Australian Mechanic Reacts to Aussie Car Problems 

"With a coathanger and some rope, we get it done." Don't take that one out of context... haha

I think the worst thing to happen to every car guy in Australia was Holden stopping production The $300 beater commy now costs 5k… I don’t give a shit if I lift my car and a spider falls on my face but if I go to open the door and feel a web under the door handle I am RUNNING.

Love the fact that no one in these comment section knows who rocky is and the fact he builds the fastest rotaries in the world

The real story behind KRANKY. was explained years ago. The engine was spitting so much fuel out the tail pipes onto the bushes behind it actually caught fire prior to the skid!

I spent four of the best years of my life living in Sydney. I once had a mechanic charge me two cases of beer (Hahn Super Dry and Tooheys New) to fix the front bumper cover on my Holden Astra. God bless em all.

Ok guys, hear me out. Hi-Lo Down Under.

The first clip was actually from Red CentreNATs, basically the same as SummerNATs except it takes place in Alice Springs in the direct centre of Australia, the local government here issues temporary permits for all those cars to drive wherever they want on the street for the weekend, that's why that commodore was in the McDonald's Drive through

When 90% of the crazy stuff they showed was "Normal days", it is wild down under!

8:54 - Hearing him say that Kia/Hyundai are looking after them regarding the engines catching fire and trying to correct the issue, reminds me of the Ford issue in South Africa a couple of years back. Basically there was a period where new Fords at the time had a tendency to catch fire from the gearbox, you'd hear reports on it almost daily on the news and one unfortunate owner actually died. Ford SA was facing charges and, unlike the Kia/Hyundai case here, refused to accept responsibility (not just for the owner who died, but all customers whose Ford burst into flames), and went so far as to try blame the owners' for the fires happening. Best part was when watching a new episode of Ridiculousness (around the same time the Ford SA issue), they had Ken Block (a U.S. Ford racer) as a guest and they showed a clip from his racing Ford's (same model as the defective Ford SA models) onboard camera, and his gearbox ignited and was burning inside the car mid-race. Disgusting attitude from Ford SA.

Rocky is Mazda Rotary performance royalty down under 🙌

Rocky seems like such a nice and wise person, reminds me of my head teacher in high school

The dog chain on the oil filter is up there with a friend taking his belt off out of frustration. 100% ace!

Donut needs to be here for actual summernats

i heard that a lot of snorkels in australia are more for dust than water crossings, raising the intake to the top of the car is enough to mitigate the dust getting into ur filter

That little Green Tree Snake is adorable! I love snakes, even if its a brown snake they are very important for ecosystems so a snake hook/professional is in order im sure. Gotta get the little silly back to his home. Baby snakes can be super cute tho, look up baby cobras lol. They make me laugh cuz they try and be big.

As a Kia mechanic, kia was forced to extend their engine warranties on some models to 99years/999999 miles. These were models with engines known to be defective. Although you do get a new engine from kia, it only has a 12month 12k warranty after installed. Thanks for all the free content Donut!

Thanks for being so nice to all us Aussies loved this video 😀

Top tip for flood crossing. Don’t do it but if you absolutely need to stuff your air box full of tshirts or any kinda clothes you have it will give you a few more seconds of driving. And if you flood your engine. Pop the spark plugs out turn it over till there’s no more water coming out then try and fire it up

The fact that garbage time didn’t make an appearance on this Aussie car video compilation is criminal

You DON'T get a new engine - you get a USED engine under warranty. They just have to get you to 100K miles. Many people have been surprised by this.

Being an Oz myself and a revhead, i can appreciate the business done Downunder. Bloody ripper!

I love Australians. They are just built differently.

ROOOCCCKKKKYYYYY man you guys gotta do a pac performance tour you guys will be shocked soooo cool

2:12 the wind kick back on the plants is insane! It sounds like a turbine engine tbh lol

I remember in the late 90's seeing the PACMAN (pac performance) Mazda Rx2 around my neighbourhood. They stood out amongst the rest, was nothing like them on the road at the time and probably still to this day.

PLEASE DO ANOTHER ONE IF NOT SERIES WITH THESE TWO LEGENDS OF MECHANICS HERE IN Australia 🇦🇺 Also really nice to see some Australian videos come up! could of sat here after work with a beer watching for at least another hour! 🍻

All this video did is confirmed my suspensions, Australia is absolutely wild haha. I love it

Just makes me want to get down under even more. Cheers, mates from Alaska

I love this A LOT of my cousin live there, and man do they have some CRAZY car stories! Keep em' coming!

I was at WTAC thank you Jeremiah for the free tickets to the show had an absolute blast loved looking around the r35 even tho you only did 2 laps then pitted but it was the best car show ive ever been to also the biggest ive been to so far

Bogan problems require bogan solutions

Need more Aussie content pls

Let’s gooo it’s always a good day when real mechanic stuff posts!!!!

You guys the the break we need on the our crazy world. Thank you for your awesome content and keep em coming boys 😂❤

Ayyyy, cool to see PAC on the show. Those guys *know* fast.

7:14 what may look like a snorkel may not be one. there are 2 types of external air intakes for 4x4's a raised air intake and a snorkel. the former is just to get the air intake up and away from the factory intake in the fender that tends to suck up an ass load of dust kicked up from the front wheels. the latter does the same but is also designed to do water crossing's as well. a lot of factory mounted external intakes are just RAI's not snorkels, a lot of people mistake the factory RAI for a Snorkel and try to do water crossings with them and learn the hard way or are hardheaded and say snorkels are BS there on afterwards.

The first car isn't bliping the gas. It is very common with alcohol/ blown race drag cars with huuuge cams. They hunt while idling, combine that with shorter rear gears and you are left with a fast cars with poor idling manners.

Love this! It's cheaper for my family in England to ship junk cars in contains or bulk ship parts even from big manufacturers like Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota etc. Than it is for my family in Australia & New Zee to buy it from their local dealership, says alot about the remoteness

red backs are a regular issue around my home. if anything sits outside un touched for a few weeks. Its got some fat spider making more spiders under it. huntsman spiders is the car are passage of being Australian. They LOVE the sun visor. SO you open it and they drop on your lap.

They spend two more weeks we declare you two Aussies, hope you 2 are having fun here

The aussie language is so beautiful. For instance, we dont say "wow, thats a nice car!" We say "TUFF STATO MAT"

Loved old mate saying the Summernats car was bogan until he saw the feral falcon Ute and changed his standards 😂

Awesome vid as always. Hope the Donut crew enjoyed their time here in our country! 🇦🇺

imma have to remember that chain on the oil filter trick

rocky is a legend of the rotary scene here in australia, some of the street cars from his shop fetch upwards of 100k and he's built some of the fastest drag rotaries going around

Australians are cool AF with their car culture.

Love the upside down donut t shirt 😂

That was really cool. I especially like the dog chain oil filter removal. I'm gonna try that next time my filter gets stuck. I'm also adding "bogan" to my vernacular.

These videos with the mechanics are awesome and informative

love it - all the crazy shit is a normal day and all the normal stuff is crazy

you guys should put the links to these videos in the description. I would like to see these videos in their entirety.

This channel is really worth the time

as far as seeing baby snakes irl because it isn't necessarily common, I saw a northern water snake in my yard in NJ a couple years ago just about that size, what a treat!

I like the chain on the oil filter trick. You can also poke a screwdriver through it for leverage, but that's pretty messy.

An Aussie kiss: A kiss given "down unda"

I love the upside down Donut for the Aussie episode

I like that chain trick on the oil filter

I'd love you guys to react to Canadian car chaos on our winter roads 😂

That LandCruiser clip, you can see that it's got a snorkel on it, but, I'd bet it's the factory Toyota raised intake which isn't sealed, and/or it just sucked water in through that drain hole that they showed at the end of the clip

TWICE I have used my belt as an oil filter wrench! Works great!

Hello Mr pac performance man. Been digging your builds for years. Keep yhem rotarys brapping

I'd like to see more of these. Well done in the down under.

Good to see some more stuff that involves my fellow Australians.

I’ve seen someone taking a pt cruiser mudding. We had struggled to get our side by side to the point on the path that we passed him.

Aussies are on another level. Good peeps.

As an aussie myself i highly recommend checking out bush mechanics which was an old show that showed how some ingenuity and intelligence you can make a car get anywhere.

Funny you bring up the redback spiders in around the car wheels when my daughter's car has been parked in the driveway for months and now has redbacks around the wheels of her car 😅

@ 2:45 ya'll literally just described South Africa's version of Spinning!!😂😂😮

Those videos are so entertaining that, even if they were 1 hour long, they'd still be too short!

"How can I live love laugh in this conditions" omg 😂😂😂

You found some great guys! Good on you.

That last clip with the choker chain on the oil filter at night while barefoot was kinda impressive

Thats squatted AU Falcon was around the corner from my work in the Gold Coast for a while, funny seeing it here!

I love this, I would watch the hell out of a "Normal Day in (Country/Area)" series.

I love that last one it really sums up the ingenuity of Aussies

Grandpa taught me, any disposable oil filter can be easily removed with a screwdriver in almost any tight space, its just a little messy.

Nice to see you guys still here in down-under. 🙃I've noticed you're pretty close to where we are! We live 2 hours or so from Sydney in the Southern Tablelands, and you must've been in the Sydney Motorsport Park in Western Sydney, if I'm not mistaken. 😊

Time to get Wade and James from Garbage Time!

Four wheeling with my parents in the 4 corners area there's an amazing number of "old Cadillac roads" that our Bronco II had some fun with.

Didnt think id see Rocky from PAC on here, epic.

Oz content has been great 👍🏽

Hell yeah! got Pac Performance on the donuts! those guys make some MEAN disco doritos

i had to do something similar with an oil filter yesterday. we didnt have a clamp big enough to fit around, so i ended up puncturing the bottom to drain it, then driving a screwdriver into the filter with a hammer and using that as leverage to get it off

I swear I started this video, then paused it and spent 20 minutes diagnosing my computer's audio setup. After going through everything, swearing a lot and giving up, I resumed the video and Jerry says "and we're in the radio tower" ....oh....well then.....don't I feel silly now.

Love how the rest of the world calls our normal stuff "crazy" lol Sticking a Barra and a huge turbo in an old Falcon then smoking the tires until something pops is almost an aussie passtime.

Cars that have no business being in certain places got me. We used to do exactly that down south in WA. We had little Datsun 1200s and used to take them tracking down 4x4 tracks. End up at the beach and all the fourby guys were catching flies. If you got stuck you just lifted it out. We went some places!

Kia dealers with blown engines... If thats the 2011-2013 that was made for just two models for like a year or so... somewhere in there... it was an engine where the pistons would burn holes through them... massive class action and they for some reason made the engine and next model year replaced it... so I think they KNEW the bad engiens and tried to quietly change stating more power or something.

Here in TX, we get snakes and black widow spiders in trucks all summer, just gotta be careful. also, the dog chain for the oil filter was good, but in a pinch, you can hammer a big screwdriver through it and turn.

Water crossings aren't the only thing snorkels are good for. They do a great job of cleaning dust before it gets to your air filter.

FYI: ‘Summernats’ not ‘Supernats’. Portmanteau of ‘Summer Nationals’ first held in 1987. ✌🏼

Awesome video!!

Diesel tech here, just thought id say, NEVER install spark plugs with an impact, that is a bad idea, I don't think I even need to explain why. Side note, if you ever work on a Ford triton engine they have spark plugs that are known for breaking during extraction than require a special tool and a lot of time to remove the broken section. An interesting trick to remove them without breaking every single time without fail is to use a impact, best method i've ever found so far.

Best Aussie ingenuity I have seen is cap and rotor made from a roll of tape, some heavy gauge copper wire and a whittled stick. Can remember thinking the skill and precision to make that actually work not just run was pretty well beyond but few hours after hearing the story the old Digger rocked back up the shop and dropped em in my hand.

I have a Kia in the states with the same engine issue. Not just in Australia. I'm still waiting on a new engine, the issue is so common there's a long wait as they work through them. The dealer mines at now said there's a guy who's job is just replacing engines that seize from this and its a 1-2 month wait.

6:04 "At least I have chicken" - Leroy Jenkins.

7:05 In 1986, I worked for an earthmoving company at a coal mine. During some downtime from driving my giant water truck, I convinced the mechanic to let me drive one of the brand-new Landcruiser utes they'd bought for site work. So I took it for a run around the earthworks...and decided to see how it went through water. There was a nice puddle at the bottom of one of the borrow pits, so I hit it at about 40km/h. Yeah, it wasn't a puddle. It was a metre-deep, 20-metre long trench used to collect rainwater drainage. The new ute didn't have a snorkel and after my escapade had some issues with the rods and stuff...apparently a few were bent...can't imagine why...The ute had about 700kms on the clock.

Removing tight oil filters 40 years ago... hammer a screwdriver through it and twist :D That choker chain one would have been great to know years ago.

Rocky is the guy. Legend.

My wife and I went to Australia in 2005. We spent a day in Sydney a few days in the Blue Mountains and 4 days in Tasmania just driving around. It was awesome. Really nice people amazing scenery and when they label a trail 4wd only they mean it. We rented a Trooper in Tasmania and I was amazed how well it handled those trails. Not sure how the rental place would have felt about us driving on the trail but it did say it was a road and all the document said was we weren't allowed to drive off road. Gorgeous waterfall at the end of the trail so worth it. Wish we could get that car here in the states. Trooper was awesome. Plenty room for our luggage and still got like 25-30mpg with me driving 80mph, occasionally. What an amazing country and experience.

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