Dude. We know that, if anyone is brave enough or stupid enough, anything can be a weapon, or a fucking d*ldo. And, no. *I DON'T WANNA KNOW IF ANYONE HAS EVER USED A CAR AS A D•LDO BEFORE.*
Guys stop putting hate on bmw. They are reliable with no issues if you take care of it. Like the saying if you take care of it it will take care of you
Hey. This channel single handedly made me , a 23 yr old computer nerd, into a car guy. Y’all are so entertaining and helped me find something I love, so thanks man.
The other day I realized that I built my first computer before Linus of Linus Tech Tips. I never tried to make a career with computers. I want to work with people. Do you want to know how well that worked out? I live with my mother.
I saw a photo of an Uber driver that rear ended their Prius into an embankment.. several feet above the road it was driving. Now I know how it might have happened.
Other less talked about issue was putting an LCD display in an old person car. Grandma got pulled over doing 130 in an 80 because one of the grand kids switch the speedometer to MPH
@Jordon Carlson yeah I had a dude in the service bay tell me that exact thing. To which I responded, "No shit dude why do you think I'm still here to complain about it".
There's nothing scarier than lifting off the accelerator and finding your car is still accelerating. I had aftermarket floor mats, in a jeep. Thankfully I was the victor of the merging lane race so I didn't run up someone's rear end and merely exceeded the speed limit by far before I slid it off the pedal. It is scary in the moment
Also cause if you're one of the few who actually HAVEN'T heard about the Pinto fiasco....how?? It's one of the BIGGEST scandals in automotive history. Even the rocks people live under know about the Pinto Witch Trials
@@KyleFN nah its just like a rear end collision it sets the pinto on fire since the tank is placed in the rear which can be easily destroyed in a rear end collision
@@smokemonkey2596 I don't think there's a fool-proof location for that. Luckily for us, the present location we use requires more impacting numbers for that occurrence to happen in comparison to the Pinto's setup. Angle, area, speed and force of impact have a much smaller threshold to breach in order to set that unfortunate thing ablaze. The designing, testing and materials used for automobiles now also play huge part in reducing that circumstance. Even if we do away with petrol, or used different materials for tanks and fuel-related components, vehicles still have a chance to combust via electrical fire. The Struggle
Pretty amazing that you left out the ignition switch failures of GM that caused the cars to shut off while driving, disabling all power assistance (brakes/steering etc.) and even the airbags. They caused many deaths, and GM tried to cover it up by changing the affected part but not changing the part number (industry standard practice). It was only discovered when a private investigator/mechanical expert hired by the family of one of the deceased disassembled crashed cars until he figured out that GM had quietly lengthened a pin in the ignition switch that was causing the problem. This is likely one of the worst fails/recalls that has ever happened, very unusual that you all did not mention it. Maybe there is another video dedicated to it that I haven't seen yet.
General Motors also did that wtf? watch the ford's faulty ignition part of the video again. it's the same problem you mentioned. are you sure it's GM but not Ford?
@@RedlineVulpine Yeah i just found it. if had a dollar every time that happened, i would have 2 dollars. 2 dollars is not that much money but it's weird that happened two times lmao
@@dorukdogauysal8299 The GM ignition switch recall was for 30 million cars and lots of people died over a huge timeframe - and GM new about it for years before it was officially discovered, yet they continued to install it.
What I learned from this: 1. Don't buy a 90's Mercedes. 2. Don't buy a Prius, they're too fast 3. Most importantly, Don't buy an SUV. (unless you enjoy rolling over)
For a Washingtonian, the irony of the Tacoma being prone go rust is great. Tacoma, Washington is a city just south of Seattle and is also on the Puget sound, a large body of Salt water.
I remember watching an episode of forensic files where a daughter had been charged for the murder of her mother who had died in a car fire while they were driving together, the police thought that it had to be a set fire bc there was nothing proving a mechanical failure. Years later, turns out its ford's faulty ignition switch. Sad stuff.
Holy crap, she'll never get those years back, but thats what happens with these corrupt to the core prosecutors that only care about their conviction rate instead of wanting actual, real true justice!! Hope she gets some kind of justice from the govt thug employees she was imprisoned by!!
@@GustavoBrasilghc The 300zx (and Z31 especially) have notoriously cramped engine bays. For example, the oil filter is mounted horizontally above the starter, which isn't ideal
You have to remove the top half of the engine to do Injectors... You have 2 intakes and they're both 8 miles long and made of 47 lbs of plastic. All 4 wheels turn, even when you don't want them to. There's... I want to say 13 Computers in the car? It's been a while since I sold mine, but gah daym... I've never had so much time invested into simple repairs lol.
The Toyota floormat thing happened to me pretty recently, on my L's on the freeway and I notice the floormat was covering the break and gas pedal and was causing the car to lightly hit the break when accelerated. Scared the shit out of me
The G-truck reminded me of something. Citroen had a time around the 60s when they held a contest on a track with a 2CV, where if anyone could roll it, they get a car for free. Just go, drive the track, and if the car wrecks we give you one new, hand in key. Every guy took it, floored it, sharpen every curve, twisted the wheel in frantic need of a new car, to no avail, the thing was steady as a brick house. The secret? Every 2CV has mass dampers, it is so effective that is banned by the F1. Until it came. An old racer goes into the car, starts it, put it in reverse, turned the wheel all the way to the right... and it just plummeted. At the right speed the car just turns onto itself, and down to its side it went. And the man went home in a new car.
The 2CV prop shaft was threaded and it screwed into the gearbox so if you reversed too far it could unscrew itself, I thought it was going to be on this vid before I watched it.
@@Sleeper47 Yes it's true, also some guys drove across the Saharan Desert in one and got low on engine oil. They limped to a small village, but there was no oil to be found so they bought a few bananas and mashed them up and shoved them into the engine. I can't remember how far they got until they found somewhere with oil but it was over 200 miles. It was in a book my late father had.
Was Mercedes the only manufacturer to do this? When I researched how to replace my Subaru head gasket, and I felt surprised that bad head gaskets from 1990-2010 didn't make this list, one mechanic said that when Subaru started selling in more markets they needed to make insulation and plastic components biodegradable and reliability suffered. I had many plastic bits degrade in my Forester.
@@drippingwax lots of companies have turned out sub reliable products in the name of eco friendly and it usually ends up in major issues that cause more environmentally impactful waste.
The spider thing also applies to Hondas. My 08 Accord threw an evap code and I saw a post about spiderwebs clogging the fuel tank purge valve. To my surprise it turned out to be true. Washed it out and all is well.
You had to be pretty "stoopid" to let the carpet shimmy up so high that is would foul with the accelerator pedal. Funny thing is, these cars were sold in the UK too - not a single case of unintended acceleration. Go figure!
Failsafe - push the start button and hold it down - instant emergency shutdown of the complete HSD Propulsion System. Tried, tested, works! Funny how nobody knew this either! 🙄
@@datathunderstorm There might be in the UK, I mean idiots are everywhere in this world with no exceptions. It just that the US has alot more concentration of idiots(look at the pandemic).
Instead of making the explorer an inch wider, they decided to run the tire air pressure lower for stability. Tires run hotter at lower pressures and when they blew, the suv rolled anyway.
I never understood why they didn't just increase the backspacing on the rim to put the tires out slightly further. It might decrease the turn radius slightly, but certainly better than roll overs, etc. Same with the Bronco II.
It happened on lot of brand. In the old FIAT was absolutely normal. I have a 06 320i, I love her, and I find 2 problems: 1) the plastics are painted with somthing like plastidip, and it wears; in most older car the color was IN the plastic, not ON the plastic; 2) changing an "angel eyes" lamp needs the removal of the front wheel. 1h work. On e88 model, very similar to my e90, it takes 10 minutes and no wheel removal. The only 2 problem I find with this fantastic car.
@@rickybanzai2199 yes relatable i have an alfa 156 wich also has large amounts of plastidip wich tends to become extremely sticky as the years pass. love my alfa tho
when the Aztek first came out, I loved it. it was something different, it was neat. and like you said, it was ahead of it's time. I couldn't afford one when they first came out. but I got to own one later and loved it.
My parents bought a Ford Explorer back then. They were driving in it when my sister was a baby. Right after they got home, and got her out of the car, the tires blew.
#5 actually happened to me. I had a 95 Ford Explorer for my first car. Tire exploded going 80 mph. Super scary, but fortunately I was able to keep it under control and didn't roll it
Dude, I owned one of those Mazda 6 and had to bring my car for the “fix”. Mazda sent a letter to every car owner explaining the story as a little fairytale. It was the funniest letter I ever received and it didn’t even seem real; wish I had kept it for posterity. That car was awesome regardless of gasoline addicted spiders.
vansdan static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2014/RCMN-14V114-7361.pdf This should take you to the letter they sent the dealerships. Not sure if it’s the same one that owners got! 😊
I have a 2010 Corolla and the floor mat always moves around and more than once has ran up the gas pedal and caused unintended acceleration. I assumed the mats were aftermarket, but it sounds like this is a common problem and I love that I can tell people about that now.
Things we need an Up To Speed on: Ford Torino, Ford Flacon, Chevy Nova, Plymouth Road Runner, Oldsmobile 442, Mercedes 190e Evo2, Roush, Yenko, 25 Hours of Le Mans
Been makin mistakes my whole life, I'm 34. Just started my channel where I take trucks into the mountains of Canada and break em. I just wanna make people laugh.
Missed: - GM ignition switches. I think that was even worse than Fords. - Corvair handling, though you may be sick of talking about that one too. - Chevy Vega: it would be faster to list the things that DID work.
This is actually not what happened. Basically any car attracts spiders, because spiders use hydrocarbons to communicate. So back in 2011 Mazda recalled the cars and retrofit them with a spring, that should prevent spiders from getting in and added a software to any new cars that prevents a negative pressure (basically a vacuum) inside the gas tanks, but didn't put that new software on the old, recalled cars. By the end of 2013 out of more than 60,000 cars Mazda had found ten with burst fuel lines, which might or might not have been caused by spiders, so they recalled the cars again and put the new software on them too. Oh, and it was also quite a coincidence that Mazda engineers found yellow sac spiders, those spiders are probably one of the most common spider sub-species in the world. www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/why-do-spiders-apparently-cars-so-much/
The Ford Windstar had a similar problem to the Tacoma. A poorly designed axle would cause it to rust over and crack. I remember Ford paid for a rental for nine months while they redesigned, manufactured, and installed a new rear axle on mine.
Mo- Money I have owned 4 now. 1999 c230k. 2007 c230. 2011 e350. Now a 2013 GL550. Honestly I absolutely love them. I do all my service and have so far not seen much out of the ordinary besides my GL likes to eat rear tires even being aligned 1 time a year.
John Smith See everything Chrysler comes around goes downhill... Considering the Dodge charger/challenger uses the Mercedes E class chassis, the charger/ Challenger/300 has actually been fairly decent in reliability,, The first generation Mercedes ML were trash though and the amg fuel pumps were trash
As a kid, probably 20- something years ago, my dad had a Ford truck that burned down in our driveway. Ignition switch was the culprit. Sometimes you can still find charred truck bits in the rock driveway it was parked on
Dijon Noodles we have no idea what you’re talking about. The idea that we like Mazda’s is a smear campaign funded my Nolan because we didn’t support low car.
2:00 Im in a toyota program at college, and they talked to us about that in class, toyota got sued so hard it reached the billions of dollars, all because floormats had a loose pin to them.
Hey DONUT, JAMES, the chevy/opel/daewoo optra had a design fail that every time you wanted to check, or change its oil, and of course the oil filter, you had to remove an entire wheel and parts of the suspension. Big Brain Time
I was working for Tire Kingdom back when the whole Firestone/Ford deal happened, I ended up changing at least 5-12 sets of tires per day from that alone for the better part of a year. Can only imagine how busy dealerships were.
Rajat Nayak Ferrari motor sports has been shit for a long time now. Just look at F1. Everyone used to think a Ferrari was the pinnacle of a super car until RU-vid became a thing and got exposed hard. 🤣🤣 the 458 and 488 are the same car.
Another huge, HUUUUUUUUUUGE issue with the Crown Vic (especially the CVPI!) was that if it was struck from the rear (giggity) at highway speeds there was a slight risk that the car would leak gas and/or catch fire. This rarely happened, but enough that the cars were recalled.
There's no need to disassemble the rear suspension to change the fuel filter on the FD RX-7. Just need to remove the two undercarriage trays located inward of the rear wheels and reach up for the filter that's near the top of the rear differential.
When the Ford / Firestone issue surfaced, my family and I had an 8 hour road trip back home ahead of us, in our new Ford Explorer, and we had already driven 8 hours a few days prior. Its okay though. The alternator blew before we could leave so that gave us time to get the tires recalled too 😐
Donut Media needs to do a Part 2, just to cover the recalls for the 2011+ Ford Focus/Fusion/whatever. Between the transmission and the weird valve failure that could cause your car to randomly cut off at a half a tank or less, I feel like it's prime shitty engineering material.
@@fonz-ys6xu and, AND affected almost every single car to leave japan during a good majority of the 2000s (and more than half the American fleet which outsourced bags from them)
I'm so glad I found this channel James' random quotes are amazing and catch me off guard everytime "not even talking about 2 wolves" 🙌🙌 thanks past Donut for your epic backlog to go through
2:51 This is some legit advice. I had an issue where I tried to break for a deer and an empty soda can ended up under my breaks, lowering my potential breaking power. Thankfully, I still ended up avoiding it but after that, I can safely say I do NOT leave any fucking empty drink containers in my car, ever again. I almost lost my main vehicle to a goddamn .03$ empty can. Never again. For those curious, I was young and stupid. It's been nearly fourteen years since that. That car ended up being scrapped recently. It was a KIA and a piece of shit, but it was _my_ piece of shit. She died due to entropy. (Basically, so many little things were wrong that to fix all of them, it would have been more cost efficient to buy a new car, so I did.)
This reminds me of the CBC Fifth Estate review of GM Cobalts and other vehicles they produced had an ignition switch that could be jostled into accessory mode due to a spring being just a little too short inside the mechanism. Similar to the Ford situation, the car loses all power steering and braking and careens off the road, leading to multiple deaths.
The Aztec AC drain issue didn't just short out the ecu it also would always manage to get into the cabin but under the vapor barrier so that it was an absolute nightmare to try to dry it out. You practically had to remove the carpet and the vapor barrier to allow it to dry. Also they were commonly known to blow head gaskets around 60,000 to 70,000 miles. They were an absolute lemon from the factory.
I have some insight on the time out dolls. They were a country kitch thing women who took up sewing used to do a long time ago. It was something relatively simple so a lot of people did it and made it popular. These things would be decorations you have in your home, and since car shows started to grow into a second home for old people, they would decorate their spot at the car show. Someone probably wanted to out-do a rival at one point because old people get overly competitive about trivial matters, and oneupsmanship escalates into the creepy thing we see today that used to be a simple decoration item from the past. The low rider community probably just borrowed it from the existing culture and adopted it as its own. I know this is an old video but I like rewarching Donut videos, so there.
I have never laughed so much over any of your video's like I did starting at 9:21. "Attracted to Hydrocarbons such as Gasoline, hmph aren't we all"? Whaaahaha, this spider thing made me watch that section over and over.
