I can read the equivalent text in half the time of the video.

videos require volume. it also takes more time to watch a video than it does to read an article.

Owner (or maybe his hired help.that’s the excuse he gave) puts gas in his diesel car and but doesnt tell the workshop.
Thus the mechanic doesnt bother removing a battery terminal while doing diagnosis .Mechanic takes a fuel sample from the low pressure pump under the hood with a glass jar. Drops jar right on positive…

I’m guessing the fuel pump wouldn’t run so they could take a fuel sample in that location if they did?

I used to be a mechanic and making mistakes were part of the deal to be honest. Some times threads are destroyed, bolts snapped etc. Time consuming, but not the end of the world. Never as disastrous as this article or the one you linked, but we made damn sure the owner was compensated/not charged for the extra time…

Right?  I’m not watching, was hoping to read about it.  Oh well, close tab.

The biggest peeve about Jalopnik videos is lack of subtitles, be it auto-generated (like YouTube videos) or manually inserted.

Those two definitely have better chemistry than the guy who put the wrong fuel in his Audi and caused a fire!

I don’t want to watch a video. I want to read a well written article. Not everything needs to be a video. Frankly, very few things do.

I basically refuse to watch any video on any site like this one (Jalop, Old deadspin, cracked before it went... to wherever it is now).  I specifically look at Jalopnik when I want to READ.  I did make an exception for the changli, but I think that's the only time I've ever bothered with a video here. 

I couldn’t watch the video with sound and with no closed captioning made it useless for me except for one thing; I wish my wife looked at me like this woman looks at this guy telling the story.

I knew someone that bought their college age kid a new Hyundai, he proceeded to drive it through college and a year or two afterwards, and then the engine blew up on it. I don’t remember the mileage, but it wasn’t super high, but enough that I think it was out of warranty. So his mom calls the dealership to yell at…

Having changed the oil and filter on a 2003 RS6, I’m sympathetic to team lazy idiots.

Yet another bonus of working from home, but I still hate videos and rarely watch them. If I wanted to watch a video, I would be on YouTube, not Jalopnik.

1) Erica, I know it’s literally your job to produce videos, and

I follow up with, “I’m at work, with sound, and still don’t want to watch a video.”

I once changed the oil in my old Escape, put the filter housing and new oil in, and then realized I forgot to install the new filter cartridge. It was sitting right next to my head the whole time. Fortunately I figured it out before starting the engine, so all I had to do was take the filter housing back out and…

diesel suv, owner used gas, brought into shop.  Owner claimed did not use gas. Tech spilled “diesel”, car caught fire... Dumb video... 

Guy brings in a Diesel Audi that he put Gasoline in and doesn’t tell the tech (Maybe he didn’t realize he did that?).  When the tech pumps out a fuel sample into a glass jar he drops it on a hot terminal and it catches on fire.  The dealership doesn’t sound like it is taking any responsibility for the fire, even…

In college, I went to my friend’s house to help him replace the timing belt on his beloved 1985 Civic. It’s a pretty straightforward but lengthy job. We collected the new belt and a few small new parts and placed them on the garage floor next to the car.