These cars generally don’t just blow up. Mercedes makes good cars. The beat to hell ones you see around town are beat to hell because someone didn’t do basic maintenance on them. Sensor replacement and basic service is easy and usually not that expensive. Head bolts are harder but also not impossible. Removing a valve…

Meh. I’ve owned several. Even light DIYers can usually maintain these with a good set of hand tools and a battery impact wrench to make things easier.  Modern engines are pretty solid generally. This wouldn’t scare me at all. $20k for one? Not sure, rather have the E Class. 

This dude is soooo unlikeable. Honestly I give him the benefit of the doubt because I think he’s altered the automobile industry, but he doesn’t give a shit about anyone, and never ever shuts his mouth.

I tried to read those books but the mother-son love got weird.

Yes. Because cars being more expensive and middle class families making less has nothing at all to do with this dynamic. 

Sick burn! Here’s my driveway

Hey dummy. I have a 99 land cruiser that cost me under 10k and it’s brilliant. A w124 300e that’s also brilliant that cost me 800. Then another 2 grand to make the suspension all the way new and it’s also brilliant. Then there’s my Porsche. It definitely didn’t cost me under 10k but it’s worth more now than when I…

My latest purchase was an 800 dollar car:

I’m waiting for that $10k EV. I know everyone says cars aren’t an investment, but the last four cars I’ve bought and kept or sold were sold for a profit not including consumables. I’m allergic to the idea that I will pay five figures for something that will be worth four figures by the time I’m finished. 

At the beginning of the video did he call out the bangle era as a success? 

You’re the dude that did none of the project work but still got the “A”, aren’t you?

Lol.

Totally agreed.

Luckily, I’m not a customer. I do all of the work for all of my cars, including engine rebuilds and painting. The only time I send out work is for machining. Two of them are worth a fair amount and only one is less than 20 years old. Every time a “tech” has touched my cars, they fumble around like twats unless they…

The GTI is a genuinely fun and useful and relatively efficient car to drive. Despite the normal shitty VW quality on some dumb shit I have a lot of trouble envisioning another new car I’d rather have at the price point if I had to buy new.

Speed bleeder screws at all four corners and a rubber tube and a glass jar. No need for a pump. Takes ten minutes and usually I don’t even have to Jack up the car. I do this on all four of my cars including a trucks, a GTI, a 911 and Mercedes 

Dozens? Tens and tens? Crazy. 

Honestly I’m not impressed by most automotive ‘technicians’ and most manufacturers recommend flushing every few years or 20000 miles which is less than the life of a brake pad.

My bad! I didn’t realize this post was trying to push tools on professional mechanics that they probably already know about and have!

Always bleed your brakes during a brake pad change, also a good opportunity to do a full flush. And why would there be any cleanup? Do you think anyone just opens the bleeder screw and lets the fluid spray everywhere? What are you even talking about?