I hate the German MOT when I have to bring my car for it's two year inspection, but when I see these driving deathtraps I'm glad we got decent MOT inspections.
In Mannheim they used to get serious on actual safety items but a carton of Marlboros or a big Jim Beam made the nit-picky stuff look passable. I always enjoyed the younger guys doing chin-ups with the exhaust system and trying to jab a screwdriver through the floor boards.
Sad but true. My mailman has an older small Jeep with a blue million miles on it. He had the transmission changed 2 years ago and no other mechanical problems.
if you drive of the shop and dont notice the lack of oil, you shouldn't ride a car anyway 😂 Red indicator means STOP immediately and not let's see waht happens 😱
That wasn't the transfer case that failed, it was the transmission to transfer case adapter. That is a Ford Super Duty, and it's quite common. In fact, I just replaced one on a 2012 about 2 weeks ago.
Jeep: literally pound a fist on the area aboove the gauge cluster; if things improve, pull the cluster and thoroughly clean the two (or more) sets of spring contacts, spray some electrical contact rust-proof solution on them, reassemble and check things out. Works on mine.....
You always make me happy I retired!😄 Thank You❗ And a Big Thanks to everyone who sends in videos❗ You're doing great! Nothing wrong with your voice mate! But how many viewers don't know almost immediately what's f'd in like %96 of the vids?
The last clip of that Jeep, my first suspect would be whatever the thing is that the driver is trying to operate. Verify that is good and not causing a near-short circuit (drawing way too much current but just not enough to instantly pop the fuse). The next thing to look for would be a bad ground. It looks like something is trying to draw a decent amount of current, the bad ground has too much resistance, so the voltage drops to where everything shuts off (including the thing trying to draw a decent amount of current, or the computer controlling it), then the reduced load allows the voltage to recover, everything powers up again, and the whole cycle starts over again. If all grounds are in order the next suspect would be a bad electrical connection in general that is common to all affected circuits.
People are strange. I bought a car in 1975 from a fellow soldier in Mannheim ,Germany that was full of trash. Went into his apartment to get the registration, cleanest living quarters I was ever inside. Sort of a Jekyll & Hyde situation.
I think a lot do, especially for the more dangerous issues. Most of the time the customers tell me they can't afford the fix and that's why they decline it so it's understandable. But still scary the cars going back on the road when they really shouldn't.
In my country we have mandated inspections each year for our cars. Sometimes I wish we didn’t have these but when I see some of these cars i’m glad we have them.
@batsmusgames7823 Inspections are definitely a double edged sword. Nothing I drive would pass, but I don't drive things that are unsafe. If the Inspections were done at the proper level it would be okay I guess. But they expect perfect. I can't afford perfect
@@The_R-n-I_Guy Yea, there is a happy medium between not passing because of a bad taillight, and not passing because 70% of the frame is peanut brittle.
I once bought very cheap Chevy van. The Pryor owner who supposedly was a mechanic. Put a vise grips on the brake hose. At the rear. Because the brake cylinder leaked very badly.😮
@@mechanicalnightmare Just being nosey, did you hire an American guy to do it so it'd be more relatable to their audience, or did the channel change hands?
Second video reminded me of a story that I was told by a mechanic who worked at Opel. An elderly guy would lease one of the more powerful and sporty cars from Opel’s range. Nothing uncommon so far. When returning the car, not only was it over 4000 km over the limit, but the tires were completely bald, suspension was shot, wheel bearings were toast and a number of other things were quite wrong. Turns out he let two of his grandsons drive the car most of the time, in exchange for them running errands for him. And boy, did they do some driving. Gramps got the shock of his life when getting the repair invoice and the bill for exceeding his km limit and he ended up being blacklisted. He was never allowed to have a lease on a vehicle in his name anywhere, ever again. Screw those scumbags kids.
Truck sitting for a year then the rear diff. Exploded within a day? Been there done that. It was caused by mud daubers building a nest in the diff. vent hose.
I've been working on cars since before I could legally drive. But I'm also cheap and poor. So I've let a lot of things go. But I also know what must be dealt with immediately. A leaky gasket, I'll just check the oil every morning. A worn bushing. I just drive more carefully. But if I was driving and my front end was shaking through the steering wheel. Its parked until its fixed. If the engine temperature goes up passed normal. I'm stopping immediately to find out why and fix it. Im cheap and lazy. Not stupid. Im not gonna blow up my engine or cause an accident on the highway due to lack of repairs. Safety first. Even I know that
I swear to the name of living God, when I saw the clip I thought "The problem is to be found right in front of you, written in 4 shiny letters. Just get out and close the door, problem solved 😅 "
You need to ask the driver if he is serious about letting the mechanic go into a car that is somehow your house now. I wonder if we will start seeing any clips with EV problems and maybe smack about how my car doesn’t have the problems your’s has and it can get fixed in my budget?
The customer asking what the noise is. Check your heat shield above the exhaust. Not uncommon for that stuff to bend or become detached from road debris then just sit on the exhaust. Next would be the exhaust loosing a hangar. Followed by the exhaust loosing a bolt.
8:50 The noise is most likely a loose heat shield rattling against the exhaust. Had this issue and a quite similar noise on my 2010 Toyota Prius. Best regards from Germany 👍
putting a computer inside a taillight housing, then cut on quality control to make sure there is a pool collecting there... no wonder us mechanics look down on engineers. every mechanic with a little understandign and experience can tell you this will not work out in the long run.
Hyundai: It doesn't help that people don't do the MX and don't even check the oil. The lady in front of me when I just had my oil changed, had 1 quart left in the pan.
“It doesn’t brake like it used to” 😂 erm yer it won’t do when there’s no rotors left…..this stuff needs to be mandatory on a driving test so this level of ignorance isn’t accepted.
If the car is unsafe to drive, and a shop releases it to the owner because they refuse to have the repairs done, can the shop be responsible for anything that happens? I saw one video where the customer refused the repairs and drove off. The shop called the police because it was that unsafe to drive.
With that jeep It’s a short or low battery I’ve seen them multiple times. Rusty partly broken connecter or ground to the battery as the suspect for those they used to be the pump back in the day you start to bang the gas station to get them going, which was funny
I'm divided on the opinion but when these deathtraps comes throught the door, the mechanics should be able to "seize" the car and only allow a towing truck to take it away if the customer declines the fix. But it might get abused by dishonest shops.... The US should take after Sweden, mandatory inspection every year in every state and if your car is deemed to unsafe to drive, you hand over the keys and get a big sticker on the windshield (called spanish flag) and you're only allowed to take it away on a trailer or tow truck.
damn well the jeep at the end i know if the tipm module cause mine went and did that for a week before it decided to just give up all together on my jeep. The rest are just damn ... sorry bout your luck
I literally had the odd noise even when off an hour ago My battery was mostly dead, and went flat a bit into the starting routine and something did that until we jumped it
Dead Jeep. No power to the computer. Check the main cable and see if somone cheated the power under the center dash off the computer. My dodge loved to die while driving highway. Found they cheated the power wire to feed accessries. Good luck.
The channel is secretly Kiwi. I think it is the actual person. I did want it to have an Aussie guy or something some of the time so it sounds actually Kiwi now American.
In defence of the Hyundai (rod knock) wasn't that from a manufacturing problem in the American factory (Kia as well) where their were metal filings in the engine block that eventually led to the filings blocking the oil feed into the cylinders? Only happened in US built engines? My Korean built Kia 2.4 GDI has over 200000km with no issues, uses a little oil, has done since day 1. Serviced regularly every 7500 km may have something to do with reliability.
I hate the German MOT when I have to bring my car for it's two year inspection, but when I see these driving deathtraps I'm glad we got decent MOT inspections.
In Mannheim they used to get serious on actual safety items but a carton of Marlboros or a big Jim Beam made the nit-picky stuff look passable. I always enjoyed the younger guys doing chin-ups with the exhaust system and trying to jab a screwdriver through the floor boards.
In Sweden we have inspection every year and every two years on bikes...
And i'm glad for it!
The last vehicle's problem is that it is a freaking Jeep. They are all a piece of crap now.
2000s chrysler product.
@@wyattgardner3552 common problem. Easy fix. Wash the car, clean it out, take it to the Honda sales department. 👍
Sad but true. My mailman has an older small Jeep with a blue million miles on it. He had the transmission changed 2 years ago and no other mechanical problems.
Not true at all. I've got 185K on mine, and it's still going fine.
Customer states,"I am dumb,can you fix me?"
Sorry, can't fix stupid!
Sadly, nothing can fix dumb...
Then denies all repairs
@@the80hdgaming🤯 Their career lays in politics !..
“Nope you’re phukt”
if you drive of the shop and dont notice the lack of oil, you shouldn't ride a car anyway 😂
Red indicator means STOP immediately and not let's see waht happens 😱
That wasn't the transfer case that failed, it was the transmission to transfer case adapter. That is a Ford Super Duty, and it's quite common. In fact, I just replaced one on a 2012 about 2 weeks ago.
Cheers mate! Much appreciated.
Real question, Is there anything that isnt "a common problem" on a Ford. Maybe I hear that a lot because there are so many Fords.
Jeep: literally pound a fist on the area aboove the gauge cluster; if things improve, pull the cluster and thoroughly clean the two (or more) sets of spring contacts, spray some electrical contact rust-proof solution on them, reassemble and check things out.
Works on mine.....
You always make me happy I retired!😄 Thank You❗ And a Big Thanks to everyone who sends in videos❗ You're doing great! Nothing wrong with your voice mate! But how many viewers don't know almost immediately what's f'd in like %96 of the vids?
The last clip of that Jeep, my first suspect would be whatever the thing is that the driver is trying to operate. Verify that is good and not causing a near-short circuit (drawing way too much current but just not enough to instantly pop the fuse). The next thing to look for would be a bad ground. It looks like something is trying to draw a decent amount of current, the bad ground has too much resistance, so the voltage drops to where everything shuts off (including the thing trying to draw a decent amount of current, or the computer controlling it), then the reduced load allows the voltage to recover, everything powers up again, and the whole cycle starts over again. If all grounds are in order the next suspect would be a bad electrical connection in general that is common to all affected circuits.
My money would be on the aftermarket radio wiring
It's a Jeep thing!
I agree with the chapter comment with the mess in the vehicle, "get your managers to turn these vehicles away".
People are strange. I bought a car in 1975 from a fellow soldier in Mannheim ,Germany that was full of trash. Went into his apartment to get the registration, cleanest living quarters I was ever inside. Sort of a Jekyll & Hyde situation.
Interesting.
The description and thumbnail 😂 not stopping on those brakes. So many videos of scary vehicles on the road.
Then they decline the repairs and drive away 😠
@@handy142 eventually carmakers will make it so your car doesn't start until dangerous repairs are made.
4:56
GDi stands for "God Damn it!"
10:13 Oil Change -❌
New Engine - ✔
Should he not get a warning for Oilpressure?
Loving your new format with an index, you've put a lot of work into this. Cheers! You sound like you're a Kiwi Cuz.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm curious how many of these shops show the customer what's wrong when they decline
I think a lot do, especially for the more dangerous issues. Most of the time the customers tell me they can't afford the fix and that's why they decline it so it's understandable. But still scary the cars going back on the road when they really shouldn't.
In my country we have mandated inspections each year for our cars. Sometimes I wish we didn’t have these but when I see some of these cars i’m glad we have them.
@batsmusgames7823
Inspections are definitely a double edged sword. Nothing I drive would pass, but I don't drive things that are unsafe. If the Inspections were done at the proper level it would be okay I guess. But they expect perfect. I can't afford perfect
@@The_R-n-I_Guy Yea, there is a happy medium between not passing because of a bad taillight, and not passing because 70% of the frame is peanut brittle.
@@batsmusgames7823 In the US the states have jurisdiction over how often, if ever, an inspection is needed. No consistency.
I once bought very cheap Chevy van. The Pryor owner who supposedly was a mechanic. Put a vise grips on the brake hose. At the rear. Because the brake cylinder leaked very badly.😮
At 11:50... it's a simple answer.. it's a Jeep !! Biggest pieces of cr@p ever invented !!
I was gonna say the same thing 😂
Somehow I think the aftermarket radio doesn't help with the electrical nightmare that the jeep is to begin with
shimmy steering wheel: I thought that was an optional arm exerciser. Get a pretty good workout driving that thing.
1:46 what a waste of blinker fluid.
10:40 Throttle Body Valve Actuator recalibrate and if doesn't work, replace entire throttle body
Hey bro, did you have an ai voice doing the channel before now? Stoked to hear a kiwi voice!
Nope was a real person doing it before. A lot of people thought it was AI though haha
@@mechanicalnightmare Just being nosey, did you hire an American guy to do it so it'd be more relatable to their audience, or did the channel change hands?
Second video reminded me of a story that I was told by a mechanic who worked at Opel. An elderly guy would lease one of the more powerful and sporty cars from Opel’s range. Nothing uncommon so far.
When returning the car, not only was it over 4000 km over the limit, but the tires were completely bald, suspension was shot, wheel bearings were toast and a number of other things were quite wrong. Turns out he let two of his grandsons drive the car most of the time, in exchange for them running errands for him.
And boy, did they do some driving.
Gramps got the shock of his life when getting the repair invoice and the bill for exceeding his km limit and he ended up being blacklisted. He was never allowed to have a lease on a vehicle in his name anywhere, ever again. Screw those scumbags kids.
People buy expensive cars and can't afford to fix them.😂
Or a twenty year old Nissan, which amounts to the same thing "$$$$$$$$"
Truck sitting for a year then the rear diff. Exploded within a day? Been there done that. It was caused by mud daubers building a nest in the diff. vent hose.
I've been working on cars since before I could legally drive. But I'm also cheap and poor. So I've let a lot of things go. But I also know what must be dealt with immediately. A leaky gasket, I'll just check the oil every morning. A worn bushing. I just drive more carefully. But if I was driving and my front end was shaking through the steering wheel. Its parked until its fixed. If the engine temperature goes up passed normal. I'm stopping immediately to find out why and fix it. Im cheap and lazy. Not stupid. Im not gonna blow up my engine or cause an accident on the highway due to lack of repairs. Safety first. Even I know that
11:20 - That easily explained in one word. "JEEP".
Just Empty Every Pocket 🤣
I swear to the name of living God, when I saw the clip I thought "The problem is to be found right in front of you, written in 4 shiny letters. Just get out and close the door, problem solved 😅 "
You need to ask the driver if he is serious about letting the mechanic go into a car that is somehow your house now. I wonder if we will start seeing any clips with EV problems and maybe smack about how my car doesn’t have the problems your’s has and it can get fixed in my budget?
The customer asking what the noise is. Check your heat shield above the exhaust. Not uncommon for that stuff to bend or become detached from road debris then just sit on the exhaust. Next would be the exhaust loosing a hangar. Followed by the exhaust loosing a bolt.
8:50 The noise is most likely a loose heat shield rattling against the exhaust. Had this issue and a quite similar noise on my 2010 Toyota Prius.
Best regards from Germany 👍
I love Ooredoo mechanic job thank you
Mechanic's Dog States 3:00 : Stop it! It's making me want to pee!
7:00 mark you can hear the mechanic's wife complaining... may be the belt, though?
putting a computer inside a taillight housing, then cut on quality control to make sure there is a pool collecting there... no wonder us mechanics look down on engineers. every mechanic with a little understandign and experience can tell you this will not work out in the long run.
Bruh, the "do3snt brake like it used too"
9:40 nah, it didn’t just stop driving; you tell me how tf you managed to explode a clutch so badly
These bad car owners are out there on the roads with me and you.
You're doing fine with the narration while you look for another person. Is there a way we can chip in for a better mic for you?
Hyundai: It doesn't help that people don't do the MX and don't even check the oil. The lady in front of me when I just had my oil changed, had 1 quart left in the pan.
7:00 kinda sounds like Cartman and his "but moooom"
You can fix with a clothes hanger, and some bondo . 😂😂😂😂
“It doesn’t brake like it used to” 😂 erm yer it won’t do when there’s no rotors left…..this stuff needs to be mandatory on a driving test so this level of ignorance isn’t accepted.
Blend door actuators for the jeep clicking noises
If the car is unsafe to drive, and a shop releases it to the owner because they refuse to have the repairs done, can the shop be responsible for anything that happens? I saw one video where the customer refused the repairs and drove off. The shop called the police because it was that unsafe to drive.
1:58 bro overfilled the blinker fluid
With that jeep It’s a short or low battery I’ve seen them multiple times. Rusty partly broken connecter or ground to the battery as the suspect for those they used to be the pump back in the day you start to bang the gas station to get them going, which was funny
As a license mecanic
In some of these cases I would remove license plates on car .
7:35...you can actually drive many miles but when you stop it will seize up. Sitting at a red light or anywhere else you will go no farther.
10:12 I'm glad I have an oil pressure gauge.
I'm divided on the opinion but when these deathtraps comes throught the door, the mechanics should be able to "seize" the car and only allow a towing truck to take it away if the customer declines the fix.
But it might get abused by dishonest shops....
The US should take after Sweden, mandatory inspection every year in every state and if your car is deemed to unsafe to drive, you hand over the keys and get a big sticker on the windshield (called spanish flag) and you're only allowed to take it away on a trailer or tow truck.
Last video, the problem is its a newer jeep 😂😂😂
Uk mot is every year after three years old,thank goodness.
These make we wonder how these people survive
Car at 2:15 needs a ride to the town dump and the whole car needs to stay there.
That last one with the rear wiper causing the electrics to shut down; my guess is a CAN network fault.
not sure who's dumber, the garage who forgot to put oil back in, or the customer who hears that racket and proceeds to race the engine.
11:52 that’s probably the tipm
damn well the jeep at the end i know if the tipm module cause mine went and did that for a week before it decided to just give up all together on my jeep. The rest are just damn ... sorry bout your luck
9:00 the problem appears to be a socks-with-sandals misjudgment. easy fix
Cardio steering wheel 🤣
I literally had the odd noise even when off an hour ago
My battery was mostly dead, and went flat a bit into the starting routine and something did that until we jumped it
It's the starter-motor solenoid cycling because it is unable to draw enough current from the battery for it to switch power to the starter!
Jeep Washer Fluid pump gone bad.
The Jeep with electrical problems, steering column ring is bad.
Jeep has a short in a wire that’s reeking that havoc
Aw stink
Those are called may pop tires😂
Maybe he banged his head in the pothole which is why he (couldn’t) think much of it
not competition with the spray foamed cars nation
Is a bad pulley really considered a nightmare?
What’s the likelihood that transfer case is in a lifted truck.
Sometimes the examples shown go on for too long after it's clear what the issue is.
At 8:36 Xena wants her chakram back.
I used to be a valet at an Auckland dealership, my coworker was giving me grief about sniffing the seat on her Alfa 164 :)
No worries! They all do that!!
bald tyres = refuse to work on it OR....do the work and it leaves on a trailer OR quick call to local police .
Dead battery on the Jeep?
Low battery. Trying to cycle the starter but can't.
Dead Jeep. No power to the computer. Check the main cable and see if somone cheated the power under the center dash off the computer. My dodge loved to die while driving highway. Found they cheated the power wire to feed accessries. Good luck.
The electrical problem with that jeep. Is do to it beeing made by Fiat. Therefore it is A pile of shit
The jeep had a bad battery or a bad cell in the battery
New Voice
Really like it.
Do NOT work on cars full of trash. The customer doesn't deserve your attention.
gee...the jeep sounds like its having jeep issues....
Lack of mantanince any one and those that try to fix it on their own that dont know what their doin shouldnt own a vehicle at all and i hate new junck
It was cats , def cats
it's a jeep ,that's expected.
For about 20 you can get a much better mic.
Ford taillight issue is definitely a known issue with a few trucks
You are so wrong about Hyundai people just don't check the oil trust me I got a 17 sonata 200k
i think a lot of these customers must be in the low paying end of politics.
1:00 think you meant 4-Lo, its perfectly safe to run highway speeds in 4-Hi
This narrator is so dead pan. Bring back the other one.
The channel is secretly Kiwi. I think it is the actual person. I did want it to have an Aussie guy or something some of the time so it sounds actually Kiwi now American.
This is the guys real voice, the American voiceover we had before was text-to-speech
@@edwardtupper6374it wasn’t text to speech per the previous videos
In defence of the Hyundai (rod knock) wasn't that from a manufacturing problem in the American factory (Kia as well) where their were metal filings in the engine block that eventually led to the filings blocking the oil feed into the cylinders? Only happened in US built engines? My Korean built Kia 2.4 GDI has over 200000km with no issues, uses a little oil, has done since day 1. Serviced regularly every 7500 km may have something to do with reliability.