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1. Happy Independance Day! I hope you guys had a great weekend.

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2. What make of car was that broken brake pedal on? Hyundai?

3. I've ruined a ton of engines dropping stuff down into them. I've never had insurance cover any of them.

4. Exposed splices are just giant WTFs for me. I've done some shoddy wiring work just to get things sorta working, but jesus christ at least put some electrical tape on it.

5. I’ve done hack wiring jobs on some of my vehicles, but nothing like I’ve seen in these videos.

6. @1:48 Probably to keep the Reptilians (or the Greys depending on which meds he skipped) from tracking him.

7. I question why some of these people are allowed out of their house without a full time carer, never mind getting behind a steering wheel. They should be banned from driving until they can at least feed themselves and are out of daipers.
   As for quality control of newly manufactured US autos? Tonka toys are better built.

8. Imagine that these cars are out driving down the roads next to you everyday

9. Sometimes I'm really happy that we have mandatory inspection by the TÜV (official site) every two years. A couple of these cars wouldn't have been on the road anymore.

10. Who changes spark plugs at 25k miles

11. With that Firebird. How the heck, do they keep the brand, on the topside of the wheels?

12. It's so sick that you just include one car where a tech was impressed by the state of it, in a good way.

    The gold and the end of the rainbow

13. Insurance covered that?

    What insurance does that dude have?

14. I'm amazed & shocked that these horrors are being driven on the public highways. Surely each state has an annual safety check system in place which would pick up (for instance) the rotted-out 27 y o tyre or the one with a chunk of tread missing? That these are on a freeway near you is scary…..*very scary.*
    Surely, if a customer refuses to get the vehicle repaired to an acceptable standard, you have a duty to yourselves (& the wider public) to at least get a disclaimer signed by the customer, or indeed inform the police department?

15. 0:48 Stellantis junk

16. I am amazed at the amount of damage a car can have and still be able to drive.

17. I know most of these are caused by the customer but there is no way I would ever buy a American built car they are rubbish and QC is severely lacking.

18. 0:27 what a load of bullcrap. Customer works on his own engine doing god knows what? and his insurance Authorized paying for a new engine ? Sorry but no lol. I don't buy that. If thats the case fuck i should drop my entire socket set into my transmission pan and get a new trans. and MAKE my insurance company pay for it even though i fucked it up.

    Insane.

19. When you can hear a roaring noise when driving your car you probably should head to the shop. You might have a 🦁 living somewhere in your car

20. Bro dropped a socket in and he tried starting it?? Wtf people r so dumb

21. What Insurance does that SOCKET DROPPER have Gotta Switch right now.

22. Lucky man

23. There are SO many dangerous vehicles on the road 🤦🏾‍♂️

24. 2:17 OUCH! Wait, the U-joint cross member can just seize…and do that damage?! I always thought that degree of damage could only be done if a cross member snapped and flung the drive shaft away! Admittedly, a few months ago I had U-joint problems which I couldn't be quite sure about. I did a 1,700-mile round trip from Kansas to Florida in March (well, with all the driving involved, about 2,000 miles), and I started hearing a grinding at slow speeds which became a vibration at higher speeds. Thankfully, I made it back to Kansas safely, but I still couldn't figure out what was causing that rumbling/grinding. All four cross members were intact and had been lubed before the trip (to clarify, double-cardan CVU joints on both ends of my car's driveshaft)…but there was something I missed: The center-socket yokes, which as it turned out also needed lubing. The center-socket yoke for the front DCU joint was the culprit, having completely dried out and worn out. Bad news is, that one component cannot be had in parts stores anymore, and the online hits run for as much as all other components for a DCU joint combined. Good news is, I was able to get a replacement and repair that joint before it caused more serious residual damage to the drive shaft or the transmission. I also examined the rear joint at the same time, and all the components were still in good shape, so I re-lubed the cross members and the center-socket yoke on that end, so I wouldn't have to do that end for a while. Piecing together DCU joints is no easy task; no wonder most drive-shaft shops won't do them! But it had to be done, and I was the only one willing to do the job…well, with a little bit of help from the staff at the auto-skill center on Fort Riley.

    2:40 This is a peeve of mine. You know how many motards' truck-wagons or hatchback cars I have seen on the roads and in parking lots with the plastic wrapping still over that rear wiper?! And that isn't even to mention those with completely-wrecked wipers in those spots. I mean, seriously, it seems like a nice idea; but if more often than not you see either of those scenarios, what's the point of such a wiper?! It's like the old auto-dim feature on older, higher-priced cars: Great idea, but too many people just didn't know how to use it properly, so it was finally deleted across the industry. Perhaps the same fate should happen where rear-window wipers are concerned.

    2:53 Very pretty example of Trans Am, nicely preserved (well, save for the gammy ignition switch, that is). I see it's either an '80 or '81 model; can tell by the hood design and the really-streamlined thunder-chicken decal (I always loved that hood decal). From an appearance perspective, those two years are my favorite of Firebirds, with '79 right behind.

25. Some people shouldn’t have cars seriously 😬😬

26. Seized u joint doesn't break tailshaft off of tranny

27. This is ridiculous. Licensed repair shops should have the legal authority to remove cars from the road that are unsafe.

28. Ah, that's where my 10mm went!

29. That Trans-Am was Minty fresh

30. Always entertaining and sometimes wander where the owners get their ideas

31. 1:25 amateur i drove from Boston to los Angeles with brakes worse than that

32. If there was a post event inspection after accidents to determine if mechanical failure was the cause of the accident, it would quickly become illegal for people to work on their own vehicles.

33. I dropped a nut into a 78 f150 with a 400m, simply shot out the exhaust valve 3 revs later, not a scratch to the piston or head.

34. flat tire, flat wheel

35. Some of these people really are dumb as a bag of hammers. Nice Trans Am.

36. Awesome

37. hey white and black people keep buying your stellantis made palstic

38. I am always shocked at how people will butcher their cars in the name of “improvements!” 😱

39. Im just gonna start slapping wires everywhere on the insides on my bike, strapped to literally nothing just to fuck with people trynna fix something. Not that it'll be needed to know what it connects to, they'll just see it in weird places and it'll stick to their mind lol

40. Vid 1 – insurance company is actually covering that? Wow. My insurance company would never cover anything caused by "unauthorized service", which would ofc mean me as well. I actually managed to get my socket stuck on the spark plug as it was too thick-walled to reach to the bottom of the well the spark plug is in. As I was trying to make it turn, I got it completely stuck. Had to get the car pulled to the service to have the valvetrain cover removed to be able to wrestle the damned thing out. Costed me something around 200$ in my currency in the end. And insurance wouldn't pay a single cent, that I am sure about. 😀 I do wonder how did this owner manage to get their socket INSIDE the engine though?

41. The cars with home made wiring job I wouldn't touch them

42. Coming from the UK with annual MOT checks (quite strict ones) on all vehicles 3 years and older it boggles the mind to see some of the stuff some Americans are prepared to drive around on. I can only think that your road crash rate must be pretty high with lunatics driving around in some of the stuff shown on here.

43. the condition of some cars on the road in this country makes me understand now why the inspections are so strict in some other countries.

44. THIS CUSTOMER SAID MOOOOOOOO

45. And to think I worry about the condition of my daily.

46. That Jeep brake is scary. What do you even do when that happens??? It probably has an electric e-brake, but that's also programmed by Jeep…

47. The insurance company is paying to replace the engine because the customer dropped a socket into a cylinder while replacing sparkplugs? What's the name of this insurance company? I would like to replace the sparkplugs on my 35 year old engine.

48. That wiring job has meth written all over it

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