Goodbye YouTube
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- This is very difficult but necessary
UA-cam has been an awesome platform for me to express my creativity to you guys and I have greatly appreciated every moment. Thank you for taking your time to let me into your life!
Remember; everything is possible if you are willing to put the effort into it.
Thank you
#loveyou
@TheFlexxGarage Thanks for being a good friend.
@GearHead704 Best of luck, and keep up the good work - Авто та транспорт
Thanks for all the c300 tips
I found you when I was looking for W204 videos years ago. Thanks for all your amazing informative videos! I think the Mercedes community is just much larger than the Foxbody one and there’s a lack of quality content besides what you, Flexx, and a couple minor channels made. So you filled a much needed and large niche. Thanks for all your hard work!
Mercedes is definitely muuuuch larger. It's like comparing Model T to Tesla, whole different world. I prefer Mercedes better felt more at home.
I can agree so much with you here!! I really hope things work out. It was the mercedes videos that made me find you and been watching all the videos even if its just in the background coz i know how the algorithm likes that even tho i dont have a fox body i learned something about them here.
Thank you for all your hard work! I loved your videos and learned a lot from you.
When I had my W204, I really enjoyed watching your videos and learning all the mods you have done. I now have a W205 and modded it allot but it was always good to see a UA-camr that loved their W204 but of course there is so much you can do to it to keep the content up. Yes Flexx is another person I follow who also has done some great videos on his car even now with his W205 version. Best off luck and thanks again.
Thank you. Your c class video taught me how to upgrade and adjust my glc300 from stock halogens to better xenon hid bulbs.
Thanks for all the Benz tips and content Ray!!
Thanks for always watching
Thank you for all the knowledge that you shared. I learned a bunch of things from your videos. What I enjoyed most was the fact that you were honest and a down to earth guy. Take care and may your journey continue to be great.
Thanks for letting me into your home!
Thank you for the videos, I stumbled across your videos years ago and have been hooked. Don't look at what you bought was a bad decision or project. You grew up with the car and you got it. And working on it would be a dream! So good luck with the future! I will keep coming back for tutorials again :)
Amen
You helped me and inspired me to get my C300 thank you for all the insight and tips. I hope life pays you back!
Sad to see you go and Hopfully you’ll find happiness in whatever you plan on doing in the near future 👌🏽 all the best bro thank you for keeping me entertained over the years with your Mercedes w204 mods
Have to agree with this video. Thanks for the C300 videos
I just started watching your videos. Sorry to see you go. Best of luck!
Just like many others, I too found your channel from your c300 videos. It'll be weird seeing one of the OGs in my car experience move on, but its inevitable in all aspects of life. Thank you for your help to the community, and being a major help in my first car's journey. Take care, Raymond! We'll always welcome you back to the w204 community :)
Thanks for the work you put in. It is still appreciated today
Thank you for all your help when I had a c350 will forever cherish you ❤️. Moved on from a c63 to a c63s
Thank you for all the great Mercedes videos Raymond. I was hoping you were coming back. You will be missed👍🏿❤
Thanks, I'll miss you guys too
We literally got a C300 around the same time. We almost sold it at the same time as well. I randomly thought about you this morning out of curiosity, searched up your page, and landed on this video. Very sad day on UA-cam. Thank you so much for making my ride look and sound amazing. Best of luck to you!
This 👑👑👑 will be missed!!
hey @Raymod Urias love the c300 videos and have helped me out with my project car so much but am now having trouble taking odd the complete back door for my w204 and can't seem to find any videos or pdf guide through and was just wondering if you had any pdf or recommend any other place to fond the information.
Thank you Raymond. You are the first and only guy that I subscribe on w204. I learn a lot from your video. Wish you all the best in your future !
Thanks for being there!
Seems like it wasn’t that long ago when you, Flexx, Kam, Preston, Vinny, & Jordan were all on the 204 Saturday morning podcasts. Good times man. Miss those days. Thanks for all your contributions to the 204/ car community. Take care Ray!
Thank you 🙏 Good luck mate 🙏
Dude can't thank you enough for the recommendation! Seriously it means a lot. Appreciate ya.
Your an honest hard-working individual. You deserve more subs. Keep up the great work. It's harder then it seems.
Keeping it real bro. I follow since ur merc. From malaysia
On my bucket list to go there
Thank you for your kind, awaken, inspirational words. Hope all is well with you and goes well in your future.
Legends never say goodbye. You will always be a legend in not just the Benz community but the car community. You’ve done alot and inspired a lot of people to mod/fix/repair/enhance their vehicles. Now thousands of people will be able to say “i started because of ray”. You definitely inspired me, pushed me beyond my comfort zone, and i can say I wouldn’t be where I’m at today without you. I’m glad to be able to call you my close friend. We will definitely have a beer when I’m down in Florida in the near future. I’m not going to accept this goodbye. It’s a cya later for me. 😎🤙🏼#RayTheLegend
Oh yeah. That stang better be done when I’m down there. I definitely wanna cruise in that bad boy!!
Thanks man, call me anytime you are passing in South Florida. Looking forward to celebrating your 100k subscriber! Who knows what the feature will bring but as of now I'm going to enjoy my retirement lol
Deal I'll pull it out of storage for you 😉
I guess there are just so many more W204s out there and with the cost to work on a MB vs the simple mechanical nature of the F-Body 5.0 more people are watching and using the MB vids. Good luck with the future Ray, I have to say your videos on the W204 help me out greatly.
My dream car is a W204 C63 I love that platform
Some good sound advice in this video. Your car should be considered an investment and if you can get more on that investment then do what you want to do with it and not what the internet says. If your son worked on the car with you then you would think alot more different for you and him.
Thanks for all the instructional info. I enjoyed all your videos and the quality of info you provided. I found your truck videos definitely helpful.
Greg, It's been an absolute pleasure. I agree with you 100%, the moments when I work on the car and he's the next to me I enjoy it even more I hope when he gets older he can remember them
@@RaymondUrias I'm sure he'll remember some of it. The best part is, you get to create more moments working on cars, or trucks, with him around and/or helping.
Loved your MB videos.
Thanks Steve
@@RaymondUrias Sorry to hear no more vids but understand the metrics. I had a 2010 E550 Coupe AMG appearance package where I removed the stock mufflers after watching your MB vids.
Sad to see you go. Thanks for all the Mercedes W204 video's.
WTF I am only now realizing you came back to UA-cam after your Merc tutorials. I saved them to a playlist and I still go back to them for certain projects on my C63 since it was pretty much the same set up for installing after market speakers and amp. And also sound dampening. It’s good to see that you did come back even though I’m not interested in the current content as I don’t own the fox body. I would however continue to watch if you ever did Merc vids again. But I understand that ship sailed. It was good to see that you were doing ok, even though I just noticed you returned as you were giving your exit video haha. Best of luck to you my friend.
shame to see you go man, cant tell you how much help youve been with my C300, much respect!
Thank you for all the c300 and your funny videos.
Dang man. I just watched your video where you installed the deck into your bothers Lincoln and now you're gone! Good Luck with your future endeavors. Everything you said was on point.
Thanks....
Hey. Can I get the link for the grill and the star for the c300 Mercedes ?
I only know you for Altima backup camera video I am still watching again and again but that is the most useful and informative Altima backup camera video I have seen here on UA-cam. Good luck with the next stage of your life, and thank you.
Thanks man! That's awesome
good luck to you in life. you have made the right decision.
Damn. I found your channel because I am installing a cheap reverse camera on my car and needed a pointer on best way to tie into the reverse light wire. This good bye video is literally the second video I started. I've never made a UA-cam vid and never will so I don't really know about what your talking about but I'm in my 40s too and know exactly what point you are making about finances and your future. For what it's worth. I'm sorry for what soured you off of something you at least seamed to enjoy creating. And I appreciate your help on the wire. It worked and the tutorial itself was very well done. Your channel will stay bookmarked because I already decided there will probably be other situations where picking your brain will be the shortest path to finishing something. Peace bro.
P. S. Never say never.
Thank you for all your help with C300 my friend. If you have a W204 watch his videos on them.best of luck.
Thanks chris
Watching rear coil became I own W204 c250
Thank you Raymond!!
I owe you the thanks
Thanks for the great Mercedes videos. Please consider keeping them up. If I can be of any assistance, feel free to hit me up on LinkedIn (See my about page). I'm happy to reciprocate where I can. The journey continues. You're OG.
Thanks man for all your support!
A w204 C63 would be your best bet to grow this channel and have fun with it
Yes enjoy Benz videos hope the best raymond
Bruh im so sad… when I bought my w204 and stumbled across your videos,(along with flexx) I don’t think I’d have the job I do now at a Mercedes Benz dealership as a technician! All the videos you made on the w204 kept me interested in the brand so much that I HAD to get a job at Mercedes. And now I can’t believe your leaving. Hero’s get remembered but legends never die. Raymond the GOAT!
That's awesome!!! Great place to start working hands on! I'm so happy for you! I actually have to thank you and the community for your awesome support. Thank you!
Who knows one day Maybe I'll see your name on an engine plate
@@RaymondUrias thanks for all the content and inspiring me to leave the heavy duty diesel industry to aim for Mercedes lol. I absolutely love my new job! My name is Oscar Vazquez and hopefully my name will be on an AMG engine! This one is for you buddy!!
I’ll say don’t quit keep going you grown into company
Hello Raymond. I came across your videos not a long time ago and became a subscriber. A was watching many videos about C300 and even tried to install backup camera myself (Instal backup camera on Mercedes C-class 2007-2013. Sep 19 2016) but unsuccessfully. I asked a question in comments on 10/8/2021 but as I understand now you left UA-cam and did not see my question.
I wish you a best of luck and success in your new beginning. I will keep watching your very interesting videos.
What's your question
@@RaymondUrias
Thank you Raymond for your reply
I do not even know if it is worth you time. I blame myself for ignoring your first warning to check if radio has green cable. After successfully installing the camera and pull video cable all the way to radio (I even used fuse splitter), I realized that my radio is different. It is Hartman Kardon and there is no green Fakra cable. Later analyzing my mistakes I find out that my car has outdated firmware. Now I have nice looking useless camera in the back as a constant reminder to me that every small stuff is important. Any solutions? If not it is OK I can live without camera.
Thanks again.
Misha Meytin
@@soninded3106 no problem, do an Android screen upgrade. That way you get an awesome screen and your camera will live again. Check out ckm website
Hope you are doing well Raymond 😘
I really like your videos. I have a 01 Mercedes E320 can I tap into the rear deck speakers to add an amp and sub my car has the Bose system
I found you when I was looking for w204 video
good luck mate
Thanks Mikey!
@@RaymondUrias u were my inspiration
@@MIKEYZVLOGZ ua-cam.com/video/ZxJVW_CxWjY/v-deo.html
you'll be back one day ( I hope ) . For now, thanks for the vids man, they were very helpful.
Thanks for helping 18 yr old me with my c300
Damn when i first got my c300 all i did was watch your videos and install a bunch of stuff on my w204.
Thank you for all your help. My C350 appreciates you.
Thanks Daniel
Thanks for all the help on my c class
Thanks for watching
Please get another benz and come back soon! Thanks for all your videos!!
Not shore how to tell my mercedes the bad news.....
Thank you for saving me some cash on the third break light 👍🍻
Lol that's great
Raymond, I came to your channel to learn how to take off the door panel on my Mercedes 250. Of the several channels and videos I watched, your video was the most helpful. The second video of yours that I watched was your closing video. I had a similar experience with my Wow! History Channel, but I hit the wall a lot sooner than you did. My milestone was 100 subscribers, which I achieved in about a year. For some reason, I though that magical moment would open up the UA-cam world, but instead of being thrilled about it, I did the math and realized what a slog it was going to be until I got monetized. Since then, I've posted maybe two more videos, one or both of which were short form. Surprisingly, my channel is now up to 297 subscribers, all of it steady (but slow) growth from my old videos) -- it wasn't because of anything I did. Like you, I found creating and loading videos to be too time-consuming and the whole process became un-fun. I still enjoy watching the analytics for my channel, but I have not been motivated to create any more videos. Maybe one day.
Having said all that, I thank you for the two inspirational videos. I hope you are doing well, enjoying life, and working toward that day of freedom called retirement. I wish you well!
I'll definitely check out your channel. There are so many out there and it's great watching new content. It's alot of work and while it's fun eventually you need to decide if you want to turn it into a business or not. I'm thoroughly enjoying my retirement 😂. While I do miss sharing important stuff with people, I'm enjoying the family time and catching up on my real job. Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing your channel, 100 is nothing to sneeze at some people can't even do that.
I'll probably be making a similar announcement some day. I think max for me is another year but we'll see. Sorry the Fox content made it worse for you though man. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of my day job either LOL 😫 PS - So right on the retirement comment. I started at 26.
Hey man I want to start this saying Thank you!! I learned a lot tips from you with the C300 series 4 yrs time wow time flies, I also discovered Flexx because you with the same hobby and passion. I enjoyed Every detail & dedication, it make understandable and easy to follow every steps without fuck it up XD. but here is the "thing" remember you built this community as a Mercedes benz community. when you sold the c300 we were expecting another project car another like Mercedes, BMW, audi. I'm not saying you had to do it because we don't your financial situation but because that's the projection. Then out of nowhere you trying to add a Ford community into Benz community and you don't like the result and now you're quitting? is like "trying to grow a plant on top of a concrete". if you don't see the result that you are looking for "stop & think" and say uhm this is not working, let ask my audiences what kind of contend they wanna see, they want me to try. I know we all going through a difficult time with the pandemic, and financial situation and I don't know your situation that's why I respect your choice I wish you the best. Good luck brother, you will be missed!! * Remember we're a younger generation we love sport car, mod car :P
Safely say financially I have been very blessed I landed an amazing job when I was younger and I haven't looked back since. But as I'm getting older the one thing that I cannot buy no matter how much money I have is time. I agree if you 100%. I threw Ford into a Mercedes-Benz community I knew exactly what was going to happen but I just thought somewhere quite possibly it may work. Ultimately I have no one to blame but myself. It was a fun ride and I did talk to flex about other Mercedes-Benz vehicles that may be interesting for both of us to work on and the CLA came up as a top contender unfortunately the car market right now the pricing is stupid so neither one of us agreed to pursue that. Ultimately I had fun doing what I did.
Ray Sorry to see you go. I do understand your decision. As always, you are the captain of your own destiny and as you go on to the future, be aware you have helped and inspired many in the world through you hard work and effort. As for me? (you did ask-eh?) Personally I'll just start watching all the old videos starting back as far...Wait! THAT far back?😮uh-... well as far back as I can --stan---er ..Find...wheew..😏, to be able to once again enjoy your knowledge all over again😊. [to self: by then he damn well better have come back to his senses with a new channel idea 🤗]. OK enough. So not good by, just see ya later brother. The Blue LED is a little dimmer for now 🔵😎
Hahaha oh man I'll miss you
I am eternally grateful for everything and everyone who let me into their home. It was a hell of a great adventure and you never know what the future may bring. Ultimately it is satisfying to see and hear of people like yourself who have started their own project's. That's awesome and just remember with everything take your time and relax
Thank you for all your hard work and wonderful videos, maybe you should have stayed with Mercedes... maybe you shouldn't no one can tell the future. You can only try and that you did my friend, we will miss you,
I definitely should have
Hi Raymond, i just started to see your videos a week ago and very nice job that you do. I’m from Portugal and i would like to take some ideas, is any possibility to contact you directly? Email!
Many thanks
Hi Raymond, I appreciate your honesty. I am my self 64 years old and love cars I own many, but have never made a video for various reasons. I do agree that at one point or another we need to make a decision about our future based on the current situation in our life's, BY the way you do not look happy, I hope its all good in your life. Best of luck and say hi once in a will.
Thank you so much for your kind words. This video cut me deep. It was very hard for me to do. I absolutely loved making videos! I loved the subscribers like you and the engagement! But as you pointed out something was wrong with me personally. I was under alot of personal pressure and add on top of that the disaster of Foxbody, it was just too much. My life was a complete Trainwreck and I needed to re evaluate my current situation. Off camera I have fixed majority of personal life issues and have fully restored the Foxbody to it's factory glory. I encourage everyone to ask for help if they are in a tough situation. Their are billions of people out there (Like you in particular) that are willing to help.
@@RaymondUrias All will get better for sure. Stay calm, stay strong. Remember this happens to all of us, you are not alone. We need to support each other and more during the turmoil on out country.
wth i just found you and now i found out youre gone?
I'm still here but not here lol
I still try my best to answer every question
Ray, Bro... I can understand why you're making your decision about ending UA-cam and that would be due to the amount of views you've been getting on your channel which dictates how much revenue you get which leads to how much time you put into making UA-cam videos which leads to your disappointment for this UA-cam endeavor. However, maybe you should reconsider just re-inventing your UA-cam channel in order to get your view numbers up? Meaning, go back to the basics of how and when and what you did when you first started your UA-cam channel? It worked before and it could work again.
What brought me to your channel was, in fact, due to that you were working on Mercedes cars because I have a Mercedes.
Although you could be tired and have a distain for German cars, these cars on UA-cam is what gets the most attention or a person's personal personality. (like ChrisFix, Tavarish and Tyler Hoovie).
But with that said, maybe you should consider just getting back in the swing of things with working on German cars again on your channel? Yes, there's a lot of time involved with editing and filming, BUT this is also why most of the other successful channels on UA-cam end up hiring people (like teens who need part time work) to do all the editing for them. In order to cut down on the time involvement with the making of UA-cam videos.
And with focusing back on German cars, you could possibly ramp back up your channel again?
Maybe start acquiring newer Mercedes cars, upgrade them, mod them, etc... Or Audi's or BMW's (like what Alex "Flexx" is doing). And then you can get your viewers back.
Point is, in the beginning of your journey with UA-cam, you had a very good start, but from what I viewed, (and I could be wrong) your channel went south when you got rid of your Mercedes C class AND when you started videoing all those gimmick items, like dashcams.
So going back to how you did things in the beginning could possibly help you change things around and get your analytics back up?
Just a little input and different perspective I wanted to point out to you for you to take into consideration and think about, is all!!
Thanks Bernie everything you said is true unfortunately at the end of the day it all comes down to time. I would love to continue making videos and hanging out with you guys but at the end of the day seems like you are correct and I can't force forward on a Mercedes-Benz community.
@@RaymondUrias Well Ray, never say never. Maybe you have the right idea, at this moment, where you just need some time to yourself and your family, to take a break, regroup and perhaps just take some time to really brainstorm on other ideas. Who knows, maybe down the line, you'll come up with some ideas where you may be able to create something more meaningful and enjoyable for yourself and perhaps get the youtube bug again and decide to give youtube another shot?
But in case I don't hear from you again, take care of yourself and family, stay safe and mindful of hopefully avoiding COVID (especially the DELTA variant) and I wish you all the luck.
BTW... not sure if you remember, but about 3 years ago you donated $50 to my GoFundMe account for when my father was in the hospital recovering from a stroke and I just wanted to say thank you again. Never forgot that and I really appreciated it! Thank you again!
Why did u hide the likes and dislikes tho 🙁
I didn't!
UA-cam has disabled it on almost every UA-camr videos. Look it up. They are slowly phasing out like and dislikes
i guess but where are the likes then
@@nathanthebe6497 bro.... You can't be this sheltered. You must know this is a whole UA-cam thing. Every creator/ maker is having this done automatically. Just google "UA-cam removing likes".
Not happy = no mo $$$ from YT
I still make about 300 per month. It was the views on the mustang video.
What’s your Instagram?