Mechanics React to Horrible Tiktok Car Fails (Best-of Compilation) 

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I feel like Sandro saying something is "scary and dangerous" basically means "if you touch it you will die", because we all know that he's a madman.

I cant believe that you guys already have over 50 episodes. It doesn't even feel like all that long ago when you started these reactions.

49:04 "And that's how you...take gas...from your neighbor." 😂Sandro's the best.

My old boss at the shop I used to work at told me a joke about mechanics and engineers that seems to hold true. It went, "Waay back, a mechanic slept with an engineer's wife, and there has been enmity between the groups ever since."

Ang and Sandro are the perfect point/counterpoint! It’s always gold when they’re in the video. 🥇

I wish Sandro was my friend. Dude is straight up gold!

To help you guys out-- I was a painter for a few years, and the whole "buckets stuck together" thing happens a lot in that field, too, as one might imagine. Put simply, all you have to do is break the seal between the two buckets; they're flexible enough where you could easily fit a wrench or other narrow tool between (we usually used a 5-in-1). With the vacuum broken, the buckets slide right apart.

I love the clip of the bucket guy, he’s like, this can’t possibly work, then he try’s it and is so wholesome, like I got my buckets back to use

I give big respect to the editors for not making this like a chronological compilation. You took the clips and added them in a way to where we won't see all off road recovery in a row and then all drag clips then next video, etc. I appreciate that a lot.

Putting Angelina and Sandro in the thumbnail. Donut knows what they are doing 😂

This is my new favorite YT channel. It combines humor and automotive insight; brilliant.

I loved her description of a low battery. It gets drunk and makes poor decisions!

17:42 So nice to see a father and son bonding over their interests

“We fart so we don’t shart” Quote of the year 😂

Love these so glad y’all made a full channel and series 👍👍🔥

Talking about the engineer. Can we address the guy that came up with the 2007 5.7lt Toyota Tundra, and where they put the starter. $1200 labor just to replace it plus $332 for the part. NOT COOL.

Finally a timeline of how Sandro went from Guest to Family Member

😂 Sandro " I wouldn't do it again"

I worked at Chevy dealer and we had brand new Escalades that had this issue 29:18 and some days we’d spend hours tearing the interior apart most of the time it was either a pinched drain line from the sunroof but they were to cheap to give a customer a new vehicle. It was usually a factory defect covered by warranty

This is the next evolution of Car Talk! I grew up listening to those guys and love watching everything this crew is doing for all the same reasons.

(49:01) “And that’s how you take gas from your neighbor” 😂🤣 That’s cold bruh 🤣🤣

08:19 Is for sure one of the Top 5 videos ever shown of this channel. That dude really did have early Bill Burr energy.

4:01 …100 - 120 psi boost is pretty typical in these setups. Typical stock psi is 25-35. When diesels like this one go, it’s typically because the block splits into pieces from 3000+ psi cylinder pressure.

Love how well u guys explain everything,awesome series guys...liked and subbed👌

I can't believe the torque on that semi that blew its engine. The driver side front tire was completely off the ground from the rotational torque being applied to the mounts. Insane.

Great to see Angelina back. The voice of someone with some sense-ish 🤣 I love this channel Fun, crazy and yet informative Keep em coming

Fire Extinguisher come in the following classes: A (regular combustibles), B (flammable liguids), C (electrical), D (flammable/reactive metals), and K (kitchen). Minimum fire extinguisher you would want on hand in a shop is a 2A10BC. This means it is good to cover 2000sq/ft of a class A fire and 10 sq/ft of a class B or C fire. Never, evey use water to attempt to extinguish a flammable liquid fire - it will spread the fire as many flammable liquids have a lower specific gravity than water or are not soluable in water and/or cause an explosion from expansion of the water due to near instantaneous evaporation at high enough temperatures.

Thank you guys for churning out the content lately

Nothing like a compilation of people doing car fails to make me feel better about how bad a mechanic I am :D cheers Donut folks & guests

I feel like Nolan and Angelina have really fun chemistry doing commentary together.

Modern cars with a manual transmission , if the battery is to low on voltage , you can not push start the car due the PCM /ECU not being able to boot up

I really admire the amount of knowledge that they have accumulated in their head! Also, it's one thing to have all that stuff memorized in your head but it's a completely different thing to see a problem and to figure out what could cause that problem! You can compare it with Dr House: you have a bunch of "symptoms" and you have to use your knowledge but especially your experience, too, to figure out what could cause the problem. I find it fascinating to watch them analyse an issue, figure out what could cause that issue and then eliminate the wrong diagnosis, one by one until they know what it is...and then, finally, start fixing the problem, hoping their diagnosis is the right one!

James from Donut, and Mike from the offroad recovery show, totally could pull off Father and Son. 😄

10:50 😂 I can totally relate to my piston rod looking at me like " WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Amazing vid as always, I'm glad you guys started on recycling, always brings a tear to my eye when a content creator goes green, keep up the good work.

Seeing a diesel Runaway is one of my favourite bits of street theatre, also in England when a rod escapes we say "Its Thrown a leg out of bed"

60psi for that tractor pull truck 😂 he’s crazy that things pushing well over 100+ psi

Wow 50 episodes already! been here since the first!

Nice to see Matt and Robbie chiming in!

34:40 That Corvette-dragster went out the same way Mercedes had their famous CLR-crashes at Le Mans.

Can we get a supercut of Sandro saying "for the boys"?

The first clip sorta happened to me. I had my ecm reprogrammed by a "professional" and they changed my rev limiter from 7,000 to 9,500, which I didn't want nor did they inform me they changed it. A week later during a hard acceleration my tires broke loose in 2nd gear on a damp interstate on-ramp. Instantly my RPMs jumped from 5,000 to pinned(my tach only goes to about 7,500), then boom bang clunk clunk clunk clunk followed by the sound of muffled crying. The shop tried saying they didn't change rev limiter but the idiots forgot I told them there's a 2 cameras in the car, it recorded them talking to each other. Not only did they talk about changing it but it also recorded them revving it in neutral way past 7,500. Also recorded them smoking weed and cigarettes in my car while taking it for a joyride around town for over an hour and run errands, pickup food and eating it in my car. At every light or stop sign they floored it spinning the tires. Which also explains why I had like no traction on the damp roads the day it blew up. Long story short I got my attorney ex-girlfriend to send them a letter basically stating they are getting sued for $70,000 to buy a new car. They got an attorney to fight but when their attorney seen the video of them abusing my car and basically acting like douchebags and they were told I was going to upload the video to RU-vid, Twitter and give it to the local news and police since they recorded themselves breaking about 20 different traffic laws. They immediately settled for $40,000 + my attorney's fees, which she was doing it for free but I told if they're paying then charge me double what you normally charge, because f*ck them. They have zero respect for other people or others property. And NO, I can't show the video or name the shop, that was part of the settlement. Doesn't matter though so many people found out just from word of mouth they ended closing down less than a year later. So I highly recommend all of you put a camera in your car that records inside your car even when the car is off that activates when it detects people or movement. That $300 camera saved me thousands of dollars.

8:40 nissan sentra tensioners are exactly the same, ive done 3 of those in my life. i loosened top motor mount, jacked up engine, hole saw drilled a 1.5 inch hole in the inner fender/subframe for access to that long 13mm bolt.

58:01 "Some say he likes to have a fast dinner before a race, and then he races the table. All we know is, he's called The Stig!" 🤣

The fact that it’s an almost identical forklift to the one donut tipped is what kills me the most

That "pull start" one seems like a good way to encourage people to not just rotate the tire and wheel, but also pull the whole car off the jack and if that car is in gear, it's gonna be in motion. You better be ready to move TF out of the way.

4:48 I'm sure some technophobe was also like, "That new fangled tractor won't out pull my prize mule."

That pull-starting reminds me of an actual vintage accessory sold for aircooled VW Beetles back in the day--a pull start pulley that mounted to the generator pulley, and came with a wooden handled rope to spool on and pull just like a classic lawnmower. Of course, those little flat fours were easy enough to start like that, but you couldn't do that with a modern high-compression engine--if it is possible and not internet foolery, using a raised drive wheel to do that instead while remaining stationary would be pretty clever.

I got all excited when I saw an hour long RMS video till I realized it was a best of compilation! Damn you Donut! You got me

This has become one of my absolute favorite channels to watch here on RU-vid.... And the great thing about it is that you won't be running out of content to react to.... Cuz there's always something new posted every day...

For a guy who is learning to work on cars by himself i am glad to say I learn allot from you guys

15:35 yeah i had to figure out a gas cap solution when i converted my 5.0 ranger to carb. Simply trick for that cap was just turn it till it clicks then turn it back and it opens those valves so it wont build vacuum

Those diesel pulls pushin over 120psi. Usually the head bolts/studs break under the boost plus compression. And they toss the head on the track. They even have limiting chain for the high power ones

I was about 15 minutes in before I saw this is an hour long episode 😂😂 Nice, boys. Keep cranking out the mechanic react vids

Who doesn't love a vid with James having some quality time with his dad :p

31:30 I had something similar happen on my motorcycle, I got lucky though it never went out of time. The bolts came out and caught on the case. It stalled out the engine and locked it up. I needed a new case and new bolts, and I was fine.

16:12 fart not shart 💀 she kills me 🤣

I've actually had the brake pedal air brakes thing happen to me a couple times, it's scary at first but every time it's happened applying steady pressure solved the problem

29:28 Had an XJ I was redoing the headliner on, taking my sweet time. Every morning when I'd stop at the light facing downhill, there would be drips on my dash and shifter area. Took me days to realize, it was condensation on the bare roof, all running to the front. Otherwise it would soak into the headliner, the evaporate out.

It's good to see James' dad finally in his life, lol

I assume this was a test video. Consider it well executed.... and give these boys a raise, top to bottom. If you forget my boys in the shop, I will forget your boys online doing all of the editing to make this happen for us all, yourself included. Your customer base is well equipped to handle both long form content, and compilation. Congratulations. Just do it!

1UZ Soarer. Coil failed on expressway, no breakdown lane, had to keep driving. Raw fuel into cats. Blocked. Exhaust manifold cracked. Head gasket survived. Compression still good. Amazing motor.

This one was perfection 😂 😅 🤣

Not Sandro hitting us with the Quesadilla!

Sandro should just be on all of these videos. He's the best one out of all of them.

Papadakis ❤ bravo vre elline drift and drag extraordinaire. That’s a real racer right there. Have him talk about pro stock import he had a dope Supra.

15:53 here for knowledge and wisdom that Ms. A provides for free, and how about these graphics, this channel is so fire 🔥. And so is Angie's ability to explain anything so well. You can tell she's a great teacher.

The axle boot hack. In the navy, we had a leak, in the prop shaft, outside the hull. The engineers actually, came to the kitchen, to get, a can of evaporated milk, to send down the shaft, to find the leak, then, the divers, wrapped the shaft, with saran wrap, and capped it with pipe clamp, to get us into port, for repairs lol

Haven’t seen Angelina in a while

19:03 in fact actually is 😍❤ It's like a rapidly shaking hand of a type of small animal😊 and I'm so in love

After watching this channel I have so much more Respect for mechanics.

A full hour of Angelina and Sandro... sign me up!

17:05 I didn't know James had a long-bearded clone!

Chevy 350 in my 73 one ton spun a bearing and blew the end cap off #7 rod. The cap came out thru the oil pan, the rod came out thru the side of the block, the crank hit the rod, and it seized up and left twenty foot black stripes on the road. I pushed the clutch in and drifted onto the shoulder. I was only going about 100 miles an hour in fourth gear. I was able to salvage the heads, camshaft, oil pump, distributor, carb, intake, headers, alternator, etc. The block, crank, and pan were toast. Good thing I had another smallblock that I was in the process of rebuilding hanging on an engine stand in my garage. That was like 1985, maybe 86.

These guys are funny! I’ve seen many of these issues. Even older cars had some issues that were similar to some I’ve seen here. My theory, The less it has on it, - Is the less that can go wrong with it! I try to keep it simple.

That pull star technique at 24:30 actually works greas. I started a few cars this way when i didn't have battery power. Firs turn on the ignition, Then put the gear in the second or third (depending on the car). Dont bother trying on the first gear. Twist some rope around the weel, and pull 😉.

yo yo yo early gang where are you at? :D

"THE ROD FLEW OUT ?!?!" "Thats dope" 😂😂

I will be honest, I know next to nothing about cars besides driving them, and youtube decided to recommend me this video out of nowhere, I gotta say I enjoyed their explanations quite a lot. I think I just may subscribe now, lol.

this video has already been out before?

First time watching..Educational & enjoyable..WIN, WIN!

Learned alot from this video

Roll-starting a car you want to use 2nd (or reverse but you then add backup kinda fast without power steering) not 1st. The gear ratio are in effect backwards when using the wheels to turn the engine, fifth would be easier still, but you have to turn it over at a rpm above stall, which is crazy fast to try to do by hand. 2nd is a good balance between speed and torque

Yo, many bumpers don't come with enough hardware for the amount of bolts you can actually put into them. Always check, and fill every spot you can with extra. My Jimny was saved by my bumpers in a 3 car collision, (inspection passed) A car ran into the back and got messed up, and all the energy traveled through my chassis rails from the back to the front and annihilated the car in front of me. I was lucky because the heights of the cars worked in my favor so the impact points were really good. EDIT: also this is my 2nd Jimny, fortunately I had literally just put the bars from my last one onto the new one, after rolling my first at a test track.

That nixie clock is really neat! I love the old nixie tubes, but most are hundreds of dollars and nowhere close to my budget. The LED one would be awesome!

at 25:30 ive had to do this with my van on a muddy road you would think its hard to start one that way but thanks to the tire diameter you can get a fair bit more force into it and the more wraps ya got the more ramp up time to get to reach starting speed ive even known a few people in my family who have done it with much smaller engines mind ya so less force needed

It's awesome that you included Joe Satriani in this video :)

Fun to Watch, keep it up.

I have found my new favorite channel

It's actually easier to roll start a car if you use second or third gear. The engine doesn't have to turn that fast in order to fire up. You only need it to get up to 400 RPMs or so. Using a faster gear will let the car move faster for the speed of the engine and give you more leverage to start the car with its physical movement. If you have a fairly low compression engine, you can roll start it below 10 miles per hour. I've done this a couple of times. It was actually really rewarding because I got it on the second try, after pushing the car up to speed on a level surface. The reason it didn't work the first time is because I forgot to make sure the ignition was switched on. Make sure you have the ignition switched on when you want that car to start!

I work in vehicle manufacturing.... Definately the engineer for the Traverse. They don't think ahead about servicing for most vehicles. They assume you will go to the dealership every time because they are the OEM and want you to do that. Case in point for me is the FRS. I loved that car so much until I realized I can't even get a spark plug or coil pack without ridiculous effort. Switched back to my Audi TT. And now Audi is discontinuing every good car they make, so no clue where to go from here, lol.

That brake pedal malfunction wasn’t satan it was Neil Peart 😂

Dawn I was shocked at first then I found it funny when the suspension bounced.

With the bolt issue, I find it funny because, when I had a grand am back in the day with the quad 4, I had SO many mechanics tell me they just wouldn't work on it. I feel that. This dude said, "I wouldn't do it again." I get it. Needlessly to say, I only ever owned one quad 4, and while I loved that car, it was just too much of a pain when something went wrong.

I love y'all cracks n jokes to each video i can definitely relate to it us mechanics are some of the funniest smartest people out there

The bolt against the frame one always gets me.

everytime i see a donut video, I always hop onto automation then make cars for 3 hours.

I worked at a ford dealer for several years and I made so much money replacing sunroof assemblies, its a real pain in the ass on trucks because the entire headliner comes out through the drivers door but on suv's it was a gravy job!

I remember that welder fire video. They didnt get the fire extinguisher fast enough and the cars fuel tank was compromised by the heat. You can see the flaming fuel falling whenever they guy tries to get the base of the ground fire. That drag big rig that threw rhe motor also had a gasket fail before the motor mounts. You can see the exhaust go from coal to steam just before everything gives up.