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.
@@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.
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.😢
@@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.
I took the door apart of my Rav4 Prime in just a few minutes. Re-drilled the speaker holes, installed new speakers, removed the mirrors, installed the new sequential blinkers (turn signals) and put the cover back on in half an hour. All together it took 1 hour for 2 doors. Great Toyota engineering. Most of the time it needs 10mm socket, plastic pry tool and a screwdriver.
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)
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 😂
@@texZR2 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.
Thank you for confirming everything I've read/heard about the design and working on German cars over the last 30+ years of never having to replace that part on my multiple '90's Toyotas.
I’m from Kurdistan region of Iraq, I’m a Lexus owner. I love to visit this guy one day, he’s kind and loyal to his job. Keep up Mr. Car care nut. You show true commitment to your profession.
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!
I am an automotive engineer and you summarized perfectly the German mindset. Complexity for complexity sake. It is in fact the BMW business model. Now you have to ask yourself, why? Are German engineers dumb people? I have worked with many German engineers. They are not dumb. So why? Complexity exists for profit and as it turns out, it is sometimes harder to design something simple to perform the same task. As to why Toyota adopted BMW door architecture and not a LC500 door structure you referenced? Simple. The latch switch is part and parcel of the BMW harness which utilizes BMW body control modules. The Supra as you point out is a BMW through and through. A LC500 door architecture which is much simpler and even more elegant in design is incompatible with BMW's BCM's. The deceitful world we live in if not smart enough to understand 'many' modern cars are designed with excessive complexity for profit and replacement part sales out of warranty. It has grown, much worse in the last even 5 years. Hybrids with redundant drivelines aka two powertrains in one automobile are an absolute joke and automaker money grab. Hard to buy a good, simple analog car now. Automakers know the public is ignorant and take advantage of this fact.
@@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.
BMW technician here: you can get wiring diagrams for BMW's from the TIS (Technical Information System), and in ISTA. Just gotta know where to look. ISTA does have a bit of a convoluted process for diagnosing things, but once you get used to the way it does things, it becomes second nature. It's all about what you're used to, because I always feel like everything is strange when I see a Toyota, since I've only ever worked on BMW/Mercedes/Audi.
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.
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!🤦🏾🤣🤣
I love all these BMW people saying they aren't harder to work on. Replacing the door latch switch is a very easy job on a Toyota as well as the button that identifies when the door is open. You could easily replace both in under an hour and then have time left to take a good break to drink a soda. Of course, the door ajar button never actually breaks in a Toyota (I've had 7 that have gone well over 200,000 miles and never had a problem with it).
I'll be buying a Lexus IS500 this year. A friend of mine said why don't I get the Supra, is a sportier car. I am gonna send him this video. On another note, don't remember a video where Mr Car Care Nut was this annoyed
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.
I couldn't tell a battery from a screwdriver myself, but it must take a lot of expertise and confidence to undertake a task of this kind before the entire world. But what I find even more commendable is his honesty in acknowledging what he doesn't know, and groping towards a solution. I suppose it helps to be a great mechanic to begin with, but that doesn't make the effort less remarkable, in my ignorant view at least.
The first 15 minutes is SO much how it is to be a DIY guy on anything inside any door! It's almost painful to see you struggle the way an unknowledgable person like me does.
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.
@@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
there wascan intetesting remark that fasteners are so different that it should be a nightmare to assemble the car. And that points to something missing, because engineers may not care about customers and ease of repair, but the surely care about efficiency of production
@@Sam-go3mb Not just Toyota. I've never had a problem with removing the door panels in the two Fords that I own. Same thing, a few screws and a couple of bolts, unclip harness and it comes right off. It seems to be a German thing with their cars, specifically.
BMW dealer tech here, I feel bad for my fellow Toyota techs when these were introduced to the lineup, it's quite a complex beast but once you get the hang of things it's not too bad to work on because after all it is just a rebadge Z4
... 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.
Ahhh I love that you mention the door switch that Toyota has used since the 80’s. I mentioned it in your previous video regarding cars being to complex nowadays
In some ways it is reassuring that an expert at one brand is baffled by another. It makes it obvious that there's a learning curve no matter where you are along it.
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.
@@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.
"The regulator got jealous. You stay there!" 😂😂😂 Such a great off the cuff joke. Your persistence and patience is definitely a great asset when working on cars. God bless you.
3:59 "renew" is a direct translation of the German "erneuern". "Erneuern" means renew or overhaul in German but nevertheless is sometimes used espacially by car companies when they really mean replace. It sounds as silly in normal German as is sounds in English. The proper word in German and English is of course ersetzen / replace.
@@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.
Recently went through a 2016 camry 4cyl auto, full fluids, belts, hoses, water pump, stat, coolant, filters, etc, to get it ready for our out of state college kid to use, 14hrs away, for the next year or two. Have to say that out of all cars I have ever worked on since 1989, this one made the most sense. Layout, design, repairability, and engineering are all superb. Japan can still teach the world alot about sensible design for the buyer's benefit, not their own.
Oh how tempting is to own BMW. I lived in Germany and drove my first Toyota Corolla. When the battery was low, I pushed her with door open, jumped inside and in a second she came alive with engine running. 960 kg/2100lbs.It was back in 1992.
@@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.
@@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
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!!!!!🤣
when he opens the trunk at the beginning to remove the latch i almost died. hahaha just the battery, i thought he had to start there to get to the latch 😅
@@bwhammm I did that a month ago on my 2008 Toyota Camry. I have to replace the yellowish tinted headlight. UA-cam 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...
😂 I work at a shop that deals with nothing but BMWs. Since we know how to fix most of these things now and what to look for, I would definitely recommend Toyota for anyone looking to buy a car. Even tho I do own and drive bmw.
I have been listening to Scotty Kilmer rant against BMWs for years so, I'm glad to get a second opinion about this brand. Thanks for providing this video. May the Lord bless you and keep you and have a wonderful day.
I have a 25 year old BMW Z4. Aparently I bought the only well made BMW. The engine is rock solid. Not much to complain about, really. Only Z4 owners are happy 😅
@@ofusowre7620 I owned a dozen BMW's and I can say the Z3 was NOT representative of your Z4 experience. What a pile of shit that car was. Leaking back window and replaced with a ripple in it by the dealer. Diff that started to fail just outside warranty. Squeaks and rattles up the wazoo. Paint that started to dull in four years. Stereo that failed. Then CD stacker box failed. Roof that wouldn't retract unless asked nicely and just crap fit and finish. Never again will BMW get a cent from me.
@@jamesdanton9033 Sorry about your Z3. Very good looking car you got there. But, yes. I have heard of several people saying the same thing. Loads of issues with Z3s. I can only speculate, but I believe that BMW wanted to compete with Porshe Boxter back when they created the Z4. And they actually got a few of their best people to create the Z4. I m not joking with you. The car is very well made. Everything is solid. Interior, exterior, engine. Everything. If you still got the Z3. Sell it and buy a Z4 instead. It s not only me who is happy with the car. Z4 owners in general are very pleased with the car. It s not like my car is even a low milage car either. Closing in on 150 000 Kmt. Only you still got to be careful with the roof. The only common issue I ve heard of. Because, that s also a weakness with the Z4. The small roof motors can be exposed to water. It s a summer car so 90 percent of the time I drive it when it s sunny anyways. But, something to be aware of. Other than that. The engine runs like a Lexus or Toyota engine. Can run forever.
Thank you, AMD! I was actually considering trading in my 2018 Toyota Camry XSE V6 for a 2024 BMW 340i later this year, but after watching this video, I've completely changed my mind! The amount of time and effort it takes to replace a door latch on this BMW is absolutely crazy. This video has convinced me to steer clear of BMWs. I've learned so much from your video, and I'll definitely be sticking with my trusty Toyota from now on!
This video is a great picture of how many of us DIY-ers feel doing various work on our cars when we can only learn off of UA-cam videos and repair manuals. I mean, it beats paying thousands to get the repairs done, but for some jobs, saying it's very difficult is an understatement. But thank you for your videos which really do help.
Wow, I'm never getting a BMW after watching this. Thanks for the hilarious video, it's very much like me at work as an industrial mechanic. I definitely recommend a light with a magnet or possibly those ones that are flexible
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.
As the recovering Son of a Mechanic, who as a kid, dreaded the shout from the garage to come out and "help" dad with procedures that needed more than two hands... this borders on PTSD... I'm reminded of a quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - paraphrasing to the occasion... “Repair of BMW require great peace of mind"...
@@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!
I've been watching for 20 minutes, you paused the video for an extended period of time, and I think I've learned how to take off a door panel so far. That's amazing.
I absolutely love your repair videos and enjoy viewing them multiple times. My son has become a believer and has used your service garage. Thank you for helping.
These videos are so addictive. I truly praise the Car Care Nut. So much patience and such a wonderful mechanic. Blessed to have him to show us his amazing talent.
Ahmed, I knew you would fix the window to eliminate the wind noise. I appreciate the struggle to do "simple things" on a BMW. I also thank you for reminding me why I'll never buy one! 🙂
In my opinion we need more mechanics like you and your team! At my work they don't even clean those things or tiregel etc. they don't care! You and your channel are one of the few good once still standing!
I am also a service engineer like you and have encountered situations like this in my line of work. What we realize is that there are many cases that the engineer designing an item knew that he/she was never having to repair/replace that item. If that thought had been put into the design some things would have never happened.
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.
It is frustrating to get a “new” Supra and it’s not one. After all imagine the 3cylinder in the Corrola GR, then imagine 2 of them back to back. What do we have? A 600hp 3.2 TWIN TURBO inline 6! Made by Toyota. Toyota missed an opportunity there for sure.
@@mar.s240 So when Bugatti took two twin turbo W8s as the CONCEPT for their W16 that wasn’t exactly what they did? They took the CONCEPT and engineered a new engine from it. Obviously you can’t just stick 2 individual engines together but you can look at them and build according to the idea.
talking loudly to yourself on this job shows a new and spicy feature of yours. can you do that more often? It is so entertaining. Being German and living in Germany I enyoyed your insides into the German charakter very much. Having spent 25 years of my life in Chile I can confirm your findings. saludos
I had a BMW 2002 that I bought in 1976; it was a great car. what came after was that my brother bought a BMW 320. Its as not a good car, he had an automatic tranny in it. I like standard transmissions. I would not buy a BMW or an car that is a BMW other than the name. I drive a 2006 Toyota Corolla. It's a fine car, maybe the best car I have owned in at least 25 years. Best decision I made, and yeah, I paid a bit for it.
I’m glad to see you conduct a repair showing the entire process. I’ve been considering buying one and was curious to see how complicated it is if it ever needed repairs, etc. and I’m glad I was able to see it here.
I own the 2000 Toyota Camry. LE with the 2.2 l, 4 cylinder. Great car. Absolutely fantastic driver. I know a lady that has one of these cars and it has 667000 miles on it. She bought it brand new from the dealer back in 01. It's a year newer than mine, but they are a 100% identical. Same engine, same transmission. It's the same car. Nothing really changed on these within that time frame. This is when toyota was toyota
what did she do to get that many miles? I had a 1996 with that engine and had 227 miles and drove like brand new. sold it to an illegal immigrant for 1350. i think it's still running because has a new timing belt new transmission flush. damn i was stupid selling it.
@MattPark-vp2ud I sold my car too but I bought it for a freind and I was having him do payments but in the mean time I drive it anywhere I wanted that was the Agreement that we both came up with. And he was perfectly fine with that scene that I was helping him with a vehicle. During the 2 years, it took him to basically pay it off. I almost wanted to pay him back the money and to keep it. But he really needed the car. And I already had a vehicle so I sold it to him. And he said it's the best freaking car he's ever owned in his life. Y said it's phenomenal. He said it doesn't get the greatest gas mileage, but he said it's decent. He's getting about 28 to 29 miles per gallon highway. 25 city.
I owned two BMWs, never again. You do have to admire their ability to complicate everything. My advice to a friend considering buying one is to sober up first. They might be fun if leased and given back before the warranty runs out. Now you’ll appreciate the Toyota ethos.
I can definitely appreciate Toyota engineering, my 2003 MR2 can be almost all disassembled with 10,12 and 14 mm sockets. It still needs some different sizes but they are not all over the place. Such an easy car to work on even with the engine at the back.
I bet the dealer knew what was wrong, but also knew what a PITA it is to make the repair, under warranty, so they made a decision to screw the customer. There's nothing in it for them ( the dealer) . Never buy a BMW. You are a saint for doing the job. You could have fixed 12 Toyota/Lexus latches in the time you spent on this.
I could feel your frustration through the camera! I work on most brands and a LOT of german cars (body shop) It's a definitely learning curve. Not sure on this one, but on a lot of model you can cheat and don't have to remove the glass or the regulator to get the latch out. What's worse is that you can't really test the glass until you connect everything including the door panel. A lot of times when we romove a door, we have to plug the harness and the latch in just to be able to start and move the car so we don't have to push it around the shop. Or when pulling into a bay and try to lign up the car to the lift, you can' open the door to see exactly where the wheel is. If you roll down the window and try to stick your head out the window, the seat weight sensor will also kick the car into park thinking there' no driver in the seat. Painful and frustrating.
Love this video as I love Toyota/Lexus coupes. I own a 2004 Lexus SC430 with 81,000 miles in excellent condition. Please, please, please do a video on the Lexus SC 300/400 and 430 please!!!
Used to own an e46 3 series. The window regulators were a known weak point on those.. I ve got so good at replacing those, i could do it blindfolded. My 3 had about 6 of those, and a few friends also brought theirs over. It was not hard, but it was the framed window model…. My experience with the car was that you were expected to know the tricks of a job and then it went smooth. Bentley manuals had most of the tricks described. Ive owned 3 generations of 3 series, with each new onethere was more plastic and less durability to the assembly. The rise in quality control compensated for some time the drop in construction durability, so perceived quality went up while the actual durability of the design slipped. I will not own another one as i no longer see the inner quality and durability the brand once had.
I would suggest you invest in a pry lever to remove the door card instead of tugging it with so much force with your bare hands. It's cheap to begin with and can be used for a multitude of things and other makes as well. More so you make it sound as if it's such a pain to work on it. Haha😂. Cheers dude. ✌️
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.
FYI 25 years ago BMW Z3 door parts were individual and you can replace single parts without removing everything on the door. Cost saving must have driven a complete unit install. That door closed sensor switch was also moved to the door latch in 1994 why was it moved back? The auto window drop allowed for a tight seal when closed and keeps the door seal from ripping.
The car care nut is a saint. Not a single "crikey mate" or a single "ay caramba" like my father (a Mexican dude) used to say. Usually fun videos, but this one was painful. Keep up the good work!
Reminds me a bit of playing the piano. Some composers, say Chopin, write so that the keys fall beautifully into the hands making it just slightly easier to play than it looks. Others, perhaps Mozart, make no accommodation for the hands so it is harder than it looks. Working on my Toyotas or Lexus, there is evidence that the engineers gave some thought to the people who might have to work on them. With my E36 M3, the engineers couldn't give a damn about how difficult they made life for mechanics and that's a nearly 30 year old car, so this is nothing recent from BMW.
Plenty of manufacturers optimize for manufacturing/initial assembly and don't care much for maintenance down the line. Sometimes things are kept complicated on purpose to make business out of thin air for dealership services and the after-care industry (which in turn keeps recommending the manufacturer)...
My neighbor is a retired VW and Audi tech. He was confused by my 2003 and 2009 Camrys 😂. They are so simple to work on, even the V6. But seriously, seen you pull a 2AZ-FE in less time.
AMD, A lot of us will be very relieved when Toyota goes back to building all their own cars. 😁The big lesson we learn in this video is that BMWs are a pain in the neck for mechanics and a pain in the wallet for customers. 🤑 BTW Do you record your own music 50:04 in the TCCN Studio? 🤔
You never owned a bmw it seems😂😂my N52 has over 270k miles bmw x5 xdrive30i, it’s only a pain because folks wait until shit gets damn near broke to fix then cry and say it’s expensive and DONT do preventative maintenance
Toyota does't care about the sports car market. What sells are their SUVs and trucks. 86 was made with Suburu and Toyota gave the reigns to BMW for the Supra. The GR Corolla barely made it through and that's not a cheap sprots car
I'm a Porsche & BMW (motorcycles & cars) enthusiast and will be the first to admit the Germans over-engineer everything. To the Nth degree. To be fair, given your mechanical acumen this job would be streamlined each successive time you had to address it, consistent with any learning curve. I do appreciate all the drama and love your channel. My best to Mrs. Car Care Nut and may the Lord bless you and keep you too.
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.
Who would have thought Toyota technicians would find BMWs annoying to work on. Pro tip for you all: BMWs are designed to be leased for three years by people who are easy to separate from their money, then they're sold or leased "certified pre owned", then auctioned off and dumped on a used car lot with a 30 day warranty. By the time they're ten years old, if by some miracle they have been maintained by the first two careless owners, maybe an enthusiast can enjoy it. If not, it ends up snowballing overdue maintenance to the point nobody can afford to own it because the maintenance needed to keep it running exceeds the value of the car, which has now depreciated 80%. Finally it gets passed around from one used car lot to another until finally ALL of the warning lights are illuminated on the dash at all times, and it gets parted out.
You never drove a bmw to seems 😂😂because if you did you wouldn’t have made such a comment, bet money my 2010 bmw x5 xdrive30i has more miles and faster and stronger then your car 😂😂plus has then legendary N52 engine
@@miguelvega7769 How many valve covers have you replaced? Does it leak as much oil as an RX8 consumes? Vanos solenoids? Thermostats? Gonna bet that BMW spent more time in a shop in the past 15 years (i have no idea if it's an MY10 or off to the lot in 2010) than that Camry in 29 years. Only sane reason to buy a BMW is if you have a Prius as a daily.
@@eivis13Stupidest comment I have read in a while. You have never owned a BMW. The Vanos Solenoids do not fail if the car’s oil is changed at the correct intervals. So those who have those faults is due to using bad and prolonged oil changes. Thermostats do not fail either if ones changes the coolant as appropriate. There are very few 30 year old Camrys on the road.
@@miguelvega7769 First learn english before making any comment, second BMW owners are the biggest losers ever, wasting money on a pile of trash that depreciates like a rock and wont even run properly after 100k miles.
I love how Toyota was like yeah let me ask the worse and most unreliable brand to make us a motor for our most iconic brand name, what the hell were they thinking.
B58 has been proven to be a reliable engine. If the engine was so bad, call Toyota ask them why they needed to partner with BMW for engine/chassis/suspension etc. Hint, hint, it's maybe because Toyota actually wanted to make an excellent driving sports car with a great engine and suspension. Look at the recent problems with Toyota's turbo engines, Toyota finally decided to move into the 2020s with their engines and viola they have problems. Of course Totoya will be reliable their engines, interiors, and tech is a good 13 years behind. The best part is people are still comparing Bimmers with Toyotas. Apples and oranges.
I work for a German company in the US. I would describe their method as "try hard to do it right the first time, but if not... well, no one will probably know." They spend a lot of time and money trying to do it right, but after a production line is set up, they will not question anything. Ever. It's hard to tell if they are scared to step on other people's toes (no teamwork)("hey so and so, this is not right"), or if they are scared at looking bad in front of their boss (they have a very top-down management style).
As a native German, I’d like to chime in. Top-down management style is somewhat correct, but the “little person” is not beholden by the system. There isn’t an upper management worship system like in Japan. We have some aggressive automotive unions in Germany, who do much of the interfacing between management and production line. The assembly teams are consulted when it comes to “how complicated can we make this thing.” The reason why many, not just German car companies, make cars impossible to work on….is money. They love locking in their customer as tight as possible. Once your free maintenance runs out, you still have to go to the dealership because no one else has the tools and code machines. Honestly, as a German, I wish we wouldn’t always overcomplicate things…but we do! We are very deep thinkers…and if you think long enough about how to best assemble a high tech car door…you’ll end up with this nightmare 😆
Very happy to not be a car mechanic now. What an infinite amount of patience needed for such a fix. Was gonna write small fix, but it seems there are no small fixes on that kind of car
The fact that you didn't curse like a sailor is entertaining in itself. You have the patience of a saint.
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.
@@wesstubbs3472 Yeah or sweating your ass off and uncomfortable right, I couldn't focus like that in my old shop.
Notice the editing techniques: fast forward (muted) and black screens ("15 Minutes Later"). Now it's G-Rated.
Cursing like a sailor when the camera isn't rolling
Great, 6 hours x $100 pee hour is $600 for labor.
That MR2 is sitting in the back and looking at the Supra like: "Kids are so fragile these days."
😂😂😂
🤣
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 😂
Im a 24 years experience bmw mechanic and is so interesting to see someone else working on bmw car the first time, have fun my friend!😃
Is this a common issue or maybe something caused when the window was tinted and got wet
How do you find bmw are the lot easier for you to fix I guess now day s
@@zumcrew
It's always entertaining watching someone else struggle with German 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
BMW managed to over complicate a simple door-latch that can make the car inoperable. Truly marvelous engineering 👏🏽
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.
I took the door apart of my Rav4 Prime in just a few minutes. Re-drilled the speaker holes, installed new speakers, removed the mirrors, installed the new sequential blinkers (turn signals) and put the cover back on in half an hour. All together it took 1 hour for 2 doors. Great Toyota engineering. Most of the time it needs 10mm socket, plastic pry tool and a screwdriver.
He is the mechanic version of Bob Ross , even same tone of voice and demeanor 😂 I would watch his painting shows all the time
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."
5:24 "I reeeally dislike working on BMW's but.... we have to, this is one for the team"
I lost it at that point. XD
Broke My Wallet😂
thats why i have mad respect for M539 Restoration in youtube, coz he restores bmw's and knows all about them. he's not even a mechanic, he's an IT guy
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
Master class in how to cuss without using one swear word! So glad that I never bought a BMW.
Great video.
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, UA-cam 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.
"Take one for the team" 😂lol, being dramatic when not being dramatic! 😂😂😂 Best mechanic 🧰 show ever!
Convinced me to NEVER buy a BMW
@@texZR2 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!
@texZR2 hes making it look so much harder than it is. This job is easily DIYable in under 2 hours.
Thank you for confirming everything I've read/heard about the design and working on German cars over the last 30+ years of never having to replace that part on my multiple '90's Toyotas.
I’m from Kurdistan region of Iraq, I’m a Lexus owner.
I love to visit this guy one day, he’s kind and loyal to his job.
Keep up Mr. Car care nut. You show true commitment to your profession.
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.
That was easily one of the most painful fixes I’ve ever watched….also kudos to you for not uttering a single expletive!
I am an automotive engineer and you summarized perfectly the German mindset. Complexity for complexity sake. It is in fact the BMW business model.
Now you have to ask yourself, why? Are German engineers dumb people? I have worked with many German engineers. They are not dumb. So why? Complexity exists for profit and as it turns out, it is sometimes harder to design something simple to perform the same task.
As to why Toyota adopted BMW door architecture and not a LC500 door structure you referenced? Simple. The latch switch is part and parcel of the BMW harness which utilizes BMW body control modules. The Supra as you point out is a BMW through and through. A LC500 door architecture which is much simpler and even more elegant in design is incompatible with BMW's BCM's.
The deceitful world we live in if not smart enough to understand 'many' modern cars are designed with excessive complexity for profit and replacement part sales out of warranty.
It has grown, much worse in the last even 5 years. Hybrids with redundant drivelines aka two powertrains in one automobile are an absolute joke and automaker money grab.
Hard to buy a good, simple analog car now. Automakers know the public is ignorant and take advantage of this fact.
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.
BMW technician here: you can get wiring diagrams for BMW's from the TIS (Technical Information System), and in ISTA. Just gotta know where to look. ISTA does have a bit of a convoluted process for diagnosing things, but once you get used to the way it does things, it becomes second nature. It's all about what you're used to, because I always feel like everything is strange when I see a Toyota, since I've only ever worked on BMW/Mercedes/Audi.
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!🤦🏾🤣🤣
I love all these BMW people saying they aren't harder to work on. Replacing the door latch switch is a very easy job on a Toyota as well as the button that identifies when the door is open. You could easily replace both in under an hour and then have time left to take a good break to drink a soda. Of course, the door ajar button never actually breaks in a Toyota (I've had 7 that have gone well over 200,000 miles and never had a problem with it).
On the bright side of things, you will be regarded as the expert in BMW door disassembly etc so everybody will come to you to do this!! BRAVO!!
😂
Sounds like a curse!
@@jimkelly1613 🤣
I'll be buying a Lexus IS500 this year. A friend of mine said why don't I get the Supra, is a sportier car. I am gonna send him this video.
On another note, don't remember a video where Mr Car Care Nut was this annoyed
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.
I couldn't tell a battery from a screwdriver myself, but it must take a lot of expertise and confidence to undertake a task of this kind before the entire world. But what I find even more commendable is his honesty in acknowledging what he doesn't know, and groping towards a solution. I suppose it helps to be a great mechanic to begin with, but that doesn't make the effort less remarkable, in my ignorant view at least.
The first 15 minutes is SO much how it is to be a DIY guy on anything inside any door! It's almost painful to see you struggle the way an unknowledgable person like me does.
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
there wascan intetesting remark that fasteners are so different that it should be a nightmare to assemble the car. And that points to something missing, because engineers may not care about customers and ease of repair, but the surely care about efficiency of production
@@Sam-go3mb Not just Toyota. I've never had a problem with removing the door panels in the two Fords that I own. Same thing, a few screws and a couple of bolts, unclip harness and it comes right off. It seems to be a German thing with their cars, specifically.
BMW dealer tech here, I feel bad for my fellow Toyota techs when these were introduced to the lineup, it's quite a complex beast but once you get the hang of things it's not too bad to work on because after all it is just a rebadge Z4
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.
Ahhh I love that you mention the door switch that Toyota has used since the 80’s. I mentioned it in your previous video regarding cars being to complex nowadays
I asked my high school buddy why he has 5 BMWs. He said he needs that many so he can have one running to drive.
lol
😂😂😂😂😂
... 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.
51:32 “I have never seen a design this ridiculous before!”
German engineers: “Halten mein Bier.”
The reason you’re so successful is you have the best voice in UA-cam automotive!
In some ways it is reassuring that an expert at one brand is baffled by another. It makes it obvious that there's a learning curve no matter where you are along it.
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.
Thanks AMD! I appreciate all the care you put into fixing my latch!!!! Maybe I’ll get an LC in the future to make you happy 😂
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!
I tip my hat off to you Sir for being SOOO tolerant with this repair! Kudos to you!
You have the patience of Job! You kept your sense of humor the whole time and not once did you get flustered. Job well done!
Turned a wrench on many old BMW's. Would not get near a modern one. Great channel.
This Mechanic is very passionate! I wish you would work on my car. Don't get upset, don't break anything. You are a very calm person!
"The regulator got jealous. You stay there!" 😂😂😂 Such a great off the cuff joke. Your persistence and patience is definitely a great asset when working on cars. God bless you.
3:59 "renew" is a direct translation of the German "erneuern". "Erneuern" means renew or overhaul in German but nevertheless is sometimes used espacially by car companies when they really mean replace. It sounds as silly in normal German as is sounds in English. The proper word in German and English is of course ersetzen / replace.
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.
Recently went through a 2016 camry 4cyl auto, full fluids, belts, hoses, water pump, stat, coolant, filters, etc, to get it ready for our out of state college kid to use, 14hrs away, for the next year or two. Have to say that out of all cars I have ever worked on since 1989, this one made the most sense. Layout, design, repairability, and engineering are all superb. Japan can still teach the world alot about sensible design for the buyer's benefit, not their own.
Oh how tempting is to own BMW.
I lived in Germany and drove my first Toyota Corolla. When the battery was low, I pushed her with door open, jumped inside and in a second she came alive with engine running. 960 kg/2100lbs.It was back in 1992.
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.
You sir are a patient man.
A good mechanic has lots of patience
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!!!!!🤣
when he opens the trunk at the beginning to remove the latch i almost died. hahaha just the battery, i thought he had to start there to get to the latch 😅
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. UA-cam 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 work at a shop that deals with nothing but BMWs. Since we know how to fix most of these things now and what to look for, I would definitely recommend Toyota for anyone looking to buy a car. Even tho I do own and drive bmw.
"i brought a philips, to a bmw."😂
I laughed so hard at that. “I’m so innocent” 😆
the way this guys speaks, is just amazing to listen.
Bob Ross as a mechanic 😂
I have been listening to Scotty Kilmer rant against BMWs for years so, I'm glad to get a second opinion about this brand. Thanks for providing this video. May the Lord bless you and keep you and have a wonderful day.
I own 23 years old BMW, And I see no problems with parts disassembly... simply because after so many years is disassembles by itself
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 have a 25 year old BMW Z4. Aparently I bought the only well made BMW. The engine is rock solid. Not much to complain about, really. Only Z4 owners are happy 😅
@@ofusowre7620 I owned a dozen BMW's and I can say the Z3 was NOT representative of your Z4 experience.
What a pile of shit that car was. Leaking back window and replaced with a ripple in it by the dealer. Diff that started to fail just outside warranty. Squeaks and rattles up the wazoo. Paint that started to dull in four years. Stereo that failed. Then CD stacker box failed. Roof that wouldn't retract unless asked nicely and just crap fit and finish.
Never again will BMW get a cent from me.
@@jamesdanton9033 Sorry about your Z3. Very good looking car you got there. But, yes. I have heard of several people saying the same thing. Loads of issues with Z3s. I can only speculate, but I believe that BMW wanted to compete with Porshe Boxter back when they created the Z4. And they actually got a few of their best people to create the Z4. I m not joking with you. The car is very well made. Everything is solid. Interior, exterior, engine. Everything. If you still got the Z3. Sell it and buy a Z4 instead. It s not only me who is happy with the car. Z4 owners in general are very pleased with the car. It s not like my car is even a low milage car either. Closing in on 150 000 Kmt. Only you still got to be careful with the roof. The only common issue I ve heard of. Because, that s also a weakness with the Z4. The small roof motors can be exposed to water. It s a summer car so 90 percent of the time I drive it when it s sunny anyways. But, something to be aware of. Other than that. The engine runs like a Lexus or Toyota engine. Can run forever.
Thank you, AMD! I was actually considering trading in my 2018 Toyota Camry XSE V6 for a 2024 BMW 340i later this year, but after watching this video, I've completely changed my mind! The amount of time and effort it takes to replace a door latch on this BMW is absolutely crazy. This video has convinced me to steer clear of BMWs. I've learned so much from your video, and I'll definitely be sticking with my trusty Toyota from now on!
If its not broken.....
sad really. that part should last 20 years. not just a few.. ha ha
You can still get a Lexus!
Get a 2019 Lexus ES 350 F Sport. Fun car to have in my opinion. And of course reliability.
This video is a great picture of how many of us DIY-ers feel doing various work on our cars when we can only learn off of UA-cam videos and repair manuals. I mean, it beats paying thousands to get the repairs done, but for some jobs, saying it's very difficult is an understatement. But thank you for your videos which really do help.
Wow, I'm never getting a BMW after watching this. Thanks for the hilarious video, it's very much like me at work as an industrial mechanic. I definitely recommend a light with a magnet or possibly those ones that are flexible
I can’t see the dealer technicians taking this kind of care when doing this job especially when they have a specific time frame
As a BMW technician we actually do. Customers will notice poor workmanship
@@elora2525 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
As the recovering Son of a Mechanic, who as a kid, dreaded the shout from the garage to come out and "help" dad with procedures that needed more than two hands... this borders on PTSD... I'm reminded of a quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - paraphrasing to the occasion... “Repair of BMW require great peace of mind"...
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!
man that was so easy... i remember watching the beginning bit, and then i woke up near the end, and it was all done. great work. soothing voice 10/10
I've been watching for 20 minutes, you paused the video for an extended period of time, and I think I've learned how to take off a door panel so far. That's amazing.
I am German, but I’ve been buying Toyota for over 25 years.
The reason why? AMD is explaining it. Gorgeous and very entertaining 😅
I love the difference in the East v West car building engineering. Thank you for taking the time and not swearing at the camera.
I absolutely love your repair videos and enjoy viewing them multiple times. My son has become a believer and has used your service garage. Thank you for helping.
These videos are so addictive. I truly praise the Car Care Nut. So much patience and such a wonderful mechanic. Blessed to have him to show us his amazing talent.
Ahmed, I knew you would fix the window to eliminate the wind noise. I appreciate the struggle to do "simple things" on a BMW. I also thank you for reminding me why I'll never buy one! 🙂
I stopped thinking about BMW and Mercedes cars long time ago. I almost forgot they exist, you should do the same.
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
In my opinion we need more mechanics like you and your team! At my work they don't even clean those things or tiregel etc. they don't care! You and your channel are one of the few good once still standing!
You are unique! A non cussing mechanic.
not me!!!
I've seen them in their natural habitat, but they're rare.
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Really love this guy and his Toyota knowledge.
8 minutes in and I love it - thank you for showing us what really happens when even the best work on frustrating cars. 👍
I am also a service engineer like you and have encountered situations like this in my line of work. What we realize is that there are many cases that the engineer designing an item knew that he/she was never having to repair/replace that item. If that thought had been put into the design some things would have never happened.
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.
Well that was timing, posted 8 sec ago.
Keep up the amazing work! Hard work and ethics pay off.
As an independent automotive tech, servicing all makes and models of all model years, welcome to my hell.
You just reassured me in my decision to NOT buy a new Supra. This is exactly the kind of thing I was afraid of. I'll keep my old Supra and my Z.
Yep. I wanted one until I learned BMW has their paws in the build. Not only NO, but aw Hell naw.
It is frustrating to get a “new” Supra and it’s not one. After all imagine the 3cylinder in the Corrola GR, then imagine 2 of them back to back. What do we have? A 600hp 3.2 TWIN TURBO inline 6! Made by Toyota. Toyota missed an opportunity there for sure.
Ok Toyotard
@@ivancliff2514that’s not how engines work
@@mar.s240 So when Bugatti took two twin turbo W8s as the CONCEPT for their W16 that wasn’t exactly what they did? They took the CONCEPT and engineered a new engine from it. Obviously you can’t just stick 2 individual engines together but you can look at them and build according to the idea.
talking loudly to yourself on this job shows a new and spicy feature of yours.
can you do that more often? It is so entertaining.
Being German and living in Germany I enyoyed your insides into the German charakter very much. Having spent 25 years of my life in Chile I can confirm your findings.
saludos
I thought the same thing, it's entertaining, it's nice to hear the thought process as it's happening
Amd, you are my hero! And yes German Engineering......I know I USED to work for a German company......I'll never get that time back.
So glad you made this video. The insane designs that fail to account for maintenance is sad. Keep up the good work!
I had a BMW 2002 that I bought in 1976; it was a great car. what came after was that my brother bought a BMW 320. Its as not a good car, he had an automatic tranny in it. I like standard transmissions. I would not buy a BMW or an car that is a BMW other than the name. I drive a 2006 Toyota Corolla. It's a fine car, maybe the best car I have owned in at least 25 years. Best decision I made, and yeah, I paid a bit for it.
I’m glad to see you conduct a repair showing the entire process. I’ve been considering buying one and was curious to see how complicated it is if it ever needed repairs, etc. and I’m glad I was able to see it here.
I own the 2000 Toyota Camry. LE with the 2.2 l, 4 cylinder. Great car. Absolutely fantastic driver. I know a lady that has one of these cars and it has 667000 miles on it. She bought it brand new from the dealer back in 01. It's a year newer than mine, but they are a 100% identical. Same engine, same transmission. It's the same car. Nothing really changed on these within that time frame. This is when toyota was toyota
what did she do to get that many miles? I had a 1996 with that engine and had 227 miles and drove like brand new. sold it to an illegal immigrant for 1350. i think it's still running because has a new timing belt new transmission flush. damn i was stupid selling it.
No need to complain. Everything is good now, but the best is always ahead. My Corolla considers herself a Land Cruiser at heart.
@MattPark-vp2ud I sold my car too but I bought it for a freind and I was having him do payments but in the mean time I drive it anywhere I wanted that was the Agreement that we both came up with. And he was perfectly fine with that scene that I was helping him with a vehicle. During the 2 years, it took him to basically pay it off. I almost wanted to pay him back the money and to keep it. But he really needed the car. And I already had a vehicle so I sold it to him. And he said it's the best freaking car he's ever owned in his life. Y said it's phenomenal. He said it doesn't get the greatest gas mileage, but he said it's decent. He's getting about 28 to 29 miles per gallon highway. 25 city.
Wow, I guess that lady is ubering since uber has appeared
@@andreybezrodny4510 nice!!
I owned two BMWs, never again. You do have to admire their ability to complicate everything. My advice to a friend considering buying one is to sober up first. They might be fun if leased and given back before the warranty runs out. Now you’ll appreciate the Toyota ethos.
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?
I can definitely appreciate Toyota engineering, my 2003 MR2 can be almost all disassembled with 10,12 and 14 mm sockets. It still needs some different sizes but they are not all over the place. Such an easy car to work on even with the engine at the back.
I bet the dealer knew what was wrong, but also knew what a PITA it is to make the repair, under warranty, so they made a decision to screw the customer. There's nothing in it for them ( the dealer) . Never buy a BMW. You are a saint for doing the job. You could have fixed 12 Toyota/Lexus latches in the time you spent on this.
I guess we all have to only buy one brand like commodities
AudiBMWMercedesPorscheVolkswagon.... All the same stress 😩🥴🤯related products.
I could feel your frustration through the camera! I work on most brands and a LOT of german cars (body shop) It's a definitely learning curve. Not sure on this one, but on a lot of model you can cheat and don't have to remove the glass or the regulator to get the latch out. What's worse is that you can't really test the glass until you connect everything including the door panel. A lot of times when we romove a door, we have to plug the harness and the latch in just to be able to start and move the car so we don't have to push it around the shop. Or when pulling into a bay and try to lign up the car to the lift, you can' open the door to see exactly where the wheel is. If you roll down the window and try to stick your head out the window, the seat weight sensor will also kick the car into park thinking there' no driver in the seat. Painful and frustrating.
I remember changing the door lock actuator of my 03 Honda, and I thought that was hard because I couldn't see anything. This is a whole another level
Love this video as I love Toyota/Lexus coupes. I own a 2004 Lexus SC430 with 81,000 miles in excellent condition. Please, please, please do a video on the Lexus SC 300/400 and 430 please!!!
ugly car
A German car will never be in my driveway. Again your patience is outstanding.
I haven't been to the channel in months, and I have to say - the production quality has increased TREMENDOUSLY! Kudos! The video looks amazing!
Used to own an e46 3 series. The window regulators were a known weak point on those.. I ve got so good at replacing those, i could do it blindfolded. My 3 had about 6 of those, and a few friends also brought theirs over. It was not hard, but it was the framed window model…. My experience with the car was that you were expected to know the tricks of a job and then it went smooth. Bentley manuals had most of the tricks described. Ive owned 3 generations of 3 series, with each new onethere was more plastic and less durability to the assembly. The rise in quality control compensated for some time the drop in construction durability, so perceived quality went up while the actual durability of the design slipped. I will not own another one as i no longer see the inner quality and durability the brand once had.
Your clothes matches the car interior 😂
Watching you working is after work therapy for me 😄
Dark colors hide the grease stains.
I would suggest you invest in a pry lever to remove the door card instead of tugging it with so much force with your bare hands. It's cheap to begin with and can be used for a multitude of things and other makes as well. More so you make it sound as if it's such a pain to work on it. Haha😂. Cheers dude. ✌️
Thanks for breaking my obsession with wanting a BMW convertible. It’s never going to happen now! 😂😂😂
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.
FYI 25 years ago BMW Z3 door parts were individual and you can replace single parts without removing everything on the door. Cost saving must have driven a complete unit install. That door closed sensor switch was also moved to the door latch in 1994 why was it moved back? The auto window drop allowed for a tight seal when closed and keeps the door seal from ripping.
That's the industry now. Want to replace a headlight lens? Too bad buy a whole new unit
This is why i LOVE my 2015 Chevy Impala. Easy to work on (when needed). 177,579 miles of reliability so far. 💯👍🏾
This entire video of AMD’s comments is me exactly doing a deep dive on any part replacement 😂
We are sooo proud of you
The car care nut is a saint. Not a single "crikey mate" or a single "ay caramba" like my father (a Mexican dude) used to say. Usually fun videos, but this one was painful. Keep up the good work!
Studio looks great!!
Reminds me a bit of playing the piano. Some composers, say Chopin, write so that the keys fall beautifully into the hands making it just slightly easier to play than it looks. Others, perhaps Mozart, make no accommodation for the hands so it is harder than it looks. Working on my Toyotas or Lexus, there is evidence that the engineers gave some thought to the people who might have to work on them. With my E36 M3, the engineers couldn't give a damn about how difficult they made life for mechanics and that's a nearly 30 year old car, so this is nothing recent from BMW.
Plenty of manufacturers optimize for manufacturing/initial assembly and don't care much for maintenance down the line. Sometimes things are kept complicated on purpose to make business out of thin air for dealership services and the after-care industry (which in turn keeps recommending the manufacturer)...
I sure hope composers care more about beauty of the music than about how easy it is to play :)
My neighbor is a retired VW and Audi tech. He was confused by my 2003 and 2009 Camrys 😂. They are so simple to work on, even the V6. But seriously, seen you pull a 2AZ-FE in less time.
AMD, A lot of us will be very relieved when Toyota goes back to building all their own cars. 😁The big lesson we learn in this video is that BMWs are a pain in the neck for mechanics and a pain in the wallet for customers. 🤑 BTW Do you record your own music 50:04 in the TCCN Studio? 🤔
It’s gonna happen with the 2027 MR2
You never owned a bmw it seems😂😂my N52 has over 270k miles bmw x5 xdrive30i, it’s only a pain because folks wait until shit gets damn near broke to fix then cry and say it’s expensive and DONT do preventative maintenance
@@miguelvega7769 and this door latch is something that "folks wait until shit gets damn near broke" hm?
Toyota does't care about the sports car market. What sells are their SUVs and trucks. 86 was made with Suburu and Toyota gave the reigns to BMW for the Supra. The GR Corolla barely made it through and that's not a cheap sprots car
@@rightlanehog3151 what is turn buckle & why does it step on the break and stall my 2004 toyota Prius
I'm a Porsche & BMW (motorcycles & cars) enthusiast and will be the first to admit the Germans over-engineer everything. To the Nth degree. To be fair, given your mechanical acumen this job would be streamlined each successive time you had to address it, consistent with any learning curve. I do appreciate all the drama and love your channel. My best to Mrs. Car Care Nut and may the Lord bless you and keep you too.
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.
I'm a carpenter and recently switched from Makita to Milwaukee power tools, you won't regret it they're fantastic tools
WGAF!!!!
Who would have thought Toyota technicians would find BMWs annoying to work on. Pro tip for you all: BMWs are designed to be leased for three years by people who are easy to separate from their money, then they're sold or leased "certified pre owned", then auctioned off and dumped on a used car lot with a 30 day warranty. By the time they're ten years old, if by some miracle they have been maintained by the first two careless owners, maybe an enthusiast can enjoy it. If not, it ends up snowballing overdue maintenance to the point nobody can afford to own it because the maintenance needed to keep it running exceeds the value of the car, which has now depreciated 80%. Finally it gets passed around from one used car lot to another until finally ALL of the warning lights are illuminated on the dash at all times, and it gets parted out.
BMW = Buy More Warranty… Love my 95 Camry 2.2 liter ❤️❤️
You never drove a bmw to seems 😂😂because if you did you wouldn’t have made such a comment, bet money my 2010 bmw x5 xdrive30i has more miles and faster and stronger then your car 😂😂plus has then legendary N52 engine
@@miguelvega7769 How many valve covers have you replaced? Does it leak as much oil as an RX8 consumes? Vanos solenoids? Thermostats?
Gonna bet that BMW spent more time in a shop in the past 15 years (i have no idea if it's an MY10 or off to the lot in 2010) than that Camry in 29 years.
Only sane reason to buy a BMW is if you have a Prius as a daily.
@@eivis13lol the N52 is dead reliable compared to the RX8 renesis
@@eivis13Stupidest comment I have read in a while. You have never owned a BMW.
The Vanos Solenoids do not fail if the car’s oil is changed at the correct intervals. So those who have those faults is due to using bad and prolonged oil changes. Thermostats do not fail either if ones changes the coolant as appropriate. There are very few 30 year old Camrys on the road.
@@miguelvega7769 First learn english before making any comment, second BMW owners are the biggest losers ever, wasting money on a pile of trash that depreciates like a rock and wont even run properly after 100k miles.
This video makes me happy; I really love your demeanor. Very enjoyable to watch :)
I love how Toyota was like yeah let me ask the worse and most unreliable brand to make us a motor for our most iconic brand name, what the hell were they thinking.
B58 has been proven to be a reliable engine. If the engine was so bad, call Toyota ask them why they needed to partner with BMW for engine/chassis/suspension etc. Hint, hint, it's maybe because Toyota actually wanted to make an excellent driving sports car with a great engine and suspension. Look at the recent problems with Toyota's turbo engines, Toyota finally decided to move into the 2020s with their engines and viola they have problems. Of course Totoya will be reliable their engines, interiors, and tech is a good 13 years behind. The best part is people are still comparing Bimmers with Toyotas. Apples and oranges.
If you think Toyota makes better cars than BMW you’re on something lol. Just drive a BMW once and you will see the difference..
I work for a German company in the US. I would describe their method as "try hard to do it right the first time, but if not... well, no one will probably know." They spend a lot of time and money trying to do it right, but after a production line is set up, they will not question anything. Ever. It's hard to tell if they are scared to step on other people's toes (no teamwork)("hey so and so, this is not right"), or if they are scared at looking bad in front of their boss (they have a very top-down management style).
It's their culture. Once a master speaks, the citizen doesn't think on his own. Their entire history worked like this.
As a native German, I’d like to chime in.
Top-down management style is somewhat correct, but the “little person” is not beholden by the system. There isn’t an upper management worship system like in Japan. We have some aggressive automotive unions in Germany, who do much of the interfacing between management and production line.
The assembly teams are consulted when it comes to “how complicated can we make this thing.” The reason why many, not just German car companies, make cars impossible to work on….is money. They love locking in their customer as tight as possible. Once your free maintenance runs out, you still have to go to the dealership because no one else has the tools and code machines.
Honestly, as a German, I wish we wouldn’t always overcomplicate things…but we do! We are very deep thinkers…and if you think long enough about how to best assemble a high tech car door…you’ll end up with this nightmare 😆
Very happy to not be a car mechanic now. What an infinite amount of patience needed for such a fix. Was gonna write small fix, but it seems there are no small fixes on that kind of car