@@theglitch99 that's a very dangerous statement, good job I checked JRI s comment! No offense intended, just made me giggle when I read it. Yup definitely need to grow up! 😩🇬🇧
"...after they slammed into reverse at 70 miles per hour, as they did not want to hit a deer..." Actually, there's usually a pedal you can push to reduce the forward motion of the car.
I was following a fiesta the other day at 70mph, they tried to put it in reverse for whatever reason. Lots of smoke and dust came out from underneath, but surprisingly it didn't lock up.
@@JustRolledIn As a Toyota owner, some Toyotas have windshield issues with very new cars. We have had a cracked windshield on my wife's then new RAV 4 and also my 20 Tundra. Both replaced under warranty.
Very strange to find that most are fully cast and ground to specs. When the escort came out I had several of them with a no start I found the fuel pump rod was too soft and wore down enough to not puah the diaphragm rod far enough to pump the fuel. Plus escort would ALWAYS bend the valves when the T belt broke at 55 thousand miles.
1:43 My dad did that once in the 90's. Apparently, he was racing a friend, on the highway, at night, in his parents old Ford SUV. His idea was that the engine wasn't very powerful, so on the down hills, he'd just put it into neutral so that gravity would take him faster than the engine could. This was before I was around, so I can't say much about its successful-ness. Plus, the car was an automatic, so it wasn't really meant to shift while moving anyways. So, what basically happened was that he overshot neutral, and accidentally slammed it into reverse while doing at least 90MPH on the highway. The driven wheels (I think rear wheels?) Completely locked up, my dad went "OH SH!T" and shifted back into drive. Supposedly the car was completely fine afterwards, and didn't have any noticeable damage, though my father later suspected that this incident shortened the overall life span of the vehicle. And now, almost 30 years later, my family still to this day makes sure everyone knows that R, in fact, does not translate to Race-Mode.
Not experience about older automatics. Specially not american cars. But every car to trucks which had manual there was little to none possibility to slam it reverse while moving forward. While we were youger and had old cars as dirt cars around fields and ice tracks we even tried to kill one volvo (maybe 240) As trying to put it reverse on ice lake track. Yes it will sounds horrible when gears are grinding like hell when stick is forcefully pushed in wrong gear even with clutch down. Will most likely cut lifespan from clutch and gearbox if try to do that but least we didnt get it in.
The only 3:37 seconds i have to look forward to and you never disappoint . The windshield whistling and the cam lobe separation is definitely a first , showed this vid to our drivability tech and he is in disbelief too . First for everything , which scares me in thinking whats next ..
@@gingermcgingin4106 I didnt feel saying minutes was needed and now not even seconds i should of let the time stamp stand alone but indeed you are correct 217 seconds on the dot ..
i also found a windshield leak, but it didn't make noise. The driver complained of a cold draft on his forehead and the leak was down under the wipers. At highway speeds I could feel the chill because it was winter.
@@rupe53 I would imagine the conditions have to be just right . Not everyone i know can whistle either , i cant but i do blow alot of hot air . lol . Seen alot of debonding and delamination but never a noise that was a frequency the human ear can hear but not my department ..
As an electrician I see people all the time expecting 100 amps from their 15 amp circuits...Like here wanting a 12volt battery to do the job of 8 batteries...
you can easily pull 100 amps from a 12v car battery. The Main Fuse is often near 200 amps. Only thing stopping them from pulling that much amperage is the size of the wire and of course a small fuse. Remember: FUSES/CIRCUIT BREAKERS PROTECT THE --WIRE-- (NOT) the device
@@jackhofalot6705 The fuses burn up to protect the wires and the device. When you install a higher rate fuse, the wires will melt to protect a .25c fuse!
@@jackhofalot6705 but they expect 20-60 amps from a (very probably) 16-14g wire. I once saw someone running parallel #10 for an amp setup rated for 90 amps....ignoring that the parallel run is wrong it would still only be around 51 amps safe usage, was a friend of a friend who asked me to look at it, he couldn't figure out why the wires kept melting the jacket off.
I’ve had the loose windshield thing on a vehicle. Didn’t have the whistle. Or maybe I did. Can’t hear diddly. When it rained. It was like a waterfall on my dash. These modern windshield installation systems are a joke, imo.
@@patrickperry6945 I have had two windshield replacements (different cars) in the last decade and had zero problems with them. I think it is key to have the technician well-trained, and it is VERY crucial to ensure that the sealants do not get too cold when curing. Excessive cold messes with the bonding between sealant and glass, and that sealant is what is really holding the glass in place.
The windshield one was perfect timing. Was just at a local auto parts shop last week for a new battery and was chatting with one of the clerks. He had a vehicle for a few years and had it in the shop for some work. While there the mechanic removed a plastic guard or something and the windshield started sliding down. Turned out there was nothing sealing the windshield on. Was in absolute shock it didn't fly off at some point.
3:26 Customer came to get their rear bumper re-secured then hit a van while backing up out of the shop. I’d love for a *reality tv show to follow that person* and record an entire week’s footage of their day to day life. *Probably pulls on doors that say push* and licks doorknobs. 😂😂
Lol i dont sent the car into a junkyard until its bare chassis, first drive the living hell out of it (non dangerous) and than take EVERY SINGLE part off of it, HELL! I even would take all the nuts and bolts, i mean it i dont waste a single part,
@@01Elantraaa me too like bulb sockets hard to find connectors special bolts nuts factory screws. Every mechanic I know has a junk box full of these saved items I have a metric box and an SAE box
1:25 judging by the rear wiper switch it's either a C30 or a V50. Extremely common on the C30s for the top of the windshields to separate like that. I've got videos of some of them where when I shut the door you can watch the whole windshield jump haha
Can't belive the guy had time to put it in reverse to avoid the deer. I hit a deer at 40MPH and a second after I saw him he was on my hood staring at me with a WTF expression.
Totally! I was doing 50 when I went UNDER a deer. He was crossing the road from left to right... Took out my left front headlight, damaged the hood, left ick on the right center of the windshield....and scratched the paint on the right side of the roof. I definitely did NOT have time to brake, let alone downshift.
@Darth Nemesis - lucky you. Mine was a midsized deer, probably a teenager. $3,000.00 worth of damage to a chevy volt. Hood, fender, headlight, engine radiator, battery radiator.
If the deer jumps out you have no time at all. But if the deer was standing on the road as they came over a hill they may have had a few extra seconds. Or they just made the deer thing up and didnt want to admit what really happened.
Back in around 1976 I had a 1968 Plymouth and the spring for the carburetor broke in traffic on I-280 in Newark, NJ near the exit for college that day. The car immediately went to wide open throttle, I hit the foot brake as hard as I could, slammed the shifter through reverse to park making a horrible noise but the car stopped. I shut the engine off, put on the flashers, opened the hood and bent the tip of the remains of the spring to the carburetor with a pair of pliers I had in the car then continued to school. Luckily I didn't hit any other cars, God was watching over me that day. To say the least I was very shaken up for the rest of the day.
You show some of the scariest videos. Every time I am freaked out thinking about how many of these cars are on the road. But, Thanks for posting, I am never disappointed.😲
I'm glad I'm in the UK. We have compulsory vehicle checking every year and if they find anything dangerous you aren't allowed to drive it out of the garage. Plus it's all on a database so if you don't have a valid MOT and/or insurance you will get pulled over. We still have a few sheds driving round illegally, but nowhere near the number (as a percentage of vehicles on the road) as the States.
I think most states have that too, but there's a few with zero inspections. Here in NZ the Warrant of Fitness does a good job of keeping them roadworthy
Almost the same here in the Netherlands. A new car is MOT ( APK in NL) for the first year but after that, a car must be MOTt every year. When something is wrong, you have a week to fix it and come back for the r-check ( free of charge). These garages only do the MOTs. They have 10 points and if a secret check guy from the state comes and notices that the garage is doing wrong, it loses a point. No more points: end of the garage. So, we hardly have vehicles driving around like these in this video. Here is an official video from the Dutch MOT ( RDW is RijksDienst voor het Wegverkeer= State Service of Road Traffic. From the Ministry of Traffic). Link: ua-cam.com/video/bo03Ob4rSug/v-deo.html
Resale value of cars in the U.S. would go up if minimum safety and maintenance standards were enforced. But, the U.S. has become quite poor (despite outward appearances) and the masses need rattletraps that they can afford.
Working on hiring some help, to help me out. Unfortunately a lot of clips aren't sent in so it takes hours finding them/getting permission and licensing clips.
1:43 reminds me of that Jeff Foxworthy bit where he is talking about rental cars and how you always get the extra insurance because then you get to do all the stuff you wanted to try in your own car but were to afraid of messing something up.
Imagine being an engineer and thinking that a press fit is good enough to hold cam lobes to a cam shaft. Thus the reason for the crack and spin they are relying on an interference fit for goodness sake... :) Awesome channel growth brother 9 hours and 145k views were I only smart enough to make a well liked and respected YT channel best of luck in the future my friend!
mmmmmm well..... Consider if there had been a keyway locating the cam lobe. That lobe, after splitting, would have separated. And then what would happen? Loose parts flying around tend to damage a lot more parts. Sometimes engineers actually design things to fail quietly, not catastrophically. Reference: I'm an engineer.
@@eldoradocanyonro solid camshafts don't fail like this do they Mr Engineer? Which was my point... whom but an engineer would even be able to think about putting a keyway in a press fit cam lobe. KISS is a wonderful principle. Lol chill brother you're an engineer and I have been a mechanic for 55 years, I have seen a few things while I worked brother.
@@eldoradocanyonro As an Engineer myself, if my boss told me to cost down a cam shaft by specifying an inductive shrink fit, I’d have splurted my coffee out over his glasses and short sleeved shirt and told him to find another moron to do it. Forging and machining every time.
1:43 I did this once, when I had just started driving. I was on my way to school when a wasp flew into the window and right into my face. My first instinct was to immediately put the car in park... while still going 30 MPH. It was a Honda, though, so aside from some god awful grinding noises, it was no worse for wear.
1:43 I have been puzzling over the American dashcam crashes on YT videos. Often a car will spin out and get totalled on the big highways, often when driving in a straight line or taking a minor evasive manoeuvre. Couldn't figure out why such bad crashes...this clip explains everything! Scary.
Story time: I had a left hand drive mail Jeep. The kind with the sliding doors. It had an automatic transmission with the shift lever on the floor. I was tooling down a gravel road on a summer evening with the door open. Had a K-Bar knife on the floor bouncing towards the open door. Picked up the knife to toss it on the passenger seat and knocked the transmission into reverse. Locked it up, went sideways, and rolled over 1 and 1/4 times, landing on the drivers side. Fortunate that I always wore a seat belt when driving with the door open. This would have been around 1983. That Jeep was a sweet little ride and fun to drive....
@@tinknal6449 I remember when mythbusters tried to put the car in park or reverse at speed, and it wasn't possible in whatever clapped out junk they used. I assumed it wasn't possible, because even the dumbest engineer would know that needs to be prevented
Some are press fit now. They expand the lobe by heating it, then they press it on the shaft and let it cool down. Doesent sound bad in theory, sadly they fail often
@@MyCrazyGarage If the lobe slips a little and the piston slams into the valve, that pretty much negates any savings by going with a multi piece shaft. I'm a retired machinist and manufacturing engineer and I don't see how this type of camshaft is any easier to make. It sounds like a nightmare!
@@Iconoclasher Exactly! This is just like the time when Opel (Vauxhall) decided to use ball bearings for cam bearings. The bearing cages constantly broke and the balls fell out. The whole cam would move up and down every few cycles and you would get some sporadic misses until the whole cam broke
Mt wrench has a spotless shop, clean floor and clean overalls. He moves like he knows what he is doing. When he started his bay was sometimes empty. Now he is booked weeks in advance. No, he is not cheap. Yes, I save money by going to him because he gets it right.
REAL mechanics tried scamming my wife for $700 to have the brakes replaced so i did it myself for under $100. im sure you think youre really clever gatekeeping maintenance to extort people
There is a certain amount of confirmation bias going on here. Everyone now has a camera in their pocket, and they can publish content that millions of people can see with relative ease. This is the same thing that happens to say police officers. They deal with the worst people all the time, and so they start to see those attributes in general society, even though it's a tiny minority. We watch these on purpose because they are entertaining (and educational), but we have to be careful that just because we see a lot of these on this channel, that this is reflective of all cars on the road. Not saying it's not possible (especially where for some individual freedom is often seen as much more important than the good or safety of the wider community), just that jumping to conclusions based on a self selected data set is probably going to give you the wrong idea.
No joke, this was like 25 years ago, working at the Car-X. Man pulls in and HITS the building cause he couldn't stop, comes right in and said " I would like to get my exhaust checked, it seems loud."
I’m 53 now..when I was 16,I had a car that I installed a metal strap folded over 3 times to the front bumper and bolted to the passenger front wheel to keep the wheel centered..frame was rotten and it would let the wheel move forward and backwards almost a foot each direction..drove it for months all over North Florida and South Georgia..
it can pricey, but less than 3 years of jacked up insurance premiums: driver's ed school. it's estimated that 1 in 5 drivers locally don't, and never had a driver's license. same figure for no insurance as well. the simple basics i learned as a CDL driver saved me a few times. until i retired, my hiring on at different companies shoved my through training/eval about once every 4 or 5 years. i had one incident in my life: a woman was talking to a passenger with her left ear watching traffic while merging. put her sideways on the sidewalk, $25 signal light lens on the bus. and she was mad about getting the citation. me, 3 days (paid) vacation taking a "safety course". instructor (union) thot it was funny. we played video games.
1:44 - Shifting into reverse is probably the dumbest way to stop your car. It will just result in the tires losing traction, possibly spinning you out of control. And in this case, grenading your differential. Fortunately modern vehicles protect themselves from this idiocy. They won't shift into reverse until below a certain speed limit. Same thing for shifting into park.
0:02 - those aren't LAN cords - those are RJ11 cables. Outside of a fax machine or a POS terminal using dial up, tying suspension components together is their most popular use.
I’m surprised the shifter even allowed for that to happen at 70mph. But hey, every manufacturer is different. And that the axle splines didn’t shear off from driving without the nut cuz that’s what happens when u don’t install it and drive. Or so I’ve been told.
2:42 Mercedes. I had the front "tower" (2 appx 8 inch tall risers from the main frame per upper A arm on this one) for one upper A arm of a 1959 Chrysler product break free due to failed weld. (20year old car at the time) The shop that towed it in welded a 2 inch thck block of steel to anchor the tower, just spaced it up... It of course wouldn't align. I got it to a self-help garage (think the garage where "Christine" was worked on in the movie... that style place) I ground the block free after disassembling the suspension, and gas welded the tower back correctly, using measurements from the oppoisite side. While it was still glowing orange, I dumped oil on the weld. Resetting the torsion rod spring was... "entertaining" The wheels aligned just fine and I drove it another 20,000 miles. Wish I had pictures for you.
🧐 Lamp chords...why didn't the original vehicle engineers think of that!? Could have saved SO MUCH on manufacturing costs if they had just gone with thin copper wire in the first place! 🤦♂
The number of people who drive knowing there's one issue or another with their brakes is scary. I'm absolutely terrified of anything going wrong with the brakes on my car and I've never even had any issues with brakes across the three cars I've drive over the years. I even have recurring nightmares about bad brakes! How can you drive a car knowing the brakes are bad!
Hope you guys had a great weekend!
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Mine was too short!! Ahhh
I had a great weekend! well, except for no football.
Always look forward to seeing your nightmares on vehicles. It's a very cool video series 👍
@@theglitch99 that's a very dangerous statement, good job I checked JRI s comment! No offense intended, just made me giggle when I read it. Yup definitely need to grow up! 😩🇬🇧
"...after they slammed into reverse at 70 miles per hour, as they did not want to hit a deer..." Actually, there's usually a pedal you can push to reduce the forward motion of the car.
How do some people have their licenses?
Wait, they do? Where can I find it? >.>
@@GBR9794 hahaha right they probably don’t or didn’t pass, starting to make sense
I was following a fiesta the other day at 70mph, they tried to put it in reverse for whatever reason. Lots of smoke and dust came out from underneath, but surprisingly it didn't lock up.
I'm curious why there is not an interlock to prevent drive to reverse in high-speed applications.
Everyone, we did it!!! We had a successful repair report on here! It was also a subframe, too!
Mark this day on your calendar!
You'll want to remember it when you're old and gray.
The owner deserve a medal!
@@mikesmith-po8nd I am already old and grey, i waited my whole life for this...... and it finally happen... sob....
😣
@@jpsholland I, too, am old and gray, but that means there is little chance of remembering this day...or any other day, for that matter.
Car manufacturers need to install check driver light.
Would get burnt out real quick 😅
The old "loose nut holding the wheel" problem
I think of brake lights or headlights being out, or high beams stuck on as my "check driver light" when I see them on the road
There is an 'Idiot light' lol !
it’s the coffee cup symbol, it does exist
I think some people confuse the phrase "a job well done" with "a job weld, done!" because those welds that were done were anything but well done.
You would think that these people would at least know to use JB Weld. Much stronger than just regular tack welds.
If it sounds like bacon, it's a good weld. If it smells like bacon, you're on fire.
Yes, A job weld-on. Like on my trailer. 😂
They were extra crispy
When they say, "That boy can weld," I think sometimes we don't hear the air quotes!
Cheers to the tech who found that cracked cam lobe, could have been a hard one to find. 🍻
That and the windshield one was a good find
@@JustRolledIn As a Toyota owner, some Toyotas have windshield issues with very new cars. We have had a cracked windshield on my wife's then new RAV 4 and also my 20 Tundra. Both replaced under warranty.
Audi...German crap
its a group Vag,you always look at the camshafts first
Very strange to find that most are fully cast and ground to specs. When the escort came out I had several of them with a no start I found the fuel pump rod was too soft and wore down enough to not puah the diaphragm rod far enough to pump the fuel. Plus escort would ALWAYS bend the valves when the T belt broke at 55 thousand miles.
1:43 My dad did that once in the 90's. Apparently, he was racing a friend, on the highway, at night, in his parents old Ford SUV. His idea was that the engine wasn't very powerful, so on the down hills, he'd just put it into neutral so that gravity would take him faster than the engine could. This was before I was around, so I can't say much about its successful-ness. Plus, the car was an automatic, so it wasn't really meant to shift while moving anyways. So, what basically happened was that he overshot neutral, and accidentally slammed it into reverse while doing at least 90MPH on the highway. The driven wheels (I think rear wheels?) Completely locked up, my dad went "OH SH!T" and shifted back into drive. Supposedly the car was completely fine afterwards, and didn't have any noticeable damage, though my father later suspected that this incident shortened the overall life span of the vehicle. And now, almost 30 years later, my family still to this day makes sure everyone knows that R, in fact, does not translate to Race-Mode.
I thought R meant "REALLY fast"?
Not experience about older automatics. Specially not american cars.
But every car to trucks which had manual there was little to none possibility to
slam it reverse while moving forward. While we were youger and had old cars
as dirt cars around fields and ice tracks we even tried to kill one volvo (maybe 240)
As trying to put it reverse on ice lake track.
Yes it will sounds horrible when gears are grinding like hell when stick is forcefully
pushed in wrong gear even with clutch down. Will most likely cut lifespan from
clutch and gearbox if try to do that but least we didnt get it in.
The only 3:37 seconds i have to look forward to and you never disappoint . The windshield whistling and the cam lobe separation is definitely a first , showed this vid to our drivability tech and he is in disbelief too . First for everything , which scares me in thinking whats next ..
It's actually 217 seconds
@@gingermcgingin4106 I didnt feel saying minutes was needed and now not even seconds i should of let the time stamp stand alone but indeed you are correct 217 seconds on the dot ..
i also found a windshield leak, but it didn't make noise. The driver complained of a cold draft on his forehead and the leak was down under the wipers. At highway speeds I could feel the chill because it was winter.
@@rupe53 I would imagine the conditions have to be just right . Not everyone i know can whistle either , i cant but i do blow alot of hot air . lol . Seen alot of debonding and delamination but never a noise that was a frequency the human ear can hear but not my department ..
As an electrician I see people all the time expecting 100 amps from their 15 amp circuits...Like here wanting a 12volt battery to do the job of 8 batteries...
you can easily pull 100 amps from a 12v car battery. The Main Fuse is often near 200 amps.
Only thing stopping them from pulling that much amperage is the size of the wire and of course a small fuse.
Remember: FUSES/CIRCUIT BREAKERS PROTECT THE --WIRE-- (NOT) the device
@@jackhofalot6705 That's exactly OP's point tho, the battery CAN provide that kick, and it will burn through whatever it takes to get the job done.
@@jackhofalot6705 The fuses burn up to protect the wires and the device. When you install a higher rate fuse, the wires will melt to protect a .25c fuse!
@@jackhofalot6705 but they expect 20-60 amps from a (very probably) 16-14g wire. I once saw someone running parallel #10 for an amp setup rated for 90 amps....ignoring that the parallel run is wrong it would still only be around 51 amps safe usage, was a friend of a friend who asked me to look at it, he couldn't figure out why the wires kept melting the jacket off.
The loose windshield was a definite surprise
I’ve had the loose windshield thing on a vehicle. Didn’t have the whistle. Or maybe I did. Can’t hear diddly.
When it rained. It was like a waterfall on my dash. These modern windshield installation systems are a joke, imo.
@@patrickperry6945 I have had two windshield replacements (different cars) in the last decade and had zero problems with them.
I think it is key to have the technician well-trained, and it is VERY crucial to ensure that the sealants do not get too cold when curing. Excessive cold messes with the bonding between sealant and glass, and that sealant is what is really holding the glass in place.
The windshield one was perfect timing. Was just at a local auto parts shop last week for a new battery and was chatting with one of the clerks. He had a vehicle for a few years and had it in the shop for some work. While there the mechanic removed a plastic guard or something and the windshield started sliding down. Turned out there was nothing sealing the windshield on. Was in absolute shock it didn't fly off at some point.
3:26 Customer came to get their rear bumper re-secured then hit a van while backing up out of the shop. I’d love for a *reality tv show to follow that person* and record an entire week’s footage of their day to day life. *Probably pulls on doors that say push* and licks doorknobs. 😂😂
I’m not a mechanic but this shit makes me value you guys that actually give AF about what you do and makes me terrified of those of you that don’t.
yeah, it's pretty split among us lmao
It's not that they don't give a folk, they just don't know any better.
@@willallen7757 I've worked with plenty of guys who know but don't care. Just another reason I left the industry
I had a mechanic leave a dirty rag in my radiator fan shroud. Destroyed it. Finding a good trustworthy competent mechanic is like finding a unicorn.
@@edwelndiobel1567 Ouch.
I watch these videos so I can say once in a while, "At least, I'm not THAT dumb!"
Same, but sometimes I think "ya know, I might be that dumb" and it's humbling.
I’ve sent better cars to the junkyard than some of these
😂 some of these should be in a junkyard
Lol i dont sent the car into a junkyard until its bare chassis, first drive the living hell out of it (non dangerous) and than take EVERY SINGLE part off of it, HELL! I even would take all the nuts and bolts, i mean it i dont waste a single part,
I think we all have
@@01Elantraaa me too like bulb sockets hard to find connectors special bolts nuts factory screws. Every mechanic I know has a junk box full of these saved items I have a metric box and an SAE box
Sad but true!
"Slammed it in reverse because they didn't want to hit a deer."
If only there were some sort of device we could use to make cars stop!
1:25 judging by the rear wiper switch it's either a C30 or a V50. Extremely common on the C30s for the top of the windshields to separate like that. I've got videos of some of them where when I shut the door you can watch the whole windshield jump haha
Can't belive the guy had time to put it in reverse to avoid the deer.
I hit a deer at 40MPH and a second after I saw him he was on my hood staring at me with a WTF expression.
Totally!
I was doing 50 when I went UNDER a deer. He was crossing the road from left to right...
Took out my left front headlight, damaged the hood, left ick on the right center of the windshield....and scratched the paint on the right side of the roof.
I definitely did NOT have time to brake, let alone downshift.
@Darth Nemesis - lucky you. Mine was a midsized deer, probably a teenager. $3,000.00 worth of damage to a chevy volt. Hood, fender, headlight, engine radiator, battery radiator.
If the deer jumps out you have no time at all. But if the deer was standing on the road as they came over a hill they may have had a few extra seconds. Or they just made the deer thing up and didnt want to admit what really happened.
A deer ran into me as I was doing about 25. Not much I could do, she was determined to butt my fender.
1:47
Helmsman: There's a deer directly off our bow, sir
Cpt. Customer: Full Reverse!
3:22 who needs bumper repair, when you can make another hole on the other side, so it will look like it´s supposed to be that way 🤣
That variable cam lobe, though.
Random valve timing 😂
@@JustRolledIn lmao
Just build rubber cams.
That dude who installed those fancy 'carbon fiber' wheel cover was this video's winner, hands down. I'm dying over here..🤣
Great episode!
Its been a hard week man...but thanks for your words. Helped a lot. More than you realize...
I know the feeling buddy! Hope this week is better
@@JustRolledIn It was very tough...I lost a HS buddy, but also something very good happened too. Lots of things all converged to today...
@@RipRoaringGarage sorry to hear that man. Always here to chat when you need it
@@JustRolledIn I appreciate it. I was able to talk to another HS buddy, and remember him...Its still sad, but life goes on, must go on.
Just imagine what's still on the road! These videos are amazing!
I had to rewatch several times to be sure I heard correctly: "...zip tied the brake caliper to the control arm..." 🤯
ahahaha ikr, also the SINGULAR ziptie to the radiator.
Well technically that is a good idea when the caliper needs to be removed but shit you need to reinstall it before driving!
Hot rod garage zip tie moment
They used a zip tie because they ran out of duct tape.
1:30 all volvo from this year have the same problems. I used to work there and replace all those windshield. But volvo didnt want a recall for that
Back in around 1976 I had a 1968 Plymouth and the spring for the carburetor broke in traffic on I-280 in Newark, NJ near the exit for college that day. The car immediately went to wide open throttle, I hit the foot brake as hard as I could, slammed the shifter through reverse to park making a horrible noise but the car stopped. I shut the engine off, put on the flashers, opened the hood and bent the tip of the remains of the spring to the carburetor with a pair of pliers I had in the car then continued to school. Luckily I didn't hit any other cars, God was watching over me that day. To say the least I was very shaken up for the rest of the day.
Aaaand we're off to a great start! Lamp cords??? .......what a bizarre thing to use.😆😆
You show some of the scariest videos. Every time I am freaked out thinking about how many of these cars are on the road. But, Thanks for posting, I am never disappointed.😲
I'm glad I'm in the UK. We have compulsory vehicle checking every year and if they find anything dangerous you aren't allowed to drive it out of the garage. Plus it's all on a database so if you don't have a valid MOT and/or insurance you will get pulled over. We still have a few sheds driving round illegally, but nowhere near the number (as a percentage of vehicles on the road) as the States.
I think most states have that too, but there's a few with zero inspections. Here in NZ the Warrant of Fitness does a good job of keeping them roadworthy
Almost the same here in the Netherlands. A new car is MOT ( APK in NL) for the first year but after that, a car must be MOTt every year. When something is wrong, you have a week to fix it and come back for the r-check ( free of charge). These garages only do the MOTs. They have 10 points and if a secret check guy from the state comes and notices that the garage is doing wrong, it loses a point. No more points: end of the garage. So, we hardly have vehicles driving around like these in this video. Here is an official video from the Dutch MOT ( RDW is RijksDienst voor het Wegverkeer= State Service of Road Traffic. From the Ministry of Traffic). Link:
ua-cam.com/video/bo03Ob4rSug/v-deo.html
Resale value of cars in the U.S. would go up if minimum safety and maintenance standards were enforced.
But, the U.S. has become quite poor (despite outward appearances) and the masses need rattletraps that they can afford.
I love the content, just wish there was more of it. Great vids, JRI!
Working on hiring some help, to help me out. Unfortunately a lot of clips aren't sent in so it takes hours finding them/getting permission and licensing clips.
The last one. I wonder if they asked the customer if they would prefer to just open an account at the body shop.
1:43 reminds me of that Jeff Foxworthy bit where he is talking about rental cars and how you always get the extra insurance because then you get to do all the stuff you wanted to try in your own car but were to afraid of messing something up.
These videos make my day man. Thank you.
How much does a new subframe cost?
I thought normal people considered a car with a rusted out sub frame to be totaled.
Always great to watch content!
NGL, I dig that Jurassic Park truck, even if that is some sketchy ass wiring.
Damn, hitting the R for racing mode in 112 mph must be a great feeling, better than money shifting :)
I'd like to hear the noise it made when they engaged R!
A girl in my brother's drivers education course did that. Not at 112, but it ended pretty much the same.
A cracked cam lobe. I have never seen that before.😱🤣
Imagine being an engineer and thinking that a press fit is good enough to hold cam lobes to a cam shaft. Thus the reason for the crack and spin they are relying on an interference fit for goodness sake... :)
Awesome channel growth brother 9 hours and 145k views were I only smart enough to make a well liked and respected YT channel best of luck in the future my friend!
mmmmmm well.....
Consider if there had been a keyway locating the cam lobe.
That lobe, after splitting, would have separated.
And then what would happen? Loose parts flying around tend to damage a lot more parts.
Sometimes engineers actually design things to fail quietly, not catastrophically.
Reference: I'm an engineer.
@@eldoradocanyonro solid camshafts don't fail like this do they Mr Engineer? Which was my point... whom but an engineer would even be able to think about putting a keyway in a press fit cam lobe. KISS is a wonderful principle. Lol chill brother you're an engineer and I have been a mechanic for 55 years, I have seen a few things while I worked brother.
@@eldoradocanyonro As an Engineer myself, if my boss told me to cost down a cam shaft by specifying an inductive shrink fit, I’d have splurted my coffee out over his glasses and short sleeved shirt and told him to find another moron to do it. Forging and machining every time.
Every time I watch one of the JRI videos, I find myself staring, with my mouth open in amazement!
"slammed it in reverse as to not hit a deer"
I'm no expert, but I believe cars also have a separate mechanism for dealing with this type of situation
Very likely the car's brakes were fixed by cousin Bubba and failed. Reverse was the next option.
That last one though came to fix the bumper then hits a car coming out XD
The customer in the last clip needs reverse removed from the transmission !!
1:43 I did this once, when I had just started driving. I was on my way to school when a wasp flew into the window and right into my face. My first instinct was to immediately put the car in park... while still going 30 MPH. It was a Honda, though, so aside from some god awful grinding noises, it was no worse for wear.
Enjoyed the video 👍👍
1:43 I have been puzzling over the American dashcam crashes on YT videos. Often a car will spin out and get totalled on the big highways, often when driving in a straight line or taking a minor evasive manoeuvre.
Couldn't figure out why such bad crashes...this clip explains everything!
Scary.
remember folks, some of these shit boxes are on the road next to you.
That last clip perfectly illustrates there's nothing wrong with the car and everything wrong with the driver.
This channel is making me scared to drive knowing how many cars that have loose nuts behind the wheel!
🤣😂
Underrated
Many thousands of them!!!!!!
You can't fix stupid! -- Ron White
A wise quote from a wise man!
But, you can legalize stupidity and make it mandatory to accommodate it.
@@BlackPill-pu4viIt is called Congress! (sarcasm)
Slamming your car in reverse (if that's even possible) won't make it stop more quickly than ABS
Story time: I had a left hand drive mail Jeep. The kind with the sliding doors. It had an automatic transmission with the shift lever on the floor. I was tooling down a gravel road on a summer evening with the door open. Had a K-Bar knife on the floor bouncing towards the open door. Picked up the knife to toss it on the passenger seat and knocked the transmission into reverse. Locked it up, went sideways, and rolled over 1 and 1/4 times, landing on the drivers side. Fortunate that I always wore a seat belt when driving with the door open. This would have been around 1983. That Jeep was a sweet little ride and fun to drive....
@@tinknal6449 how does that happen? I know in my car there's like a button you need to press to shift in reverse.
@@greego5952 This was a model from the early 70s, They didn't have a lot of the modern safety features.
i see, i assumed that all shifters had the shift button even my 1987 dodge aries has it. Bad assumption i guess.
@@tinknal6449 I remember when mythbusters tried to put the car in park or reverse at speed, and it wasn't possible in whatever clapped out junk they used. I assumed it wasn't possible, because even the dumbest engineer would know that needs to be prevented
Stuff like this makes me pucker up.
Be safe on the road
If you have enough zip ties, you can "fix" anything on a car....
Zip ties, duct tape and JB weld could cure cancer if used together
@@ryanm4013 I think you are onto something LOL
That guy sounds like Hank Hill!😂Dammit Bobby!
That refusal *would* be a Jurassic Park vehicle
Wait! What's with the loose cam lobe at 2:00? Camshafts aren't one piece anymore? Even my 54 Nash has a single piece camshaft. 😂
Some are press fit now.
They expand the lobe by heating it, then they press it on the shaft and let it cool down.
Doesent sound bad in theory, sadly they fail often
That is amazing that camshafts aren't one piece castings like they used to be.
Well done for preserving a fine automobile like your Nash!
@@MyCrazyGarage
If the lobe slips a little and the piston slams into the valve, that pretty much negates any savings by going with a multi piece shaft.
I'm a retired machinist and manufacturing engineer and I don't see how this type of camshaft is any easier to make. It sounds like a nightmare!
@@Iconoclasher Exactly! This is just like the time when Opel (Vauxhall) decided to use ball bearings for cam bearings.
The bearing cages constantly broke and the balls fell out. The whole cam would move up and down every few cycles and you would get some sporadic misses until the whole cam broke
@@BlackPill-pu4vi
Thank you. Actually JRI used it at the end of his video dated July 27, 2022. (the heated seat video) The blue one at the top left.
40: wow that’s some Bracketry.
Give that man some direction and he is an asset
This is the most underrated channel on youtube.
2:42 i dont know why, but i cant stop laughing at this dudes finger...
0:13 hahaha
Omg the maniac on the Road
Finding loose cam lobe, that's some really good diagnosis.
The guy messed up his car to save the deer.
Here I was wondering if people are trying to put in new subframes to prevent catalytic converter theft.
Repairs shops are a dangerous place, anything could break off on the lift seeing how bad these vehicles are rusted and cobbled together. 🤣
I like the vintage rides in the outro.
Nice clean break on that front diff.
Maybe some JBWeld, scotch tape, and a dollop of magical thinking is needed.
Paying a REAL mechanic to maintain all our vehicles is well worth the price
Sure is .
IF you don’t know what you’re doing, if you do then it’s way cheaper to just buy parts and fix things yourself but again know wtf you’re doing
@@huntermetting1121 obviously, there are a LOT of folk who DON'T know what they are doing, based on this You Tube channel, LOL
Mt wrench has a spotless shop, clean floor and clean overalls. He moves like he knows what he is doing. When he started his bay was sometimes empty. Now he is booked weeks in advance. No, he is not cheap. Yes, I save money by going to him because he gets it right.
REAL mechanics tried scamming my wife for $700 to have the brakes replaced so i did it myself for under $100. im sure you think youre really clever gatekeeping maintenance to extort people
Lol dude with the heat and fan on high issue just has a built in tornado siren 😂
Once their car has that much bodge why don't they just agree to have the shop fix the lot? I don't understand lol
So zip ties aren’t enough to fix things correctly?
Who knew.
Of course not. Duct tape and caulk are sometimes needed.
@@txp-tuff4358 Don't forget Liquid Nails
We get alot of the 'Other shop' repairs where I work couple times a month
Seems to be a frequent one. The "other shop" must always be busy lol
Can't fix stupid, but you can keep replacing their bumpers!
You see a deer on the road wyd?:
A: Brake!
B: Put car in reverse!
Hmmm.. this one is difficult
Option A had to be bypassed because cousin Bubba did the brakes and he's cheaper than the garage in town.
That heater one was hysterical! I love it!! Ugh… brake installation- UA-cam it!
Buy a repair manual....
@@eldoradocanyonro yes!!
We are doomed as a society 😔
It started when they added so many warning labels.
We're traveling solely on the momentum we inherited from the 20th century. We've just about used it all up and now we're facing a long hard upgrade.
There is a certain amount of confirmation bias going on here. Everyone now has a camera in their pocket, and they can publish content that millions of people can see with relative ease. This is the same thing that happens to say police officers. They deal with the worst people all the time, and so they start to see those attributes in general society, even though it's a tiny minority.
We watch these on purpose because they are entertaining (and educational), but we have to be careful that just because we see a lot of these on this channel, that this is reflective of all cars on the road. Not saying it's not possible (especially where for some individual freedom is often seen as much more important than the good or safety of the wider community), just that jumping to conclusions based on a self selected data set is probably going to give you the wrong idea.
Wow. Breath taking
De- evolution at it's finest
Darwinism at its best. Some of these people are 1 day away from winning a Darwin Award
No joke, this was like 25 years ago, working at the Car-X. Man pulls in and HITS the building cause he couldn't stop, comes right in and said " I would like to get my exhaust checked, it seems loud."
I felt that technician's disgust with the center console full of rocks.
Damn, these get crazier every time.
I’m 53 now..when I was 16,I had a car that I installed a metal strap folded over 3 times to the front bumper and bolted to the passenger front wheel to keep the wheel centered..frame was rotten and it would let the wheel move forward and backwards almost a foot each direction..drove it for months all over North Florida and South Georgia..
Customer declined repairs stating that they were late for their 8th booster.
it can pricey, but less than 3 years of jacked up insurance premiums: driver's ed school. it's estimated that 1 in 5 drivers locally don't, and never had a driver's license. same figure for no insurance as well. the simple basics i learned as a CDL driver saved me a few times. until i retired, my hiring on at different companies shoved my through training/eval about once every 4 or 5 years. i had one incident in my life: a woman was talking to a passenger with her left ear watching traffic while merging. put her sideways on the sidewalk, $25 signal light lens on the bus. and she was mad about getting the citation. me, 3 days (paid) vacation taking a "safety course". instructor (union) thot it was funny. we played video games.
Those guys pulled a beamng to avoid that deer
1:44 - Shifting into reverse is probably the dumbest way to stop your car. It will just result in the tires losing traction, possibly spinning you out of control. And in this case, grenading your differential. Fortunately modern vehicles protect themselves from this idiocy. They won't shift into reverse until below a certain speed limit. Same thing for shifting into park.
Those steering wheel "Grips" was probably the most worrying lol
0:02 - those aren't LAN cords - those are RJ11 cables. Outside of a fax machine or a POS terminal using dial up, tying suspension components together is their most popular use.
I said old lamp cords as that's what the technician said.
@@JustRolledIn Captions read it as LAN cords - anyways, lamp cords are probably a better choice, they are thicker.
@@the_kombinator damn captions. I correct the words and it goes to the wrong one lol
My eyes rolled so hard they just fell out of my head.
I’m surprised the shifter even allowed for that to happen at 70mph. But hey, every manufacturer is different. And that the axle splines didn’t shear off from driving without the nut cuz that’s what happens when u don’t install it and drive. Or so I’ve been told.
The last person needs to have the reverse gear disabled on their car 😂
No mercy reversy crew gets another card carrying member. Stuntman would be proud.
2:42 Mercedes.
I had the front "tower" (2 appx 8 inch tall risers from the main frame per upper A arm on this one) for one upper A arm of a 1959 Chrysler product break free due to failed weld. (20year old car at the time)
The shop that towed it in welded a 2 inch thck block of steel to anchor the tower, just spaced it up...
It of course wouldn't align.
I got it to a self-help garage (think the garage where "Christine" was worked on in the movie... that style place)
I ground the block free after disassembling the suspension, and gas welded the tower back correctly, using measurements from the oppoisite side. While it was still glowing orange, I dumped oil on the weld.
Resetting the torsion rod spring was... "entertaining"
The wheels aligned just fine and I drove it another 20,000 miles.
Wish I had pictures for you.
Great clips and editing as always. A pre-war car at the end is always a treat.
🧐 Lamp chords...why didn't the original vehicle engineers think of that!? Could have saved SO MUCH on manufacturing costs if they had just gone with thin copper wire in the first place! 🤦♂
The last one is too much 😂 doesn't deserve to drive a nice 🚗!
There should be a law governing the condemning of cars that are unsafe
There’s your problem right there. Using 16 gauge wire to hold your axle together. Minimum is 14 and for off road use 12.
Vehicle totally falling apart. Customer declined repairs. 😲
That noise from loose windshield seam is a recall they can get reimbursed for on that Volvo c30 at least.
The number of people who drive knowing there's one issue or another with their brakes is scary. I'm absolutely terrified of anything going wrong with the brakes on my car and I've never even had any issues with brakes across the three cars I've drive over the years. I even have recurring nightmares about bad brakes! How can you drive a car knowing the brakes are bad!