The nightmare for every mechanic is opening the hood and seen aftermarket parts all over without any information lol.

I love how Car Wizard is humble with what his shop can deliver. He knows when to send it to a tuning shop or a custom shop because they do things he won't on a regular basis. By the same token him and his team can work on a vast array of vehicles, rebuild and service them that those shops can't do.

Wizard is truly a wizard. Even custom making parts

You remind me of a young version of my father in alot of ways,Wizard. My Father has that same suit case of combined skills ,he too was in military, marine corps ,helicopter mechanic in peace times. He was I'm Vietnam so he has to deal with all that aswell , he was also a machinist, and actually invented some machines that were used in the commercial baking industry through his life , fixes pretty much anything, of course his knowledge is rooted in old ways , your new technology experience surpasses his of course, but you both are similar just from different time periods. I have learned so much from him through my life and I'm a mechanic myself sound, pretty well versed in different applications, but nothing like him or you for that matter I'm sure .My Dad is in his in his mid seventies now and still quiet capable but his health and mind has wavered in recent years and it breaks my heart to witness . But anyhow thought I would share that to you , that watching really does mean alot to me . And ever our paths should meet in would definitely like to shake your hand . Take care and hope you and yours are doing well

Always love hearing these shop-insider perspectives. I've learned so much from your channel, Wizard. Keep up the great work! P. S. Hoovie's Prowler in the background!

Hey Wizard,,,,,, no need to apologize for any noise,,,,,, not even noticeable .

I didn't hear any background noise personally....

The wizards expertises never cease to amaze me!

Breaking out the metal lathe to fab up your own car part to fix a customer's problem is badass 👍

Way to go Micheal.... Good techs that are also good at electrical are great techs. I can't wait until I have something to take to your shop

I have a base model STS with the v6. Even the v6 is respectably powerful and fun to drive. I'm hoping to get 300,000 fun miles out of my STS.

Wizard, another channel had the same issue with boost pressure sensor. It was a shorted sensor, and it got wet. I'm sure you already checked that but wanted to mention it just in case that episode holds a clue into what's going on.

A GM Tech I worked with years ago started his own shop. One of the first guys he hired to help him ended up costing him thousands. He took on a timing belt job on a Cruze diesel, and his helper said he could do it, but wound up not doing it right and destroying the engine. Long story short, a fairly quick $300 profit ended up being a $6000 loss.

Wizard needs to make a series called "Nightmares of the Butcher's Shop"

This dudes employees call him Wizard 😂😂

Ahhhh..mr wizard wears many hats..lol...just like a husband at home.one day your a plumber!,next day your a carpenter,next day a roofer, Mr. Wizard I grew up very poor and have always been intrigued and repairing what's broke myself. It's cheaper as well as there is a sense of accomplishment with doing this period I was a machinist for 10 years and I still use some of those tricks today.i just took my mechanic hat off.wifes window regulator needed changing. Only took about 1 hr...and now my chief hat goes on..(dinner time)..thanks for video.and i really enjoy your calm demeanor.

My last 2 vehicles have required 80% fixing what the PO did or had repaired. One repair was the oil cooler. I lost it at 75mph 😞. I got 2 quarts that remained, so far so good.

I had one of these, 2007. After replacing the trans, rear dif, and many other parts. It was a great car lol.

Always impressed with your knowledge and skills. You truly are a wizard. I wish more mechanics were like you. Most learn just enough to get by in there line of work. You push yourself to learn more than just getting by. The other important thing is that you admit when something is out if your area and send someone elsewhere when needed

Knew as soon as he said the map sensor is having an issue that someone chowdered the tune all up. I'd be wary of flashing it to stock if it has upgraded injectors or other things people like to swap.

I have an STS-V. 😁 Stealth Blue on Titanium. The Spectre intake bolts right on and I’m not sure why the wiring was that way. Seems like just an improper installation but odd because it essentially bolts right in. Not much to mess up. Also, if this has gutted cats, the tuning may have been an attempt to turn 02’s to always ready in order to omit the constant engine light that will always illuminate. If they aren’t already there, the owner should join Cadillac STS-V Owners on Facebook. I’m an admin and we’re very helpful with issues like this.

Lathe, probably the most satisfying workshop tool to use.

Wizard, you have captured my attention! With all these skill sets, you have opened my eyes to your expertise. God, I wish you were in the UK.

I own a 2006 CTS Sport Luxury and I love the car. I'm 71 and this is my umpteenth car, truck, and hot rod. For those that aren't familiar with this particular model, it has quicker steering, 4 piston calipers, sport suspension, and a 4 valves, twin cams all-aluminum engine. !8" factory alloy wheels and some other performance upgrades, making it a blast to drive with great, flat handling. New Continental 225-50-18's that are amazing. Only 85K miles. My exterior looks great in Red Jewel Tintcoat. It does have similar minor scratches and dings like your customer's DTS. Love your channel.

Speaking as a machinist, I've worked in multiple fields in industry where, even if I wasn't machining parts, the attention to detail that you have to have to be a good machinist will easily transfer over. You don't need to apologise for having branched out into cars. As you just showed, having the know how and a couple of basic machines handy is just an ace in the hole for you.

Wizard you truly are a man of many talents your family is super blessed

I remember when Christopher (Junior Mint) drop the Toyota Previa Engine xD

You're a wonderful humble man with a passion for vehicles who is willing to share that knowledge with others. Thank you.

I absolutely love your channel. I've been working on cars forever but I love watching what you do and learning.

Hi Wizard..love your channels and videos. My name is Ricardo and I´m from Argentina and love to see the jobs you do. Just realized at my 49 years old that I love to do mechanics repairs on cars. Guess is not too late for trying but in the meantime I "do repairs with you" in your videos. Thank you.

No need to apologize,i can hear you great in the Netherlands, Europe keep doing the youtube shows i love it!

I was an assistant at a shop whose owner had a nitro sand rail. That guy turned a new crank pulley on his Aamco brake lathe. I was amazed at his skill and ingenuity. That pulley got him through the season till he switched engines.

The Wizard machined his own adaptor from bar stock! Legendary!

I love that expression, "wallered out". I first heard that in Texas.

Wizard, if you want to see a nice STS-V, I could bring you my 09 STS-V. Only 96 2009’s were made. It has 69k miles and has not been abused as most have. Sure, I romp on it sometimes but it hasn’t been beaten to death. What you neglected to mention is that the 4.4L supercharged V8 is your favorite engine... a NORTHSTAR! LOL. But really, I’ve owned it for 7 years and it’s been one of my most reliable cars ever.

I was a journeyman collision rep. at a Cadillac/Buick/Pontiac dealer back in 82 when I heard one of the line mechanics cussing out the fact that "he can no longer just change the air/fuel mix on a new Buick he was working on ,he now has to replace a chip",,, I feel for you Man...

For someone who considered himself new to the KZfaq game, you’ve managed to capture my attention as a subscriber. Well done. I don’t even skip parts of your vid.👌🏼

custom work is more times than not troublesome unless you were the one who built it and understands it completely

I'm in a similar spot where after college I came back and continued working as a machinist under an older master here that I worked for high school along side working as a mechanic/fabricator for my dad's propane company and the personal collections of him and his friends (he and his friends are great mechanics but when you have so many cars/trucks you run out of time and just want to experience them). All that mixed with teenage years of building custom rally cars/projects with whatever we had laying around and being obsessed with computers/electronics for as long as I can remember has resulted in me being able to handle pretty much anything for my projects. I'm always caught off guard or confused when I go to nearly any auto forum and every time someone asks a question about a piece or build they just get tons of responses saying it'll cost a fortune in labor and shop fees...something I've never payed once. I guess most the people on those forums are the type that just buy stuff and pay someone else so they can add a line of text to their signature while actually knowing next to nothing about the car/truck.

There are excellent tuning shops out there that really know what they’re doing but finding them is really hard. Tuning a car is huge commitment and it comes with issues no matter who does it but you have to find a good tuner and when issues occur you take it back to that same tuner to fix it since he did the tune and he knows what he did. I have a 23 ct4v blackwing and I’ve been thinking about a tune since I got it but this video right here is the living proof why I will never do it…may work great at first but always comes with issues down the road and I guess that’s fine if you have that guy that knows near by all the time…that being said I love your videos. Always great content. Don’t know how I came across you channel but it’s really awesome.

I like how you explained things Such calm manner like how professionals do. Subbed

Reminds me a time I took my car in for some work. Garage looked at it and asked “who did this, they’ve done that all wrong?” on spotting something else other than what it went in for. Weren’t too happy when I told them it must have been them the year before and no other garage had touched the car.

Thanks, Wizard. Looking forward to hearing / seeing what was done to the Country Squire.

No apologies necessary. Nice honest work wizard

Raw Power and Simplicity....to a point....

Perfect example of why I do all my own repairs from car's to lawnmowers. The only vehicles I own that ever see the shop are still under factory warranty.

That adapter turning was cute. There's a guy in Čelákovice (Czech Republic) who machines whole GEARS for rebuilding transmissions of old-timers. That would have really come in handy for Hoovie's Lamborghini.

Another great video update! Thanks for posting!

Grateful for the content Mr & Mrs Wizard!!👊❤️😈

That’s such a good idea to machine your own certain things!! Really impressed on what you did on the Corvette! Great video

Just found this car existed, and now there’s one in your shop, glad you show me the beauties I love turn into something I don’t want.

Gm typically uses a 3 bar map, good for 1.6 bar of boost. When you install a 4 bar you have to switch two wires around for it to read correctly. They install it when they turn up the boost, for fuel metering and the +/- of ignition timing.

Whoa, a STS V! Such cool and dare I say rare cars. I've been hoping Hoovie would get one but he seems to like lost cause BMWs more.

My uncle's 2001 BMW 750IL. While chasing down Transmission Failsafe and Canbus panic, I looked under the carpet and found 1" of water. EKAT Catalytic Converter Heater Controller was completely destroyed and was backfeeding into the Canbus system because BMW didn't put a FUSE on it. Dried it out and ended up building a relocation kit to move the EKAT to the trunk give it proper fused power from an empty slot in the trunk fuse box. The under carpet fuse box was trashes as well, so it got replaced. A few months later, it's back with more electrical gremlins. More water under the carpet and the new box I put in was beyond saving. Pull down the headliner and the sunroof drains fall off. Fixed them with some vinyl tubing and hose clamps, adding enough for strain relief, but it was only the start. Everything under the carpet was "painted" green from copper oxide and I REALLY don't want to mess with it again. Cut out the corroded stuff, splice in new wire as needed and add new terminals. Not the OE BMW stuff that's $15 a piece and corrodes if you look at it funny. Now it has ring terminals with adhesive lined heat shrink to make it as impenetrable as possible. Since the box was shot and the studs and nuts were about to seize together like it did on my 97 Expedtion (firewall fuses...) , I drew up a brand new one in Paint in 45 minutes. Made a few adjustments to get rid of the goofy bi-level setup and put it all on a single plane. Scaled it to match the original and printed it out actual size as a machining template, accurate to 0.010". Studs are Stainless Steel carriage bolts locked into square holes in the top layer of the polyethylene base (household cutting boards), followed by 2 more layers as a backing plate. It's all stitched together via Plastic Welding along the perimeter and in 2 rows near the middle to make it one solid rigid piece. Add a stainless steel bus bar and it works like stock. Not the first time I made one, but it's definitely the best one I've made.

I am an 73 old shade tree mechanic with 1960 - 70s skills. I observed back then that you had better know what you are doing if you are modding a car. True in 1965, super duper true today. This things are engineered as integral system. You can screw it up adding a cold air kit if you do not know how to do it.

Weeezard did you upload this 30mins after the hoovie vid to get my view? If so great idea!

Yes! One of my all time favorite cars.

Car Wizard will hit a Million subs soon. Your videos are awesome.

Wizard with the SKILLS! That’s a very nice compact table lathe, better than machine shop class in the 80’s.

Wizard, you are a Gentleman, a truely real nice guy, Mrs Wizard is just a lovely person, you both are truly my favourite KZfaqrs alongside Tyler, I enjoy your content, honest bloke, keep it up, you being you really shows!

You're lucky to have grabbed Michael before Johnny the Ninja grabbed him. So cool you machined that part and saved his ass. Can't even hear the noise, no biggie. Ohhh, that Lotus purr.

Great Vid Wizard!! Enjoy your channel very much!!

Great video! Very informative. The sound was fine for me.

Wizard, really enjoy your videos. You seem like such a cool guy. Keep up the great work.

Wizard is a straight shooter !!! Good Job wizard!!

Your shop is a magnet for broken Northstars !

Wizard you are the most soft spoken car technician I have ever met

I’ve had to make many custom tools, like: A set of wrenches to adjust the valves on my Benzs engine. A socket to torque the locking hub bearing rings on a early 90s Tracker. A socket to open up the valve caps on the shops air compressor. An odd length socket to torque the headbolts on a Subaru while the block was still in the car. Had to bend several box end wrenches to fit different distributors over the years. Made electrical connector de-pinning tools out of the spring bars from wiper blades. A power tester, made out of a cigarette lighter plug, alligator clip, inline fuse holder, and a voltmeter probe (great for testing if a blower motor is burnt out or testing starter solenoids) During my tech school training, part of the class was machining a hammer out of aluminum, with a brass and 2 plastic faces. Several “helping hands” out of bent coat hangers and alligator clips to hold wires together while I soldered them.

Local shop welded my seat rail back on- and burned a hole in the seat! If you damage my car, fix the damage!

Legend has it the car wizard fabricated the new spacer using alchemy

Love your channel man! I would take my car to your shop in a heartbeat if I needed!

I find this channel very relaxing for some reason

I saw a poster in a shop one time - "Rates: Labor $50/hr. Owner helps $100/hr" lol

Missed title opportunity “Little Shop or Errors”

New to your channel from Hoovies, superb stuff, you've got a great skill set and a natural eye for car mechanics. Interesting for me seeing the US cars, as we don't see them here in the UK

The Caddy is a typical ' let me out think the engineers who engineered it' case scenario....SMH

That Lotus is gorgeous. If the owner ever has trans issues (they dialled back the power to the limit if the trans so sometimes they have issues) there is a common conversion done. Its either Renault or Porsche I think.. but there's definately a kit out there. I live near Lotus HQ and a Lotus Indy shop. Also if the owner sees this... youbgotta get a Lotus F1 wrap. The John Player Special gold on black.. man that'd be nice!

Glad you mentioned it was construction. I had thought it was the tornado sirens!

Nothing so fancy as you machining a transmission adapter, but I did use epoxy to re-create some broken plastic parts of the HVAC controls inside the dash of my 85 Corolla.

I hadn't even noticed the construction noise until you mentioned it Wizard. Cheers from the UK at 3:30am 🔧

The engine in my sts v does not move like at all, at lowe revs. Very subtle cruiser. At idle it does not even feel like its on. Well built motor!

I can't speak for that STS-V, but I have a STS-V; the engine and the car is the exact opposite of what you described. It is a highly refined hand-built motor with a ton of features and high end materials used throughout the interior. Read any article on a STS-V and that is the consensus. The STS-V, took a completely different approach in V form than the CTS-V. From the factory, the car is virtually silent despite having 469 horses under the hood.

A metal lathe! I used one in junior high school in 1981, and I was good with it. I enjoy turning so much I have toyed with the notion of buying one just to turn metal in my garage...While drinking beer.

The look on Michaels face as he is forced to participate in the video😄😄LOOOL Good one 👍👍

Wizard... I would love to see some good tutorials on maintenance, especially on common problems with common cars. Of course I love your talks on the problems on cars and pointing them out, but we rarely see you actually fix them... and mostly it's on fairly to exceptionally exotic cars, most of us don't drive those kind of cars.

Love the lathe work, surprised you have one, or that a table top lathe exists, in your shop, even considering your machinist background. Really cool to see.

I think Bill’s going to be a very happy man when he comes to see his Lotus. Yes, they are a pain, but like Bill I love these things. 🙂

I've always loved the STS from the mid to late 2000s

That prowler in the back is an awesome looking car

I have always had a spot in my heart for an esprit. Did not even notice extra noise.

I lost an 05 CTS-V to a shop working on it and fuckin me over,took it to another and wouldn't pay for the billl because it was OUTRAGEOUS and end up surrendered the vehicle to them. Found out from a friend two months later they wanted the motor (was built) on top of being a V . Long story short lol, KNOW WHAT YOU OWN, when people talk to you about your vehicle know what they're saying. NOT AT ALL KNOCKING OR BASHING SHOP'S OR THIS VIDEO. Just stating my experience. I wouldn't have any questions with taking my vehicle to this shop. Good video guy's.

Booming sound wasn't that bad at all. Thank you Wizard.

Hey Car Wizard, I wish you were there when I brought my 2014 BMW Z4 with 37k miles to the dealer and they told me I needed $4600 for 1 strut and 1 shock. Now I don't dare drive drive it. I know, I know, you hate working on BMW's. To be transparent I have hit a couple of pot holes. Soo far they have got $900 out of me for two tires.

I'm envious of your machinist/mechanic skillset

Yessss finally! I’ve had two of these and loved them

Check out that HOT AIR intake @4:40. I can’t even imagine how hot the inlet temperature is because of that intake being made of metal. It’s going to heat soak like crazy!!!

As a gym dealer tech I can tell you 2 things 1. that looks like a genuine genuine replacement pigtails they come in kits with the but connectors. I don’t personally use them I solder the new pigtail on and make it look more professional, and 2 GM uses very poor quality terminals in their connectors and we replace all types of pig tails all the time.

Damn...the sheer knowledge that he has.

I like the look of the front clip on ctsv. They certainly got better with age.

I hate working on something that someone else has worked on. Under normal conditions, you don't have to worry about wires being switched around. It's a good find by you guys.