Mechanic Reacts to Painful Car Repairs

We asked real mechanics to break down some of the most painful repairs we could find on the internet.

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[dstarfire]

I love Sandro's honesty with the radiator burns. "How do YOU know that?" Sandro:"I ****ed up."

[hgbugalou]

Angelina and Sandro are this channel. Love them both so much.

[Thelifeof_a.j]

Ang and Sandro are the #1 reason I watch this

[redcorset]

73 Y old mechanic here. The first car I ever worked on was a 54 Chevy Belair. My dad broke it and said if I can fix it I can drive it. The problem was a broken u joint. I was 18. I rolled it down the hill of our drive into the street. I pushed it to get it rolling and ran it up on the curb. It had an enclosed drive shaft. I laid in the gutter and fixed that u joint. He didn't tell me it had a bad starter. No tool I had could get to the back starter mounting bolt. I took a 1/2" boxed wrench and sledged hammered it into a curve to get to that bolt. Mom said Ramond (my Dad god rest his sole) Was laughing while he watched me out the window. "He really wants to drive that car." That's what started me into wrenching. And yes I still have that wrench. Love you guys and girls keep them coming.

[xxxxx]

Sandro will forever be one of my favorite people. Angelina has grown on me as she has gotten more comfortable. She came in trying to just be a teacher (since that is her normal job I think) and not showing too much personality but now she is growing into it and its great. Steph seems great as well still new but she seems more comfortable on camera for being new than most people.

[Scotts_Blocks]

🤣"Wherever she is she's mad"🤣 Sandro kills me!

[derbydriver]

How is Sandro so f’ing COOL lmao

Dude just exudes charisma.

[chomaTheGodOfHellfire]

I see Sandro. I click. I just need Sandro in the thumbnails.

[dmagik]

Angelina and Sandro, Instant watch. Steph is on the come up. Glad they all are in a single video. Soon, this'll be a channel with super charismatic mechanics. The dream!

[SwapPartLLC]

I was a mechanic for a small used car lot when I was younger. I had long hair. One day, I had an engine running and was trying to figure out which pully was making noise. They all felt fine, so I was leaning in to try and hear which one it was. Suddenly my friend just snatched me back violently. It turns out my hair was about a half inch away from getting sucked into the belt. I got a haircut on the way home that night.

[dazt]

we've all been there with one of those 10 minute jobs that turns into an hour due to a seized and or sheared bolt

[brockly]

Love that Sandros side is always just " beep beep beep beep" 😂 love that he keeps it real

[Razrking]

they've got an awesome cast of people there.

[evanforst]

15:33 sandro smooth with that line. Also him hiding after he said his wife will be angry is too good.

[JacobLongActingJourney]

Sandro got me laughing for the first time. The Cookie Monster line got me 😂

[DylanRST]

We need to see the sandro vs angelina race!

[shakawhenthewallsfell]

At 12:50, I felt that. I felt that deep in my soul.
Working as an aircraft mechanic on second shift (ending at 11:00PM) to finish working on a plane that was scheduled to fly at 8:00AM next day. One of the few things left to fix was to replace an exhaust gasket (they're brass and steel) on one of the cylinders. Job should take about 30 minutes, but the exhaust blowby from bad gasket corroded one of the two studs that held the riser and it snapped. Crumbled actually.
- had to pull the whole cylinder off to work on replacing the stud (+1 hour)
- thermal and penetrating oil soak prep (+.5 hour)
- after drilling though part of the stud and trying to extract it, the hardened steel extractor bit snapped inside the drilled hole and had to be removed without being able to drill it out (+1 hour)
- continuously drilling with increasing size bits through the rest of the stud and prep for helicoil install (+1 hour)
- cursing and yelling again as the drill bit for the final helicoil size snapped inside the hole and needed extracting without damaging the cylinder head (+1 hour)
- installing new helicoil and stud took couple minutes
- reinstalling the cylinder (+1 hour)
After the final runup, leak check, cleanup, and buttoning up of all panels and getting the plane ready, it was 6:00 AM.

[OliverNeuvilleBMG]

Angelina, Steph and Sandro in the same video? YES please :)
one step closer for getting the duo of Angelina and Steph at the same table

[Baltzy]

Its amazing how much Angelina actually knows. The little intricacies that make the difference are what separates the professionals from the rest

[th]

I love that Sandro knew he was gonna be in trouble soon as he got home to the wife.

After Steph took it there at 7:55, my dude spent a LOT of time just lookin' straight ahead at the camera and the monitor lol