I Drove 1000 Project Cars: Here's the Ones That Broke

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Reviewing cars has it's perks. However it doesn't always go too well. After driving over 1000 cars for this channel it's eventually going to bite you one way or another. Today I tell you the stories of the most memorable times a car broke down on me during review or filming.From the Nissan 240SX, Mitsubishi Evo X, Subaru, and so much more - today we get into the nitty gritty of the truth behind some project cars.
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[@ThatDudeinBlue]

Worst breakdown story?

[@dkm5710]

Me Infiniti left me stranded at the top of a hill when It blew the radiator Also I'm working on an 82 oldsmobile delta 88 with a cammed 307 and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it when its done

[@silverrain99205]

Literally like 5 minutes ago I had to poop really bad only to come to the bathroom and see my toilet is stopped up. Me being me, I don't have a plunger. So I had to use the toilet brush to unclog the toilet. The water was risen to the top of the bowl and I splashed toilet water amongst other things everywhere. Worst breakdown ever.

[@gaydes1012]

I helped my dad swap a big block Chevy into his Chevelle, and the first time we took it out we overheated BAD. We had the wrong temp sensor for the motor, so the temp gauge didn't work. We were driving in this car and as we're going you can feel the heat start to seep through the firewall, and we don't think much of it till the AC also started to just blow hot air when we remembered to recharge it before we left, so we thought the condenser was just bad or something so we pull into a gas station to take a look, and when we pop the hood the headers were glowing! Thankfully we didn't BBQ that engine too bad, we only had to replace a couple parts on it before we could drive it again safely I think it was just some heat wrap for the headers a clutch fan to help out the electric ones and obviously a temp sensor and it was ready to go again.

[@BikingwithJP]

How about a story of no return in my Subaru Legacy GT Limited 2001? The car that refused to let me get stuck anywhere. Driving in Rural Ontario in the winter, new to the particular area and exploring, I turn down a road GPS suggested. As I turn down the dirt road I notice it's one car wide and I pass a sign that says "No Winter Maintenance"... we are plowing the snow with the bumper of the car, but it seems ok so I keep going - there really isn't an option unless I want to reverse out anyway. After a short while the snow gets so deep it is going *over the windshield*, I have the wipers on but not helping, in 3rd gear and the back end stepped out. We are on a farm access road - no houses or anything around! My fiancée nervously says "If we die, I love you!"... and then we get to the end of the road... Except it's a 10+ft wall of snow built up by snow plows from clearing the actual roads normal people drive... with no turning back, I conjure up memories of Dukes of Hazzard and figure 60kph is the right speed to hit the wall of snow. We burst through to the other side, and the road is clear. There is a stop sign and I calmly come to a stop, indicate my turn signal and join regular people on a normal plowed & paved road.

[@xayanwelsh]

I was driving my Durango one rainy day and the u-joints on the driveshaft decided to part ways. The driveshaft proceeded to roll down the street. Thankfully I had 4WD.

[@danterivera7203]

Down shifted into 3rd going 120, stopped at top golf, played some rounds, motor locked up on the way home, guy I was racing saw me on the side of the HW, pulled over, had his buddy bring truck n trailer, and even helped fix the car for a while week 😂, mind you, this was a complete stranger! Still friends to this day

[@animated8623]

The car community is a special place with lots of people that might as well be guardian angels. Guys a legend.

[@lebronjames4705]

real men help real racers

[@darkskull5790]

That's nice

[@yuhz8954]

you from MN?

[@Cmobley_]

Treat them well. That's a real one right there.

[@jackbuckleyauto]

Haha I'm literally watching this while I'm in the passenger seat of a truck towing my bmw to the shop because I broke it 😂😂

[@ThatDudeinBlue]

I made this JUST FOR YOU!

[@tokahontas9990]

@jack P well you must feel real special now

[@jackbuckleyauto]

@@ThatDudeinBlue hahahah

[@nvrenfdabz5707]

So my friend's Audi had broken down one night. After calling a tow, my friend couldn't sit in the truck because of covid. So the tow guy loaded his Audi on the truck bed and my friend sat in his car until they got to the shop 😂

[@hegeliandetective1034]

Karma for the BMW driver that was lingering in the passing lane, somewhere in life :P

[@derekstauffer2750]

When he said “the Saab shouldn’t break, its stock” I just laughed because I have a Saab that’s basically stock that loves to break 😂😂

[@bigreddaman5988]

Dont tune it lol, my 2010 9-3 2.0T was reliable as hell until I decided to start modding it. Let's just say I've replaced every nut and bolt on this damn thing lol

[@bigreddaman5988]

A 9-2x is barely a saab though

[@oscarbarnes8887]

My dads had 3 saabs (a 2007, a 2008 and a 2011) btw all 9-3s and they are all bullet proof (they are all still going, the 2007 has 260k miles rn 😂 ). Saabs only get unreliable if they aren’t maintained correctly or modified (especially diesels).

[@aaronrodriguez498]

It’s basically a Subaru

[@MotoDJS1KRR]

I owned a 06/07 Saab 9-3 aero and that thing went through coil packs like how I breath Lol smh

[@BoostedDrummer]

That was a fun (cold!) day, but we ended up on the side of the road because the crank position sensor got loose, so I had to re-tighten it lol. The megasquirt put the car in half-sync mode. Steering is fixed btw, lays straight 11s on the road lol

[@Rev.Match.Reviews]

Your car is my favorite review David has ever done! I would love to see some pulls or racing! Still think about how cool that Omni is!

[@Yankee4life91]

I was just about to send this video to you but I see you’ve already made it here lol.

[@BoostedDrummer]

@@Yankee4life91 hey bud! Lol

[@listen7634]

When the cps is loose does it cause the car to buck while accelerating? My cars been throwing a PO335 code and I already replaced the sensor. It was good for awhile then it started doing it again.

[@BoostedDrummer]

@@listen7634 I have an aftermarket computer management system on my omni (Megasquirt3X) so when it gets loose it'll either kill power or go into a half sync limp mode kinda deal

[@willlucas1032]

Driving my Subaru on the highway, go to pass someone in a UHaul. Downshift and roll into the throttle. After a second or two once it makes boost theres a massive bang, sudden loss of power, and massive shake. I was 1 exit away from my exit so I limp it home and pull off to a gas station to check it out and it runs like shit but has oil and isnt knocking so I limp it at like 30 the rest of the way home, maybe 5 miles, hazards on. Turns out my coil packs were old and one just totally let go, it was running on 3 cylinders. Got that all fixed and took it to the track about 2 weeks later. Road Atlanta. My first 2 sessions went good, but my pace for the class was very strong and I kept getting traffic. Third session I come out with nobody kn front of me so I lay into it after I finish the out lap. Come up to turn 5, the uphill left hander, and lay into the throttle to feel the car not get out of it's own way. See knock sensor on accessport. -12 degrees. Start limping. Between turn 6 and 7 I hear this noise bouncing off the inside wall. Rodknock. Just after turn 7 it shuts off and I had to tow it home. Bearing failure! Subaru things yk.

[@willlucas1032]

@@Justpassingb1 yeah stock oil pan and NO OIL COOLER. Awful idea.

[@ghostface7410]

@@willlucas1032 a subaru is like a girlfriend she won't tell you what is wrong until she decides to blow up

[@SizzaE60]

Coil pack went out on my bmw e60 530i 04 not to long ago to

[@norgepalm7315]

>lose one cylinder, car is totally limp Even if one of four is 25%, I can run on 6 cylinders and still run fine.. and at 25% loss I'm still close to 400hp. Lolsubarus. Had 2, never been happier to get older.

[@Khaki_wrx]

I have two events happen in when I was driving my WRX. 1) I was on my way to go see my girlfriend and I stopped at the mall because she wanted me to get her a bath bomb or something. I get it, I go back to my car, turn it on, let it warm up for twenty seconds . I drove not even getting to the exit to the main road, radiator pops open and smoke fucking goalies everywhere. Engine temp is getting way to hot. Got stranded and my girl actually had to come down and save me since I was getting it towed. 2) was cruising on Seattle I-5 south, was a s13 that wanted to do a pull, I was like “sure”. We get ready to do the pull, I won by two car lengths, started hearing rattling. I get off the freeway and started taking the back roads home. As I was trying to get home, my car fucking dies. I limp it to the side of the road and I check my oil, nothing. I spun a bearing and shattered my rod. Was waiting for hours to get a tow truck to come get me. My buddy came to rescue me but it was to late and my old ej255 was shit. Got a jdm ej205, VF52 turbo was still good so I’m still going haha.

[@caralho5237]

Subarus are great for doing one highway pull

[@bhcamaro2002]

I think 240s break when you look at them 😂

[@ThatDudeinBlue]

*exhales* *240’s bumper falls off*

[@trevorsanchez2470]

@@ThatDudeinBlue 🤣 😂

[@TheOhsemix]

Nice f body!! I’ve got an 01 SS with a 6 speed they are super fun cars.

[@bhcamaro2002]

Nice! I have a few videos of it on my channel

[@shineything4444]

i think my 240 has a kink. sometimes i hit it in frustration and i swear i hear a faint "harder daddy"

[@davidgubser2280]

David have you thought about doing a video on your top 10 favorite cars you've reviewed? Something like that would be awesome

[@ThatDudeinBlue]

I’ve always thought about it- but such a hard list lol. I did one for 2019 if I remember right.

[@djhero0071]

Why not a favorite for every year you’ve been doing reviews? It could be a subscriber special.

[@davidgubser2280]

Or even like a series of your top favorite tuner cars, muscle, german, exotic and so on.

[@gtab6936]

When I was an angsty teen (2008?) I took an impromptu trip to my friend’s house across the state and ended up running out of gas on the freeway (broken gas gauge lol). My phone was dead and there was no way for me to call someone. Thankfully a police officer was driving by and pushed me with his bumper all the way to a gas station off the next exit-but had to do it again since that first gas station was closed. Cool guy, but 10/10 recommend filling up before you decide to canon ball it to a buddy’s house.

[@hpa101]

Quite the spread there dude, cheers for the vid - Taz.

[@GamingPerks]

Nice, you guys follow him too

[@slyonerz]

Lemon scented

[@georgereginald6084]

I still can’t believe the guy with the Saab never checked the oil when he bought the car

[@datrumakboy1020]

Hes a "car guy". I put it in parentheses because he prob didnt know a single thing about cars and bought a beat to trap used saab without doing any obvious checks

[@tiko4621]

@@datrumakboy1020 they all learn some way. They either learn not to make the same mistakes or learn they shouldn’t have gotten nto cars in the first place

[@jamesearlcash7725]

Exactly what I was thinking. He broke car himself

[@lifebehindtheselens]

Yeah but if the owner doesn't check the oil Shirley before you go out for a rip in a car you have no idea about your going to check the oil so it doesn't lock up and send you into a tree at a hundred miles an hour like that's what I don't get dude should have does his own checks on the cars before he drives them I mean shit that's dumb as hell oh I'm just going to trust the owner like hell no that could have cost him his life and that's how dumb he is

[@brokenbmw3441]

My friend destroyed his 4.6 ford v8 because he never checked oil

[@atmos.s5508]

I drove my friends evo x in NJ. It just came back from CBRD after a year of getting the the motor & trans built with a new CBRD turbo kit with a 35r turbo. My friend told me to rip it and as i entered 4th gear the clutch just stayed on the floored lol. My heart felt like it sank to my stomach and i felt so horrible (i couldnt sleep that night from guilt) im so thankful my friend was so understanding and cool about the situation and he told me “ dude once you turn on the race car, its basically rolling the dice. You’ll never know what will happen but it’s just part of the game. No worries”

[@TheBigChad]

My s2000 is on the dyno right now and I’m staring at my tuner with this dirty look while I watch this

[@benjamin8558]

how much power is it making

[@TheBigChad]

@@benjamin8558 it made 416 wheel. That’s on pump. I gotta go back and do an e85 tune next weekend. I’ll be happy if we can get to 450, I think injectors and e85 should get me there

[@quest8795]

Very nice, supercharged?

[@benjamin8558]

@@quest8795 there's are 450hp supercharged s2k on insta and its a rocket. sounds amazing too

[@MaxSpeedMike]

@@quest8795 could be. The first s2000 i reviewed was supercharged making 414 wheel. Absolute rocket

[@AlexJMerry]

When you’ve been working on your 88 ranger ls swap and feel like all you can do is break things and then David makes me feel better. Appreciate you

[@mayhem_1192]

June 4th, my dad’s car lost all coolant. He called me to meet him at his work 2.5 hours away so he can borrow a socket set. We thought it was the thermostat seal. Replaced that, went on our way back home. Thirty minutes later, lost all coolant again on the side of the highway. I ended up sitting on the side of that highway for about two hours, while he went to parts stores. He came back, RTV’d the seal, left again. Lost all coolant, stopped again, still two hours away from home. He says YOLO, takes my car to pick up his truck and a strap. We’re going to flat-tow it the two hours. For four hours, I sat on the side of the road, alone, listening to music and watching KZbin. He comes back at 10 PM, we try and flat-tow it, but we can’t make it five minutes. It’s so stressful, it’ll take all night. We leave the car at a gas station, we drive home in his truck and rent a dolly from Uhaul the next morning.

[@RockyOwl]

I got passed by KennyG on a freeway once. Shit was cool.

[@lagginswag]

🤣

[@SNSPmedia]

Great breakdown story: Turns out my timing belt snapped on my Ducati Monster (while on the way back from the shop that recommended I wait to change it with the new belt I had on me no less...) while at a stop light by a bar. I rolled it into the lot there and started to try to troubleshoot the issue. I initially thought it was a battery issue since I was at 12.1 volts and a guy in a golf cart nearby starts looking over and asking about it. He ends up helping me troubleshoot it and check spark with an extra plug he had. He then pulled me back to his garage on his golf cart through a public road. A true spectacle of a lifted golf cart with a siren pulling a Ducati by a tow strap down a side road. We ended up jumping the bike and got it running well, then I put it back together and was about to head out. I went to start it and it let out a loud clank, a internal clank. Hearing that we figure the bike is dead until real work can be done and this legend hooks up his neighbors trailer (after calling him) and towed me back to my place. Awesome guy following the best rule of helping other people who are broke down when you can.

[@PhantasmPhoton]

was this in florida?

[@royelstevenson7907]

In my 9th gen civic si when I was on a hondata base tune. I completely lost all power while driving on the interstate. I pulled over and reflashed the car and I was good to go. I have an actual tune now with the mods I have now. 🤙🏾

[@bryanjschang]

Maybe it's just a civic that's why it has no power.....I'm jk btw my car is prolly much slower😂

[@royelstevenson7907]

@@bryanjschang Lol it's full bolt on now but yeah it's slow to me but quick to other people lol. Other than that one issue the Hondata base tune was reliable I used it for like a year before I got my actual tune once I finished putting all my parts on.

[@bryanjschang]

@@royelstevenson7907 I mean civic sis are generally pretty fast, faster than brzs at least😂

[@royelstevenson7907]

@@bryanjschang So true 🤣

[@alexscaggs8406]

my focus SVT 3 weeks owning it 276k miles I was driving and some dude pulled out in front of me so I braked and swerved and the worn motor mounts shifted the motor so much the intake pulled apart from itself I put my hazards on and had the guy behind me push me to a mental health ward a block away I had to duct tape the manifold together and limp it to school then home I still am appreciative of the people that helped push my car I try and help more broke down cars now because of them

[@rivahoff]

After years and years watching you, David, I feel like you were some kind of a friend. That means a lot coming from someone who don't tolerate people xD You do a great work, dude, not only as a reviewer but as a community promoter.

[@lifeonadime4703]

I really enjoy your reviews man. I'm glad I decided to sub to this channel 🤘. Love the variety

[@nickt5978]

one day i took my dads 911 to autozone to buy some wax for my car and i wasn’t doing anything stupid i let it warm up for 15-20 mins oil pressure was good oil temp was good and i cruised at 60 mph in 6th gear and as i start slowing down for a light i noticed something wasn’t right and as soon as i look at the cluster i see the engine light flashing and i feel the car has lost all power so i stop in a neighborhood and call my mom because my dad would’ve been pissed and long story short we sold the car with a broken motor made money from it and my dad is still mad to this day.

[@quademasters249]

IMS bearing? If so, it was meant to happen.

[@nickt5978]

@@quademasters249 dropped a valve ims was done already. it was a unfortunate turn of events

[@SlothBPU]

You cappin, boy? You can be honest on the internet lol, we won't judge if you floored it and it broke

[@TheNuclearDestress]

Just changed my oil and filter in my 2018 wrx today. Full bolt on tuned by Ambot tuning and she’s running minty. Always gotta do the simple maintenance on modified cars because one thing will lead to another if you dont

[@prodyung829]

Loving the story times man keep the great uploads coming your always on a roll, worst break down was whenever my honda broke down in the school parking lot when the battery died, it wasnt bad that the battery died it was more of everyone was leaving school at the time😂

[@SuchFinessse]

This is such a great video dude! I was literally just wondering this the other day; how many modded cars you or thesmokingtire have had break while testing

[@TheOutcastKidd]

I love these videos man. Keep em up! :)

[@kuruzyka8134]

That was a fun listen lmao, i love how people still are good sports about the cars breaking, most understand its not someone intentionally trying to destroy their passion project (their modified car)

[@batmayn]

Time for TDIB binge! been subscribed since 2012. sending good vibes from NorCal!

[@caciquedarecibo]

1991 arecibo PR. My build was a 81 corrola wit a 3tc and 150 shot, threw rod after countless passes. Drove home wit 3 pistons, after jb welding the hole on the side of the road. A testament of a Toyota resilience!

[@chincemagnet]

As an Evo owner, I’m constantly nervous about stock parts breaking. Fortunately my rear diff is the last stock component in the drivetrain, other than the drive shaft. But I’m at 600 AWHP, and I don’t launch it.

[@johnking1770]

Don’t forget the importance of bolt checks either! Sometimes stuff rattles loose and it could end awful.

[@jh77sly]

1500 miles from home, my 93 Crown Victoria lunched the intake valve on cylinder 1. Limped it back to the hotel and then had it towed to my buddy's shop. Got a rental Mazda 5 (cargo room) to get back home with everything but my car. Over the next year, they swapped in a 2003 Town Car (4.6L PI engine similar to the 98-04 Mustang GT), hacked in OBD-II and put coil on plug setup on it. I flew back up there and drove it back with a few bad sensors, got it tuned at a local shop and later retuned at another shop and have been fine tuning it ever since. The transmission has now be j-modded and shifts a little hard 1-2 when you get on it and there's a little pinging somewhere in the middle of the fuel map on moderate load. It's still my daily, but is quite the project car now.

[@jerroldthe7th933]

ej’s are so fragile at times but these saabs are so beautiful and unique

[@5.0uglykey51]

Thx for all the knowledge gotta feel great driving all those awesome cars of legend

[@thedonhugo79]

Had a pretty important meeting with a VIP, decided to drive the Evo to the meeting. Stopped for gas, then to get back on the highway was a 270 degree looping on-ramp. I punched it, and getting on the highway was a massive bump due to road construction. The car bottomed out, snapped the driver side ball joint, and I was along for the ride. I was able to get to the shoulder and off safely, but sitting on the side of I-40 waiting for a tow truck driver in a suit in the middle of August in NC is misery. It was 5 hours until someone got there.

[@Keebler475]

I daily a 85 honda prelude and one day someone was tailgating me hard, so I took a hard turn at the intersection and immediately starts to bog from flooding. I barely limped it home and long story short single-handedly disconnected like 100 vacuum lines and got the carbs out so the carburetor shop could fix the broken float. Even the old guy there was shocked that they could find a replacement, and has been running perfectly since

[@Thecloutshop]

Not a breakdown story, but the fact that my skyline tried to die at the light, literally right before you were supposed to review it 😂

[@connellkennedy1885]

Some of these reviews are a serious throwback considering i was 14 for that kenny g evo video and now im 7 years older

[@BobThe9534]

hi David. nice vid. liked b4 watching b/c I knew it was goin to be good

[@dgarnerdavid]

I drive a '93 Civic with a Type-R swap. Just rebuilt the entire front half (Internals, trans, coil-overs, CVs, C Arms, Ball joints, rack, etc.) Was going to go get emissions done during my lunch break, but it snowed the night before and the entire of that day. Pulled out of work with no worries, then hit an ice block, thinking nothing of it, kept driving... then tried to turn right... the "new" ball joint split in half and popped out, resulting in a high center with no clearance for me to jack, push, or really do anything without a flatbed. The next 5 hours waiting for a tow truck were pure hell. Got splashed with ice, slush, mag, and whatever else... THE WORST PART WAS I HALF WAY IN AN INTERSECTION ON A MAIN ROAD with a white car in a white out snow storm. Luckily I have great friends in the car game, and was able to have someone who owns a tow company, come and rescue me, and another friend who had a couple traffic cones to help a bit to block off my car. I am still working on rebuilding it, but wish me luck! Hope you can review it some time!!!

[@tobiasholst8946]

Awesome video david you are awesome i realy like this video and you made my day feal allot better

[@mabskha7917]

Love story time. David should do more of a podcast

[@Jerry1200s]

I have a stock 96 Miata. I decided it would be a great idea to take it from Florida to Pennsylvania on a road trip. The car had 200k miles on it then and only thing that was changed was the cooling system. When I went through Virginia a coil decided to fail and the motor only ran on 2 cylinders. I drove it about 300 miles the rest of the way there with no more issues. I fixed it up there and drove it back to Florida with no more issues lol

[@gabelloyd7034]

So 2 years ago my mom got a 2016 GMC Acadia used with about 25k miles. And as we always do with our new cars. We drove it from Philly to Florida for our yearly vacation. On the way back in South Carolina the trans went on 95 and left us stranded. We coasted to the nearest town 1 mile away that ended up having a Chevy dealership

[@andrewable2634]

Hey guys! Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be the camera car for a review of his, and I got to meet David for the 1st (2nd technically 🤣) time. Just wanted to say that David is truly one of a kind and puts an enormous amount of effort into his videos behind the scenes. All that editing, traveling, and workload is not easy no matter who you are, and I wish for nothing but success for him and his channel! I'm not looking for attention, I truly just want to get the message out there that behind the camera, David is one of the most approachable and humble guys I've ever spoken with. Hit the notification 🔔 bell and let's hope the algorithm blesses the channel 🙏.

[@TechJohnson]

Had a transmission seize and speedometer sensor melt off due to not putting transmission oil in after a clutch install. From that day forward, I never let a shop touch my cars.

[@moisesalcala7450]

Last week, the push fitting to my fuel rail blew off and sprayed E85 all over the engine bay. And some how..no fire. I watched E85 BOILING in a small pool on my engine.

[@BIGHERMZ]

i can relate to the knowing the risk of buying a speed 3. my friend asked me what are you gonna do now that you got your speed. i said save up to replace the motor. he asked why. i said. they are known for blowing up for practically no reason if any maintenance is skipped

[@xJD2Vx]

Here’s a horrible story but mine. I have a coyote swapped new edge. Me and my dad had just finished putting the motor and transmission in . I was breaking in the car for 4 days getting it ready for TX2k. I had the car filled with my full drug set up and all my clothes about 45 minutes out on a 6 hour trip the car just decides to snap a chain and it was all over. There I was on the side of the highway waiting for 3 hours for my dad to come pick me up with a trailer. What was supposed to be a fun week in Houston turned into a week of taking the car apart AGAIN in my drive way. Car broke again after fixing it … I just ordered my brand new motor a couple days ago fresh 0 mile gen 2 motor. I can’t give up on this build 🤘🏼

[@wilsonsadventures3521]

Was cruising down some back roads and the car suddenly stalled, I coasted a good way down the road until the car stopped. I got out, checked, fuel pump fuse popped. Ipulled an interior fuse and put it in and got back home.

[@johncarter9684]

I had the transmission go out on my EVO 7 GTA last year when I was doing boost launches 😫😫 luckily I had AAA though and I got it towed to my house and saved up for a new transmission because that's what it needed now it's on the road and good to go

[@dailydriven8144]

Me and my buddy went down to cleetus’s soft opening of the freedom factory we took a 96 caprice with a cracked block, went as kind of a send off for the cars motor we get all the way down to Florida from Pennsylvania on that cracked block, no heat , no ac and nothing to keep us warm the winsheild on the way down was pure ice, got pulled over multiple times until we finnaly made it down in 10 hours, we enjoyed to meet had fun and got ready to leave let’s just say we got tranded back up in West Virginia for 5 days no money slept in the car behind a motel until we finally got it trailered home (we decided this trip the night before mind you) but all in all a worth it experience and something we will never forget

[@arrivendrive6831]

Love your videos.i just want to point out that there were a few rotary car reviewed and not one of them broke. Rotary cars are much more reliable as some people make them out to be. Brap on

[@amatuercontendor6500]

I bought an 87 Honda CRX si with a little over 400,000 miles from Arizona & planned to drive it back all the way to Texas. About halfway through the Arizona desert, car starts overheating. I had to limp it all the way back to the previous gas station luckily only about a mile away. Everyone kinda gave me shit for buying a car with such high mileage, but long story short, changed the thermostat & coasted all the way back at 55 mph. Cars here at home & still miraculously runs.

[@chrisvw7]

Cracked my oil pan on a my 96 Jetta glx after a race & pushed it pretty much 3-4 miles alone to get to my house and once I got near my house I realized .. I lived on a hill…. Long story short appreciate your mom people because that is the women who no matter what will always be there for you. Mama bear helped me push the car then she pushed it w our pick up the rest of the hill.. yea shout out to my mama you the real mvp❤️

[@alexanderellis286]

I bought a WRX 6 years ago. I had it maybe 2 days and I had a friend behind me on a curvy road in WNC. We got to a straight and I laid into the throttle and in 4th gear the car Jerks real hard and starts to missfire. I had to limp it home 45 minutes on 3 cylinders. It was a blow coil pack on cylinder 4. Later on I did a launch in the car and pushed the rod through the clutch fork. Acted like a blown clutch so I limped it home and ordered a stage 2 southbend clutch kit. Found out when we pulled the transmission the rod that pushes the clutch fork went all the way through it. We fabbed up a new fork and it's still in the car I did put the new clutch in and it's still in the car to this day. Now it's getting a built motor with 2.5 block and 207 big port heads. Hoping to compete in some road racing next year.

[@dohmies77]

My first car, a 2001 Clio 172, snapped it's timing belt minutes later after launching coming from a gig I went to and getting thumbs up. It was a great car (when it worked) and at least it went out with a bang.

[@Wastegateproductions]

Had a 2001 neon . I was sitting in road construction it was about 107 out side with brand new asphalt below the car. The fuel in the rail atomized and wouldn't get through to the injector. Nothing but air was coming out of the shrater valve on the fuel rail. 130$ tow got me home for the car to simply start right back up after cooling down. I actually put a fuel return on that bucket after that and never had another issue again

[@t3ap0t_wr3x]

I have a modified 2019 wrx.. ripping down the thruway to a car show car bogs. Bad. I have zero boost, she's spitting and sputtering, it was Christmas in July. Pull to the shoulder and pop the hood to see my chargepipe raised about 2" inches 🤪 the crappy part with the FA20 is your turbo is down in front, charge pipe connects to the inlet, then up to the TMIC. There's not a lot of room to get down there and when your car sits 3" off the ground there's not much room to get under it either. We managed to get it back on and clamped with minor burns 🤣 and all was well.

[@pgarrett6665]

Proud owner of a DA Integra GS 5spd b18a1, last summer I spun two rod bearings, it was raining out and I feel the loss of power , I go to pull into this gas station , push the clutch it and the motor stalls immediately. It was locked up completely. I bought the car in 2015 from it's second owner running with issues, it always made this squealing noise on start up until I blipped the throttle....🤣, Drive it daily for about 4 1/2 years , the car was super original from factory , I replaced every relay, switch, bulb, sensor, fluid, I'm finally at the stage where the engine is fully rebuilt with all new components and ready to primed and started up. 🙏🧠🧠🔥💯❤️

[@garrettmitchell5657]

Popping an intercooler coupler (gasket in my case, stock top-mount intercooler for an EJ255 on a Legacy GT) is actually the only time I've been stranded by a mechanical failure. Despite that car's best efforts. As far as my own dumbassery, I took both right tires off my truck blasting around on a gravel road, in the fog, in the middle of the night. That was a fun phone call to my parents to make.

[@kdubcertified6600]

1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup (Had a 1.6 Carbed Gas Motor) Bought it and drove it 300 miles home with 0 issues besides losing reverse xD. First drive after getting it home I floored it and heard a pop and felt my gas pedal sink to the floor. The throttle return spring on the carb snapped. I walked 3 miles to the nearest auto parts store for a new one.

[@richgrassmann2009]

My 72 El Camino left me stranded an hour from home. Turned out to be the distributor cap was loosening itself and throwing the timing off causing backfire in the carb. I was stranded for 7 hours in the June heat waiting for a tow truck.

[@jesses6378]

I blew a rod through the oil pan on my 87 civic sedan in Seattle on the freeway and stopped at the next exit to get it towed home but I didn't have towing coverage on my insurance so I had to limp it home about 30 minutes north and it didn't shut off the whole way with zero oil and a giant hole in the bottom of the oil pan. Still drove onto the tow truck three days later.

[@spooler7828]

370ztt, was going to work getting on the interstate doing my normal thing. Jumped on it, 17psi of boost, and got a windshield full of coolant. Blown headgasket. One new Mazworx engine later. Good to go. How did I get home. Called the wife to come get me. Drove back with truck and trailer, loaded the car up. It was a bad day.

[@mineyouto]

I was on up around Williamsburg, VA in my Mazda speed miata. At this time all I had was a muffler delete. This guy I worked with had a 95 or 96 Mustang gt the good old 4.7L. So we were running on the HWY just playing around. And we were neck and neck. And my stock turbo inlet pipe blows off and makes this huge pop that he heard in the next lane. After that I had to call flying miata and get the full intake kit they make for that car. He never really let me live that down.

[@TheOhsemix]

I once taught myself how to tune my l28et and in the process I got a head gasket leak. I changed the headgasket and 2 pistons because it had detonation issues. So while it got the gasket change I had also ported the turbo header. No joke first drive out it ended up over boosting and I had the over boost protection too high. So I was coasting on the highway with a huge white cloud behind me. I got out and ran a red light to avoid stalling and avoid smoking up the entire intersection(I looked before going don’t worry). And drove about 2 miles home with a completely blown head gasketlol. That Datsun never left me stranded even when it blew up the water pump it still drove 10 miles home. My 300zx on the other hand had a bad MAF and left me stranded at the tax office when I was registering it lol.

[@ThatProjectZcar]

Sounds like a 300zx, something randomly breaking all the time.

[@TrakT0ur]

Just finished doing a b20b swap in my 89 civic with almost all bolt Ons super light fly wheel new shift linkage bushings and all, fully gutted almost race car ready for me to finish my build. As I was driving it home. I couldn't go into any hear but 3rd and 5th. Questioning what was going on. I struggled to get it home praying that I wouldn't hit a red light on a hill (which I did) ended up finding out my baby could take off in 3rd which was quite impressive. But the shift linkage weight broke. Fixed that issue with a new shift linkage the next day ended up money shifting into a transmission failure in a race....good times man lol

[@tomhaberman4569]

My rear brake caliper locked up while in rural northern South Dakota. I stupidity put oil on the rotor in hopes it would glaze the pads and slip enough to get me home. Amazingly it worked and I didn't start my car on fire. Unfortunately the mono-leaf in the rear also broke at some point on the same trip. That was the final straw of my beautiful, green 1996 olds cutlass supreme lol.

[@Bowser00000]

Last summer, Father’s Day weekend. It was a Sunday afternoon. I was driving my 2013 Scion FR-S that had got the valve spring job done about 5,000 miles ago. Was just cruising on the freeway as I get off I start to hear a funny rattle coming from the engine bay. Now because I’d previously put an exhaust, intakes, and headers I just thought maybe a bolt was coming loose or a side maker was starting to pop out. So I decided to take side streets home. As I get about 6 miles on the side streets it starts idling weird. Then the rattle got louder, so I called my dad. My dad not knowing how bad it was told me try to get it home and hung up. I get about 10 more miles and I hear this loud bang. One of my rocker arms came loose in the engine. Knocking into another rocker arm then getting stuck in one of the cams. After getting launched into the valve cover and putting a 5 inch whole in my valve cover. My brother who had been smoking a Tri tip for 12 hours came by to see what he could do. But the car was literally done. So he calls AAA takes two hours to finally speak to a real person. Then it took another hour for the tow truck to show up. The tow truck gets there and tells us he can only take the car and leaves us there because of Covid. So I had to call a friend to take my brother and I home. We later found out after taking the car to Toyota. That they used too much engine sealer and it leaked into the oil ports clogging them. Which over time without realizing starved half the motor destroying the whole engine. Toyota ended up paying for the engine but for my little FRS I found out through Toyota that this was the cars third Motor at 80,000 miles on the chassis. I ended up trading the car in and getting a 370z.

[@austinrivers9938]

Saw you at C&O in Atlanta but didn’t speak I seen you were with Alejandra and didn’t want to bother but it was cool seeing you in person, hope all is well!

[@dreary5297]

Decided to watch this while replacing the coolant flange on my b7

[@MrBee3313]

Just had to walk over 10 miles into a town after my WRX lost an oil line coming down a mountain. No phone service, coasted as far as I could get, then walked the rest of the way to find someone with a landline. Living that Subaru life.

[@zanjani13]

I had a 06 Subaru Forester NA and I went drifting in the winter one night. First time I drove it hard and then suddenly I couldn't get any heat through the heater. Went home and took it for a drive the next day and the temperature guage went to sky high. I got out to let it cool down and the coolent was gushing out of the reservoir. Got a tow and turns out I blew the head gaskets 🙃. After the engine was took apart and that was replaced I had no more issue with the car until I traded it in for my 2016 Forester XT.

[@flabbyhoy]

Dude!!!! DO a video on the best used 'tuner' car platforms for 10K base price, 25k base price, 50k base price (plus cost of mods?) Id love to hear your thoughts!

[@tcordautos7438]

It’s crazy to think you used to be in Richmond wish I was more involved in cars back then

[@slobaru7094]

I add oil every 2 weeks and check my alignment about every 3 months, rotate every 2k clean my filter every 3k. Car has 210k on stock, tuned 2.0 and still loves redline.

[@sissyneca7360]

On the touge with my Miata with shot motor mounts hit a bump during a turn lost all power flickering lights, surging, misfiring. Was stuck waiting 4 hours for tow. Ended up being a ground strap that had snapped

[@chuco425]

I bought a turbo Miata that was a project. It ran and drove fine. I changed the oils before taking off with it. 20 minutes into my drive and it overheating. So I pull off to the side of the freeway to let it cool off. Traffic was terrible so I wasn’t worried about getting hit. Cools down and drive off the freeway to diagnose the issue and it’s the spring from the radiator cap missing so all my coolant was boiling out of my radiator. I got lucky autozone was still open 9pm 10mins away to get a replacement. But I had to wait again for the car to cool down before taking off (filled with water from a gas station) and once I got there. The rest of the way home was nerve wrecking but non-eventful. I was just getting into cars and learning how to wrench at the time.

[@Mattvolvoguy]

I had a key break off in the door when I went to unlock the car. Only key I had and I bought it not even a week before then. 1986 Volvo 240 wagon. Also same car maybe a month or so later the neutral safety switch left us stranded at a gas station surrounded by fish farms lol. Had to jumper past the neutral switch with a flat head screwdriver across the starter lol. Fun time.. many more break downs but they get more and more sad as you go lol.

[@tofuboi5373]

In 2015 I was a senior in HS. Just turned 17 and had my first car (1969 pontiac lemans, hugger orange). I was driving it home from a shop that just had some electrical work done and the guys working on the car forgot to put the hood pins back in. I was Cruising, going 50 mph about 3-4 miles from home when suddenly WHOOSH, the whole hood comes up and smacks the windshield. Luckily no glass broke. Had to have it towed to YET ANOTHER shop. Shortly after we sold it for pennies so I could get a reliable college commuter. Huge mistake. I still miss that car. Also had a Jeep engine blow up on me a few years later. That was fun lol

[@fernandotrujillo6153]

I had just bought my foxbody like a month before, but one night I was driving back home and on the freeway I started to see sparks coming out of the left front fender well, I managed to get off the freeway into a parking lot and as soon as I was about to park the car the left week came of the bottom control arm….I was essentially driving on it without a castle nut the whole time(I even found out like two weeks before this happened when I got my tires changed, that both of my front wheels lugs weren’t torqued down or even fully tight)

[@genericaxi4598]

I drive a JDM DC5 type R and a few people might know 2nd gear is the weakest link in the gearbox. Safe to say I've blown 2nd gear twice now so on my third rebuild i decided to send it and replaced 1st & 2nd with dog gears.

[@phoenixproductions5358]

I blew a rear brake line on my 2002 Tahoe one time and it took me 3 days to realize what the leak was, I drove for 3 days and experienced no problems with a snapped brake line until I saw the massive coating of brake fluid that was on my rear differential

[@retardgarage9790]

i lost my clutch slave in the middle of the highway on my miata once. that was fun, my grandpa came and flat towed me like 7 miles home. was showing my buddy how fun the car was and stuff. my buddy liked it so much he actually helped me change it once we got back. lol he wasnt a car guy but i can say i successfully converted him that day.m now he and his brother have a boosted miata and are constantly working on it.

[@kigsbiker]

Had a 99 Forester, I think the head gasket went (of course). Car started overheating, so I called my dad for back up. He arrived in HIS Forester and proceeded to push me back home, like bumper to bumper pushing me. It was late, and we live out in the country, so we were getting up to like 120 km/h before he was backing off and I was coasting. Then we just repeated until we arrived home. Definately won't be forgetting about that one 😂

[@silverrain99205]

I think storytime would be cool. You should do polls on if anybody else wants to see that Edit: Was that Kenny G Evo in Annapolis?? Or was it at H2O in OCMD?? I'm from Maryland and it looks familiar

[@alexstettler5640]

I used to have an 04 Lincoln LS with the Jag V8 in it and those cars would run really hot, and there was an unknown leak somewhere in the coolant and all of a sudden the temp rose all the way up, it was maybe 20 degrees outside so I stopped let it cool off and had to limp it 20 minutes home

[@josephclemson1743]

So about 2 years ago I went to an SCCA event (I know not really stranded), and I was having a blast in my C6 Z06. I'm sure you know where this is going, but as I came around this turn going in to a section where the cones are in a straight line and you have to turn through them. As I was getting close to the first cone I lost all power and a white cloud came out from behind the car and I heard a ton of rubble on the tires from the parking lot and being off the course. I'm sure you know, but these have a huge issue with the valve guides and I dropped a valve between 6-7k rpm. Left me stranded there watching everyone else race for almost 2 hours waiting for a tow truck. Full extent of the damage was the #1 piston was in the oil pan, about a 10 inch crack on the outside of the block. 6 sleeves were damaged on the underside. And cylinder 1 had a 9 square inch hole through the sleeve and block entering the water jacket. Definitely not a way to end a race day.

[@Amayas_G]

What other secrets are you hiding under your snapback 👀

[@timephire]

Lol hahaha ;o)

[@multiluxem2218]

I had a dodge caliber srt4. Install a tune on the car with 1.5 bar max boost. After test driving with couple quick acceleration, the engine won't idle right and there's some turbo noise. Thought the turbo or engine got blowed up. After closer inspection, it's the pcv hose got blowed off which caused a vacuum leak (the factory hose clamp probably couldn't handle the extra boost lol).

[@EA40]

My favorite mishap was when your 2JZ motor went on a permanent leave of absence at about the same time as Evan Shanks' 2JZ ;)

[@hhaaddiizzffaarr]

Bought a corvette c6 high milage, installed a cam in that sucker. Driving 120mph and all of a sudden my power steering goes crazy and it sounds like my engine just exploded- huge smoke coming from my engine. on a NYC highway i pulled on a small shoulder, my harmonic balancer decided it was just gonna exit lol. Towed the car back home, installed a racing harmonic balancer a week later and it runs like new.

[@Matthewestala]

One time I was with my friend on his 2001 Ford ranger.we were coming to my place at midnight when all of a sudden his truck starts stalling.we ended up starting it up again and drove it all the way home.right when we got there it completely died.we had to change the battery the next morning.my friend ended up spending the night with me.we got extremely lucky that we were parked at my house and not at the side of the road

[@shockwave7546]

My buddy has a base model Lancer with something like 180k KM, the last hundred of which have consisted of burn outs, launches off cold starts, just a general beating. Still runs good, dosen't burn oil but probably lost like 20hp (148 hp base).

[@tempestsquall5882]

I have too many broke down in the middle of nowhere stories 😂 but the most interesting car that I had break down on me was a formula 350 firebird that had a fuel pump go out when my buddy and I were taking out on a hilly back road. We got it back cause one of my family members had a trailer to roll the car onto hah.

[@revtv2497]

Beat to hell altima, driving over 2 states and broke down on the interstate. Fuel pump went out, phones were all dead, it was like, the dead of winter in the good ol' midwest, and we were there for 9 hours lmao. That's my biggest experience being stranded.

[@claytonrudder270]

Had a bad oil pressure relief valve on my stage 2 n14 Mini Cooper s and it caused oil to come out of the main crank pulley seal which then caused the belt to explode on I-40.

[@chavezeddie99]

I decided to procharge my mustang & I'm learning first hand all of this now. She pulls great but always broken! At least on e85. Luckily on 93 she drives good but sheeeesh all the money I've thrown at it, I'm glad I waited until after college to start building it