"Customer told me to cut a hole in their 2011 CTS4!" Why would they ask that of the CAR WIZARD? 

Well done Gerald. Great job (in all meanings).

@That V8 Life What, one miss-type and one apostrophe? You matey are not firing on all cylinders.

@That V8 Life Really? THAT'S your best shot? Spelling and grammatical errors? When did YOU become William F. Buckley? I hope the backfire blowback gives you a nice salon quality tan, if not a sunburn to remember. Can't wait to see RU-vidrs point out YOUR errors too. What goes around, comes around.

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground skip the hooovie ones though.......

@That V8 Life No, that is the typo, 'I'm'.

Wizard is just great at his job, a proper old school mechanic who can fix stuff and not just change parts. In the UK being a regular garage doesn't attract guys as competent as Wizard as it barely pays more than working at McDs or a supermarket 😔

As a former small engines mechanic, I can attest. 99% of the time "it needs a tune up" = I can't get the engine started

That is so un-American of that customer, although the even coating of dust and grime redeemed them in my opinion. The car was pretty nice sans dirt removal.

This is why I spent 20 bucks on a decently featured scan tool. That way I can read the code easier than doing the ignition keys trick where you flick it three times to get your code through the dash, and I can determine quickly whether it's an issue that needs to be resolved immediately or if it's something like an emissions sensor that can wait for a while.

@@TheNiteNinja19 Ya there the best money you'll ever spend

@@TheNiteNinja19 Or if the malfunctioning turn signal is why your AC has been disabled.

My '90s Altima & Camry already have nice, factory 'holes' under the back seats for their fuel pumps. OTOH, my '96 Tacoma needs to drop the tank or lift the bed. Dropping the Tacoma's tank is a pain, but I helped my brother do his Tacoma in the driveway - easy compared to dropping the tank in this GM nightmare!

Yes an access panel makes sense.

Yea lots of Euro cars are like that...lift the back bench and unscrew the fuel pump access hatch... easy. Why make it difficult?

Access panels are nothing new. There are 2 access panels in the floor of my 1952 Chevy pickup to get to the battery and the brake master cylinder. Engineers today simply don't plan for maintenance.

BMWs has those access holes too.

Exactly. They could be like "We can fix it for 3,000 or we could take that 3000 as a down payment for a newer vehicle" scumbag world we live in man!

VW has a plate with a few screws to access the pump under the back seat.

That’s a smart idea

That's not necessary here. No access for water here unless they are constantly driving through flood waters! I did it to several CTS's and there is no problem with rust there. But if it makes you feel better, you could do it. It wouldn't hurt anything.

Yeah that should be done really, then use windshield adhesive strips with a larger, molded to fit galvanized section of metal over the hole.

@@swampcabbage3239 i think I would give it a quick spray with Galspray.

@@ianmontgomery7534 I would use dolphin oil.

These newer vehicles are crap designs, takes entirely too long to fix and cost too much... waste of resources. All they've really done to vehicles in the last 30 or more years was ruin them. They have not made vehicles better, they've actually made them worse... and that's not a myth. Overall, cost and upkeep is way higher than before, and they don't get any better fuel mileage, in many cases fuel mileage has dropped.

I’m not even old yet and I’ve turned into a curmudgeon

I have a 1977 chevy pickup now. Just like yours all manual. I've had it 40 years. It came out with the 305 and I had to put a few fuel pumps on it. The problem was the engine will sludge up and wont let the fuel pump arm get oil down the rod that pushes the pump and it wears out and breaks. I fixed the problem by putting a rocket 350 olds engine in it about 30 years ago.

I gave up auto mechanics in 1980, thinking computer controls would be too difficult to work on. Now I’m at the late part of a career as an InfoSec Engineer and professionally “Hack” computer systems, looking for security weaknesses. (Go figure!) The worst of all was the GM ONSTAR system-it can be “Dialed” into via a cell phone number (aka "War-dialing") and one can lock and unlock doors, disable the engine, and/or apply full braking remotely. How about having the latter happen while someone is driving along at 70 mph?

@@garyr7027 thank you. Well said. Good luck removing a feature too. Everything is dependent on other things being in perfect condition as well. So far my 01 echo has been a diy car with fuel pump window and easy radiator upgrade. The same stuff he mentioned but actually my fuel pump still worked. Metal tank too. No rust in the tank. It's not a truck but can pull a 4x8 little trailer. And lots of fat people. Hehe. 20+ years of daily use

Do you have the TSB Number of this?

@@Alpha06R I just remember reading about it, I don't even remember what year but I think it was for the big SUV

Exactly what I will be doing in my 98 Trans Am. I'll fab up an access panel with 2 hinges and some weatherstripping so I can turn a several hour job into a 30 minute job.

@@FWDSUXARSE yup, did this to both my Fbodies, definitely not a 30 minute job tho 😅

@@raul350raptor Oh yeah cutting the hatch the first time is far from a 30 minute job, just mainly thinking for future pump replacements once it's in place.

The problem with the 3.6 is the same problem on every engine made today. They are not tolerant of people who just drive and drive and drive and do zero maintenance. Add that to the fact that most of the cars they are in attract people with 400 credit scores and 5 kids, its a mechanics nightmare.

@@arc00ta i like this acknowledgement - i tell my wife why is a Buick more reliable than a Chevy? almost nothing different about the mechanical parts of the car - purely maintenance - people that buy new buicks tend to be older or have more money and do ALL the required maint.

@@arc00ta Such as the Nissan Altima?

@@12yearssober Look just because I said kids doesn't mean you need to pop up.

@@mountains889 Actually there were some differences between Buick and Chevy that a buyer could never see. The steering alignment and parts tolerances were better on the Buick, and the springs were matched to the specific weight of the options load, instead of being one size fits all. Buick used to teach things like this as specific selling points in their salesmanship classes. And other things, like more soundproofing in various places. Not huge differences, but differences just the same.

We have a 2002 Impala.... It has the hatch. Takes about ten minutes to get the fuel tank out (which I've had to do twice to replace the sending unit). Original pump is still good; it's the sending unit that goes out LOL.

It worked for me. Like the wizard said, you just leave the 4th side attached and bend the sheet metal back. Drop in the plastic bedliner, and no one has to know.🙂

Chryslers also have access to remove the pump just removing the back seat

People who are die hard American buyers don't care. You see that everyday with people who buy Chrysler's built in Mexico and shell out hard earned cash for complete piles of garbage. On the other hand I haven't met a single Chrysler buyer who is hard up for money so that might explain it. There are a lot of hard-up buyers that buy Nissan's the worst Japanese company you can buy from. Whatever let the idiots spend their money where they will.

Yep just did my infinity g35 in 20 min it already had a accses hole I also cut a hole under the pass seat in my 2000 denali 45 min later done😊

Same. They are junky for people who run their cars low on oil, go too long between oil changes, and only use crappy dollar store oil--so basically the average car owner. But as long as you keep clean, high quality oil in it, change it every 5,000 miles on the dot, and keep it topped off between changes as necessary, the engines are fine. They are just more sensitive to low oil or old oil than most engines. You can (and should) also enlarge the little vent holes on the metal PCV valve (5/64" two holes on the bottom, 7/64" single hole on top), which also goes a long way to easing the oil consumption issue and prevents the timing chain from failing for lack of lubrication. The vent holes from the factory are too small. I drilled mine out a couple of years ago according to the measurements I mentioned and it hasn't used oil since. Cost me nothing since I already had a drill and the correct size bits, and only took about 15 minutes start to finish from removal of the PCV to reinstallation. Easy. I wish the Car Wizard would mention this since it would be super helpful for anyone who is stuck with a GM 3.6L.

@@TomahawkAssault Any tips on getting the old pvc valve out, I bought some long needle nose pliers & tried that had no luck. That seemed to work on the video I watched but mine wasn't budging.

@@rick5976 Mine took a little elbow grease, had to tug on it pretty hard but it did come free and pop out after a few minutes of tugging.

@Sam I can't find PCV on my 2008 3.6 DI. Some online says it has 2, parts store says it doesn't have any. 🤷‍♀️

3rd & 4th gen f-body owners have been doing this for years

@@nf100 Can confirm. Download a template and make your own door for pump access.

The Caddy has about 100,000. he said it early in the video.