5 Best Things About Being a Car Mechanic

5 Best Things About Being a Car Mechanic, DIY and car repair with Scotty Kilmer. The benefits of being a mechanic. Best car mechanics. Best jobs. Being a mechanic. Becoming a mechanic. How to be a good mechanic. Is becoming a mechanic worth it? Best mechanics ever. Mechanic secrets. Mechanic trade secrets. Car repair secrets. Car advice. DIY car repair with Scotty Kilmer, an auto mechanic for the last 50 years.

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⬇️Scotty’s Top DIY Tools:

⬇️Things used in this video:
1. Common Sense

Scotty on Social:

This is the people's automotive channel! The most honest and funniest car channel on YouTube. Never any sponsored content, just the truth about everything! Learn how to fix your car and how it works. Get a chance to show off your own car on Sundays. Or show off your own car mod on Wednesdays. Tool giveaways every Monday to help you with your own car projects. We have a new video every day! I've been an auto mechanic for the past 50 years and I'm here to share my knowledge with you.

►Here's our weekly video schedule:
Monday: Tool giveaway
Tuesday: Auto repair video
Wednesday: Viewers car mod show off
Thursday: Viewer Car Question Video AND Live Car Q&A
Friday: Auto repair video
Saturday: Second Live Car Q&A
Sunday: Viewers car show off

►Second Daily Upload Every Afternoon of Live Car Q&A videos as well!

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⬇️Scotty’s Top DIY Tools:

⬇️Things used in this video:
5. Common Sense




Scotty on Social:

[jerseyneil]

I'm not a professional mechanic, but I have 6 cars at home with the wife and kids. If I had to pay a mechanic for everything, I'd go broke. Every guy should learn to do the basics, like oil change, brakes, fix a flat, etc. Most of the things I learned, I learned from youtube or a service manual. It's a great feeling when you do the work and know it is done right and you still have money in your pocket.

[johnwood]

1. Money
2. Job Satisfaction
3. Everyday's a challenge
4. Work by yourself
5. Fix your own car and you domt get ripped off

[grantleach]

"Do more, talk less" Scotty Kilmer 2018
Scotty for president 2020

[rustyshackleford]

3:16. That a strong selling point for hate dealing with people beyond a certain point

[dreico]

"you dont have to lisent to anabody, except your wife" lol

[blipco]

Cars are more complicated but I'll be darned if I wasn't able to find a solution on YouTube for ANY problem I've had. I'm a good DIY mechanic but YouTube is absolutely something every mechanic needs in their tool box.

[ZynovFTW]

Valid points made here. I just started working at a dealer 3 months ago. I LOVE it. I'm just doing oil changes, rotates, etc. for now, but in a few years I'll be doing everything. And the best part is, you can work by yourself. Not relying on anyone or having to talk to anyone besides your coworkers. Plus I can use the lifts to work on my own car.

[ellesmerewildwood]

Unfortunately, bad mechanics make a lot of money too.

[based]

Im one now after being motivated by your videos

[dmfraser]

People like us who know how to fix things will always be employed. I have the knack as well but my father as a heavy diesel mechanic just reeked of diesel all the time. Even when he broke wind it would smell like diesel. So I went into electronics. The biggest automotive repair I ever did was a head gasket on a 2.5L Aries. We are about the same age, I am 67, and have achieved a comfortable retirement because of having the knack. Keep up the good videos.

[salo]

I recently started working at a diesel repair shop. When I got there they had a F450 with a brand new engine but they couldn’t get it fired up, and the one time they did, it only ran with 4 cylinders. It was quiet a challenge, I ended up figuring out the connectors at the CPS were full of gunk, then the truck ran in 7 cylinders and it smoked bad. The computer was telling us injector number 5 was dead, so I took off the valve cover and unhooked injector number 5 and the truck ran worst, I unhooked one injector at a time, and when I unhooked number 1, the truck stoped smoking and ran a lot better. Come to find out the coil in injector number 1 was defective. We threw in a new injector and cranked the truck and finally heard it run in all 8 cylinders. It was such an amazing feeling. It can be frustrating but once you over come obstacles you really do feel like you’re accomplishing task and moving forward.

[OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

@4:59 "I DON'T TRUST ANYBODY" bwhahahahahahahhaha cue the ice cream man bwhahahahaha

[BlackBiggot]

Scotty makes 30k a month off youtube. He is right

[BobOfAllTrades]

I’m gonna have my son watch this when he gets home from school today :-)

[byAnArgentinian]

Oh, Scotty. I can understand you SO well. You're just describing why I choose to be a technician.
✓ As a kid I used to take things apart to understand how they worked, I used to love that
✓ I enjoy working by myself, in silence, no people around, talking to myself. It make me feel complete
✓ I love the satisfaction of using logic and train my brain to understand why something's happening and fixing it correctly
✓ I like inventing tools with the things I have around, if possible
✓ Started this tired of being ripped off by technicians that were just lying to me and couldn't fix anything
✓ I hardly trust most of the people
My only problem is when I receive too much work, my brain kind of explodes. I need to do one thing of a time, complete it, and then receive a new situation. Still don't know how to manage that.

[JoseMendoza-pwfm]

Scotty Kilmer you are one of the best honest mechanics that has ever existed and it is a honor to have been alive in your existence ok buddy

[tuneuptony]

Great video. Running your own shop is more than just fixing cars, you have educate your customer and build relationships with them. Eventually your good customers will just hand you the keys and say call me when its done. The trust that's built up over years is priceless.

[ryand.smallenginemechanicd]

I got into the small engine repair world when I was 18, I'm 21 now, and I can relate to scotty on this. For instance, my grandmother had a 1998 john deere 345 tractor, she said it had low power, took it to Holland and sons, they had it for 2 weeks, called her up and said the engine needed rebuilt, etc, was going to cost $1, 000. I told her hey, let me take look at it. I did, all the problem was is a dirty air filter, causing the machine to run on partial choke. Replaced the air filter, and it got full power back. She is still mowing with that mower 3 years later

[BruceChastain]

my father was a mechanic, I sort of worked in the shop as a kid, later I worked in the auto parts department of a dealership, so I've known and been around a lot of pros. And I can tell anyone wondering, Scotty is the real deal, I can tell right away.