Mechanic Reacts to Painful Car Repairs 

I see Sandro. I click. I just need Sandro in the thumbnails.

Angelina and Sandro are this channel. Love them both so much.

73 Y old mechanic here. The first car I ever worked on was a 54 Chevy Belair. My dad broke it and said if I can fix it I can drive it. The problem was a broken u joint. I was 18. I rolled it down the hill of our drive into the street. I pushed it to get it rolling and ran it up on the curb. It had an enclosed drive shaft. I laid in the gutter and fixed that u joint. He didn't tell me it had a bad starter. No tool I had could get to the back starter mounting bolt. I took a 1/2" boxed wrench and sledged hammered it into a curve to get to that bolt. Mom said Ramond (my Dad god rest his sole) Was laughing while he watched me out the window. "He really wants to drive that car." That's what started me into wrenching. And yes I still have that wrench. Love you guys and girls keep them coming.

Sandro will forever be one of my favorite people. Angelina has grown on me as she has gotten more comfortable. She came in trying to just be a teacher (since that is her normal job I think) and not showing too much personality but now she is growing into it and its great. Steph seems great as well still new but she seems more comfortable on camera for being new than most people.

I love Sandro's honesty with the radiator burns. "How do YOU know that?" Sandro:"I ****ed up."

🤣"Wherever she is she's mad"🤣 Sandro kills me!

Angelina and Sandro, Instant watch. Steph is on the come up. Glad they all are in a single video. Soon, this'll be a channel with super charismatic mechanics. The dream!

Shoutout to the guy with windshield issues. Appreciate the honesty. Too many channels show what’s best case scenario, but not enough show the hard side. Thank you!

How is Sandro so f’ing COOL lmao Dude just exudes charisma.

Ang and Sandro are the #1 reason I watch this

“If your beard can’t connect neither can we” SHOTS FIRED!

15:33 sandro smooth with that line. Also him hiding after he said his wife will be angry is too good.

we've all been there with one of those 10 minute jobs that turns into an hour due to a seized and or sheared bolt

they've got an awesome cast of people there.

Its amazing how much Angelina actually knows. The little intricacies that make the difference are what separates the professionals from the rest

I love that Sandro knew he was gonna be in trouble soon as he got home to the wife. After Steph took it there at 7:55, my dude spent a LOT of time just lookin' straight ahead at the camera and the monitor lol

We need to see the sandro vs angelina race!

Love that Sandros side is always just " beep beep beep beep" 😂 love that he keeps it real

Sandro got me laughing for the first time. The Cookie Monster line got me 😂

13:43 My boi having Flashbacks😂

Angelina, Steph and Sandro in the same video? YES please :) one step closer for getting the duo of Angelina and Steph at the same table

I like to think in my head that Angelina had a shirt with bad words on and they made her slap a Donut tee on to cover it 😂👍🏻Love me some Miss A and Sandro!

Ugh I just fucking love how animated Steph is! Sooo fucking adorable! I can’t take it!!!!

As a welder, Chromate Corp makes a welding rod just for broken bolts. The flux protects the threads. Used it a few times and can say, top notch.

ANGELINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SANDROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

At 12:50, I felt that. I felt that deep in my soul. Working as an aircraft mechanic on second shift (ending at 11:00PM) to finish working on a plane that was scheduled to fly at 8:00AM next day. One of the few things left to fix was to replace an exhaust gasket (they're brass and steel) on one of the cylinders. Job should take about 30 minutes, but the exhaust blowby from bad gasket corroded one of the two studs that held the riser and it snapped. Crumbled actually. - had to pull the whole cylinder off to work on replacing the stud (+1 hour) - thermal and penetrating oil soak prep (+.5 hour) - after drilling though part of the stud and trying to extract it, the hardened steel extractor bit snapped inside the drilled hole and had to be removed without being able to drill it out (+1 hour) - continuously drilling with increasing size bits through the rest of the stud and prep for helicoil install (+1 hour) - cursing and yelling again as the drill bit for the final helicoil size snapped inside the hole and needed extracting without damaging the cylinder head (+1 hour) - installing new helicoil and stud took couple minutes - reinstalling the cylinder (+1 hour) After the final runup, leak check, cleanup, and buttoning up of all panels and getting the plane ready, it was 6:00 AM.

I was a mechanic for a small used car lot when I was younger. I had long hair. One day, I had an engine running and was trying to figure out which pully was making noise. They all felt fine, so I was leaning in to try and hear which one it was. Suddenly my friend just snatched me back violently. It turns out my hair was about a half inch away from getting sucked into the belt. I got a haircut on the way home that night.

My boy Sandro - could never get tired of seeing the dude talking about cars and Justin has grown on me too. Always lover Angelina - this entire cast is great! Steph seems cool too, but Angelina and Sandro will always be my number 1s

I see that Master Shake pin on the hat, Sandro. Hell yeah.

I sure hope that these four had as much fun making this video as I did watching it.

15:28 Some wise words from Angelina

14:19 that wasnt coolant. Thats AC refrigerant and tracer dye. Coolant doesnt coat like it did on that fender and its all aerosol. Coolant wouldve been a geyser

The Steph and Sandro duo is awesome🔥🔥🔥

They definitely need to be full time Donut employees! Haven’t laughed this hard in awhile.

justin’s face when angelina was teaching us was so not fair💀 angela teaches me so much in these videos

16 minutes with these 3 is just still not enough. 😂

Oh this lineup is the best yet...

Can't get enough of Sandro and Angelina. 😂

Steph is goals.

14:10 learnt that lesson at 12 years of age. One trip to AE later 3rd degree burn to my right arm and so much pain

Adding Steph to a lineup of Angelina and Sandro was such a good call

im happy they brought steph back, shes awesome

15:00 that's me whenever i see a bolt on my E46 that i haven't touched before

Sandro is the man. Super knowledgeable and straight-up funny af.

This was so fun to watch! Steph matched the incredible energy sandro and angelina bring!! P.S STILL WAITING ON ANGELINAS AND SANDRO’S RACE!

4:31 A few years ago I replaced the heater core on my 94 Toyota Pickup. It's still not put back together.

13:16 he doesn't even have the wrench on the double nut...

13:43 that face is 'I am taking my PTO day today'

1:41 🤣 This channel is the best. I don't think there's anything better than funny people w/ chemistry and great editors. Love this crew. Plus, I get to learn shit too! 🤘

13:29 I learned a valuable lesson from a friend of mine. When working on an engine if you can heat it up without hurting anything heat it up before you take a bolt out. Remember it can’t be stuck if it’s a liquid.

The comedy of my guy sandro and the beauty of Angelina makes this series worth while watching..luv them both

The whole cast killed it in this one.

14:00 India is not for beginners 🤣 And that is the normal amount of dye we usually have in our coolants

3:08 When the animator is on vacation

YES DONUT MEDIA! Intelligent, funny and attractive people talking get eyes to keep watching videos. Keep it up!

4:49 - this is why every time I get my car back from any repair shop I have new scratches on my car (door & support beam)

one of the greatest videos ever. Angelina and Sandro rule.

1:30 Ms. A's laugh is the best 👏✨😂

We gonna let this new girl disrespect Sandro like that? 😂

I love when I see Sandro and Angelina! Literally Sandro in every clip "Yeah, that happened to me." Absolutely priceless.

I had an intake manifold bolt break off in the head of an old 351W. (I was replacing the manifold). It was the rear-most bolt, which was under the wiper motor. Finally got the bolt drilled out. Went to run a tap thru the threads and managed to _break the effing tap in the bolt hole_ !!! I finally was able to get the tap out with an air hammer and pointy bit. It took a full day to get just the bolt hole ready!!!!!

Just in case yall weren't aware the sponsor ad didn't have the little progress bar. Really appreciate you guys do that so hoping it's just a mistake

I had my car slip off the stands in my driveway. Driveway was angled, and I would always block both rear wheels and set the parking brake. I got lazy, no complacent. The bumper cover landed on my chest and I couldn't move forward or backwards. I was unhurt, but I certainly was stuck af. Like, "what are you doing there step bro?" stuck. I had to wait for someone to walk by and start calling out for help. I was there for 20 minutes or so contemplating my stupidity before my neighbour came by and used the jack to free me.

@5:00 We had some ROUGH labor times for Triumph motorcycles. Most stuff you could make the cut with a good pace, but their warranty was criminal. We had a customer come in needing an engine swap on a full size adventure bike. Book time was 14 hours, warranty paid 7.

14:52 Oh man i've been there. Not for an engine oil pan but for the transmission pan. All the bolts were 10mm. There's a good quarter of them that decided to start stripping their head because they were too rusty (pan was getting change because it was rusted through) I had to use a smaller socket and hammer it on those stripped bolts to finally screw them off. The pain is real.

Sandro and Angela! Steph cracking me up too. Poor Justin I wonder what music he hears in his head when Angela starts getting technical or is it just engine sounds?

11:05 That cookie monster bit is gold 😂

We need more Steph and Angelina 😍😍😍

@15:43 All hail this man! Shitting his own bed for our laughs!

Having a looooong day and seeing this vid really helped me feel better Sandro and Angelina are just boss. Love this show.

I actually like the Steph and Sandro pairing. There was great dynamic between them...

4:13 My issue was heat/impact resistance. *THAT'S WHY I BOUGHT THE **_RAYCON IMPACT EARBUDS!!!_*

Ive said it before but I REALLY like the 2 pairs of double mechanics format. Love the Donut guys, but I really like just hearing from the guest mechanics.

Did they just miss his foot getting run over 3:30

11:38 absolutely hilarious the duality of the metaphor 😂😂😂

I love Sandro's honesty about the radiator. Felt that on a personal level. Because seriously, who hasn't f*cked up doing? It's a lesson you only need to learn once 😅

Every time Angelina laughs, an angel gets its wings. And it makes me smile.

Petition to give Sandro a donut patch for his work shirt

This has quickly become my favourite channel on RU-vid. You guys have put together such a good team of hosts.

I remember telling a dude who was doing head gaskets on a nissan vg30e to replace the exhaust studs wile the head was off because they snap all the time he didn't listen

13:36 this all sounded sexy. Im sorry 😅😅😅

We need Scotty Kilmer on this channel

As a mechanic I love hearing the opinions of fellow mechanics nice to hear different perspectives🙂

15:09 man I can feel that. There’s always one flipping bolt

I wish Angelina was my teacher! It's so awesome to see a well established woman in this field!

This format was my favorite so far. This show seems to get better and better

7:00 I’d guess it was moved so that a loss of coolant gives a faster response for engine protection. I’ve seen these sensors moved after engineering is asked to look at a bunch of cooked engines. And come up with a fix, fast.

These episodes keep on getting better guys lol Sandro, Ms. A, and Steph are awesome!

I got the same shirt as Angelina. I always wear it now when I wrench on my car. Gotta love Steph laying down the truth. Love your channel.

The sweet “they’re like old lady’s, you just got to take care of them” Sandro “you push them they break” had me dying

Seeing the Taco with the dash out reminded me of replacing the carpet in my Miata. The job started with removing the trim above the windshield.

I did the evaporator on my Suzuki by cutting the piping. With the replacement I did the same but looking out for straight lengths of piping that would allow me to slip a runner hose onto it. To date, I've had it installed like this for 3 weeks. A daily check, until I gain some confidence. It was that or pull out the whole dash out.

Always chock the wheels is underrated advice. Putting one end up on jack stands, jacking up certain cars, any drive line or diff work, any situation where you can possibly conceive the vehicle shifting or moving, chock those wheels. Also, always push test your jack stands, shove it, shake it, make sure you're stable in all directions. Don't slack on safety.

1:19 similar happen to me, but with long sleeved shirt and lathe (woodworking). thankfully sleeve rip off it's seams and didn't rip and broke my arm. 8:17 been there done that in rear window used Sikaflex to secured it in place. has been stayed good for last 5-7 years.

The first major car maintenance I did on my own was a brake and rotor replacement for a Chrysler 200. Pretty simple job, just like every other car. Except one of the caliper brackets was so rusted that the threads ripped out when I reinstalled the caliper, and one of the rubber brake lines was about 5 pumps away from being a geyser. A 45 minute $400 job turned into about 5 hours of personal work, as well as an additional $300 for a shop to fix my brake line.

They hurt. How do you know? I fu*ked up. Sandro; the man, the mystery.

4:30 Whenever I start thinking about purchasing a newer vehicle to keep miles off of my '75 Regency, I see things like this and am reminded *why* I bought a 70's sedan. Replacing the heater core in that car was a three hour job.

best episode yet. love the chemistry

Last time I changed shops, one of the first things I asked to see were their shop-made tools were. There are levels to making custom tools, and I won't work for a place that makes them janky and single-use-only. These guys did it the good & fast, and now have a tool that will last for years.

Glad I watched this. I got a crack in my windshield a few days ago, and I was contemplating replacing it myself instead of taking it to the shop. Definitely rethinking that..