I appreciate the videos. As a retired mechanic I know what you guys go through daily and it's amazing how people can drive these vehicles and rarely get hurt from a car in these conditions or kill someone else. Thank you for the videos.
I am in awe at natural born, mechanically inclined, professional mechanics who make what befuddles us non-handy-with-our-hands-people look easy, and nearly effortless.,...knowing the right tools to use, and how to use them properly.,...when I was young those kids built their own cars from scrap yard stuff.
I used to listen to a show called Car Talk and I would hear just the~ craziest ~ stories and at the end of each show . I was just so happy I didn't have a car .
Had a customer bring his 2015 Toyota four runner into my shop today. He said he paid his son to fix his oil leak, his son told him his front differential was leaking and his cv axle boot was busted so he fixed them and he didnt have an oil leak. IT WAS TWO WHEEL DRIVE!!!! And I found the oil leak to be from a double gasketed oil filter lol 🤣😆😅
@@misterdeedeedee My thoughts exactly.. I bought an 03 Cobra years ago like that, $2500 cash with a "bad motor". It kept throwing belts because it had an underdrive pulley kit on it and the owner kept putting stock sized belts on. Best money I ever spent.
@@jordananderson8299 In some cars, underdriving the accessories reduces rotational losses. In this context, the car has a roots-style blower so running a smaller pulley causes it to spin faster, increasing boost. However, you need to shorten the drive belt to compensate.
1:37 I have had this happen to me once. It was one of those metal valves that has something screwing it on and holding it to the rim. Well that screw on piece came off and the tire went flat.... After that I started sticking with the reliable rubber valves. Those metal ones can easily be unscrewed.
My Jeep came with metal valve stems. If you are off roading and it takes a hit, you are changing a tire. The spare also had a metal stem. Now, they are all rubber. Much better.
You need metal body valves for high speeds, as rubber valves can't cope with the centrifugal forces. in europe, especially germany, some fast cars and the wheels that go with them, are mandatorially equipped with metal valves. of course if you install them wrong they will eventually fall apart. most come with a defined tensioning torque, and for reasons. too much, or not enough, and it will loosen.
The raptor prob got a belly skid packed with mud and rocks still? It packs against the bottom of the engine between the skid so when you rev the packed crap vibrates?
45 years ago I was working in a shop and a little Gremlin had a god-awful interior odor. I poked around and found a steak still in it's package but thoroughly rotten under the driver's seat. I asked the lady who owned it how she could have missed the steak that fell out of her groceries - and also the stench. "I thought I was smelling my self" (!!!!!!!) I almost turned in my Heterosexual Card then.
I work on my car but when I see these customerstates videos I think they can't be real. Then I see my wifes friends car and hers look just like some of these cars. It is unbelievable that people think so little of their car and their safty.
naah what are you yaping about no one shuld go fix thier cars its just an conspirasyof car dealers to sell more cars anywho the last guy in vid got scamed too that weal shurly culd go for at lest 100k too /s
Perfect amount of talking and at the right places to supplement the video without fucking with what the people recording are saying or the horrible noises that the cars are making. You have found the correct formula for a Customer states format.
What causes the braking surface of the rotor to detach from the hub like that? (1:50) I have seen a lot of such videos showing this, but haven't seen it in real life yet. A lot of the ones I've seen had very worn discs, but the one shown here has some meat on it.
The answer is, the shim slips out from between the brake pad and brake caliper. Then it situates itself perfectly to start cutting away at the hat of the rotor.
The Corvette sounds like it has a loose sparkplug or a broken one, I had one on a car of mine and it did just that. If it isn't that it still doesn't sound like a big problem, unless the threads on the head aren't OK. 🤔
Now, I know nothing about turbos. But what causes them to fail like this and why do they keep showing up in videos like these? Is it really such a big deal?
This type of turbo failure is generally due to lack of servicing or running low quality engine oil. There are others causes but not worth going into the details here. The reason it's such a problem is that, if your turbo bearings collapse like this, the blades run into the casing. This means the turbo no longer spins freely, causing a loss of boost, therefore a major loss of power. This kind of failure can also lead to oil leakage into the exhaust which will damage a lot of exhaust components,like DPF/GPF units and catalytic converters. Certain makes and models are very prone to this kind of turbo failure.
the other cause is usually running the engine and turbo hot and then just switchign it off. the turbo itself can spin with like a 100k RPM at that time, even more. and then you switch the engine off and there is no more oil pressure. the turbo runs dry, and what oil is left burns to literal crisp. and after a few times the bearing is destroyed...
Constructive advice: investigate how you can improve the clarity of your voiceover. Some EQ and compression would allow your voice to be clearer especially to those who typically have difficulties understanding non USA accents (not a criticism to anyone- just a fact because of low exposure to other accents which can occur to those living in the US and also those who have English exposure mostly from movies).
You probably get free healthcare, mandatory paid maternity and paternity leave, and employment contracts too. Must be nice. I live in the land of the free, home of the hypocrites.
Yeah here its 4 years and then every two years. We dont have anyone with brake discs that seperate like that, because they are caught well before they get so thin. There is a minimum thickness and if it is close but still ok, they can still refuse to approve the car, on the basis of it being well out of spec 2 years later.
Where I live it's every 12 months, but that means shit, people pay to pass the inspection. Makes me fucking sick to share the road with people like this.
i always see what the busted brakes look like, but you guys never show what they are supposed to look like. could you please show it for a technician noob like me?
It's an electrolytic capacitor, so not suitable for AC stuff. But anyways, maybe they didnt know? That coil looks more like a choke, but way too beefy for smoothing car DC voltages.
@@KekTekDe RI filter, probably there because they get alternator whine on the radio with likely an aftermarket amplifier, and they did not put a ground isolator in the audio feed to it.
This is mechanic humor, not mechanic education videos. We don't wanna hear him voice over walking us through what we are seeing. It's like telling a joke and explaining it in depth afterwards when everyone understood it already.
@pandafox94 isn't it though! This guy creates quality content that this dolt watches for free and instead of thanking him, this brainiac announces their supposed dumping of their subscription, pathetic.
