Mechanics React to German Cars

We asked real mechanics to break down some of the worst German car fails we could find on the internet.

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[TormentedPenguin]

Every instruction for working on any part of a German car.. 1. Disconnect battery. 2. Remove car from component. -Audi Tech

[HoRRiiBLe]

Sandro catching strays everywhere he goes. For the boys.

[Huwbacca]

Just as Steph said it, I was literally thinking "Juan is super legit, just down to earth and knows his stuff". Not a traditional screen personality but really interesting to listen to.

[mrsleep]

'I heard you like timing chains, so we got you a timing chain for your timing chain' -Xzibit, probably.

[jakooboo]

15:08 "Easy access for the bitches" STEPH LMAO.

[Nefville]

Juanito is a super humble guy but he clearly knows his stuff and Steph is just awesome.

[Jamisons_World]

2:26 - The fake muffler tips are the funniest in traffic on cold days when there’s no fog coming out the pipes 😂😂😂

[bentley]

Just found this channel, love it. I'm an old retired mechanic from England. I did my apprenticeship with Jaguar. Quick funny story. I'd gone through college had all my study work in a box and my first day at Jaguar the mechanic or specialist took it all and chucked it to one side and gave me a 10ml spanner. That's what you need to be a mechanic he said and look after it because you will always be searching for one. He wasn't wrong. New subscriber. Regards from London.

[seamusbenn]

Someone needs to check on Sandro under that bus

[offtwoaces]

The oil in Dave's shop is migrating down the wires (bad). If it's migrating, you need to mitigate the problem.

[phlosen]

As a German Engineer i can explain the complexity :)
People want MOAR POWAR but the car cannot be too big. Especially in cities we usually dont have that amount of space available compared to a country that was founded later than most of our breweries XD
In America there are wide roads for big trucks and huge parking space. Additionally your gas is about as expensive as our tap water.
So we have to build efficient and effective engines with a very limited space. This can only be done by "overengineering" the engine.

[downup]

That camera on the dash of the E class is really there because of the full level 3 autonomous driving tech the car has. The camera is there to make sure the driver is still pay attention. There’s additional cameras hidden in the instrument cluster screen to track eye movement again for the level 3 autonomy tech.

Literally could not agree more with the statement of if you see, hear, feel, or smell something wrong take it to the dealer.

Good video overall! Nice to see some real techs talk some real truths about German cars.

[keithmcdonnell]

To mitigate is to make less severe... to migrate is to move (or in the case of oil to flow) from one place to another.

[bengreen]

Hit a pothole in my Honda accord when I was 17. It broke the cv axle, upper and lower control arm, and the strut. Pothole was big enough that the wheel dropped in and everything slammed into the asphalt. My brother and I fixed it and got to learn the dangers of a spring when it goes flying around the garage 😂

[giaxxone]

I was really into air cooled VWs in the ‘80s and got a job at a VW/Porsche shop. One day I was told to replace the water pump on a 928, so I looked in the book… “9.5hrs” and about 20 minutes of it was actually replacing the, timing belt driven, water pump.

[LogicalNiko]

16:53 What happens is that oils have extremely high surface tension. They are engineered this way to get into small places and cling to and coat the wear surfaces. Pretty much every wire in a car is stranded wire, there are almost zero solid core wires ever found in a car. Once the oil gets into a connector it will cling to all the individual strands inside the wire. Because of the very high surface tension it literally will be sucked along by capillary forces through that tiny space between all the strands. The capillary action will just continue to flow that oil drop by drop through the wires until they find something they cannot get around (a computer, connector, etc) and sometimes even drip out onto other electrical components. Any places that are really hot it'll turn into a gummy shellac like coating. And as most wiring gaskets are not made from oil safe materials the solvents that remove carbon buildup from the engine will actually start to dissolve components in the plastics making them very brittle and seals fail.

[FHB]

I am German and I agree. I drove an Audi and you had to bring the car to the mechanics to change a light bulb in your head lights, that is really frustrating. Or a 5 cent light bulb in your dash breaks and you would have to remove the middle console and the dash to change it, that is simply a stupid design. Looks great though, but as soon as you start repairing stuff, it becomes a nightmare. Imagine the engineers in their VR design chambers discussing the engine design, they look at the car and someone asks, how to change the chain, since it is on the back of the engine. The lead engineer steps in and says "Well, you simply remove the car" (clicks a button and the car is gone) "... and then you remove the transmission" (clicks another button and the transmission is gone) "... and there you go ... easy, right?".

[manguy]

That commercial w Bob Hall was great. Having the guests be a part of the ads and play the corresponding ad scene with the guests that are on that same episode would be a great addition.

[tk-morrow]

Bruh I love these two. Everyone that has shown up on Real Mechanics have really been gems and have provided me with valuable knowledge and I appreciate all of you helping me grow.

[nyotamwuaji]

All that extra tech in a car is just more stuff to break down.