimes the best deals you do are the ones you don't do.

@@zm321 Exactly! I had to learn that the hard way, but luckily I learned it very young and early. Getting burned by a crook when my gut was screaming at me to run when I was looking at the job, but I ignored it and paid dearly. That left a lasting impression on me!

@@dennisconrad6124 Our instincts are usually right!

One customer refused to pay for work, he put a chain around a brick wall he built. I'll take down it down, if your trying to stiff me. He got paid and never did that mistake again.

It's a great thing to occasionally offer to do work for free for someone genuinely in need. But not as an expectation.

Exactly. Could've upsold him on installing a line lock, explained how much more safe that would be, and charge extra for it.

@@End3r_WigginWe arent a race shop. Id hate to hear from this guys lawyers if the line lock failed.

@CarWizard Fair enough. I had a speed shop in Memphis for years. You definitely have to cya with regards liability. Enjoy your videos for years now. Appreciate the response.

When the line lock fails, it just won't work. The brakes should work fine. Probably not street legal, aaand to install it the front and rear have to be separate, no cross braking. So it is "less safe."

I rode in a rat rod once that had a ball valve to shut off the rear brakes 😂

Sad reality is that cheap prices attract cheap people. I drive a cab as a side hustle. To get more fares when things are quiet I use one app that's known for its low prices. More than half of the customers from that app are obvious junkies, or drug dealers delivering "product".

I sold my business and went back to being an employee for this one reason. I got tired chasing people for money. I'm not good at it.

It's probably higher than that. The reality is most people need cars, regardless of how much they make or what they do for a living, and the generally are not cheap to fix in any capacity. With all the info on the web etc, sometimes containing step by step videos, I always encourage people to try to do their own repairs if they have some tools and some patience. I know that won't work for everyone and the potential reasons are too many to list, but it's well worth it in the long run. It's really nice not to have to depend on someone else when the prices some of these places charge are so expensive.

It’s like requiring a cellphone to have a user-replaceable battery, really!

I don’t know why car companies don’t make the evaporator and heater core more accessible. In trucks it would be as simple as having an access panel screwed on to the firewall under the hood. Another good point is to have a screw on panel in the bed to get to the fuel pump so that the tank doesn’t have to be dropped to replace it.

Same goes for spark plugs and valve cover gasket’s Some vehicles require way too much prep work to get to easy fixes GM is really bad with this when it came to their 3400 sfi engines and their rear spark plug access

@@chonkyloreraccoon3686 Exactly. This is one reason it is not always ideal to have a V6 transverse mounted in a front wheel drive car. Sure it works but GM isn’t the only car company that had/has the access issue for the spark plugs on the firewall side of the engine. A 4 cylinder engine on the other hand works well for access in a front wheel drive car. Of course, the common theme is that cars are not designed for the people that need to maintain and repair it. Engineers should have to strip down their own designs and rebuild them on their own with common tools. If they can’t do it easily then they need to be sent back to the drawing board.

That was an actual thing 50 years ago. I remember replacing one on an older vehicle I was driving. Didn't have to do much beyond "2 hoses, and 4 screws, boom part in hand"

And the mechanics I meet won't accept bartering for their services either...unreasonable...🙂

I don't guess you put your hand on their shoulders?

People tried to overcharge me for one of my cars everytime to the point I learned to do it myself

@@kobra6660 always a good idea.

I did have a mechanic do some work for free... after he did an oil and filter change on my car by mistake. I had just done it myself!

I made ones car motor for free and the motor puked on him short time after, now he blame me for not fixing the engine properly. The same with photos just because I have a 5d mk2 people think I will photograph their wedding or other events.

Bands get that same request.

@@montereyjack3679 Especially the cheezy bands! Happy New Year!

How could anyone turn down that deal. 😂

My car is a beautiful girl and deserves free stuff too.

Hey, you don't ask, you don't get! 🤣

you forgot teachers and lawyers.

My grandmother years ago would walk to the grocery store a couple of blocks away regularly. The preachers wife would see her walk by and would yell out the door she needed some groceries so grandma would pick up stuff and drop it off receive no payment ever. So grandma finally started to walk the long way around the block just to avoid the preachers house. Some people expect everything for nothing.

And gypsies

@@guzziwheeler except that teachers aren’t paid enough to take care of everything for themselves and then are crapped on by their community. Lawyers on the other hand are another story. They shouldn’t get anything for free as they usually have money and when they want even more power they go into politics and become even more corrupt. If they can’t get into politics then just remember all of the road side bill boards you see for injury (ambulance chaser) attorneys in your city. How many politicians are lawyers? Nearly all of them. 😂

Some churchy types are like that, acting like you're their buddy when you're really wishing they'd take a hike.

I think it is always the God people trying to lower your guard.

@@TL-wy1nk Some of them are the sneakiest, most conniving individuals, at least on Sunday afternoon through Saturday evening.

@@Rick-S-6063 Sadly true but hilarious comment

@@Rick-S-6063 I know exactly what you mean. And yet I know some churchy types in the state where I live and not all of them are that way but even the ones that are not you don’t even try to tell them that other people of their kind are smarmy like that. They’ll take great offense and unless you leave you will be subjected to hours of crying, anger, and “constructive criticism” because apparently Christians are “persecuted” in America. In some countries, that is completely true but I can’t stand it when a Christian in America tells me they are “persecuted”. They have ALL the advantages and privilege in this country especially if they are white Christians but yet they are “persecuted”. No tears shed here.

I'm still kinda mad at this one local shop I used to go to. Story goes I had them replace the entire AC system in my car for like $3,600 and then a year or so down the road but over 40k miles because I drive a lot (the warranty was like 1 year 36k miles or something) the AC stopped working. I had already switched to another shop I started using because I thought the one that did the AC was expensive and they're always super busy. Anyway, AC stopped working so I was like well I should take it back to them to see if it's still under warranty. I drive there, drop it off and wait in the lobby for my ride to come get me, within like 40 minutes or so before my ride even got there they were like well we found your issue a wire had got cut or worn out rubbing on something so they needed to splice the wire I was like okay whatever just do it cause I'm already here. Also to add context I do Doordash delivery full time and this was when it was really hot out so not having AC was a huge pain. Start to finish they got it fixed within like hour and a half or so and then give me a bill for nearly $400 to splice a wire. I'm not the type of guy to complain in the office because I don't like conflict. But they charged for the diagnosis fee of like 180 and then for an hours labor at like 150 or something and then shop parts of a couple bucks and taxes and random crap like always. So somehow replacing an entire AC system is $3,600 but splicing a wire is almost $400? They should've waived the diagnosis fee in my opinion because I had them do the work. Should've been free too though even because I paid them to install the AC and it really should be a warranty issue, why was a wire they probably installed able to be compromised. But they might've been mad at me because I straight up told them that I was only there because they installed it originally and because I thought it might still be under a warranty else I'd take it to another shop. So maybe they just wanted to screw me over. Either way their loss I have 5 cars and won't go back there and other family in the area isn't going to go back there either because they're always expensive it seems like.

I can't comment on how or why that shop did that, but it does seem a little off IMO. Under those conditions if you brought it to Ron's Automotive in Idaho (my father's shop before we retired it a few years back) it would've been covered in the shop warranty of our work (aka we would eat the cost of making it right). Shop Rates (their hourly rate) goes up and down depending on your area, but most of us do follow the Flat Rate Hourly System when it comes to that. There's a "booked amount of time" we all go off of that is set by the industry on how many hours you are allowed to charge for each job. It keeps it fair even if the shop you took it to did that 2 hour (booked) job in only 1 hour because they are good at it, and the shop that is not so good might take 6 hours to do the same job - but they can only charge you for the 2 hour limit... if that makes sense. Even if the employees of that shop are making straight hourly wages, the shop itself goes off this system on how much they charge you in most cases (that's all part of that $10k per month Car Wizard is talking about in how much it costs to keep a shop in business). Also, wiring or electrical problems usually show up in "the book" as "straight time", meaning just that, you charge however many hours it takes because there are too many variables in diagnosing electrical & "computer" problems. Personally, I fought a Lincoln Navigator for 3 days straight to get it to shift properly, only to find out it was a dirty connection in the 3rd Brake Light Bulb. The light worked, but there was just enough corrosion in the socket to effect the body control module (in the computer system) that wouldn't allow the transmission to shift properly. A 5 minute repair that took around 30 hours (of extreme frustration) to diagnose. Luckily it was my vehicle, and I sold it for $500 just so I would never see that thing again, and I only work on classics now that have NO computers and VERY basic & easy to diagnose electrical systems. @@dedalliance1

@barerose garage you used to not charged for diagnostics? That’ was super generous of you. I hope people appreciated that. Some people think plugging in a code scanner is all one does to diagnose a car.

yeah, that was back before OBD2 for the most part, when things where a lot simpler and you are 200 percent correct, that scanner is only as good as the person reading it. you know as well as I do, how many people think that you can push a magic "fix it now" button on that thing and make it all right again.... lol.@@pops55650

My Guy Loves me lot's of Pizza"s and a Few $100 Bills GOT 5 more Cheap out of it.

Surveys are so dumb. I been there as well

Yep fuck the surveys, I got hired as a service advisor and they fired me for bad surveys without even telling me what I was being surveyed on so I didn’t even know what I was doing wrong or how to do a better job but I was so fed up with the job anyways that when they told me that they were letting me go I immediately felt so relieved to be free from that scummy hellhole.

You need a split dash so you could remove the centre section, but then it would take more than 90 seconds to install at the factory.

Could even have been a "Morning Zoo" radio show host.

I mean we do live in a pretty stupid country with stupid criminals too though...

Very well spotted.

Yes, touching someone is meant to create an intimate connection and usually means they are going to ask for a big favour.

You are so generous.

I've done the fuel pump hole with mine already. The heater and evaporator cores I just did the proper way. I didn't have to remove the dash but had to loosen the bolts. Just had to lift the passenger side of the dash just an inch to get enough clearance to pull the HVAC box. I don't understand the hole cutting for heater cores because those are almost always inside the HVAC box which must be disassembled to get access to.

I was amazed that when I had to replace a fuel pump on my 1995 Audi a6 there was a sealed access hole for it in the trunk if u pulled the carpet up, not the most comfortable place to get into and work but easily a 20-30min job, the heater core on that car a diff story tho, like many it was a pita.

You must have dealt with some of the most awful people on the regular then.

Ah yes the ghetto shit

Oh Yeah, but I also met some of the greatest people. Everyday was an adventure.@@estuardo2985

Because most car audio guys have room temp IQs and think good sound quality means loud with a lot of bass. They breath from the mouth. So yeah. You're going to encounter almost exclusively idiots with shit taste in music.

can you tell us a story?

it was an early 2000 mercedes. there is no way that there is still new car smell after 20+ years

The cabin particulate filter's function is to filter the outside air that enters the cabin of the car. It does not address the gases emanating from within the car due to the materials/glues used to create the interior fixtures - unfortunately you have to 'grin and bear' those.

@@Midg-td3tyMercedes retain a particular smell. I think that’s what they meant. My 1992 W124 still has a smell. It’s the materials used.

Unstable* Bob Gable GOBBLESS BORTHER

You in NE PA? I need somewhere to work on my cars. 😂

@@Derek8487 LOL I was like come on.. I have plenty of my own junk to work on :)

Plenty of YTers do crossovers. I wouldn't take it too personally.

@@Cheepchipsable They were not a KZfaqr they didn't have a channel. It was just some rando that saw my video and asked if he could come use my lift. At the end of the day the response I sent was the correct one. I can't take on the liability of working on someone else's car on a lift in my home garage in case something happened.

​@@IhateKZfaq so can I use your garage?

im suprised the shop didnt report him.

​@@rysterstechI think the problem is when someone approaches you with something fishy like that it's often not until after that one realizes what just transpired ... Rather unfortunate but hopefully the next crazy customer CrazyD is ready for and takes a name/number down

@rysterstech ME too

@@rysterstech sounds like they tried

Yes they are. Fully agree.

Seen it in electrical work. Change Orders are obviously part of the original bid

I know exactly the sort. And I can guarantee he'll have very strong political opinions about people wanting handouts, social care or help with student debt.

It doesn't stop there. I did satellite TV install more years ago than I'd like to admit. The people that got the premium packages and/or a bunch of TV's hooked up were the most chill people you could meet. It was ALWAYS the single TV, cheapest package people that were the jerks. Watch you while installing, had all kinds of irrelevant questions, and ALWAYS complained after the fact. Some people are just not worth having as customers.

Male Karen vibes

I’ve had shops, even a dealership install new parts I’ve bought - never had any arguments but was using factory parts I originally thought I’d do myself. Then again I never asked for stuff to be installed that wasn’t factory. Regarding doing their own work, customers don’t always understand that there are safety and insurance concerns when people are unnecessarily wandering around inside the work area. On the other hand, the automatic craft shops on military bases staffed by retired senior NCOs to advise was priceless.

"Yeah this is gonna be my 18 year old daughters first car, love her so much, just trying to fix it up for her." Well it's gonna need pads and rotors all around, the tires are 11 years old, lower ball joints are bad, and the ABS warning light is on. "Oh! well it's just my daughter's college car, we're not trying to spend a buncha money on it, go ahead and just do an oil change."

Bye

​@@CarWizard😅❤

Funny how people want so much for free.

Years ago I worked in an auto body shop ,lots of times we'd get a vehicle in that needed a little repair. The people would say well your all set up you got the paint why don't you just fix this little dent over here or paint up that chipped area over there and they didn't want to pay any extra. You explained it takes more time and time is money but they didn't want to hear that.

Fail, you forgot one

nope church even wants tithe ha ha ha

I own an X5 and I haven’t had very many issues on mine aside from routine maintenance. Granted it’s still expensive but I fix any problem that comes up as soon as possible so it doesn’t grow into a bigger or more expensive problem.

Majority of vehicles failure, besides some design/manufacturers error, are stupid drivers. My 78 year old still works as machinery sales rep and has 274k miles on his '15 Cadillac SRX 3.6 Regular maintenance and great driving habits! Never touched the engine internally. I recently replaced the purge solenoid for the 3rd time. Seems reformulated gas , destroys them every 80-90k. I

Sure, just follow the maintenance program for once.

Doubt they would want a part of that either, when the guy ends up driving through someones living room, your name is on the modification that caused his car to go out of control

@@kellismith4329 do you understand what a line lock is?

I thought the same thing. Apparently the Camaro guy has never heard of a line lock

If he doesn't know what a line lock is, he's too stupid to be using one.

@@trentryan27his point is that you assume risk by recommending and/or installing that kind of modification, as you could be liable for damages resulting from its use in the event of an accident

Would be good in the truckbed too over the fuel pump

@@kellismith4329 If there was any real competition in the US auto market, maybe we would.

Yes, doesn’t even have to be as fancy as hinges. Just a halfway scored outline of a door so that when the core goes bad then it can be cut the rest of the way and all of a sudden you saved $2,000.

That's a good one. I expect that when he was born, he by passed the section where they were handing the 'common sense'.

@@georgebettiol8338 When they were passing out brains he thought they said trains and said "I'd rather have marbles instead"

You had anyone in with a Tesla or other EV yet?