Customer States Compilation (Best Of 2023) | Mechanic Problems | Mechanical Nightmare 

The confidence that mechanics have to touch strange substances with their bare hands will always astound me

I've never understood why people go to horror movies but I'm sitting here with my popcorn, terrified at every new plot twist!!

Those "bumps" and "potholes" are probably actually called "curbs." LOL

It never ceases to amaze me how much "f*cked up" people are completely fine with.

"Up-sell me?" If 90% of these cars rolled into my shop, I would lock them down and make the customer sign a waiver and release to get their keys back, and then I would tell them to get their POS out of my shop and never come back.

Does Customer EVER state, "I drove the ever-lovin' shit out of it until it wouldn't move anymore."?

"where tf the oil cap?" that got me. i did that ONCE and vow to never forget again. that mess took days to clean out of the engine bay.

When customers tell me they need brakes I learned that there’s no telling what you are about to encounter. I’ve seen calipers on backwards, broken rotors, broken spindles, no bearings, the possibilities are limitless

I had a customer in the 70s with a Toyota no ac plain car. Her only belt broke and the Alt light came on. She took her pantyhose off and tied them around the pulleys and drove to the shop

Normally dying battery sounds in electronics make me laugh, but there's something oddly musical about that dying battery car alarm.

Even as somebody that knows nothing about cars, it amazes me how people can let their vehicles get this torn up.

Decades ago, my friend's grandfather was hit and killed while attempting to change a flat tire in the safety lane on the freeway. I taught my kids to never stop on the shoulder of a busy highway if the car can still roll under power. In the case of a flat. You can always buy a new wheel. So, move to the outer shoulder and roll slowly to the next exit and access the situation in a parking lot or driveway. Your life is irreplaceable.

I am totally mind-blown that people don't think of their own safety and let their cars get to the point of being a total death trap. The reason is what? Money? No money in the world can replace a person. I am an educated car mechanic myself and if any of these cars would come by me, I would have them sign a form that relieve me of any responsibility if the customer doesn't want repairs so I can't be held reliable for any damages, or accident that might happen due to the state of the car

Customer came in requesting waterpump replacement. They " repaired" it but started leaking again. They poured at least 10 packs of JB Weld on the entire pump and pump was stuck to timing cover. It took an hour of grinding just to access the bolts.

Customer States: Denies Repairs

This proves how totally inept a lot of people are when it comes to the basics in car maintenance and general care.

That alarm sounds awesome I could really jam out to that beat

Just think that these types of cars are ALL around you on the roads... How anyone makes it anywhere is amazing to me...

A coworker told me his windshield wipers quit working. He tied his shoelaces to the arms. He and his passenger pulled the laces back and forth. 😂

first time ive ever laughed at a broken car.... "Kachow"

Drifting and burnout trend will get a lot of shops rich.

Honestly I put a clutch disc in backwards in H.S. auto shop. Classmates played a joke on me. The new disc had a sticker that read: "Flywheel side." They switched the sticker to the wrong side. Ha ha fooled me! And yes a Chevy V8 1st gen clutch will make noise and still move.

As someone who currently has some front end suspension problems with my 13 year old mustang, I feel attacked by all these suspension clips 😂

Some people shouldn't be allowed to drive or own a car

7:07 That messed up alarm goes from frog call, to laughing, to sick chiptune beat 😂

I have a 2010 fusion, took to shop as the A/C heating was slowing down, found out it had a cabin filter that was never changed. Did not know it had one. It was replaced and works great now.

A customer brought me his 2wd Toyota pickup, said the headgasket needed replaced. It had chocolate milk so thick it wouldn't drain out and was knocking. After I called him back, I found out the headgasket had blown a month and a half earlier, so he just changed the oil every week until he could get it serviced. Which means he drove it every day for 45 days and 5 oil changes.

That guy: "2023 with 4,000 miles, full of forbidden milkshake." YT captions: 2023 with 4,000 miles full of forbidden [ERROR 404: milkshake not found] Uh, yep. RU-vid captions at their weirdest.

I'm not a gearhead, but these still crack me up!

I think the ability to do basic service on a vehicle should be a part of your license and insurance. These types are vehicles are unguided bombs.

I've seen some sheared cranks before but that's choice! Really clean snap. Like a carrot! If it's a standard I'd like to see the throw out bearing. Probably looks like an egg!

Dude!!!! Great video!!! All of your tips really make that first time easier!!!✌️

I don’t know the procedure in the States but here in the UK, a yearly MOT, (ministry of transport) test, is mandatory, there is no way half of these vehicles would be allowed on the road. If a vehicle did come into a garage, and the customer refused to have vital work done to make it safe, and the garage let it go, if that vehicle then caused an accident that garage could be held responsible to some degree for allowing to leave on the road.

Mandatory state vehicle inspections would catch most of these problems before they kill someone.

total respect for mechanics- tough, dirty job that keeps everything going, and unbelievable stuff they have to deal with...

and people ask me why i detail cars rather than fix them being a trained mechanic, i already have enough "wtf moments"

3 people you should never lie to: the cops, your doctor, or your mechanic.

Ah yes, Rapunzel in the muffler I remember cruising with friends when I just got my licence in my first car and they're like "yo, there's fkn hair in your car" I'm like what? Pulled over and revved the car over and over til pieces of metal shielding and all the hair came out, I think it's fibreglass as well so it's itchy af

I just remembered I have a zip tie holding down my distributor cap in 98 Chevy 5.7. If you know, you know....

The zip ties holding the brake caliper to the control arm is the best one! What a genius! The vehicle with the lower rear suspension held together with a bungee cord is next!

amazing how many times I can say OH NO! out loud on this channel!

7:21 ALMOST sounded like "SOS" at first. "HELP ME... PLEASE SOMEBODY!" lol

I love this channel content!

Every time I see these videos, I am happy that here in Europe, we have annual or bi-annual inspections of all cars, no matter how old. 😅

That alarm sounds like a bad video game.

These will generally be the people flying by you at 20 mph over the speed limit.

Kudos to the 6 out of several dozen or so that turned the phone sideways, thank you !

28:26 This is why I just keep fixing my old Jetta. Some of this is pretty scary. But I saw some even scarier things when I worked major overhaul on cargo planes that operated in third world countries. I fixed hinges on an access door that was about to blow out because someone thought it would be OK to put a metric automotive bolt in a hole meant for an SAE aircraft bolt. Literally would have taken another flight or two to fail. I've seen major structural damage that wasn't repaired correctly and a whole bunch of other things that made my jaw drop.

DO you mechanics call the cops to have the cars impounded when you find such dangerou cars..??

7:45 I REMEMBER THAT ONE !! we just got that car back from the dealership after a engine light and had gotten its oil change there and i drove it back, engine got very hot as i pulled into enterprise, i parked it and everyone saw a line of oil from where i drove so we had to get it towed to a different service provider to get the problem fixed

I ****ing love this channel

Friend of mine had a nissan stanza. I lived in a motel that was directly behind an off ramp on a highway. I'm walking to the trash and u hear clack ,clack, clack, clack,boom, boom, boom. I see smoke. Mind you there is a wall that covers 75 percent of cars his size coming around the curve. All i see is smoke and the roof of an ugly rusted shit box. Dude comes flying in the parking lot pulls the emergency brake and slides into parking spot. Tires is leaning out about 10 inchs. We jack the car up and literally lifted the tire off the studs and there was still rim around the studs with the lug nuts on. Rim came off studs with no effort. 😅lucky sob..

1:37 changed out a steering gear on a VW T5 today, the "oil" that came out when loosening the lines looked identically...like water, no oily characteristics at all xD

I've often said this would be a great job but for the customers!

A garage I used to go to had a baldie of the week contest, the winning tyre would be displayed in reception for all to see.

The part from the Dodge's oil pan that the tech couldn't ID was the remains of the hydraulic actuator that adjusts detonation knock, or the timing tensioner (some damned how). I've been blessed with both in oil pan at different times. 😅

I love the soothing music in the background ; )

"Customer states "This is a car" -I disagree."

16:10 thats what you call a "Dodge-podge" of vehicle parts and accessories.

Holy batman, I NEVER imagined someone could literally break a crank shaft.😬

7:07 Dudes car has intercepted alien communication 👽

people really gotta start undersealing their vehicles around the rust belt, it just destroys everything, several coats too

Lol😂....the old engine start button on the key fob....all seems very flash till something like this happens....very dangerous, should have a safety feature where it can't be pressed in the pocket!...only really usefull for making a quick get-away after a crime🤷🤣🙄

I like a mechanic with a sense of humor😂😂😂

I just found out where the rest of the guys are hanging out and I'm glad I made it here

That poor squirrel. All that work - its going to be a tough winter.

34:09 I would’ve told that customer to go home, remove all of the trash from the vehicle, then bring it back.

The "Kachow" sent me over the edge 🤣

7:23 When your car inadevertently beccomes an 80s sci--fi soundtrack...

35:53 Mazda Speed 6? Same kind of aluminum shock absorber top mount on the rear, also the left side that broke on ours. Ended up swapping out the whole shock absorbers since you can't get that part separate.

i've seen the entire gas chamber and rod rusted away from the mounts. 2013 2500HD in northern MI, never had shocks replaced in 10 years

I used to think the cars that appeared on 'Pimp my ride' were brought in from junk yards just for the show.After watching this and several other videos I am not so sure. Why would you ride in these death traps and think it's ok?

0:53 “I got the dew dew on meee” 😂

I worked at a tire shop. Once pulled an adjustable open end wrench out of a flat tire. Went completely in through the tire.

Mechanics should have the right to impound dangerous cars like some of these, I seriously never thought some of these were possible, Loolz!

That alarm sound like Michael Winslow!

7:05 got me 🦟🦗🦟🦗

I Love the sarcasm 😄😄😄

28:51 I found out that my 2019 Silverado will not do remote start with the hood open. Smart feature.

man, that exhaust ripping apart ( 5:57 ) , and the car alarm ( 6:58 ), i laughed hard ... thanks

Basic rule of thumb, change the oil every 5 thousand miles, every oil change, change your filters ( air filter also) , rotate your tires. A good mechanic will do a thorough inspection of your vehicle while doing the job. My mechanic ( Christian Brothers Automotive) they take a picture of everything while they are doing it and show it to you during their work).

These are anxiety inducing to watch😂 but I also now understand who causes oil changes to take so long, it's not the mechanics, it's cars link these in line ahead of me😂

Makes me want to check my car out really thoroughly...

2:30 bro really tried to cover up his fart

was ASE master tech for 40+ years and would rather restore a crashed helacopter than work on a customer car.

Lmmfao ya sent er a little to hard dar bud 🤣😂😂😂😂

Have you ever had a customer scream at you "YOU JUST DID THAT TO MY CAR!!!!"

As a mechanic I couldn't replicate any of these if I wanted to.

Its honestly SAD at how many people know SO LITTLE about how cars work. I mean by the time i was 17 i had taken my 1986 Trans-am COMPLETELY APART and put it back together. I took out the engine, transmission, fly wheel, steering column, EVERYTHING and put it back. I knew that car like the back of my hand.

Un-freakin believable.

That's why, I quite being a mechanic, in 1995. I kept getting the vehicles, which the "limp wristed snowflakes", didn't want to work on.

It’s amazing some these folks made it through the birth canal even.

I am a mech and this just made me lose more faith in humanity ....WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man Ive had to deal with one of those good ol drilled fuel tanks, was moving states, stopped by my parents for a visit, father was going to drive me and my stuff to my new place 4 hours away...... anyway 4 days later we got there lol.... within an hour he got a ticket for being 1 day over on his sticker ( it was fucking new years day) then an hour later his belt went out. got towed, they had nothing on hand, had to wait til next day, got a hotel, went to mechanic, they got the belt, but ugh, well, while it was outside the shop waiting, some good ol boy drileld the tank. if they didn't have a belt, how do you think them replacing a fuel tank went lol. 3 extra days in a hotel, they didn't repair it but insurance finally decided to cover a rental.

Why does the almost dead battery car alarm sound like its LAUGHING AT YOU? LOL.

Customer states my tire keeps loosing air. Mechanic states, you're lucky that's all you've lost.

6:10 This happened too my neighbour just when he did back into his driveway when he did come home from a 4 hour drive on the highway i did tell him he was lucky it did not happen on the highway and he was like "you don't say i did almost crap my pants when i did think about it"

Man I get so jealous of all these vehicle owners who can afford the optional Chocolate milk makers. That's too rich for my blood so I'm stuck using those areas for oil and coolant storage. Although I was lucky enough to have a 2002 sunfire with the optional mosquito fogger back in my 20's!

As a person who isn't a mechanic and sees all these clips, I'm seriously worried about the moron drivers nowadays

@ 18:13 " something is very wrong", with a dodge, imagine that.