20+ years I have been wrenching on vehicles, and I almost always learn a little something from your videos. Whether it be on a vehicle I have little to no experience working on, to some random electrical diagnosis that almost never happens in any vehicle ever. If I want to be entertained, I go watch people to stupid crap to their vehicles in the most hack way possible, if I actually want to learn something while I am being entertained, I come to this channel!
thank god!, I was getting bored out of my mind, and was considering actually going to work on my car, Thanks Eric, now I don't have to, at least for another hour or so
Mr. O, I’d love to have your knowledge, on cars, and scan tools? You’re an amazing technician! You know right where to go, and what to do! 👍👍Two thumbs up, for you!
The most valuable aspect of these videos here and at other sites is it helps prepare me to ask intelligent questions and provide answers that are relevant rather than, "I don't know" or "It doesn't run'.
Love me some SMA videos! Keep'em coming brother! Wish to god I would have listened to my heart and went to work as a mechanic. Live the dream and wrench on!
I want to thank you and Ivan Mustie 1,Ave, Vice Grip Garage Scanner Danner, This old Tony For keeping me from the media distractions. Stay healthy wash your hands and listen to Mrs. O
@@Jordan-ym5gf Engine is not ideal to him, though I prefer my injectors close by the intake port - I don't like timing belts on tight places, or the idea of changing most pulleys and seals just for my sanity.
GDI, alternately known to the trade as Gasoline Direct Injection or God Damn It, thanks to their propensity for buildup of carbonised deposits in the intake tract and back of the valve heads. The reason being that the lack of fuel mist constantly cleaning the intake parts coupled with increased use of EGR means any evaporative emissions from the oil/blowby get baked hard onto the surfaces. There's a whole business sprung up around the worst of these motors (IMO the PSA/BMW Prince series) where mobile contractors travel round decoking the inlet tracts using crushed walnut shell blasting which saves removing the head to decoke in the traditional manner.
Here i am.. procrastinating changing the starter on my 328xi........ going to be high of 40 tomorrow.. maybe watching some sma will motivate me enough to want to do it :D
Your videos are great Eric, really enjoy them. It's neat to me the relation between cars and musical instruments and you actually used the term, "tone wheel" that's actually what is inside old Hammond organs, they have a whole bunch of tone wheels that have different gearing ratios/teeth and a pickup coils, that's what generates the tone. Reluctor inside distributors also use that same technique of a tone wheel with a pickup coil.
@@markhull1366 The only words that strike more fear in me are Daewoo and auction in same sentence... In all seriousness though some of these Kia are not an utterly hopeless car for the money, I just won't own one because the Koreans eat dog!
@@danmackintosh6325 I feel the same way about Hyundai. I worked as a service manager at one of their dealerships back when they were first being imported. Total POS! Guess they're better now, still wouldn't get one.
hi iv been thinking of a road trip never been out east im into off roading your 690mi from me lol id like to shake your hand for being a honest person and do awsome work.
What a cool short cut, quickly proving the wires back to the PCM are fine, a time saver for sure. I wonder how many of your former students will teach that trick to the next generation, quoting "MeMaw", ha ha.
My Wife has this car, and when I work on it, I tell people I'm working on my Wife's Soul, lol. For anyone that has this, it has a rubber timing belt and it's an interference engine, so if it snaps and it will eventually, it could most likely will, (I knew a guy who got lucky which is why I worded it that way) destroy the engine. It should be replaced at 80k to a max of 90k miles. Story time, she bought this used it's an 2011 but virtually the same as a 2010 so while doing maintenance on it, she added it's been making a funny tick or rattling noise, so I check stuff out broke out my automotive stethoscope, and I heard this crazy garbage noise on the Cam housing and looked it up rubber belt interference and I asked her did they change the timing belt before you bought it and she said I don't know, the odo read 198k and I was like oh no...when I got to the belt I was saying my own OH BABY!!! and well there's your problem lady, that belt was on the verge of snapping it looked like a cat got to it thinking it was grade A smoked Alaskan Smoked salmon lol!!! Now, I've always worked on my own cars as I'm a mechanic, and I love to price check shops in my area to get estimates on how much it would cost to fix this. My wife's soul (lol I can't help it) it's been smoked in, high mileage some minor dents a few scratches it's been well used and kid friendly lol, so it blue book value was 2k at good, and so I know if it weren't for me that car would have died because shops around wanted lowest was 4k for the job to highest 6k, and lol it cost me 300.00 bucks to do it myself. It's not a hard job, it is time consuming especially if you do this at home and not on a lift like I had to, and I can see it being very stressful on a Diy-er because if your timing is off you could destroy your engine. The cost to repair it was over the value of the vehicle so I'm sure had my wife not met or married me it would have been toast. Also as we dated I found out the mechanic she was seeing was ripping her off, and I like to have all kinds of repair manuals for all cars I own plus with Internet and tons of websites and UA-cam I just like to have all available resources at my disposal, because even with 36 years under my belt all vehicles have the same and different things at the sametime, wiring diagrams you know good to have this info on the vehicle you're working on. So I looked and looked and couldn't find a repair manual anywhere not even Haynes which I called and was told they don't have one because KIA didn't make enough of them, I said to the nice lady BUT THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!! So anytime I'm out driving and see on I say, They Didn't make enough of them," my Wife sighs lol. Overall these are super easy to work on. Thumbs up!!!
At a certain point in my own automotive history every time I bought a crank sensor for my Jeep Cherokee I brought a multimeter with me and tested it at the counter. They are usually DoA if you're going to any place other than NAPA. I have tested 2 bad right out of the box at the counter at 2 different times. And I think that was before I bought one that was already bad and discovered it for myself in the garage while I was battling a no start problem, so there have been 3 DoA CKP's in my history. And I think the brand was BWD ironically (Broke When Delivered as you like to say)
Ahhh, I had DTC P0016 & P0335 on a 2010 2.0L just after I changed the timing belt. After taking off the covers to review my work, I found that I was (1) tooth off that was causing both DTC's!
"for you and me" ... so nice to hear the correct grammar. Too many people would say "for you and I" which is wrong, all day long. Sincerely, The Grammar Police :)
Thanks for that Eric, you just completely helped give me another idea on an ABS issue on a Peugeot 206! Long story short, car got hit & I replaced back axle etc with one from a parts car. It had no ABS sensor fitted but I had known good spares, yet still ABS fault after rebuilding. Not looked that deep at it yet but I was thinking either it had a non-ABS hub or a wire got tweeked in the wreck, thinking about it though the rust buildup keeping the sensor too shallow in the hole is a good possibility.
ERIC O.. you can trigger the crank sensor in circuit by wiggling a screw driver in front of it where the tone wheel would be just to see if its alive and you get some events coming from it.. its the same as the metal tone wheel going by and for all intensive purpose the same as the bypass test only now you get to see if the sensor is alive as well.. same trick works for the other style sensor where the magnet triggers it.. just use a small pocket magnet and wiggle in front of it and you should see some activity to let you know its still alive. hope this tip helps you if you don't already know it.
I have seen so many SMA videos that I look forward to the lunch portion with Mrs. O as much as the diagnostic process.
Sure wish I could have lunch with my wife everyday. She gets to come up to the shop sometimes but I'm jealous of Erics shop
"Look at me, I am a crank sensor" I lost it... lol
he should have said ''i am a tone wheel!''
I lost it lol
Really tho?
"We fixed it and it's still broke". Story of my life.
20+ years I have been wrenching on vehicles, and I almost always learn a little something from your videos. Whether it be on a vehicle I have little to no experience working on, to some random electrical diagnosis that almost never happens in any vehicle ever. If I want to be entertained, I go watch people to stupid crap to their vehicles in the most hack way possible, if I actually want to learn something while I am being entertained, I come to this channel!
Hi, Eric. Watching the old detective series, "South Main Detective". The plot thickens. Like molasses baby. Anyway, thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
The best automotive repair channel ever. Keep it coming Mr. O.
Love your optimism, sense of humor, logical and methodical process!!!!
thank god!, I was getting bored out of my mind, and was considering actually going to work on my car, Thanks Eric, now I don't have to, at least for another hour or so
You always put your heart and SOUL into every job.
i see what you did there 😉
"I'll be sure to ask you that question"
What a reply from Mrs O
One of your best diag videos I’ve watched so far. Had me laughing, and helped me understand cam sensor faults better.
wiggling things in the hole gets the pump moving , i,ll remember that , thanks eric!
From a man who watches A LOT of UA-cam videos, this is the best channel ever.
Best Sunday ever includes watching some shenanigans at SMA
I've been binge watching SMA, officially my new favorite, way to go Eric O and family, keep up the great work.
The old olfactory analyzer, works every time!
Great video
Thank u
Your mechanical skills are fantastic
BUT your electrical knowledge and troubleshooting are way above the stars
"if somebody steals this car, does that mean you lost your soul"
you got a chuckle out of me...
Mr. O, I’d love to have your knowledge, on cars, and scan tools? You’re an amazing technician! You know right where to go, and what to do! 👍👍Two thumbs up, for you!
The most valuable aspect of these videos here and at other sites is it helps prepare me to ask intelligent questions and provide answers that are relevant rather than, "I don't know" or "It doesn't run'.
Literally Just looked for a new SMA video and this pops up. Bingo!
Have one from new with 180k miles.. Regular maintenance and it's been the greatest little hamster car ever
Great video. As an old man, I especially enjoyed the spot-on analogy between the draining fuel and a swollen prostate.
Auction cars... gotta love 'em!
Love me some SMA videos! Keep'em coming brother! Wish to god I would have listened to my heart and went to work as a mechanic. Live the dream and wrench on!
I want to thank you and Ivan
Mustie 1,Ave, Vice Grip Garage
Scanner Danner, This old Tony
For keeping me from the media distractions. Stay healthy wash your hands and listen to Mrs. O
Jeremy Helton Don’t forget Neutral Drop
And Matt's Towing
Also Watch Wes Work, DeBoss Garage and Zip Ties and Bias Plies!
@@danf4616
Thanks for the suggestions I do watch all of those channels too👍🔧
Love scanner danner ...he actually only lives about 10 min from me used to see him around town alot when he had the old Cherokee before it caught fire
I have a 2014 Kia Soul + with the 2.0 gdi I have to admit they are a good car
This is not a direct injection engine it's a G4GC engine 2.0L with a T-Belt no chain and regular old fuel injectors.
@@brad4108 how was that even relevant to his comment lol.
@@Jordan-ym5gf Engine is not ideal to him, though I prefer my injectors close by the intake port - I don't like timing belts on tight places, or the idea of changing most pulleys and seals just for my sanity.
GDI, alternately known to the trade as Gasoline Direct Injection or God Damn It, thanks to their propensity for buildup of carbonised deposits in the intake tract and back of the valve heads. The reason being that the lack of fuel mist constantly cleaning the intake parts coupled with increased use of EGR means any evaporative emissions from the oil/blowby get baked hard onto the surfaces.
There's a whole business sprung up around the worst of these motors (IMO the PSA/BMW Prince series) where mobile contractors travel round decoking the inlet tracts using crushed walnut shell blasting which saves removing the head to decoke in the traditional manner.
@@Jordan-ym5gf thank you
Very interesting video that ends with a cliffhanger. This channel is awesome!
Several times, during this video, you had me laughing like an idiot - the crocodile clip moment almost made me spit-take. I love your vids.
You don't know how many times I try to drag the screen around when you're off camera Andi try to see what you see 😂😂😂
....doubt it
"Now you sound like a customer" that's cold
I love the smell of spark plugs in the morning
Buddy rips one liners so good and do fast.
Here i am.. procrastinating changing the starter on my 328xi........ going to be high of 40 tomorrow.. maybe watching some sma will motivate me enough to want to do it :D
great work Eric, appreciate your helpful diags. A lot of experience and common sense.
That hand sign you used to explain cleaning the rust out around a hole could get you hurt in some parts! Lol!
Your videos are great Eric, really enjoy them. It's neat to me the relation between cars and musical instruments and you actually used the term, "tone wheel" that's actually what is inside old Hammond organs, they have a whole bunch of tone wheels that have different gearing ratios/teeth and a pickup coils, that's what generates the tone. Reluctor inside distributors also use that same technique of a tone wheel with a pickup coil.
Glad you the expression “ Sew buttons on your underwear.” When I say that people look at me like I’m crazy. Good kick with the Kia.
"I've sniffed a lot of spark plugs in my day"
This is the best quote so far this year! :)
comedy gold!
Just a guess...Diesel instead of gasoline?...on to part 2, oh the thrill of two SMA videos on one day!!!
Picked a bad day to quit sniffing spark plugs.
What a day to stop taking amphetamines !
SMA videos have everything. Even cliffhangers. What diabolical shenanigans have fouled that plug? Lol
Oh yeah, we've got us a good one! Thanks Dr. O!
Love your videos SMA! Mr. O, you're so informative and detailed, no matter what your working on!
Man. Auction and Kia in a single sentence is usually not what I call a good time.
However, Kia and auction are mentioned in the same sentence more often than not. LOL!
@@markhull1366 The only words that strike more fear in me are Daewoo and auction in same sentence... In all seriousness though some of these Kia are not an utterly hopeless car for the money, I just won't own one because the Koreans eat dog!
@@danmackintosh6325 I feel the same way about Hyundai. I worked as a service manager at one of their dealerships back when they were first being imported. Total POS! Guess they're better now, still wouldn't get one.
hi iv been thinking of a road trip never been out east im into off roading your 690mi from me lol id like to shake your hand for being a honest person and do awsome work.
What a cool short cut, quickly proving the wires back to the PCM are fine, a time saver for sure. I wonder how many of your former students will teach that trick to the next generation, quoting "MeMaw", ha ha.
I think it has a head gasket problem just by the way you were talking. Love your videos and can’t wait for part 2.
Auction cars are a blast to figure out
Always enjoy some good ol probing action ! 🤗😂
A classic case of...Kia On, Engine Off. :D
I am thinking since it was an auction car it was sitting for awhile and the fuel tank is full of water. I will now watch part 2!
One owner, cream puff, low miles, very clean...oh yeah, doesn't run....
Troy Phillips , or by the little lady to church! Lol!
Minor issue, easy fix!
Maybe from that “Little Old Lady From Pasadena”, pre lockdown of course.🤔
Finally got here early for a Eric O. special
Finally!! Your fav hat is back Jack!!
Dewalt is making some utility knife blades with a carbide edge that seem to work really well. they come in a dispenser pack.
You are cranking it great, thanks
thanks for all you do in your videos Sir have a great week
I don’t think your clamp on that test light is heavy enough, maybe need a bigger one 😂😂 funniest upload of yours I’ve seen yet, keep up the great work
Perfect timing, just cooked lunch!
Damn UA-cam! I got notification for the second part of this video not the first one!
Miguel Arellano sane here!! I watched the second one first and then it came up and said the first one lol
The spark plugs smell like diesel fuel to me.
My Wife has this car, and when I work on it, I tell people I'm working on my Wife's Soul, lol. For anyone that has this, it has a rubber timing belt and it's an interference engine, so if it snaps and it will eventually, it could most likely will, (I knew a guy who got lucky which is why I worded it that way) destroy the engine. It should be replaced at 80k to a max of 90k miles.
Story time, she bought this used it's an 2011 but virtually the same as a 2010 so while doing maintenance on it, she added it's been making a funny tick or rattling noise, so I check stuff out broke out my automotive stethoscope, and I heard this crazy garbage noise on the Cam housing and looked it up rubber belt interference and I asked her did they change the timing belt before you bought it and she said I don't know, the odo read 198k and I was like oh no...when I got to the belt I was saying my own OH BABY!!! and well there's your problem lady, that belt was on the verge of snapping it looked like a cat got to it thinking it was grade A smoked Alaskan Smoked salmon lol!!!
Now, I've always worked on my own cars as I'm a mechanic, and I love to price check shops in my area to get estimates on how much it would cost to fix this. My wife's soul (lol I can't help it) it's been smoked in, high mileage some minor dents a few scratches it's been well used and kid friendly lol, so it blue book value was 2k at good, and so I know if it weren't for me that car would have died because shops around wanted lowest was 4k for the job to highest 6k, and lol it cost me 300.00 bucks to do it myself. It's not a hard job, it is time consuming especially if you do this at home and not on a lift like I had to, and I can see it being very stressful on a Diy-er because if your timing is off you could destroy your engine. The cost to repair it was over the value of the vehicle so I'm sure had my wife not met or married me it would have been toast. Also as we dated I found out the mechanic she was seeing was ripping her off, and I like to have all kinds of repair manuals for all cars I own plus with Internet and tons of websites and UA-cam I just like to have all available resources at my disposal, because even with 36 years under my belt all vehicles have the same and different things at the sametime, wiring diagrams you know good to have this info on the vehicle you're working on. So I looked and looked and couldn't find a repair manual anywhere not even Haynes which I called and was told they don't have one because KIA didn't make enough of them, I said to the nice lady BUT THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!! So anytime I'm out driving and see on I say, They Didn't make enough of them," my Wife sighs lol. Overall these are super easy to work on. Thumbs up!!!
23:13 keep going at it with Mrs O and your gonna be 3 quarter of the way on sleeping on the couch
"I'm a crank sensor" What a crank!
If this video says anything then its ....EXPERIENCE....lots of it, Thanks a bunch.
At a certain point in my own automotive history every time I bought a crank sensor for my Jeep Cherokee I brought a multimeter with me and tested it at the counter. They are usually DoA if you're going to any place other than NAPA. I have tested 2 bad right out of the box at the counter at 2 different times. And I think that was before I bought one that was already bad and discovered it for myself in the garage while I was battling a no start problem, so there have been 3 DoA CKP's in my history. And I think the brand was BWD ironically (Broke When Delivered as you like to say)
Ahhh, I had DTC P0016 & P0335 on a 2010 2.0L just after I changed the timing belt. After taking off the covers to review my work, I found that I was (1) tooth off that was causing both DTC's!
Good video!!! Cant wait to see part 2! Damn you're a great mechanic!
That battery looks like something straight out of the Apocalypse.
Best show imp
Gotta love those meemaw tricks
Bless you Mrs. O! (Sneezing)
"for you and me" ... so nice to hear the correct grammar. Too many people would say "for you and I" which is wrong, all day long.
Sincerely, The Grammar Police :)
Expecto patronum! Eric O and the hollow crankers.
By the way loved the video!! I gotta keep you healthy so I can get my fill of videos
Someone sold their soul to enable the production of this video.
Thanks for that Eric, you just completely helped give me another idea on an ABS issue on a Peugeot 206! Long story short, car got hit & I replaced back axle etc with one from a parts car. It had no ABS sensor fitted but I had known good spares, yet still ABS fault after rebuilding. Not looked that deep at it yet but I was thinking either it had a non-ABS hub or a wire got tweeked in the wreck, thinking about it though the rust buildup keeping the sensor too shallow in the hole is a good possibility.
ERIC O.. you can trigger the crank sensor in circuit by wiggling a screw driver in front of it where the tone wheel would be just to see if its alive and you get some events coming from it.. its the same as the metal tone wheel going by and for all intensive purpose the same as the bypass test only now you get to see if the sensor is alive as well.. same trick works for the other style sensor where the magnet triggers it.. just use a small pocket magnet and wiggle in front of it and you should see some activity to let you know its still alive. hope this tip helps you if you don't already know it.
always makes me think of the old commercials of our local kia dealership's tag line, "we'll see ya in a kia"
The suspense is killing me! 😳
Hi Eric from Illinois!
I feel bad for Mrs. O sometimes. He can be such a pain LOL. Good thing she loves him
Watching your vids should count as hours for an apprentice.
Plz make a shirt that says "look at me im a crank sensor" I dont know why but I lost it when you said that.
I always knew you could get a bit cranky Eric, but that you could measure that crankiness with a KIA sensor was news to me...
Good video Eric O @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC
Great job again like always
"Hi, I'm Cam Signal. You might know me from movies such as "Engine Wiring 101"..."
that spark plug looked like it was in the drain oil from my car with a blown head.
Making a guess before I watch this. DIY timing belt job.
Lovin the special episodes 👌.
Hmmm, 3/4 of a tank of fuel? 3/4 of a tank of air? I recently had a car with 3/4 of a tank of "OTHER", and thats why it didnt run. Just a thought.
Eric, You said It's missing some teeth.. It must have been manufactured in Kentucky.. I live in Kentucky so I know it's TRUE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That alligator at 8:20 scared probably some people including me)
I work at a large used car lot always check for tampering from auction cars. Harness Plugs un done wires cut etc.
First time I've seen Mr. O. get cranky.
I hope you service more kia. they had potentials.
Love your videos!
What system is that youre using to look up the wiring diagrams?
11:28 Mine does that too, I have to hold it for much longer until it beeps a second time. Then the backlight is permanent!