Me Infiniti left me stranded at the top of a hill when It blew the radiator Also I'm working on an 82 oldsmobile delta 88 with a cammed 307 and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it when its done
Literally like 5 minutes ago I had to poop really bad only to come to the bathroom and see my toilet is stopped up. Me being me, I don't have a plunger. So I had to use the toilet brush to unclog the toilet. The water was risen to the top of the bowl and I splashed toilet water amongst other things everywhere. Worst breakdown ever.
I helped my dad swap a big block Chevy into his Chevelle, and the first time we took it out we overheated BAD. We had the wrong temp sensor for the motor, so the temp gauge didn't work. We were driving in this car and as we're going you can feel the heat start to seep through the firewall, and we don't think much of it till the AC also started to just blow hot air when we remembered to recharge it before we left, so we thought the condenser was just bad or something so we pull into a gas station to take a look, and when we pop the hood the headers were glowing! Thankfully we didn't BBQ that engine too bad, we only had to replace a couple parts on it before we could drive it again safely I think it was just some heat wrap for the headers a clutch fan to help out the electric ones and obviously a temp sensor and it was ready to go again.
How about a story of no return in my Subaru Legacy GT Limited 2001? The car that refused to let me get stuck anywhere. Driving in Rural Ontario in the winter, new to the particular area and exploring, I turn down a road GPS suggested. As I turn down the dirt road I notice it's one car wide and I pass a sign that says "No Winter Maintenance"... we are plowing the snow with the bumper of the car, but it seems ok so I keep going - there really isn't an option unless I want to reverse out anyway. After a short while the snow gets so deep it is going *over the windshield*, I have the wipers on but not helping, in 3rd gear and the back end stepped out. We are on a farm access road - no houses or anything around! My fiancée nervously says "If we die, I love you!"... and then we get to the end of the road... Except it's a 10+ft wall of snow built up by snow plows from clearing the actual roads normal people drive... with no turning back, I conjure up memories of Dukes of Hazzard and figure 60kph is the right speed to hit the wall of snow. We burst through to the other side, and the road is clear. There is a stop sign and I calmly come to a stop, indicate my turn signal and join regular people on a normal plowed & paved road.
I was driving my Durango one rainy day and the u-joints on the driveshaft decided to part ways. The driveshaft proceeded to roll down the street. Thankfully I had 4WD.
Down shifted into 3rd going 120, stopped at top golf, played some rounds, motor locked up on the way home, guy I was racing saw me on the side of the HW, pulled over, had his buddy bring truck n trailer, and even helped fix the car for a while week 😂, mind you, this was a complete stranger! Still friends to this day
So my friend's Audi had broken down one night. After calling a tow, my friend couldn't sit in the truck because of covid. So the tow guy loaded his Audi on the truck bed and my friend sat in his car until they got to the shop 😂
That was a fun (cold!) day, but we ended up on the side of the road because the crank position sensor got loose, so I had to re-tighten it lol. The megasquirt put the car in half-sync mode. Steering is fixed btw, lays straight 11s on the road lol
When the cps is loose does it cause the car to buck while accelerating? My cars been throwing a PO335 code and I already replaced the sensor. It was good for awhile then it started doing it again.
@@listen7634 I have an aftermarket computer management system on my omni (Megasquirt3X) so when it gets loose it'll either kill power or go into a half sync limp mode kinda deal
I have two events happen in when I was driving my WRX. 1) I was on my way to go see my girlfriend and I stopped at the mall because she wanted me to get her a bath bomb or something. I get it, I go back to my car, turn it on, let it warm up for twenty seconds . I drove not even getting to the exit to the main road, radiator pops open and smoke fucking goalies everywhere. Engine temp is getting way to hot. Got stranded and my girl actually had to come down and save me since I was getting it towed. 2) was cruising on Seattle I-5 south, was a s13 that wanted to do a pull, I was like “sure”. We get ready to do the pull, I won by two car lengths, started hearing rattling. I get off the freeway and started taking the back roads home. As I was trying to get home, my car fucking dies. I limp it to the side of the road and I check my oil, nothing. I spun a bearing and shattered my rod. Was waiting for hours to get a tow truck to come get me. My buddy came to rescue me but it was to late and my old ej255 was shit. Got a jdm ej205, VF52 turbo was still good so I’m still going haha.
Hes a "car guy". I put it in parentheses because he prob didnt know a single thing about cars and bought a beat to trap used saab without doing any obvious checks
@@datrumakboy1020 they all learn some way. They either learn not to make the same mistakes or learn they shouldn’t have gotten nto cars in the first place
Yeah but if the owner doesn't check the oil Shirley before you go out for a rip in a car you have no idea about your going to check the oil so it doesn't lock up and send you into a tree at a hundred miles an hour like that's what I don't get dude should have does his own checks on the cars before he drives them I mean shit that's dumb as hell oh I'm just going to trust the owner like hell no that could have cost him his life and that's how dumb he is
@@benjamin8558 it made 416 wheel. That’s on pump. I gotta go back and do an e85 tune next weekend. I’ll be happy if we can get to 450, I think injectors and e85 should get me there
I drove my friends evo x in NJ. It just came back from CBRD after a year of getting the the motor & trans built with a new CBRD turbo kit with a 35r turbo. My friend told me to rip it and as i entered 4th gear the clutch just stayed on the floored lol. My heart felt like it sank to my stomach and i felt so horrible (i couldnt sleep that night from guilt) im so thankful my friend was so understanding and cool about the situation and he told me “ dude once you turn on the race car, its basically rolling the dice. You’ll never know what will happen but it’s just part of the game. No worries”
June 4th, my dad’s car lost all coolant. He called me to meet him at his work 2.5 hours away so he can borrow a socket set. We thought it was the thermostat seal. Replaced that, went on our way back home. Thirty minutes later, lost all coolant again on the side of the highway. I ended up sitting on the side of that highway for about two hours, while he went to parts stores. He came back, RTV’d the seal, left again. Lost all coolant, stopped again, still two hours away from home. He says YOLO, takes my car to pick up his truck and a strap. We’re going to flat-tow it the two hours. For four hours, I sat on the side of the road, alone, listening to music and watching TH-cam. He comes back at 10 PM, we try and flat-tow it, but we can’t make it five minutes. It’s so stressful, it’ll take all night. We leave the car at a gas station, we drive home in his truck and rent a dolly from Uhaul the next morning.
Great breakdown story: Turns out my timing belt snapped on my Ducati Monster (while on the way back from the shop that recommended I wait to change it with the new belt I had on me no less...) while at a stop light by a bar. I rolled it into the lot there and started to try to troubleshoot the issue. I initially thought it was a battery issue since I was at 12.1 volts and a guy in a golf cart nearby starts looking over and asking about it. He ends up helping me troubleshoot it and check spark with an extra plug he had. He then pulled me back to his garage on his golf cart through a public road. A true spectacle of a lifted golf cart with a siren pulling a Ducati by a tow strap down a side road. We ended up jumping the bike and got it running well, then I put it back together and was about to head out. I went to start it and it let out a loud clank, a internal clank. Hearing that we figure the bike is dead until real work can be done and this legend hooks up his neighbors trailer (after calling him) and towed me back to my place. Awesome guy following the best rule of helping other people who are broke down when you can.
my focus SVT 3 weeks owning it 276k miles I was driving and some dude pulled out in front of me so I braked and swerved and the worn motor mounts shifted the motor so much the intake pulled apart from itself I put my hazards on and had the guy behind me push me to a mental health ward a block away I had to duct tape the manifold together and limp it to school then home I still am appreciative of the people that helped push my car I try and help more broke down cars now because of them
In my 9th gen civic si when I was on a hondata base tune. I completely lost all power while driving on the interstate. I pulled over and reflashed the car and I was good to go. I have an actual tune now with the mods I have now. 🤙🏾
@@bryanjschang Lol it's full bolt on now but yeah it's slow to me but quick to other people lol. Other than that one issue the Hondata base tune was reliable I used it for like a year before I got my actual tune once I finished putting all my parts on.
one day i took my dads 911 to autozone to buy some wax for my car and i wasn’t doing anything stupid i let it warm up for 15-20 mins oil pressure was good oil temp was good and i cruised at 60 mph in 6th gear and as i start slowing down for a light i noticed something wasn’t right and as soon as i look at the cluster i see the engine light flashing and i feel the car has lost all power so i stop in a neighborhood and call my mom because my dad would’ve been pissed and long story short we sold the car with a broken motor made money from it and my dad is still mad to this day.
After years and years watching you, David, I feel like you were some kind of a friend. That means a lot coming from someone who don't tolerate people xD You do a great work, dude, not only as a reviewer but as a community promoter.
Just changed my oil and filter in my 2018 wrx today. Full bolt on tuned by Ambot tuning and she’s running minty. Always gotta do the simple maintenance on modified cars because one thing will lead to another if you dont
Hey guys! Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be the camera car for a review of his, and I got to meet David for the 1st (2nd technically 🤣) time. Just wanted to say that David is truly one of a kind and puts an enormous amount of effort into his videos behind the scenes. All that editing, traveling, and workload is not easy no matter who you are, and I wish for nothing but success for him and his channel! I'm not looking for attention, I truly just want to get the message out there that behind the camera, David is one of the most approachable and humble guys I've ever spoken with. Hit the notification 🔔 bell and let's hope the algorithm blesses the channel 🙏.
I drive a '93 Civic with a Type-R swap. Just rebuilt the entire front half (Internals, trans, coil-overs, CVs, C Arms, Ball joints, rack, etc.) Was going to go get emissions done during my lunch break, but it snowed the night before and the entire of that day. Pulled out of work with no worries, then hit an ice block, thinking nothing of it, kept driving... then tried to turn right... the "new" ball joint split in half and popped out, resulting in a high center with no clearance for me to jack, push, or really do anything without a flatbed. The next 5 hours waiting for a tow truck were pure hell. Got splashed with ice, slush, mag, and whatever else... THE WORST PART WAS I HALF WAY IN AN INTERSECTION ON A MAIN ROAD with a white car in a white out snow storm. Luckily I have great friends in the car game, and was able to have someone who owns a tow company, come and rescue me, and another friend who had a couple traffic cones to help a bit to block off my car. I am still working on rebuilding it, but wish me luck! Hope you can review it some time!!!
So 2 years ago my mom got a 2016 GMC Acadia used with about 25k miles. And as we always do with our new cars. We drove it from Philly to Florida for our yearly vacation. On the way back in South Carolina the trans went on 95 and left us stranded. We coasted to the nearest town 1 mile away that ended up having a Chevy dealership
Cracked my oil pan on a my 96 Jetta glx after a race & pushed it pretty much 3-4 miles alone to get to my house and once I got near my house I realized .. I lived on a hill…. Long story short appreciate your mom people because that is the women who no matter what will always be there for you. Mama bear helped me push the car then she pushed it w our pick up the rest of the hill.. yea shout out to my mama you the real mvp❤️
I daily a 85 honda prelude and one day someone was tailgating me hard, so I took a hard turn at the intersection and immediately starts to bog from flooding. I barely limped it home and long story short single-handedly disconnected like 100 vacuum lines and got the carbs out so the carburetor shop could fix the broken float. Even the old guy there was shocked that they could find a replacement, and has been running perfectly since
So here's a story. Was taking my E46 325 down to the south cost of the UK. Came out of a service station, hit a pothole and killed the alternator. Had to lave the car outside someones house, walk into the nearest town, got a lift to the train station. Train home back to South Wales, had to get picked up as it was midnight and couldn't get all the way home, slept, hired a self drive low loader (transit type) went back to get the car. That was a weekend I'll remember for a bit.
Me and my buddy went down to cleetus’s soft opening of the freedom factory we took a 96 caprice with a cracked block, went as kind of a send off for the cars motor we get all the way down to Florida from Pennsylvania on that cracked block, no heat , no ac and nothing to keep us warm the winsheild on the way down was pure ice, got pulled over multiple times until we finnaly made it down in 10 hours, we enjoyed to meet had fun and got ready to leave let’s just say we got tranded back up in West Virginia for 5 days no money slept in the car behind a motel until we finally got it trailered home (we decided this trip the night before mind you) but all in all a worth it experience and something we will never forget
Proud owner of a DA Integra GS 5spd b18a1, last summer I spun two rod bearings, it was raining out and I feel the loss of power , I go to pull into this gas station , push the clutch it and the motor stalls immediately. It was locked up completely. I bought the car in 2015 from it's second owner running with issues, it always made this squealing noise on start up until I blipped the throttle....🤣, Drive it daily for about 4 1/2 years , the car was super original from factory , I replaced every relay, switch, bulb, sensor, fluid, I'm finally at the stage where the engine is fully rebuilt with all new components and ready to primed and started up. 🙏🧠🧠🔥💯❤️
I once taught myself how to tune my l28et and in the process I got a head gasket leak. I changed the headgasket and 2 pistons because it had detonation issues. So while it got the gasket change I had also ported the turbo header. No joke first drive out it ended up over boosting and I had the over boost protection too high. So I was coasting on the highway with a huge white cloud behind me. I got out and ran a red light to avoid stalling and avoid smoking up the entire intersection(I looked before going don’t worry). And drove about 2 miles home with a completely blown head gasketlol. That Datsun never left me stranded even when it blew up the water pump it still drove 10 miles home. My 300zx on the other hand had a bad MAF and left me stranded at the tax office when I was registering it lol.
I bought an 87 Honda CRX si with a little over 400,000 miles from Arizona & planned to drive it back all the way to Texas. About halfway through the Arizona desert, car starts overheating. I had to limp it all the way back to the previous gas station luckily only about a mile away. Everyone kinda gave me shit for buying a car with such high mileage, but long story short, changed the thermostat & coasted all the way back at 55 mph. Cars here at home & still miraculously runs.
370ztt, was going to work getting on the interstate doing my normal thing. Jumped on it, 17psi of boost, and got a windshield full of coolant. Blown headgasket. One new Mazworx engine later. Good to go. How did I get home. Called the wife to come get me. Drove back with truck and trailer, loaded the car up. It was a bad day.
Was cruising down some back roads and the car suddenly stalled, I coasted a good way down the road until the car stopped. I got out, checked, fuel pump fuse popped. Ipulled an interior fuse and put it in and got back home.
1500 miles from home, my 93 Crown Victoria lunched the intake valve on cylinder 1. Limped it back to the hotel and then had it towed to my buddy's shop. Got a rental Mazda 5 (cargo room) to get back home with everything but my car. Over the next year, they swapped in a 2003 Town Car (4.6L PI engine similar to the 98-04 Mustang GT), hacked in OBD-II and put coil on plug setup on it. I flew back up there and drove it back with a few bad sensors, got it tuned at a local shop and later retuned at another shop and have been fine tuning it ever since. The transmission has now be j-modded and shifts a little hard 1-2 when you get on it and there's a little pinging somewhere in the middle of the fuel map on moderate load. It's still my daily, but is quite the project car now.
Had a transmission seize and speedometer sensor melt off due to not putting transmission oil in after a clutch install. From that day forward, I never let a shop touch my cars.
1991 arecibo PR. My build was a 81 corrola wit a 3tc and 150 shot, threw rod after countless passes. Drove home wit 3 pistons, after jb welding the hole on the side of the road. A testament of a Toyota resilience!
Was driving my MS3 on the dragon when my BPV unbolted itself somehow and the O2 sensor came undone and causes the car to freak out so I had to limp home going 10 miles an hour almost the whole way
Man I don't don't see MS3s anymore, as rare as they already are. I feel like the only one who drives one these days. Miss waving at other MS3 drivers on the chance we would encounter each other lol.
My 72 El Camino left me stranded an hour from home. Turned out to be the distributor cap was loosening itself and throwing the timing off causing backfire in the carb. I was stranded for 7 hours in the June heat waiting for a tow truck.
Here’s a horrible story but mine. I have a coyote swapped new edge. Me and my dad had just finished putting the motor and transmission in . I was breaking in the car for 4 days getting it ready for TX2k. I had the car filled with my full drug set up and all my clothes about 45 minutes out on a 6 hour trip the car just decides to snap a chain and it was all over. There I was on the side of the highway waiting for 3 hours for my dad to come pick me up with a trailer. What was supposed to be a fun week in Houston turned into a week of taking the car apart AGAIN in my drive way. Car broke again after fixing it … I just ordered my brand new motor a couple days ago fresh 0 mile gen 2 motor. I can’t give up on this build 🤘🏼
I bought a WRX 6 years ago. I had it maybe 2 days and I had a friend behind me on a curvy road in WNC. We got to a straight and I laid into the throttle and in 4th gear the car Jerks real hard and starts to missfire. I had to limp it home 45 minutes on 3 cylinders. It was a blow coil pack on cylinder 4. Later on I did a launch in the car and pushed the rod through the clutch fork. Acted like a blown clutch so I limped it home and ordered a stage 2 southbend clutch kit. Found out when we pulled the transmission the rod that pushes the clutch fork went all the way through it. We fabbed up a new fork and it's still in the car I did put the new clutch in and it's still in the car to this day. Now it's getting a built motor with 2.5 block and 207 big port heads. Hoping to compete in some road racing next year.
Bought a AP1 S2000 Facelift (Europe) with about 42k, the dealer gave me 3 months mechanical warranty. The day after my warranty ran out my clutch bearing exploded while I was on the way back from a car show from another city. The pedal was stuck to the floor, I pulled over and yanked the pedal back up on the side of the motorway. After that the pedal would not disengage the clutch. I was able to slot it into first and start the car and gas it and ride the start up and pull away. I could up shift and squeeze the clutch as much as possible but I had to rev match on the way down. That's how I learn rev match down shifting. I was able to drive 2hrs and get back off the closest offramp near where I lived in some of the tightest traffic situations without having to stop. To which point I coasted into a gym car park on the exit and called a tow truck 10 mins from my house. turns out there was a stage 3 clutch in the car and the bearing was absolute trash that came with it and decided to explode after I had been on a run with a friend and his 34 skyline GTT
Popping an intercooler coupler (gasket in my case, stock top-mount intercooler for an EJ255 on a Legacy GT) is actually the only time I've been stranded by a mechanical failure. Despite that car's best efforts. As far as my own dumbassery, I took both right tires off my truck blasting around on a gravel road, in the fog, in the middle of the night. That was a fun phone call to my parents to make.
Just had to walk over 10 miles into a town after my WRX lost an oil line coming down a mountain. No phone service, coasted as far as I could get, then walked the rest of the way to find someone with a landline. Living that Subaru life.
i can relate to the knowing the risk of buying a speed 3. my friend asked me what are you gonna do now that you got your speed. i said save up to replace the motor. he asked why. i said. they are known for blowing up for practically no reason if any maintenance is skipped
I was driving my 2003 Subaru WRX to class for my chem final exam, which was a group project, then the radiator blew up on the freeway, took the nearest exit, parked it at a mcdonalds, ubered to class, aced the presentation, dad came to rescue me with a new radiator, we fixed it in the mcdonalds parking lot
In 2015 I was a senior in HS. Just turned 17 and had my first car (1969 pontiac lemans, hugger orange). I was driving it home from a shop that just had some electrical work done and the guys working on the car forgot to put the hood pins back in. I was Cruising, going 50 mph about 3-4 miles from home when suddenly WHOOSH, the whole hood comes up and smacks the windshield. Luckily no glass broke. Had to have it towed to YET ANOTHER shop. Shortly after we sold it for pennies so I could get a reliable college commuter. Huge mistake. I still miss that car. Also had a Jeep engine blow up on me a few years later. That was fun lol
Had a really old isuzu suv back in 2012, parked at a friend's apartment to pick him up to go to our college graduation ceremony rehersal. As i was sitting there idle, the engine just shut off, no warning, no reving, fuel was full. We called a taxi and i had to come back to it the next day. Turns out, it had a control valve for the fuel that broke and thats why it just died lol. That car was sold, but i know its still running solid today
Had a 2001 neon . I was sitting in road construction it was about 107 out side with brand new asphalt below the car. The fuel in the rail atomized and wouldn't get through to the injector. Nothing but air was coming out of the shrater valve on the fuel rail. 130$ tow got me home for the car to simply start right back up after cooling down. I actually put a fuel return on that bucket after that and never had another issue again
Bought a corvette c6 high milage, installed a cam in that sucker. Driving 120mph and all of a sudden my power steering goes crazy and it sounds like my engine just exploded- huge smoke coming from my engine. on a NYC highway i pulled on a small shoulder, my harmonic balancer decided it was just gonna exit lol. Towed the car back home, installed a racing harmonic balancer a week later and it runs like new.
I blew a rod through the oil pan on my 87 civic sedan in Seattle on the freeway and stopped at the next exit to get it towed home but I didn't have towing coverage on my insurance so I had to limp it home about 30 minutes north and it didn't shut off the whole way with zero oil and a giant hole in the bottom of the oil pan. Still drove onto the tow truck three days later.
Back in 2015 I bought a big turbo srt4 that was built for autocross. Still to this day, the fastest car I've ever drove. After 6 days of owning the car, I just had it wash and was taking it to give my dad a ride. On the on ramp to the interstate I was getting on it hard and shifting from 3rd to 4th and broke the input shaft. I didn't have a tow hook on the front, so I wrapped a strap around my intake manifold to get pulled home. 6 months and $5,000 later and it was never the same. I ended up trading it for a G8 GT.
In 2019 I had purchased my 1999 stock miata and I had a blast with it, but I didn’t know much about cars. I was due for an oil change so I decided to take it to Walmart which was the worst decision ever. I took the car to the mountains the next week and as we were coming back, the check engine line starts flashing and the motor starts ticking really loud and the car dies. Turns out I spun a bearing and the oil that I paid to get changed was never changed. I had about 2 quarts of sluggy oil when I took the motor out. Please never never never take your car to Walmart, and always check your oil after changing it.
I used to drive a 1990 Toyota Corolla in high school. Blizzard came the night before and as I was headed to school I hit some black ice. Did a 180 didn’t wreck the car but the car wouldn’t start. Low and behold the previous owner had too small a battery in the battery box and the connectors had dislodged themselves. So I stuck a penny between the post and the connecter and bungee corded the battery in place until I got home that day.
I had a dodge caliber srt4. Install a tune on the car with 1.5 bar max boost. After test driving with couple quick acceleration, the engine won't idle right and there's some turbo noise. Thought the turbo or engine got blowed up. After closer inspection, it's the pcv hose got blowed off which caused a vacuum leak (the factory hose clamp probably couldn't handle the extra boost lol).
1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup (Had a 1.6 Carbed Gas Motor) Bought it and drove it 300 miles home with 0 issues besides losing reverse xD. First drive after getting it home I floored it and heard a pop and felt my gas pedal sink to the floor. The throttle return spring on the carb snapped. I walked 3 miles to the nearest auto parts store for a new one.
My worst one was when my Brake pad ejected out of my rear left caliper on my FRS. Backstory, it is a 2014 FRS bought in 2019 from a mazda dealership, they cheated safety by putting a rotor that was basically a thin rotor set for some other car on OEM pads. Long story short, I am driving home and 2km away from home on the street, I am going 60kmh and I hit the brakes, hear a loud bang, pedal drops and I lose all pressure. Pumped the brakes non stop, downshifted to 3rd and pulled the handbrake. Had to limp it home at 20 kmh on a caliper that was sitting on my rotor. Car sat in a garage for 1 months before Brakes were put on. I ended up replacing rotors, lines, pads and fluids.
Beat to hell altima, driving over 2 states and broke down on the interstate. Fuel pump went out, phones were all dead, it was like, the dead of winter in the good ol' midwest, and we were there for 9 hours lmao. That's my biggest experience being stranded.
Last summer, Father’s Day weekend. It was a Sunday afternoon. I was driving my 2013 Scion FR-S that had got the valve spring job done about 5,000 miles ago. Was just cruising on the freeway as I get off I start to hear a funny rattle coming from the engine bay. Now because I’d previously put an exhaust, intakes, and headers I just thought maybe a bolt was coming loose or a side maker was starting to pop out. So I decided to take side streets home. As I get about 6 miles on the side streets it starts idling weird. Then the rattle got louder, so I called my dad. My dad not knowing how bad it was told me try to get it home and hung up. I get about 10 more miles and I hear this loud bang. One of my rocker arms came loose in the engine. Knocking into another rocker arm then getting stuck in one of the cams. After getting launched into the valve cover and putting a 5 inch whole in my valve cover. My brother who had been smoking a Tri tip for 12 hours came by to see what he could do. But the car was literally done. So he calls AAA takes two hours to finally speak to a real person. Then it took another hour for the tow truck to show up. The tow truck gets there and tells us he can only take the car and leaves us there because of Covid. So I had to call a friend to take my brother and I home. We later found out after taking the car to Toyota. That they used too much engine sealer and it leaked into the oil ports clogging them. Which over time without realizing starved half the motor destroying the whole engine. Toyota ended up paying for the engine but for my little FRS I found out through Toyota that this was the cars third Motor at 80,000 miles on the chassis. I ended up trading the car in and getting a 370z.
This may be the opposite of a breakdown story, but I was in my new edge Mustang GT doing a roll race again my buddy in his Camaro SS, when I shifted from 2-3 I actually went from 2-1.. Quickly put the clutch in and put it in 4th… Car drove fine, nothing ever came of it. Those 2v’s are solid motors. I was 17 at the time and had only been driving stick for about a year so spare me the grief in the replies lol
So I had this 04 Volvo S40 1.9t. I was about to head home from college for winter break (650 mile drive) about 15 min in and the car shoots a plug out of the head, catches fire, then puts itself out. I then drove back to campus on 2 cylinders (one coil pack controlled 2 cylinders and the plug that came out melted the coil pack) after pulling itself out of a snow bank burning tires
I had a 06 Subaru Forester NA and I went drifting in the winter one night. First time I drove it hard and then suddenly I couldn't get any heat through the heater. Went home and took it for a drive the next day and the temperature guage went to sky high. I got out to let it cool down and the coolent was gushing out of the reservoir. Got a tow and turns out I blew the head gaskets 🙃. After the engine was took apart and that was replaced I had no more issue with the car until I traded it in for my 2016 Forester XT.
taking a porsche 924 to a track day. we knew the battery was dodgy so we brought a spare (from a different car) and some jumper cables - It ran fine but didn't like to start. About an hour into the 2 hour drive to the track, the voltage meter in the cabin starts dropping quickly and the car eventually judders to a halt. Lucky for me I have a spare battery...that is too tall to fit in the engine bay with the bonnet down and the terminals are a different size so I cant connect them to the wiring....The solution? sit the battery in the footwell and run jumper cables out of the passenger window and through the top of the bonnet to the battery pickups in the engine bay. It worked! still had to bump start the car while cranking it but we managed to get home once she started up.
Twas the night before I sold my 2gb eclipse, full boost was a thought in the head, pulley said no and the temp rose, grabbed the belt and stretched it over and yelled “bump that bro” and home we went with not a boost in sight
A bit late to this, but last February I blew the auto transmission up in my FC RX7 coming home from work. Had known it was on its way out for awhile, but never expected it to be so spectacular. Started driving home and it clunked into 3rd quite hard and a massive cloud of smoke was following from the rear end and I looked at my girlfriend and said "whelp, there went the trans."😂. We got all the way home and when I went to back up to straighten the car out (the parking spot was on the side of a really steep hill), I discovered that the FC no longer had reverse. And I put it in nuetral to try and coast a bit but ended up DRIVING IN NUETRAL. I was genuinely so confused but didn't want to take it out of gear and risk having to push it up hill. I drove around that area 3 times until I could get the right angle to whip it into the driveway quickly without hitting ice or not having enough momentum to push through the snow on the driveway
I was on up around Williamsburg, VA in my Mazda speed miata. At this time all I had was a muffler delete. This guy I worked with had a 95 or 96 Mustang gt the good old 4.7L. So we were running on the HWY just playing around. And we were neck and neck. And my stock turbo inlet pipe blows off and makes this huge pop that he heard in the next lane. After that I had to call flying miata and get the full intake kit they make for that car. He never really let me live that down.
Just finished doing a b20b swap in my 89 civic with almost all bolt Ons super light fly wheel new shift linkage bushings and all, fully gutted almost race car ready for me to finish my build. As I was driving it home. I couldn't go into any hear but 3rd and 5th. Questioning what was going on. I struggled to get it home praying that I wouldn't hit a red light on a hill (which I did) ended up finding out my baby could take off in 3rd which was quite impressive. But the shift linkage weight broke. Fixed that issue with a new shift linkage the next day ended up money shifting into a transmission failure in a race....good times man lol
Last year my friend at the time had a B8 Audi S4 Stage 2+ Dual pulley pushing around 500hp, it was stick shift and it was the first car i really pushed driving stick. I did a quick pull 1-2-3 and clutched into 4th all was going amazing, so i did another but that’s when things went wrong… i did a pull in 2nd-3rd and then went to shift into 4th but instead i mis shifted into 2nd and blew the engine. That thing has cost me around 10k to get another engine and get it swapped into the car. A few weeks after my friend got his car back he slammed it into a tree. Thankfully he is safe and still alive
My first car, a 1988 Trans Am GTA. I was about 2 blocks from home when everything just cut off. I had no power to anything. No dash, no cranking, windows, nothing. Except the headlights (but not the motors) so the headlights turned on, but didnt flip up. Turns out, GM in their infinite wisdom decided to run essentially all of the electronics of the car off the starter. Well on that power wire was a single fusable link. The link blew and the effect was more or less the same thing as disconnecting the battery. Another time, the same car wouldnt start because the fuse for the fuel pump (which for some reason wasnt located in the fuse box) blew. There was a random single fuse located at the nose of the car in its own little container. Why in the world GM decided to do that is beyond me, but I missed a job interview over it. 0/10 experience. Fun F-Body fact : On 4th gens, if the brake light on the spoiler burns out, the cruise control doesn't work since its powered through there...for SOME reason.
A deer ran out in front of me, and I went into a ditch, I've had my motor blow its rings and loose compression in 2 cylinders, I've had my axel pop out, and I couldn't move. I've had a coolant hose pop off, but had all the tools including more coolant to fix it. I've had my steering shaft come loose while parking on a hill. All theese things made me stranded either for a few minnutes, a few hours, over night, or longer, and yes it's all 1 car. My eg hatch civic with a bswap.
@@edgarj415 I swapped in a b20 in November of last year, and I do have a gsr head for it, but I don't know if I want to put it on, because it hasn't broken down on me since that first week after the swap were like everything went wrong, but I fixed it.
@@WoozieWookie it's been reliable since the first week after the swap. Everything except loosing compression happened in that first week, that I listed above.
@@Benjamin.OBrien I boosted a b20 with stock head and I did good for about 2 years the kid I sold it to blew it up cause it had no oil but I’m sure that set up would be good for years with reliable maintenance
My car’s electric fan didn’t work when I bought it so one time I hit traffic and it just got hotter and hotter until I had to pull over and wait for it to cool. I literally put it in neutral and rolled down the side of the highway on the brakes with the engine off to get closer to the next exit. Trafic was like 5mph. I had to go some back roads and turn off the car whenever I stopped so that It wouldn’t overheat.
I bought a turbo Miata that was a project. It ran and drove fine. I changed the oils before taking off with it. 20 minutes into my drive and it overheating. So I pull off to the side of the freeway to let it cool off. Traffic was terrible so I wasn’t worried about getting hit. Cools down and drive off the freeway to diagnose the issue and it’s the spring from the radiator cap missing so all my coolant was boiling out of my radiator. I got lucky autozone was still open 9pm 10mins away to get a replacement. But I had to wait again for the car to cool down before taking off (filled with water from a gas station) and once I got there. The rest of the way home was nerve wrecking but non-eventful. I was just getting into cars and learning how to wrench at the time.
Driving to Michigan to visit my parents in my 02 Jetta TDI I went to nail it and it made a horrific thunk and the whole car shut off and I coasted to the side of the road. The transmission grenaded itself so bad that I wasn’t able to restart my car since it had just frozen up and was stuck and wouldn’t even let the motor turn over. $175 dollars later I had it towed home and had to rent a car to make it home to visit my Mom who was in the hospital. She passed away about 2 years later.
I’m still not done modifying it to how I want it (for now of course since it’s my daily still) but I still want to at the very least TRY to have you review my 2012 Skyactiv Mazda 3 sedan. There’s a couple of things I regret about the purchase of the car though but the MAIN one is that 18 year old me got it in automatic because 18 year old me didn’t know how to drive manual. For what it’s worth, the other regrets I have with the purchase are as follows: I wish I had gotten a hatchback model, and then lastly I wish I had went with the non “Skyactiv” 2.5L engine. Other than that I have LOVED every minute of my ownership with the car
I drove a 2015 for a year to work and put about 25k miles on it. Definitely a nice car. What’s crazy is that the 2.0 skyactive has like a 13 or 14:1 compression. So when they turbo them they put a big turbo on them since smaller once would be restrictive with all the compression they have.
One time I was with my friend on his 2001 Ford ranger.we were coming to my place at midnight when all of a sudden his truck starts stalling.we ended up starting it up again and drove it all the way home.right when we got there it completely died.we had to change the battery the next morning.my friend ended up spending the night with me.we got extremely lucky that we were parked at my house and not at the side of the road
On the touge with my Miata with shot motor mounts hit a bump during a turn lost all power flickering lights, surging, misfiring. Was stuck waiting 4 hours for tow. Ended up being a ground strap that had snapped
I have a modified 2019 wrx.. ripping down the thruway to a car show car bogs. Bad. I have zero boost, she's spitting and sputtering, it was Christmas in July. Pull to the shoulder and pop the hood to see my chargepipe raised about 2" inches 🤪 the crappy part with the FA20 is your turbo is down in front, charge pipe connects to the inlet, then up to the TMIC. There's not a lot of room to get down there and when your car sits 3" off the ground there's not much room to get under it either. We managed to get it back on and clamped with minor burns 🤣 and all was well.
My buddy has a base model Lancer with something like 180k KM, the last hundred of which have consisted of burn outs, launches off cold starts, just a general beating. Still runs good, dosen't burn oil but probably lost like 20hp (148 hp base).
I had just bought my foxbody like a month before, but one night I was driving back home and on the freeway I started to see sparks coming out of the left front fender well, I managed to get off the freeway into a parking lot and as soon as I was about to park the car the left week came of the bottom control arm….I was essentially driving on it without a castle nut the whole time(I even found out like two weeks before this happened when I got my tires changed, that both of my front wheels lugs weren’t torqued down or even fully tight)
I built a lowrider Mazda in the late eighties. I painted the wheels and was putting them back on and forgot to tighten the lugs on the right front tire. I was low enough that it was hardly noticable until I slowed down and the wheel passed me. I got out thinking my rotor would be cracked and there was nothing wrong with it. A cop pulled up and kept an eye on thing while I chased down the tire and put it back on. I wound up going back home to check all the lugs and then went on about my business.
Bought my dream car 9 hours away, flew up to buy it, got 15 mins from home and she overheated and lifted the head out of the blue (no boosting at the time)
Last week, the push fitting to my fuel rail blew off and sprayed E85 all over the engine bay. And some how..no fire. I watched E85 BOILING in a small pool on my engine.
As a Subaru fan and owner for over 20 years, I am always waiting for the moment my car breaks down, that is why I never take it on roadtrips. For roadtrips, I have a Toyota bc that rust bucket has given me absolutely zero problems that past 10 years.
I add oil every 2 weeks and check my alignment about every 3 months, rotate every 2k clean my filter every 3k. Car has 210k on stock, tuned 2.0 and still loves redline.
Its the night before my family trip to NYC (8:00pm), im on my from Oakland to Tracy to hang out with a girl. In total its a 45 minutes drive no traffic. I’m on the road in my 2004 spec-V Sentra and as im about halfway there my lights get dimmer and i notice that the throttle has no feedback, i start to get slower and slower and im forced to pull over to the left hand side of the road where the bart train runs in the middle of the freeway, there is no right shoulder. I have to then abandon my car run across the freeway, walk 40 minutes in pitch dark night to a safeway to wait for the tow truck i bring it home my parents are livid and it turns out the alternator decided to give out that night.
Last year when I had my first car, a 2001 Mustang V6 in performance red, a buddy and I were heading home from school. We were on the street in FRONT of his house, and suddenly I felt a shudder, and then we heard a loud pop. We looked at each other with that what the fuck look, but I shrugged because his driveway was a few feet in front of us. I go to hit the brakes for the stop sign, and suddenly the driver front dips down, the whole car jerks, I hear a loud scraping noise and it skids to a halt. I slowly got out of the car and looked at it to see it pretty much laying entirely on the ground. I managed to get underneath it enough to see that my balljoint had snapped in the middle of the road. We had to get a tow truck, and me and my cousin grabbed the front fender and lifted the car as high as we could so the tow truck could grab the front tires. Then we turned it on, put it in neutral, and towed that bitch to my driveway at like, 20 miles an hour, a solid 15 minutes away. Cuz and I lifted it back up and the tow truck pulled off and there she sat until I got it fixed 😂
I used to have an 04 Lincoln LS with the Jag V8 in it and those cars would run really hot, and there was an unknown leak somewhere in the coolant and all of a sudden the temp rose all the way up, it was maybe 20 degrees outside so I stopped let it cool off and had to limp it 20 minutes home
I have a stock 96 Miata. I decided it would be a great idea to take it from Florida to Pennsylvania on a road trip. The car had 200k miles on it then and only thing that was changed was the cooling system. When I went through Virginia a coil decided to fail and the motor only ran on 2 cylinders. I drove it about 300 miles the rest of the way there with no more issues. I fixed it up there and drove it back to Florida with no more issues lol
Saw you at C&O in Atlanta but didn’t speak I seen you were with Alejandra and didn’t want to bother but it was cool seeing you in person, hope all is well!
On my way from Georgia to El paso I was in my 2012 300 srt and it was the middle of the night where you could barely see anything. Long story short I hit a convertible top and it destroyed almost everything on the right hand side. I was stranded in a small town for 3 days and took a tow truck for 300 miles before making it to el paso.
back in 2017 I had recently bought a 2014 Camaro ss from a dealership.. 3 weeks later i was stranded on the side of the road in 112 degree southern California heat. The car had shut off while i was cruising and wouldn't start or even crank. I pulled over and had to wait outside for 2 hours in the heat for a tow truck. After taking the car back to the dealership to see what the issue was.. turns out the previous owner of the car had procharged it... and right before he took it to the dealer he took all of the aftermarket parts off of the car BUT DIDNT CHANGE THE TUNE BACK. The engine had seized. The only reason i found out this information was because when i went back to the car at the dealership (to grab personal belonging out of the car) one of the mechanics at the dealership had told me that he knew the previous owner and that the reason he had to part out and sell the car was because he had gotten in a divorce, he was so angry at life that he didn't care what happened with the car or the next owner. I always tell myself that I'm glad I don't have that car to this day because at the time (when I was 18) I knew i would have gotten in a lot of trouble with that car and may have even hurt myself or others. This has now led me to owning a 500hp BRZ that I have built from the ground up that i am absolutely in love with, so maybe everything happens for a reason.
93 camry clutch gave out completely today at a stoplight on a road that's a 60mph and as me and my buddy were trying to push it into the gas station on the side of the road some man in an old Chevy pickup came to a screeching spin out after changing lanes at speed, luckily nobody was hurt, brother came picked us up, went played some frolf, came back to the car, clutch gremlin had left and drove 3 hours back home after
So the first big car meet I ever went to after I bought my skyline, it broke down leaving. After a few tries of trying to start it I realized the fuel pump wasn't kicking on. Found that it blew the fuse, replaced the 25amp and it blew it too. Finally put a 30 in it just to make it home, trying to smell for anything burning the entire way home. Got home, pulled the pump, found that the power wires to the walbro someone installed before me were bear and shorting on the pump mount inside the tank.. maybe I should name my R32 Hiroshima. Lol *its all fixed now and good*
Worst breakdown story?
Me Infiniti left me stranded at the top of a hill when It blew the radiator
Also I'm working on an 82 oldsmobile delta 88 with a cammed 307 and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it when its done
Literally like 5 minutes ago I had to poop really bad only to come to the bathroom and see my toilet is stopped up. Me being me, I don't have a plunger. So I had to use the toilet brush to unclog the toilet. The water was risen to the top of the bowl and I splashed toilet water amongst other things everywhere. Worst breakdown ever.
I helped my dad swap a big block Chevy into his Chevelle, and the first time we took it out we overheated BAD. We had the wrong temp sensor for the motor, so the temp gauge didn't work. We were driving in this car and as we're going you can feel the heat start to seep through the firewall, and we don't think much of it till the AC also started to just blow hot air when we remembered to recharge it before we left, so we thought the condenser was just bad or something so we pull into a gas station to take a look, and when we pop the hood the headers were glowing! Thankfully we didn't BBQ that engine too bad, we only had to replace a couple parts on it before we could drive it again safely I think it was just some heat wrap for the headers a clutch fan to help out the electric ones and obviously a temp sensor and it was ready to go again.
How about a story of no return in my Subaru Legacy GT Limited 2001? The car that refused to let me get stuck anywhere.
Driving in Rural Ontario in the winter, new to the particular area and exploring, I turn down a road GPS suggested. As I turn down the dirt road I notice it's one car wide and I pass a sign that says "No Winter Maintenance"... we are plowing the snow with the bumper of the car, but it seems ok so I keep going - there really isn't an option unless I want to reverse out anyway. After a short while the snow gets so deep it is going *over the windshield*, I have the wipers on but not helping, in 3rd gear and the back end stepped out. We are on a farm access road - no houses or anything around! My fiancée nervously says "If we die, I love you!"... and then we get to the end of the road... Except it's a 10+ft wall of snow built up by snow plows from clearing the actual roads normal people drive... with no turning back, I conjure up memories of Dukes of Hazzard and figure 60kph is the right speed to hit the wall of snow. We burst through to the other side, and the road is clear. There is a stop sign and I calmly come to a stop, indicate my turn signal and join regular people on a normal plowed & paved road.
I was driving my Durango one rainy day and the u-joints on the driveshaft decided to part ways. The driveshaft proceeded to roll down the street. Thankfully I had 4WD.
Down shifted into 3rd going 120, stopped at top golf, played some rounds, motor locked up on the way home, guy I was racing saw me on the side of the HW, pulled over, had his buddy bring truck n trailer, and even helped fix the car for a while week 😂, mind you, this was a complete stranger! Still friends to this day
The car community is a special place with lots of people that might as well be guardian angels. Guys a legend.
real men help real racers
That's nice
you from MN?
Treat them well. That's a real one right there.
Haha I'm literally watching this while I'm in the passenger seat of a truck towing my bmw to the shop because I broke it 😂😂
I made this JUST FOR YOU!
@jack P well you must feel real special now
@@ThatDudeinBlue hahahah
So my friend's Audi had broken down one night. After calling a tow, my friend couldn't sit in the truck because of covid. So the tow guy loaded his Audi on the truck bed and my friend sat in his car until they got to the shop 😂
Karma for the BMW driver that was lingering in the passing lane, somewhere in life :P
That was a fun (cold!) day, but we ended up on the side of the road because the crank position sensor got loose, so I had to re-tighten it lol. The megasquirt put the car in half-sync mode. Steering is fixed btw, lays straight 11s on the road lol
Your car is my favorite review David has ever done! I would love to see some pulls or racing! Still think about how cool that Omni is!
I was just about to send this video to you but I see you’ve already made it here lol.
@@Yankee4life91 hey bud! Lol
When the cps is loose does it cause the car to buck while accelerating? My cars been throwing a PO335 code and I already replaced the sensor. It was good for awhile then it started doing it again.
@@listen7634 I have an aftermarket computer management system on my omni (Megasquirt3X) so when it gets loose it'll either kill power or go into a half sync limp mode kinda deal
I think 240s break when you look at them 😂
*exhales*
*240’s bumper falls off*
@@ThatDudeinBlue 🤣 😂
Nice f body!! I’ve got an 01 SS with a 6 speed they are super fun cars.
Nice! I have a few videos of it on my channel
i think my 240 has a kink. sometimes i hit it in frustration and i swear i hear a faint "harder daddy"
I have two events happen in when I was driving my WRX.
1) I was on my way to go see my girlfriend and I stopped at the mall because she wanted me to get her a bath bomb or something. I get it, I go back to my car, turn it on, let it warm up for twenty seconds . I drove not even getting to the exit to the main road, radiator pops open and smoke fucking goalies everywhere. Engine temp is getting way to hot. Got stranded and my girl actually had to come down and save me since I was getting it towed.
2) was cruising on Seattle I-5 south, was a s13 that wanted to do a pull, I was like “sure”. We get ready to do the pull, I won by two car lengths, started hearing rattling. I get off the freeway and started taking the back roads home. As I was trying to get home, my car fucking dies. I limp it to the side of the road and I check my oil, nothing. I spun a bearing and shattered my rod. Was waiting for hours to get a tow truck to come get me. My buddy came to rescue me but it was to late and my old ej255 was shit. Got a jdm ej205, VF52 turbo was still good so I’m still going haha.
Subarus are great for doing one highway pull
David have you thought about doing a video on your top 10 favorite cars you've reviewed? Something like that would be awesome
I’ve always thought about it- but such a hard list lol. I did one for 2019 if I remember right.
Why not a favorite for every year you’ve been doing reviews? It could be a subscriber special.
Or even like a series of your top favorite tuner cars, muscle, german, exotic and so on.
I still can’t believe the guy with the Saab never checked the oil when he bought the car
Hes a "car guy". I put it in parentheses because he prob didnt know a single thing about cars and bought a beat to trap used saab without doing any obvious checks
@@datrumakboy1020 they all learn some way. They either learn not to make the same mistakes or learn they shouldn’t have gotten nto cars in the first place
Exactly what I was thinking. He broke car himself
Yeah but if the owner doesn't check the oil Shirley before you go out for a rip in a car you have no idea about your going to check the oil so it doesn't lock up and send you into a tree at a hundred miles an hour like that's what I don't get dude should have does his own checks on the cars before he drives them I mean shit that's dumb as hell oh I'm just going to trust the owner like hell no that could have cost him his life and that's how dumb he is
My friend destroyed his 4.6 ford v8 because he never checked oil
Quite the spread there dude, cheers for the vid - Taz.
Nice, you guys follow him too
Lemon scented
My s2000 is on the dyno right now and I’m staring at my tuner with this dirty look while I watch this
how much power is it making
@@benjamin8558 it made 416 wheel. That’s on pump. I gotta go back and do an e85 tune next weekend. I’ll be happy if we can get to 450, I think injectors and e85 should get me there
Very nice, supercharged?
@@quest8795 there's are 450hp supercharged s2k on insta and its a rocket. sounds amazing too
@@quest8795 could be. The first s2000 i reviewed was supercharged making 414 wheel. Absolute rocket
I drove my friends evo x in NJ. It just came back from CBRD after a year of getting the the motor & trans built with a new CBRD turbo kit with a 35r turbo. My friend told me to rip it and as i entered 4th gear the clutch just stayed on the floored lol. My heart felt like it sank to my stomach and i felt so horrible (i couldnt sleep that night from guilt) im so thankful my friend was so understanding and cool about the situation and he told me “ dude once you turn on the race car, its basically rolling the dice. You’ll never know what will happen but it’s just part of the game. No worries”
June 4th, my dad’s car lost all coolant. He called me to meet him at his work 2.5 hours away so he can borrow a socket set. We thought it was the thermostat seal. Replaced that, went on our way back home.
Thirty minutes later, lost all coolant again on the side of the highway. I ended up sitting on the side of that highway for about two hours, while he went to parts stores. He came back, RTV’d the seal, left again.
Lost all coolant, stopped again, still two hours away from home. He says YOLO, takes my car to pick up his truck and a strap. We’re going to flat-tow it the two hours.
For four hours, I sat on the side of the road, alone, listening to music and watching TH-cam.
He comes back at 10 PM, we try and flat-tow it, but we can’t make it five minutes. It’s so stressful, it’ll take all night.
We leave the car at a gas station, we drive home in his truck and rent a dolly from Uhaul the next morning.
When you’ve been working on your 88 ranger ls swap and feel like all you can do is break things and then David makes me feel better. Appreciate you
I got passed by KennyG on a freeway once. Shit was cool.
🤣
Great breakdown story:
Turns out my timing belt snapped on my Ducati Monster (while on the way back from the shop that recommended I wait to change it with the new belt I had on me no less...) while at a stop light by a bar. I rolled it into the lot there and started to try to troubleshoot the issue. I initially thought it was a battery issue since I was at 12.1 volts and a guy in a golf cart nearby starts looking over and asking about it. He ends up helping me troubleshoot it and check spark with an extra plug he had. He then pulled me back to his garage on his golf cart through a public road. A true spectacle of a lifted golf cart with a siren pulling a Ducati by a tow strap down a side road. We ended up jumping the bike and got it running well, then I put it back together and was about to head out. I went to start it and it let out a loud clank, a internal clank. Hearing that we figure the bike is dead until real work can be done and this legend hooks up his neighbors trailer (after calling him) and towed me back to my place. Awesome guy following the best rule of helping other people who are broke down when you can.
was this in florida?
my focus SVT 3 weeks owning it 276k miles I was driving and some dude pulled out in front of me so I braked and swerved and the worn motor mounts shifted the motor so much the intake pulled apart from itself I put my hazards on and had the guy behind me push me to a mental health ward a block away I had to duct tape the manifold together and limp it to school then home I still am appreciative of the people that helped push my car I try and help more broke down cars now because of them
In my 9th gen civic si when I was on a hondata base tune. I completely lost all power while driving on the interstate. I pulled over and reflashed the car and I was good to go. I have an actual tune now with the mods I have now. 🤙🏾
Maybe it's just a civic that's why it has no power.....I'm jk btw my car is prolly much slower😂
@@bryanjschang Lol it's full bolt on now but yeah it's slow to me but quick to other people lol. Other than that one issue the Hondata base tune was reliable I used it for like a year before I got my actual tune once I finished putting all my parts on.
@@royelstevenson7907 I mean civic sis are generally pretty fast, faster than brzs at least😂
@@bryanjschang So true 🤣
one day i took my dads 911 to autozone to buy some wax for my car and i wasn’t doing anything stupid i let it warm up for 15-20 mins oil pressure was good oil temp was good and i cruised at 60 mph in 6th gear and as i start slowing down for a light i noticed something wasn’t right and as soon as i look at the cluster i see the engine light flashing and i feel the car has lost all power so i stop in a neighborhood and call my mom because my dad would’ve been pissed and long story short we sold the car with a broken motor made money from it and my dad is still mad to this day.
IMS bearing? If so, it was meant to happen.
@@quademasters249 dropped a valve ims was done already. it was a unfortunate turn of events
You cappin, boy? You can be honest on the internet lol, we won't judge if you floored it and it broke
After years and years watching you, David, I feel like you were some kind of a friend.
That means a lot coming from someone who don't tolerate people xD
You do a great work, dude, not only as a reviewer but as a community promoter.
Not a breakdown story, but the fact that my skyline tried to die at the light, literally right before you were supposed to review it 😂
Just changed my oil and filter in my 2018 wrx today. Full bolt on tuned by Ambot tuning and she’s running minty. Always gotta do the simple maintenance on modified cars because one thing will lead to another if you dont
Hey guys! Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be the camera car for a review of his, and I got to meet David for the 1st (2nd technically 🤣) time.
Just wanted to say that David is truly one of a kind and puts an enormous amount of effort into his videos behind the scenes. All that editing, traveling, and workload is not easy no matter who you are, and I wish for nothing but success for him and his channel!
I'm not looking for attention, I truly just want to get the message out there that behind the camera, David is one of the most approachable and humble guys I've ever spoken with.
Hit the notification 🔔 bell and let's hope the algorithm blesses the channel 🙏.
Don’t forget the importance of bolt checks either! Sometimes stuff rattles loose and it could end awful.
I drive a '93 Civic with a Type-R swap. Just rebuilt the entire front half (Internals, trans, coil-overs, CVs, C Arms, Ball joints, rack, etc.)
Was going to go get emissions done during my lunch break, but it snowed the night before and the entire of that day. Pulled out of work with no worries, then hit an ice block, thinking nothing of it, kept driving... then tried to turn right... the "new" ball joint split in half and popped out, resulting in a high center with no clearance for me to jack, push, or really do anything without a flatbed.
The next 5 hours waiting for a tow truck were pure hell. Got splashed with ice, slush, mag, and whatever else... THE WORST PART WAS I HALF WAY IN AN INTERSECTION ON A MAIN ROAD with a white car in a white out snow storm.
Luckily I have great friends in the car game, and was able to have someone who owns a tow company, come and rescue me, and another friend who had a couple traffic cones to help a bit to block off my car.
I am still working on rebuilding it, but wish me luck!
Hope you can review it some time!!!
So 2 years ago my mom got a 2016 GMC Acadia used with about 25k miles. And as we always do with our new cars. We drove it from Philly to Florida for our yearly vacation. On the way back in South Carolina the trans went on 95 and left us stranded. We coasted to the nearest town 1 mile away that ended up having a Chevy dealership
Cracked my oil pan on a my 96 Jetta glx after a race & pushed it pretty much 3-4 miles alone to get to my house and once I got near my house I realized .. I lived on a hill…. Long story short appreciate your mom people because that is the women who no matter what will always be there for you. Mama bear helped me push the car then she pushed it w our pick up the rest of the hill.. yea shout out to my mama you the real mvp❤️
What other secrets are you hiding under your snapback 👀
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I daily a 85 honda prelude and one day someone was tailgating me hard, so I took a hard turn at the intersection and immediately starts to bog from flooding. I barely limped it home and long story short single-handedly disconnected like 100 vacuum lines and got the carbs out so the carburetor shop could fix the broken float. Even the old guy there was shocked that they could find a replacement, and has been running perfectly since
ej’s are so fragile at times but these saabs are so beautiful and unique
So here's a story. Was taking my E46 325 down to the south cost of the UK. Came out of a service station, hit a pothole and killed the alternator.
Had to lave the car outside someones house, walk into the nearest town, got a lift to the train station. Train home back to South Wales, had to get picked up as it was midnight and couldn't get all the way home, slept, hired a self drive low loader (transit type) went back to get the car. That was a weekend I'll remember for a bit.
Me and my buddy went down to cleetus’s soft opening of the freedom factory we took a 96 caprice with a cracked block, went as kind of a send off for the cars motor we get all the way down to Florida from Pennsylvania on that cracked block, no heat , no ac and nothing to keep us warm the winsheild on the way down was pure ice, got pulled over multiple times until we finnaly made it down in 10 hours, we enjoyed to meet had fun and got ready to leave let’s just say we got tranded back up in West Virginia for 5 days no money slept in the car behind a motel until we finally got it trailered home (we decided this trip the night before mind you) but all in all a worth it experience and something we will never forget
Proud owner of a DA Integra GS 5spd b18a1, last summer I spun two rod bearings, it was raining out and I feel the loss of power , I go to pull into this gas station , push the clutch it and the motor stalls immediately. It was locked up completely. I bought the car in 2015 from it's second owner running with issues, it always made this squealing noise on start up until I blipped the throttle....🤣, Drive it daily for about 4 1/2 years , the car was super original from factory , I replaced every relay, switch, bulb, sensor, fluid, I'm finally at the stage where the engine is fully rebuilt with all new components and ready to primed and started up. 🙏🧠🧠🔥💯❤️
I once taught myself how to tune my l28et and in the process I got a head gasket leak. I changed the headgasket and 2 pistons because it had detonation issues. So while it got the gasket change I had also ported the turbo header. No joke first drive out it ended up over boosting and I had the over boost protection too high. So I was coasting on the highway with a huge white cloud behind me. I got out and ran a red light to avoid stalling and avoid smoking up the entire intersection(I looked before going don’t worry). And drove about 2 miles home with a completely blown head gasketlol. That Datsun never left me stranded even when it blew up the water pump it still drove 10 miles home. My 300zx on the other hand had a bad MAF and left me stranded at the tax office when I was registering it lol.
Sounds like a 300zx, something randomly breaking all the time.
I bought an 87 Honda CRX si with a little over 400,000 miles from Arizona & planned to drive it back all the way to Texas. About halfway through the Arizona desert, car starts overheating. I had to limp it all the way back to the previous gas station luckily only about a mile away. Everyone kinda gave me shit for buying a car with such high mileage, but long story short, changed the thermostat & coasted all the way back at 55 mph. Cars here at home & still miraculously runs.
370ztt, was going to work getting on the interstate doing my normal thing. Jumped on it, 17psi of boost, and got a windshield full of coolant. Blown headgasket. One new Mazworx engine later. Good to go. How did I get home. Called the wife to come get me. Drove back with truck and trailer, loaded the car up. It was a bad day.
Was cruising down some back roads and the car suddenly stalled, I coasted a good way down the road until the car stopped. I got out, checked, fuel pump fuse popped. Ipulled an interior fuse and put it in and got back home.
1500 miles from home, my 93 Crown Victoria lunched the intake valve on cylinder 1. Limped it back to the hotel and then had it towed to my buddy's shop. Got a rental Mazda 5 (cargo room) to get back home with everything but my car. Over the next year, they swapped in a 2003 Town Car (4.6L PI engine similar to the 98-04 Mustang GT), hacked in OBD-II and put coil on plug setup on it. I flew back up there and drove it back with a few bad sensors, got it tuned at a local shop and later retuned at another shop and have been fine tuning it ever since. The transmission has now be j-modded and shifts a little hard 1-2 when you get on it and there's a little pinging somewhere in the middle of the fuel map on moderate load. It's still my daily, but is quite the project car now.
Had a transmission seize and speedometer sensor melt off due to not putting transmission oil in after a clutch install. From that day forward, I never let a shop touch my cars.
1991 arecibo PR. My build was a 81 corrola wit a 3tc and 150 shot, threw rod after countless passes. Drove home wit 3 pistons, after jb welding the hole on the side of the road. A testament of a Toyota resilience!
Was driving my MS3 on the dragon when my BPV unbolted itself somehow and the O2 sensor came undone and causes the car to freak out so I had to limp home going 10 miles an hour almost the whole way
Man I don't don't see MS3s anymore, as rare as they already are. I feel like the only one who drives one these days. Miss waving at other MS3 drivers on the chance we would encounter each other lol.
My 72 El Camino left me stranded an hour from home. Turned out to be the distributor cap was loosening itself and throwing the timing off causing backfire in the carb. I was stranded for 7 hours in the June heat waiting for a tow truck.
Here’s a horrible story but mine. I have a coyote swapped new edge. Me and my dad had just finished putting the motor and transmission in . I was breaking in the car for 4 days getting it ready for TX2k. I had the car filled with my full drug set up and all my clothes about 45 minutes out on a 6 hour trip the car just decides to snap a chain and it was all over. There I was on the side of the highway waiting for 3 hours for my dad to come pick me up with a trailer. What was supposed to be a fun week in Houston turned into a week of taking the car apart AGAIN in my drive way. Car broke again after fixing it … I just ordered my brand new motor a couple days ago fresh 0 mile gen 2 motor. I can’t give up on this build 🤘🏼
I bought a WRX 6 years ago. I had it maybe 2 days and I had a friend behind me on a curvy road in WNC. We got to a straight and I laid into the throttle and in 4th gear the car Jerks real hard and starts to missfire. I had to limp it home 45 minutes on 3 cylinders. It was a blow coil pack on cylinder 4. Later on I did a launch in the car and pushed the rod through the clutch fork. Acted like a blown clutch so I limped it home and ordered a stage 2 southbend clutch kit. Found out when we pulled the transmission the rod that pushes the clutch fork went all the way through it. We fabbed up a new fork and it's still in the car I did put the new clutch in and it's still in the car to this day. Now it's getting a built motor with 2.5 block and 207 big port heads. Hoping to compete in some road racing next year.
Bought a AP1 S2000 Facelift (Europe) with about 42k, the dealer gave me 3 months mechanical warranty. The day after my warranty ran out my clutch bearing exploded while I was on the way back from a car show from another city. The pedal was stuck to the floor, I pulled over and yanked the pedal back up on the side of the motorway. After that the pedal would not disengage the clutch. I was able to slot it into first and start the car and gas it and ride the start up and pull away. I could up shift and squeeze the clutch as much as possible but I had to rev match on the way down. That's how I learn rev match down shifting. I was able to drive 2hrs and get back off the closest offramp near where I lived in some of the tightest traffic situations without having to stop. To which point I coasted into a gym car park on the exit and called a tow truck 10 mins from my house. turns out there was a stage 3 clutch in the car and the bearing was absolute trash that came with it and decided to explode after I had been on a run with a friend and his 34 skyline GTT
Popping an intercooler coupler (gasket in my case, stock top-mount intercooler for an EJ255 on a Legacy GT) is actually the only time I've been stranded by a mechanical failure. Despite that car's best efforts.
As far as my own dumbassery, I took both right tires off my truck blasting around on a gravel road, in the fog, in the middle of the night. That was a fun phone call to my parents to make.
Just had to walk over 10 miles into a town after my WRX lost an oil line coming down a mountain. No phone service, coasted as far as I could get, then walked the rest of the way to find someone with a landline. Living that Subaru life.
i can relate to the knowing the risk of buying a speed 3. my friend asked me what are you gonna do now that you got your speed. i said save up to replace the motor. he asked why. i said. they are known for blowing up for practically no reason if any maintenance is skipped
I was driving my 2003 Subaru WRX to class for my chem final exam, which was a group project, then the radiator blew up on the freeway, took the nearest exit, parked it at a mcdonalds, ubered to class, aced the presentation, dad came to rescue me with a new radiator, we fixed it in the mcdonalds parking lot
In 2015 I was a senior in HS. Just turned 17 and had my first car (1969 pontiac lemans, hugger orange). I was driving it home from a shop that just had some electrical work done and the guys working on the car forgot to put the hood pins back in. I was Cruising, going 50 mph about 3-4 miles from home when suddenly WHOOSH, the whole hood comes up and smacks the windshield. Luckily no glass broke. Had to have it towed to YET ANOTHER shop. Shortly after we sold it for pennies so I could get a reliable college commuter. Huge mistake. I still miss that car. Also had a Jeep engine blow up on me a few years later. That was fun lol
My favorite mishap was when your 2JZ motor went on a permanent leave of absence at about the same time as Evan Shanks' 2JZ ;)
Had a really old isuzu suv back in 2012, parked at a friend's apartment to pick him up to go to our college graduation ceremony rehersal. As i was sitting there idle, the engine just shut off, no warning, no reving, fuel was full. We called a taxi and i had to come back to it the next day. Turns out, it had a control valve for the fuel that broke and thats why it just died lol. That car was sold, but i know its still running solid today
Had a 2001 neon .
I was sitting in road construction it was about 107 out side with brand new asphalt below the car.
The fuel in the rail atomized and wouldn't get through to the injector. Nothing but air was coming out of the shrater valve on the fuel rail. 130$ tow got me home for the car to simply start right back up after cooling down.
I actually put a fuel return on that bucket after that and never had another issue again
Bought a corvette c6 high milage, installed a cam in that sucker. Driving 120mph and all of a sudden my power steering goes crazy and it sounds like my engine just exploded- huge smoke coming from my engine. on a NYC highway i pulled on a small shoulder, my harmonic balancer decided it was just gonna exit lol. Towed the car back home, installed a racing harmonic balancer a week later and it runs like new.
I blew a rod through the oil pan on my 87 civic sedan in Seattle on the freeway and stopped at the next exit to get it towed home but I didn't have towing coverage on my insurance so I had to limp it home about 30 minutes north and it didn't shut off the whole way with zero oil and a giant hole in the bottom of the oil pan. Still drove onto the tow truck three days later.
Back in 2015 I bought a big turbo srt4 that was built for autocross. Still to this day, the fastest car I've ever drove. After 6 days of owning the car, I just had it wash and was taking it to give my dad a ride. On the on ramp to the interstate I was getting on it hard and shifting from 3rd to 4th and broke the input shaft. I didn't have a tow hook on the front, so I wrapped a strap around my intake manifold to get pulled home. 6 months and $5,000 later and it was never the same. I ended up trading it for a G8 GT.
In 2019 I had purchased my 1999 stock miata and I had a blast with it, but I didn’t know much about cars. I was due for an oil change so I decided to take it to Walmart which was the worst decision ever. I took the car to the mountains the next week and as we were coming back, the check engine line starts flashing and the motor starts ticking really loud and the car dies. Turns out I spun a bearing and the oil that I paid to get changed was never changed. I had about 2 quarts of sluggy oil when I took the motor out. Please never never never take your car to Walmart, and always check your oil after changing it.
I used to drive a 1990 Toyota Corolla in high school. Blizzard came the night before and as I was headed to school I hit some black ice. Did a 180 didn’t wreck the car but the car wouldn’t start. Low and behold the previous owner had too small a battery in the battery box and the connectors had dislodged themselves. So I stuck a penny between the post and the connecter and bungee corded the battery in place until I got home that day.
I had a dodge caliber srt4. Install a tune on the car with 1.5 bar max boost. After test driving with couple quick acceleration, the engine won't idle right and there's some turbo noise. Thought the turbo or engine got blowed up. After closer inspection, it's the pcv hose got blowed off which caused a vacuum leak (the factory hose clamp probably couldn't handle the extra boost lol).
Some of these reviews are a serious throwback considering i was 14 for that kenny g evo video and now im 7 years older
1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup (Had a 1.6 Carbed Gas Motor) Bought it and drove it 300 miles home with 0 issues besides losing reverse xD. First drive after getting it home I floored it and heard a pop and felt my gas pedal sink to the floor. The throttle return spring on the carb snapped. I walked 3 miles to the nearest auto parts store for a new one.
My worst one was when my Brake pad ejected out of my rear left caliper on my FRS. Backstory, it is a 2014 FRS bought in 2019 from a mazda dealership, they cheated safety by putting a rotor that was basically a thin rotor set for some other car on OEM pads. Long story short, I am driving home and 2km away from home on the street, I am going 60kmh and I hit the brakes, hear a loud bang, pedal drops and I lose all pressure. Pumped the brakes non stop, downshifted to 3rd and pulled the handbrake. Had to limp it home at 20 kmh on a caliper that was sitting on my rotor. Car sat in a garage for 1 months before Brakes were put on. I ended up replacing rotors, lines, pads and fluids.
Beat to hell altima, driving over 2 states and broke down on the interstate. Fuel pump went out, phones were all dead, it was like, the dead of winter in the good ol' midwest, and we were there for 9 hours lmao. That's my biggest experience being stranded.
Last summer, Father’s Day weekend. It was a Sunday afternoon. I was driving my 2013 Scion FR-S that had got the valve spring job done about 5,000 miles ago. Was just cruising on the freeway as I get off I start to hear a funny rattle coming from the engine bay. Now because I’d previously put an exhaust, intakes, and headers I just thought maybe a bolt was coming loose or a side maker was starting to pop out. So I decided to take side streets home. As I get about 6 miles on the side streets it starts idling weird. Then the rattle got louder, so I called my dad. My dad not knowing how bad it was told me try to get it home and hung up. I get about 10 more miles and I hear this loud bang. One of my rocker arms came loose in the engine. Knocking into another rocker arm then getting stuck in one of the cams. After getting launched into the valve cover and putting a 5 inch whole in my valve cover. My brother who had been smoking a Tri tip for 12 hours came by to see what he could do. But the car was literally done. So he calls AAA takes two hours to finally speak to a real person. Then it took another hour for the tow truck to show up. The tow truck gets there and tells us he can only take the car and leaves us there because of Covid. So I had to call a friend to take my brother and I home. We later found out after taking the car to Toyota. That they used too much engine sealer and it leaked into the oil ports clogging them. Which over time without realizing starved half the motor destroying the whole engine. Toyota ended up paying for the engine but for my little FRS I found out through Toyota that this was the cars third Motor at 80,000 miles on the chassis. I ended up trading the car in and getting a 370z.
This may be the opposite of a breakdown story, but I was in my new edge Mustang GT doing a roll race again my buddy in his Camaro SS, when I shifted from 2-3 I actually went from 2-1.. Quickly put the clutch in and put it in 4th… Car drove fine, nothing ever came of it. Those 2v’s are solid motors.
I was 17 at the time and had only been driving stick for about a year so spare me the grief in the replies lol
So I had this 04 Volvo S40 1.9t. I was about to head home from college for winter break (650 mile drive) about 15 min in and the car shoots a plug out of the head, catches fire, then puts itself out. I then drove back to campus on 2 cylinders (one coil pack controlled 2 cylinders and the plug that came out melted the coil pack) after pulling itself out of a snow bank burning tires
I had a 06 Subaru Forester NA and I went drifting in the winter one night. First time I drove it hard and then suddenly I couldn't get any heat through the heater. Went home and took it for a drive the next day and the temperature guage went to sky high. I got out to let it cool down and the coolent was gushing out of the reservoir. Got a tow and turns out I blew the head gaskets 🙃. After the engine was took apart and that was replaced I had no more issue with the car until I traded it in for my 2016 Forester XT.
taking a porsche 924 to a track day. we knew the battery was dodgy so we brought a spare (from a different car) and some jumper cables - It ran fine but didn't like to start. About an hour into the 2 hour drive to the track, the voltage meter in the cabin starts dropping quickly and the car eventually judders to a halt. Lucky for me I have a spare battery...that is too tall to fit in the engine bay with the bonnet down and the terminals are a different size so I cant connect them to the wiring....The solution? sit the battery in the footwell and run jumper cables out of the passenger window and through the top of the bonnet to the battery pickups in the engine bay.
It worked! still had to bump start the car while cranking it but we managed to get home once she started up.
Twas the night before I sold my 2gb eclipse, full boost was a thought in the head, pulley said no and the temp rose, grabbed the belt and stretched it over and yelled “bump that bro” and home we went with not a boost in sight
A bit late to this, but last February I blew the auto transmission up in my FC RX7 coming home from work. Had known it was on its way out for awhile, but never expected it to be so spectacular. Started driving home and it clunked into 3rd quite hard and a massive cloud of smoke was following from the rear end and I looked at my girlfriend and said "whelp, there went the trans."😂. We got all the way home and when I went to back up to straighten the car out (the parking spot was on the side of a really steep hill), I discovered that the FC no longer had reverse. And I put it in nuetral to try and coast a bit but ended up DRIVING IN NUETRAL. I was genuinely so confused but didn't want to take it out of gear and risk having to push it up hill. I drove around that area 3 times until I could get the right angle to whip it into the driveway quickly without hitting ice or not having enough momentum to push through the snow on the driveway
I was on up around Williamsburg, VA in my Mazda speed miata. At this time all I had was a muffler delete. This guy I worked with had a 95 or 96 Mustang gt the good old 4.7L. So we were running on the HWY just playing around. And we were neck and neck. And my stock turbo inlet pipe blows off and makes this huge pop that he heard in the next lane. After that I had to call flying miata and get the full intake kit they make for that car. He never really let me live that down.
I really enjoy your reviews man. I'm glad I decided to sub to this channel 🤘. Love the variety
Just finished doing a b20b swap in my 89 civic with almost all bolt Ons super light fly wheel new shift linkage bushings and all, fully gutted almost race car ready for me to finish my build. As I was driving it home. I couldn't go into any hear but 3rd and 5th. Questioning what was going on. I struggled to get it home praying that I wouldn't hit a red light on a hill (which I did) ended up finding out my baby could take off in 3rd which was quite impressive. But the shift linkage weight broke. Fixed that issue with a new shift linkage the next day ended up money shifting into a transmission failure in a race....good times man lol
Last year my friend at the time had a B8 Audi S4 Stage 2+ Dual pulley pushing around 500hp, it was stick shift and it was the first car i really pushed driving stick. I did a quick pull 1-2-3 and clutched into 4th all was going amazing, so i did another but that’s when things went wrong… i did a pull in 2nd-3rd and then went to shift into 4th but instead i mis shifted into 2nd and blew the engine. That thing has cost me around 10k to get another engine and get it swapped into the car. A few weeks after my friend got his car back he slammed it into a tree. Thankfully he is safe and still alive
My first car, a 1988 Trans Am GTA. I was about 2 blocks from home when everything just cut off. I had no power to anything. No dash, no cranking, windows, nothing. Except the headlights (but not the motors) so the headlights turned on, but didnt flip up.
Turns out, GM in their infinite wisdom decided to run essentially all of the electronics of the car off the starter. Well on that power wire was a single fusable link. The link blew and the effect was more or less the same thing as disconnecting the battery.
Another time, the same car wouldnt start because the fuse for the fuel pump (which for some reason wasnt located in the fuse box) blew. There was a random single fuse located at the nose of the car in its own little container. Why in the world GM decided to do that is beyond me, but I missed a job interview over it. 0/10 experience.
Fun F-Body fact : On 4th gens, if the brake light on the spoiler burns out, the cruise control doesn't work since its powered through there...for SOME reason.
A deer ran out in front of me, and I went into a ditch, I've had my motor blow its rings and loose compression in 2 cylinders, I've had my axel pop out, and I couldn't move. I've had a coolant hose pop off, but had all the tools including more coolant to fix it. I've had my steering shaft come loose while parking on a hill. All theese things made me stranded either for a few minnutes, a few hours, over night, or longer, and yes it's all 1 car. My eg hatch civic with a bswap.
Go k20 or b20 bottom with b16 head
So much for being reliable lol
@@edgarj415 I swapped in a b20 in November of last year, and I do have a gsr head for it, but I don't know if I want to put it on, because it hasn't broken down on me since that first week after the swap were like everything went wrong, but I fixed it.
@@WoozieWookie it's been reliable since the first week after the swap. Everything except loosing compression happened in that first week, that I listed above.
@@Benjamin.OBrien I boosted a b20 with stock head and I did good for about 2 years the kid I sold it to blew it up cause it had no oil but I’m sure that set up would be good for years with reliable maintenance
My car’s electric fan didn’t work when I bought it so one time I hit traffic and it just got hotter and hotter until I had to pull over and wait for it to cool. I literally put it in neutral and rolled down the side of the highway on the brakes with the engine off to get closer to the next exit. Trafic was like 5mph.
I had to go some back roads and turn off the car whenever I stopped so that It wouldn’t overheat.
Decided to watch this while replacing the coolant flange on my b7
I bought a turbo Miata that was a project. It ran and drove fine. I changed the oils before taking off with it. 20 minutes into my drive and it overheating. So I pull off to the side of the freeway to let it cool off. Traffic was terrible so I wasn’t worried about getting hit. Cools down and drive off the freeway to diagnose the issue and it’s the spring from the radiator cap missing so all my coolant was boiling out of my radiator. I got lucky autozone was still open 9pm 10mins away to get a replacement. But I had to wait again for the car to cool down before taking off (filled with water from a gas station) and once I got there. The rest of the way home was nerve wrecking but non-eventful. I was just getting into cars and learning how to wrench at the time.
Driving to Michigan to visit my parents in my 02 Jetta TDI I went to nail it and it made a horrific thunk and the whole car shut off and I coasted to the side of the road. The transmission grenaded itself so bad that I wasn’t able to restart my car since it had just frozen up and was stuck and wouldn’t even let the motor turn over. $175 dollars later I had it towed home and had to rent a car to make it home to visit my Mom who was in the hospital. She passed away about 2 years later.
I’m still not done modifying it to how I want it (for now of course since it’s my daily still) but I still want to at the very least TRY to have you review my 2012 Skyactiv Mazda 3 sedan. There’s a couple of things I regret about the purchase of the car though but the MAIN one is that 18 year old me got it in automatic because 18 year old me didn’t know how to drive manual. For what it’s worth, the other regrets I have with the purchase are as follows: I wish I had gotten a hatchback model, and then lastly I wish I had went with the non “Skyactiv” 2.5L engine. Other than that I have LOVED every minute of my ownership with the car
I drove a 2015 for a year to work and put about 25k miles on it. Definitely a nice car. What’s crazy is that the 2.0 skyactive has like a 13 or 14:1 compression. So when they turbo them they put a big turbo on them since smaller once would be restrictive with all the compression they have.
One time I was with my friend on his 2001 Ford ranger.we were coming to my place at midnight when all of a sudden his truck starts stalling.we ended up starting it up again and drove it all the way home.right when we got there it completely died.we had to change the battery the next morning.my friend ended up spending the night with me.we got extremely lucky that we were parked at my house and not at the side of the road
On the touge with my Miata with shot motor mounts hit a bump during a turn lost all power flickering lights, surging, misfiring. Was stuck waiting 4 hours for tow. Ended up being a ground strap that had snapped
I have a modified 2019 wrx.. ripping down the thruway to a car show car bogs. Bad. I have zero boost, she's spitting and sputtering, it was Christmas in July. Pull to the shoulder and pop the hood to see my chargepipe raised about 2" inches 🤪 the crappy part with the FA20 is your turbo is down in front, charge pipe connects to the inlet, then up to the TMIC. There's not a lot of room to get down there and when your car sits 3" off the ground there's not much room to get under it either. We managed to get it back on and clamped with minor burns 🤣 and all was well.
My buddy has a base model Lancer with something like 180k KM, the last hundred of which have consisted of burn outs, launches off cold starts, just a general beating. Still runs good, dosen't burn oil but probably lost like 20hp (148 hp base).
I had just bought my foxbody like a month before, but one night I was driving back home and on the freeway I started to see sparks coming out of the left front fender well, I managed to get off the freeway into a parking lot and as soon as I was about to park the car the left week came of the bottom control arm….I was essentially driving on it without a castle nut the whole time(I even found out like two weeks before this happened when I got my tires changed, that both of my front wheels lugs weren’t torqued down or even fully tight)
I built a lowrider Mazda in the late eighties. I painted the wheels and was putting them back on and forgot to tighten the lugs on the right front tire. I was low enough that it was hardly noticable until I slowed down and the wheel passed me. I got out thinking my rotor would be cracked and there was nothing wrong with it. A cop pulled up and kept an eye on thing while I chased down the tire and put it back on. I wound up going back home to check all the lugs and then went on about my business.
Bought my dream car 9 hours away, flew up to buy it, got 15 mins from home and she overheated and lifted the head out of the blue (no boosting at the time)
Last week, the push fitting to my fuel rail blew off and sprayed E85 all over the engine bay. And some how..no fire. I watched E85 BOILING in a small pool on my engine.
As a Subaru fan and owner for over 20 years, I am always waiting for the moment my car breaks down, that is why I never take it on roadtrips. For roadtrips, I have a Toyota bc that rust bucket has given me absolutely zero problems that past 10 years.
I add oil every 2 weeks and check my alignment about every 3 months, rotate every 2k clean my filter every 3k. Car has 210k on stock, tuned 2.0 and still loves redline.
Its the night before my family trip to NYC (8:00pm), im on my from Oakland to Tracy to hang out with a girl. In total its a 45 minutes drive no traffic. I’m on the road in my 2004 spec-V Sentra and as im about halfway there my lights get dimmer and i notice that the throttle has no feedback, i start to get slower and slower and im forced to pull over to the left hand side of the road where the bart train runs in the middle of the freeway, there is no right shoulder. I have to then abandon my car run across the freeway, walk 40 minutes in pitch dark night to a safeway to wait for the tow truck i bring it home my parents are livid and it turns out the alternator decided to give out that night.
Last year when I had my first car, a 2001 Mustang V6 in performance red, a buddy and I were heading home from school. We were on the street in FRONT of his house, and suddenly I felt a shudder, and then we heard a loud pop. We looked at each other with that what the fuck look, but I shrugged because his driveway was a few feet in front of us. I go to hit the brakes for the stop sign, and suddenly the driver front dips down, the whole car jerks, I hear a loud scraping noise and it skids to a halt. I slowly got out of the car and looked at it to see it pretty much laying entirely on the ground. I managed to get underneath it enough to see that my balljoint had snapped in the middle of the road. We had to get a tow truck, and me and my cousin grabbed the front fender and lifted the car as high as we could so the tow truck could grab the front tires. Then we turned it on, put it in neutral, and towed that bitch to my driveway at like, 20 miles an hour, a solid 15 minutes away. Cuz and I lifted it back up and the tow truck pulled off and there she sat until I got it fixed 😂
I used to have an 04 Lincoln LS with the Jag V8 in it and those cars would run really hot, and there was an unknown leak somewhere in the coolant and all of a sudden the temp rose all the way up, it was maybe 20 degrees outside so I stopped let it cool off and had to limp it 20 minutes home
I have a stock 96 Miata. I decided it would be a great idea to take it from Florida to Pennsylvania on a road trip. The car had 200k miles on it then and only thing that was changed was the cooling system. When I went through Virginia a coil decided to fail and the motor only ran on 2 cylinders. I drove it about 300 miles the rest of the way there with no more issues. I fixed it up there and drove it back to Florida with no more issues lol
Saw you at C&O in Atlanta but didn’t speak I seen you were with Alejandra and didn’t want to bother but it was cool seeing you in person, hope all is well!
On my way from Georgia to El paso I was in my 2012 300 srt and it was the middle of the night where you could barely see anything. Long story short I hit a convertible top and it destroyed almost everything on the right hand side. I was stranded in a small town for 3 days and took a tow truck for 300 miles before making it to el paso.
back in 2017 I had recently bought a 2014 Camaro ss from a dealership.. 3 weeks later i was stranded on the side of the road in 112 degree southern California heat. The car had shut off while i was cruising and wouldn't start or even crank. I pulled over and had to wait outside for 2 hours in the heat for a tow truck. After taking the car back to the dealership to see what the issue was.. turns out the previous owner of the car had procharged it... and right before he took it to the dealer he took all of the aftermarket parts off of the car BUT DIDNT CHANGE THE TUNE BACK. The engine had seized. The only reason i found out this information was because when i went back to the car at the dealership (to grab personal belonging out of the car) one of the mechanics at the dealership had told me that he knew the previous owner and that the reason he had to part out and sell the car was because he had gotten in a divorce, he was so angry at life that he didn't care what happened with the car or the next owner.
I always tell myself that I'm glad I don't have that car to this day because at the time (when I was 18) I knew i would have gotten in a lot of trouble with that car and may have even hurt myself or others.
This has now led me to owning a 500hp BRZ that I have built from the ground up that i am absolutely in love with, so maybe everything happens for a reason.
Still dealing with my clutch master cylinder after breaking down on a busy street in bumper to bumper traffic driving my mk1 audi tt
93 camry clutch gave out completely today at a stoplight on a road that's a 60mph and as me and my buddy were trying to push it into the gas station on the side of the road some man in an old Chevy pickup came to a screeching spin out after changing lanes at speed, luckily nobody was hurt, brother came picked us up, went played some frolf, came back to the car, clutch gremlin had left and drove 3 hours back home after
So the first big car meet I ever went to after I bought my skyline, it broke down leaving. After a few tries of trying to start it I realized the fuel pump wasn't kicking on. Found that it blew the fuse, replaced the 25amp and it blew it too. Finally put a 30 in it just to make it home, trying to smell for anything burning the entire way home. Got home, pulled the pump, found that the power wires to the walbro someone installed before me were bear and shorting on the pump mount inside the tank.. maybe I should name my R32 Hiroshima. Lol *its all fixed now and good*