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Why do car drivers still put loose change - especially pennies - in the center console? It's not like they can use it to pay tolls - or even "feed" parking meters any more.
I use the change to buy scratch and win tickets, cigarettes and coffee occasionally. It goes out of my pocket into the ashtray and gets used maybe once every 8 weeks.
This must be a regional culture thing. Where I live, if you leave any coins in a car such that they are visible, homeless guys and teenagers break in and take the coins.
Quick update on the water outlet "super leak-proof gasket". After we sent the video, we also discovered the same thing had been done where the water pump housing meets the block. Sadly, this costumer's "friend" cost him a headgasket replacement and having the entire head redone at the machine shop. Luckily, the engine's lower end survived the overheat, and he accepted all the recommended repairs. He won't be visiting that "friend" anymore, if he in fact exists ;-)
Bet it was really loud when it happened (basically looks like what would happen if it was shot with a hollow point but obviously a bigger chunk of metal) I'm surprised that spinning chunk of metal even stayed in the engine bay
I'm genuinely impressed by people who bring the car to the shop over trivial issues that are so blatantly obvious a normal 6 year old could piece it together just by fiddling with it for a few minutes.
Some mechanically adept 6 year olds eventually become mechanics or other trade people. Hopefully their parents encourage their children to try new things. Even things which scare mommy and daddy. 😊😊
You never know though. My friend's brother used to do my brakes for me. He was a good dude and liked working on cars. He wouldn't accept payment but I always got him a case of beer anyway. It does happen. Fortunately he knew what he was doing so none of my vehicles ever ended up in a shop with me saying "My friend fixed...".
I keep old cereal boxes for several reasons. They're good for laying small parts I'm painting. I use them to make templates for when I cut aluminum sheet. And then there's the emergency gasket possibility.
The question “why can’t you design a trashcan that keeps bears out but lets people put trash in?“ was asked of the national Parks service. Their response was “any design we could come up with that could do that would keep about 40% of the human population from figuring out how to use the trashcan.“. Never underestimate the stupidity of people.
the spare wheel cover is a classic. i could see myself making that mistake although i'd like to think i would figure it out before going to a mechanic. 😂
The thing is, you have a _rear_ camera that works, you change the spare wheel cover _on the rear,_ then the _rear_ camera doesn't work. So don't you ask yourself what happened _at the rear_ to make it stop working, and go look _at the rear_ and see where that _rear camera_ actually is? And find you have to take the spare wheel cover off to locate it? I'm fine if the guy had plenty of cash and just didn't want to deal with it, but overall what we mostly see in these videos are people who just can't think straight. I used to do car stuff as a student, and I still do mechanical stuff, but when I take something apart I always ask myself "how is this supposed to work?" (like the thermostat gasket, the draincock on the radiator, really all this nonsense). You'd think some sense would warn people not to mess with things when they have no idea how they work and can't work it out.
@@SloverOfTeuthhey, this is basic problem solving, don't you ever assume that normal customers can perform such simple logic. They have a hard enough time figuring out electric parking brakes, Apple Carplay, and capless fuel filler systems.
@@SloverOfTeuth I get that many people aren't mechanically inclined...but why wouldn't anyone take a picture of the old part in place before doing any work? Take it out/off and look at the replacement part before trying to put it in. Does it match the old one? Does it have mounting points that fit? How does ANYONE put in a radiator upside down?
@@DoctorX17 yeah like installing your drive belt inside out. Something that simple shouldn't be hard to figure out, unless of course they drove it until the old one snapped off but even I know which way the belt goes on. Even worse they can't read the cap and somehow put the wrong fluids in; coolant in the oil for example.
@@VintageCars999 the worst is when they do things like cut sections of frame to “fit” things or use deck screws to attach things and just put them thru frame or cables or the fuel tank…
Okay, for context, I'm a welder The last clip, dude either did that on purpose, is deaf, or has earbuds in. If you try taking a regulator off a bottle while it's still open, there are several warning signs you have to willfully ignore to get that to happen. The loud hissing coming from it as soon as you break the regulator loose should be where you realize
I want to take a moment to praise that customer with the cracked trans case. They told the truth. They got it into a mechanic for second opinion AND they didnt try to cover it up with RTV silicone. I dont know who you are, but I hope you got a discount for doing the right thing.
Wooden-block-pedals person is the type of person who loses control of their car in a walmart car park, running over your kid, and then blames it on a 'medical episode'.
A guy I knew got t-boned by someone who ran through a stop sign. When they approached the van that hit him, they found the driver sitting on a kitchen chair instead of the original seat. When he tried to apply the brakes, the chair slid back.
It's amazing how many people on this channel lack the basic problem solving skills that crows have- so I guess "birdbrain" would be a compliment for them. It's a wonder some of these people manage to remember to breathe.
timing belts them selves are not that expensive($40-$60). it's the labor that costs an arm n a leg depending on type and orientation of the engine. @@mr.carguy3161
@@mr.carguy3161 Some people gave to learn the hard way that an ounce of prevention is cheaper than a pound of cure. I had the same thing happen to an old Honda civic I owned 20 yrs ago except I didn't get a warning from my mechanic. Wrote the car off because rebuilding the engine would cost more than the car was worth.
I mean after THREE times of being told to change it, they definitely should have done something lol. But I also HATE that if this little rubber belt happens to snap, your engine is destroyed. That's just crazy to me
I've done it as a roadside repair using a breakfast cereal box (gasket between the oil filter housing and the cylinder block), but not as a permanent repair. Roadside assistance doesn't exist in Africa!
Long ago it used to be common - for some things, it is a randomly oriented fibre material, a good material. But gaskets are probably more stressed now, and some sealing systems are highly engineered and require the right fittings. One obvious example is that engine coolant systems didn't used to be pressurised.
@@cameronwood1994 that kind of paper would actually make a really good gasket . many gaskets used to be paper like a thermostat gasket for instance. wouldn't use it as an exhaust gasket but would be good for many other things.
To my knowledge, on some old cars, gaskets were supplied as sheets that had to be cut using the old one as a pattern. They were mostly oiled paper or cardboard.
@@jeanettejack2152 Did you see the same gasket I saw? He cut a piece of gasket material in a trapezoid shape, punched out holes for the bolts and slapped it on. He didn't actually cut out a gasket.
When I learned about what an interference engine means, AND that my car has one, best believe I have respect for that timing belt lol Went and got a new one even though it didn't quite need it yet 😅
That last one is a good reminder. I caught myself lately, not taking welding safety as seriously as I should lately. (I sparked a few things when not paying attention to where the ground clamp and welding electrode were) It is really easy to forget that the tools we use regularly need to always be treated with care.
Yeah, years ago was doing a hydro static test on the 30 story high-rise. 200psi on the fire sprinkler standpipe. Went to remove the plug for the drip point and didn't realize the flapper for the FDC was still closed. Released all the pressure into a small crawl space and it was pointing at my only escape. Needless to say I got a little wet. Learned real quick the importance of when loosening a fitting, if it's not coming loose and you're not able to wiggle it, there's a very good chance it's still under pressure. Luckily I was standing to the side of the plug so didn't take it to the face.
I'm not very tall, I modeled 3d printed a device that extends the clutch pedal by basically making a thicker pedal (and you take off the pedal cover and reattach it to the new part), allows me to be at a reasonable position behind the wheel too. I used TPU which is a flexible material but when printed with enough infill it is quite durable. I find this to be an issue with just the clutch.
Those tanks are scary business. A student in my highschool shop class let a car down on the torch set and snapped the regulator off the O2 and cracked the acetylene tank. The O2 tank was spinning end over end. The entire school was evacuated. The firefighter strutted into the shop like he was cock of the walk and ran out like Forrest Gump. It was quite the sight to behold.
That was equally terrifying and hilarious to read, have seen some loose gas tanks in my days and those are at least new pants required situations. Those things are not to be taken lightly and definitely handled with care.
watching Mythbusters tackle the busted high pressure tank was all I needed. They can literally become rockets, plowing through cinder block walls like they're paper.
At my Dad's work they found the acetylene long gas tank (might have been the oxygen tank) about a mile away in somebody's roof in their house (unsure how it happened but there was a bang, a small hole in the roof and no tank any more in the welding area)
@@leexgxwould have been oxygen. Acetylene isn't under near as much pressure. I have heard stories of guys on a construction site on a river, laying down O2 tanks, and knocking off the valves, flying them into the river.
Haha, I used to work with compressed gases a lot and was always terrified I would forget to turn a valve off before removing a regulator or hose, so would usually check it multiple times. I have no regrets!
Every time I walk past my oxy-acetylene outfit I give the valves a twist, just to be sure they're closed. Check it once. Check it again. Is the valve closed? Check it again.
What amazes me is the guy continued to wrench on the coupling nut of the regulator. A proper fitment does NOT require continued wrenching. If you can't spin the nut by hand after cracking it loose and venting the tiny bit of trapped gas, something is wrong. Stop, reassess and make sure the tank valve is in fact shut. This is also why you should never backseat a valve unless directed or absolutely necessary as it can bind and give a false 'shut' indication.
@@acmhfmggruSomeone filled their argon tank and forgot to shut off the gas after doing a 3" tig weld. Slight leak... Most expensive weld they ever made 🥲
This sounds like a macho man who likes to proof to bystanders he can fix it in a short time. Maybe along the way he'll see his mistake but it would be too embarrassing for him to go back.
Man, props to those that are actually trying to do their own work, some of them are complete fails, but more because of being inexperienced (I was there myself once). The people who don't open their trunk to stop the thing rolling around and making a thumping noise so they take it to a shop and waste everyone's time? You shouldn't have a license.
Well, to be fair, cheap is a relative term. The belt is $100 or more, and a lot of shops charge 3 or more hours of labor for it on even the easy ones. Granted, that $600 bill is cheaper than an entire head replacement when someone rolls the dice and comes up snake eyes, but still, I get it.
Years ago a mate of mine had a Volvo. I gave him a new timing belt because his was well overdue for replacement. About 2 years later I got a call from him - 10pm on a winters night - he was marooned about 160kms away. Yep, he hadn't changed the belt. And yes, I had to go and tow him home....
That was an Acura TL ( with the broken Belt ) and that currently costs about $1,000 and up to do the timing belt and water pump . Its just a part of maintenence that you have to do every 100k miles . I know because I have one .
All the government safety regulations. I've seen similar issues with a particular national park trail, namely Angels' Landing in Zion. The park service installed chains along a dangerous section of the trail. This means all the riffraff can make it out to the landing. There's a ground squirrel population that depends on handouts there. My suggestion was to remove the chains. Maybe some of the stupid people self eliminate trying to get out there. It also solves the don't feed the wildlife problem.
One of the stories today rminds me of the time a fellow I know installed new radiator hoses in his Jeep, after which it started overheating. After much fussing with it, including a visit to a shop, he (or maybe it was the shop) found that he had not removed the end caps on the new hoses before installing them. Ooops, coolant doesn't flow very well with the hose blocked!
some times while driving if i go to shift and something is blocking it i instantly look to see what is blocking it.....its almost always the keys........yes the ignition switch is just in front of the shifter. not from the factory, i put it there cause the column switch broke and i took out the steering lock.
Does not matter. Y’all act as if it being more expensive later means anything. It doesn’t. If a customer cannot afford it, they cannot afford it. Being 5x more expensive down the line isn’t going to make that card undecline.
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 It means a lot. Being 5x more expensive means that now that person is even in worse shape. If they can't afford a replacement engine, and they couldn't afford a much cheaper maintenance service, you think they're going to be able to afford a replacement car?
@@WhiteG60since the title of that section of video is "used engine installed", I doubt your figures would be achievable. Have you seen what a used car goes for these days? Even beaters are expensive now
Yeah, I was shown why we turn them off in my welding class, it wasn't full but it was full enough to show why being a dumb-ass can get you and everyone around you deaded.
Yeah, the fact that it just let out a big burst then stopped means it was basically empty. If it was near full, it would have been spinning fast enough to go into orbit
Yeah, we exist. I've tried to do some work on my car, made a mistake, and taken it in for repair. And I'm like a lawyer about that stuff...full disclosure.
when working on brakes, etc I use a jack stand, release some pressure on the jack but keep the cup in contact and place the tire half way under the car. just in case. @@michaelmclachlan1650
The fellow pulling off that regulator got so lucky. Have seen the aftermath of one those tanks departing the work shop and going through the wall of the hanger building on its way out to the flight line to play among the aircraft parked out there.
Wow! When I was 19 I worked at an Exxon service station. That would have been in 1980. We had a lady bring in a 1976 Oldsmobile 98 Regency with the 455 engine making a loud ticking sound. When the mechanic asked her when she had last had an oil change, she told him she never did! She said that the car had oil in it when she bought it new, and she didn’t believe she had to have the oil changed! She told him that “there was oil in it so she just left it alone!!” 40,000 miles later the engine was in need of a rebuild.
Yeah its not hard, basically everyone in the UK passed the test in a regular manual car. If I remember right its something like 2% of people have auto only licence
I put a zip tie on a friends drive shaft, he complained about the noise for months, but didn’t once bend down to look to see where it was coming from.🤣
These videos always remind me of a personal story. My dad's first Mercedes-Benz was what we call a Monday car, everything possible go wrong at the worst time. One of many stories about that car: First vacation trip in it together with mom and bringing the caravan hitched on, it developed an intermittent issue on the first hill they meet, changing the focus of the vacation from both relaxing to dad stopping at every open garage to get help but noone figured it out the whole two weeks trip. Then he took it on a garage tour, visiting so many garages that we lost count. The last garage that he visited, had a new apprentice look at the issue after their seasoned staff hadn't figured it out yet. The apprentice found the issue, the valves in the intake manifold were plastic and the plastic bar that connected it to the regulator was snapped in the hole on the regulator side. So those valves was sometimes held in place but sometimes reduced the flow causing a safety mode to trigger. The safety mode was reset either manually or automatically when the valves wasn't restricting the airflow anymore until the valves closed again. Sometimes an issue is so hard to spot that a fresh pair of eyes checks what shouldn't be wrong. Dad had that car to every type of garages, from one man in their private garage to brand dealership garages, several of every type until the solution was found by a different brand dealership garage.
I agree with the need of a fresh eye when you are stuck on a repair. I used to a ask a friend, or put it aside, have a good night and go back on the next day Most of the times, tricky failures are due to some simple thing. And you ask your friend to kick you in the back as a punishment as it took you hours to figure out what’s wrong. It is also probably because major failures are so evident that you don’t need to look twice and mess around.
I had an old Hilux Surf that was always having issues with the radiator top tank. Found my forever mechanic when I took it into one shop for a service and the dude popped the hood, looked into the engine bay, looked back at me and asked why there was a corolla radiator in there. Everyone else had been trying to fit the standard radiator top tank to it, or occasionally making custom top tanks, none of them thinking to ask WHY the top tank they had wasn't fitting properly. Hope that new apprentice has done well for himself since then. :D
I want to see Just Rolled In Allstars with a compilation of the dumbest, meaning, the ones where any other person could see the problem. For instance, the right turn signal that wouldn't stay set because a purse was hanging on the lever, air conditioning that didn't work because none was installed, the glove box that wouldn't stay shut because there's junk blocking the latch, and all the cars that smelled like gas because there's a can of gas in the back seat. Stuff like that.
That gasket is better value for money than the manufactured ones. It's cheaper AND it contains about 400% more material as well. Bargain! Seriously though, what is it this week with the gaskets and the belts?!? Like, those are things you just don't change unless you really know that you're someone who knows what they're doing with engines.
When I was 12 my dad taught me to drive our old tractor, I could reach the pedals but I couldn't quite push them all way down, especially the clutch. Dad fastened a few blocks of wood with cable ties to the pedals and I was good to go.
My favorite this time is the customer who declined to have their timing belt replaced on their last two visits. Maybe they will get a new timing belt with their new engine. The saddest one is the person who had their jack stand slip. That could happen to almost anyone.
Years ago I worked in a microcircuit lab and we use hydrogen for wire bonding. My coworker was trying to get the cap off of the tank of nitrogen and he accidentally knocked the valve open but he still couldn't get the cap off. We had to evacuate the building and I was on crutches at the time running down the hall as fast as I could on a pair of crutches expecting to see a fireball come roaring down the hall behind me.
Not having enough common sense to catch some of these "issues" makes me wonder if a lot of these people have enough sense to be driving in the first place. Makes me worry about our country. : /
This is why aliens haven't invaded and used humans as slave labour, it would be a frikkin russian roulette. Did I get a good human or one that will cripple my 10k gribnar ship in less than 4 parsecs?.
@@kittehgo Those idiot aliens who crashed in Roswell did something just as stupid as humans let's be honest. Probably neglected cleaning out the hydrogen fusion drive, leading to a helium fusion runaway. How they could forget such basic maintenance is beyond me.
Jack slipped... you shouldn't be working on your vehicle if you can't properly secure your vehicle. Safety third! I make sure the jack is securely lifting the vehicle, put the jackstands into place, lower vehicle to put the weight on the jackstands, making sure vehicle is secure by giving it a shake test. Reapply jack to put pressure to vehicle as an extra safety precaution. If i ever get a place with a bigger garage im getting one of those Wildfire lifts Derek/Vice Grip Garage uses as that is the safest way of lifting the vehicle.
I'm a child of the 80's and 90's. I remember watching those old emergency shows and seeing more than a few where somebody got crushed by their car because they didn't secure it properly. My parents letting me watch those was probably a big reason why I'm such a cautious person.
@@AngryReptileKeeper never seen that. If you understand weight, your lifting over 2,000 pounds it should be common sense to ensure the vehicle is secure and safe to work under.
That last guy with the gas tank got super, super lucky. He had that valve almost aimed at his face. If that had been aimed at him, or if the tank hadn’t been basically empty, he’d have been really seriously injured. Possibly others around him as well
is there a steel cage or something to strap down a tank when removing gauges?? in the Army we had to use a hefty steel cage that was mounted to an outside wall for truck tire repairs. Our "cherry prank" was to have a new driver replace a split rim tire. one of us would hid around the corner with a metal pipe and wait until the cage was closed b4 wacking the crap out of it. the poor cherry was always stuck between needing new pants or cardiac arrest. the prank never got old.
Sad to say but it is a relief to see that some wrenches do dumb things, too. Now 'splain me why cardboard won't work for a pan gasket. ROTFLMAO This stuff is golden.
It's got electrolytes. Okay - what are electrolytes? Do you know? Yeah. It's what they use to make Brawndo.' But why do they use them in Brawndo? What do they do? ''They're part of what plants crave. 'But why do plants crave them?' Because plants crave Brawndo, and Brawndo has electrolytes.
I can personally relate to this one after my boyfriend just installed the torque converter of his transmission wrong. He looked it up, but didn't look it up enough to have all the info. He's outside right now correcting the issue. To be fair, it's his first time rebuilding a car, so I'd be more surprised if nothing went wrong.
@@AngryReptileKeeperit's hilarious because that's a huge thing with torque converter installations. Everyone always says, "Make sure you do it correctly and feel both contact points or you're doing it all over again when you fuck it up." Some people just have to learn the hard way.
Despite having seen it a thousand times, the absolute lack of common sense will never stop to astonish me. Issues with switching gears, while a lot of junk sits right around the gear selector? Why would ever somebody get the idea to try to remove all this stuff before going to a workshop. Other issues though could happen to anybody. New cars partially make stupid requirements for selecting any gears, like buckeling up or doing something else arbitrarily. I personally totally dislike automatics and always drive stick, so when I had to use my first automatic car for the job, I was wondering, why I couldn't remove the key after parking. Well, I parked like a stick shifter - gearbox into neutral and hand brake pulled. Little did I know, that the car requires you to select P for releasing the key. I had a good facepalm moment and can understand such a requirement. Others, not so much and I prefer to stay with my 2007 stick shifter, which requires absolutely nothing for whatever I wanna do with it.
@@patriksonestad8208 Many modern stick shifters (which will sadly be extinct at some point) require a lot of stuff from you. While most makes sense, thinking of the regular idiot using a car, I am personally getting very bothered by much of it. Pressing the clutch before starting isn't a big thing necessary, but since I have the habit to ALWAYS wiggle the stick before starting, so already being sure I am in neutral, it is an annoying extra step I need to take. But I have also experienced, why it makes sense. Many years ago, I was driving somewhere with a rather immature friend. He didn't have a licence but had a thing for cars. We parked, I just wanted to quickly grab something and he'd wait in the car. I had barely exited the car, when he jumped on the driver seat and proceeded to start the engine - he didn't intend to do anything else, but little did he know, that the car was in gear, it didn't require to push the clutch for that. The car jumped forward, and I was so lucky I properly pulled the parking brake, which prevented the car from crashing into the one in front of it. I took the keys and punished the idiot for his stupid action by having to wait in the cold weather, rahter than in the warm car.
Those spring clamps are actually better than worm-gear hose clamps. As the rubber takes a set after being clamped, the spring clamp keeps the hose tight, while a worm-drive will need constant retightening. I only learned this about 8 years ago.
It's not an entire engine that needs replaced when you bend every valve from the timing belt snapping and contacting the pistons. Usually. Have only ever seen it destroy a piston once. Every other time, it's just a new head replacement. Still more expensive than a new belt every 60k-100k, but not an entire engine tragedy.
Comments: - Love your videos! - Scary to think these cars/drivers are on the road. - How can these customers do this stuff and still breathe? - “Customer declined repairs,” so sad. - We all know the customer did it, not another shop. - “Customer accepted repairs,” woah fr?! - Props to that customer for fessing up right away. - [clip] was impressive. - When I was 17, my dad was having trouble with the vehicles at work. He discovered our employer was using doughnut custard for axle grease.
