"It could be that girl in the back that planted a bomb in there." Never change Sandro, never change.
@Nick-kk9ei
7 ай бұрын
Said the same thing.😂😂
@steverayrapp
7 ай бұрын
she didn't even turn around when it exploded 🤯
@dimitribrzeczyszczykiewicz8044
7 ай бұрын
@@steverayrapp" cool guys dont look at explosions"
@geronimocebrero7770
7 ай бұрын
Homeboy is the GOAT
@Paintbullits
7 ай бұрын
yah that's not so much a German engineering fail, more of an Irish mechanic success
@robduckworth8828
7 ай бұрын
I’m a mechanic, my brother is an engineer, when he started working the first thing I told him was “don’t forget someone has to work on what you design”
@salemcripple
7 ай бұрын
As a mechanic. I've told engineers the same thing. "it's not my job, to make your job easier" was the exact reply i got.
@Username-2
7 ай бұрын
@@salemcrippleIt’s true though, design engineers in that industry aren’t incentivized or even asked to make things repairable. It’s the opposite actually, vehicles are designed to be proprietary, for profit. In some other industries it’s different, so things are easily repairable. For example dirt bikes, or commercial cooking equipment… and many others. So the real blame lies with the bean counters and corporate that decide to prioritize profit over ease of repair and consumers, and the politicians that allow them to do it, not the engineers.
@mattmattmatt131313
7 ай бұрын
This is why every engineer should have to work in a repair shop for a few years as part of their training.
@gizmoguyar
7 ай бұрын
@@mattmattmatt131313they do. Every engineer works on their own product during development. The problem is that engineers have to balance so so many other things that you don't care about. Size, cost, ease of assembly, manufacturability. The vast majority of time, if you just read the service manual, the engineers have documented exactly how to get access to such-n-such, and what tools you need. But mechanics think they know how to do the work, and often back themselves into a corner. For example, I had a mechanic tell me they had to lift an entire engine to access a broken belt tensioner bolt. If they had bothered to read the service manual, they would have known that all you have to do is remove one wheel and a fender cover, and there's an access hole.
@cdoublejj
7 ай бұрын
IT"S NOT THE ENGINEERS!!! IT'S THE C SUITE!!!! ONe guy said his retired uncle said engineering at GM was a quagmire of politics and overbearing management who would over ride the engineers to save a penny. #RightToRepair wait till you find out how OEMs treat hospital equipment and warranty work.
@backwoodstherapy
7 ай бұрын
German engineering: I can't remember the exact model, but I'm like 65% sure it was a Volkswagen Toureg. Guy brings it in to the shop for a blown O2 sensor, and he just couldn't figure out a way to get to it. Looks up in the repair manual on how to change that sensor, and right there in the manual it said "step 1: remove engine."
@300DBenz
7 ай бұрын
Porsche Cayenne turbo.
@kft4764
7 ай бұрын
My Audi S7 O2 sensor felt that way. Engine is symmetrical left and right, including the exhaust manifolds. One side took 15 minutes to change. Other side took 5 hours of pain. Sensors in the identical spots left and right, but on one side they moved the connector from on top of the engine to the back of it between the engine and firewall in a pit with 2" of clearance with no line of sight into and no way to reach into without dislocating your arm. That and you're supposed to slide the locking tab off the connector, then get leverage to depress the release on the connector in that area. Probably pretty easy if there wasn't a pesky firewall or engine in the way. They could have kept the connector in the same spot on top for both sensors, making them both 15 minute jobs...but no.
@KNIGHTSFALLN
7 ай бұрын
All Audi o2 sensors have been that way for 15 years and they are zip tied to the rear coolant pipe making them impossible to reach, impossible to cut the zip ties and impossible to get a socket on the sensor. We used to cut the wires and have to make a tool to reach the sensor
@literallyhuman5990
7 ай бұрын
I'm happy that fixing R1200GS is a bit easier than that
@noaimnoskillnokill3947
7 ай бұрын
TouAreg bitteschön
@Dwendele
5 ай бұрын
As someone who works at a German OEM in South Carolina, let me just say, even BUILDING these cars is a pain in the ass.
@frtard
4 ай бұрын
so... you can just say BMW.
@acarpenter1332
4 ай бұрын
Spartanburg! Haha
@Dwendele
4 ай бұрын
@@acarpenter1332 yep. I mean, it's not that hard to figure out. But they can be picky about what is shared in social media, and I didn't specify WHICH German OEM I worked at lol. Could the the vehicle manufacturer or one of the suppliers.
@Dwendele
4 ай бұрын
@@frtard I could.... But there's multiple German companies here that supply BMW too. Gotta be careful these days saying shit about your employer online.
@Dwrksied
4 ай бұрын
I mean you should stop building cars using your ass. Hands would be much more comfortable imo
@linkinman48
7 ай бұрын
I see Sandro, I click. Simple
@JC_500
7 ай бұрын
Jerry's German impression is CRAZY
@mathieulachance151
7 ай бұрын
Exactly 😂
@justjackson8673
7 ай бұрын
Facts
@bandjolyn
7 ай бұрын
Easy peasy.
@dumblightskin1287
7 ай бұрын
Yes
@sammyboy8764
7 ай бұрын
nice seeing a new face on the show, sandro's the favorite tho cant lie
@geecee12
7 ай бұрын
Until you realize she paid by audi
@imabichover9000
7 ай бұрын
money makes the world go around, nobody gonna fight you on that.@@geecee12
@MrCalalf
7 ай бұрын
@@geecee12okay and?
@obeseperson
7 ай бұрын
@@geecee12oh no, anything but someone with a job!
@DavidGarcia-oi5nt
7 ай бұрын
Angelina is BAE tho
@morsumbra9692
3 ай бұрын
The founder of Honda made Honda a trust that operates only if 4 levels of safisfaction are hit. 1. Consumer satisfaction 2. Repair worker satisfaction 3. Line satisfaction 4. Vendor satisfaction. Those four things determine if the shareholders GET to KEEP their shares or else the company reverts back to full private with language in place that those things must be fixed before any C suite bonus, buyout, or any golden parachute for the holders. Pretty smart imo. I think thats the sole reason Honda is as dominant and yet understandable as they are.
@ayliniemi
3 ай бұрын
Your comment makes me want to get a Honda. Toyota is all the craze right now, but can't forget about Honda.
@IntheEndAhNevermind
3 ай бұрын
Brilliant.
@FordRangerClassics
3 ай бұрын
I have a civic. My friend has a Camry and my mom has a RAV4. Toyotas are not solid by any means these days. I make him feel bad by tapping his tim cam hood every time I walk past it @@ayliniemi
@ArariaKAgelessTraveller
2 ай бұрын
Honda just needs to drive up their marketing and they will be dominant They are still dominant in many parts of asia though
@morsumbra9692
2 ай бұрын
@ArariaKAgelessTraveller I don't think that'd help them much. Honda has like 3 cars on the top 10 most sold in US list and only recently got detroned by Tesla model Y as THE most sold car. They're doing just fine. If they wanted to be like everyone else maybe they'd make their luxury brand, Acura, actually their luxury brand and make some fancy yet truly functional cars. But honda tends to let either the race teams do the inventing, or just innovate the thing Mercedes did like 10years ago but actually make it manufacturingly scalable.
@SirKittyMcMittens
7 ай бұрын
Sandro is so dang comfortable on the show now and I'm here for it
@thenewkid1642
7 ай бұрын
I’m glad I’m not the only whose noticed it the past few episodes you can tell he’s just relaxed
@dyent
7 ай бұрын
They should bring him on the main channel. Maybe do a build-off series even, have the Donut guys go up against Sandro and his boys, starting with the same car and budget and build it to be able to do multiple things. For example, they could split the builds into 2 videos, a video taking them rockcrawling, a video mudding, a video doing laps, a video doing drifting and a video doing drag racing. and at the end whoever wins 3 of the 5 is the champion.
@CDCI3
7 ай бұрын
@@dyent"the boys" lol it's for them, ya know?
@dyent
7 ай бұрын
@@CDCI3 well, the boys *are* back in town.
@Austintwo3
7 ай бұрын
@@dyent the boys deff needa do a build on the main
@joophommie
7 ай бұрын
That Merc trying to do a burnout is from Australia. That dude won the car in a raffle and didnt know shit about it. Tried showing off at his mates wedding and blew up the car lol
@batchmotorsport
7 ай бұрын
Ha was that an LMCT or ECM "charity" ?
@LVUFC
7 ай бұрын
@@batchmotorsportLCMT . He also tried to claim insurance the night of the fire before the video went viral. Didn’t work.
@spaceli0n
7 ай бұрын
Thats more than not knowing shit about it, thats not knowing shit about operating a vehicle.
@OffGridInvestor
7 ай бұрын
Apparently he didn't even know the guys at the wedding. That's how I remember it
@blackhawks81H
7 ай бұрын
I thought Australians were born knowing how to do a burnout? Don't you do your first one shortly after having your first fackin' VB Longneck at like age 9? 😂
@TTMPLMKR
7 ай бұрын
Giving the young lady props for her first time on the channel. Solid addition. Definitely deserves to be in the rotation
@dylanjamesryan9432
7 ай бұрын
LITERALLY COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER.. TOP COMMENT
@scdu
7 ай бұрын
@@dylanjamesryan9432GOBBLESS
@DucatiPaso750
7 ай бұрын
The young lady was really bright and has a beautiful personality. However, my choice is still Angelina. I do hope she is kept in the loop though.
@ffcsin
7 ай бұрын
Fax!
@danconnolly737
7 ай бұрын
Ya ok she suckssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
@PaxHeadroom
3 ай бұрын
Worst German car I worked on was a Smart fortwo. To replace an alternator, you have to unbolt the entire rear subframe, empty and disconnect the air conditioning, raise the body off the subframe, then raise the engine up out of the cradle so that you can get enough clearance to swap in the old alternator.
@peanuts2105
3 ай бұрын
For such a miserable little car, just pop into Toys R Us and buy another one
@piotrkowalczyk1087
2 ай бұрын
exept that SMART is not german
@concinnus
2 ай бұрын
@@piotrkowalczyk1087 The fact that it was built in France is irrelevant. Daimler engineered it.
@evolvedmonkey9978
2 ай бұрын
@@piotrkowalczyk1087 all the engineering is German, I had a Fortwo Diesel, and that little car also had some problems with the engine holders, they would rot and the engine would drop on the ground, the good thing that Peanuts ignores on that miserable little car is the mileage, a micro turbo diesel consuming 3.2 liters every 100 km's was something that even some 125 cc scooters and light motorcycles can't achieve.
@cardboardboxification
Ай бұрын
new cars are only good for the crusher ...
@Suburban-United
7 ай бұрын
"Any time you push a button and smoke comes out-..." Sandro- "push it again"!! I wish I was one of his boys. I'd do anything to ride with that dude.🤘
@albinqoqaj925
7 ай бұрын
Get some friends my guy
@samholdsworth420
7 ай бұрын
Get some gays my friends
@Cydro12
7 ай бұрын
im gay get me guys
@albinqoqaj925
7 ай бұрын
@@Cydro12 what you talking about
@aminelahlou1606
7 ай бұрын
@@albinqoqaj925he's gay get him guys
@Stealth86651
7 ай бұрын
Would be cool to hear some personal horror stories from the mechanics they've experienced. They all seem to be passionate and I'd like to hear more personal accounts sometimes than just their opinion/reaction to a video. The reactions are awesome, but I always like hearing personal accounts, they tend to have a lot more emotion than a video you scroll past in my experience.
@tysonclement4612
7 ай бұрын
Yeah that would be sick, anouther little show maybe even with little doodle art to help with the visuals
@RosinMan
7 ай бұрын
A cartoon series with them would be great
@AyaxRo
7 ай бұрын
Sandro has an 8 series... Truly a man OF AUTOMOTIVE CULTURE.
@davidhollenshead4892
7 ай бұрын
Nah, it's the sign of a total Masochist or he got it cheap from a customer because it needed a cheap part that took a huge amount of labor to R&R...
@lemster101
7 ай бұрын
I wonder which generation because it didn't look like he recognised the S63 at 1:50
@potater6163
7 ай бұрын
depends what year though.
@735337707
7 ай бұрын
I bet E31 @@lemster101
@vysecity6350
4 ай бұрын
If not e31 then it's a can. E31 840 is actually solid, but the 850 v12 is a lot touchier
@benniemirabal6056
5 ай бұрын
Push it again 😂😂😂 Sandro reminds me of my friend in high school he got us in so much trouble but I loved every single minute of hanging out with him 😢 I miss him to this day
@alaadinhamawi
6 ай бұрын
That failed burnout with the Mercedes amg was over here in Australia. Actually in my suburb lol. That car was only a few days old. Turns out he blew the entire gearbox to smithereens because he couldn’t figure how to turn off all the traction controls.
@josuevalar6465
5 ай бұрын
That sucks
@lucasgoldner2625
4 ай бұрын
Probably the traction control option is buried under 30 sub-menus in the infotainment screen
@relaxation2380
4 ай бұрын
Hahah 😂
@JP-xd6fm
4 ай бұрын
Very well deserved. So How on Earth someone can have money to buy an AMG but be so dumb to do that is beyond my comprenhension
@alaadinhamawi
4 ай бұрын
@@JP-xd6fm he won it in a raffle 🤣
@michaelabbamondi8892
7 ай бұрын
Scotty Kilmer, Donut, and Sandro in one video? One hell of a Jimmy Timmy power hour.
@samholdsworth420
7 ай бұрын
Rev up your va jay jays
@everettstormy
7 ай бұрын
Fucking hate scotty
@brianm6117
7 ай бұрын
Scotty Kilmer is a hack. He couldn't even wipe Sandro's nuts.
@joevk6274
7 ай бұрын
I'm convinced that Scotty snorts a big fat line of coke before he turns on the cameras.
@everettstormy
7 ай бұрын
I fucking hate scotty kilmer.
@BertRiv
7 ай бұрын
14:22 "built like tanks" WWII german panzer tanks suffered from over engineering as well. German tank operators had difficulty repairing them in the field and often times abandoned them.
@miroslavraven1413
7 ай бұрын
yes
@abitofapickle6255
6 ай бұрын
Panther: "Hanz the transmission!!!" Sherman: "Just swap it out for another one"
@flopjul3022
6 ай бұрын
@@abitofapickle6255 we first needz zo remove ze engine too remove ze tranzmizzion ja?
@IcePhoenixOfTime
6 ай бұрын
That was more propaganda than truth of allied forces
@BleedForTheWorld
6 ай бұрын
@@IcePhoenixOfTime there's some truth to them being overdeveloped, for sure. They were good tanks but certainly not without faults.
@stonedwookiee278
4 ай бұрын
I knew a mechanic that lost a finger trying to replace the factory stereo in a Mercedes-Benz when the spring-loaded retainer sprung back on his hand.
@McGussen
7 ай бұрын
Bmw engineers meetings always start off with "hey, I found out where we can put another coolant line thats not required, and where we can bolt more plastic parts onto metal at".
@keithfilibeck2390
3 ай бұрын
don't forget pocket watch-esque complex series of gears and doodads.
@esc8engn
7 ай бұрын
Always love to see Sandro. This my first time seeing Steph. She a real one! Hope to see more of her in future.
@cristiancepeda_yt
7 ай бұрын
Steph was actually pretty cool, gonna need her back
@DoctrFartPhD
7 ай бұрын
Bringing in an actual Audi tech is dope
@CyberGenesis1
7 ай бұрын
First clip "Nah, that's some shit..." - Does it for a living, and knows how ass it can be (but probably happy to legitimately have double the billed hours of the ford shop down the block)
@VampirusX
7 ай бұрын
@@CyberGenesis1 Yepp ... nothing is mor profitable than being a german mechanic (or a mechanic in general working on german cars of course)
@RoccoSFer
7 ай бұрын
Damn right
@geecee12
7 ай бұрын
Money money noney
@tysonclement4612
7 ай бұрын
@@CyberGenesis1then take your car down to the ford shop down the road and have your car worked on by people guessing😂
@trulyinfamous
4 ай бұрын
The fact that liquid fuel rocket engines can have less tubing and be easier to work on than these engines is insane.
@hobobob59
3 ай бұрын
To be fair, a rocket engine better be built with service in mind. That thing fucks up, you're a lot worse than stuck on the side of the road.
@squidikka
7 ай бұрын
Sandro getting the answer right over the actual audi tech is why Sandro is the goat.
@frankdatank2570
7 ай бұрын
Sandro is a true tradesman, his knowledge is beyond textbook. You can tell he has a shit ton of hours working on cars. He also mentioned in a past vid that his dad was/is a mechanic. So you know his knowledge runs deep. Also, he gotta get it right because he's doin it for da bois.
@fleimlehner
7 ай бұрын
see i also would of guessed something small and stupid. hes complaining about having to take the clutch pedal out to repair the clutch pedal. kinda stupid imo
@f-puppet
7 ай бұрын
that "audi tech" is probably just a secretary in the shop
@kevingeezy5176
7 ай бұрын
I hate to be like that but I don't think she really a mechanic. Probably just a cute girl they got to read a script
@fleimlehner
7 ай бұрын
@kevingeezy5176 istg people who think mechanics should get it right the first time 100 percent of the time make me hate people. If you've ever done actual work on a line of cars/trucks you'd know that's not possible. Especially not when you're given stupid questions like I took out the pedal what am I repairing.
@batipapo
7 ай бұрын
I had a Volvo V50 and the cabin air filter was behind the steering wheel 😳🤯. To simply swap your filter: 1) remove the steering wheel 2) remove all gauges 3) swap filter 😂
@ZacharyTelesca
6 ай бұрын
Should have bought a pre 98 🤣. Big mistake
@greatdane145
6 ай бұрын
I had a dodge ram and it broke
@mrmartin7131
5 ай бұрын
Nooooooo😂😂
@Akiss
3 ай бұрын
That's easier than my 1991 BMW 5 Series. 1) Remove glovebox 2) remove a bunch of inner plastic panels 3) remove remove some HVAC vents 4) remove AC module 5) pull out air filter while contorting your body in the passenger footwell.
@not-a-raccoon
7 ай бұрын
I'm a mechanic in Norway. German cars are the bane of my existence
@samholdsworth420
7 ай бұрын
Norwegian wood
@bourjeee
7 ай бұрын
Nah you are not a mechanic. The only right awnser is french cars. pure trash
@tedley70
7 ай бұрын
I want to know, from Norway, how you feel about American auto engineers.
@newblackdog7827
7 ай бұрын
Fly Lexus! ✈️
@samholdsworth420
7 ай бұрын
@@tedley70 American is second to none
@Zatos_Garage_build
4 ай бұрын
Love seeing the reaction to the n63 engine out of the car, I’ve spent many an hour working on that nightmare and the car attached to it. You get used to having chafed forearms
@CG-us3et
7 ай бұрын
Sandro is so sincere , and you can tell he’s a low key genius under the hood
@JasonOlney-uu1dd
7 ай бұрын
He knew exactly what was going on with the car leaking water and the clutch. The only guest mechanic that has kept up with him is Ms. A
@jgedutis
7 ай бұрын
00:50 - The reason the coolant follows up the wires is theough capillary action. The same process that plants use to draw water up the roots.
@TheRealSykx
7 ай бұрын
aka wicking
@JoseDiaz-bk9mh
7 ай бұрын
And solder
@olekasten6042
7 ай бұрын
The weird part is that these cars usually use special wires to prevent that fluids creep up the wires. Looks like somebody here cheaped out
@JDMeister-MU
5 ай бұрын
I had the same happen to a Ford Fiesta where the BCM git fried because the wiper fluid went all the way from the pump into the BCM. So no its not Just a German Car/BMW Problem.
@Mr1Nate7
7 ай бұрын
As someone with a German made car it took me 4 mechanics until I found the masochist who likes to work on them and knows them well
@rebel4466
5 ай бұрын
That's the most accurate thing. American mechanics simply seem to lack the experience. Somehow over here in Germany, they're happy with German cars and despise the couple American models they get.
@anelbegic2780
Ай бұрын
Germany always did like it's overly complicated schemes, mechanisms, etc.. Just look at all the convoluted steps that bischmarch had to take to simply unify germany, only differenece being that it worked in his case.
@Chaoshero5567
22 күн бұрын
@@anelbegic2780 Bismarck*
@clebia03
Ай бұрын
"I'm a BMW guy, oh no" 😂😂 I felt that deep down inside. Just got a 2011 335i and felt so worried about it but it grew on me quickly and I love it too much
@jkcransx
7 ай бұрын
The coolant is not just dripping on the harness. BMWs use an electrically controlled thermostat, which sometimes leaks internal allowing the coolant to enter the wire. The outside of the harness is water tight, but that doesn’t help when it comes from the inside of the connector. This happens with the oil pressure sensor too.
@morganlovell8408
7 ай бұрын
This is a very common issue on international dt466E the injection drive harness that goes through the valve cover does the exact same thing. We call it wicking. But it does that exactly it will push the oil all the way to the ecm and fry it.
@bhutehole
6 ай бұрын
I do hvac and I have seen that happen with just condensation alone.
@AlfaGuyshorts
7 ай бұрын
The Audi explosion clip is from Albania and was for real a assassination attempt.
@drkilledbydeath87
7 ай бұрын
Has to be. There's nothing in a stock passenger cars engine that can explode that violently.
@aygwm
7 ай бұрын
Yeah… cars don’t do that
@LittleNicky.
7 ай бұрын
I was thinking propane conversion that went wrong
@thegreatone4500
7 ай бұрын
Hhahahahahahahah I just commented that with the a video link from Top Channel
@olekasten6042
7 ай бұрын
@@LittleNicky.My thoughts too. It is exactly where usually the carburetor is placed on that conversion (one of the few places there is space in the engine bay)
@jacobwcrosby
7 ай бұрын
Clip 2, that's a bomb trying to kill him... "why does this look like a crime scene?" I think someone knows some shit! 🤣🤣🤣
@crisnmaryfam7344
7 ай бұрын
Probably... but.... I was working on a Chrysler once upon a time. 3.5 v6 I think.. 2004 Concorde.. The entire intake manifold (the molded plastic sort) popped about 6 inches from my face as I was leaned over trying to listen. It was sitting for quite some time. Had a few turn over - no starts prior, apparently something happened timing wise, and the gas didnt leave the valves from the prior start attempts, and it decided to blow.
@cars3939i
5 ай бұрын
That with Audi was car bomb happened in Albania they try to kill the driver
@sinan325
4 ай бұрын
I used to work as a mechanic in NJ 15-20 years ago. That time, I hated to work on VW and Audi. All plastic and fragile sensor covers, connectors, wiring harness etc. jam packed under the hood. It was almost guaranteed to break something else before you reach the part you wanna replace. Leaky head gaskets were icing on the cake. I wonder if its still the case.
@cardboardboxification
Ай бұрын
maybe they are like fords now, where you have to remove the body off the frame to do a head gasket on a f150 $5,000 labor to replace a $80 head gasket
@tookitogo
7 ай бұрын
1:02 The “for some reason” is called capillary action. You can demonstrate it by taking a strip of paper towel and partly immersing it in a glass of water. The water will wick up to higher than the water level.
@durbinmotorworks6253
7 ай бұрын
Maybe, or thermostat housing (plastic) has a heating element in it (emissions and such). In case there is a leak there, it would send coolant (or steam) under relatively high pressure up the connector, wiring harness, that is sealed well enough to make it all the way up.
@tookitogo
7 ай бұрын
@@durbinmotorworks6253 ick, that sounds like a royal mess! I’m currently building a control cabinet for a chemistry research project, and the reaction uses a really aggressive solvent (DMF) that attacks basically every plastic except HDPE, Teflon, Kapton, and PEEK - all the usual wire insulation materials are hopeless against it. So we decided that we will simply put the external wires in Teflon tubes, and then put the entire cabinet, and the tubes coming from it, under positive pressure with nitrogen, so that even if DMF leaks out, it can’t wick onto the wires due to the positive pressure. Precisely to avoid the kind of mess that appears to have happened in this vehicle!
@adminadminson3147
7 ай бұрын
@@tookitogo as impressive as your engineering solution is, you can buy teflon insulated wire.
@tookitogo
6 ай бұрын
@@adminadminson3147 I know that. But sometimes you can’t choose what type of wire a particular component is made with. Or the component has Teflon leads, but they’re too short and you have to splice them. (Sure there’s Teflon heat shrink, too. But it isn’t adhesive-lined, and regular adhesive-lined heatshrink isn’t chemically compatible.) Or you can’t get a particular Teflon-insulated multi-conductor cable by the foot, only by the reel in a size much larger than you need. Protecting wiring inside conduit or pipes, both rigid or flexible, is commonly done in industrial environments. We are literally just doing that in miniature.
@bennyb.1742
7 ай бұрын
I wrenched for a German used car lot. I actually had a mental breakdown dealing with 2000s Audis.
@davidhollenshead4892
7 ай бұрын
Agreed. It is sad that Audi could once make my indestructible 1984 4000 Quattro and now only makes Techno-Garbage. As my 4000q has never had any major work to the engine, trans, etc. and had about *350k miles on it. * The odometer was stuck at 225k when I bought it seventeen years ago...
@Austin-bc1yh
7 ай бұрын
Whats your opinion on the 1.8turbo? I always found that to be one of the easiest cars to work on ever, would never dare to touch the 2.8 or any of the s4 engines though, only pita I can think of with the 1.8 is electrical gremlins, especially regarding the trunks wiring harness getting pinched from repeated use of the trunk hatch and the fancy led for hazards and warnings fading away with heat(almost forgot the fact that the b6 doesnt have an oil pressure gauge in the cluster, just have to hope the red oil lamp of doom appears when its a problem.
@erikalvarez4516
6 ай бұрын
BMW inline 6 motors are pretty easy to work on. When they started turbocharging them with the N54 then it reached an entire new level
@Scot-p1v
3 ай бұрын
True. My mid-life fun car is an M Roadster. When I spun the oil pump nut off (being stupid hooning), it took a few weeks nights & weekends to swap in a new S52. Not bad with no lift considering I replaced all the coolant hoses, new clutch, etc. SAFETY WIRE YOUR OIL PUMP NUT, PEOPLE 🤓
@ericcindycrowder7482
5 ай бұрын
The coolant isn’t “dripping”‘onto the wire harness. The issue is the 7-series uses an electronic thermostat so the ECU can regulate coolant temperature. The problem is the e-thermostat seals will fail and “wick” coolant inside the wire harness and take out the control modules.
@theo6741
7 ай бұрын
I love how quickly this channel turned into a Sandro fan club lmao
@jjbowe
7 ай бұрын
Yeah I love it...
@TermlessHGW
7 ай бұрын
At 13:00 did he say 'slave'...... yea he did 😅
@Bonbonbon739
7 ай бұрын
Dude, a Scotty video in a Real Mechanic stuff video? This is like inception! “bwuaaammm”
@Iisakki3000
5 ай бұрын
The moment I saw Scotty Kilmer my brain just instantly wanted to skip that part. He's not teaching anything in his videos he's just yelling and yapping shit and seemingly can't accept the fact that people have different preferences and opinions.
@TheMaghorn
5 ай бұрын
@@Iisakki3000 Yeah, when I realized Scotty was more political than educational I also checked out.
@hilairelaplume1616
5 ай бұрын
My boss bought 2023 bmw transmission went at 13.000 then the decals fell off then the electric went fucked . Ggen he bought a tundra.....my best friend bought a Mercedes transmission skipped several gears and smoked at 30.000 and harness fried the totaled the car. .... meanwhile my " pos American truck" had 167.0000 and no issues
@rwandaforever6744
5 ай бұрын
2:20 - In a lot of modern German cars you have electronic safety features and sensors. For example, when another car appears in your dead angle, a small light will go off in your driver side mirror to alert you of this. Some manufacturers take it to the next level and let you activate a function that will not let you steer to that side when another car or an obstacle is detected. It will steer back the other way. If you are not used to that, it freaks you out when it happens. Since we cannot see what is happening left of the steering wheel or to the sensor, this could be just someone standing there. I think it does not activate while standing still or driving slowly, because it would be a problem when parking or maneuvering in cramped spaces. If it is an error, it probably is a broken sensor sending false activation signals. Could also be a fried electric motor control.
@dicksonfranssen
4 ай бұрын
We used to live in Toronto where if you get into a bike lane by an inch you'll most likely get spit on. Not a great place to have the car steer for me. I worked with someone who had the 4 wheel steering Honda. She absolutely hated it. Overkill is Volvo's ground level ozone detector that turns the interior fans off. I wonder what that costs to fix.
@itsjustmenova
7 ай бұрын
German engineering is basically “how can we ram as much as possible into a small space with the intent of making things better but it becomes so complicated nobody can fix it”
@Sdizzle7
7 ай бұрын
and they still have good cars.
@courtney5796
7 ай бұрын
@@Sdizzle7 They were great cars until they went to so much plastic under the hood. One 'simple' repair that would cost $1500 on a GM/Ford/Toyota would cost you $3800 on a 10 yr old audi. Lease one every 2-3 years. It's your best bet with German cars. Unless you have the money, then hell yes! Enjoy because they do drive wonderfully!
@courtney5796
7 ай бұрын
Can't argue, but before they started using so much plastic under the hood, they were very reliable. Back then if you had the money to afford an audi, you had the money to maintain one. Not anymore. The plastic wears out so much quicker and that same $1500 in a GM/Ford/Toyo will be $3550 in an Audi. This has actually been seeping in for years. Early 2000's Concorde had to remove a tire and splashguard to get to the battery. Late '90s Buick had to undo a motor mount and tilt the engine to replace the one serpentine belt! It's all about the sticker in the window now days. 70-% of people just look at that. MPG(weight)/HP/Price. They want you to believe you need 240 hp in a daily driver that weighs 3000 Pounds! Sry, ranting! lol.
@LordKhuzdul
7 ай бұрын
It is the remnants of the Prussian military culture that dominated Germany for a very long time. It is very hierarchical, and it has a tendency to make the officer class forget about the existence of the enlisted. Basically, the engineers here have a job to do, and that is to make the vehicle work efficiently and reliably. However, "will it be convenient or even workable for the mechanic" does not even come into it - mechanics are not part of their class so their existence does not even fall within their perception. Funnily enough, with NATO the actual German military moved past this boneheaded culture a long time ago. Sadly, its remnants are alive and well and still doing damage in a lot of civilian sectors in Germany (and the militaries of other nations who were modelled after the Prussian army, often with Prussian advisors, in the past).
@DrBonesFolo
7 ай бұрын
@@LordKhuzdul thats not even true a little bit 🤣 Especially since manufacturers like BMW, Audi and Porsche are from the very south of Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg), which have NOTHING to do with prussian culture.
@kdraw7178
7 ай бұрын
"If it's not broken, it doesn't have enough features yet! " ~German Engineer
@erebostd
7 ай бұрын
The quality went down when American philosophy entered. The numbers every quarter got more important than the longevity. Still better than American made cars, even when the asians beat them in durability these days. But as long as they are still looking this good I’m ok with some extra bucks spent for maintenance. And if you keep up with (preventive) maintenance the are very reliable (except one BMW i had, that was a lemon if I’ve ever seen one. I still suspect the first owner, a chief physician in a big hospital here around, drove it like he stole it in the one year he had it…)
@Em_Rey
7 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
@VikingRul3s
7 ай бұрын
@@erebostd Please refrain from using common sense, science and statistics. The Americans truly dislike it! It a country that defends measuring things with their feet, while braging about NASA, even though Russia carried NASA for decades
@VikingRul3s
7 ай бұрын
You do know that is something all engineers say, right? So your point is that USA got no real or good engineers?
@charlesbrown4483
6 ай бұрын
@@VikingRul3s lol you european cry babies are hilarious stay obsessed
@RJKYEG
7 ай бұрын
Scotty showing up here is like when I go to a friend's party and see a friend from a totally different social circle there.
@EuroWabbit
7 ай бұрын
I can't stand him. Nothing but misinformation. Spent a day in one of my automotive e classes going over all his misinformation. 2 hour class and according to the teacher we didn't cover all of it.
@EagleBeagle4886
6 ай бұрын
I'M SURPRISED SCOTTY WASN'T YELLING THE WHOLE TIME. I SAID I'M SURPRISED HE WASN'T YELLING
@calvinnickel9995
6 ай бұрын
Everyone’s crazy uncle who suffers from lead poisoning and is a functioning alcoholic.
@lakeshoresubtleties
3 ай бұрын
No idea who scotty is.
@TheAussieLeo
5 ай бұрын
As a computer technician I can categorically state that if you let the smoke out of an electric device it will stop working, you need to keep the smoke INSIDE the device.
@robertcercel4078
7 ай бұрын
As a Skoda owner (vw group), I'm glad my car's platform isn't flawed enough to reach your studio :)) This video was basically a BMW show with a little VW and a touch of Mercedes
@King-Kazma
7 ай бұрын
Skoda in general are stripped down versions of VW group cars, so you lose some of the technology, but in a good way. As an example, my Skoda will do things like set the radio presets depending on which key fob starts it, but it doesn’t have the driver specific electric seat adjustment that an Audi level car would have. Same platform, same computer, but with a lot less wiring and electric motors that get real expensive to repair after 5 years or so of ownership.
@iskrendinchev5882
7 ай бұрын
@@King-Kazma Skoda don`t have anything with German`s ;) Yes it`s European but is from Czech Republic. And another thing every new`ish car is mess because ot the PC and every "factory update" that have inside ;) The old cars don`t have 99% of problem new`ish have
@crybaby1363
7 ай бұрын
@@iskrendinchev5882 How tf doesn't it have anything to do with germans if they're owned by the Volkswagen group for more than 20 years?
@Gazzxy
7 ай бұрын
@@crybaby1363 probably someone in denial, but yeh really they are all pretty much built on one VW platform or another... and not necessarily a bad thing, for one the engines are far FAR FAR!! better in every way. heck my mates TDI Octavia has the EXACT same engine as my golf. but going further back i think the version starting 2004 was built on the A5 platform (so same as golf,A3,leon ect ect)
@King-Kazma
7 ай бұрын
@@iskrendinchev5882 Skoda are 98% German. Same chassis platform as Audi/VW/Seat. Same engines. Same electronics. Most parts have VW or Audi stampings. Only the outer sheet metal and upholstery fabric is Czech. This makes it easier to source parts though as more or less the same engine may be in a dozen different models of car.
@gabesandvig7532
7 ай бұрын
5:21 Thank you Sandro, you are super funny and you always bring the "older brother" feel to the channel. You have a lot of really good info, you have a Great way of putting things and you throw awesome jokes into it. Thanks for being so awesome😁👍
@ZemzyOseris
7 ай бұрын
I've owned two cars. a 2nd gen mazda 3, and a b8 audi s4. Replacing the all rotors and pads in my mazda took me about an hour. In my audi it takes about 2 hours. Replacing the valve cover gasket in my mazda, takes 40 minutes with watching a tutorial. A couple of bolts and youre done. In my Audi (granted it has 2 gaskets) takes nearly 3 hours. You have to remove the intake, remove a gas line, remove the coolant tank, plastic valve covers, and plastic crank case breather hoses that are designed to break when you remove them...But I still love my S4.
@dotdot5915
7 ай бұрын
I currently own a gen 2 Mazda 3 and it’s so easy to replace thing
@micktaylorwolfcreekmechanical
7 ай бұрын
My 05 Mazda sp23 is easy to work on its still going daily driver for my wife over 300,000kms got her 2 new cars since then and she wont part with the Mazda and sold the new cars after about a year. My 80 series Landcruiser is easy to work on when the wife got me a new 4wd she said you have to sell the 80 series or the 2nd gen 4runner, I sold the 4runner and the new 4wd about 12months later. We still have a 1990 80 series Landcruiser and a 2005 Mazda sp23 some cars are just too good to get rid off.
@aerball
7 ай бұрын
Ive got a b8.5 S4 and so far most things I've had to do are fairly straight forward. But you are right, they usually take a bit of time hahaha.
@FriedChkn4Eva
7 ай бұрын
ok yes but you are talking about a car that is a v6 supercharged and has dual everything. Even the b5 s4 was 2 of everything… it would take a little more time.
@Michael_Verna-Do
7 ай бұрын
I also once had an Audi a4 B8 with the 2.0 l tfsi. and that is the engine that is always clogging up the pistons. In any case, Audi repaired this on the American models at their own expense. As a German, the German companies prefer to fuck me, but they simply claimed that 1-2 liters of oil per 1000 km is completely normal for a car from 2009. These pussers. I tell you German customers prefer to fuck German car companies.
@jaredR207
5 ай бұрын
I've had a few second generation Audi A8, great car the one I have now has 260,000 on it. It has some really funny water intrusion problems, if you don't keep the drains clear the water from the windshield backs up and shorts the transmission control unit located literally in the cowl drain area in a plastic box that says in German that "water intrusion is forbidden." The other thing is once that fills up it leaks into the HVAC system through where the blower motor is (also in the cowl drain area) once it fills up in the heater core it dumps the water through an overflow pipe into the driver and passenger side footwells, the reason that I know they knew about this issue and over engineered it is that it eventually makes it to drain holes that are drilled on the low spot under the driver and passenger seats and it comes out under the car. In Audi's defense the first guy that buys the car for $100,000 keeps it in a garage and won't learn about this "truth in engineering" i keep mine outside and have to spend about an hour twice a year clearing all the drains with compressed air. Luckily 100% of the frame and body of that model is aluminum so it doesn't rust from the water or anything like that.
@randomrangoon5476
7 ай бұрын
As the owner of a German car I can confirm that some of the repairs are a pain but maintenance is KEY.
@sw9837
7 ай бұрын
My worst German car experience was my 2013 GTI. It had less than 30k miles on it and the DSG transmission failed. 6 months and about 3k miles later, the thermostat failed. Then the intake needed to be changed on a recall. And finally, I had a misfire due to carbon buildup on the valves with less than 45k on the odometer. I took it to VW because I didn’t have the time deal with it and they tell me I need to pay for diagnostics. I pay for it. They inform me that the use of non-OEM coil packs can be recognized by the onboard computer and that I need OEM coil packs to complete the diagnostic. I asked if they swapped plugs or coils to see if the misfire changes cylinders because they were all aftermarket coils and it was strange that the misfire was in one cylinder, if that was the case. They said no they didn’t attempt swapping the coils or plugs. I tell them I’m not buying new coils for a test and they just need to complete a valve cleaning service and charge me for that. The technician had the audacity to tell me that their scan tool could tell if the valves had carbon build-up…as if there was a sensor inside or around the combustion area. I asked for my car back, took it to a local Euro shop, they agreed 100 percent with my assessment and verified it by swapping the coils and plugs around. Cleaned the valves and the problem was solved. I sold that car and refuse to buy another VW/AUDI.
@wilfredvanderree8258
7 ай бұрын
My 2010 GTI engine blew with 60.000 kilometers chain jumped
@wilfredvanderree8258
7 ай бұрын
Still got it tho love the car
@nicksokolis6343
7 ай бұрын
Sound like a local dealer problem rather than a car problem. It can happen with a Toyota.
@joshm9003
7 ай бұрын
@@nicksokolis6343i dont think youd have much of an issue with carbon build up in Toyotas because they use port and direct injection to clean the valves from carbon build up. At least not at 45k miles. My friend has an Audi and had to get his cars intake cleaned for this same problem.
@olavsanchez909
7 ай бұрын
Seems like VW customer service is horrible everywhere
The fact that you stole this comment, but made it objectively worse is wild.
@JC_500
7 ай бұрын
@@CaptainAlex69 I commented this at the same time. It just took me a couple minutes to do because I had to find the emojis which explains why it says it was 2 minutes after
@JC_500
7 ай бұрын
@@CaptainAlex69 the fact that you assume things like that is wild 🥴
@nerfgodbigguy1405
7 ай бұрын
@@JC_500 it's kinda unfortunate people jump to conclusions so fast, really tells you something doesn't it.
@CaptainAlex69
7 ай бұрын
@@JC_500 it’s not assumed. When I was originally looking, the original comment said 19 minutes ago. Yours (this one I’m commenting under) said 14 minutes ago. There was two other replies to the first comment that each said 15 minutes ago.
@540isilver
4 ай бұрын
Videos like this really make me like my old truck with very little electronics
@rogeliodapan5434
7 ай бұрын
Sandro comfortable as if he’s part of the team I love it
@jaysonchrzanowski9230
7 ай бұрын
My favorite part of Thursday is seeing Sandro and it just got better! More Steph!!
@dragongaming9070
7 ай бұрын
I think that German cars are just shy and hiding their sensitive parts
@Jimmy_Jones
7 ай бұрын
Yeah. They hid them in the middle of the engine
@Moosegoose03
7 ай бұрын
Their sensitivity possession
@Nick-kk9ei
7 ай бұрын
@@Jimmy_Jones😂😂😂😂
@MJ-uk6lu
7 ай бұрын
Tsundere cars
@tejaspadhye
5 ай бұрын
8:05 what scotty meant was like with old toyotas where the valve cover is metal and does not have a plastic shroud on in to hide say, the ignition coils. since there is nothing to trap heat parts run cooler. and when there is less change in temperatures around plastics, plastics crack less often.
@kenmorrisproducer
2 ай бұрын
Doesn’t the hood itself trap heat?
@tejaspadhye
2 ай бұрын
@@kenmorrisproducer not that much as compared to a plastic cover because hood is still farther and air anyway gets in through the grill. Metal hood still conducts heat better than plastic shroud
@12pagani
7 ай бұрын
Older German cars are relatively easy to work on as it’s more about mechanical engineering and durability but anything that has a lot of computer controls become much harder to work on, especially diagnostics. But all those computers take up more room so there is less working room in which to even get in and actually service the item. Older German cars really had a philosophy of rebuild and servicing components vs just throwing it out and buying a new one. But they do drive like few other cars do
@davidhollenshead4892
7 ай бұрын
Exactly, as my 1984 Audi 4000q is the best car I have ever owned but I would never buy a newer Audi. Likewise the BMW 2002tii was a great car but modern BMW's suck to own...
@mateuszzimon8216
7 ай бұрын
I make small mistake hit a high curb and broke windshield wiper fluid reservoir in my Audi A4, to get to this u need Take wheel off, take inside of wheel-well off. then u have access
@s70driver2005
7 ай бұрын
Most older cars are like that. Not just euros
@milesgreif6393
7 ай бұрын
My 88 300TE is by far the easiest car I’ve ever worked on. Old German vs New is totally different ballgame
@niklaspetersen4936
7 ай бұрын
@@mateuszzimon8216 that is like 5 mins worth of work....
@raivis5327
7 ай бұрын
11:45 I drive an Iveco daily at work, automatic. And if u pull the e-brake and remove the igniton key while the car is running, it will just stay running until u release the e-brake.
@quatsch344
7 ай бұрын
"Loud noise from engine" is also also highly regulated in Germany and will get you fined when the police show up and your car is to loud.
@sachadee.6104
7 ай бұрын
I came here to point that out too. Nothing to do with your preferences. It's the law of the land to keep the decibels LOW.🤫
@tripplefives1402
7 ай бұрын
@@sachadee.6104 its legal in most places to have a loud car.
@RoyalBlue1
7 ай бұрын
@@tripplefives1402 the point is it is not legal in the eu the market these cars are designed for
@evelynsahoe8896
7 ай бұрын
so do M cars just get ticketed constantly?? they all have loud exhausts from the factory at least in the states
@NimitzclassA
6 ай бұрын
Then how do you explain all of those extremely loud Ferraris and Lambos in Germany?
@justapile4376
3 ай бұрын
13:50 I ran onto the same thing changing the heater core on a Grand Cherokee. The entire dash has to come out because it's integrated into the ventilation channels. There's one ground wire right in the middle you better not forget about. Or your taking it apart again.
@aztecducky
6 ай бұрын
Mk4 VWs are difficult to put aftermarket radios in for three reasons. 1) the radio on/off is controlled by canbus so to install an aftermarket radio correctly, you need to buy a $100 or so canbus interface adapter. 2) if you're not installing an aftermarket radio correctly, there is no 12V switched power in there, you have to run a separate wire for switched power to turn the radio on and off. 3) there aren't really any nice dash kits since the mounting system they use is proprietary and very very low profile. The dash kits that work are just press fit into the hole since the car doesn't have any ISO DIN brackets and the standard aftermarket radio cages wont sit properly.
@superjojo555
5 ай бұрын
german car manufacturer not following german industrial norm😂
@matthewcaron3319
4 ай бұрын
Fortunately, they correctly adopted the standard in later years. It was pretty straightforward in my 2013 beetle.
@janniss6401
3 ай бұрын
Mk4s absolutely have switched and constant 12V at the radio. There's no CAN-Bus at the radio in any MK4. At most the later MK4s had CAN-Bus for ABS, ECU, Cluster and a gateway. These cars have almost entirely standard ISO-Pinouts at the radio. What You're mentioning happened on the next generation of vehicle networks, like in the B7 A4 for example.
@Guitartube25
7 ай бұрын
Sandro. He has that face. That smile, that says "I know, I got away with it. And I know that you don't know what I actually got away with. And I know that you know that I know that I got away with it and you can't prove any of it!" xD
@robbs96
7 ай бұрын
OMG im dyin. I thought I was the only one.
@misterkite
7 ай бұрын
"why can't I burnout with traction control on?"
@GabrielCSousa
4 ай бұрын
I like how Porsche didn't saw it's way into this video. It didn't had headlights
@mikemccollough6633
6 ай бұрын
I worked at a German car shop for a while. we used to say BMW stands for Been Made Wrong.
@duffyx392
6 ай бұрын
In germany we say "Bayrischer Mist Wagen" or "Bring Mich Werkstatt" (Bavarian Shit Car or Take me to the Workshop) Audi and BMW got notorious for over-engineering so you simply cant repair yourself. Bring it to them so they can milk you for more cash.
@ricktrue8441
6 ай бұрын
BMW Break My Wallet
@qefewfwdcwdc
5 ай бұрын
@@ricktrue8441 LMAO loser thinks he can buy a bmw for 10k and not worry about maintanance. last time I checked bmw are made for perfomance and people who buy them dont life with their parents 😂 😂
@megunded
5 ай бұрын
@@ricktrue8441 odly translatet from german into english " bring me workshop "
@keysersoze5646
5 ай бұрын
Big money wasted
@teddbobb4672
7 ай бұрын
As a former Volkswagen dealership technician, I made a good living fixing German cars, and the illusion that German cars are harder to work on maintains job security.
@shaunwalker2055
7 ай бұрын
Right!!! Shhh keep it a secret!!! LOL
@Swogfish
7 ай бұрын
a lot of people complain about one issue or another, when in reality, any car with the same technology can have them. pretty much all of my automotive tech instructors have said in one form that all cars are sh*boxes in their own right. we just pick the one that we like the most.
@matthewtracy8744
7 ай бұрын
Dude... you have to pull the timing set to change the water pump in a 2000 jetta. That's a little much don't you think?
@JABelms
7 ай бұрын
Not an illusion, more like most people don't want to waste their time when simpler standards are already established by Toyota.
@aitor9158
7 ай бұрын
@@Swogfishbeen studying mechanics for 4 years aswell as working on my own project cars for 2 now, all of our cars except a prius that we have in the garage are european, mostly peugeots,citroen and some vws (newer and older ones...we even have a wierd 105), out of all i prefer the toyota prius legit the easiest to work on despite me not begin particulary kind to that model of toyota...at least they let you remove the hybrid battery without having to take appart the whole damn interior off, plus the manuals are very easy to read and follow so idk what eu cars you guys working on...but i think im staying with the japanese on this one, more for me :D
@matthewwojcik576
7 ай бұрын
I love the way Sandro reacts to some of this stuff--the smile says either he's never gonna work on it, or he's gonna enjoy charging a *lot* of money. 🤣
@evanmico
4 ай бұрын
Based on my time working on a late 90s merc, the worst and most painful part has to be the plastic pieces. They snap easily when taking off, and the worst part is that it is often incredibly difficult to find a replacement piece for them too
@Jonathon1031
7 ай бұрын
Steph has to be the finest mechanic ive ever seen
@yallugly4317
7 ай бұрын
I'm in love with her
@Ginx-pe4si
6 ай бұрын
Man, damn you all need fuckin glasses too. 🤮
@rfrbz1269
7 ай бұрын
8:00 exactly! When automakers switched to direct injection the customers started complaining about ticking noises (high pressure fuel pump). Don't be surprised to find lots of noise dampening material on your domestics
@abrahamedelstein4806
7 ай бұрын
1:53 In the industry, we call this "Hitler's Revenge".
@EchoConstellation
4 ай бұрын
My timeline has been Scotty free for a long time. Yet he sneaks in here, thankfully Sandro makes up for having to watch a bit of Scotty.
@inebriatedengineering6288
7 ай бұрын
1:48 "What have you got under the hood?" "Flying Spaghetti Monster."
@tec5x5
7 ай бұрын
Sandro's assassination explanation hahah
@davidhollenshead4892
7 ай бұрын
It appeared to be one...
@freedomwagonfilms7233
7 ай бұрын
Love me some Sandro! Bring Steph back for more stuff! And I think it's funny they used a Scotty video! They need to do a whole series on his hack and dangerous repairs 🤣🤣
@peterbuckley3877
Ай бұрын
Spent 25 years working for a German multinational as a service tech for specialised equipment and Germans really do over engineer things just for the sake of doing it. Sometimes they get too smart for their own good with the engineers and designers forgetting that somebody has to service these things.
@K4nicr4b
7 ай бұрын
"like a crime scene" that call tho 😂
@h3yw00d
7 ай бұрын
I swear that car is running LP gas and there was a leak. Iirc it's fairly common for some regions to convert it over.
@peanuttt3117
7 ай бұрын
SCOTTY making a guest appearance!
@Mk7Poorsche
7 ай бұрын
Dudes a joke 😂
@robertnichols2283
7 ай бұрын
@@Mk7Poorscheand jokes are funny
@nissanzenkiboy
7 ай бұрын
@JobyFluorine-ru4bdthat’s incorrect he actually fixed my 240sx back when he was in Houston and was very well known. So I actually have met the guy and seen him work. Can I ask where you go the information that he’s not a mechanic?
@darylm.9432
7 ай бұрын
I'd be okay if he'd stop talking and flailing his arms.
@nissanzenkiboy
7 ай бұрын
@JobyFluorine-ru4bd he’s not wrong the plastic cover is unnecessary (mechanically speaking) it’s more for a visual view as a mechanic that you say you are you should understand what he meant by it. Yes a shop won’t approve due to any liability responsibility. But your statement is still incorrect as you based your opinion off a video. Trust me when I tell you he is a good mechanic even dealerships fear him in Texas as people had gone to him after service at a dealership or checking out a used car and finding major issues that the dealer knew about but hid from the customer and getting their money back from service or the sales department.
@salemcripple
7 ай бұрын
VW guy here. Once had my headlight switch randomly catch fire on me for seemingly no reason. After a careful inspection of the wiring, and finding nothing else wrong. I replaced said switch, fixed nothing else, and haven't had a problem with it in 10 years!
@StinkingBishop
7 ай бұрын
Skoda owner here. Brilliant bit of kit, and its VW. My mechanic's fav cars are Minis, Range Rovers, Beemers etc, because they make him the most money. Least favourite? Toyota, Lexus. Almost never have issues, so makes no money😂
@marks7663
7 ай бұрын
Shouldn’t have had a problem to begin with if it were properly designed. I once had a $55k VW Touareg. I drove it from the stealership to its grave at the junkyard in about 79000 miles. Every single thing on that car broke. Never again VAG. Never. Again.
@Grimm-14
7 ай бұрын
Why I got an IS350, tho I'm not gunna lie, I like them R32's! Those VR6's, beautiful pieces of machinery.
@kevinjohansson3923
4 ай бұрын
That bullshit with the flooded computer happened to my dad's Audi too. The screen/radio etc in the front doesn't work anymore due to the water damage in the back.
@trooperspectacle5930
6 ай бұрын
As a German VAG mechanic I would say replacing the master cylinder on that car is like normal work. Is it easier to work on American cars?
@UmmmmmmmWhat
7 ай бұрын
Had an audi a6. A certain brake module on that year often failed, it cost $800 to replace, and was tucked in behind another $800 part that didn't fail you had to remove and reinstall when replacing the high failure rate (and nationally backordered, forgot that lol) part. Guess what Audi did. They re-engineered the two parts into one f**king $1600 molded plastic housing with both inside that replaced the seperate parts.
@DerpyLaron
7 ай бұрын
I am from Germany and I work as a hobby on cars. Sometime I fix minor things for friends and family. Nothing big, nothing complicated. Stuff like installing new headlights, radios, swapping breaks etc. By far my worst experience with a German car was BMWs who needed what felt the whole from taken out to change the headlight bulbs. Equally baffling was a Renault that needed a specially molded radio (or a plastic cover ) because of course the radio needs to be part of sloping plastic thing
@065Tim
7 ай бұрын
This. If you think German cars suck, try a French car. They are overly complicated without any benefits.
@nordlicht1881
7 ай бұрын
@@065Tim Look up how to change a cabin air filter on a new Renault Master. It's astonishingly stupid. And, even worse, the new filter comes in two pieces. But for some reason the original one is a one-piece filter that won't fit through the hole you are supposed to take it out through. So you basically have two options: Either cut the filter in half through a small hole you can barely reach through or take the dash apart even further than you already needed to (You need to remove the whole glovebox assembly in order to get to the filter opening).
@IIsWolfee
3 ай бұрын
Man, I'm on my third master cylinder on my Ranger, and it's so easy to replace. Aside from removing some plastic you just unclip, twist, and pull.
@anydaynow01
7 ай бұрын
Pretty much any VW, economy car quality, luxury car complexity and prices. Man nailed it when he said "Luxury doesn't equal longevity!".
@xeridea
7 ай бұрын
Uncle has a VW, was debating on spending $5-6k to replace timing chain, which is a known problem for that engine.
@robbyyant6213
Ай бұрын
Economy car quality? What VWs have you been looking at? We've owned Fords, Hondas, and Toyotas before our VWs and the VW fit and finish, as well as performance, is way above those other three. I'm not denying they're more complicated but you can tell they're more sophisticated when driving.
@deepfatfryer2000
7 ай бұрын
Steph is so expressive. More please
@jlGenozzV
7 ай бұрын
We need her and Ms. A on the same episode too
@gamerknown
7 ай бұрын
kissing @@jlGenozzV
@SpaceMissile
7 ай бұрын
8:50 is a great example
@warlord6416
7 ай бұрын
The more components the more things that have a chance of breaking increasing your total risk of something breaking. That picture of the engine pulled out is insanely complicated 😂😂
@theaikidoka
7 ай бұрын
A NASA spokesperson (sorry, don't remember who) once said they aim for a 0.01% component failure rate, but that rockets have over a million parts, so...ten thousand parts could still end up breaking, even with their level of care and precision.
@tysonclement4612
7 ай бұрын
@@theaikidokabut that’s for a rocket ship….. you can’t really be comparing a car to a rocket ship come on now. Have you ever heard the term “it’s not rocket science”?
@tysonclement4612
7 ай бұрын
@@theaikidokaalso just use a little common sense…. When designing/building something, they are going to take pride in there work and try to make it all work together. 1. So unless they had kids working for them something like this would usually not happen, unless it was to make more money buy suppling parts all the time so that it’s not longer a one time purchase. 2. They would have picked up on all these problems in the endless amounts of testing they do on the cars before they are even allowed to sell them to the public.
@WildBikerBill
7 ай бұрын
@@theaikidoka “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” - John Glenn
@Tee-np1fc
7 ай бұрын
@@tysonclement4612 The engineers still have to answer to the bean counters and other departments. I was a mechanic for close to 30 years and had a few chances to talk to the actual engineers of certain brands and what they design and what you get, isn't always the same thing. Why do you think there are so many recalls on the newer cars and trucks.
@RetroQGaming
3 ай бұрын
I recently picked up a BMW Z4 and I knew I liked it after test driving it for a bit. But after a few weeks of owning it, I REALLY like it far more than I expected. But nothing will beat my baby, a 1997 NA Mazda MX5 ❤
@aidantuckwell9191
7 ай бұрын
14:22 built like tanks? I wouldnt say so at all. My big mistake was going from Toyota to BMW and treating it the same way; almost immediate mechanical failures. They're built in such a fragile way that they break as soon as you do anything that isnt in the "normal use" category. Where a Toyota will be built in accordance with what is likely and possible in the real life of a car. BMWs are so nice to drive though......
@Matthieu260582
7 ай бұрын
15 years ago i was working as supplier with BMW AG on N54 and N55 and Prince engine a little (M13/M12) (Munich, Germany) and S85 (M GmbH, Munich, Germany) and N57 and M57TÜ2 (Steyr, Austria). So three things: 1.BMW M GmbH / S85 Guys at BMW M GmbH were working in little team and knew what they were doing and listened to us in what we were trying to help them. It is sad that this V10 became known for its lack of reliability but these are the guys you wanted to work with. They had a McLaren F1 engine at the reception waiting space it was setting the tone but they were WAY more humble than any other engineer from Peugeot or Renault or BMW AG. BMW M GmbH was little then it was really nice to work with them. Their parking lot was crazy and the workshop inside was something of another world. With them it was not really working it was more like an engineering dream come true. I want to thank them. 2.BMW AG (benzin) / N54 + N55 Guys at BMW AG were pretty good for project management and putting suppliers on their knee and cutting cost. But that's about it. They were creating product's specification "GS" (General Specification) that were way too complicated and that were written without taking into account supplier's capability or reality of the product. (to my humble opinion this is what explain that the cars made then were too complicated). Technically they were too proud but were not so good and it was a huge issue in developpement. I understand they can not trust too much suppliers and it is difficult for them to have same experience on a given product than that of the supplier itself. But hey, they were speaking like they knew it all but in the back they were asking us stupid explaination about stupid electric stuff they should have known. They made a mess about everything and they even crashed the only prototype car they had to test our product on the track in Miramas, France. They crash the car while high speed joy riding. The test to be conducted were slow test. High speed test were not relevant and not critical. Many times they would be like project dictators, trying to enforce stupid deadline with a hammer while telling "if you don't do that we will kick you out forever" and things of that magnitude. There was no "farmer's common sense" in Munich. It was much internal politics and reality denial, as it always comes with politics. We can say they were on the technical woke side of the industry. You did not want to work with them. One time they were loud and told my collegue "our next intern is miss playboy oktoberfest". And here she was, a few days later, dressed decently, when we all had seen her before with less clothes on playboy on line. They would complain about us when we were working like crazy with crazy complex stuff. She was here creating 4 lines table (4 lines, yes) and they were happy with her you could tell. That's where they were. At that time it felt like they had a huge gap between the old generation and the new generation. The guys from the old generation seemed like they refused everything and were just here to complain and be the center of the attention. Naturally the newer generation was then not loud and let them be the center of the show. So at the end it was more like a puppet show because the old bmw generation was trying to reject any new things while the new generation was making specifications to built 1 ton rockets with integrated hotel for 86 persons. These old generation had a say on stuff that they had no understanding of it was annoying. It was really a bad puppet show to watch. It is clear that 530i and 325ix from the 80s were good cars but it felt like they just could not comply to the idea that new cars will need new technologies and new bolts. And I mean litterally new bolts because that's what we were arguing about, bolts or welding solution. 3.BMW Steyr (Diesel) / M57Tü2 / N57 They were working in little teams and did more work than double the amount of people at Munich. One or two guys were not that friendly (the youngest one are the less humble ones at BMW this was a common pattern, even in Steyr). But they could manage it and they were not in line with Munich, they had WAY more common sense. Actually at first the Steyr Factory was a tractor factory! It seemed they had kept all their "farmer's common sense". They had very nice workshops and their mechanics were so good you could tell not much explaination needed, they figure things out on the spot and do it so fast, like at BMW M GmbH. I guess many of them were into racing teams before. The city of Steyr and its hotel were very nice, driving there was litterally like going to holidays. I did not enjoy working with the young guys, maybe they were thinking they are the dog's bollocks. The rest of time i was working with Audi both Diesel (Neckarsulm) and benzin (Ingolstadt). What I can say is that if Audi are complicated and not relialable.... well.... no wonder... at all. Really. It was nice to watch W12 and V10 and RS4 DTM pace car driving around the factory or in workshop, but no wonder idf AUDI are complicated cars. A few years after i got to work at BMW internally on other project. I realised that how BMW Munich was treating us a suppliers... got me to the conclusion that these former "collegues" at BMW Munich were complete /*/*/**/*//**-/. Well you get it. A few years later i worked with an inusrrance company as "expert". Most cases were VW and BMW taking fire. It was just sad to see how BMW and VW treated their customers. I make it short: BMW and VW will throw all they can against their customers to accuse them... If it includes heavy trials and courts stuff, they will take that path. if this needs lying in court against you, they will do. In South Korea, they even lied to the government/justice and some BMW executive (German) had to FLEE the country to avoid jail for lying in court. Almost the same happen in USA with VW. Lying is part of BMW daily life, for many projects
@popahontas
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the interesting story, somehow it does not surprise me. It is similar to other industries, eu is really on its way out as an industrial powerhouse...
@69ssj
7 ай бұрын
How long did it take you to type this comment LOL
@TheComputec
7 ай бұрын
@@popahontas "eu is really on its way out as an industrial powerhouse" Yeah, you keep telling yourself that
@TheComputec
7 ай бұрын
I could have replaced all the hoses on that BMW engine in the time it took me to read through that...
@popahontas
7 ай бұрын
@@TheComputec i am in europe so i hope its not true...
@FigureItAudi
7 ай бұрын
Obviously we’re all proud of our PITA German cars but I think the 4 chain, 9 guide, engine out timing job of the Audi 4.2 deserves an honourable mention.
@CrossWindsPat
7 ай бұрын
....there are FOUR timing chains?!?!?
@_corteks_
7 ай бұрын
@@CrossWindsPatit’s also on the REAR of the engine.
@CrossWindsPat
7 ай бұрын
@@_corteks_ Wtf....
@nordlicht1881
7 ай бұрын
@@CrossWindsPatLook it up. You won't regret it. It's a comedy show. XD I listed the Audi V engines from the new era as worst german cars to work on.
@nordlicht1881
7 ай бұрын
I'm german myself btw. And love a lot of cars made here. These engines... While they run well... I don't like em.
@zachscarbrough2727
2 ай бұрын
1:48 What in the H.P. Lovecraft, Dr. Seuss home garage built hell am I looking at?! This nightmare block of pipes, wires, and parts came out of a car?!? How the Hell does it even fit in it! What? Is it some sort of Time Lord "Bigger on the Inside" tech they're using to make that fit??
@shawnvillines5754
6 ай бұрын
@ 8:00 The reason the engine covers aren't necessary is because of heat retention. In certain HOT states it's worse. Most wire assemblies won't be damaged from moisture considering they're under the hood which protects most damages as well as the fact that moisture cannot reach them. UNLESS you have a massive gap between the bumper and hood or an intake system like a Corvette which pulls air in through the bottom and diffuses it into the brake system as well as the intake system which is why most sports cars with these systems aren't driven proficiently in rainy weather conditions.
@Dan.Solo.Chicago
7 ай бұрын
We need more Steph around here
@billyturner9930
7 ай бұрын
Loving Stephs reactions and explanations to the videos definitely bring her back on.
@znort5486
4 ай бұрын
12:26 My brother bought a $200 beater and they had spliced the head unit into the headlight wiring so the radio would turn on or off with the head lights.
@zk351
7 ай бұрын
Sandro is just the perfect mix of legit knowledge and just send it/work arounds
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