Toyota Mechanic Works on a BMW. How Hard Can It Be? 

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Literally just came to comments to see if anyone commented on the mr2!

Lmao man if the car was manual this probably wouldn’t be an issue. Love my MR2s lol

MR2 is like the bipolar girlfriend. She is good most days, but sometimes she decides to kill you 😂

It really helps that he has the right tools and a cool, clean, dry place to work in. I usually find that I'm laying on an old greasy piece of carpet when I work on cars.

I've heard they were bad but not this bad.

@@sulljasonThey’re safe and drive nice, but they’re the most overrated and fragile cars on the road. Typically they’re good for 4 or 5 years, then they dissolve.

What do you use for your pocket flashlight Thanks

LOL

Rebuilt my xtype geez

I have a newer Hyundai and I live in a cold climate area. First snowfall we had completely shut down my adaptive cruise control because the bumper sensor got covered in snow.😢

That’s OK - BMW owners enjoy paying more for less.

And it’s a safety issue.

Tragic

@@danielgoldberg2129 uhmm, you know you can clean the snow off right? Plus you still have regular CC so that's less of an inconvenience than toilet paper placed in the holder the wrong way.

Everything becomes second nature with enough time.

I'm not a technician but I have worked on many foreign and domestic cars in the US. I have no idea why people get so worked up and confused with BMW. I hear people say you can't work on a BMW without having special tools, or that BMWs are over engineered. I don't have special tools, and most auto manufacturers eventually adopt the "over engineered" technology in their own cars.

@@lperea21 Seriously, it's like when people see the BMW badge they immediately panic and convince themselves it won't be easy. I've DIYed my BMWs for about 20 years now and the only "special tool" I have is an OBD2 adapter and a couple of inexpensive phone apps. Before working on the BMWs I worked on Chevys, Saturn, Honda, Mitsubishi, VW, and Mercedes, and most of the jobs on the BMWs are just as easy if not easier. Some things are different but not harder. There are a few jobs that are harder of course but pretty much every brand has some jobs that are harder than everyone else makes it.

Any special tools are not actually needed, most shops will have what you need to improvise.

Wow, I actually found intelligent life under this vid! People (techs) just love to complain anytime they have to use their brain n work on something different!🤦🏾🤣🤣

Flex tape is your friend?

Just like many other European vehicles, drive it all week and tighten it back up on the weekend. I think Triumph started that tradition.

I lost it at that point. XD

Broke My Wallet😂

Whining about swear words is just childish.

@@worldhello1234 butt hurt

It's not only bmw, every German car company has the same issue (VW, Mercedes etc...) just a bad mechanical micro switch that fails every time. Cost of the part, 1-3$, labor cost over 3-400$... That's German economics for you, semms like their maths works differently than the rest of the world 😂

yep, RU-vid wouldn't allow my video if i had to do that

I was so close to buying this car but finding out it was a bmw was tough and I couldn’t get over that fact. Toyota is a sell out.

Same amount of respect from me towards him. I'm also an IT guy and I can tell you that it was not easy to learn how to fix cars. Now I fix everything on my W204 and Z32. The Nissan is way easier to fix then my german car even though everyone says it's a PITA. (Btw my 34yo Z32 has more "modern" technology than my 12yo W204)

Sreten doesn't work on "digital" cars like this, his most modern one was a E92 from 2011

Exactly my thought.

Just happy little trees, and, it's fine

To get this ball joint separated you just gotta beat the devil outta it.

Unintensional ASMR!

"There are no mistakes. Just happy little accidents."

Convinced me to NEVER buy a BMW

@@db5235 I purchased an 05 BMW x5 SUV with low miles some years ago, when the door handle broke and I went to repair it, all it took for me was one look on how screwed up and over complicated things were, I sold it.

I’ll second that!This is the BEST mechanic show ever!

brilliant. i learned to stay away from german cars with the family audi in 1984. rather have a toyota or a chevy

@@harryharry3193 I could write a lot more but didn't want to occupy too much band width as Amid stated the case pretty succinctly. BMW has changed over the past decades. Years ago, I owned a 1990 BMW 735il which was their flagship sedan back in the day which when it hit 100mph on the highway, it was just getting on the cam. A masterpiece. It was as simple to work on as lawn tractor. That has all changed. In fact, the poisonous BMW business model of decoding how to extract maximum profit from consumers both coming and going...from purchase to repair, this poison has spread to Toyota and Honda whose mantra used to be KISS and are now offering even their pedestrian automobiles with Hybrid powertrains because dumb people see the 2 mpg fuel savings and are willing to pay $10K more for one. These vehicles will be in the crusher long before their predecessors which would routinely go 2-300K miles with just oil changes. In many ways, can automakers really be faulted if people are dumb enough to pay so much money for an overly complex car? People on some level get what they deserve. Btw, at 150K miles, I took the head off that BMW for a refresh and new head gasket and the bottom end was perfect with all the cylinder bore cross hatching. BMW used to offer a solid simple, elegant car with performance pedigree that you didn't have to remortgage your house to maintain. That ship has long sailed. PS. once in a while as a joke I will ask a Hybrid owner if they are annoyed by the drone of the CVT. They always reply, CVT, what's that?

@@lukewalker1051I’ve heard good things about Toyota hybrid reliability. I know many people with Priuses that just keep going. I know their batteries can go out, but it is worth it when you are getting 50 mpg over a 250,000 mile lifetime of a car. Additionally, the hybrids in the economy cars are only a couple thousand more than the standard. I’m not nearly as keen on the new hybrid trucks and suvs Toyota has though. The Venza, RAV4, and Highlander make sense, but having a hybrid Tacoma, Land Cruiser, Tundra, and Sequoia is very concerning for long term reliability. They are getting turbo charged engines and they don’t even save much fuel, unlike economy car hybrids.

@@lukewalker1051Honda and Toyota were forced to go Hybrid. It’s the only way to meet the upcoming EPA guidelines that are being enforced. Without CAFE guidelines, there would still be a Camry V6 and an Accord 2.0T.

@@ratshackmojo There is quite an insidious byplay the public knows nothing about. It is the 'negotiation' of CAFE and what level of powertrain tech it takes to achieve that CAFE target. As it turns out, the government doesn't understand tech any better than how to close our southern border...latter they in fact know more about. The insidious 'negotiation' of CAFE is...the government wants better mpg's and the automakers want more profit. Perfect storm. The reason automakers 'accept' the government mandating more stringent mileage is automakers know they can sell the public with carrot of greater fuel economy on 'hybrids they derive greater profit' on. If you take a statistics class as part of an engineering core curriculum you learn, the more parts there are to a machine with equivalent engineering quality, the greater the failure rate. Statistics 101. Adding a complete 2nd drivetrain aka a motor, motor inverter and battery and 100 computers to allow motor and gas powerplants to work together increases driveline complexity by 2.5 X's...because of all of the interconnecting computers to modulate power between the two powertrains. Failure rate is higher. Hybrids weigh more which adversely affects power to weight ratio. Tires wear faster. Further, with age, electrical systems fail at a higher rate than mechanical systems. All engineers in management of any large automaker, know the above and the public doesn't understand any of it. PS. the 'canard of hybrids' to your point/question...the answer is all bullsh_t anyway. Reason is, automakers are still offering 500 base horsepower with their C8 and Dodge sells cars with 1000 hp. They aren't hybrids. The new Honda Pilot V6 isn't a hybrid or even turbo'ed. CAFE is a concocted mandate and the public like yourself believes 'automakers' have to make hybrids to achieve this target. No they don't. Automakers can make all gas cars with 150 hp that will get twice the fuel economy of a higher horsepower hybrid. Its all BS anyway because the government doesn't understand what technology it takes to create a certain CAFE standard. Automakers 'play along' because 'they profit from it'. PS. speaking of emission standards. What does the American people think about child slave labor used in the Congo to strip mine Cobalt as a constituent metal as part of Li-Ion batteries in every hybrid and EV? What do you think the life expectancy of these kids is growing up exposed to this toxic environment? What does it do to the environment to create hybrid and EV Li-Ion batteries? It is one of the dirtiest enterprises on 'the planet'. Where does electricity come from to charge a Li-Ion battery, in a hybrid or EV? 70% comes from fossil fuel and dirty coal plants. Hybrids and EV's are an absolute joke and the ignorant public are being hustled. Hopefully all will change when dumb, corrupt Joe either dies or loses re-election.

Could you bring some crude oil for us?

I live in Western Europe and I wish I could drive my Lexus to his shop. The local Lexus technicians are proving to be quite incompetent. Our multiple Lexus' have been more troublesome to live with in a few months of ownership than our old European Fords have been over the last 18 years. Hopefully the dealership will get them fixed, but they should have lever left the showroom with these problems.

@@onesri6108 hahahaha Iraq never have had control over his crude! US operation in Iraq was code named OIL (Operation Iraqi Liberation) first! Hope you get what I mean!

​@@onesri6108 Iraq has no oil, The British purposily cut them off from Kuwait and invented the desert country from Iraq

Kurdistan is home to Shanidar Cave. Really cool dig site. Also amazing mountains.

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... 4 donor cars? 😂

The only way to solve that issue is to get one with a B58/S58 engine.

@@em4703And even then…everything else around it will fail. There’s no winning in owning a BMW.

That's the thing though - a Toyota door is like unscrew a screw (or 3 max), pop out the button face, unclip the harness, pull door card toward you to un-pop the clips and slide it up and out, unclip one more harness. Done.

​@@Sam-go3mb absolutely correct, not in the slightest bit difficult 👍

​@@Charlie_CrownI can't tell if this is ironic or not. Either way, I'm now very put off ever getting a BMW if this is the nightmare required to access bloody door cards

HA HA HA. Theres some logic in there somewhere........................................How about owning a car you can work on yourself? retard!

Keyword - JUST!

... and like all re-badges, one should better stick with the original for the reasons lined up in this video - Toyota services don't want to deal with it because it's a BMW, and BMW services don't want to deal with it because it's a Toyota...

@@zwerko bmw dealers are blocked out from working on the Supra. Diagnostic equipment won’t even connect. Z4’s, especially the older ones, are easy to work on compared to other chassis due to the size of the engine bay. BMW techs would have zero issues working on these.

@@zwerkoThe reason I paid more for a Z4 manual rather than buying a Supra manual.

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A great mechanic actually enjoys a challenge, that's why he didn't run the other way!!!!!!!! Why did he cross the street to work on my Supra............. because he isn't a CHICKEN!!!!!🤣

Only when it comes to German cars. They still haven’t learned how to build cars.

@@ExecuteBrandon Germans are not the worst at building cars tbh. There is far worse from Ford, Kia and so on.

BMW makes their cars intentionally complicated to repair, requiring specialist tools and proprietary software. Why? Because they want third party mechanics to run away from them, because they want to monopolise repair, and hence can charge what they want. It has been said that BMW sell cars at cost and make all their profit in repairs.

@@ExecuteBrandon How to build cars? My guy. Just because you cant afford an BMW or Mercedes dont tell they dont know how to build cars. 🤣

@@waldemar31293 Agreed, BMW and Merc build amazing 80k mile cars. Beyond that, they are disposable trash. They know how to make a car nice. They don't know how to make a car last.

I laughed so hard at that. “I’m so innocent” 😆

As a BMW technician we actually do. Customers will notice poor workmanship

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It really depends on the technician working on said vehicle. Some will take their time to get it done right and others will be fast but sloppy, others will be fast and clean (experience i suppose). As elora2525 mentioned, customers will notice poor workmanship.

I guarantee they would if they were on camera lol, most probably do anyway especially on a car like this.

After finding out on some cars you need to remove the front bumper to replace a headlight, I was thinking the same thing!!

​@@bwhammm I did that a month ago on my 2008 Toyota Camry. I have to replace the yellowish tinted headlight. RU-vid helps alot and it was not complicated. Im not a mechanic savy person. Yes, I did remove the whole front bumper just to access the headlight.

@@bwhammm My favorite complication for replacing the headlight has to be Renault Megane, I think the second version, where one had to remove the front wheels to reach a bolt to unfasten the headlight harness to be able to replace a bulb. Truly marvelous engineering right there...

​@@zwerko I know Subaru loves to do that

CONGRATULATIONS ! A job well done, Sir !😅😊🎉

I hope you drive the absolute pants off that car, enjoy!

I got one not long ago. You will definitely enjoy it! Super easy to do stuff on, and it'll last a lifetime if you take care of it. It's a cruiser most of all, but in S+ with a warmed up transmission it's sporty enough with paddle shifters.

@@punishthemeatpocket I am still saving to see if I can get one hopefully by summer's end. Around my area all dealers have it at almost 70k

@@marshallgs that sounds awesome!

@@MR3DDev That's too damn high there are used LC500s for that price.

Send the bill to Toyota regional rep and demand that they pay since they could not fix the issue at the dealership.

You’ll be happier as well. The LC500 is just the state of the art hand assembled Japanese super car😊

caddilac blackwing, would be more the way to go

@@bradhaines3142yes my dream car as well especially with a manual!

The manual online says “loosen” for the bolts, we spent some time thinking about how to remove the certain parts by just “loosening” said bolt….

@@Jantonvid Again, the German word (lösen) sounds equally strange for this in normal German as it sounds to you. It means unfasten, not remove. I guess this is German engineering speak.

Austauschen or replace is the word you want. German Mechanic here.

And you were a much younger man.

​@@perniciouspete4986I don't care how old are you or what's your sex, but under 1t is under 1t, if you can not push start it your place is on a bus, bicycle, 4kw microcar (something smaller and much worse than a kei car) or plain old side walk.

_"Oh how tempting is to own a BMW."_ I also have the same strong, overwhelming temptation..............to _NEVER_ own one!

@@FourFourSeven I own a 2015 435i getting ready to sell it. Never again. Great fun car but you better know how to work on them because the maintenance is costly and repairs are costly. Frankly BMW is swiss time watch tath will break. I purchase a Toyota Camry 6 cylinder...lol

@@eivis13 Try again to respond, and please try to make sense this time.

Bob Ross as a mechanic 😂

ZATAOMM: The japanese motorcycle maintenance guide says “ Assembly of japanese bicycle requires great piece of mind”

Great Book!

@@MarkSmith-js2pu - Watching this brings many passages from the book to mind. Bottom Line, this guy cares! - "While at work I was thinking about this same lake of care in the digital computer manuals I was editing. Writing and editing technical manuals is what I do for a living the other eleven months of the year and I knew they were full of errors, ambiguities, omissions and information so completely screwed up you had to read them six times to make any sense out of them. But what stuck me for the first time was the agreement of these manuals with the spectator attitude [of the hack mechanic] I had seen in the shop. These were spectator manuals. It was built into the format of them. Implicit in every line is the idea that “Here is the machine, isolated in time and in space from everything else in the universe. It has no relationship to you, you have no relationship to it, other than to turn certain switches, maintain voltage levels, check for error conditions…” and so on. That’s it. The mechanics in their attitude toward the machine were really taking no different attitude from the manual’s toward the machine, or from the attitude I had when I brought it in there. We were all spectators. And it occurred to me there is no manual that deals with the real business of motorcycle maintenance, the most important aspect of all. Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted."

@@EShelby2127 Hey thank you! Although a para phrase, and not about John's BMW (loved the shim/beer can story) I just spent 15 minutes Google-ing to find the correct quote and its subject - the bicycle (rather than get the book out and look for it). Then I got into a 'gumption trap' so I decided to read the other comments - and their it was all the time in your comment of 20 hours prior! HUGE appreciation. BTW, ZATAOMM was a key inspiration for me deciding to do a degree in engineering in '82. Ironically, discussing quality in Pirsig's philosophical terms almost got me kicked off the course by a Ph.D. lecturer. That he (Dr. Draper) had a Ph.D. added to the irony as I mistakenly thought he'd appreciate the philosophical approach to the 'discuss quality and measurement' essay he'd set! Life lesson there!

PTSD from just holding the flashlight!

Don’t think he can since he works on Toyota’s and will service the Supra

He drives a Mercedes, duh.

Add Audi to the list

Keep coping Toyotard

Who else are you going to go to when you want a Super Sedan? Hyundai? Lmao

not me!!!

I've seen them in their natural habitat, but they're rare.

I thought the same thing, it's entertaining, it's nice to hear the thought process as it's happening

If its not broken.....

sad really. that part should last 20 years. not just a few.. ha ha

You can still get a Lexus!

Making something more complicated than it needs to be is plain silly to say the least. Think the idea was introduced by some German, oh how Germany has fallen since they started to rub hands with the Russo and Shino people.

This is not ANY learning curve. This is a steep one. Abnormal for a door latch removal on a Japanese car I can assure you having done two on a Subaru and Honda.

Agreed, it's a steep learning curve for German technology. You should work on the door handle of a current year 7 series BMW. The amount of tech they impart just for that one aspect of the car is stunning - and over engineered! 🙂

Speaking as an engineer I can say this is definitely NOT over-engineered. This is an engineering farce and, further, is the antithesis of engineering elegance. I would be ashamed of this engineering if I worked for BMW. I'd suggest (hope) it is the accountants that are behind this with engineers instructed to maximise profits from parts and servicing/repairs.

You must like to spend a lot of time in auto repair shops.

Dark colors hide the grease stains.

toyota after 2000's are all crap too.

@@unavailable291in dream

@@unavailable291no effin way. 2003 Rav4 approaching 300,000mi, no major issues

@@ketchum6455new Tundra is a POS

@@MrGmilton how so?

Bring back the Avensis!!!

ugly car

Scott- what is "funny" (not really) - is how corporations latch onto the whole "yeah we care about climate change too dude bro!!!" - all while - purposefully designing products that you cannot service at a reasonable cost. So - this alone is what has made me decide that there actually is NOT a "climate emergency..." but instead: Just a fake existential threat so "stakeholders" can be rewarded oligopoly and monopoly status within their market share provided they play ball with Larry "proudly beta" Finks ESG game and the United Nations 17 "sustainability" Goals. Basically the message to corporations in Davos: "You play ball, and we'll hook you up with markets in these nations....and you'll be the only game in town as we'll help you stomp out small businesses...and then you won't have to invest in innovation - you can just rehash the same products without any improvement and your top execs can enjoy those eastern euroepean girls and the best 8-balls of coke in town"

I guess this is why we need a right to repair and put it on the agenda. It is still in its infancy but it is coming, it just needs to spread a bit more.

@@CMDRSweeper Louis Rossman has been fighting that battle for ten years - Until people completely stop buying and WORKING at the 600 Corporations = nothing will change. They have more money to payoff sellout/loser/beta male attorneys than you/I/the working class. Just face it: We are politically HOMELESS at this point I think the only thing that COULD be done within reason is this - and you're going to laugh - but hear me out: Until WOMEN start divorcing "men" for selling out the country - nothing will improve.

That's the industry now. Want to replace a headlight lens? Too bad buy a whole new unit

If you decide to get a cabrio at some point, be sure to get an old one! I have a 2009 convertible with the very reliable n52 engine but I would not even consider getting a newer version.