Customer States Best of Horrible Car Owners

Customer states and mechanical problems in one digestible video for you to enjoy!
In this episode we show you some of the worst car owners we've seen. With many having an extreme lack of maintenance, attempting their own fix and many other crazy issues! We hope you enjoy!
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[@mechanicalnightmare]

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[@Lurch-Bot]

It would be neat to see mechanical nightmares on aircraft. You might have to do some cold calling to find mechanics willing to take and submit video. There are what are referred to MRO (can stand for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, or Major Repair and Overhaul) facilities. You want the latter. You want to talk to people who do C and D checks at a second rate facility that works on cargo planes that operate in third world countries because this is where you're going to see some serious nightmares. I'm retired from maintenance due to an injury and my retraining for a different aviation career may or may not be in the maintenance field. I'm considering several BS options in the Aerospace field. There are serious issues in the airline industry today, especially in the US. Boeing just keeps racking up fails and airlines are cutting costs. I think the general public should be made aware of the result of skimping on maintenance and how widespread the problem is. Aviation safety is cyclical. Crashes lead to new safety regulations, which make the industry safer but then, after a couple decades without many serious accidents, complacency sets in. I won't fly commercial in the US currently. Hundreds or even thousands of people are going to have to die before commercial aviation is safe again. Unfortunately, the 737MAX crashes happened outside the US so they don't help to generate traction due to most Americans thinking there isn't a world outside the US or that the planes must have crashed because of something 'they' did wrong 'over there'. It is nice that everyone survived the door plug blowout but it would have been far better in the long run if it had been a fatal crash. They stretched the 737MAX too much and more of them are going to crash because it is an inherently unstable aircraft. It is inevitable.

[@Jimmeh_B]

X-mechanic here... Gave up after 12 years. I love this channel!!!!

[@Stratos1988]

Did it feel like you are doin honest work and nothing changes ?

[@unexplainablespatula]

MAYbe... the chronic back pain, being grossly underpaid, the price of classes and tools to keep up with new tech, not being paid for diagnostics, or being generally hated instead of appreciated by society because of grade 8 reading level service advisors running two sets of books, and shady business owners with little to no moral compass? Mmm, there's also the neurological side effects of all the forever chemicals that we ingest through our skin and lungs and the lack of proper insurance. What's the stat now... a car falls on a tech killing them every two/three days? in North America. Also, (anecdotal but) almost every heavy duty tech I know is missing a digit and or proper use of a limb. Maybe @Jimmeh_B is built different lol. But seriously OP is probably smarter than anyone who stays.

[@SeanBZA]

No 2 yes changed the oil every 3000 miles, just forgot to say that he drained it out, filtered it through a piece of cloth to get the big chunks out, and put it back in, and then topped up with free oil he got from the local fast food place.

[@skuula]

Filtered over chicken wire.

[@drshoe8744]

15:40 I love those "Do It Yourself Differential Kits", but I didn't know Ikea was in the Auto Parts game too?

[@brandonmacon3317]

All he had to do was tell Grandpa! Lil scolding afterwards and then the inner grandpa would've come out and he would've been totally cool. Grandparents understand the ole saying "Boys will be boys".

[@DobleWhiteAndStabley]

So glad you make these. Now I can lie to my mechanic in a novel way he's never seen before.

[@Hopium-kj3ij]

Those vehicles with the severally rusted and broken frames must be 'northern' cars where snow and winter road salting is a thing. Southern cars tend to not rust out quite so bad (unless exposed to sea-salt?) -southern cars the big thing is the get anything that crawls, stings or bites OUT of there before shoving your hand up into the chassis...

[@nattypezman4894]

Been there bro. I lived in south Louisiana for 26 years. I put the jack under the car and this big wasp flies out and stung me in the lip right under my nose 🤣🤣🤣 Wish I'd had a camera lol. Immediately following the sting my lip was swollen past my nose. I started feeling high from the sting. That was a interesting day 😆

[@Hopium-kj3ij]

@@nattypezman4894 It was a 'Tracker Jacker" ("Hunger Games" reference...)

[@nattypezman4894]

@@Hopium-kj3ij ma bad. Living down in southern Louisiana you will find all kinds of creepy crawly things hiding up under your car. And it doesn't take long for them critters to take up residence 😆😆😆

[@harveysmidlap]

8:43 Just proves some people have no shame.

[@mechanicalnightmare]

Yeah I don't mind if its a little messy cause people have kids and such but nah when it's like that they need to be turned away.

[@MrWombatty]

.....& obviously no brains either!

[@monteceitomoocher]

Different trade here but I've been customers houses just like that, and where the strong sickly odour of rampant BO punches you in the solar plexus before you've entered the building, some customers are the pits!.

[@davidtaylor8002]

The driver of the truck has a bigger problem than just being lazy. His truck need to have it's air drier rebuilt.

[@JackBlack-ii1ip]

When I was rally driving back in the second half of the 1960s, we would always finish a stage of less than 10 miles on a flat tyre then literally throw the wheel/tyre away. Fortunately, tyres today are far less prone to puncture and the metal wheels are less likely to buckle. Of course with low profile tyres you can't fix a puncture by fitting an inner tube. Call that progress cos I don't If you fit a sump guard, you will need an oil cooler to cope with the reduced cooling. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit.

[@gus1775]

Tire,stupid!

[@jesuslovesyoujohn314-21]

22:16 shocked me. How could it possibly get that bad in a vehicle?

[@J0HNx117]

The house of all these customers are probably in the same condition as those cars😅

[@jamiepatterson1214]

Some buddies should be allowed to work on cars. Some people shouldn't try and fix electrical problems. Several of those cars just need to be taken to the scrap yard. Can't blame the mechanic for refusing to work on that fully stuffed car. Given the condition of the tires, rotors, and frames, several of those cars are getting ready to cause a major accident.

[@whyjnot420]

That VW steering wheel is nuts. Years back when giving a friend who was only used to smaller cars with tires that have no sidewalls, he was visibly concerned just from seeing my wheel move a little without seeing much if any impact on our direction due to having large flexible sidewalls. I wonder what his face would have looked like had he been in that deathtrap.

[@angelalane1307]

Love mechanical nightmares! 😊

[@ZMAN_420]

I'm 42 and have been a Car, Truck, Heavt Duty on/off Road Trucks, Tractor Trailers, Heavy Equipment, Railyard Heavy Equipment for a paycheck since I was 18 years old. This channel is great?👍🏻

[@tinknal6449]

7:30, to be fair I don't see any leaks....

[@zeropointenergy1574]

Good selection.

[@instigatedeye5941]

I can do some stuff on my own with working on my car, but sometimes I just don't have the strength or the tools, so when my mechanic was replacing the CV joint, he saw my serpentine belt setup. Lovely thing with Honda Civics, one belt does it all, so if your ac compressor is toast, your belt will melt and shred, I couldn't afford a compressor, so I got the belt for the version of my car that has no ac, and bypassed the compressor. Gave my mechanic a laugh when he saw it 😂

[@hdfxrs9121]

I got lucky with my F150. When the compressor went bad, I managed to find a compressor bypass pulley that allowed me to use the same belt until I could get a new compressor. My old Civic has two belts. One for the power steering and the other for AC/Alt/crankshaft.

[@ReadTheShrill]

7:06 Why is his friend a "dumbass"? You could probably barely even hear that while driving. Also it seems to be running straight and not wobbling, so he likely couldn't feel it. He heard a noise in his car, and took it to a mechanic. That's not a dumbass, that's a competent driver. So many mechanics in these clips are completely full of themselves.

[@fixingitrightish]

So true. My friend asked me to look at his truck because he thought it had bad brakes. It has a bad wheel bearing. Not sure why he thought it was brakes but I still wouldn't call him a dumbass. He's like 60 and doesn't know cars like that

[@iNubpwn3r]

Best channel ever. It does teach and mock at the same time. Best type of education... Btw, I might sound utterly dumb, but what was wrong here 12:12 ?

[@Fimbltyr]

Looks like the front suspension shot all the way up to the hood

[@iNubpwn3r]

Thank you.

[@timothyweers8054]

The second oil pan didn't have oil, it had pudding in the engine. 😂

[@donames6941]

I didn't know that you could buy balljoint wire

[@missflowerpower8724]

😂😂😂😂

[@f.chrisliuzzo7889]

The customers own alignment 6:00 in as well as 11:26 was a broken steel belt on the inner side of the tire that broke!? It causes tire to bulge around where the one belt in the tread broke

[@GSimpsonOAM]

A set of discs and pads aren't that expensive. Do they really just drive it until it breaks..

[@patfrederick7327]

if you drive on the wrong side of the road you know most of this is from the UK.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Never ceases to amaze me how people will destroy a wheel costing several hundred dollars to avoid paying $70 for a tow. 13:13 That's-a some-a good pasta! There should be at least one spray foam nightmare in every video. Although the incompetently applied RTV transmission pan gasket was a close second. Pro tip - you apply the RTV to both mating surfaces after thoroughly de-greasing. You loosely put the pan on and tighten the bolts just enough for the two RTV beads to come together and extrude ever so slightly around the edges. Then you let it set for 24 hours and then torque the bolts. Most people just put the RTV on and torque it down and then it leaks. Gaskets only work if they compress some when you torque it down. RTV will shrink as it sets because all the acetic acid evaporates out. 22:36 As a mechanic, I wouldn't want that crap on my boots. I'd just be spreading germs everywhere. A pile of fresh puke is probably cleaner. 22:42 I guess I have a different idea of what constitutes a clunk. You get a clunk when you have a U joint that needs replacing. You get a clunk when a small rock is kicked up and strikes the floorpan. This here would sound like the whole vehicle is about to fall apart, which it is. This almost turned into a Keystone Kops short, with the vehicle spontaneously disassembling as it goes down the road. 22:49 When your mechanic says, "that's f*cked up", you don't decline repairs. Too bad YT wasn't a thing back when I did MRO on 30+ year old cargo planes that operated in third world countries a couple decades ago. I've seen some things that were likely to cause catastrophic failure, literally on the very next long haul flight. The scariest thing I saw was an 8 foot crack in the central portion of the wing spar on a 747. How it hadn't already come apart in flight was a mystery to all, including the engineer who designed the repair for it. A lot of the other scary stuff would have caused serious issues in flight but wouldn't likely result in the loss of the aircraft. But if your wing spar breaks, the whole plane is coming apart. Would look like the TWA flight 800 crash because it will rupture the main fuel tank in the process and almost certainly become a fireball.

[@dr.haroldweinstein5157]

How do you understand how to do an alignment with the eccentric bolts and all that but DOESNT understand that no matter how hard you try, it’ll never be close to using a proper machine?

[@2infnbynd]

This is why mechanics can overcharge.

[@CucvDetroitM1028A1]

This is the kind of stuff that makes me mad. These cars are on the damn road with everyone else and that’s perfectly ok to do but if you start a business and have a dot number then it has to be inspected every year and it one little thing is wrong it must be fixed or it can’t be on the road. Federal government says "it’s for the public’s safety" well these morons are threatening my public safety as well. If big trucks need yearly inspections to be on the road so should EVERYONE ELSE.

[@Shadow_Lunatale]

Here in Germany we have a mandatory inspection for all private vehicles every two years. Despite all the mockery thrown at those organisations, most people are glad we have that. It keeps the ticking time bombs off the streets, since they have the autority to fix the broken stuff and return within a few weeks if your car has some issues, or even straight revoke the registration on the spot if the thing is unsafe to drive. In such a case, you're not allowed to move the vehicle by itself anymore on the streets, so you got to get a tow truck to get it to the scrapyard, a workshop or back to your private property.

[@CucvDetroitM1028A1]

@@Shadow_Lunatale that’s good. I wish they did that in the states. I recently purchased a dump truck and it needs quite a bit to be safe for the road snd it got me thinking that it’s unfair for cars to get by without safety inspections

[@CucvDetroitM1028A1]

@@devenmellor nice. It makes a difference when someone cares for their car. Let me explain my reasoning behind the comment. I bought a 1987 ford L9000 dump truck. After I starting a truck hauling business. Commercial trucks need annual inspections done before they can legally be on the road. The truck is mechanically sound and has maintenance done well before it was due and is well taken care of. Except the truck is double framed. It wasn’t washed out regularly so the frame rails is rusted and won’t pass its inspection because the frame has been welded due to cracks. That’s not ok and dot told me that it isn’t safe for the road. The frame is beyond solid it’s just been welded due to the rust pushing the frame rails apart. But someone can have a sedan, neglect maintenance never change tires or brakes and driving on tires with the steel cords exposed and brakes almost non existent and that’s fine. The frame can be rusted through and held together with spray foam and that’s not sacrificing public safety. But my truck with a welded frame repair is unsafe. I just think that if big trucks need to have federal inspections done before they are allowed on the road then all automobiles including passenger cars, trucks, and private vehicles along side dot trucks need inspections before they are allowed on the road.

[@westerndragon207]

Me too yukon....me too

[@kimberlyhall7610]

If my beloved sunshine ( 2018 Nissan kicks) looked like some of these cars especially on the inside I would lose my ever loving mind!

[@gus1775]

Why? It's a piece of crap nissan!!!!

[@FreeLovingAmerican]

Ahhh a real voice.

[@gillgetter3004]

What is it with people and oil changes?? I don’t get it. 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤪🤪

[@unexplainablespatula]

neither do they

[@michaelp.Watermaker]

Still holding your phones upright. SMH

[@Gapines23]

Still doesn’t understand Shorts formatting, SMH

[@Mus.Anonymouse]

@1:25 that isn’t peanut butter, that’s Oreo mash.

[@mikehunt908]

Looks like they had 😢 quality steering wheel attendants ….. garbage truck?

[@tinknal6449]

23:00, how is it that a demented genius who can Frankenwire a car like that not handle his own oil change?

[@ourv9603]

Its not that these people are HORRIBLE car owners it is just that they dont know squat about machinery needs. These people should be forced to lease on 2 year contracts we know they wont remember to pop the hood in 2 years so once it is turned back in the leasing co can send it in to the shop to do all the services that it has been needing for the last 2 years before the bank sells it. !

[@therealhotdog]

may we never have flying cars

[@donnaml8776]

Maybe if it didn’t cost more than your mortgage to get your car worked on people would take better care of their cars.

[@dubzk-4785]

When touching fluid or oil from vehicle wear gloves is the video more important than your health

[@lukeyarasheski5510]

Who on earth thinks they csn do their own alignment?

[@scottlyons6232]

More reruns :(

[@williammatthews2948]

Wow.

[@markiusgalfordii9248]

The steering wheel one I had 1 similar to that but i could take it on and off.While I was driving? Scared the crap out of my girlfriend.We're not together anymore Is l o l

[@fubartotale3389]

This is why its hard to like this channel and I will never sub to it. For instance, lift the hood of the VW and say "not today" OK, why not today? WTF was that? So many of the clips are like this, to quick, no explanation for non mechanics. Most are obvious, but not all, and even rewinding, sometines I'm just left confused.

[@PurityVendetta]

I've been a mechanic and an MoT tester here in the uk ut I never came across brake rotors detatched from the hub. I'm glad I live in a country where you can't get away with being a total 💩