Mechanic Undercover - Women are Target for Car Repair Scams 

Good idea

@@devonmatthews6443 Thanks.

I think it would help weed out egregious shops, but I think we all know that most restaurants are kind of nasty despite health/safety inspections.

That is a great idea. I have such distrust of mechanics.

someone write up the law. you got my backing.

They wouldn’t have taken it completely out of the car!

​@@9555212exactly, they didn't need too from what I can tell, pull it out look at it, some cars you don't even need to take it out to make sure it's clean, and put it back. There shouldn't be any reason in this situation where it should've been dropped and the customer charged for it

Imagine if the head of the federal reserve made a mistake and then apologized.

They had evidence of a person stealing. They should have had him arrested. -Make an example out of them every now and then and believe me, no audit will be necessary.

imagine not doing anything and just writing checks... man i could do that...

Scammers in general need to be punished severely. The laws are so lax on scammers it makes me sick. The thing I hate the most about it is that they don't need to do t, they could just be mechanics doing their job, which already earns them a nice income. But no they just have to be greedy jerks committing their crimes of cynical, calculated and premeditated deception to swindle.

If someone enters a shop with 0 knowledge and too lazy to learn then obviously gonna be taken advantage of. Gain knowledge then speak up. Demand to watch the repair being done and demand old parts back. If they say cant watch or return old parts then leave. They claim insurance blah blah blah. A window that customers can see into the shop so atleast know they trully doing the repair. Most shops i go to allow me in the shop. I sit back and just watch and if questions i ask. My car and my money, i have the right to see whats going on. Never trust anyone when money is involved.

Maybe we should just go full communist and have the auditors run the entire industry like the USSR.

Who knows what they would have done if I was a girl, though! ;)

Is age 18 considered adult or kid nowadays? For years in the US, age 18 is a legal adult

@@prezbige legal adult at 18 but majority of 18-early 20s are still seen as kids by older people due to having little experience

@@prezbige 18 to almost 25s are adults in legal sense but not mental. Especially in the US.

@@prezbige "mentally" most of them are not matured enough to be called as "adults"

I couldnt agree more. Put them on spot soon as they did the "work" right in their shop open it all up and look

These people are simple minded that's exactly what I thought..why not do it there and then?

They are merely protecting them as well. She could confront them but they cannot protect her life either. Dishonest people at work can be potential killers in the future. Revenge when they lost their jobs.

Damn, she looks good in everything!! Id love to be pile drived in Amazon style by her!

It's better to see themselves on TV as the scammers they are.

Agreed, I am a dude and I haven't had a mechanic not try something on me in my adult life. Saw a young mechanic on Tiktok bragging about how he conned an elderly woman into 700+ in repairs. They usually have good ratings too.. It's sad.

@@Treebark4Dinnerkids are so stupid lmao what a scumbag

He needs to be shutdown now 😠

I suppose there's just not enough budget / time to audit all of them often enough. Something is better than nothing I guess haha

@@Treebark4Dinner700? what is wrong with some people 😭

Jokes on you, that was the initial goal

There aren't any

Dishonest shops don't have to ALWAYS be dishonest. It's like car drivers. If the media gave good driving awards to drivers who weren't breaking any traffic laws at some particular time, plenty of bad drivers would get those good driving awards.

Find me a dentist too

@@Moises-kf1hg 7h

Would like to be like you but I don't have a lifter and some tasks are a major PITA without one.

Yeah bro I was quoted $200 to replace a simple filter for my vtec actuator valve. Just got some simple tools and replaced it with a $5 oem filter. Fixed my stuttering car

almost every maintenance task can be done with the car jack that comes with your car, a ratchet set, wrenches, allen keys, and a screw driver set. The guys at those shops are already ripping you off with those prices, you might as well make that money back with a tiny investment and a few hours of work every few months. I only spend ~15 dollars per oil change with oem filters, 5 per brake bleed, 35 for transmission fluid and filter, and less than a dollar for power steering. Also stuff like the pcv valve takes like 2 seconds and only costs a dollar or two and cabin and intake filters should only cost around 10 dollars (yeah i know it's a rip off, those massive hvac filters cost half and have 4x as many. that's just the nature of car parts.)

@@sasquatch7234 I understand, I don't have any new vehicles, my newest is a 2012 Ford F150 , the 4 wheel drive system ford uses has got to be about the dumbest thing I ever seen though. I will probably not ever buy another Ford with 4 wheel drive again, the GM and Ram have a much better system.

If you'd have an Audra around, you'd also love to go to her for every little damage.

Unfortunately, his dishonesty is most likely representative of the business and his boss's attitude, despite the boss's claims

@@kittenmittens4387 precisely. His boss would have fired him on the spot otherwise.

LOL fired? The owners are the ones who set the standards. They require the managers to meet sales quotas and those managers pass that crap on to regular employees. Its all about making the most $$ w/ the least amount of effort. Advice: Study your cars service manual, that's the very minimum anyone should do before even calling a shop. I"ve saved thousands doing that

@@kittenmittens4387yeah, I don't really know what's in it for the mechanic unless he takes commission. the boss is the one who owns the business. he can say whatever he wants to the cameras.

@@zerocal76Owners are stupid and dumb the manuals superseded any manager or technician

Is saying you need an air filter replacement a common scam? Like when I went to get an oil change they told me I needed a new air filter. I knew that was impossible since I literally changed it yesterday. I told them that and the lady waiting in their lobby got upset. They told her she needed a new air filter and now she thinks they lied to her and she got in a screaming match with the mechanic.

@@Luca-pz2pv question how did you know they lied to her maybe she did most people don't change the air filters trust me I am a mechanic

I am a mechanic if you bring your car to us for a simple repair obviously you don't know we're going to take advantage of a man a woman it doesn't matter

@@kennethcollier4660 Trust you, you’re a mechanic? Hahaha, that’s funny!🤣

@@kennethcollier4660 so you agree this goes on, even in your shop

I just have my own personal mechanic

Sure buddy, as if they didnt edit out the video of the honest mechanics

​@@interestingcommentbut....7378 not unless you know them

@@0luc83 True, they gotta be family or a family friend

@@interestingcommentbut....7378 Then you havent met many

Well done. Its hard to know which ones you can trust

Mickey probably got promoted to manager. The business owners know exactly what kind of scum tactics these mechanics are using and encourage it since it makes them more money. The actual mechanic scamming people only gets a small percent of the kickback, most goes to the shop owner.

I'm not sure you understand the concept here - that the repairs they are recommending are fraudulent - not necessarily the charge for the repair. Your repair seems legit. You needed a fuel pump. You then entered the world of capitalism... price competition. Because one mechanic quoted $1,500 doesn't mean he's a crook or a fraud. Just because the other quoted $600 doesn't mean he's doing the best quality work with the best quality of parts. The cheaper mechanic might have taken shortcuts and/or used extremely cheap and unreliable parts. There might be actual warranty discrepancies and/or differences in how any future warranty claim might get handled. $600 is not always the better deal... but it also might be. Too many variables there. The bottom line to this story is being focused on repairs that were stated to be needed, when they were not, or intentionally caused by the mechanic, or the mechanic stating and charging for work that was never done. That is a problem. Not capitalism.

@@m2svirtual384Same here a tuffy wanted $1000 for a fuel pump. I did it myself in their parking lot in 10mins with a $100 part from ebay and have never changed one in my life.

Almost happened to me with a crank shaft position sensor. $150 for the actual part, $400 for the labor...... it took me and my dad half a fucking hour and a RU-vid video to fix it 🤦‍♀️ best $150 I ever spent. Fuck these old men who prey upon young kids

Don't take this wrong as I am legitimately curious. How does a boy become a man (in the US) and not know what a fuse is? I say the US because I met some people overseas who had never owned a vehicle.

@@OvelNick lack of father figures

She’s helping all who choose to be ignorant of their vehicle maintenance schedule… in that little black book in the glove box…

@@el_wama lol from either parent…

@@OvelNick you'd be surprised at how many guy's can't change the oil in their own car...

If your bringing it to us we’re assuming you don’t know much…

Whether or not she knows how cars work won’t stop disgusting misogynistic males from trying to scam her

The only unneeded part that a kid should ever be sent in to try to find is blinker fluid.

@@Paranitis😂

@paranitis- be sure they keep the left blinker fluid separate from the right!

Lmao I highly doubt you taught your daughter squat. Women are shit when it comes to working on cars. Hopefully she’ll learn from someone that actually knows what they are doing

It's sad but 'I can't afford it' seems to work better than 'I'm not an idiot'. Another one they'll listen to is 'I'll need to check with my husband'. I know as much about cars as he does but my amazing bosom seems to trump that.

Jl is an absolute ripoff

You NEVER go to those quick places. Those are the ones that scam the most.

They do that to everyone lol it's their job to upsell lady. That's 100% not a unique experience.

yeah I dont go to jl anymore they use to be chill but they kept telling me my brakes were terrible and needed to be replaced at first they told me that the cost would be $100 to replace the brakes but at around when they were done it would be $500 idk what they were trying to pull with that shit so ill never go back there again. my brakes were fine and they never needed fixing i have the same brakes to this day.

That's usually a sign of a liar. If you push back against someone's claims and they immediately get mad there's a 99.99% chance they are mad because you just caught them lying and they don't like it.

As a tech myself Im aware of the BS that plagues the industry and I disagree with the female mechanic. its more than just a few bad apples. but keep in mind the mechanics are not the ones that pocket the money. in fact the mechanic is the least of ur worries. the mechanic makes about 5-10% of the shop labor hourly rate. the guy u need to watch out for is the one who makes 100% commission off of selling jobs (the service writer). with that said there is a relatively easy way to not get screwed over..... 1) go to small shops unless its a warranty repair (manufacture paid) also avoid big chain tire shops. small shops care the most about reputation and good reputation gets built up buy happy customers so they have less incentive to screw u over. 2) when u get a list of repairs don't just accept it. take a look at what they are recommending pull up RU-vid and put in the search the job that they are recommending and ask RU-vid when the job is needed or how to check if the job is needed. if the repair smells fishy (such as the mechanic recommending a fluid flush at 20k miles) verify the bs by going into ur service manual and see when that repair is required. for complaint related repairs such as a no crank no start ask the mechanic to show u the vehicle and why the car needs the part that it needs, also look up how to test that part and have the mechanic test the part infront of u. this may sound like a lot but keep in mind that ive seen techs sell an alternator (800$) and a starter (350$ job) and all the car needed was to tighten a terminal or replace a wire that wasn't allowing enough voltage to get to the starter. the wire would have costed 20$ and 85$ for labor. so yeah its worth pulling out RU-vid and the service manual. especially nowadays where businesses are pressed against the wall and looking to expand revenue as much as humanly possible no matter what. 3) once u have verified the repair is actually needed don't take the first price they give u. shops will always charge about 30% or more of what the job is worth to get the most out of u. this is common practice. when u get the first price, call 4 other shops and see what price they give u. take the lowest price and ask the other shops if they can do better. if u get a lower price than the first lowest price take that price and call the first lowest shop and make them aware. they will usually go down or at least match it. then call all the other shops until each one refuses to go lower. then u will be left with the lowest one. I have brought down 600$ jobs to 350 doing this. its worth the time. however fair warning, if a shop has a good reputation, its sometimes better to pay more. 4) b4 u leave the shop, check to make sure the repair was actually done. if the shop said they were gonna change ur coolant, make sure that coolant reservoir its not the same coolant u came in with. with that said I hope this shines some light. im not gonna lie the industry sucks but u can minimize the bs to a degree. as far as being a woman and not getting screwed, the best u can do is educate yourself on basic car maintenance. that way u can spot the bs and off coarse always expect it regardless. Therese no way around it.

Madam you bought a stelantis product. It won't outlast it's first set of tires.

@@christopherbrush7845 Truck is great, but the tires it came with were awful. I replaced them 1 1/2 years ago with good quality tires that are still going strong. Sorry to disappoint you, but I love my Sublime green Ram.

Nice

It was hilarious that he tried to claim he recognized her and scammed them on purpose bc he supposedly was helping them have drama for their show. Yeah, right. 🤣🤣🤣

To me that looked like he just didn't care

I had a mechanic in Palatine IL tell me I needed a new distributor for my car. I talked to manager and explained my car didn't have a distributor and asked why it needed a new one as one of his mechanics told me. The manager looked very embarrassed and never did give me an answer. Left with no work being done and never went back to that discount place.

@@rodneyjhackenflash4865 Hope you also left a scathing review on every website you could.

he probably didn't get fired. that shit is common practice in the industry. he probably got a slap on the wrist in the form of extra oil changes instead of decent jobs and then everyone went on.

Probably because walmart mechanics don't have a reason to cheat you, they're not getting the profit. That's why I tend to go to chain shops.

@@onyxxxyno yeah, we have a reliable mechanic that we go to, but we wouldve had to wait for them to look at our tire, and we really cant afford to have a none working vehicle in our house for any extensive period of time, so we just went to walmart. But I see your point, walmart mechanics arent gonna get the same profit if they cheat us, as other places. 😊

I always try to go to Walmart auto centers for basic maintenance. They're priced great and have never felt any manipulation or pressure from them. In fact, they usually try to get me the best deal on things like tires, and go through the effort of deselecting the automatically selected up-charges when putting in the work order into the computer.

It was always at dedicated mechanic chains that I was given the whole "dirty air filter" run around. Small independent shops can either be really great or be sketchy. I don't like taking risks with them unless I've heard a lot of good things about them.

The Walmart workers literally get nothing out of ripping people off...they still will take home the same hourly pay regardless. So they have no incentive lie. They get paid like anyone working in the store who don't get anything extra from customers spending more on groceries

Actually.... Thats about the amount i would charge if i was a mechanic for cars. Even for something as simple as that. Most shops have a bottom rate charge of at least 50-100$, which is honest and fair. Most mechanics that own the shop have to pay property taxes, business licensing, utilities which are usually waaaaay higher. They buy the sometimes $100-$300,000 machinery..... By all means come onto youtube and learn it yourself, id advise anyone to do that... but its funny how people judge businesses why they dont have any experience or understanding what it means to put your whole future and life on the line in a business venture.

They have to do an electrical diagnosis, that’s not simple.

Actually it makes sense... Mechanic rates are close to if not more than $100 an hour these days. Takes time to diagnose the fuse and replace it. Not a acam

@@Tedgieee I don't mean some little family run grease shop I mean large company chains aren't putting their life and future on the line, they have their money invested in enough places to be more than well off but they want to increase their yearly gains each year and they squeeze a little more every time but yes definitely I implore people to go on youtube or mechanic websites and find out how to fix things yourself. The only thing you should ever need a mechanic is for something that requires a breakdown of the engine. Literally everything else can easy by done yourself with even a reasonable small set of tools. Maybe if we take enough business away from the shops they'll loose their greediness.

@@ahighervibe4086 I'm just hearing a lot of "everyone else is doing it so we can too" Ridiculous a shop thinks it's principle to apply a flat rate that high for some fixes that are as simple as looking under the steering wheel and replacing a little $1 fuse just because they went to school for this and the building is gouging to pay off their stuff faster than needed. I've been managing a cleaning company and 4 buildings for over 7 years this would be a cruel joke to start doing to our customers just for a little more greedy gains each year when we already make more than enough through regular work wages. Amazing how clear peoples consciences are when they think with a herd mentality.

My dad hasnt properly taught me anything about cars which I can see why he hasnt since I havent started driving yet but I'm personally trying to learn because car scams are a big issue. One time my dad went to a mechanic shop because our car was spilling oil and they ended up trying to scam him saying that he needed to fix some wiring.

@@kidneytransplant2843 wiring issues are a scam.

Good dad :)

My Dad did this too! So grateful now that I can do my own repairs for my car and my husband's!

Shoot I'm a 35 year old dude and my dad never taught me anything about cars because he never learned anything about them. I learned things like how to put in fences, built things, etc but never anything about cars. I learned some basics in the Army because our mechanics were busy on trucks that got blown up so normal service stuff we did ourselves but just basic stuff.

That happened to my wife also. My wife called me saying the oil change was $150 and this was nearly 10 years ago because it needed "special synthetic". It was a Ford Taurus. I went back and said I wanted the $59 synthetic oil change they were advertising and they tried the same shit on me. At least they weren't sexist crooks.

We are an equal opportunity scammer. We DO NOT discriminate base on sex, age, race, religion. 😆

That’s great. This is why I tell my husband to teach our daughter all about cars so that she doesn’t get taken advantage of.

I hope you tell her.

And who asked

@@ed1tz468 It's an open comments section dumdum, nobody has to ask. 🙄

@@chilliecheesecake i know i just wanted to see people being annoying

Haha 😂

What era was this?

@@yeeaahhzz Really, what era? Doesn't really matter when it was. Fuel injected cars were not new or rare. I'm not that old. Dumbass thought I was stupid because I'm a female.

@@caroleller6968 I'm a woman tech and was just wondering as no techs in the past 20+ years would presume carburetors immediately for rough idle. Just was curious is all.

@@yeeaahhzz It was def in that time frame.

@rcktgirl05 - Abso-f'ing-lutely!

I had a similar experience with Canadian Tire's auto department. Car was making terrible noises, guy saw it was some unnecessary plate on the wheel making noise. He took it off and didn't charge me a cent. I had all my car work done by them for years. Unfortunately Covid seems to have destroyed their decency and now everything needs a paid inspection upfront and they try to scam your money (last time they told me that they could replace my battery because it was on warranty but I'd still have to pay labor, when I said just give me the battery I'll replace it myself they said it was impossible without the battery receipt...even though they had just admitted they knew it was on warranty, that's how they lost me as a customer).

They always leave your oil drain plug loose or strip it when they put it back in!

Or catch a bus! People waste so much money on cars.

@@aratneerg1375 busses aren't for everyone

@@wurly164 i know but some people who haven't used them b4 may well find some benefits in them. I got rid of my car a while back. After completing a mechanics ticket I realised just how expensive they were. Have managed to save more money because of it and no stress with what may break in my car.

@@aratneerg1375 I think people love the freedom of just jumping into a car and go for a drive. The problem with today's cars are they are rolling living rooms with 40 computers. They don't have mechanics anymore, they are technicians who just replace what the computers tell them to. If you have a bus system that's works for you and it's safe then that works. But people have a love affair with the freedom a car gives them and also see it as independence

that aint scotty kilmer is it lol

Is he Mexican? For some reason I’ve noticed they are really honest.

@@michelleamaya6446 No, he’s as American as apple pie.😎

Let's call auto rip offs what they are: Everyday thieves. They don't use a gun they use their tongue to steal from you. They are absolute slugs/liars without conscience.

@@CA-lk6fd Mmmm all righty den 😊

Hole... I Used to rebuild old cars...

The owner is in on it, who do you think tells them to do it?

@@One-12937 Yeah, the only reason someone was fired was because OP caught them and knew the owner. Otherwise the owner would encourage them to keep scamming.

The store owner?

I'd check that "friend". mechanics make the repairs and management deals with the billing

They didn’t have any honest shops to show. They said every one they went to tried to gouge them. They really should change the term to “a few good apples”.

Damn it is fun to swear at the neighbour shop when they have done some patents on the car.

Most certainly doctors do their utmost to hide their errors! Nevertheless, I am about to sue my doctors for sheer incompetence and leaving me an invalid as a result. A simply broken left arm is now 90% useless!

@@NithinJune Mistakes. Even I am not perfect so like anyone else I can make mistakes. Don’t be fooled by PR speak that talks about quality & customer service. These days when head office often expects to be able to charge out 12 hours book time work for every 10 hours the technician works mistakes may come more often. Also a tech/service advisor being being expected to reach a target of sell up could encourage dishonesty.

Ol dodgy Dave here has sold a fair bit of blinker fluid in his time I reckon. 🤣

Yea it's funny how the owner doesn't want to take responsibility in this video when you know he is fully aware of it.

Fuses actually go bad with time and that's really the main reason they go out actually which is why people replace them so often. Occasionally what you described can be the issue but this is far and few between in my experiences and 95% of the time fuses go out with time

Fuses are relatively cheap...if one is blown, you can simply replace it and try using whatever system it was powering. If there really is an issue, it'll blow out right away again. We did see them work the wipers so, all good! 😁

It's true, I had a fuse go out because the cigarette lighter was melted from the connector side and another one was a window motor that had too much corrosion not letting it move freely

in my motorcycle my main fuse blew out by itself and ive never had any other problem but its usually because of a circuit provokig ground

High amperage causes fuses to blow shorts the fuse becomes the load not meant to, resistance goes down amperage goes up and vise versa

Why I’ll be taking a man with me just like you did, they won’t be stealing my money 😂

hmmm I get 70-100K miles on my tires ( from Les Schwab ) and have done so for three different cars...tires last as a function of how they are driven and how they are maintained, rotated..correct pressure every day. alignment and inspections.......it works !

Yea that's why I go to discount tire. Insurance is like $20 per tire and they will replace the tire even if you wear it till it explodes on you for the cost of insuring the next tire.

ur error was going to the dearship period. they always ask for an arm, both ur legs, ur first born and a sacrificial offering for 2 hours of their time

you would have to fire all the service mangers first.

But bu, MAH FREEDUM

She has boibs. I like boibs.

I never understood looking at a brand new item and trying to tell someone it's crap. If I knew nothing about cars I'd likely know if I'd just spent money on something. It's not like they don't break it down in the bill. It makes no sense.

you're just there to be taken advantage of

Have they ever sold you blinker fluid or muffler bearings?

Good on you, that's excellent, responsible behavior and is how everyone should act. Both women and men should educate themselves on their stuff and how to take care of it. I get so sad seeing people, but women esp, fall for scams due to lack of knowledge about "guy stuff" when it doesn't have to be "guy stuff". IT should just be "adult stuff" that everyone knows about and is common knowledge.

Wdym ask for the old parts? Like ask for them to give them back?

@@ogpd4898 yes. Tell them you need to all the old parts back, including the fused bulbs etc. Make this very loud and clear right from the beginning, otherwise they will claim to have thrown the parts out. You can say your employer/company needs it for audit purposes. You could take the parts to another shop and ask if they look worn out, or belong to your car model

YES! My father was a master mechanic, and he told me to ALWAYS get the 'broken" parts. I can look and tell if the part is indeed faulty, but because I'm female; well I can't count how many crooked "part changers" I've met in my 63 years! >> Tom's wife

Hello Tom's wife

@@chinchy111 Hi!

so if a mechanic were to tell u, u blew a head gasket and oil is mixing with coolant inside he combustion chamber u would just flat out say no? how about ur battery going bad? ur gonna wait till ur stranded in the middle of the road? how about a leaking oil pan? ur gonna wait till it stains ur drive way or how about ur car burning oil? ur gonna wait till the catalytic converter gets damaged and the car refuses to go past 20 mph and sounds like a lawn mower? or maybey the sludge from the burnt oil locks up the engine? mabey learn a little about car maintenance b4 u reject a job. yes pleanty of finessing going on but it aint always bull.

Why didn't your dad teach you how to change the oil instead?

@@attiumeyami417if you a mechanic who scams just say that 😭😭

@@Domo777 you look like the type that changes oil every 50 thousand miles and then comes in wondering why the engine makes a funky noise and the oil lookes like cake batter then gets angry because a new engine was recommended.

@@attiumeyami417 I have a male as my profile pic, you have no idea what I look like.. You a mad mechanic whose mad people are catching on to y’all scams.. Stfu and go drink some milk

Perhaps you wan't to rethink your name. It's probably why you feel like a victim.

@@jaimhaas5170 what

I'm a guy I don't have much mechanical experience with cars, all i know comes from google so I at least don't go to the mechanic seeming like a complete fool. It is sad that there's mechanics looking to rip us poor people off.

​@@jaimhaas5170 Am I not a victim of scummy mechanics? Also what does my worthless youtube name have to do with that?

@@buttholethebarbarian313 You're name is butt...

Your car sounds like a hunk of junk

@@zigman3105 So does your mom

@@MrRealAmericanvalues That made no sense whatsoever.

@@JohnSmith-dh3kx These Nuts made sense on your Chin

There can still be reasons for this. you're really leaving out a lot of details so it's hard to say for sure, but even if the parts list were the same, you still end up with differences in price depending on if they go with OEM parts or knock offs. Maybe they recently found a new company to supply cheaper parts in the time you were waiting? it's very difficult to know without seeing exactly which parts they would have purchased because even though it's the same car, different people replace things at different intervals.

This has very little to do gender, and one person's experience doesn't define majority. The thing is if you know little about cars, then you will be ripped off. In most cases, women are the ones who know little about them.

Same thing when going to the doctors. You can generally rule out your pain and symptoms to make a basic diagnosis. This can help avoid expensive surgery or medication and get to the root of the problem much faster. Nothing like trying to get an x-ray and the doctors laugh at you and say your back is really screwed up. I was just there for an x-ray so I could buy corrective shoes and so I could get insurance for my ankle to get therapy. Nothing about my back. The x-ray did the work for me. It proved I had a short leg and that would be why my back is screwed up. Correctives shoes are not cheep but it is better than surgery.

When in doubt, video call!

probably not the best decision. 21-50k to get a degree in automotive. to get a job in an industry that really docent care about written degrees. In my last interview I gave my ASEs to the shop foreman and he immediately tossed them to the side like printer paper. then asked me what I really knew how to do. gave him my go pro footage of the jobs I performed and he analyzed them with great care and detail. I would have gotten a mechanical engineering degree instead. very similar but when he gets into the industry and comes to the realization of shit pay, he could at least take the degree and get a job as an engineer and make a living.

I'll sometimes get overinflated tires. It happens when I fill the tire while it's cold but the temperature warms up quickly in the next few days. One of my tires is still a few PSI over max because my area didn't get much of a spring season lol

Back in the day I worked for SEARS and I to was the only female in the shop, I would never sell someone something they didn't on there car.

Tire pressure expand and contract in cold/warm/hot climate you should check pressure when parked for long periods and inflate if needed

@@dd___dc exactly!

@@HzizsVynryn very true but sometimes it’s drastic as I’ve personally seen people put 80 psi in a Toyota Camry tire

Wait what exactly happened

FIRESTONE SUCKS!

I worked at a dealership and this car that came in for a recall had no oil on the dip stick. car had mabey less than 3 quarts of oil, I know cause I recommended an oil change due to the mess that I found when I removed the cover from underneath. The car was leaking from an oil pan, its axels were clicking/ sweating, the valvcover was blown as well. in addition to that the car had been burning oil. The customer new that the car was burning oil but she didn't know about the valve cover or oil pan cause the oil was dripping out slow enough that it would just sit on the cover and semi dry up into that nasty dried up oil like substance where it just looked like some animal took a turd. I cleaned up the mess with some brake cleaner dried up all the oil on the engine then made the customer aware that there was a leak but since engine oil was everywhere I would need to identify all the leaks so I got some diag time. I added 2.5 quarts of oil with some oil and just let the car run. I identified 2 other leaks. timing cover and crank shaft seal. needed replacing. poor woman was living on social security. so I looked up to see if any of the repairs were still covered under warranty (yes I know someone was about to get pissed and if u work as a tech in a dealer u know who) all jobs were out of warranty but since this dealership doubles the warranty if the customer buys the car from them, the lady could at least have had the oil pan, axels, and crank shaft seal and valvcover gasket replaced free of charge to her. I recommend the jobs to the service advisor. service advisor wants to help too but is sweating bullets. I check with parts to see if everything is in stock and it is. foreman looks at my ticket and his eyes almost roll backwards. shows it to the service manager and that guy resembled an angry chimpanzee in a white dress shirt. I was told to give the customer back her car until she complained about oil leaking. and to run an oil consumption test which would do absolutely nothing but certify what we already knew (oil burning). however as far as all the other stuff, I was told not to sell it unless she found out and complained about it. I did the oil change, pulled her car out. and parked her car. ive never felt like a bigger piece of shit in my life having to lie to the lady through my teeth and tell her she needs to do an oil consumption test even though it was clear that it was an oil leak that she would never see cause she would never get under there to look. I waited till the woman left to go get in her car. told her what she really had going on under there. went back into the shop, greased the wheels on my tool box and pulled it out onto the u haul. service manager was unable to grasp the reason I was leaving. these are the people that somehow make it into management. shame. from what I heard the lady came back to the dealership for the warranty repairs and her son tore the service manager a new a**hole also, ive never worked at Firestone but ive heard its a sweat shop almost everywhere u go

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

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Have a buddy that is not a certified mechanic but he's been working on cars for 25 yrs and hes learned alot from working at mechanic shops and learning from actual certified mechanics and everytime he would work on any of my vehicles he would always make it a point to explain what he was doing and why he was repairing it and I've learned more from him than my own dad ever taught me. I just found out that my dad doesn't even change his own oil. He takes it to a mechanic shop to change oil and they charge him between 40 and 60 bucks including oil and filter. I thought to myself why the hell would he not change it himself. I pay 20 bucks for 5 quarts and 4 to 8 bucks for filter so 25 bucks to change it myself. I think everyone should be able to change their own oil let alone some damn windshield wipers or some fuses or relays. Doesn't make sense to me at all. Took me 32 yrs to find out my dad doesn't change his own oil and I'm almost ashamed and embarrassed that he doesn't even try and hes always been tight with his money so that adds insult to injury..

You should make it a point to learn english too

@@MLarios97 you should quit being so judgemental, as long as you were able to understand what he said is all that matters.

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although the mechanic was at fault, the owner should be responsible. he acted as if its not his fault. the tv station should have put some blame on him. its like he was on their side against his employee. didnt make sense.

Job or not, you don't let someone cause you to be immoral for that petty ass paycheck.

I knew a shop owner who cared a lot about doing the right thing, but a mechanic and his service manager were in cahoots to make easy money and started ripping customers off. Since the owner wasnt involved in these particular work orders he had no clue for months, and when he did finally find out he fired them both. You dont always know what your people are doing, especially if youre more of just an owner than an owner-operator, so i cant make any assumptions.

Whoa, how responsible? I am pretty sure anyone can be scammer as gender has no role here but okay. I guess stereotypes and sexism is okay if done for women.

Definitely not every shop does this lmfao

I think he said pollution circulation valve. Well at least he knew the valve part.

As an automotive tech here in Japan, some garages and dealers are often bound to adhere to practices a random Romanian wrench turner would not be, especially when a warranty is involved. Most safety items like cat/airbags/belt latches/etc have to be replaced with new OEM parts which drive the costs up.

A mechanic is someone who fixes cars, a technician is someone told by a computer what to change

Our coffee machine at work broke and an 'engineer' came to fix it.

@@andrewgarner2224 Well what do you think he is? Mechanic is old name taken from mechanical which does not really mean anything. A technician is some who gets technically involved with the intracity of cars. And cars are very technical involving many different aspects. Train drivers are engineers because they work with engines. Simple

Real mechanics are technicians. The computer doesn't tell us anything but witch sensor is reading outside of parameters. Yes occasionally it's just a sensor. Most of time it's something causing it to fault. Could be wiring exhaust leak faulty ignition. Yes their are some scum bag mechanics. Anyways if you think you can handle the issue. But if you end up causing more of an issue or not being able to get it back together. I'm charging you double to go behind you. Or maybe I'm not even willing to look at it. I hate fixing other people's work. Thankfully due to customers like yourself i went back to welding. Less bs.

@@geoalmike8498 The service industry is a big scam, it's deeper than most people can imagine

Smog... inspection? 😬

@@robertharrison8057 SMOG inspections in Nevada are EVERY year.

Same 👏

She’s pretty cool!

Too bad she doesn't know what she's talking about.

@@shadowaccount yes she does unlike you that don’t know shit

Same

Your shitty OBD2 reader and google search isn't a real diagnostic. They can be useful and a good generalized jumping off but there is a reason a real diagnostic costs actual money.

Protip: Don't tell someone else how to do their job. It's not as cute as you think it is. Do you even have a job?

@@abark I’m a registered dental hygienist in the state of Hawaii. What’s yours?

@@abark the first thing I ask before I look in your mouth is “are there any concerns, problems or questions you would like to let me know before I take a look?” You know why I ask this? Because 100% of the time a person knows their own shit better than I ever will. It also makes my patients feel like I actually listen to them and not make them feel inferior when they don’t know something. I also am taught many, many things form my patients! I make sure every patient I have goes back out with either more knowledge or has a better outlook on their dental health. I’m here to help. Not tell you how I can do my job better. Sounds like you needs to be better at what you do. 🤷‍♀️

@@abark get wrecked lol

That was positively a negatory misnomer, pun intended.

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anybody with a motorcycle who doesn't know how to check tire pressure and what the correct pressure is shouldn't be riding.

@@jerryeinstandig7996 She was a learner. Strangely some instructors don't teach these things, my first instructor wouldn't even show me how to use a petrol pump.

@@jerryeinstandig7996 I've ridden with a lot of newbies, and it's amazing how may don't understand that tires need to be pumped up. But you know, young people these days have grown up in a digital world and may not understand analog things like tires very well. They probably had no one teach them either. Everyone has to start somewhere.

He's been ripping you off since the beginning 😂😂😂

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

LOL...the irony of a rebuilt transmission using the word "honestly".

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No one benefits from stolen money!

@@zlmdragon. thats the filter for the air intake manifold, not the air ventilation filter. You can clearly see it @5:17.

@@zlmdragon. its clear you've got no idea what you're looking at in the link. Thats an air filter for the intake manifold. It does not have anything to do with the ventilation of the car, it filters the air before it passes through to the engine ready for combustion.

@@zlmdragon. yes, those are cabin air filters which are different to the air intake filter for the car in the experiment.

@@zlmdragon. those last two links you posted, those two are cabin air filters for the ventilation, the first link you posted, that is the air filter for the intake manifold which is the same one as the one in the experiment car.

@@zlmdragon. the air filter for the ventilation (cabin air filter) and the air filter for the intake (usually just called an air filter) are two different filters. The first link you posted is a filter for the intake and its the same one which the mechanic pulled out from the experiment car, he then made it dirty so he could charge to replace it. This air filter has nothing to do with ventilation! The last two links you posted are cabin air filters which are filters for ventilation but the mechanic did not take this one out, he only took out the air filter for the intake, you can see this if you stop the clip @5:17.

so true

Youch to the whole engine. That is the LEAST likely thing for a car not starting. Most likely are ya, plugs. Next up battery, then alternator and potentially battery. Then fuel pump, then some wiring problem. Then maybe an engine pressure issue. (head gasket whatever) But replacing a whole engine? Crazy