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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.😮
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 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 😅 "
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.
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?
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
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.
@@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?
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
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
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.
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.
“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.
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!
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”
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.
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.....
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 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!
10:13 Oil Change -❌
New Engine - ✔
Should he not get a warning for Oilpressure?
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.
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.
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.
1:46 what a waste of blinker fluid.
shimmy steering wheel: I thought that was an optional arm exerciser. Get a pretty good workout driving that thing.
10:40 Throttle Body Valve Actuator recalibrate and if doesn't work, replace entire throttle body
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?
11:33 dodge, Chrysler, jeep are notorious for having TIPM issues, when they fail they do crazy things like that.
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.😮
People buy expensive cars and can't afford to fix them.😂
Or a twenty year old Nissan, which amounts to the same thing "$$$$$$$$"
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!
9:40 nah, it didn’t just stop driving; you tell me how tf you managed to explode a clutch so badly
Bruh, the "do3snt brake like it used too"
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 👍
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 😅 "
7:00 mark you can hear the mechanic's wife complaining... may be the belt, though?
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.
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?
4:56
GDi stands for "God Damn it!"
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
As a license mecanic
In some of these cases I would remove license plates on car .
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.
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?
I love Ooredoo mechanic job thank you
Mechanic's Dog States 3:00 : Stop it! It's making me want to pee!
Blend door actuators for the jeep clicking noises
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.
These bad car owners are out there on the roads with me and you.
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.
7:00 kinda sounds like Cartman and his "but moooom"
Car at 2:15 needs a ride to the town dump and the whole car needs to stay there.
The Jeep with electrical problems, steering column ring is bad.
You can fix with a clothes hanger, and some bondo . 😂😂😂😂
Last video, the problem is its a newer jeep 😂😂😂
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?
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
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
Cardio steering wheel 🤣
9:00 the problem appears to be a socks-with-sandals misjudgment. easy fix
That last one with the rear wiper causing the electrics to shut down; my guess is a CAN network fault.
Jeep Washer Fluid pump gone bad.
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
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
10:12 I'm glad I have an oil pressure gauge.
Those are called may pop tires😂
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.
not competition with the spray foamed cars nation
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!
Sometimes the examples shown go on for too long after it's clear what the issue is.
Dead battery on the Jeep?
Low battery. Trying to cycle the starter but can't.
Maybe he banged his head in the pothole which is why he (couldn’t) think much of it
Jeep has a short in a wire that’s reeking that havoc
Aw stink
What’s the likelihood that transfer case is in a lifted truck.
bald tyres = refuse to work on it OR....do the work and it leaves on a trailer OR quick call to local police .
The jeep had a bad battery or a bad cell in the battery
Is a bad pulley really considered a nightmare?
No worries! They all do that!!
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 :)
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.
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
New Voice
Really like it.
gee...the jeep sounds like its having jeep issues....
Do NOT work on cars full of trash. The customer doesn't deserve your attention.
For about 20 you can get a much better mic.
it's a jeep ,that's expected.
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
1:00 think you meant 4-Lo, its perfectly safe to run highway speeds in 4-Hi
i think a lot of these customers must be in the low paying end of politics.
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.
“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.
The electrical problem with that jeep. Is do to it beeing made by Fiat. Therefore it is A pile of shit