This shop will get someone killed, and there is nothing I can do about it. 

I give you props for actually exposing the name of the shop. not to many people will do that

"I've been doing this for 45-50 years" Imagine what else he's put back on the road. This why you ALWAYS get a PPI, and by a third party you trust. Thank you for putting your foot down on this one.

Call your states attorney general's office consumer fraud division. They absolutely can prosecute.

That dog has been selling dangerous wrecks for 40 years...I guarantee you he has blood on his hands. Top Man - well done!

Just finished watching this entire video. As a dealer in Kansas And Oklahoma as well as Nevada. I reached out to The used car motor vehicle division and sent them this video. Buddy is about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

Report it to Carfax? Send it to louis rossman too, he’ll get all over this

Every single time he opened his mouth, he just dug a deeper hole. Wow, what a con artist!

I had this happen to me . I bought a used car about 10 years ago , the car got totaled out . No air bag came out plus my seat belt didn’t lock or grab me . I hit the window shield then got throw back into my seat so hard I broke my seat rest ( I’m 120 pounds). I’m glad you called him out .

"I've been selling cars for 40-50 years", well, that's even worst. Thank you Keith, you're doing God's work.

*list the VIN into your video description so this video pops up if someone googles it*

I've been a tech for 20 years and thank the lord I've never come across something like this. Good looking out.

I am a volunteer firefighter and EMT. Anytime I respond to an accident where airbags that probably should have deployed didn't, I wonder about the history of the car, because I know there are people out there doing shady stuff like this.

A 2.Ohm sensor... he definitely uses this half-assed techno-jargon on his customers.

As a computer technician I am offended when I see other computer service shops scamming people or doing shoddy work. But this is a whole other level of crazy and unsafe. Also, any time someone asks "Huh?" or "Whats that?" or "What now?" repeatedly its because they are lying and trying to think of another lie

Dudes like that are why I left the industry. There’s far too many of them that have been shamelessly doing the same garbage for “40-50 years.” Kudos on you for calling it out.

Thank you for doing this. There are factory repair methods for a reason.

HOLY MOLY!!! This is the worst. Glad you called him out. Good on you. He's digging a hole so deep!

Keith is out here doing the Lord’s work

All I work on is insurance repairs, I treat every car I work on like my girl and son will be driving the car across the US without me. Ain't no way I could sleep at night don't stuff like that.

I would never touch a vehicle like that. As soon as I saw the resistors, I would put it back together as I found it and refuse service on that vehicle. That guy is lying. I am glad you refused money and disclosed this crook's name.

I'm a mechanic as well. Did a PPI for my neighbor. 2017 Honda Civic, rebuilt salvage title, but the car was priced appropriately and my neighbor was aware of it and fine with that as long as it was repaired in a reasonably competent manner. The seller had "before" pictures, and it didn't look like there was serious structural damage. The actual bodywork was done reasonably well... Didn't look perfect but the welds were good and such. However, I noticed that the driver's seat bolster had nothing in it- it was just seat fabric over air. No seat airbag. I also noticed a little bit of airbag cushion material peeking out where the side curtain bag was supposed to be. Sure enough, they'd cut the deployed curtain bag out, and put a resistor in the connector. Same thing with the seat airbag, driver's knee bag, and the seat belt retractor. Here's the deal... All of those things could have been purchased from a salvage yard, and that's not unreasonable when you're rebuilding a car. It might have cost a few hundred dollars more... But the car would have been fixed properly. I know that I wouldn't be able to sleep if I'd done something like that. But apparently, these guys had no conscience.

"it aint like i killed somebody!" AINT THAT A GUILTY CONCIOUS!

As a collision repair technician, these type of "repairs" are standard in the industry, honest technicians actually get punished for not doing shoddy work like this.

THANK YOU, KEITH, for bringing this to light. Many, myself included, had no clue this was going on. He's not sorry, he's sorry he got caught. Unfortunately, there are tons of shops out there doing this type of scam, putting lives in danger. The only time someone will find this is AFTER the accident when someone is either severely injured or dead due to the tensioners not activating or the air bags not deploying. When that finally does happen, he will present himself as a victim of money grabbing people looking for a payday trying to take advantage of him. It is reckless, unconscionable, dangerous, and absolutely infuriating.

Pissed me off too, typing this mid video. Steve Lehto. There is plenty to do! Techs don't have qualified immunity. State and Feds to be contacted. I seen techs go to prison. There is a victim. Intent to sell a vehicle, contact your DMV, State Police, State Accreditation, I worked on fleets Law Enforcement vehicles and I refused to release it from the shop, threatened to call OSHA for unsafe vehicle.

Absolutely caught red-handed. Why cut the connectors off if they intended to replace the tensioners? People are wildly selfish nowadays. You did the right thing by not programming the airbag module. I have run into this scenario too many times with small body shops that buy these wrecked vehicles from auctions only to perform shoddy work and send them back there for the profit.

Jeeeeeez. And manufacturers are going to respond to this with more technical counter-measures, ICs in airbags, harder to code, DRM etc which will make life harder for honest repair techs whilst the real answer should be in the justice system preventing this sort of thing!

Thank you for posting this. He didn’t hate that it happened, he hated that he got caught.

Thank you. This is why I left the field as a dealer mechanic. All about money and not about doing what’s right. Thank you for bringing this to the public’s attention.

After nearly 15 years in the industry, this doesn't surprise me at all. Business owners have zero issue scamming the public, or shorting their techs. The last thing anyone at the front desk wants to hear about is safety or a proper repair.

I sold my interest in a body shop because of the John Eagle case. I had too many customers like this guy who wanted improper repairs.

Report the condition to carfax. Even though it may take a few days to be entered. It's obviously had a collision that the dealer doesn't want reported. Being a tech is difficult when cars like these arrive.

If he was going to replace them he would have told you up front that we rigged the circuit to get us by new parts are ordered and would left all the panels out so you could see it was not right today until parts show up

Just shared to nearly 3K locals. thanks for being an honest shop

To add insult to injury those are carbon film resistors anyone who works with electronics knows what happens to them during an over current situation. When the airbag module deploys the resistors will ignite like a match head since at such a low resistance they are essentially a short circuit.

This video is going crazy, I only watched about 8 minutes before I had to put it down because I was seeing red. Good man!

Thank you for exposing these corrupt bums. Working in the auto repair world for 30 years, I have seen some shady things mechanics/shops will do. These are the people who ruin the industry for the rest of us who have invested our time in training and have pride in our repairs

Much respect for doing the video and calling them out on it. Ones like these need to be shut down

The worst splicing and soldering job EVER! Old man river needs to give it up. You busted him. Great job mate! Cheers from the UK! 🇬🇧

Much respect for how you handled that situation I'm in the same industry and to know there's respectable people like you out there to bring that kind of garbage work to light is awesome I commend you for that 👍🏽

This is a scary situation. Thank you for doing your due diligence.

Left the automotive industry 20 years ago, never looked back. It was a time when one could repair their vehicles if he/she wanted to. It baffles me how a “shop” can release a “unsafe vehicle” because the customer requests it. With no Fed or State protection or oversight. Good for you!!! Seriously though I appreciate your honesty and so will your customers. When I ran a smallish 4 lift shop “Booktime” was used as a reference tool, not a standard. 90% of our customers never paid “Booktime”, I just couldn’t look at a customer with a straight face whilst they pay out the arse for a repair that took 31mins but charged for a hour. Off Topic but just read the receipt from a Volvo dealer on an oil change that my mom took in. I guess the days of checking things over and topping off are over. $10.00 for “Windshield Washer Fluid Topped”. WTF!?! The best one was a $45.00 for “Airfilter Replacement”, plus parts. Anyways….Goodluck my friend!!!

You’re the best! Don’t worry about what the bums say, you’re doing a great service for your community. I helped a buddy out at his 2 bay body shop and we’d get lightly wrecked cars and even those that had airbags and seatbelt tensioners that had gone off. We took them out and sent them to a company that repairs them so they will actually function again. Not once did we ever think of not fixing the airbags and tensioners. So don’t you worry what you’ve done will get around and it’s appreciated.

This literally made me sick. Too many horrible people in this world. Thank you for helping to catch them.

What’s crazy is the guy has 4.8 on google reviews. This is terrible you can call the AGs office, they’ll likely want know and or the BBB if they participate. The AG can log it so that there is any issues they’ll have proof

Wow. I would say I'm surprised, but that would be a lie. I've been in this automotive repair game for over 30 years. I have seen some shady shit!! This "trick" we saw here has been around since airbags were mandated in the 90's. Thank you so much for naming and shaming these fools. I have not had the misfortune of dealing with them and I'll keep it that way.

I never knew you could put a resister in there and bypass something like that but makes sense because the resistance of the part is what the computer sees. Thanks so much for sharing its such a shame that things happen like this. My respect for you is so much more now i have watched your channel a long time learned a lot but tonight learned some really valuable information thanks for going out on a limb and telling the world hopefully you might save a life.

Thank you for exposing these people

Very rare people like u... I salute you ❤❤❤❤

I quit mechanics several years ago and primarily because the shop I worked for was crooked as it gets and did stuff like that. I happily subbed to your channel because we need and should support any mechanics that are being honest and doing honest work. Thank you for everything you do and never stop being the rare one in the industry. I never once in the years I worked with the shop I worked at got a commission because I failed to sell parts that wasn't needed and I wouldn't do the dishonest things they wanted me to do.

Thank you Keith for your awesome and amazing work and now you have done what so many people won’t. That was exactly what you were thinking and they just got caught. In my state we have to be licensed to do different types of work. Not sure how many times you get before they shut down the shop but he would have been caught. It’s not perfect but it can work.

You are a man of integrity sir. We can all hear this man lie to us. His attempt to defend himself is laughable and to have his son threaten you!!! If I was him I would be doing everything possible to clear my name and prove that I wasn’t crooked, unfortunately we see through his BS. Keep doing what you do man, greeting from Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

PROFESSIONALISM ….at its finest!

It's about time i can actually applaud you on something. By you coming forth with that shops info helps the rest of the industry. In my state the DMV has investigators that will look into such things and if something is found, hands it off to the State AG. All of us techs need to take things seriously and do things right. A tech who did an inspection on a vehicle days prior to a crash that killed alot of people went to jail as the vehicle should of never passed. Since then alot more in the industry atleast in my state have gone the extra mile in ensuring repairs are done right or refusing to work on a vehicle otherwise. All DMVs in every state should be employing investigators to look at complaints.

You are man of integrity. God bless you always.

I knew it! As soon as you mentioned air bags. I’ve seen it done before

9:55 "if I was gonna do something like that, I would of took the airbags out or something" my brother in christ you basically _DID_ . I don't understand what goes through a lads mind when he starts fucking around with airbag systems like this. Next we'll have a call that the airbags randomly went off on a customer. I wouldnt even drive that in that condition. (Happened to my ex's sister when she turned the key, sure enough the airbags were messed with in a similar way to this Mini). I didn't know your channel existed until today when it popped up in my feed. (I'm a technician too). Glad I found you sir. Keep up the great work.

I had a situation similar to this years ago. Airbag LED was broken out of the instrument cluster. Found in on a new purchase inspection. In Colorado, we have dealer associations. The Colorado Independent Auto Dealers Association and the Attorney General's office were both involved in forcing the selling dealer to repair it. They determined there selling dealer should be aware of properly functioning dash warning lights when the vehicle is inspected and sold. Great job you do. Thank you.

You are a good man with a better heart and soul! Keep it going Pal.

Romy from car source did this to my ex wife. I warned her not to go to that place and they got her on a GM terrain 2018. Every airbag had resistors in every seat belt. Thank god for guys with integrity still. Im interested in training because i want to HELP people and be the change in our crumbling society. Society needs good men to stand up to the bad ones

Wait until folks find out about the parking lot ADAS guys....

Great video sir. I am in the industry and have been for 29 years. To much of this is going on and there needs to be a way to stop it. Peoples lives at stake with these bs hacks. Wish I had the answer but I do not. Great vid. Hope it gets a ton of views.

Damn dude you have done all you can, as far as that case goes. But you have increased awareness of this problem, so you have done so much, don't disbelieve your work that you have done to make people more safe! You rock dude never disbelieve how awesome you are

Attaboy, Keith... Big time kudos to you for doing the right thing and then calling this guy out. I see that a couple of your viewers have beat me to it and posted your video to their review page. I hope karma comes for these guys big time. There will ALWAYS be scumbags like these guys trying to save money and take short cuts. But, because you were brave enough to post this video, people will have breadcrumbs and links here if they do some research BEFORE purchasing a vehicle there. And, who knows... Maybe this guy will change his ways because you called him out... We can hope. In the meantime, you have done what you can to educate us. Thank you so much for having done that. I'm proud to be a subscriber to your channel.

I know the video is only one day old when writing this, but any updates on what ended up happening? Need more people like you in the industry willing to stand up and speak about issues like this. Seen it time and time again, and the scary thing is, there is absolutely no way of knowing if this has been done unless you went through every safety device and set eyes on it, even then the resistors could be placed anywhere in the circuit, so until you really need them how can anyone really know if their used car is actually safe…. Well done for exposing this dealer, it’s scary how laid back they sound about the situation not realising that they could kill someone or multiple people who think there car is as safe as when it left the factory….

Thank God for guys like you! Brave dude.

Huge respect for you doing the right thing man, you've got a good heart with good intentions, looking out for people is what we should all be doing. Vehicles are 1 tonne+ hunks of metal that can cause huge harm, people take that for granted.

Seen a few comments to the effect of "But the primary air bags will still deploy" i guess this suggests its not veiwed as being sooo bad..... Here's my thoughts. Short story, who knows how the SRS control module may behave in the event of an accident. Long story, The dummy resistors are unlikely to behave the same as the pretensioner igniters. This is because although the SRS module is looking for a 2-3 Ohm load, i suspect the igniter wont have a purely resistive impedance. I'd hazard guess the igniter has a heater element, which would be subject the inductance and PTC heating effect, both of which would affect the operating impedance (It would increase when operating). If this is the case, a purely resistive load like a dummy resistor would allow much higher Current flow during a deployment, which could... Cause an over Current, and if the other air bags used a common driver circuit within the SRS module, this may fail to operate correctly/at all. Cause a DTC to set and since a fault is detected, airbags may fail to deploy/have increased latency. Lets not forget the exact circuit designs and logic behind every manufacturers SRS systems is different, so what may work with one, wont with another. No part of any SRS system should be modified, regardless or how important you view its function.... or if you think the rest of the system will operate correctly. It took balls to call this one out, i have no doubt you may face some criticism, but you have my respect big time. Fucking twisted wires and tape..... wasn't even a hack done well.....

And there you go folks. Safety is the Holy Grail of our industry and treating it like a nothing burger is a disgrace to our industry. We all will continue to expose those bad Apples, because the days of shady repairs are over.

I’m about a month from graduating tech school as a diesel and heavy technician, this fucking disgusts me. I absolutely despise lazy mechanics who will put any random customer in active danger just to make a few extra dollars or save a few minutes. Where is everybody’s shame anymore?? It is absolutely baller of you to have exposed him to this extent. Any judge worth their weight in salt could see this man is ignorant of doing his job correctly and endangering people. You’re a good man.

Thank you for having a conscience and trying to do the right thing. There's too many shady mechanics and dealers. It gives the industry a bad name.

Hey brother….I feel your pain on a daily basis. I am in the fire alarm industry as a service technician. I see shit like this every day in life safety systems that are supposed to save people’s lives! There are so many shady techs in my industry (an industry that you can’t afford to have a single thing not work) it makes my head spin. People will resistor off notification circuits (horns and strobes) because they don’t want to spend money to fix the problem, or the techs themselves are shady too and just lazy! I’ve seen people resistor off entire floors of smoke detectors…..and sometimes we are told to leave and they will get someone else to “fix it cheaper” when I bring the hard facts up to them. my point is, I’ve been there and it literally keeps me up at night sometimes worrying about people that might be sleeping in these buildings. It’s the reason why i have a hard time sleeping in a hotel. Unfortunately it isn’t just the automotive industry. I will never not fear for someone’s family and loved ones due to the vile, greedy and shady people of this world. It tortures me every day of my career.

Actually I just did a huge repair on a 24 bmw m4 competition. Service info states they allow repairs to srs wiring if using oe pigtails. The pigtails deploy when the seat belt retractors deploy. This info came from the oe tool in my laptop. The older stuff I'm not too sure but that's my most recent encounter

Not sure how you came across my feed. But your integrity got my like and subscribe. Keep up the great work Sir!

We need more honest technicians like you in the industry, as someone just starting out its heartening to see honest men like you looking out for the customers who don't know better.

As a Mechanic you can reach out to your local Highway Patrol and show them your inspection. They will put a hold on the title until the repair has been done and they will reinspect it.

Oh My God, Love you Man! Best line: "Lots of vehicles with 3 wheels, We don't take one wheel off and say there's plenty like it" HAHAHAHA

Thanks I wish you much success and a happy life. We need more professionals in every industry like you.

Respect. This was absolutely wild and I really respect you for putting this out there. Well done dude.

What?? How can they do that?? its illegal? disgusting, so glad you are honest.

For anyone else considering recording a phone conversation: make sure you are in a single party recording state, it varies. Iirc L1 is in OK which is single party.

Thank you sir. I never knew someone could install a resistor to defeat a seatbelt code. Especially used vehicles.

Thank you for calling this out, not only for the sake of our industry, but also for the sake of the innocent people who could be injured or killed by shady shops like this one. We need more people like you.

saddest thing about this is that this is now the norm

That’s absolutely wild! 😮😮😮

thank you for being a stand up guy , and that is how a company should be operated !! i would expose it the same way you did !!

Seems like honesty is harder and harder to come by. Good on you for doing the right thing.

Had that happen to my best friend on his dodge ram luck he was just hurt but there is to many back yard shops doing this kinda work and nobody is making it a crime

“You’re doing this for a publicity stunt instead of calling the customer!”…… and the customer is me… oh shit that was another lie I told. These gymnastics, both mental and conversational, are buck wild. Thank you for your dedication to the industry and being a good dude.

You’re right about this type of thing being an epidemic. It’s not just with airbags either. There are “shops” everywhere that will do subpar brake work, suspension work, etc. and it literally risks the lives of the drivers of the vehicles and other cars on the road. The automotive field is probably one of the most shady industries out there unfortunately.

Thank you! Thank you for looking out for the public!

Hopefully you told Lori Fulbright about this and reached out to the state AG office.

You did the right thing that gives all of us a bad name. I'm sure he'll be hearing from the attorney general.

Big ups for brining awareness to the situation.

You my man are a class act. Thank you.

Resistors are great when yanking off all that emissions and safety crap from your track car. I usually secure them with 2 zip ties though. 😂

I am putting this on my FB and X. THIS guy needs to be put out of business. Keep track of all these communications and paper work. He does not have a leg to stand on if he or his son tries to sue you.

Great guy. We need more good people like this young man. Definitely making his way in this world being honest. I wish you and the shop the best

Good looking out brother, subscribed to your channel because of this great video 🙌👍

you done the right thing, even through this video you may have saved somebody’s life. And thank you for sharing