STOP! Doing These 7 Things Will RUIN Your Car!

Stop ruining your car! You're hurting it in all kinds of ways and today I'm going to show you a list of things you're doing that ruin your car, SUV, or truck! These things will hurt reliability and longevity when it comes to your car, and your ownership costs will skyrocket! There's no need for extra trips to the dealership for repairs, just stop doing these 7 things!

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[raphaelfrancis]

The check engine light comes standard on VW cars... 🙃

[christos]

10k-15k mile oil changes is a great marketing ad.

[MrYAMAHA]

A pro tip on how to avoid rock chips is to back off. Stop following the vehicles ahead of you so close, it's not only safer for you and will keep any debris that fly's up off your car.

[arguz]

My “house” Acura and Honda 7500 miles oil change, Toyota 5000 miles oil change, always
Synthetic Mobil 1 EP, now high mileage because all of them passed the 100k 😉

[ramsongewargis]

Most car issues have too do with the owner operating it, either pushing it too hard or not maintaining it on time

[luckyguy]

I do it the old-fashioned way.
Every 3 months or 3, 000km.
I write it down with dates in a small notebook.
I disregard & reset constantly any oil monitor system that is on the vehicle. Yawn ...
Two Dodge Caravans, 1993 450, 000 km & presently a 2007 with 'almost 300, 000 km on her.
Same for the tranny. I suck out 1-1.5 L of fluid every 3-4 years. Runs better than new!
I have a brand new 23 Corolla Cross to take my frustrations out on. lol

[hillbillyflipper]

You on it OG!! Excellent excellent advisory video!! I have been changing my oil mobil 1 0W-20 with a oem filter every 6000 to 6500 miles. I sent my oil in for analysis. Blackstone says everything is perfect. They suggested I could go to up to around 8500 miles if I want to. I do ALL my own maintenance. I been around the car business all of my life, sales mostly. Now not all dealerships, Indy's etc are bad but I have seen way to much monkey business over the years. Plus, I like to do things myself!!

[marcot]

Beautiful Benz…. The best thing about leaving Alberta to the southern US…..not having to worry about our cars getting annihilated by winter. Got the wife’s Q3 PPF and undercoated before we started driving it. I agree on the oil changes too. Also by doing it yourself you know exactly what oil is going into the engine.

[jimdeboer]

If your check engine light is red instead of yellow, stop immediately and have the car towed because you have a problem that could cause major damage if you continue to drive the car. For example, a red light could mean one cylinder is not firing at all meaning raw fuel is being dumped directly into the exhaust system and that can burn out the catalytic converter costing you around $2000 to $3000. Don’t ask me how I know.

[billynomates]

that is such sensible advice. i don't like the look of paint protection film on my car because i see it up close.
then i see the rock chips on my car from further away and can't figure out how your car still looks so
also, we are more emotional creatures than we like to think: if my car is all shiny then i'm changing the oil ahead of time, if it's all scuffed up, it can wait another week....

[josephzhang]

I had my Mercedes oil changed every 8000km after warranty, instead of every 15000km as recommended by MB.

[sandorgonczol]

Filling up your break fluid is wrong, it's an indication that your break pads are wearing off and you might need a new set. If you fill it up and afterwards you install new pads you will go over the max level and need to take out the same amount as you put in earlier

[Jstielo]

11:53 I tell my wife about this one all the time. She finally started listening to me when I tell her about putting the car in neutral on a hill, applying the ebrake then putting it in park to avoid torque lock.

[xuvlthn]

Most damaging thing is not to drive it.

[islanddon]

My oil changes for the daily driver are scheduled for every 5000 mi, but in reality it happens around 7000 mi. The Lexus is changed at 5000k precisely.
But we drain/measure/replace the Transmission Fluid at 30k religiously on all cars.

[glennstiller]

I still follow 5-6000 km between oil changes, especially with my one car that has direct injection. Won't do any harm other than to the wallet.

[genes.]

I remember the guys on Car Talk (Ray and Tom Malavazi out of Cambridge, MA) being dismissive about warming up the engine, unless it's very cold. They said the best way to warm up an engine is to drive it but obviously not fast. Now this would have been at least a half a dozen years ago, because one of them passed and the other could not continue the program by himself. It used to be on NPR on Saturday mornings. It was the only NPR program that didn't irritate me. It stuck with me because I'm now old and I never bothered to warm up and engine when the weather was reasonably mild, meaning at or above freezing. I keep my cars a long time and never got rid of one due to engine or transmission failure.

[AvengerAngel]

Oil and filter change should be every 5K miles or 9 months. The 10K-15K manufacturer's recommendation of high mile oil interval changes will get you through the factory warranty, and if someone wants to keep their car for many years to come, I would not rely on the engineers who work for the auto maker, on oil changes, which are crucial (as are transmission fluid changes every 30K miles) although it is important to follow other maintenance schedule items as to not void factory or extended warranties. What concerns me, if someone buys a pre-owned certified car even with low milage the previous owner/leasee may have followed this marketing ploy of high mile oil changes and took years off the life of the engine.

[markd_aus]

Keep up the great content mate, love your work! I usually change my synthetic 6-7K oil is cheaper than engines and I drive a NA non turbo hatch

[bigdaddysh]

I really dig this channel. Thanks for your efforts ❤