"A big part of a vehicle's longevity clearly boils down to maintenance or lack thereof."
"In my experience, snapping their AC on from the off position on the freeway by the millions probably daily for decades and I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of AC failures that happen in that moment."
"My dad told me if you can't fix a pair of brakes by the time you're 30 on a car, you're an idiot."
"Over-servicing your car is probably a bigger problem than not servicing it at all."
"Electric vehicles need extremely little maintenance."
"First place, Turtle Wax Ceramic and Graphene Paste Wax, the effect that you get with this is crazy."
"We're gonna fire it up for the first time with the new oil pump."
"It is the worst thing in the world when you've done all this work on the inspection you you present this car to the customer and guess what the radio has problems because it needs an update."
"Tesla vehicles require no traditional oil changes, fuel filters, spark plug replacements, or emission checks."
"Okay, that's good. Yeah. Oh, jeez. Okay, yeah, definitely. Uh, you can see how it ruins cars, doesn't it?"
"Paint assuming that you can hit the car with paint and put a little bit of time into giving it a sand or a buff from whatever the hell needs to happen a product on paint is just just 10 out of 10 it'll last you a lifetime assuming you did it right."
"To be quite Frank, also with us having four different cars, it was going to be a complete pain in the ass to do a bunch of different work orders."
"Thank you very much for watching this video on how to clean and maintain your automotive glass."
"They'll tell you that you need more maintenance than your car actually needs in some cases."
"How do you know what they recommend is what's really needed?"
"It's just that the complexity, the cost of repairs and maintenance coupled with some significantly chronic problems results in a vehicle that likely won't make it 10 years."
"Maintenance is key, especially if you're looking to tune the car and get the most out of it."
"There's nothing really wrong with them per se but rubber in general just doesn't do well over time so they need to be replaced eventually."
"Both make me as a spider-man fanboy happier than any other piece of media with the Webb head's face on it ever has."
"Most factory sensors in place, the car is going to run right."
"This gas in this car is a little bit too old."
"Cars treated with crown last longer, making your investment go that much further."
"A spill proof funnel makes your life so much easier trust me if you don't have one definitely get one anytime you change the coolant you're gonna love it."
"All electric vehicles typically require less maintenance than conventional vehicles."
"That's what makes your paint job slick, smooth, and shiny, so don't compromise on the time spent blocking."
"Floor mats are one of those things that you want to swap out every year or two to refresh the interior if your car keep it looking brand new."
"Tesla's service: schedule a repair, and it's done at your home, no rental needed."
"The truck's all done, it's all back together bolted in place."
"There's something delightfully old-school about the thought that one of their owners is gonna want to replace a belt on the side of the road."
"Wiring harness is completely replaced. We're good baby."
"Our Ferrari service is complete. We've got all new rubber all the way around, new belts, new timing belts, serpentine belts, and we've got a new wiring harness so it is not chewed up by rats anymore."
"The clutch alignment mystery: why eyeballing works better."
"I love the fact that you could just take this to a Honda dealership and get the oil change and have it serviced."
"I just don't like having cars that sit and do nothing."
"Tank is all plumbed up and looking really neat."
"We're back here at our shop, let's go ahead and lower the ramps, open that up, but maybe we'll drive this car for a little bit."
"This is about as low as I want to go before driving the car because it will settle a little bit but it's already looking so so good."
"A good investment and a cheap one as well is to put a secondary fuel filter in."
"A catch can is almost a necessity on an EcoBoost engine."
"It's naturally aspirated... you have less to worry about in the long run."
"If you're tired of your man coming in and telling you to come out and help bleed brakes, you should get them one of these for a gift."
"We think we might be able to do, for a lot of them, same day body repair."
"Alright, so now that we have the vehicle up in the air, the key is on, let's just take one more quick peek at our fuel tank pressure sensors and make sure they're still reading the same."
"P&S Brake Buster: Cleans wheels and tires super well."
"Cars have become so complicated that people can't really learn to work on their own modern cars, but any car from the mid-90s or earlier, almost you should be able to work on to some degree."
"Getting your car painted by a professional is always gonna give you the best result, but it's very expensive. You can actually paint the car yourself with spray cans."
"So there's a very good chance you own one of these cars. This video applies to you and you can save a ton of money doing all this stuff at home."
"Clogged injectors are one of those things that nobody really thinks about until it happens to them."
"You know the torque sequence? No. You know a torque spec? I get it. I bet we gonna need a cheater pipe."
"You can easily take this car over two hundred thousand miles with really very basic maintenance."
"The glove compartment has the little Torx kit in a black little container, now this helps allows you to take the doors off and all that stuff."
"...its impervious to oil water and antifreeze making this stuff the perfect application for almost any plumbing situation on your vehicle."
"Brake fluid is hygroscopic; it draws moisture in from the air."
"It's very important that we make sure that the brake fluid is changed fairly regularly."
"After you're done watching this video, you'll know exactly what you need to do to replace a variable valve timing actuator."
"It's that easy to set your engine to top dead center, and this is very important to do. You can't skip this step."
"That's everything you need to know on how to replace a VTC actuator at home using common hand tools."
"Let's see if this axle wants to cooperate. Yes, it does. If it doesn't, you can get a chisel right here, tap it in just so it's free from the hub."
"Before you start slapping on all these cool parts you want to make sure to do some inspecting first."
"When it comes to tire maintenance, a reliable compressor is a game-changer. Slow or not, it gets the job done."
"If you upgrade your bump stops, I can guarantee you that these guys will last forever."
"Now, that the car is up, I'm gonna get in there and I'm gonna pull the drive shaft off."
"Now we're gonna start getting everything ready to get rid of this harmonic balancer."
"Rear main seal and the intermediate bearing cover plate seal also tend to leak."
"As easy as it is to work on an evo, when you're in there to do that camshaft, you might want to go ahead and consider upgrading your inner cam bearing."
"...you can use this on wheel bearings if you have a lift you can put the car up in the air and spin the wheels and drive and listen for a wheel bearing making noise."
"We're going to cap that back off because if we spill our brake fluid, we're probably out of brakes for a long time."
"Safety is something you do not want to screw around with. Do your brakes right."
"Well, there you have it guys, that is the oil catch can and it's one hell of a preventative maintenance for your direct fuel injection car, especially one that's turbocharged like the N54 on my 335i."
"It's Monday and it's time to learn how to change your own tires."
"Everyone should have a crack at their cars themselves and get to know their cars."
"So the water pump and thermostat is two separate things however I would go ahead and replace both of them at the exact same time because once you go ahead in there and replace one thing the other one will fail right after it."
"If you keep the fluid in the master cylinders fresh, you don't have to worry about corrosion in the brake system causing a brake caliper to try to stick and drag or worse lock up on you."
"What are we doing in the car? What would you change? There's not a lot. I keep doing it when it needs it, so it's pretty good now."
"Good luck with your own vehicle if you do use an oil catch can, definitely try to get as much information and do your own due diligence."
"All right, last thing I'm gonna do before we call this service completes, put the TRC diesel pep in it. I don't know how long this truck's been sitting or uh, when the last time it's had anything running through it so we're going to put a splash there in the tank."
"A quick way to test your starter is to actually jump it directly with some jumper cables."
"Just to make sure we don't have any extra oil or anything like that."
"Could save you from trashing your motor."
"Quickly like it should if your flapper's not even there, that's a great great piece of advice right there."
"I'm just gonna swap out this Brady toes. I don't like it. It's a crappy one."
"Bleeding the brakes is something he's never done. It is something that's a little bit scary but it really shouldn't be because it's ever such an easy thing."
"It's not hard, it really is a simple job. It's just a case of a little bit of perseverance and using your common sense."
"How blessed are we that I can log on to YouTube in the first video that I see is Master Chief teaches you how to change the oil on your 2006 Nissan Murano?"
"What we're going to do today with this big box of bits I've got down here...timing belt, water pump, tensioners, idlers."
"So yes, even the least aggressive polish in the world can in fact remove the coarser sanding marks but should be there all day doing it, so it's not an effective polish to use in that scenario."
"If you have a worn-out injection pump that cannot produce the amount of pop pressure needed, you can run into a scenario where you think the injector is bad but it's actually your injection pump."
"Eliminating the fuel straw and just allowing gravity to feed my lift pump, I'm reducing the amount of wear on my lift pump."
"I always dread brakes like it's going to be like the hardest thing and it's really pretty simple."
"And there you have successfully completed your throttle body swap."
"Your spark plugs will tell you everything you need to know. I completely tune an engine off of a spark plug."
"You can also do 26 different reset and special functions like registering keys and injectors and registering batteries. Very, very important, very useful for sure."
"If this last week has taught me anything about working on cars, I now know quite a few ways of getting stuck things unstuck."
"Always remember, anytime you're dealing with any kind of chemicals or fluids with your car, you should wear protective gloves, wear glasses, and wear clothing that you don't mind getting messed up."
"Thanks for joining me guys, I hope you like this one, don't forget to use the fuel pump turn on for a guide."
"Truing is important because with it out of true, it prematurely wears out your main bearings."
"Just because of standard procedure here, we do balance all our wheels."
"By having a number four gauge jumper cable or lower, you're creating a larger path for that current to flow through, your car is going to jump start quicker, and it's just safer."
"It's going to make the wheels pop even more when you're done."
"Timing belts: super important on internal combustion cars, and especially so on interference engines."
"Hope you guys enjoyed the video and got some tips and tricks on how to do a full brake service and rotor swap."
"I like cars where you can change the light bulbs without having to take a bunch of random BS apart first."
"If you don't want to be refilling it all that often and you're gonna be using it a lot, maybe consider using the stock windshield washer reservoir."
"These are the little things that make the engine perform at the end of the day."
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"Always have some string in place which will remind you to torque up those lug nuts because you don't want to lose your wheel."
"When we get false codes, they update stuff; what they'll be doing is updating these limits so we get failures that are true failures and not false codes."
"Safety first - everybody look at all those jack stands and jacks and ramps. I don't want this car falling on my head."
"It's a good idea to chalk your wheels and put your emergency brake on so that the vehicle doesn't roll backwards."
"The point of the video is not to sell you a product, it's to sell you a concept which is vacuum filling your cooling system."
"It makes the car idle well until it comes up to temperature and you're ready to rock."
"Bleeding the brakes on the Mini is not really any different than bleeding the brakes on a brand new Volkswagen."
"Removing, installing the exhaust is really a two-person job, but if you're like me and you don't always have access to a second person, I found a way around that to do it by yourself."
"By keeping up with your own car, you'll not only learn how to work on cars, you're also going to save a ton of money and you can have the satisfaction knowing that the job was done right the first time."
"Guys, I hope some of you enjoyed this little video, maybe it gave you a laugh to me trying to find that dipstick hole."