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eww that car full of flies and buggs, i would refuse it too, i had a car in at my last job full of food, they wanted me to work on the airbag system in the seats, i told them to go take it to get cleaned before i even plug my scan tool in lol. the kid sits in the back and the mother just keeps giving it food to keep it quiet, the kids just chucks the food on the floor and she leaves it there ewww.
@@JS-wc4xs I made it slightly past ½-way looking at the ½-yatzs • View it as spectacular Clown-itis: Professional Clowns get laughs > These are not professionals!
I used to commute into work for 14 years then got a job driving a box truck making deliveries because the office just sucked so much.... But, even in MA where we have yearly safety inspections i'd still see cars on the side of the highway, stopped on the left side of the highway, dead in a tunnel after a bump, etc, with busted lower ball joints causing the wheel to flop up, fallen apart wheel bearings causing the entire wheel to fall off, busted tie rod sending them into a guardrail... It's crazy how little people care about their car. None of those issues show up overnight, and most make a lot of nasty noise for quite a while. Getting a wheel bearing to completely fall apart takes a while.
I’m in the UK - mandatory annual inspections needed here if your car’s over 3 years old: just had mine done. If it’s a tiny fault they give you an ‘advisory’, which means ‘get it fixed by next inspection time…’
I have done some "unorthodox" field modifications to get myself home, and I've put off some things longer than I maybe should have, but these videos make me feel really good about myself.
Theres nothing wrong with installing some electrics yourself, or making some "hotfixes", but man, at least do it right. Like those guys in the video seem like they aren't even trying.
A lot of them probably didn't even know it was that bad because why would they look they wouldn't know what to look for because they didn't think it would be bad enough to be that noticeable
There was a German guy arrested over there for drunk driving. He had his washer bottle filled with schnapps and a hose at hand he could put in his mouth, no kidding. Maybe 30 years ago.
@@mikekokomomike that's hilarious and gives me a wild, but illegal, idea for countering ignition-lock breathalyzers. If you could rig the vent system to a hideable hose that latches onto the unit, it just might work.
@@MrROTD we had a guy come in with a total hooptie. My boss wrote up a detailed explanation of why we won't do the oil change. The guy tried to fight my boss.
@@MyDogIsYoshi If these people know so much about cars and why the mechanic is wrong, why are they even in the shop for just an oil change? Surely they are smart enough to undo one bolt and replace an oil filter?
I honestly admire the ingenuity of the door handle repair at 15:51 It is simple yet functional, inexpensive, operation is obvious, and tells potential thieves “Steal another car.”
I'd like to contact the person and find out how. My daughter has a beater car that has a broken door handle (safe otherwise) and If we could duplicate this fix, it would help a lot.
I would have to agree with you on this one. My dad was a amazing mechanic and did amazing work, on other peoples cars of course😂. He should have been certified in afro enginuity when it came to our cars😂. If me or my sisters car had A/C before he worked on it it didnt after wards lol. Plus extra parts that we "didnt need". He did a top rebuild on my 01 venture. I was unaware it had California emissions. Well it did before he worked on it😂. He taught me so much and I can proudly say I do all of my own repairs. I am no super certified mechanic and there is repairs Ive never done. But I give it my all, reach out for help, dont try to be a know it all and continue to learn new things. I just did a motor swap on my 05 Malibu V6. I asked a ton of questions but basically did all the work myself. Now Im having an electrical problem and I would much rather give birth than deal with electrical😂. It had issues before I got it and only have it because it was free. The dick who did the work on this car before me I hope he stubbs his toe everyday in life. Every bolt that could possibly been put on with a power wrench or impact he did and without antiseeze.
I stg 😂 I just want to know how, why, who and WHY. Pretty sure I saw a piece of iron i beam "welded" in there. The same thing I use when jacking my car up on the subframe rail lol
@@nickmaclachlan5178 No its the sump of the engine, its like hes done an engine swap with with an engine not for that vehicle and "made" his own crossmember. Who the hell would do it like that tho, i'm baffled at the lack of intelligence shown.
I was sitting at the shop waiting for them to do my free rotate and balance when I overhear a mechanic talking to a teenage girl nearby. Apparently she not only wore through the brake pads, she wore all the way into the caliper itself. You could see him try and keep composure while asking "didn't you notice some noise?"
the issue i see is people get these things drive em like no tomorrow but then wonder why keeping up on the car costs so much? hell people complain about changing oil, air filters and cabin filters. or getting an alignment when half your tire has 7/32 vs wires on the other side
@@ninjatvlv6101 It's what happens when parents, for whatever reason, don't tell their *teenage kids* about car maintenance. The same can be said of teenagers who don't pay attention, who forget the good knowledge from those who _do_ tell them. I'm sure there are other reasons, too.
I drove a car like that when I was 19 but I knew what it was, we just couldn't afford to fix it. It was so bad, and the sound was horrendous. Bad enough that when I met this guy, he was so appalled he fixed my brakes for me himself the second week we dated and he didn't know squat about mechanics at the time but did a great job. Now he's my husband 😆 and fixes all my cars
The scene with the battery in the Honda, it reminded me when I worked at Auto Zone and someone bought a battery for their car. They take it home and some time later they call saying the battery was dead/junk, one of the two. First thing I asked them was if they took off the plastic covers off the posts. Long silence and they hung up.
A friend of mine used to work at a local farm supply store. He was my "go to guy" when I needed a battery. It amazed both of us how many people don't take those caps off. The store couldn't sell returned batteries as new but they did sell them at a DEEP discount (with no warranty) after load testing them. $20 for what would normally be a $150 battery? I'll take that deal all day every day!
I've heard of that happening, but I can't imagine how you can even get the clamps over the posts with the caps on? Most clamps would hardly open far enough.
@@marshallpeters7174 Have you ever seen how people sometimes mangle battery terminals? I've seen people spread them so far that they crack. Then, when they tighten them, the terminal breaks completely.
For those wondering, the bling ring is made of metal, so it shorts out the electric field produced by the car's security system. Therefore the RFID chip inside the key doesn't get power, and it can't send the code to the computer. If the ring had a 1mm gap in it then the key would work.
Country Driver: "Hey, Jethro! I heared yew can add speed holes to mah fancy ole car dere!" Country Mechanic: "Shore Ah kin! What size speed holes d'yew want!?" Country Driver: "How 'bout sumthin' in a .45 caliber?" Country Mechanic: "Best Ah kin do is a .38." Country Driver: "Awl raht." 😄
This is like a companion series to the "Idiots In Cars" dashcam series. I've been driving for nearly 40 years and owned quite a few cars, but I can't fathom how some people can let their vehicles get into such disrepair and be so oblivious to it.
It tells you that people are to lazy to get it repaired. Best way to avoid repairs is if you have the money trade it in every 2-3 years or 36,000 miles just before it expires.
I can't fathom it either. Considering how obscene car prices are (even before COVID), one would think that the owner would take better care of their car. Whether it's preventive maintenance, or fixing a problem as soon as it shows up. Some people would rather ruin their cars, and buy another car and make payments for the next 5-6 years. I hate borrowing from banks, it's like a sword of Damocles hanging over my head.
While its horrifyingly true how oblivious some car owners are it's also equally terrible how garbage cars and trucks are anymore. 10 years after they go off the dealer lot they are basically junk that cant be fixed. In 20 years nobody is going to hand their son or daughter the keys to a treasured 2015 cobalt that's been in the family since new. It's been recycled 4 times into more garbage
As a retired mechanic, I howled with laughter. I love the dry sense of humour shown by some mechanics. Love the videos and amazed at the stupidity that there are people out there driving death traps. I have seen a 6" nail used as a brake-pin on a Volvo 240, the woman was driving her kids around like that 😳
I bought a thirty year old used truck about six months ago and I'm slowly finding all the crazy mind boggling neglected issues or Jerry rigged repairs to keep me laughing and somewhat sane haha.
That's what happens when you live in a dystopian hellscape where you literally need a car just to go get some milk and eggs. Other nations are set up in a way where everything is in walking distance. And that's for a reason: Because everyone cannot afford to have cars. These people cannot afford to have cars either. They can afford to BUY them but not MAINTAIN them and its a symptom of how America is built.
SAD but true.. AND they will want you to locate, buy, and install any parts needed for a complete repair. And complain if you did not clean the windshield while you were in there. I tell any one that MY mechanical knowledge stops at "Fell er up!!" I tell (especially family) I don't even pump my own gas. It is better that way.
Love how they invite you over for a BBQ. Then as soon as you say hello. It's could take a look at my car, or could fix my car? Soon you never go to a family BBQ.
My favorite part was at timestamp 15:55, because, as a mechanic's son, I remember working on a car that bad the same problem. My Dad started recording, similar to what this mechanic did, and said, "Yes! Work it!" It was the funniest moment of my life. thank you, Just Rolled In, for supplying some humor in peoples lives. God bless you.
The bedazzled ring around the key is the hardest thing to explain to customers, as a service advisor I just tell people let me show you why your vehicle won’t start
I could understand if the ring stopped the key from turning. But the key turned and the lights came on. I cannot understand why it would have disabled the start circuit and no other.
Because the bedazzled ring being made of a ferrous metal was interrupting the field made by the coil loop on the tumbler assembly. That loop imparts EMF to the small loop in the chip key chip. When energizing happens properly, the chip in the chip key is energized and the chip sends back the code to the tumbler assembly and the computer authorizes the key by checking for that particular unique code and then allows the car to start. In summary, the chip was not getting energized by EMF.
i did it for 12.. and considering the locations i worked.. i feel ya, seen more shit that made me never want to drive again on public roads, and just hate humanity in general.
i love this so much more than any other compilation, it’s only actual shop stuff without merch plugs or random memes and annoying music, great channel.
Yes, exactly. So many people think they have to add "funny" bits while it's just very annoying. Maybe if your audience is 13 year old teens, it might be a good choice. So please keep this relaxed atmosphere.
As a mechanic for +30 years, I've only seen about half of these types of failures, which is scary. Anyhow, I've gotta give props to the door handle "work around" at 15:50. It works, but that's definitely something I would've done when I was 14 or 15, LOL!!
9:24 Always check your tire pressure after getting a new set at a tire shop. Driving away after getting new tires, the truck felt funny, like it was on its tip toes. Pulled into a parking lot, and got out my tire pressure gauge (which I have in all our vehicles). All four tires had 106 psi in them, a little over the recommended 35 psi! I can imagine that the shop's master air regulator was set for that pressure, and the tech just kept airing up until no more air would go in. I wonder how many other vehicles they did like that?
Also document it before you go in with warranty complaint, my father got done over like that, they said there was 80 psi in the tires so the warranty is void. Not a chance my father made that mistake, none.
I've done a lot of "shade tree" mechanic work on old cars I've owned, but, my God, looking at the "repairs" on some of these vehicles, I was SAE certified.
@@toomi195 coming from a family of mechanics and being a car guy myself thats understandable. But to keep driving on said fail thats when it gets real risky. And we always love it when they bring it in to have it fixed then yell at us when we give them the bill lol
These videos taught me the meaning of what my grandpa used to say over 30 years ago "Jr, some people are just dumb enough to hang themselves given enough rope" I now totally get it.
Back in the day some cars were called "rat rods", however, I don't think this is what they had in mind. And the one with the insects... I would never sit my a$$ in that car.
I once saw a car in an impound lot that had been in the hot Australian summer sun for 4 weeks with a couple of large buckets of shellfish left in it, You couldnt get closer than 10 feet without retching and you could hear it from 50 feet, there were so many blowflies in it. No way would you ever get that stench out. :-))
@@1953beetle I understand if it's underneath the car since most people won't be able to take a good look themselves. But some of those clips are just... wtf. Homemade fixes have to be the worsts. Ones like the "bump" that bent the steering wheels are mysteries. Majority are poorly maintained cars with drivers who basically neglect their own safety and the safety of others.
So do mechanics have to report bullet wounds like doctors do? 🤣🤣🤣 The scariest one was the one where you said customer states "My car handles like a boat a 70mph." If that was true that was some seriously dangerous driver right there man. Loved the longer video today. Just what I needed today. Thanks. 😎
No... Now you can contact the police about it, and find out if it may have been used in some sort event. But it is not a requirement. It's more of the, hey this cars been shot up, i should call the police kinds thing. But you do not have to. Although if it's filled with holes you probably should. Best case scenario "Yes this matches a vehicle description" boom not your problem anymore. Worse case scenario it's just some idiot who likes to shoot at his own car.
they whine, they bitch, they complain we are trying to sell them shit... and then they drive off part of the time. "so and so can do it cheaper!" or "i can fix it myself!" etc. the smarter ones buckle down and get the repairs, or admit the vehicle is toast. just had a lady in with a 2001 malibu, hubby told her it was toast, to not waste money repairing it and use that money to buy something better. needed new tires all around new brakes and rotors all around - several lines were bad so probably those as well the drivers seat was busted, the floor attachment area was nothing but rust on one side at least one control arm and wheel bearing misfiring- sounded like an old lawnmower body was trashed, rusted, front end and hood dented in but the kicker... couldn't run it more than 5 mins without it overheating with clouds of steam... head gasket or cracked block. we didn't bother to finish diagnosing at that point and that's when we told her it wasn't worth it. she had it towed to midas to get them to do the repairs... which will probably be 3x what we would charge if we were willing to do the work.
That no-crank at 10:02 hits close to home. That exact thing got my wife. Fortunately I was able to figure it out without paying to tow the car in. Somehow that little metal ring of bling interfered with the electronic sensor reading the tag in the key.
It’s preventing the key from going in all the way. The chip in the key doesn’t reach its sensor, that 16th of an inch thickness of the bling ring doesn’t let it line up. I ran into a similar problem with a woman who had a plastic grip added to the key, it just snapped over the head of the key, but prevented it from going all the way in. What’s worse, is she didn’t make the connection, it didn’t dawn on her that the key stopped working when she added the grip thing. She couldn’t understand what one had to do with the other? She had that look on her face that she thought I was feeding her a load of crap. I didn’t even charge her anything.
I am glad you do videos like this. So many people are convinced that all service workers are out to rob and cheat them. There are some bad apples out there but most of us just want to the best job possible and unfortunately there are costs involved.
In my experience, the worst customers are the cheap skates who always cry about being ripped off. They abuse their vehicles, but don't want to pay to fix them.
I love watching these after a rough day at the shop. Just knowing that I'm not the only one having to deal with dumbass shit helps. Thanks Guys!! Greatly appreciate it 😊
It was annoying when mandatory periodic vehicle inspections were introduced in my country, but it has really improved the safety standard of vehicles on the road. Every other year all cars must be inspected by an approved garage.
Aside from the utter neglect of those vehicles I can't get over the number of cars with bulletholes casually dropped off. This is unimaginable here in Belgium.
@@chrissturgeon1571 It's crime. These types of vehicles are almost always the result of street takeovers and/or sketchy neighborhoods where gangs are common. I promise you bullet-riddled cars are only regular in larger cities, while cars on the absolute brink of collapse are typically products of countryside people who think the mechanic is trying to price gouge them or they're drug addicts who refuse to spend excess money on anything but drugs.
Loved the recap, as I haven't seen them all yet. Your series reveals the painful fact that some people just ignore maintenance schedules, and drive their vehicles until they LITERALLY fall apart! I don't know how they survive driving some of these on the highway, however. :)
Holy poop on a stick. I am a retired ASE Master Tech and damn near this whole video was a jaw drop. Thanks for this. In my entire career I only saw a couple of things this bone headed.
More than anything, this video shows the two of most important lessons about any piece of mechanical/electronical technology. "get a professional to do it" and "don't act like you know what happened, just tell the person fixing the thing what did you do to it"
Every time I work on my car things take longer than planned and I'm frequently cursing at random tools or parts..but suddenly I feel like a veteran mechanic now.
When I bought my car used, there was a couple things that seemed slightly sketchy on it, such as mismatched tires from front to back and bad battery, but videos like this really make me appreciate how little is wrong with my car comparatively 😂
The mismatched tyres remind me of my dad's 05 Trailblazer he got in late January or early February of this year for a couple thousand. All the rims are stock... But the tyres are 245/70R16s on all but the front driver's side. The front driver's side has the stock width and what have you, which is 235/70R16. Might need to sort that out eventually, as well as the rough shift from 1 to 2.
The one with the bent steering wheel, I think they found out how much of a shock it is coming down from a ' dukes ' jump. They probably bent it with their face.
Well now I know why my mechanic looks at me strange whenever I tell them I do my own repairs. I'm happy to say that the mechanics are pleasantly surprised to see that I don't do dodge repairs. Looking at these "I did it myself" clips makes my inner self scream out in disbelief and explains to me why mechanics cringe at the words "I did it myself".
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 that is so true and its better with older vehicles though again as you said its better if you know what your doing and pay attention to what goes where as well as ask those that have done it or if you have a manual for that year of car cross reference
My mechanic is totally impressed with the way I do my DIY work, he's especially impressed when I come in if something is way over my ability or toolset. I never hack-a-fix.
When i was younger my stepfather gave me his SUV. One day me and my friends are sitting on the bumper and my friend remarks about the tacky decals i should remove. I agree and then we realize those tacky decals are covering bullet holes.
16:22 - I had a sadly similar situation, but it involved a rotting cantaloupe that had unknowingly dropped out in the trunk of my Mustang GT. It was sitting in a plastic bag for TWO WEEKS in Florida during the summer, and we didn't realize what the horrid smell was for about four or five days until I checked the trunk and found it. Took me MONTHS to get that smell out of the car, and the false-bottom spare tire cover was ruined.
Every year I deal with customers coming in with ball joints and suspension components barely clinging together. So dangerous. I love how someone brought their car to a mechanic because it had a horrible rotting smell.
Cars in Germany are some of the safest on the roads anywhere in the world so watching this must really have you in disbelief like you couldn’t make it up.
@@gnaedigerfels No salt on roads but everywhere is close to the sea so rust is a problem. But the main reason is the Govt wants all older cars off the road, the inspections are very strict, ANY rust is a fail, but a lot depends on who you get when its being inspected. I had a young guy try to fail me for "rusty fuel lines" when i got in the pit to look, he was taking about very light surface rust that you could rub off with your finger, i made enough noise bitching about it that the boss came over, looked at it and said to the guy, "stop fucking around, give him his pass" :-) But yeah Nanny State New Zealand, Govt thinks we are all chidren.
I am a long haul truck driver. I thoroughly pre-trip my truck before I start driving each day. I also do a mid trip inspection and a post trip inspection. All non-commercial drivers should be required to do the same.
Sometimes it makes me feel like in order to get a license that a basic knowledge about the technical components of a car or motorcycle should be mandatory
I used to think that the problems I ran into in 2017 with my 2004 Chevy Cavalier (which was perfect until then) were unfortunate. But now I know that I took exceptional care of it, and 13 years was just the signal to get a 2018 vehicle, take care of it, and pray for 12-16 years of usage. By then I'll probably be dead anyhow, lol. 😂
@@JustRolledIn my brother never changed the spark plugs and gave me his car for free, was kinda impressed it kept starting up but after the plastic part near the radiator to i think the engine blew up on me and had to get it sent the mechanic said he grabbed the wires and they just fell apart in his hand
@10:22 that's me! Probably my favorite part about that navigator was a decal on the right rear window that said "money well wasted." You're half right.
I showed the video to a friend who works as a test engineer at the TÜV (Technical Monitoring Association, an institution in Germany where all vehicles are technically checked every 2 years and are taken out if there are defects ) Pikachu face : " I already have a lot seen it, but nothing like that yet!"
I geared all up for auto mechanic when I went into high school. While in high school I discovered it was the last thing I wanted to do. Mainly because of " since you worked on my brakes my turn signals don't work " et cetera . I worked on too many people's cars to where it cost ME money to work on them. I became a welder.
Get these guests all the time. I seen it done on RU-vid. Please understand ppl. Not everyone on here is a licensed electrician, plumber, mechanic, ect. Love these " I wired it myself"!