It’s himmm👀

I was just watching you 🤔

This car needs a strong application of the one grit.

I just watched the ben10 nug video...

Really didn't expect dank here

The wheego, a car that was made as a cheap rip off of a cheap rip off, of a already not reliable car. Vs a relatively decent production quality vehicle. And the coda managed to beat that. The Trabant at least can be dealt with basic tools (mostly) and honestly, you can fabricate half the parts if you really wanted, making it more reliable lmao

To be fair, the Wheego cheated by just not working at all anymore. Which means it will never overheat & the wheel bearings will not wear at all.

A trabant is fairly reliable tho right, not that much to go wrong

@@obbezwiers No. As a German, I looked a bit into the history of the Trabant. They were notoriously unreliable when they were even new from the factory. People had to tinker with them to get them running in a reliable way. They were simply engineered and built, but they had issues. People were upset about the quality but could not do anything. In a museum I saw a letter from a citizen who wrote to the GDR party all the things that were wrong with the car when it came new and attached an invoice for his own services so the car could actually run. Compared to the VW Beetle, they were crappy cars. But they were the only car that regular citizens could hope for, because pretty much only apparatchiks were able to procure Soviet cars. So they had to do. Despite the steel embargo. There are still some Trabis left that are driven, and they are nostalgia cars. They are explicitly not known for reliability. :D

@@Schmidt54 that's fair, thanks door looking that up! I guess the upside is that, when it eventually breaks down, you can probably do most of the repairs yourself😅

well nope it sounds like it's worse then the wheego as it never overheated and it's windows actually opened and closed maybe a little loudly but they opened and closed so this things more fragile then the wheego was I love it explains why coda went bankrupt

Stop the comments section, we have a winner.

Only one way to find out, get one of them working again!

@@owenstockwood5040 thats assuming that they worked to start with...

@@AnIdiotwithaSubaru Good point. Who on earth thought that a CVT electric car was a good idea?

@@owenstockwood5040 Marketing department?

@@owenstockwood5040 bosch apparently. They're working on a prototype

I think his F150 is a bit more reliable, but probably not by much.

@@herbiehusker1889 by a microscopic amount

The volvo must be the most reliable car he has. Those things run forever, especially the older ones

Or the Ford

Yugo is a reliable car. Now a Trabant on the other hand.

I have nothing to add except for the thing I'm typing... Well said. I agree :D

I was a big fan of watching quirks and features years ago but now they don't excite me, i'm not sure why.

Ditto. I think this, Chris fix, and Bad Obsession are the only car channels I'm subscribe to. I like seeing passion projects and truly unique collections, and this guy's sense of humor is excellent.

Well said

This channel is simultaneously the same as and total opposite of the British show Top Gear. How that is possible, I do not know, but I know what I like! 👍😎👍

Ha! I get it!

Hey its tavarish in disguise

Haha

Jared? That you playa?

@@christopherhamilton5557 one of the two

Wheego laughing in the background

Those of us who have consistently had more trouble with the electrical bits of normal cars than with the oily bangy bits have always gotten a bitter little laugh out of that assertion from the EV camp. :)

@@ZGryphon biggest difference (I hope, anyway) is that EV builders are inherently better at electronics, because that's all they build, where as for an ICE car builder, electronics mostly seem to be an afterthought and/of something to save money on. I hope. But any new car above the super basic ones are overcomplicated... EV or ICE.

Less moving parts is less moving parts.

I know gas is short for gasoline but it remains weird that Americans call a liquid "gas" :-)

In his daydream while he was walking away it was all of the above

I was expecting him to come running back into frame wielding a giant sledgehammer and start thrashing the car with it XD

That would be solving problems, not making more of them.

I expected it to just blow up by itself.

I was expecting a piano to fall on it. Must've watched too much Top Gear back in the day.

Please stop repeating that joke. Let's fine put that joke to rest.

@@jackielinde7568 So you're saying you wish Evan Coda picked a better joke?

@@mjc0961 I just like to say I’m glad I was able to come up with that on my own at least

@@mjc0961 It could have been tuned a bit better. Sadly, even your attempt feels a bit flat.

There are still a few you can buy brand new, with the tax credit!

"Wheeeeeego!", "Weeeezard!", both followed by talk of failure.

but no 'go' :-(

Actually it's East German.

It makes you wonder if the ICE car this was based on was also so unreliable. Things like door locks are nothing to do with it being electric or Coda.

@@MrDuncl Almost certainly. EVs have the potential to be more reliable than ICE vehicles but potentially being something isn't the same as actually being something. It's like LED Light bulbs, they can be way better than Incandescent or CFL bulbs but if you buy one that was cheaply made it'll fail much sooner than what should be an inferior alternative.

@@grn1 Funny that you should mention LEDs because one of the rear lights on a colleague's Tesla Model 3 failed about six months after she got it. Tesla did fix it for her.

@@MrDuncl From what I've hear with Tesla it's usually bad QC, especially on early batches. Once you get all the kinks out they're generally reliable (with notable exceptions). Tesla's batteries, motors, and drive trains are generally revered as the best of the best but other things that normal auto manufacturers got down Tesla screws up on. LEDs are usually overvolted as well which provides more light at the cost of more heat and a premature death. Most of the time the thing that actually fails isn't the actual LED but the driver behind/packaged with it.

the wheego has trained the coda well on how to keep Robert happy by breaking on and on

Hello DrTauntsalot! The channel is called "Aging Wheels". The name should be somewhere on your cell phone below the video. If you tap on the name you can find a lot more videos. Take care and stay healthy! 🌈

Nope. It must be the drugs.

He is going to need the whole series production to keep that 1 car running past 100 thousand miles.

@@sl06bhytmar As I recall from hist first video, the Coda is an electric conversion of a Chinese car. Of the problems he listed, the only Coda-specific ones would seem to be the status monitor and the Econometer. The door and window issues are probably endemic to the original car and the result of cheap Chinese parts. The one that personally worries me is the rear wheel bearing (and the bearing and u-joint issues in general); I'm a bit concerned that the weight of the batteries may be stressing the bearings, etc. If this is the case then, hopefully, installing higher quality replacement parts is all that is necessary.

Oops, I forgot the overheating.

Did he got the third car too? I never knew he got back to get the third spare parts car.. Can you confirm this?

There's more.

@@llmkursk8254 No.....

@@jaysea5939 It contains the dying wish of every man here.

Can go from tinkering with wonky cars to tinkering with wonky printers~

@@FranNyan A wonky printer would be a Geeetech i3 Pro W^^ The Ender 3 gives quite decent quality prints even for beginners out of the box. But they have much more mods that can and should be made than e.g. a Prusa. They are fairly loud and their stock extruders have a low life expectancy.

@@FranNyan To be fair, Jay Leno has spoken about the value of using 3D printing to replace bad plastic parts, talked on doing it to a 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE Mercedes for the air conditioning knob. The knobs would have cost $500 each and he's able to print one for about five bucks. If it's good enough for Jay in a 2016 video, it's good enough for Robert in 2021, but let's be honest, Robert's more likely to make it out of wood.

I have a 3D printer and yet for plastic gears, i'd rather just take the original gear and its pieces and make a copy from epoxy resin, i do that quite a bit and never had a Nylon gear replaced by an Epoxy one fail. I use 2K kneading silicone to quickly make a mould. I used to have 3D printed toothed idlers on my printer to better control the belt cogging, since rolling over a smooth idler stretches it unevenly depending on angle, but 2-3 years later, all the mechanically loaded pieces i made from a given batch of PLA cracked, including those. I do think PETG should hold up better, but i didn't exactly get the detail resolution out of it, it just behaves weird. ABS doesn't work for gears, no surface abrasion resistance, also it's a menace to get an actually successful print out of. No experience with HIPS and ASA as of yet. But i absolutely love my Geeetech i3 Pro W. Excellent electronics (though needed repair due to a well-hidden cold solder joint under bed connector out of all places, and degrading power input connector), made to be reprogrammed and modified. Junk in every single possible other regard, quite deliberately so. It's made to be fixed. The single highest quality tool shipped with it is a (potentially fake, but still pretty nice) Japanese-brand diamond file, intended to fix the laser cut wood frame wherever it's not made correctly. I also really like the pen that came with it. Geeetech A10 is supposed to be fairly nice, but then you might as well get an Ender 3 V2 which is much nicer yet.

@@SianaGearz For a good mold you still would have to have one part that is still in good enough shape to make a mold froim it. In a car where everything breaks, you may only have a single gear of a particular type and that may be teethless. So you could just print it and if that isn't strong enough (which it should be, but whatever) you could use that that to make the mold. Though the resin would be just as strong as an SLA print, which isn't stronger than most FDM prints either, so he should be more than fine with regular old ABS, ASA, PET, PETG, Nylon etc. PLA could be too heat sensitive for the inside of a car. I have a Geeetech i3 Pro W as well and I have to say, it is really bad compared to all my other machines. The frame just isn't as stiff and the part quality is often rather bad. The mainboard is nice though, but still just 8bit. The worst cost cutting measure was to not have one big piece for the top and bottom , but using the Z-axis leadscrew (which was horribly bent on mine) and the smooth rods to keep the fram from wobbling side ways. Which means it wobbled as hell. I learned a lot by designing fixes for it though (which I printed on my Ender 3^^). Nowadays these i3 clones just aren't worth buying new anymore. You can get them for basically the same prices as an original Ender 3 (which usually costs around 150€ + free shipping within a week (atleast here in Germany)). I feel he would love the Geeetech i3 Pro W, since he also loves his Trabant and all the other cars, but the Ender 3 with its superior frame is just a far better starting point. The community and therefore the mods are also far greater.

Demented gloriousness sounds awesome

...and chickens! 🐔

I kind of assumed he knew, because I don't know.

Couldn't a car be undestood as it speeding up under heat..? Ahahah!

Yesterday I heard a loud fan noise outside our apartment, I looked out and a Tesla had just parked below the window. The fan noise was loud! Not the whisper quiet you expect from a top of the line electric vehicle. It was 30°C yesterday.

@ was it charging?

@@snjert8406 nope. Just parked.

@ The A/C of the Teslas definitely makes a lot of noise when set to the max. Also on the recent models the same system is used to cool the drivetrain so it's difficult to say if the A/C is kept on or if it's just cooling the battery and motors after a hard drive.

It really is one of the best channels on KZfaq. It never fails to make me smile when a new video is posted. Thanks!

Robert could start a sub-channel "Ageing Wheel Bearings" :-)

we ain't got no salt water here in missouri fucko

Lol it's a component test for electronic modules aka compliance testing more than likely a failed component or dry/cracked joint

@@cardioandfriends Well aren't you a pleasant little cretin?

@@cardioandfriends There is a river called Salt River that flows through Missouri so I will allow it

@@cardioandfriends what he meant to say is that the failures might be stemming from when the car was still in Coda’s development fleet; if you have ever watched a video from a car manufacturer showcasing the development of a brand new model, they drive pre production prototypes in all sorts of conditions at the proving grounds until something actually breaks.

the speedo and the windows didn't break in the trabant

Finally! Someone to challenge the ZomBee for TOTAL DOMINATION!

Hes got a flippin fleet of lemons ready dominators.

Enjoy the wait. Learn a new trade or write a book. Retire.

But it COULD be! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not only that but sunglass holder was stolen from a Nissan exalta sentra (Philipine market) or Nissan bluebird sylphy there was too similar

Well if it needs an avalanche of repair, then it is breaking.

Reminds me of my 3 series BMW. Never left me stranded. Broke all the time. Also, the E46 is known to burst into flames. AT 2AM. In the garage. Electrical wiring issue with the radiator fan.

Should have been an S80 T6 with the GM auto trans, that would be more Robert.

@@imitt12 It could've been a ton of things, except a rebadged Focus with styling that tries (keyword: tries) to resemble an older design. It's not even that special or interesting. If anything, it's a pretty average hot hatch, if you can even call it that.

Thanks, now I can’t un-hear that anymore

You have lifts, wood working tools and fun cars and the time and ability to do so, I am pretty jelly!

Go onto your local car site and find a cheap, funny car!

Does that mean that if Robert repairs enough cars he can buy himself a Yacht (or three).