How could a shop do such a bad swap? CAR WIZARD points out all the errors on '14 Jaguar F-Type 

Between you, Ninja and the rest- Hoovie has introduced us to some wonderful people 🙏

It’s a shame us as customers put a lot of trust in our mechanics for the dependability and safety we put our families in these cars I can’t believe they can do this. We need a wizard in every state.

Great seeing more of Magic Mike. Obviously he's very knowledgeable and seems like a cool guy. I do hope there's a future lawsuit with the prior garage over this repair. No one should be allowed to get away with what they did to this poor customer's car.

Check the VIN on the engine, see if it was actually replaced. That steering wheel is gross. Needs a good scrubbing.

What a shame, such a nice car. That's just uncalled for. No wonder why people have lost faith in mechanics! Thankfully we have the Wizard!

This was literally put together by someone who had a bunch of parts extra when he was finished and NO ONE asked about the pile of spares bolts, hose covers and fasteners just haphazardly laying about

The supercharger snout on those is a known failure point. The coupling develops a rattle as the isolation style bearing fails.

F-Type uses aluminium, not steel, so the "tap test" on the car is going to sound very different to what you'd expect. The story behind how Jag use aluminium is quite impressive; a real feat of metallurgy and adhesives.

Mike looks like a passionate, honest mechanic . Great work guys

Do all of us Jaguar owners a great favor, name the crap shop that did this so we can avoid them.

These are the kinds of shops we need to put out of business. Ones that are doing shoddy work and not even properly putting things back after they were in there. Most likely expecting the customer to come back with complaints for more repairs. Sadly, I bet this Jag is in for a big nightmare on the repairs as you never know what's what until you start digging in. So glad I have a trusted local shop that can do my work for me.

The supercharger snout replacement is a Jaguar technical bulletin due to the spring assembly inside it falling apart causing a rattle on the charger. Getting injectors out of these cars are a right prick because they’ve got a steel solenoid body that galvanises itself to the alloy head and they’re a mission to remove (you can remove without taking the head off if you have the correct tool)

This is disgraceful. I hope he sues the previous shop. Those issues are just pure laziness.

I had a 3000GT that I needed a engine. I took it to a shop here in Dallas Tx. While it was in the shop for three month the state inspection expired. When I picked the car up I went to have the inspection done.. It did not pass. I took it back and back and back, Finally I took the car to the dealer. They did a inspection on the engine and told me the engine has never been out of the car. They only tried to paint it. I ended up suing the engine shop and won my case. Car ended up in the junkyard.

i would love to see the wizard do a series where he goes to shops that need dire help to get them back on their feet Gordon Ramsay style like in Kitchen Nightmares or Hotel Hell. just imagine what he would say to the shop when they do such things poorly or when they do shady stuff lol

while the repairs from the previous shop are quite questionable, it's nice to see how Magic Mike has grown so comfortable in front of the camera as well as more confident as a mechanic

The F Type is one of the best looking sport cars I've ever seen. It's just a beautiful machine.

It would probably be wise to drop the transmission and check the flexplate crank bolts and converter clearance, I would also check the engine serial number against the VIN to make sure they actually changed out the engine.

Love seeing the other staff present with you. Honest mechanics all round at omega

I love you guys. I am starting a shop from scratch, and I like yall's approach to problems. Acknowledge, asses, execute. Very pragmatic and professional. Thanks for the content.

Really the ONLY way to sort this out PROPERLY is to lift the engine OUT and reinstall it CORRECTLY, owner should Sue the previous shop for it,s incompetent work!!

The Car Wizards has the coolest walk on RU-vid! I'd love to see a continuous loop video of him just waddling around on his stubby little legs with Pantera's WALK as the background music!

Mike is well spoken and is a good communicator. He could definitely be client-facing in addition to being on the tools (which he’s obviously good at too).

I love that you give the other mechanics time to shine on the videos. Between the information, the interaction with you, others, Mrs car wizard love the channel ♥️

As an owner of two F-Type convertibles, that car is 50 shades of dodgy, there's no way that wear on the steering wheel and start button and the scuffs on the door handle is just for 60k miles. The brake rotas are not Jaguar. What was the owner doing with the supercharger again!? I suspect changing the pulley to get more power, lets hope if its an after market pulley it's been tuned appropriately too. My second Ftype was $150,000 there's no way I'd entertain a car with that value going to some an unknown shop (not the wizard) for an engine swap unless i knew they were fully trained Jaguar mechanics with experience.

The front bumper had a bad repaint and the fitment seems way off? Or is that because the hood isnt fully shut? That interior looks beat to shit in my opinion and the steeringwheel looks like it has 200.000 miles instead of 64.000? Looks like a shady lil Jag….

thanks a million Mr Wizzard, really excellent video, it's such a shame that there are some bad mechanics about. Cars often get bad reviews when in fact it's sometimes the people involved are at fault. Based on my experience it stands and falls with correct service. my 2nd Jag S-Type is running and looking like new at 260k miles and regurlarly crusing at over 100 mph on autobahns.

Magic Mike, lovely having you taking us through your findings. Feel bad for the owner having been messed around by the dealer and other shops. I'm sure Team Omega will sort it and I look forward to the update video. Thanks Mr and Mrs Wizard.

You guys are a great team! Also, Magic Mike looks charming and professional beyond the average mechanic. Keep up the good content.

I’m curious how many of your customers that were screwed by previous mechanics actually wind up suing and if so have you been asked to testify?

Very nice to see another very honest vehicle mechanic Mr wizard thank u very much for being an honest person!

The “coolant hose” mentioned at 3:56 is not part of the cooling system. It’s ducting for the symposer that projects engine noise into the cabin under heavy acceleration. In fact that entire black plastic contraption on the back of the engine is the symposer unit. Those who know better would’ve removed it entirely if presented with an engine swap. Leaving it unattached would not impact performance, but I agree that it should’ve been.

Kudos to Magic Mike. A mechanic who is thorough, competent and honest.

That aluminum line (vapor line?) laying against the rib on the spring tower casting at 12:07 will probably eventually rub through and fail. The line probably wasn’t reinstalled properly with locators/clips when the engine was replaced. At best, it will rattle. This car is a mess.

Great video Magic Mike. Really enjoyed.

Thanks showing how mechanics should behave and respect their customers. Happy New Year 2022

Was a GM tech for 15 years and the amount of other shop screwups I’ve seen is crazy. Nobody can fix it time to send it to the dealer.

That interior is clapped, the steering wheel looks like Swiss cheese! And the front bumper looks like it’s been hastily repainted and thrown back on because the fitment is awful. And that’s an unusual amount of rust for a Louisiana car. This thing’s had a rough life, poor jag.

Great to see your channel really take off wizard. I think we all want to know what goes on in repair shops.

Love to see the follow up to this…what exactly had to be done. Thanks!

Customer should sue the shit out of that shop, this is downright thievery at worst and disgustingly shoddy mechanic work at best

The position of the hood vents on the early f-types caused alot of issues with the injectors malfunctioning. water got through if it was left outside alot and would damage them. on the newer ones, including my 2017, the hood vents are moved out to the sides more and they added protective channels on there to allow air in but water to avoid the engine bay. In regards to the interior wear, Thats the sticky button effect on earlier cars. i read a report that the EU required car companies to build cars with a certain amount of renewable materials to be more "green" and alot of that ended up in buttons, leathers, and even the shielding on wiring, over time they degrade and look like crap, and especially on wiring it can be the cause of alot of the big time electrical issues you find on european cars. Not 100% sure if the article i read is accurate to this, but it makes sense. My 2017 F-Type doesnt have any of the intense wear issues you see on the earlier models, i looked at a 15 and walked cause it was so degraded on the interior. Almost all '14 & '15 F-types suffer from this wear especially the convertibles since they get so much sun exposure. I do have a 14 Range Rover that does have some of the wear issues. buttons in certain places are sticky or faded. Only good way to fix is to replace with a newer model that didnt use those renewable materials. The rust on the under carriage is from poor metals provided by parent company TATA motors on the earlier cars. There was a recall on them to have extra coating applied to stop the early rusting, but it had a window to get it done and i dont think alot of people did it. some of that was also rectified on the newer cars as well but the older ones will see the brunt of that issue.

Thanks again, Wizard! Was thinking of "upgrading" to one of these... thanks for talking me out of it!

You guys have integrity. Thanks for your show.

The F-type Jag is just an amazingly gorgeous car. My dream is the unicorn, the 3 litre supercharged V6 with a manual gearbox. 340 horsepower is good enough power for me.

Love seeing an F-Type on your channel! Keep the great content coming! As an F-Type owner and active in the F-Type community, I see other covers, engine cover piece (i.e. Coil pack shrouds), transmission cover, other bolts that are missing.

When doing a replacement engine, My biggest pet peeve is little stuff like clips and brackets and missing/ wrong bolts. Drives me crazy.

Always glad to see and listen to Magic Mike, he's very professional on his diangosis and solutions.

Just because you meet someone who's a mechanic at an exotic dealership doesn't mean he's worth a shit. Do your homework before allowing anyone touch your high end vehicle.

There are a lot of elderly, retired folks in my town, and the mechanics here think it’s OK to rip them off, because, after all what else would they do with their money?

I use to work at the Jaguar castle bromwich plant and worked on the line that built the f type as a Quality control inspector. These are great cars and i feel so sorry for that customer to have been let down so badly!🇬🇧❤️

Every city needs a couple of Car Wizards!

I would be very suspicious of the mileage on the Jag looking at the condition of the Steering wheel and the push start button that is wear from a very high mileage car from my long experience.

Thank you for being willing to deal with someone else's negligent lazy and in my book "craptastic" work (sorry for the language, Mrs. Wizard). This kind of shoddy work really exceeds my thermostats rating. I'm glad that shops like yours still exist.

Ms Wizard, you have a great presentation style. Thanks.

Thank you for taking care of a fellow Louisiana fan. Great job on the car so far. Keep up the awesome work. I would definitely bring my car to you

I'm no mechanic, but its screaming out to me, take the engine out and make sure its done properly. Who knows what else lurks beneath. Its appalling what they've done to the owner.

I love the detective work on the previous work done on this vehicle. It's hard to trust shops these days

That is the quietest F type startup I have ever heard! Missed showing off the rising air vents in the center. Front emblem is called “The Growler”. Back jumping Jaguar is called “The Leaper”. I love driving my 18 F type R coupe. As well as my 68 E type coupe. Siblings separated by 50 years. Great work finding issues. I hear O2 sensors are a common problem.

Wow, when a dealer and a recommended independent shop turn the car away you just know that it’s going to be a can of worms. It’s unfortunate that a trusting owner thought he had a proper shop, when they had hired a mangler instead. This is the dark side of owning what is not really that complex of a near exotic car.

Car Wizard, love your videos! I find the mechanical insight very useful. I'll be honest though, I skip the walk around and interior stuff. It sort of has the feeling of someone showing me a used car they are trying to sell.

Makes a guy question if it truly needed the engine swap in the first place.

Love the channel and all the great work guys! But Mike, that metal belt buckle 😵

I've got an '13 Chevy Traverse that went to the dealer for the cam chain tensioner recall. It was done okay, but they routed a high-pressure PS hose wrong and it rubbed through that line and an A/C line!!! Two seconds and maybe a zip tie or two would have saved me a $600+ repair after I bought it!! No, I didn't notice it when I bought it; would you??? You figure a dealership knows how to replace these things correctly!!! This poor person has a BEAUTIFUL car and just wants it done right, THIS is what they get back???? Disgusting. Thanks Mike!!!

I can understand why the other shops wanted to stay away from this vehicle. You will be very lucky to find all the gremlins hiding in this car. It takes courage to take on a challenge like this, especially where the owner is so far away and can’t just pop back when some of those gremlins emerge. May I suggest (with the owner’s permission) that you put this car in service as a daily driver for you or Magic Mike for a month to try and uncover these undetected items? Best of luck making this customer happy…

That steering wheel is nasty..... I saw comments below about suing other shops and people asked to testify. After all my years as a technician, no one ever sued anyone. It never happens.

Great job Magic Mike!!You need to be in more videos with Wizard. Tom B. in the STL. 130 in the GT Speed yesterday :)

New gimbal? Really steady shots and very definite and intentional feeling up and down pans... And that is such a cool looking car. Really sleek lines. Like a really fancy Saturn Sky 😉 Thanks for sharing it with us. Too bad it was treated so badly by the shop.

That steering wheel looked destroyed.

Not every shop knows how to tune a forced induction engine. Just modifying the compressor without dealing with fuel and backpressure issues is a recipe for disaster. V8 engines have relatively good harmonics compared to a 4 cylinder. Bolts shouldn't be vibrating loose, they were never tightened.

A simple final inspection goes a long way. Pulled my trans for the first time and had a bellhousing bolt drop out going down the road. I always go back and check everything now.

For 64k miles that steering wheel looks trashed and these cars have a factory issue where the rear subframe rusts out much faster than the rest of the chassis due to the grade of metal used on it. Absolutely beautiful car and I wanted one so bad but couldn't stomach the issues they have.

I took my 93 Integra to an Acura dealership to fix the automatic seatbelt in the mid 2000's. Drove home on the highway and notice my hood was not latched all the way. Could have been a real disaster. Some mechanics are the worst.

Glad to see more of Magic Mike. One thing that seems obvious from your videos is that you look for and try to retain good talent. Maybe oneday we can have Magic Mike hosting some videos or have a "Magic Mike works his Magic" section.

I commend you on your willingness to take this on. FWIW, this is why I do 99% of my own maintenance. (I have a 1996 Porsche 993 C2, 60,000 miles, 6-speed manny tranny, iris blue metallic. Thing is bullet-proof, and, I'll never sell it.)

Your reputation is great to be known as " The Fix it Man " ! Integrity Honesty at the highest level!

It's actually becoming hard to find competent mechanics who care about the quality of their work. Most don't give a sht. When you find a good one, stick with them and send all your friends there.

Knowing that car came from Louisiana I would triple check all the suspension components because the Louisiana roads are terrible.

If I decide to buy another exotic car of any type, no matter where I live, I promise you that you will be the person who repairs it. I've been fortunate in my life to know a few mechanics like you, and by like you, I mean people with integrity, honesty and competence.

You seem like a great Auto Tech. Glad a good Tech like you can take care of that beautiful Jaguar

I would go with an engine out. Baseline fresh install.

Honestly don’t blame the shops for turning this car away, once you touch it you own it and whatever problems it has. And fixing a botched engine job on a Jaguar just sounds like a nightmare. The real shame is the shop that did the swap in the first place, if they had just done their job right, none of this would’ve even happened.

Wizard, you must be proud to have capable and knowledgeable employees such as Magic Mike. Great video.

The Car Wizard is a wonderful man!

I would so love to see the smile on the customer's face driving this car once it is properly fixed. I wonder if they agreed to appear on the video, if you could cut them a discount... As usual, thank you for your wholesome and comprehensive videos wizard.

Total lack of attention to detail and carelessness, even worse, a hack job! The cylinder probably lost compression because when they initially removed the head for the fuel injector, they didn't bother to reinstall the head properly. That first shop needs to get sued and forced to pay everything from the original work to present to get the car back to working order.

Those mid-line purge valves are... fun. Loads of vehicles that Ford had their hands in use them, and they're prone to failure. My first experience with one was trying for ages to hunt down intake leaks for a lean fault that turned out to be the purge valve. Just when I thought it was good to go, it would come back with the same fault. On Mazdas, they seem to more often fail open, and as soon as the tank gets sucked down and vents, you get lean faults.

You can see the brace under the cat was cooked by the heat while it was failing

Very rusty for a vehicle from Louisiana! Possible water/flood damage?

The F type is such a nice car! You should BLAST the shop's name to help the next guy!

Mike sounds like an honest, smart guy

Impressive you guys decided to take this one on. Good luck 👍

Judging by the standards of workmanship displayed by what you've seen, the less the bodgers did to the inside of the motor, the better it will be.

That's one sexy looking automobile

The world needs more honest mechanics. I've used my mechanic for probably 20 yrs. He has never advertised, non-descript unmarked shop, you wouldn't know it was there unless you did. Only goes by word of mouth. First time I took a vehicle to him I told him he had clearance to do anything that needed to be done so he basically had a blank check. After about a week my bill was only a few $100 for a new radiator and water pump.( which it needed ), he tried several things to try and save my radiator even though he had clearance to replace it from the start. He use to be a dealership mechanic and got tired of dealership screwing people over so started his own shop.

As a Jaguar owner myself of 1996 Jaguar XJ 6 (X 300), I feel so sad to see such a well made modern era Jaguar literally trashed .As all you can see why Jaguars have a bad reputation here in the US is for that exact reason, unskilled mechanics, shady repair shops, and often multiple neglectful owners have damaged these cars, to a point that they have very bad resale value and people simply do not buy them. My own Jaguar was also damaged when I bought after high school,( yes I still drive it to this day), yet some mechanics before me cut the engine wiring harness connected to the ECU, trunk wiring harness, left loose bolts on the front suspension, etc.,.broke the plastic console of my radio, shortened the Engine control module, left loose spar plug on cylinder 6, stripped the engine oil plug, hit with hammer left rear axel to push the bearing that was replaced, damaging it, . I literally had to spent years fixing whatever I could myself, after so many mechanics working on my car left their hands on it. learned a lot about my car to a point that the last 10 years my car has not seen a repair shop as anytime I went to a repair shop my car came back with worse problems. I do all the work myself now, every weekend as a side project and I brought my car back to life to my own satisfaction. Today, I still log 500 miles a week and my engine, transmission, rear diff are at over 320,000 genuine miles. If that car was at a repair shop for everything, it would be long time ago trashed at the junk yard. For all of you Jaguar owners here in the US, learn your cars, if you mechanically inclined, work on them in your free time, ( they are not that complex) ,if you have the cash get a dependable Jaguar shop in your home state, but please do not leave these cars neglected and to bad shops, as this is the final result. I recommend all of you to see videos of how the F Types are made in the UK at the assembly line and see the pride and effort these workers are putting into each vehicle. Jaguar came long way from it's dark past and mess from Ford ownership. Let's hope the Car Wizard can bring the cat to it's former glory.

Can you even sue a shop for doing a bad swap after a while?

9:46 Looking on element under catalytic converter Wizard was checking I can guess that CAT was glowing from temperature. Paint is burned out and whole element looks like was overheated. 13:52 seems like materials used in this Jag are poor quality. 2014 and steering wheel so damaged? buttons without paint? is this premium brand or Chinese toy?

Thanks for this, many good points, hopefully the situation with this car will not put people Stateside off of buying a British car, there are issues with most cars, but when it is compounded by lack of care or interest in the job OR the customer, then it gives the car a bad name and not necessarily the last person that was supposed to have cared for the vehicle. Well done Wizard.

This reminds me of the motor I had replaced on my Chevy Cruze I originally purchased new. It was stolen and came back with a broken motor. It had a knock and the local Chevy dealer determined it need to be replaced. When it came back the engine bay looked just like this one. Everything half done. I just didn't realize all the problems until they reared their head one at a time. Had to trade it off and got a new Toyota Corolla Hybrid.