Customer States Compilation (Best Of Episodes 75-89) | Mechanic Problems | Mechanical Nightmare
2022 ж. 30 Қар.
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Imagine going to a mechanic and seeing your car on KZhead 😂
you never should because the only reason they're posted is about how stupid the owner is
@@uncrustable9923 true that
I'm waiting for my crv to show up lmao they were impress that thing still drove but for me I was holding onto my spirit knowing its gonna go Rusted out right passenger control arm, don't own it anymore
@@DonutVIP control arms are replaceable though?
@@uncrustable9923 nope lol rusted into the subframe gonna cost more tyen the car
It’s always refreshing to know you don’t live in an area that’s prone to rust. Lots of rust buckets out there and unsuspecting people buy them at top dollar never taking the time to look under. Paint and body checks out but the undercarriage is a whole different story.
Spend $100 on a mechanical check ... best investment you'll ever make
Every day I thank god that I wasn’t born in the rust belt.
Yeah. Had a buddy buy a Ford Escape awhile back. Everything was going fine until one day he brought it into the shop for service. He never checked the undercarriage of the vehicle the entire time he had it. So when they put it up in the air. The entire undercarriage was rusted to hell and back with parts of it flaking off. We told him to sell that shit immediately and make sure to check the underneath of any vehicle your purchase next time.
Never buy a used car from the salt belt! Those people are stupid as F in the way they destroy their cars with salt. I will never understand why they allow their state to ruin their cars like that. Just use sand like out west, or snow tires, or chains, or 4WD/AWD etc etc. But NO!! We want salt instead and then drive the most dangerous cars ever!
Did an inspection on a 1970's vintage Datsun truck that a guy had bought at an auction. On the surface it looked a decent sort-of restoration. I eventually got to checking the frame, which I thought it to be AMAZING shape for the age and make. It had recently been undercoated, so I grabbed a magnet and could only intermittently get it to stick from place to place. Turned out that the shop that "restored" it started with a frame much like the one at 3:45 and filled it full of newspapers, epoxy, and body filler before the undercoat was applied. So, yes, it was a papier-mache truck frame.
Wow, that isn't just dishonest it's actually stupid. Any court would judge any loss - life or property - to be reckless endangerment which would cost that shop owner everything they have not only today but in the future too.
@@knurlgnar24 Unless its 'as is' auction. You value those assuming the mechanicals are shot and its only the body panels and trim pieces for valuation.
sounds to me like a showroom condition resto. it looks good, but you maybe shouldn't drive that car... here in germany we have all kinds of clichees about 'murrican restaurations because of such "blenders", bought from the other side of the pond without having it checked by an expert first. but nowadays you have american companies which help you find the vehicle you crave for, and value it and the condition, and help with all things shipping. so at least that improved a lot.
LOL - newspaper and filler used to be the go to solution many years ago for non-structural repairs.
@@johngalt97 Nope... even then, 'as is' wouldn't fly.
Best recent mechanic experience. I don't work at a shop but people are mechanically inclined where I do work. I showed a picture I took replacing the water pump on my 2001 Suburban Vortec engine. He says oh do you have that belt squeal? I said what do you mean? He could see in the picture the misalignment of my power steering pump pulley. That's someone who knows their stuff or at least that particular stuff! He loaned me the tool in 10 minutes later no more squeal. Got to appreciate knowledge. It was only off 1/8 of an inch or so but he could see the pulley was not flush the shaft it was pressed on.
1/8th of an inch is a lot lol
@@Max_Da_G that's almost a metre.
Mechanic: "Ma'am, your van needs $4,200 worth of repairs." Owner: "JUST FIX THE NOISE!!!"
This made me laugh more thatn it should have!! LOL
Okay… that’s 4200$
You know the rust is bad when it's just the ol' paint holding things together.
Duck tape and you'll never notice
@3:03 the "crunchy" stuff looks like calcium.. possibly mineralized from using well water to mix with coolant.. I do HVAC and plumbing..I find this in water heaters a lot. When it's heated the calcium solidifies into crystals and will build up, in my case it builds on the heating element after it's filled half the tank and causes the elements to rupture.
I thought perhaps lime, but yeah, what you said makes sense.
Solubility of CaCO3 decreases with rising temperature, so it will deposit scale in water heaters. Which is what an engine block is.... Citric acid is great for dissolving it. Gentle on metals, but rips through limescale pretty quickly.
Antifreeze jugs always say to use distilled mixing water
Yep, " Hard water " will cause those problems. Vinegar spirits disolves it really quickly. Belgium is noted for high calcium content in drinking water and it clogs up the tea kettle in a month. I cleaned the radiator of an old car with vinegar spirits once too. Took 5 litres to fill the thing, ran the car for two minutes to spread it all around and let it sit overnight. The stuff that came out in the morning was perfectly clear so I wondered WTF but looking into the top of the radiator all I saw was bright and clean copper. Clean as a whistle and the car never overheated again.
cooland not newer used only water. need mix alltime water and cooling liguir 50/50 mix.
That was a damn effective can of stop leak on that Ecodiesel
I’m guessing a leaky egr cooler that super heated that shit till it did that
Wasn't stop leak... Was cooked motor oil and coolant.
Easy to replace a radiator, but that's going to be fun removing that stuff from inside the engine!
That looked just like the stuff you get out of electric water heaters. IF that was stop leak, it was a LOT of cans of stop leak, you can't get that much solids out of one can of liquid. If it was hard water, it was a LOT of water added to the radiator, like hundreds of gallons.
"Customer declined the repair" I loved that one. In france security related repairs are mandatory, and can not be declined
What if they can't afford the repair?
@@Kilroy1911 repair shop can keep your vehicle if you can not pay for the repair until you can afford it, better letting you walk than killing a family because the vehicle has security issue.
Not only in France, but in Germany as well.
IIRC you still can decline and tow the car to another shop.
@@Kilroy1911 jail.
It’s scary knowing that these vehicles are on the road with us. Those owners need to be in a mental hospital
You cannot get blood from a stone and many of these people are poor and the repairs to their vehicles would cost way too much for them.
Please also allow for ignorance; I'm knowledgeable about a good chunk of IT, but a bunch of these I don't know what I'm looking at here.
Alot of drivers need to be in a mental hospital. Also their drivers license taken away.
@@christopherkidwell9817 if they are poor and cannot afford to maintain their car then they should not be on the road. What Will happen when they cause a serious acident????
@@robertsbite4716 ah yes they are poor, let's prevent them from getting to their job and see how that works out for them. Fixing their vehicle, paying their bills and feeding their family should be much easier then.
The fact that some of these cars drive on the same roads as us is terrifying😳🤣
im terrified that some of the people commenting are no different
Watching that water draining out of the engine was like watching Austin Powers 😂
Haha
So it wasn't just me then !😁
Oh!, behave!
for me it was tom hanks in "a league of their own".
Would have been better if the guy pouring it in from above didn't keep letting it make that gurgling sound.
Back in the 1970s I was a spray painter in an airplane factory in Osceola WI. Some of the aircraft were seaplanes. We used zinc-chromate primer and a certain epoxy that prevented the airframes from rusting in the salt water and air. The insides of the tubular airframes were also coated with a rust proofing liquid that hardened once exposed to the atmosphere after a few hours. This would be a solution to all this cars and trucks having their frames and suspension components rusting because of salt used on icy roads. Heck, a large factory could dip the frames in this epoxy. Instead they coat these frames with a black primer that wears off very quickly even under the best circumstances.
Having worked as a tech and service advisor (including MBenz), I can say - YES these are not exaggerated, and I've seen this happen on high end cars too. Owners have no clue when they damage their cars.
bro people do NOT take care of their cars these days. It's just a thing that gets them to work and the grocery store until it blows up. it's crazy, and has absolutely destroyed confidence in the used car market.
@@Killertomato84Some things should be common sense, like oil, brakes and tyres but some don't even do that, lol.
it almost makes me cry to think of the pain and suffering some owners have put theior vehicles through...
For real. I could never treat my vehicles like this.
This is why I'm glad that here in the UK we have an annual safety inspection that goes a long way to keeping death traps like these off the public roads. The US and A needs to have the same!
Wow I didn't know they don't have Mots in America! No wonder why these videos exist!
13:49 we have state inspections but not all states do it in the USA I dont know why some states don't think its necessary but yes it puts everyone else on the road at risk. Florida state laws are if it drove into the shop it can drive out, not sure what the drive home death total will be but apparently that state dosnt care, population control.
Virginia Has State Inspection Every Year
South Carolina used to have a state inspection up to 1976 and decided to end it as customers being scammed by shops got way out of hand. Shops would claim something needed work when it really didn't and you couldn't say no and they wouldn't let you just drive off. After it got to a point they dropped the inspection.
@@bobbg9041 In Florida it's really convenient for those of us that know how to maintenance a car not having to pay that inspection fee every year. But like you said, it puts others at risk from those that don't know how. I've seen more cars on fire, and the resulting blackened spots on the side of the road, than anywhere else. On the other hand cars last longer down here where we don't need to use road salt, ever. It's good and bad at the same time.
Damn!!! That was one HUGE black widow spider!!!!!
RTV. Providing entertainment for decades and decades to come.
You just gotta love when alloys turn into hub caps
8:59 "Sir, I know you realize that your frame is in two".
Remember, rust is a protective coating. Very important.
new and old car need grinder rust off and paint tar/oil mix ewery 2 year.
Thank goodness after 40 years I'm no longer in that business. Absolutely hate customers
Yeah some of those customers are really stupid and don't take care of their stuff but there's a lot of Shady mechanics out there also
Okay, good to know mechanics hate customers. Will do everything myself
I REALLY wish you would share more info on each case, whenever possible! Like some other similar channels do. Knowing some details for some cases makes it much more interesting of me, and others I assume.
Sounded like someone who was half-assing it.
The problems are pretty obvious. What's to explain. You are not mechanically inclined, are you.
@@leegoddard2618 personally not really but im interested and would like to learn about mechanics. any recomendations?
Watch JustRolledIn. Much better channel
You mean instead of plucking some random video and putting a voice over of "customer states..." when you have no idea what the customer stated.
Thank god in the UK we have the annul mot test that would catch a lot of these dangers, (and also drivers with an iq). In 15+ years in a garage I never saw anything so dangerous!
As a uk resident myself i see these video and i ask myself "how can you be so blitherly stupid to A) not notice these things and B) refuse to have them fixed professionally"
Simple. Americans are lazy with car maintenance.
UK isn't special to have annual inspections. We have them in Virginia also. A lot can go wrong in a year. The US is also huge. I know several people that put 30,000+ miles on a car in a year..
@@shinyribs2178 i appreciate that, but those rust problems haven’t happened in a year.
You'd be surprised about the US's rust belt states
When I delivered auto parts, there were rotors hanging all around so thin you could shave with them! A couple of them were see-through!!!
Hats off to all those wonderful portrait reordering mechanics out there.
Some scary vehicles on the roads 😳😬🫣
I am constantly astonished by the sheer amount of rust on the underside of some of these vehicles
Nothing to be astonished about...in the north they use highly corrosive road salts & other chemicals that eat vehicle components in short time. Not really sure why it's considered practical or even safe but hey, they never asked me before they did it!
Common in the north as we put salt on the roads to keep them ice free. My state uses a salt spray that keeps the roads nice and ice free but it rusts everyone's cars.
@@mrow7598 That's what I thought about, I guessed that this is more a northern States problem. What about corrosion protection on US cars? Well, here in Switzerland they use a hell lot of salt, in my eyes way too much. So yeah, our cars suffer the same problem, except the fact it would NEVER pass a safety inspection of our DMV in this state.
@@muraingressant4278 As for the protection many newer cars have plastic sheets to help protect the undercarriage and some people do get a spray protection like rhino liner bed liners. As for inspections, no they're not supposed to pass however there's too many places who just don't care.
Some of these don't appear to have much steel left to actually rust!
so many of these videos have my eye in a constant twitch....
Watching these videos make me laugh in a very nervous manner and if I lived in the USA I’d be extremely nervous sharing the roads with these vehicles and the obviously mechanically challenged drivers 👍
Got a family friend with a small child that when their car was acting up they made the mistake of dicribinging the issue as the car "having a tummy ache". Car got way worse shortly after. They took it to a shop and apparently their 7 y/o thought they'd help the cars hurt tummy by dumping an entire bottle of pepto in the gas tank. Gas covers are not enough, get a locking safety cover people, kids can be the worst kind of proactive, lol.
Customer states: "My oil dipstick is broken in two parts". Me: Ok, I'll check. Car: LETS START A FIRE ^^ Former mechanic did not pay attention on which angle he mounted the plus cable to the starter motor. So the cable was all the time on high pressure with the dipstick tube. Vibrations have done the rest and it BURNED off the dipstick. I noticed while trying to take out the oil dipstick tube - It started sparking, glowing and smoking. Never had disconnected a car battery that fast.
Been turning wrenches for nearly 30 years professionally and it never ceases to amaze me what might come through the doors.
I really love these videos, thanks for posting! I gotta admit though I’m a complete lay-person so sometimes I don’t know what I’m looking at even when it looks REALLY bad I don’t understand why. I love it when you say a few words to kinda take us through it, it helps.:) But I notice some common themes: “customer refused service, customer continued to drive vehicle, technician undid customers self-repair of…”. I might not know much about cars but I wouldn’t do any of that sh*t! Geez what are people thinking?!
When I was young my first truck a 73 F250 four-wheel drive all drum brakes started grinding. I got the necessary parts but I didn't know how to take apart the front hubs to do the brakes. I kept putting it off knowing I had new everything. One day I was driving down the block from my house and when I stepped on the break I could tell they gave out because the brake piston exceeded its limits and exited the bore. Fortunately it was a safe location very close to home. In the end I learned there was a couple of screws holding the drum to the hub. It was an easy job I didn't have to take the four-wheel drive stuff apart. Live and learn.
I work at a tire shop, and seeing things like this both make me want to work in an all around mechanic shop, but st the same time I’m glad I only work with tires and wheels.
It's all fun and games until a car with super hard crystalized mud on the wheels or half of your body weight worth of manure EVERYWHERE shows up on the shop. I sure don't miss doing those, lol. Here's hoping you're having an easier time than I had.
@@peekaboo1575 on those, I usually turn smart weight off and static balance them with clips on the inside, or tape on one axis so I don’t have to waste 3 years cleaning the rim.
I bought a 93 XJ with oil leaking on the exhaust. There was so much oil leaking I couldn't tell where it was coming from. I spent hours changing the oil pan gasket, cleaning the engine bay and parts, only to find out it was a $20 oil pressure sensor and took me 5 minutes to change out.
these videos make me SO happy that you in Denmark have to put your car pass an inspection every second year.... not saying there isn't bad cars here
When I was stationed in Colorado, USA, we also had to take our cars in every two years for inspections. Bad tires, immediately replace, and so on. I think it is a great idea.
In NSW aus, you have to do a safety test every year for registration, I bet they see some silly shit like this
The guy's overheating radiator has kidney stones bro 🤣🤣
Love it! Most hilarious thing i have ever seen!
They're all possibly from the low end of the gene pool. Love the long videos. 👍 👍 👍
Makes you realise that the annual MOT ( inspection) in the UK is a good idea from everyone's point of view. Should tell the owner what needs looking at .
Here in Germany we need to do it every 24 Months. And there are some cars driving around that look/sound like they would fail the inspection straight away but they are allowed to go for another year or so...
In Pennsylvania state inspection and emission is done every 12 months but there are plenty of mechanics who for the right price will get your car inspection passed and new stickers and tell them that you need repairs but I'll do it when they give them the right amount of money under the counter to pass,a neighbor with the hooptie and lots of rust went to one place who would say "everything is OK on one paper" but another one not put on the computer told them that ir really needs $3500 in parts/repairs for inspection but for the right price I'll put stickers on the windshield and it's good for another year, 3 months later the mechanics got raided by the state police inspection unit and closed them down and fined them $75,000 took their inspection license permanently because of numerous violations and the mechanic also got fined $15,000 because his license was suspended for prior violations and didn't have a valid driver's license (suspended for dui (3rd time) owner got jail because the amount of violations and he knew about it but didn't do anything but kept allowing it
You gotta love those "Rust free" cars from the mid west.
I’m the customer, customer states “ I have a noise on the front suspension”. Dealer replaces useless components, charges me a fortune, does not know it’s all their suspension on the car leaves the BUSTED SHOCK STOPS ON THE CAR test drove it, still heard the noise , and just gave me the car back. God as my witness I will end that entire service department .
Amazing, simply amazing😎
I could swear I can hear the customer in the background. I think I can feel the wind of lots of Benjamin's as they hit the table. Maybe the customer is crying too.
As to the Dodge eco Diesel, I have found both casting sand and even a cool steel 5pt star in an engine block. They and polishing stones were rattled around in the block to loosen casting sand. I suspect its leftover from manufacturing and broke loose.
The "5pt star" you found was most likely a severed water pump impeller. Not a throwing star... 😕
I needed this today
The rotor at 10:24! Saw this on a Young Lady's '69 Camero. Her brother came in a month or two later in his '70 Mustang, said he had a noise in the front! I heard the jingle as he pulled up, Put it on the rack, remover RT front wheel. Amazing what people will do! Same as his sister had done!!!! They both drove their vehicles in the ground. The difference was the Mustang had drum brakes. The jingle was the inner half of the drum was playing "Jingle Bells" as he drove down the road, I can only imagine as the "Jingle Bells" went into the BllueGrass candence on I-65!!!! What had happened was! He had run his brakes so long that it did not only wear the brake liner down to the metal, but wore the liner plate off as well! All I saw was the blades that the wheel cylinder expanded to apply the, use to be brakes. The blade finally cut a one and half inch ring off of the drum, that's what was play "Jingle Bells". The LORD takes care of, those of us who do not know how to take care of ourselves. The LORD has driven me many miles. Let me thank HIM again for HIS Mercy and save keeping. Thank YOU JESUS!
3:30 this is why a bunch of shops refuse to work on any wheel that has slime in it
i could drink beer and watch these videos all day.....
06:46 reminds me of the sounds of those old '70s bumper jacks.
Haha. The part where there was some sort of stop leak in the 2015 dodge ram.... followed by a J-B weld ad.
I'm AMAZED at how rusted Chevy's get. Wonder why they even make them. Cause people would still buy them? Got it.
16:54 - The screams once they lost the black widow in the darkness! 😂😂😂
seeing all the brakes gone, all the suspensions worn out to the point of just going home, all these heavily corroded frames and undercarriages... it explains the often heavy and "avoidable" horror crashes on american dashcam videos. and it often seems to happen because people have no funds for repairs. why do they feel compelled to drive a vehicle they can't afford?
Lack of public transportation. Unless you live in a city with a few million people, there's literally zero public transportation. And the public transportation that IS available in larger cities really, really sucks.
American culture is doing things that one can't afford. Most people carry substantial debt. An unexpected car expense can be tragic.
I was never a mechanic but I was an oil change tech and one time this 1999 Honda accord came in and had a different exhaust pattern than the original. The guy had bought it off of his friend who did work on it himself. When we went to find the oil filter they had put the exhaust in such a way (not factory) that blocked access to the oil filter completely. This was fully bottom side filter so we literally could not do the oil change and when I told the guy he was so confused.
oil need change ewery 6000 mail and all filter sametime.
I’m not sure if watching this is entertaining or frightening, considering how many cars like these are on the road.
Lol Chevrolet Lou-mean-a 😂
I own a smart fortwo and changed my front struts. I hate the design of them as it isn't three bolts on top and two on bottom and it comes out. There is one large nut on top and to hold the shaft from spinning you need an allen key. I used a spark plug socket with an allen wrench through the middle and it worked, but I don't think I can tighten it enough because I still hear a slight clunk when I hit bumps. I felt like a failure until I saw this video. It made me feel better about not having the correct tools.
That’d be me with the black widow running off, screaming. Arachnophobia! 😂
You guys would make excellent, and I mean EXCELLENT, forensic blast site investigators,
"customer states that the radio is too loud" *proceeds to destroy the car and buys a new car without a radio in it*
15:48 them ebay coilovers will get ya every time lmao...
I'm really thankful, that Finland has inspection on cars every year. It's horrifying to watch some of these rust buckets. 😬
"Think ya used enough fix a flat, Vern?"
Frames with the strength of a Pringle chip simultaneously terrify me yet amaze me. I can't believe those things are out there driving around willy nilly taking what I know about airframes and the inspection requirements they have into consideration.
That wasn't a hubcap? It sure looked like a hubcap. 😁
Gives a whole new meaning to run it til "the wheels come off" That pink sludge. Once had an agricultural pump engine come in for a rebuild and the crankcase looked loke it was full, like hand packed full, of black Vaseline
I like to watch these videos when I start to feel stupid, it makes me realize that I’m a genius compared to so many people
"1995 Chevy Loomeenah" Ummm, OK? 👌
The spider yell lol!
My father was 100 percent certain he didn't need exhaust repairs. After my mom told me about it I went out to their car and removed the muffler WITHOUT tools. I then brought it in and asked where I got it. The next day he had the exhaust fixed . It's not that he's cheap but rather he has 80 percent hearing loss.
These people just dont understand how dangerous its to drive these vehicles, and they danger others in the process.
12:35 Didn't even notice the brake pad at the bottom of wheel LOL
2:47 truck has kidney stones
That water from the sump, im betting some people somewhere were thinking,look its so clean...better than going to the well..😸
Staggering ! Here in Britain, all vehicles over three years old have to have an annual inspection. A bulb out, a horn not working, a tyre below the statutory tread depth, headlights misaligned, simple things like these will fail the test. Many of the vehicles on this vid would never be permitted back on the road, ever.
13:47 Now I gotta pee.
On that Eco Diesel, someone put DEF into the coolant.
Got their guardian angels checking into rehab and filing for early retirement…
“Musics to my ears. That’s why you don’t buy a Buick”. He must be a new tech. Those 3800’s are stout as heck!
If someone refuses repairs like some of these and comes back on a tow truck I wouldn’t want to touch them.
6:17 looo-MEEN-ah. Lol, it's pronounced LOO-min-ah. I don't blame you though, your parents were in elementary school in 1995.
8:54 looks like discount tires or America's tires used to work for them slime balls at the one in Chino cal too
I'm not mechanically trained in anyway. I've worked on my own vehicles before, but I grew up working on stuff and tinkering. I have a general understanding of some stuff. The more complicated stuff, I'll just take to a shop, because I don't have the proper resources. Hell even oil changes, I've been taking to the shops, it's just easier, I don't have the time, nor a catch can. I've done work to my motorcycles but that's about it. My truck hasn't needed any service. Still mostly factory parts, with the exception of filters, tires, and the expendable items. But watching this, oh my. Take care of your vehicles people, machines won't last forever if you neglect service.
4:03 PTU had me going for at bit because I always called a PTO (power take off). I’m assuming the former is power transfer unit?
Id buy a truck frame thats been factory galvanized after I won the lottery.
Amazing
Props to the mechanic @7:20 listening to frank ocean, he got the aux on deck
@3:16 That looks like DEF when it dries up - it crystallizes. Hot coolant environment + fluid that looks like coolant to the uninitiated = crunchy radiator hose.
Music to my ears 😆
13:40 that is the reason I left the oil drain plug out when I let my honda sit because I was replacing the valve cover and changing the oil
That DIY lift kit gave me anxiety, and i've never done any strut tower work.
Customer States, "I'm an idiot!"😃✌️
I've done the cost hangers to lift exhaust thing before but If it ain't attacked at the other end just take it out
This makes me feel so much better about my car.
The frank ocean playing while he dribbles oil on the coolant overflow tank
Good ol water glass lol!
In the future, when you format the screen, could you elect to make the playback image fill the entire screen instead of just a portion down the middle? That would be a better look than having the two side "panels" be just black and basically empty.
There's not much he can do about that without cropping some videos since he's compiling videos of different aspect ratios. There is, however, an effect that's easy on the eyes that fills the sides with blown up and blurred portions of the video.
@@GoldenGrenadier I don't care for that look either. KZhead shorts are presented that way, and I believe the screen image could be widened with very little trouble. Anything I record and present is not like that and these guys could do it, too. It is not a good look, plus some details are not presented.