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Well, where do I start? I've said this plenty of times; I encourage owners to fix their cars as long as they are confident that they are doing it correctly. If you are not sure on what you're doing, you should be doing research, or be supervised by a professional.
On this video, we fitted a customer provided steering rack on an Iveco Daily Maxi- fairly straightforward this job as there is nothing in the way of taking the rack out. We then moved on to a Mercedes Benz C180 to fit a wheel bearing and the most shocking, scary job of them all, fitting a coil spring. This job went relatively well but there is always a little something that gets in the way. THE MOST HORRENDOUS job of them all, 2010 Audi Q3 in for a Parking Brake Diagnostic. Customer stated that his electronic parking brake stopped working due to failed control module (Correctly Diagnosed by the AA). We then later found that there is something very very very dangerous on the repair that was done by the customer. THIS ONE REALLY SURPRISED/SCARED US! Finally, we fixed a crank/cam correlation code on a 2011 Audi A3 2.0 TDI.
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[@daihatsudave6332]

Im a mobile mechanic and to relax i get excited to watch a mobile mechanic..... top videos . Respect from the shropshire countryside

[@themarvelousvlog]

Film it mate and get on the wagon! 😂 I like watching other mechs too- I learn a lot from them

[@daihatsudave6332]

@@themarvelousvlog no mechanic knows everything . All learn from each other . Im building an 1989 diahatsu fourtrak 4x4 pickup mech van. Once i do that for christmas i might . Camera shy lol

[@themarvelousvlog]

I was also camera shy but you get used to it 😂

[@daihatsudave6332]

​@@themarvelousvlog used to being a celebrity he he. Maybe a future video on a rainy day how ypur finding youtube and if its affected your bussiness and types of commenters and cammeras you use . That sort of thing woukd be interesting

[@themarvelousvlog]

Good idea that!

[@fuzzybobbles]

I fix my own car because I refuse to play $90 an hour to someone slightly more skilled than a basic trainee on $20 an hour and then have the cheek to double the price on parts they buy compared to what I can buy them for at retail price, and they buy them cheaper at trade prices.

[@themarvelousvlog]

Not the right way to use trade pricing in my opinion. I’d feel like a scammer otherwise 😅

[@paguliukas]

And then u buy emgine for 5k 😂

[@BondoV2]

if you have the skill and knowledge or at least willing to learn i don't see a problem with it

[@jimstartup2729]

I lost count of the number of times garages did either a shoddy job and didn't tighten bolts properly so things fell off on the way home, or tried to rip me off on some parts that didn't need replacing (Refused to show me the old part too- never tell them it's super urgent if you can avoid it, they see the desperation and know your are more likely to Just pay the extra cost and leave). If you find a good garage then use them when you can, with any big job, but it is worth getting handy as best as you can, but still.. peeps have got to know their limits, a lot of jobs need special tools and experience to do properly. Some Technical knowledge and ability is necessary even with fluid changes and wheel changes.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Plenty of guides on the web for simple tasks. I do wonder what possessed him to use copper grease.

[@jordandavis5857]

Electric handbrakes are one of the worst inventions in my opinion border line dangerous

[@xxl531]

I was expecting a blob of coppergrease in the button also😂

[@PALPABLEemotions]

Surprised the copper grease didnt short out all the pins between each other lol

[@TheOitzu]

Better put some into the button, just to be sure.

[@marktucker208]

Bro i was sick at fixing my own car, the oil leaks kept it rust free and the broken door lock saved me time having to unlock it

[@fatblokes_ferguson]

I would not class myself as a car mechanic, I had very little money when I bought my first car/van it was a mk 3 escort, this was in 1990, showing my age. But I always I did any repairs on all my cars from ford to mercs to bmw. My last was a ml320. Because of my ill health I no longer drive. The hardest job I ever did was a c220 estate starter, it was a struggle so was done with the use of about 4feet of extensions on my socket which was a bugger because it was snowing. But never the less I did every job myself. Great stuff guys

[@hojo9115]

That copper grease cracked me up😂

[@liammcadam3791]

They weren't shy with using the old cooper grease 🤣🤣

[@froggy8301]

I've admired your diagnostic skills and the manor in which you approach each job, I hope your channel goes a long way and look forward to further videos. I just had to hit the subscribe! 👍

[@Big-Timbo]

Great work as usual lads, thanks for coming round! Glad no one got impailed by a coil spring 😂

[@themarvelousvlog]

We showed you the video right? 😂

[@Big-Timbo]

@@themarvelousvlogtold me about it yeah haha, not sure I want to watch it honestly 😵

[@sptvids]

Good work, love the "conductive" copper grease in the module connector 🤣

[@olliebodman9771]

Such knowledgeable guys Wish I had someone like you around here in Gloucester, keep the videos coming very good to watch

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you good sir! 🫡

[@mingiasi]

people dont know this: you dont turn lock-to-lock and hold it there for more than 3 seconds. old racks WILL leak from end seals or completely blow them out.

[@thomaspeterson8969]

15:40 I've seen some stupid things in my years in the motor trade but never in my life would I have thought of copper greasing the plug on a module or ECU😭😂🤣

[@bobsteel2654]

😂

[@AI-Records24]

That is wildddddd😂😂if in doubt grease it out

[@BlameTheLag]

i discovered you 2 days ago and ive binged constantly

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you! Well appreciate that

[@andythomas7931]

Nice one guys it's great to watch Professionals with integrity ply their trade having fun at the same time.

[@MyScotty7]

Love your channel,im a diy mechanic so ice learnt alot from watching you 2. Keep the growing matey!

[@TariqAli-xc1eu]

Nothing but love my bro, love the vids keep them coming, wishing you all the success you deserve it ❤

[@themarvelousvlog]

Appreciate it! Thank you my bro 🫡

[@xxxstanstillxxx]

Two nice polite young guys who are very experienced in what they do. Keep it up lads, love your videos.

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you!

[@madpumma]

Great contents lads, both of you remind me of a couple of mates from back in the 1970s young and gifted

[@rsmagdales]

To be perfectly honest you guys are really good and very professional on your job without going to the point of over charging customers. God bless you

[@davidcook2076]

Just discovered your KZbin channel, Great job guys . Keep up the great work

[@ggj666]

Well the copper grease made sure the module came apart easy :-)

[@carlgardiner3626]

Mate Just found your channel. I are quality, need u down my ways. U best make more videos as I'm gonna complete u very soon. Great Info and explanations. Breath of fresh air. Much love bro, respect xx

[@peterstanford9720]

Top quality diagnosing and rectification !

[@ajabdurrani5928]

Thank you for the content bro. What camera do you use? 🙏🙏🙏

[@chuckelbrothers]

You young lads are inspiring keep up the good work

[@geforcertx9236]

Hilarious, John wasn't holding back the laughs 😂 how you kept a straight face for as long as you did ill never know. 😂😂😂😂

[@Jackacres02]

great video guys. What diagnostic scanner is that?

[@grahameroberts8109]

You guys are very skilled and entertaining at the same time. I love the banter and your constant smiles and jibes. E.g. “It’s gone stiff and I need you to hold it”. I now realise you’re in pommy land not Oz. Cheers. 😱🙈🙏🦘

[@themarvelousvlog]

We’d love to live in Oz. Much better weather just not too keep about the snakes 😂😂😂

[@grahameroberts8109]

Don’t worry about snakes. The 88 year old mechanic retired this year and his workshop, hoist etc is empty now. It’s in Tingha NSW.. 880 people in the village but 17000 in Inverell 25 kms away. Come out on a visa holiday and check things out. Cheers

[@burningsoul1365]

great work again lads

[@trekshogun]

Great video guys,had the same limp modes scenario on a 2.0tdi seat altea,turned out to be turbo coked up,once stripped and cleaned all good !

[@jjmmjj9999]

ol' mr muscle oven cleaner in the exhaust side of the turbo fixed mine

[@anwarshahata8861]

Hello mate, well done your work is honest and of a high quality, i wish you all the success, i have 2 questions, witch autel you use and does it include scope? And what data web you use for technical information and wiring diagram? Many thanks and all the best

[@1881Gordon]

You guys are good. Really enjoy watching your quality content.... Subscribed!

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you! More to come 😁

[@stephenflowerday4038]

Great video's chaps, I used to be in the trade as a youf, probably should've stayed in it tbh. Never really found a job that i've been as passionate about.

[@classic1989mini]

Great work here lads!!!

[@jamest7037]

You guys crack me up! Loving the videos, keep them coming!

[@themarvelousvlog]

More to come for sure 😁

[@afitzsimons]

When I first started to maintain my cars my uncle told me to put the wheels under the sills.

[@paguliukas]

Best advice

[@cypeman8037]

How would you drive it with the wheels under the sills? surely they need to be attached to the vehicle.

[@flippingcarsrepairs]

I always do that 👍

[@afitzsimons]

@@cypeman8037 Whilst performing maintenance?

[@lynjames4306]

Excellent work 😊 Top Lads ❤

[@pataleno]

Servicing, Oil change, Brakes, bulbs, plugs, air filter, cabin filter is all I do. The rest goes to the garage for anything else.

[@eoinosullivan2636]

Another informative video. When you installed the wheel bearing on the Mercedes, you skipped the run-out adjustment with a dial indicator. If you do another bearing, can you show this key step please, as it's a critical piece - folks may just assume you pop the split lock nut on, tighten and it's done. Thanks.

[@therealchayd]

I'm not a mechanic, but I've done a few trackrod ends and found a set of cheap digital calipers to measure the threads to the locknut saves you a few min of squinting at screw threads if anything. Also useful for other automotive measuring tasks. Good choice of music with the spring compressor 🤣

[@tyzer492]

I nearly spat my dinner out when i see that copper grease 😂

[@timjackson1904]

That copper grease made me laugh, I would have been rolling around on the drive!!!

[@1simonreed]

great vid. good work guys

[@alidas1435]

great videos bro what area you cover or based??

[@olie3146]

Get yourself a metal guard around that spring tensioner, trust me holding it with your hand won't do anything other than probably take your fingers off..... From someone that had a spring come out

[@themarvelousvlog]

Adds adrenaline to the job 😂 Definitely will be investing on though; saying that, we have a chain in the van to hold it 😂

[@olie3146]

@@themarvelousvlog adrenaline and potentially blood 😂 not something I want either of when messing around with springs lol

[@khalidacosta7133]

I replaced a bicycle spring on the suspension forks... forgot to release the pre-load pressure, cap pinged off the spring with such force, it went through a light fitting glass, then dented the metal backing.... that is a pushbike meant to hold 80kg. Now imagine what happens on a car designed to hold a tonne!

[@olie3146]

@@khalidacosta7133 I can tell you, I had crappy spring tensioners that came off, the tensioner went sideways and went through 10mm ply board and the spring embbeded itself in the metal roof 😂

[@khalidacosta7133]

@@olie3146 Sounds about right... nothing scares me more than pressure 🤣🤣

[@user-zo4is7pl8g]

Good Work Steve👍

[@themarvelousvlog]

Cheers Paul!

[@adrianzaneta301]

Fantastic guy's, everything you do is perfect, I would like have you closer fix my car👍

[@Billy-in7rl]

Video is edited so they would look great lol

[@longbar2344]

local specialist wants £307 to remove lower wishbones, push out old bushes then install new and refit. 2x decent wishbones are £200. doing the job myself soon lol

[@haneeskyani7662]

Do you guys cover a specific area or anywhere?

[@robsmith7430]

Top notch video as always A bit shocked at the Audi handbrake button going like that but I suppose if you keep your car clean that shouldn’t happen

[@sqwidink1]

Fizzy drink spillage!

[@JoshSmith-hg1qz]

Just come across your channel good work lads are you local to Worthing or travel all over the UK

[@richardgiles2484]

Love watching your videos, and I wish I was living in your part of the UK 🙄 just one thing, and please don't think I'm having a go at you 🙏 would recommend putting dust sheets down in the area your working as this will help protect the ground from oil leaks but also protect your tools and parts 👍

[@themarvelousvlog]

Definitely will be doing that. I’ve got something coming that you’ll notice in the next few videos

[@alimack5489]

Only just stumbled upon this Channel. Top videos mate watching them all now wish I had someone as decent as you up this way to work on my car, I’m no mechanic I do central heating systems but it’s much of the same following round idiots that mess up jobs 😂 keep it up mate.

[@Gooner-1971]

The Audi with the parking brake issue - definite new engine replacement to start with 😂

[@IIMANIXII]

I just returned to the trade after 15+ years of downtime and have been struggling with the fact that i have forgotten a lot of my knowledge etc - its really been getting me down and making me look silly amoung the other technicians in the workshop - they knew my situation when i started - what advice would you have for someone like myself (LGV HGV lV3)... the vids are helping a bunch, getting support from somewhere at least 😅 be lucky bruv...

[@jeffcharleverin4522]

Should make a video on the van setup & tools

[@jonathanmarkreed1616]

Please don't have your head above the spring when releasing the spring

[@themarvelousvlog]

Always gotta remember that

[@downtowngames4631]

​@@themarvelousvlogI think we have all heard that one horror story of the geezer who got his jaw taken off scary stuff 😂

[@donaldlee6760]

Great video however what is the timestamp that discusses fixing one's own car? I spent a few minutes scrolling but could not find that discussion.

[@kbrickell4732]

What make of endoscope are you using ?

[@zackenter6436]

Im mobile too, most of my work is fixing other peoples mistakes/cheap parts, recently pulled a clutch out that was fitted backwards lol

[@themarvelousvlog]

‘Bitting too low’, ‘not going in gear’ 😂😂😂

[@zackenter6436]

@@themarvelousvlog this one actually because it was backwards the strings had been clashing with the flywheel bolts and the gave up 🤣

[@seangreenwood8331]

really wish i had someone like you where i live,ive resorted to fixing my own vehicles due to the times ive been ripped off by local garages

[@untrainedprofessionals2374]

Like I say to a mate who is a sparky. "I don't pay for labor. I pay you for your knowledge" I have been working on cars and bikes for a long time as home fixer. learned a lot over the years but I am well aware of where my limit is and that's where my local bloke comes in. Mostly because some jobs just shit me and paying them to swear at it is worth every cent. And gives me a laugh. Trust is a mechanics biggest asset and I have seen quite a few total thieves.

[@Parknest]

That copper grease was a bit excessive. Is the stuff condctive? The front springs on the W204 Merc are a pig of a job to change. I had to get my mechanic to do the spring swap on my 2009 C200 once I'd got the struts off. As Ivan of Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics would say, the parking brake repair on the Audi was a No Parts Required (NPR) repair.

[@outdoortechtrekguy1029]

You guys are legends 🫡

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

I'm guessing that the 'inclination sensor' is to do with the hill-hold assist. Perhaps the park brake issue is causing the car to think it's on a hill and won't release the brake.

[@m0neym0nsta92]

Enjoyed your video so have subscribed. So hard to find a trust worthy tradesman which is what you appear to be.

[@Behaveplease]

Can tell you have good knowledge I don’t know if you would want too but if you could tell us roughly how long each job takes so we can potentially know if we having our pants pulled down when we get jobs done on our vehicles..I know the same job on 2 vehicles can vary but I would assume not that much..great videos anyway watched 3 in a row so far

[@maxkendal5152]

Bit concerned about removing the copper grease. Did the module start squeaking after?

[@izykhan123]

Think the Audi Turbo will be a VNT turbo as it looks like a B7 possibly has sticky vanes as I used to own one, or even the swirl flaps on the manifold may be stuck/seized from the gunk

[@andrewthompsonuk1]

Coppergrease used to be used by mechanics many years ago on the old single "Lucar" type connections of pre 70s cars. Many times these connectors were two dissimilar metals, so without something they would corrode very quickly. Using dielectric grease is more of a modern idea.

[@kevinsharp-kn7rm]

Spilt his Coca-Cola on the button lol

[@IRockCivilization]

Love these videos, lookalike for DJ Fantasy from People Just Do Nothing 😂

[@kristoffscuba5466]

Hold tight. I seez ya…

[@user-ku9ev7fn9w]

I would have thought that copper grease was conducive, surprised that the module was okay

[@AJB1]

I don't think it's actually conductive. I guess the copper particles are separated by thin layers of insulating grease.

[@scoobywrximpreza5948]

I do love a bit of copper slip 😂

[@mike-ology22]

My old chap sprayed WD40 into the keyhole to loosen it up. He blew all the locks. Alcohol or WD40 Electrical contact cleaner is the way to go. Copper grease? You would never even find that on Google or KZbin. God knows what made them do that! Great video, and great work

[@themarvelousvlog]

Pray for the best I guess? Hahah

[@mike-ology22]

@@themarvelousvlog imagine being the one plugging it back in? That is like greasing up your plug before you charge your phone haha. Good fun though mate, adds to the excitement in the videos. What will we find next? ;)

[@camc4123]

What car diagnostic tool do you recommend? Im currently in need of one to wipe some codes off a peugeot 208

[@boogy2239]

Buy one from Euro car parts for about £20 it shows your faults and clear codes as well.

[@nigelbiscombe9199]

Let's use the most conductive grease we can find 😂

[@seanwallace1972]

When you got to the Vauxhall vivaro van,you said about not wanting the van to runaway diesel,what does that mean

[@qwertyqwrtyqwertyuio]

The engine would start using its own oil as fuel and you can't shut it off

[@m60kaf]

Have you ever bluetooth deactivated the EPB and wathced the car rolling away, ask me how I know

[@themarvelousvlog]

😂😂😂 I feel like asking for a tragic answer 😂

[@ashmaybe9634]

Great content! Try and get yourself a decent mic for more professional audio. New sub here :)

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you!

[@kbrickell4732]

What model number of the Auteul are you sing ?

[@zachw4394]

Been repairing cars most of my life no formal education. It's not rocket science.

[@user-kz2rx8yu2f]

Brill vid guys big john boy funny as !😂😂😂😂

[@leeverink32]

being scared of that spring is good keeps you alive.

[@97MRALIG]

If only you lived near me😂 West London. I’d be giving you all my car repairs when I need them

[@themarvelousvlog]

We cover west London 😏

[@97MRALIG]

@@themarvelousvlog ah brilliant then

[@mbak7801]

Electronic handbrakes are such a brain dead idea. Take something simple and generally reliable and replace it with something over complicated and less useful. Just not clever at all.

[@davidwescott2632]

The bearing inner races magically came out and went in?

[@ronaldhilario1574]

Nice to see you both idol

[@themarvelousvlog]

Thank you thank you!

[@pjhongzkygaming3378]

Where are you base? I need ATF oil change soon. Leave some contact details please. Thank you bro.

[@johnmarkpadillo3374]

Pinoy talaga. Napapa uuuuyy while releasing the spring. Heheh. Nice content mga kuya.

[@themarvelousvlog]

Kakatakot eh 😂 Salamat boss 🫡

[@gilesl]

that copper grease is CRAZY

[@molsky13]

The copper grease is mad 😄

[@paulchartley]

I know that you use copper grease on the handbrake assembly but I never thought that anyone would be dumb enough to use it on the controller unit connector. Maybe they didn't know that copper conducts electricity.

[@weldingjunkie]

Just measure with a caliper and you can get distance

[@davidwescott2632]

Wheel alignment?????

[@patrickgrandl9838]

Where are you located ?

[@pmtilbury6596]

Hi what areas are you covering? Looked at your website but didn’t see it. I am on the West Sussex & Surrey border. Thanks

[@themarvelousvlog]

Crawley/Burgess Hill area? Yes we cover that area. How can we help please? Send us a WhatsApp. Phone number is in the description. Thank you!

[@user-kk2bo4de8m]

Funny enough i have not found copper grease to cause problems on good electrical terminals