Best Automotive Repair Quotes

"So this shop works on basically everything but mostly high-end. I mean, you see anything from Lamborghinis, Ferraris, beamers, Mercedes, you name it."

"By using such an innovative jack for the car, it is much easier to repair it, especially if you understand the construction of your car."

"It's not about the fame; I think they just want to learn how to fix their car."

"Almost everybody that I know that owns a vehicle has had an experience where they went to the dealer, they were told fifteen hundred to 3,000 bucks, they went to a shop down the road that fixed it for 200, and the car just continued working."

"If you own a car, you should be able to have that data, the repair data on your car, you should have access to it, and you should have the ability to forward that data to the repair shop of your choice."

"Your ability to troubleshoot and repair automotive problems as they arise will play a pivotal role in your ability to harness the power of machines for both transport, construction, and agricultural use."

"So, that's the diagnosis: an improper aftermarket harmonic balancer."

"Arguably one of the most important parts of the entire build: the brake booster."

"We deserve more choices when it comes to repairing the cars that we own."

"This isn't really a job that you can take and tear the car down on a Friday night and be back driving this thing to work Monday morning."

"Fix your car using this 99 cent tool instead of this $5,000 computer."

"Rule number one... once you get the original harness out of the car do not throw it away."

"It's much easier to color sand and polish this drawer off of the car."

"And it's always a bonus when we've got the part of the car not attached to the car so that we can get around to all of the edges."

"Your upgraded truck is down in the garage, Peter."

"We can do better, and thanks to LMC truck, we're gonna show you how."

"You can't possibly know everything. You can't possibly know how to take every car apart."

"Very quickly with just our test under the hood that we've done the codes that we've pulled out of it we can make an assumption."

"Just make sure those mods are done properly and keep in mind that any mods very well ah bloody hell."

"Now it's the moment of truth 'cuz we're going to put a socket on the front crank PL and see if this motor actually spins."

"Wiring harness is completely replaced. We're good baby."

"For 280 dollars to pretty much nearly fully sort this car at least mechanically."

"This car, after this job, we're hoping we're gonna get another 300,000 miles out of it."

"The clutch alignment mystery: why eyeballing works better."

"The grunt work of the project is basically done at this point, so the trans in drive shafts and trans mount all that stuff, that's basically the car."

"The suspension system received a thorough overhaul."

"This fixed so many ghost misfire issues out there, it's just crazy."

"Depending on who's putting it back together, it's a good car or a bad car."

"We might be able to do same-day body repair."

"We bought a car that misfired and had some transmission issues, and we fixed both of them for $50. That is huge."

"Even if we took that transmission out right now and had it rebuilt, you'd still be money ahead."

"This has actually saved me big time when working on my truck."

"Your average guy is not out here rebuilding every engine he comes across."

"Things come full circle, you know? I never would have thought that I would have this car and be taking it to them to fix it."

"Time to start addressing the cancerous holes in the engine bay...a lot of metal shaping and a steady hand."

"By the end of this month, the top ten metro areas in the US should be able to be serviced by a Tesla body shop."

"This will be a dramatic improvement in the cost and time of body repair."

"Can't believe it but I'm listening to it anywhoose I gotta run into town pick up some vacuum line just drop this thing back on the ground and finally after 20 plus years we could put this car back on the highway and go for a spin I am I'm uh."

"It's centralized at the firewall area and it sounds up high, leading me to conclude that it is a faulty strut mount."

"It feels really good to see the engine bay finally back together."

"Installed some urethane here, just like that, have our new little wiper trim piece."

"We'll see if we can get this thing back together... maybe go for a little spin here in just a minute."

"Everything is fun to do. Oh, I thought we bought a new front bumper, we do need to buy a left fender too."

"A $750 jeep, an $80 starter, swapped a relay, cleaned some injectors for about five bucks, changed the oil and we are gold."

"So it this is, I could just tell you, by how much this quarter panel wraps and comes over different pieces and stuff it's going to be the hardest quarter panel job we've ever done."

"Let's get this off, get a windscreen in, and we can finally get this out on the first try."

"I definitely thought we could do a video on that and show you guys what exactly do you look at when your brakes go to the floor."

"We got brand new wheel hubs which contain our wheel bearings as well as the hubs and figure while we're in here, we might as well just replace them with some big units."

"Fingers crossed we drive Earl out of the shop today." - Josh Stoney Ridge farmer

"But it's always been about helping people and showing them the proper way to fix their cars."

"All that's left to do is remove the lower control arm."

"Back in the day on Grandpa's Chevy 350... we could do both head gaskets and only fill one cart full of parts."

"That's awesome we can just swap out our our yoke we can put a new seal in all we have to do is just tighten down that pinion yoke back up to 150 200 foot-pounds and we don't have to worry about checking our opinion preload again."

"This is the perfect job. Michael, your job is to repair the cars."

"When I think about the millions that are sitting there in repair, it pains me to the moon."

"There are Tesla certified body shops in the US as well as third-party repair shops, but not many."

"This pretty time-consuming repair has led to one of the lengthiest videos I've ever made, but I quite like working on this old Porsche."

"We obviously have some major problems with the variable valve timing on this engine."

"Checking pump powers and grounds when you have low fuel pressure is critical."

"Dead head test said no not the pump bad regulator and I think that's what we just saw very very valuable."

"If you're big into Subarus and you work on them a lot, definitely recommend getting one of these engine stands."

"And there we go, guys, the motor is out."

"Right now we're using a syringe in order to bail out the old master so we don't drop brake fluid all over our interior."

"Feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel as of course we're going to have a whole bunch more videos just like this on how to fix your car by yourself and save some money."

"This tensioner assembly is also part of this oil filter and oil cooler assembly, so we have to remove this entire thing as a unit."

"They provide two posts or four post lifts as well as transmission jack hole Jacks and Cherry Pickers. They even have drawers filled with all the tools you could possibly imagine making a One-Stop shop for all my DOI repair needs."

"I'm gonna use my 27-inch wrench and I'm gonna take the old ball joint and we're gonna run two of the castle nuts on it."

"I got it back on the road it was abandoned at a jiffy lube or some kind of a jiffy type of a business in Oklahoma City its future was very dim but it brought it back to life it's happy again."

"Welcome back to the wizard shop and it's time for a $26,000 brake job."

"Any time a mechanic says 'don't worry about it, they all do that,' that's a big red flag."

"I'm currently on the phone with the mechanic because I just looked up the part the radiator that I need and I have found it online for as little as like hundred or $200."

"...replace the ball joints it's not a very difficult job you can do it with basic tools."

"...this area is really good that it pretty much, I think, is gonna take up most of the, how you would do a lot of these low spots."

"A runner's a runner. Count we had to do a little fixing of the ignition system anyhow on this one we brought spark back to her."

"All right, off to the mechanic. Get this baby put together. Start putting all this stuff onto here."

"You never know what you're going to get into when you open up a manual transmission luckily the repair wasn't that difficult and with the help of rock auto we pulled off another successful driveway rescue I'm pretty happy how this one turned out."

"Wow, let's turn it over and see if we can build some oil pressure. All right, everything clear?"

"Once you verify that the clutch at least appears to be working you'll go ahead and install the couple of dust shields that came with the slave cylinder elimination kit."

"This is the best way to rebuild a car."

"Josh's X3 is now revived, it's running so much better and this thing has a lot better chance of staying on the road now without any future issues."

"Remember guys, there's no certainty in anything. Even if you diagnose a car by the book, there's still a chance you can be wrong."

"And there you have successfully completed your throttle body swap."

"So, they came to an agreement. The owner buys the dealership, and my grandpa would only work on a few cars a week, maybe five or six, only work on people's cars who are down on their luck and probably too poor to be able to pay a professional dealership to fix their car anyway."

"Never be afraid of breaking anything. I mean, that's how you learn and there's nothing on a car that can't be fixed. So just bear that in mind, you know? Don't worry about it."

"I got that new gas tank seal back in there. I've got everything wired back up, clutch is back in, transmission is in the car, drive shaft is bolted in, everything is tight and torqued down."

"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."

"It's my first choice and any kind of sealer for flat-style gaskets. It's made by Permatex, it's called Permatex Right Stuff, and is this an endorsement? Well, it's the only sealer I use because it works."

"The axle has arrived thank you sir absolutely absolutely a lifesaver."

"...if you follow a logical thought process, you can fix any car that comes into your bay."

"...gas analyzers and scopes are great, they really help you fix cars, guys."

"We have a mark for Mondeo that arrived to me on a flatbed completely unable to drive under its own power, and it now drives under its own power which I am very very happy about."

"Let's go and a quick reminder of why I'm going to change this whole steering knuckle."

"I've put in the new sump plug, just finger tight at the moment, and then I'll torque it up once I've got it on the car."

"The first thing you're going to do is get the car jacked up and onto axle stands or using a lift."

"So we can learn and teach ourselves how to fix our cars for free instead of paying hundreds, thousands of dollars to go to the shops, dealerships, or anything like that."

"I would highly recommend doing a fuel pump replacement with removing the bed instead of dropping the tank."

"I am so stoked, no check engine light, no open ABS, no brake light. This is ridiculous, I am way happier than I thought I would be."

"Even though I'd never done a timing chain before, I thought I'd give it a go with little to nothing to lose."

"For once, something went perfectly well and it actually turned out really nice."

"Let's do this. Let's get this thing up on the rack, start throwing some wrenches at it."

"Now our next move is going to be to prep everything around the strut for removal."

"Now that we have our upper ball joint removed, we're going to go ahead and work on disconnecting our sway bar end links."

"Most technicians get a satisfaction or a thrill out of actually fixing a vehicle."

"I'm not playing around, I'm trying to make this car run," he said, and then, taking advantage of the privacy of the garage, kissed her.

"It's worth its weight in gold when working on cars."

"That's it, this car came in as a no start, no ignition turn on, no nothing, because of a stupid steering column lock."

"I guarantee you they can fix your car way better than anyone else."

"I think we can close the chapter on the vacuum leak saga."

"We've got brakes now, oh man, nice and hard firm brakes, something that this car has never ever had."

"So many people told me not to even attempt to fix this car, but that brings us up to today, where we find out if it was all worth it."

"Changing the clutch is not a hard thing; it's easy, especially when you have all the right tips and tricks."

"If you guys have any questions on this brake change, just leave a comment below; I always reply the same day, so you won't be waiting long at all."

"We're just going to give it a full reseal."

"Proving it can be done and educating you to how we get this thing accomplished without any major crazy specialty tools."

"What diagnostic delight do I have in the workshop for you today?"

"My name is Paul, and in this video series, I'm fixing up my 1997 Toyota RAV4 to make it as awesome as possible."

"So armed with the Ford service manual and probably a two-hour session on YouTube watching diff rebuilds, I'm going to give it a go and see how I go with it."

"This is the first time I've ever pulled a diff apart or done any work to one, let alone rebuilding them."

"Scopes are the way to fix cars fast and accurately."

"If you're new here, my name is Nick, and I fix Fords."

"Thanks for watching Problem Solving Garage."

"The most important thing is not hurting yourself while compressing any coil spring on any suspension job."

"We have a brand new windscreen put into the S580, no more crack, and it doesn't leak."

"Removing broken exhaust manifold bolts has never been fun, well maybe until now."

"Greetings everyone, in this video I'm going to be saving myself just a little bit of money by rebuilding a sticking brake caliper on my 1995 Pontiac Trans Am, and I'll be showing you just how easy it is to do this yourself."

"We did wheels and tires, some suspension components on it, and we're actually going to be taking the engine out, cleaning it, doing a cam swap, all that kind of stuff."

"It's amazing the more poking around I did, I found a lot of holes and rather than just patch some stuff here and there, I figured I got the full AMD floor pan, I might as well spend some time and do it right."

"There once was a time when anyone with a set of wrenches in a driveway and a lot of determination could fix their car on their own."

"Now you understand the step-by-step process we take here at Mohawk Collision to make sure that your vehicle is repaired to the factory specifications."

"All these skills are cross-transferable, and this is the wonderful thing about car body repair."

"Look for what we call a thumbnail crown; it's sometimes right above the body line, just as soft as a thumbnail."

"If you got a thumbnail crown, you got a body line hinge also, 100% of the time."

"Got the motor and transmission setting in there; the only issues I see, the transmission mount lines up awesome."

"By the work you had done last year and the work you're getting done with the welding, you are actually fixing the Achilles heels of these types of cars."

"That's all there is to it when it comes to doing brakes they're actually really easy."

"We got both side suspensions on, everything lined up perfectly."

"All right guys, we are finally done bleeding the brakes, we were able to get the wheels on, and oh my God, it looks amazing."

"That wraps up this B series V-Tech timing belt slash water pump job."

"We're talking about mode six in a dynamic way, a way we can take the information and use it to help diagnose and fix problems faster and more profitably."

"If we don't get any of that, I will then conclude that we're good here and this truck is complete and that all it needed was a battery."

"If you're watching this and you got a noise coming from your AC compressor, just go ahead and get it done."

"Our purpose here at the shop, guys, is to save you as much money as we can by providing free videos and teach you how to fix your car."

"Let's do this, 3, 2, 1, Alfa time!"

"I'm going to have to do the quick and dirty, move the coils to the next cylinder."

"Rewiring a car is a lot easier than it used to be... especially when a brand new wiring harness is available with modern fuse blocks, modern wiring, everything marked, everything the right color, everything the right length."

"I just love how easy this little car is to work on; it just weighs nothing."

"Make sure, make sure, make sure when you're dealing with struts... use safety glasses."

"What's going on guys, today I am making a step-by-step video on how to remove a transmission from a '92 to 2000 Honda Civic."

"That is everything you need to know on changing the rear brakes on a C300."

"Paintless dent repair is a series of techniques where we can take out small dents such as hail damage and door dings without using paint or standard bodywork techniques."

"We're done, we need a wheel speed sensor, simple as that."

"I'm doing my homework, I'm going to start with my factory service manual here from Toyota."

"The only thing that's left is a fuel pump because we do not have fuel pressure and the fuel pump is not turning on."

"Make sure you know what you're doing before you try and do something like this because you could seriously injure yourself or your vehicle."

"The biggest part of fixing cars today is the access to information, using your own noggin, your critical thinking skills."

"It's always an awesome like learning new things and new ways to pull dents out of cars."

"This is something that's going to cost you less than $400 to replace the rotors, the calipers, the brake pads, and even add braided brake lines."

"I hope the steps that I've shown you in replacing the brake components and bleeding the brakes will be beneficial for you."

"If you're serious about fixing one of these trucks, a 7.3, you want to do it right, this video will be the right way to do the truck."

"So if we're going to remove the dash we ought to go ahead and replace all of the components that may fail even if they're unrelated to the AC unit."

"Okay, now that we've got the electrical out of the way, the steering column disconnected, the next thing we want to do is get the dash physically unbolted."

"You want to make sure that your AC system is completely discharged of freon because if there's any pressure back there, then of course that could be very dangerous to remove that fitting."

"So now the next thing we've got to do is go to the engine compartment and detach the heater hoses and the freon lines."

"Okay, and there is the air box out of the truck and I'll be honest with you, that was a little more than I bargained for."

"It's so awesome walking over the parts counter, grabbing a new OEM sensor, instantly the customer is going to be elated he's getting his truck finally fixed correctly."

"That was the easiest bumper I've ever removed."

"This is the part number of this specific instrument cluster, so if you go to a spare parts shop, this is the part number you want."

"The purpose of this video is for me to show you how to diagnose a driveline without having to just replace all of the components and hope that one of them fixes it."

"The approved GM CRN shops will have direct access to the GM repair procedures and their scorecard and reporting within Connect and the estimate job."

"It's a nice day today, got my '62 fixed, thank you very much Steve and Doug."

"An honest mechanic will explain to you what the exact problem is, especially if it's an immediate safety issue, and why it needs to be done."

"Everyone doubted Will, but as you can see, it is off the lift."

"Thanks for watching, stay tuned for part two coming up real soon; we're gonna clean this up, clean the cylinder head up, get a new gasket on here, and put everything back together. See you next time."

"However, I decided that I'm going to fix it with my friends."

"That man got out smiling and said, 'That's the first time that thing's cranked in over two years. You did bring some magic with you.'"

"I'm pretty stoked that it actually started pretty much first try."

"This only took you know three hours to learn and if for anybody wondering I have never ever done drum brakes in my life so this was definitely a learning experience."

"Now you know how to repair a dent, you probably saved yourself a couple hundred bucks."