Fixing a STANCE CAR for a 6000 Mile Road Trip

[@HumbleMechanic]

Be sure to check out their road trip!!! ~ kzbin.info/www/bejne/opSannmdrbV6h6c Also remember to save some $$$ by using the code "humble" online, or the Advance Auto Parts App!

[@worldhello1234]

Did you made this RICER presentable?

[@HouseCallAutoRepair]

Calling us out, up here in Ma.!

[@UltraGamma25]

Where is your shop? I have a Volkswagen Jetta 2015 TDI SE It's hard to find places because it's a diesel car. I love it though.

[@m3rkur1jus]

Dust covers on wheel bearings?🤔

[@GearsandGasoline]

That new wheel bearing is definitely already shot, but I suppose that's expected with 9 degrees of camber. Don't do stance kids.

[@HumbleMechanic]

😂

[@jasono2139]

...but how else are you supposed to show all the ladies you have terrible taste and more money than brain?! 🤷

[@rjmari]

@@jasono2139 Just FYI, the video that Charles linked shows that the owner bought it like this as an experiment to try to understand the stance life people. It's very tongue-in-cheek and kind of entertaining. They also issue a disclaimer that they do not recommend anyone do this to their cars.

[@jasono2139]

@@rjmari yup, I didn't realize that at first until I watched the first part of their trip... so I think they'd have to agree with me. Them losing traction in turns at 25 mph at The Tail of the Dragon was stance car gold!! 🤣

[@noahwagner0]

did this car come from michigan?

6:41 "Sometimes you have to use your hand to locate the hole before inserting your "tool""

[@michaelblacktree]

And if it makes crunchy noises, just back away.

[@MrBacchus18]

Might wanna give it a sniff to make sure everything checks out

[@ashleyabrahams4827]

Glad I saw this before i said it

[@DjDubUk]

That's what she said :D

[@cup_and_cone]

Need to be very careful working on non-virgin equipment, never know what contamination the monkey before you left.

[@mingzhaochen506]

It’s almost enjoyable to watch Charles dive in to a Messed up car and fix all the problems.

[@HumbleMechanic]

🙏 thank you

[@jasono2139]

Wait... He fixed all the problems?? I missed the part where he took the owner out behind the woodshed. 🤔

[@mulletsquirrel]

Almost? This was awesome!

[@George-zq2sk]

Charles ever thought about buying a 337, 20th, 05 GLI and doing a mild restoration on all the common issues? I'm sure a ton of people would love some Mk4 content!!

[@HumbleMechanic]

I like those. But I have a mk4 r32. Which is Awesome. I will have some 1.8t videos soon. I bought a mk1 TT.

[@isaacshively6705]

Timing belt tensioner and water pumps are the two most common problems with the MK5 GLI... Buy a TDI and put a $1000 into parts and make some good power, or a 07K if you don't mind a slow car

[@cup_and_cone]

Loved the 20th Anniversaries. It's a shame VW never stuck the 24v BDF engine into any of their MKIV special editions.

[@prpapy07]

@@cup_and_cone I had one. Jazz blue. Man I miss that thing. Made good friends just from owning it.

[@cup_and_cone]

@@prpapy07 Jazz Blue was my favorite MKIV color. I'm originally from South FL, lived right down the road from Gunther VW in the early 00's. Went to all the meetups with both my MKIVs. Really miss those days, feels like a different culture and cars than today.

[@clarencebenjaminlim]

No wonder Ben was saying , weirdly, the VW doesn't have many check engine lights. Now we know

[@HumbleMechanic]

Hahah

[@Lebaaaa]

This is after

[@jizburg]

@@Lebaaaa no this is the fixup before the roadtrip.

[@MagnetbergOfficial]

Pro Tipp for replacing the rear wheel bearing: 1. Heat up the bearing with a hairdryer to 90°C/194F 2. Use cooling spray and a PVC pipe to cool down the axle pin to-40°C/-40F 3.Slide on bearing easy

[@okkrom]

From a guy from the salty north, that car looks like a treat to work on (rust and seized wise). It gets much worse than that. Much, much worse...

[@HumbleMechanic]

Y’all can keep it. Hahah I moved from Chicago for many reasons. This is one

[@jasono2139]

I laughed when I watch the videos showing "How to replace a front wheel hub on a B7 Passat" Step 11: Gently tap the wheel hub off... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, right! (two hours worth of hammering and prying... and the rusty wheel hub was finally off!!!)

[@matthewjohnson6047]

Pretty sure this car is from mass looks like nick spinnys old one

[@stephendeben1590]

@@matthewjohnson6047 it has to have been garaged for it’s first ten-ish years if it’s a New England car.

[@matthewjohnson6047]

@@stephendeben1590 when nick had it he took care of it but yes it is a new England car. I talk to him tonight he confirmed this is his old car

[@gravylover55]

What I've learned with these cars is when adding rear camber, you have to account for the angle of the caliper too. You shim that as well. And also everybody forgets to shim for the added toe when adding camber

[@aygwm]

Yeah but how would you have your caliper moving independently of your axle?

[@charless6136]

@@aygwm the caliper mounts to the rear beam, separate from the hub. you can see it at 18:15

[@matthewpham]

The drop plate should have the "camber" for the caliper carrier integrated in to it.

[@BWSTT]

Brave man taking it on the road with the bearings like that!

[@DevineDigital]

Holy hell that thing is rough! I thought my old GTI was rough, but I guess at 15+ years old now its not all that bad. I really like that smoke machine though. I need to get one

[@gekicherbeeren]

I hope watching this won't tell the youtube algorithm to start suggesting stanced car videos.

[@HumbleMechanic]

Hahahha oh lord me too.

[@123ascars8]

Yeaaaa haha 😅

[@sletourneau3]

I will never understand why people do this to their poor cars. 🤦‍♀️

[@somewhat7]

Hope the guy that sold it got to see this, he can be all: "dang, that's why my fuel gauge wasn't working!" LOL

[@HumbleMechanic]

Lol

[@Incomudro1963]

Some people spend a lot of money making their cars less functional.

[@boots7859]

LOL, but they think its makes them look so cooool....

[@lars-lennartkoller4148]

Every single time I'm fascinated how clean and well organized this shop is. I do the mechanic work only for a hobby at home. Seems it time to overhaul my garage. Love this channel. Everything so well explained. Keep up the work, Charles! Just wanted to let you know, that you have fans over here in germany.

[@BenLinn]

this is so cool, seeing someone work on my car!!! finally!!! more mk4 jettas please!!!!! :)

[@JoelCaseyJonesMusic]

GLI AE for the win 🤙🏽

[@BrainsofFrank]

I just watched the start of the bens road trip. It’s not going well for them lol. It’s good to see what was fixed before the roadtrip

[@HumbleMechanic]

Yea those boys are bonkers.

[@BeloshapkaAutoBuilds]

I love the “it’s probably gonna be okay… maybe..” I say those words all the time lol

[@andrewcz8871]

Mother of God. Watching that undercarriage tour made me feel physically ill. The topper was the wheel bearings. This is nothing less than mechanical abuse.

[@klubstompers]

Yea, seeing those pinch welds was rough. You just know the rockers and floor pan are getting eaten away by rust.

[@zachal-natoor9455]

“Why’s it gotta be broken” I feel that so much Charles. Every time.

[@mikesvirtualgarage9917]

Ooof, glad you were working on this for a legit reason. As always stellar content. Love the collabs with other youtubers!

[@phillipwarner5504]

Watching this to get motivated to finish a oil filter housing on my 06 GLI makes me happier with my purchase needs a bit of rust attention but runs good just was leaking oil pretty good from the housing

[@dannyr3346]

That Jetta was done correctly. It’ll road trip just fine. I’ve done NY to Florida on bags plenty of times

[@deefstew]

These videos are great man. You've given me the confidence to do work to my own vw. I have a 12' jsw and did the egr, dpf and intake flap delete with all the proper tunes over the summer. Something I never thought I could do on my own but now that I have I want to do more 😂

[@Lovely_planet]

God I live for Charles sayin "Air out and get dirt nasty low"

[@tschmidtty]

5:36 I love that that's a typical car guy reaction 😂😂

[@mcseforsale]

From my old BMX days, anywhere 2 different metals are touching, coat that area with some copper based antisieze. We always saw aluminum spoke nipples time-welded to steel spokes. Is this true in cars, such as where the aluminum adapters fit over the rotors?

[@RestoDesignsnando]

Sometimes you have to use your hand to locate the hole before inserting your "tool" lol 🤣

[@HumbleMechanic]

😏

[@tommorides8086]

Ahhh as promised by yourself the video i have been waiting patiently for. Thanks Charles all the best. 🤙

[@n9wox]

I've never understood this type of suspension hackery. German engineers shaking their heads in disgust.

[@VanHeezey]

I have all these same suspension mods on my MK4, minus the camber. I drive it long distances regularly. It rides and handles great, not as squishy as a stock MK4, but certainly nothing to complain about. In contrast to the GLI in the video though, I took care of all the mechanical problems BEFORE I lowered it 😂

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

The difference between “ look at me!” Car and performance car.

[@chewitt608]

@@VanHeezey Debatable

[@whorutothink]

@@VanHeezey 'handles' great? Yeah, I would LOVE to take a factory stock MK4 out on the track and run some competing laps for times to see how great it 'handles'. These cars are very sensitive to suspension geometry changes, particularly changes to ride height where the steering angles get all fucked up...

[@VanHeezey]

@@chewitt608 you can debate it all you want, at the end of the day it’s an economy car. I’m not doing laps in it, I’m literally driving it around town and to surrounding states. Does it drive as nice as my e92? Absolutely not. Does it do the job without any drama? Yes. That’s what I built it for. To look the way I wanted and to be a comfortable car to be in.

[@cameronp2951]

A former co-worker's son came in one day to have work done on the car for inspection. It was a Focus ST and lowered on air. So the day his son brings the car, it fit on the lift just fine(just to note, the shop I worked at had in ground lifts). Co worker couldn't do inspection because of no registration. So next day co worker brings it in, and it wont fit on the lift. We're all scratching our heads because we couldn't figure it out, so we used a 2x4 to get the car over. After finishing the car. I saw the interior and the remote(for the air bags) and told said co worker to press the up arrow. Lo and behold car starts lifting up. Moral of the story, if you are working on a slammed vehicle on air, make sure you lift the air bags to higher than the lift pads and also air leaks out overnight I think, unless the POS had a leak. Anyway love the vid Charles as always. Also any plans for another meetup? I'd love to drive my R129 500sl(if allowed) to some car meet!

[@andrewhillman9632]

I had new MK4 Jetta……good times, a few mods and a lot of fun

[@luisg1653]

Charles working on a 1.8T seems so strange

[@HumbleMechanic]

Lol it’s probably the engine I’ve worked on the most at the dealer. Also we are doing a “big turbo” 1.8 TT soon

[@luisg1653]

@@HumbleMechanic its the engine I've worked on most in the last 7 years haha. The reward is great when these motors are running happy though.

[@FAQBrooks]

Great video! After watching part one of their trip I was curious about the bag system that was on the Jetta and what was causing the horrible camber even at a lowered height that shouldn’t cause so much negative camber. I’m glad that you covered the suspension modifications because I had never messed with any “stance” modifications. I’d never seen most of those mods before

[@hdk07]

Just finished the G&G stance car episode. Your video is like the BTS of their video. 👌👌👌

[@Aleks_Mechanics]

Notification squad, Have a nice weekend guys!🔥🔥🔥

[@only88mph]

I think it would be funny if you did a series on inspecting so called clean stance cars. This was great content!

[@lukemarvenko2845]

I love these types of videos

[@marcelolazarini997]

“Negative cambered by like a million degrees” 😂😂😂

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

I will never understand the appeal of setting a car so low that alignment is screwed up, handling is screwed up and the wear on parts is accelerated.

[@andrewcz8871]

I can understand raising and lowering to a point, but the stancing is too far.

[@K03sport]

...it's another form of "peacocking" 🦚🦚🦚

[@jimamizzi1]

Me to

[@jasono2139]

...like people who buy 30" rims to put UNDER their garbage Bel Air. 🤦... So dumb.

[@johnathanblanco458]

You know you can adjust the alignment right? Also if you do regular maintenance it’s not an issue, tons and tons of people slam cars this low, I just think the owner didn’t understand how to take car of their shit, but to each their own

[@mfelipetc]

"sometimes you gotta use your hands to find the hole before you put your tool in there" 😅

[@WhiteTiger916]

Really enjoyed this video, I own a mk4 jetta/bora and I absolutely love the car although I've left it in a little bit of a bad state. Seeing you work on one really does motivate me to get back to mine. Great content as always my guy.

[@ericsills5290]

If that's a forge brand diverted valve it actually recirculates like 90% of the air and uses 10% to give you the sound. Keeping the ecm happy by recirculating most of the pressure.

[@HumbleMechanic]

It may have been. But it was also leaking.

[@JoelCaseyJonesMusic]

When they are in good function, they work great. Like any other mechanical device: it has required maintenance. Love the mk4 content brother!!!

[@nathanchalmers2244]

The "giant pile of garbage" comment had me dying lmaooo

[@patkelly7999]

I actually feel sorry for the poor, Jetta/ Bora, but good work all the same Charles👌👍🙂

[@svvervinmedia]

"Like many things in this car - it's saaad" LOL

[@George-zq2sk]

I am happy the car was so rough that it gave Charles a chance to troubleshoot and solve some issues. However that has to be one of the roughest 05 GLIs I've seen in forever.

[@Vertipr0]

Good video, more MKIV content please!

[@HumbleMechanic]

Coming soon. Mk1 TT as well

[@mchristr]

Even when I was young and foolish it was clear that slamming a car was ridiculous. The best stance is always that which makes the car perform the best, given its environment.

[@MrTurboFour]

Oh the low life! My GF used to have a bagged MK4 GTI 24V VR6. She won a few awards at H20i. We used to drive from Ottawa to Ocean City. One year we were driving through PA when we noticed her rear tires were down to the wire. We managed to make it to Ocean City and had a hard time to find someone to swap the tires since they are stretched.

[@k9yk]

"You've gotta use your hand to find the hole before you put your tool in there" ... Pro Tip!

[@Kamukix]

This video/car truly hurts my soul 😥. Also, isn't that a Forge Motorsports splitter valve not a BOV? Or at least a knockoff version perhaps... It's really really therapeutic to watch this poor GLi get some love though.

[@Chris-yy7qc]

Im a friend of modified cars, but at the same time Im very happy that unsafe rubbish mods like this are illegal in my country...

[@boots7859]

Thats why lawyers populate so well in the US. Have a real accident, and a lot of these home-mods are going to come back to haunt people. Insurance will cover a good portion by default, however the negligence is going to see a portion directly pushed back by the Ins. company where it belongs, on these wanna-be's.

[@IcanDriveIt]

Either you like modified cars or you don’t. Some people probably don’t like the mods you approve of. Government should stay out of it. Especially when their roads and bridges are trash and their best solution for ice corrodes my property.

[@SonOfTamriel]

Been using a cheap aluminum diverter valve on my 1.8t. RKX 1.8t/2.7t machined diverter. They've been fantastic and easily modified depending on boost levels as they came with extra springs/washers. Highly recommend over the stock plastic ones.

[@redslate]

"Sometimes, you have to use your hand to find the *hole* before you put your *tool* in there."

[@pieterv6984]

Great colab with GG again

[@MrJonah30]

Dude that for a short video was excellent

[@TheBlazerSociety]

Great job as always and awesome yall got to collab on this one

[@zinq3221]

hey, probably been mentioned but a quick scroll through I didn't notice any other comments, just as a heads up 9:08 that's a forged 007 diverter valve/ splitter valve, not a BOV. the DV is standard on these cars and typically safe to run this is just an upgraded version

[@FunkatronicDingus]

The #1 way to fix a stanced car is to trash it or restore it to stock. These rides are ridiculous, but at least make some better sense if they're bagged.

[@ALMX5DP]

Yup air is a good way to have your cake and eat it too.

[@vw5056]

Stance is hot though.

[@Tigersmundo]

*I don't know how I got here but very intriguing got sucked in.*

[@bryannunez4181]

2:00 there's actually an R2-D2 control arm. LOL

[@FreeRkelly7374]

crazy to see this in my recommendeds lol good friend of mine built the car

[@MrCthur]

I wasn't sure which to watch first...but I think I chose wisely. It's a good Saturday morning.

[@jonathanjovannapc]

the 20th gti with a gli front end i own also had a bad wheel bearing but it was a miracle that a wheel didnt just fall off, when I bought it I always heard a super loud whine from the rear, after a week I lifted the rear end and first spun the driver side wheel, no play nor noise other then the brake pads touching the rotor time to time, the passenger side however, all I hear was a ticking sound and it kept spinning for too long and so much play, I took the wheel off and the wheel bearing was so bad I was able to remove almost the entire bearing with my hands alone after taking the nut and brakes off and there wasnt a cap covering it and when it did come off the bearing just fell apart in my hand , most of the old parts on it just gave up and for some reason it just leaked a bunch of water, and I replaced the wheel bearings, stub axles and hardware on both sides since I wanted to replace it all anyway

[@JZX_202]

6:41 Wise words master.

[@takeomack2782]

Bro buddy! My favorite VW’s were all MKIV’s except the B5.5 Passat W8 I own!!!🎉

[@TheSuperBassfly]

Hey Charles, I was wondering what the name of that tool you were using at 10:20 to block off the intake for smoke tests. I want to buy one for work.

[@ruben.brandsma]

6:41 "Sometimes you gotta use your hand to find the hole before you put your "tool" in there"

[@HumbleMechanic]

Do you not do that? ;)

[@ruben.brandsma]

@@HumbleMechanic When you said that i had to rewind the video a bit to hear it again to make sure i heard what i heard 😆

[@darrellhall5940]

I have been bringing an MK4 1.8t jetta back from the grave, and you are one of the only people i would let finger eff it. I am very interested in learning if you would like a test vehicle. Thank you for everything that you have made . ❤️#haudivolks

[@Max_ellis74]

I’d put a lot of aftermarket parts if I was going to bag it like that you can literally see how much stress the suspension has when it’s fully aired out

[@antoineah3045]

3:56 notice the crack in the frame just next that frame rail

[@jae9843]

lol @16:12. I was sure that was going to be a segue into an ad for some app.

[@dan_lazaro]

It actually looks pretty cool tbh lol. I think I just dissed stance cars when I was younger because everyone did so. But now that I have a mind of my own, I think it looks okay. I just would hate driving it but it's okay when parked.

[@toddn.3123]

What is that heat gun with the shield you use for the wiring? That looks genius! Link?

[@HumbleMechanic]

amzn.to/33BPpX0 its this.

[@toddn.3123]

@@HumbleMechanic Thank you! Love the channel!

[@franktatham5538]

Wheel bearing repair, what is known as adapt and overcome if you don’t have the tools

[@r.weaver3769]

What's more fun than driving a stance car? Being a really slow rodeo clown, bathing in Jalapeño juice, stapling your bottom lip to a...

[@spiKey0svetlana]

It punched a HOLE in the cv joint but it's probably gonna be ok 🤣🤣

[@wishbone20t]

I have 315,000 miles on my original rear brakes on my 2015 TDI Passat and there's still some meat on the pads. Just changed to my fourth set up front.

[@risingstar1309]

I picked up a stance boy a4 on siezed racelands. Front max drop, rear max raised (WTF?). Took them thangs out, threw in vogtlands, fixed up lots of other things I should have noticed before buying. Also lots of undercarriage damage.

[@BenLinn]

SO GLAD TO SEE A MK4 ON HERE!!! haha i have a 1999.5 jetta tdi, the paint is much nicer on this car though

[@djambrosia]

Takes me back to my friends slammed bug. People would come up at the petrol station and say "hey, your bugs suspension is broken". We would laugh, get back in and drive off leaving a smoke trail of burning oil behind us. I guess some things never change.

[@peanutbuttaflava7225]

It’s one thing to throw away millions of dollars of R&D, it’s another to ruin nearly every single aspect of a vehicle while ignoring what damage your “mods” are doing to everything around it because you think people think it looks cool. On behalf of everyone using a highway thank you for setting this minecraft vapejuice tiktok influencer in a better direction before his giant snowball of mistakes loses a wheel and kills someone. You’re a good man HumbleMechanic👍🏼

[@alextavares3158]

Please pull that wrap off for him too 😂

[@foureyes5498]

Amazing how you can tell the vehicles story just by looking underneath Charles

[@andydurbs]

Two videos in two days…lovely 🙂

[@Tyler-Passat]

Love stance cars, especially static ones. Shame the owner didn’t take care of it.

[@camerongoldman195]

Saw this car for sale a month or two ago in a mk4 Jetta Facebook group

[@gvi341984]

When will the Toro project car start? This video is amazing since it deals with real world VWs stance issues

[@jameshaulenbeek5931]

At least you're giving him a fighting chance!

[@TheHutts]

So I don't need to fix my parking brake cables, I need air ride.

[@HumbleMechanic]

Exactly

[@LukeEdward]

Can you explain why, when putting on the axle bearing, you would not use something like a tiny slathering of anti-seize to assist in installation?

[@HumbleMechanic]

You don’t want the inner part to move on the stub axle. You only want the bearing to spin

[@silviaguy28]

Does he have the blow off valve mounted before the turbo in the uncompressed air pipe just after the filter or am I not seeing where it's mounted correctly?

[@fooquestionmark]

tbf that thing is sick

[@theoldschoolgamer6199]

This video makes me wanna own a Jetta again

[@jamesk3565]

@16:06 that is 100% accurate. Im doing that now watching this while scanning a car🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HumbleMechanic]

😂😂😂

[@kumakaroshi117]

So much work behind the scenes

[@vw5056]

14:00 love it. On American garbage of similar vintage you'd be dropping the entire tank.

[@dil6969]

It's always painful when a car like this comes in the shop, you look up the repair order and you see "FREE MULTIPOINT INSPECTION." Oh yay, there goes 30 min of my life I will never get back.

[@HumbleMechanic]

Hahah been there