Customer States Compilation (Best Of Episodes 75-89) | Mechanic Problems | Mechanical Nightmare 

Imagine going to a mechanic and seeing your car on RU-vid 😂

Best recent mechanic experience. I don't work at a shop but people are mechanically inclined where I do work. I showed a picture I took replacing the water pump on my 2001 Suburban Vortec engine. He says oh do you have that belt squeal? I said what do you mean? He could see in the picture the misalignment of my power steering pump pulley. That's someone who knows their stuff or at least that particular stuff! He loaned me the tool in 10 minutes later no more squeal. Got to appreciate knowledge. It was only off 1/8 of an inch or so but he could see the pulley was not flush the shaft it was pressed on.

@3:03 the "crunchy" stuff looks like calcium.. possibly mineralized from using well water to mix with coolant.. I do HVAC and plumbing..I find this in water heaters a lot. When it's heated the calcium solidifies into crystals and will build up, in my case it builds on the heating element after it's filled half the tank and causes the elements to rupture.

"Customer declined the repair" I loved that one. In france security related repairs are mandatory, and can not be declined

It’s scary knowing that these vehicles are on the road with us. Those owners need to be in a mental hospital

That was a damn effective can of stop leak on that Ecodiesel

Did an inspection on a 1970's vintage Datsun truck that a guy had bought at an auction. On the surface it looked a decent sort-of restoration. I eventually got to checking the frame, which I thought it to be AMAZING shape for the age and make. It had recently been undercoated, so I grabbed a magnet and could only intermittently get it to stick from place to place. Turned out that the shop that "restored" it started with a frame much like the one at 3:45 and filled it full of newspapers, epoxy, and body filler before the undercoat was applied. So, yes, it was a papier-mache truck frame.

Having worked as a tech and service advisor (including MBenz), I can say - YES these are not exaggerated, and I've seen this happen on high end cars too. Owners have no clue when they damage their cars.

The fact that some of these cars drive on the same roads as us is terrifying😳🤣

it almost makes me cry to think of the pain and suffering some owners have put theior vehicles through...

Back in the 1970s I was a spray painter in an airplane factory in Osceola WI. Some of the aircraft were seaplanes. We used zinc-chromate primer and a certain epoxy that prevented the airframes from rusting in the salt water and air. The insides of the tubular airframes were also coated with a rust proofing liquid that hardened once exposed to the atmosphere after a few hours. This would be a solution to all this cars and trucks having their frames and suspension components rusting because of salt used on icy roads. Heck, a large factory could dip the frames in this epoxy. Instead they coat these frames with a black primer that wears off very quickly even under the best circumstances.

Thank god in the UK we have the annul mot test that would catch a lot of these dangers, (and also drivers with an iq). In 15+ years in a garage I never saw anything so dangerous!

Damn!!! That was one HUGE black widow spider!!!!!

I am constantly astonished by the sheer amount of rust on the underside of some of these vehicles

Hats off to all those wonderful portrait reordering mechanics out there.

I REALLY wish you would share more info on each case, whenever possible! Like some other similar channels do. Knowing some details for some cases makes it much more interesting of me, and others I assume.

8:59 "Sir, I know you realize that your frame is in two".

I work at a tire shop, and seeing things like this both make me want to work in an all around mechanic shop, but st the same time I’m glad I only work with tires and wheels.

As mechanic of over 30 years, I still am amazed by what people do to there vehicles.

Some scary vehicles on the roads 😳😬🫣

Been turning wrenches for nearly 30 years professionally and it never ceases to amaze me what might come through the doors.

Watching these videos make me laugh in a very nervous manner and if I lived in the USA I’d be extremely nervous sharing the roads with these vehicles and the obviously mechanically challenged drivers 👍

so many of these videos have my eye in a constant twitch....

seeing all the brakes gone, all the suspensions worn out to the point of just going home, all these heavily corroded frames and undercarriages... it explains the often heavy and "avoidable" horror crashes on american dashcam videos. and it often seems to happen because people have no funds for repairs. why do they feel compelled to drive a vehicle they can't afford?

these videos make me SO happy that you in Denmark have to put your car pass an inspection every second year.... not saying there isn't bad cars here

I could swear I can hear the customer in the background. I think I can feel the wind of lots of Benjamin's as they hit the table. Maybe the customer is crying too.

I’m the customer, customer states “ I have a noise on the front suspension”. Dealer replaces useless components, charges me a fortune, does not know it’s all their suspension on the car leaves the BUSTED SHOCK STOPS ON THE CAR test drove it, still heard the noise , and just gave me the car back. God as my witness I will end that entire service department .

Customer states: "My oil dipstick is broken in two parts". Me: Ok, I'll check. Car: LETS START A FIRE ^^ Former mechanic did not pay attention on which angle he mounted the plus cable to the starter motor. So the cable was all the time on high pressure with the dipstick tube. Vibrations have done the rest and it BURNED off the dipstick. I noticed while trying to take out the oil dipstick tube - It started sparking, glowing and smoking. Never had disconnected a car battery that fast.

The guy's overheating radiator has kidney stones bro 🤣🤣

As to the Dodge eco Diesel, I have found both casting sand and even a cool steel 5pt star in an engine block. They and polishing stones were rattled around in the block to loosen casting sand. I suspect its leftover from manufacturing and broke loose.

Haha. The part where there was some sort of stop leak in the 2015 dodge ram.... followed by a J-B weld ad.

You gotta love those "Rust free" cars from the mid west.

According to the fed, 37% Americans don’t have more than $400 for an emergency expense. Seems like some will be taking the bus.

On that Eco Diesel, someone put DEF into the coolant.

"Think ya used enough fix a flat, Vern?"

I'm AMAZED at how rusted Chevy's get. Wonder why they even make them. Cause people would still buy them? Got it.

Staggering ! Here in Britain, all vehicles over three years old have to have an annual inspection. A bulb out, a horn not working, a tyre below the statutory tread depth, headlights misaligned, simple things like these will fail the test. Many of the vehicles on this vid would never be permitted back on the road, ever.

They're all possibly from the low end of the gene pool. Love the long videos. 👍 👍 👍

06:46 reminds me of the sounds of those old '70s bumper jacks.

Got a family friend with a small child that when their car was acting up they made the mistake of dicribinging the issue as the car "having a tummy ache". Car got way worse shortly after. They took it to a shop and apparently their 7 y/o thought they'd help the cars hurt tummy by dumping an entire bottle of pepto in the gas tank. Gas covers are not enough, get a locking safety cover people, kids can be the worst kind of proactive, lol.

I'm really thankful, that Finland has inspection on cars every year. It's horrifying to watch some of these rust buckets. 😬

Lol Chevrolet Lou-mean-a 😂

12:35 Didn't even notice the brake pad at the bottom of wheel LOL

@3:16 That looks like DEF when it dries up - it crystallizes. Hot coolant environment + fluid that looks like coolant to the uninitiated = crunchy radiator hose.

The rotor at 10:24! Saw this on a Young Lady's '69 Camero. Her brother came in a month or two later in his '70 Mustang, said he had a noise in the front! I heard the jingle as he pulled up, Put it on the rack, remover RT front wheel. Amazing what people will do! Same as his sister had done!!!! They both drove their vehicles in the ground. The difference was the Mustang had drum brakes. The jingle was the inner half of the drum was playing "Jingle Bells" as he drove down the road, I can only imagine as the "Jingle Bells" went into the BllueGrass candence on I-65!!!! What had happened was! He had run his brakes so long that it did not only wear the brake liner down to the metal, but wore the liner plate off as well! All I saw was the blades that the wheel cylinder expanded to apply the, use to be brakes. The blade finally cut a one and half inch ring off of the drum, that's what was play "Jingle Bells". The LORD takes care of, those of us who do not know how to take care of ourselves. The LORD has driven me many miles. Let me thank HIM again for HIS Mercy and save keeping. Thank YOU JESUS!

8:54 looks like discount tires or America's tires used to work for them slime balls at the one in Chino cal too

For water to come out that clean they added 0 oz. of oil to it after rebuilding it.

6:17 looo-MEEN-ah. Lol, it's pronounced LOO-min-ah. I don't blame you though, your parents were in elementary school in 1995.

i could drink beer and watch these videos all day.....

I'm not mechanically trained in anyway. I've worked on my own vehicles before, but I grew up working on stuff and tinkering. I have a general understanding of some stuff. The more complicated stuff, I'll just take to a shop, because I don't have the proper resources. Hell even oil changes, I've been taking to the shops, it's just easier, I don't have the time, nor a catch can. I've done work to my motorcycles but that's about it. My truck hasn't needed any service. Still mostly factory parts, with the exception of filters, tires, and the expendable items. But watching this, oh my. Take care of your vehicles people, machines won't last forever if you neglect service.

Thats not stopleak, thats DEF in the coolant

That customer put DEF in his coolant, see it all the time in heavy equipment. It'll crystalize.

"this is why you don't buy a BUICK" uh that is a 3800! a VERY great motor! you have NO clue about them do ya?

2:47 truck has kidney stones

For this reason we in Germany have a technical inspection (TÜV) every 2 years.

I just keep thinking...... These people are out there driving on the same roads we are!!! Be afraid, be very afraid!.

I needed this today

Awe man every time something feels off on my car I go see a mechanic in case because I’m nervous about something bad that happened with my car

Customer States, "I'm an idiot!"😃✌️

something i live by is that if it can go wrong, it will go wrong. never give it a reason to go wrong and always keep enough money to replace major componets.

The thing that amaze me most is the fact these cars are able to drive

Just in case it comes up again, it's a chevy "lum en a" not "lum inee a"

I had a bootlegged shop leave a whole ass socket, and extension in my transfer case.

Man it must suck to live in what ever rust hell those cars are from. Ive lived in New Mexico and California my whole life and never knew how nice it was not needing to worry abojt my frame rusting to the point the paint is the only thing holding my car together.

These people just dont understand how dangerous its to drive these vehicles, and they danger others in the process.

Salted roads are to blame. We don't have that much. Maybe on bridges. But our roads are so bumpy that every outing is a gauntlet. I don't worry about other people's rides. I'm more worrying about what is upstairs...😅

Did that guy just say "this is why you never buy new?"

That DIY lift kit gave me anxiety, and i've never done any strut tower work.

I was never a mechanic but I was an oil change tech and one time this 1999 Honda accord came in and had a different exhaust pattern than the original. The guy had bought it off of his friend who did work on it himself. When we went to find the oil filter they had put the exhaust in such a way (not factory) that blocked access to the oil filter completely. This was fully bottom side filter so we literally could not do the oil change and when I told the guy he was so confused.

I'm sure some of us here brought a clunker to a mechanic and done the same thing. I've owned vehicles 50 years.. I'm still driving a 30 year old rust bucket pick up.. that wont quit . But today's vehicles are plastic.. and aluminum and rubber. And today's drivers are worse ... less experienced. This CHANNEL is addicting. Bring these to Scotty Kilmer.. that would be comedy.

The spider yell lol!

Id buy a truck frame thats been factory galvanized after I won the lottery.

I own a smart fortwo and changed my front struts. I hate the design of them as it isn't three bolts on top and two on bottom and it comes out. There is one large nut on top and to hold the shaft from spinning you need an allen key. I used a spark plug socket with an allen wrench through the middle and it worked, but I don't think I can tighten it enough because I still hear a slight clunk when I hit bumps. I felt like a failure until I saw this video. It made me feel better about not having the correct tools.

This is the shit that makes me NOT want to become a mechanic. But my will to learn how to fix cars is stronger than that of the threat of seeing cars in horrendous conditions

Me knowing nothing about vehicles while watching, “man these owners are idiots”.

As a retired cop I’m suspect the whiteish substance in the radiator may well be an illegal schedule substance 🤔👍🏻

Lost me when dude talked trash about a 3800 series II Buick. Literally the most reliable motor GM ever produced. And mechanic worth their salt knows that.

Gives a whole new meaning to run it til "the wheels come off" That pink sludge. Once had an agricultural pump engine come in for a rebuild and the crankcase looked loke it was full, like hand packed full, of black Vaseline

9:50 Well that's not what they ment by a watercooled intercooler😅😂

Love it! Most hilarious thing i have ever seen!

Props to the mechanic @7:20 listening to frank ocean, he got the aux on deck

13:40 that is the reason I left the oil drain plug out when I let my honda sit because I was replacing the valve cover and changing the oil

I am so glad I went with aviation maintenance

I saw this firsthand in the mid 70's!!!! It is unbelievable that cars will still run AND drive under the conditions I have seen! It makes no difference if it's male or female either!!!!!

In the future, when you format the screen, could you elect to make the playback image fill the entire screen instead of just a portion down the middle? That would be a better look than having the two side "panels" be just black and basically empty.

7:00 you know it's a cool shop when they playing frank ocean

This makes me feel so much better about my car.

13:32 He's either trying not to laugh, trying not to cus, or he's just done. This is the 6th car today with the same problem and he just wants to go home.

Some desperation, some denial, some abuse.

Amazing, simply amazing😎

Was that one vehicle popping corn 🌽? Lol

0:30 is how my clutch looked on a 2nd hand car that was supposedly officially checked before sale… and yes, it was already broken before sale, since after replacement the clutch was smoother than during the test drive…

2:12 I’ve been in aviation awhile. I have yet to hear one of the technicians curse.

The stuff in that 2015 Ram eco diesel is head gasket sealer. Probably Blue Devil. I've used it and had the same results. It may have temporarily sealed his leaking head gasket, but it probably needs a head gasket. Don't use that stuff... It just plugs up your entire coolant system.... Ask me how I know. And yes I followed the instructions to the letter....

Holy shit, that Civic at the end.

It’s important to remember not everyone should work on their own vehicles.

Yep! They was nightmares alright. 🤣🤣👍🙏😎

The one at 3 minutes. Its possible the owner put in mineral rich spring water in the cooling system. I saw it happen once. It caused a 20 pound radiator, to be almost half its weight. Some of the old people justify it by saying "since springs dont freeze....." 🙄🙄🙄

Music to my ears 😆

The white stuff is not a leak stopper but is called lime. This happens when you pour tap water into the cooler instead of distilled water.