My uncles old boss actually did the motor swap back in 07 he had a high mileage 04 2500hd sierra with the lq4 6.0 that had a rod knock he and his mechanic at the time rented a 6.0 express van and in 4 hours had swapped the engines between the two but then he had the balls enough to call you haul and report the issue if the engine knocking do the came with a replacement van and gave home half his money back for the inconvenience
A few years ago, I came home on my lunch break, and I had a guy trying to cut my catalytic converters out with a reciprocating saw, the very intelligent human unfortunately didn’t realize it was an unmarked police car and it was one of the most interesting arrests I’ve ever taken part of since he got secondary degree burns on his hands after he cut the exhaust pipes and went to catch the cats with no gloves…. Then he tried to sue the town for pain and suffering from his burn injuries.
I managed a uhaul. As long as the truck comes back running smooth, then nobody would know until it went in for its next service. And there could be dozens of customers in that time period, so no way to pin it on anyone. Uhual does have a fraud prevention service, but its all computer based, not set up for stuff like engine swaps.
The funny thing is, if they just didn't brag, they probably never would've been caught. Also, customers would probably enjoy the better fuel mileage and not notice the performance difference because of a smaller engine. We expect UHauls to be slow garbage anyhow, so they'd not even notice.
@@guard13007 Agreed about the mileage. Some of the vans we rented had v10s that they absolutely didnt need. Woudl have been better off with a v6 for what they got used for.
I can't imagine the audacity those people had lol, this is peak fuck you to the rental company lol, its so absurd that probably nobody would even assume someone would be so stupid to do something like this.
I also used to work at uhaul. All they do is go after your credit. They can't really do anything if you give them a card that gets bounced back. @@Pemj2k I've seen people return trucks missing wheels and extra shit welded on and they don't care
@@Pemj2k I worked at enterprise in the department that would handle these sort of things. People try taking all sorts of things off rentals, wheels and tires are probably the most common. It’s also the easiest to catch. People are held accountable, yes they are given the bill for everything to be corrected, and no they will never be able to rent from any of their brands again. 15 years ago you may have been able to get away with it not so much anymore.
Ive had the cats stolen off my 2011 gmc 2500HD because of the ground clearance. It got so bad in my area that the government stepped in, you need gvt photo ID to sell scrap metal to a scrapyard for anything now, and when it comes to catalytics, you also have to bring in the registration for the vehicle it came from, and they cross reference the vin number against a database of one's reported stolen. it hasn't completely stopped the thefts, however it has reduced it drastically, if I had to guess by around 90-95% if not more.
The yards where I live have all made a policy they do not buy or sell catalytic converters. Any car comes in they cut them off when they drain the fluids, and if you show up trying to sell one they ban you.
Had the same thing in tennessee cause one of the two cats for my 00 silverado were shot, but with ID (and them being unbolted rather than sawzalled) they accepted them heartily, even if one was blown out
@fraggingfox5225 exactly. I live in eastern Canada above maine. If you unbolt a cat rather than Sawzall it off. Odds are it is from your own vehicle. Bugger locktite, rust is the best threadlocker I've ever run into. Lol
Do you live in Virginia because that's exactly how it is here. Just to recycle a bag of soda and Monster cans the local scrap yard scanned my ID and put me in their system.
@Stonerman135 we have a different system for cans/bottles etc, when you buy, say a can of coke, you pay a 10c deposit on it (not taxed), and then they go to a seperate recycling place, not the scrap yards, and then you get the full 10c back for returning them. Surprisingly, a lot of people don't end up returning them, I think I saw somewhere around 3 million dollars worth of deposits paid, have not been redeemed, in a fairly small province is quite a bit. Not entirely sure why, takes all of 5 minutes to take them there.
My buddies FBO 17’ GTI was stolen last year, still don’t know how as there were no cameras in the parking lot. Friends FBO Accord stolen a couple weeks ago. Makes me glad I have the Mustang, PATTS system bulletproof.
The Emblems on 'luxury' vehicles don't pop up and down due to stealth or looks. It was passed as a law within the EU to protect civilians in case a passer by topples next to one and injures himself with the metal bling. Funny, yet looks cool.
@@lordweinreich476 Pedestrians should stay out of the road. It's a shame Europeans don't seem to be smart enough to do that so they need big daddy government to penalize car manufacturers.
@@lordweinreich476 yeah but 2 things. 1. Who makes the decision on if a hood ornament is dangerous or not? Are these rule put in by elected representatives? Are they fair? And 2. wouldn't it just be easier to put the responsibility on the driver/owner? Some of those rules can seem a bit arbitrary.
Thing is, a full-spectrum RGB light is a full-spectrum RGB light. They're not expensive or hard to find. So yeah, it has to be a real ghetto setup for that to make sense.
The Porsche lights have been tested by growers and found to work better than the best lights you can buy. There would be garbage setups, but also the best setups money can buy. Turns out Porsche knows how to make a really good HID.
@@patton3338 I imagine the reflectors aren't ideal for growing. You also would need multiple if you want to cover a large area. One headlight would be like a 3x3 area. Sell them and buy a good LED setup for 1/4 of the price. Pocket the rest. Using them to grow is crazy.
No grower is using hid. It's led....I'm a grower. They have never used hid. Do you mean hps? Led? The guy making the original post is smarter than all of you kids stacked up in a trench coat.
I worked at an u haul location and rented a truck to a guy who decided to keep it and live in it on a logging road. U haul sent a guy named Wolfe to recover it. Had the guy arrested then took the truck back. This was before trackers so this guy literally went all Sherlock Holmes on him armed with a picture and help from the credit card company. Staked it out and waited till the guy was back "home" then called the cops.
The other reason F150s get targeted more is because they are often work trucks. They are often left on sites over weekends which leaves an opening for thieves.
I work at a salvage yard. We sell a ton of 3rd row seats. Also there's a lot of headlamp and tail lamps that cost 800-1000$ used. So I can see why people are stealing them.
On the Tacoma tailgate issue, we shouldn't pick on Toyota too much, most tailgates are easy to remove quickly, so long as you know where the electrical plugs are, or cut the harness. The Ford ones are priced through the roof here, like $1200 at the junkyard
Here in Finland, LED lightbars get stolen quite often. You don't get as much money from reselling one vs a catalytic converter, but they're much easier to steal, just undo 2 bolts and snip 1 wire. They're also very prevalent, feels like at least 30% of cars on Finnish roads have some kind of auxiliary high beams 🫠
Been a Uhaul dealer for 30 years and can confirm this is nothing new. Trans, engines, brakes, seats, interior trim parts, I've seen it all stolen. Often, you can't even tell right away that anything is wrong. Cats are actually a rare item as Uhaul has a pretty stout rebar cage around most of their truck's cats. I've recovered a lot of trailers over the years since Uhaul has a no-sell policy so it's easy to determine if its stolen, despite the new owner's excuses. Best was a car trailer stolen in 1991 that I found down an alley, just by chance. Ran the VIN and found it was written off in 1992....towed it out, it got sandblasted clean, re-decaled and put back into service.
Btw, friendly reminder: If in Europe you need a practical car to do all truck stuff (except off-roading), you'd get something similar to this U-Haul van. It's the go-to handyman car here and it does literally everything better than a truck (except off-roading).
@@keon8625 Most trucks and vans tend to share the same chassis and engines, like the Ford F350 and E350. I believe the van's rating is slightly lower due to the added weight in the rear compared to a truck bed, but I don't see how it would "suck".
I've got an Audi A4 B5 1.8T. The catalytic converter sits high up in the engine bay and cannot be accessed from below at all, and the steering wheel airbag is held by two Torx bolts whose heads really like to crumble. Go ahead, take your chance. 😅
12:15 Its all about pre-prep. You have the old engine already removed and ready to go. You pull out the Uhaul's engine and put the old one in just enough to make it driveable back to Uhaul.. Not that I would do this...
Stealing badges in the 90's wasn't just volkswagens. Every car on the road that had a badge sticking up was a potential victim. Some kid was walking around with the Chrysler badge from my parent's Caravan.
I was going to make this same comment. I knew a kid in the early 90's that used to steal hood ornaments. He gave me one he got from a Jaguar. He didn't want it because the tail broke off so it wasn't good enough for his collection. lol
It’s crazy the stupid electronics on lights and mirrors. Had to replace some for mine. Scrapyard and 170 for a taillight and a mirror. The over a grand for a light is nuts.
I completely agree about making yourself a hard target. I had my truck stolen in Texas and the cop that took the report said that even just putting a club on your steering wheel will almost eliminate the threat of a thief. As soon as they see something that is going to cost them time to take off they will just move on.
Donut has morphed into the Sbarro of car channels, and Nolan is the "team leader" who tries to make it feel like a fun place when in fact it's just a soulless corporate imitation of the genuine product.
When they all started to desert the sinking shit that was Classic & Quality Donut, I knew Nolan would be one of the last men standing, as he always came off a bit directionless and scared of some silly things, and too scared to branch out on his own or with one of the others, was hoping he would join James Pumphrey (Spelling ????) As they had great on screen chemistry when presenting together. But alas here he is still taking the shit from the corporate ass-holes who are trying their best to kill all these channels. While asking if he is bent over far enough, and swaying back and forth far enough, for them to shaft him further or make it more comfortable for them and do less work.
I own a 2014 Porsche Cayman S. It does have HID headlights, but not the ones in this video. To remove the headlight units, you access the trunk, open a small rubber plug, and insert a metal tool with a 90 degree bend at the end, this is in your tool kit. You turn the tool 90 degrees and the headlight unit moves forward about 10 mm. You just use your fingernails at this point to pull it along its tracks and the whole assembly pops out in your hands. The earlier cars headlights could be removed with a toilet plunger, but not the later cars. Then again, you can use a Sawzall as well, but I really do not recommend this since it tends to mar the paint~
There's a Ford dealership in the little town I live in. They typically have about 50 or so mostly new and some used cars on their lot. I'd say about 10 years ago they had no lighting throughout their lot. One night a group ( had to be a few ) of thieves went through and cut off and stole all the cats off of all the new trucks on their lot ( over 40 trucks ). Needless to say now their lot is fully lit at night.
Yes!! I was one of those UK kids that "chored" the VW badge. I got mine from a Rizla blue Beetle. The owner caught me, and being 10years old.... I pee'd my undercrackers.
i worked at a uhaul repair center in the early 2000's we had multiple trucks come back with the engine pulled and some were torched afterwards. this has been happening for decades
Growing up I remember people in my neighborhood getting their car stereos and radio antennas stolen. I remember my dad having to take off the face of his stereo so they wouldn’t steal it. Man have times changed.
1:20 thats not how that works, its the wrong wavelength for growing and wont yield good results compared to an actual grow light, its a myth, you also need to wire that up and have fun finding a powersupply/driver thats happy to run those lights.
Yes sir but people don't know that it's just social media listening to one bit information and running with it because it sounds big and gets reactions. You're better off buying an led light for a couple hundred thats meant for growing I still have some that have lasted 6 years now.
you guys have convinced me to get into the financially salubrious triple- perhaps even quadruple yank business. the yank market is critically underserved in my area. stealing has been condemned specifically but "yanking"? nah it's fine. but seriously, i used to have a problem with casually stealing stuff as a kid. for some reason as a kid i always had to be carrying something in one of my hands. just casually clutching a toy car all day for no reason. so when my mom would take me to the store where i had no toys i would just subconsciously grab something and many times neither she nor i would realize i stole something until we got home and i would go to grab my toy car to clutch and i saw that i couldn't because i was already holding a candy bar or something. i never got fully over that because several times when ive been shopping while tired or sleeo deprived, i would finish buying everything, leave the store, go to open my truck door and "oh i can't because i'm holding an unopened 20oz bottle of pepsi in my hand that i don't recall ever even passing a place that stocked them.
Due to the inefficiency of the F-150 burning only approximately 3.367% of fuel, the f-150s catalytic converters have to be bigger and contain more material than the Prius. The only reason that the Prius is catalytic converters are so big is because the engine doesn't get as warm on the exhaust stream as the engine is not constantly running.
I drove Chevy express van for a company. That thing impressed me. Not only with the LS..but the stabilitrac system that saved all 16 of us when I drifted a off ramp and almost rolled it..
My new Gladiator has an automatic locking tailgate, plus I have the device that makes it more time consuming and in need of a special tool to remove. Underneath I have added skid plates, that not only protects vitals, but makes it seriously difficult to remove the cats.
4:00 "...$2,700?...": The real problem is Ford who charges $2,700 for something that probably costs them less the $20. Think about it. All plastic; probably less that five sub parts all injection molded; automatically assembled by clip mechanism, adhesive, and/or heat.
There's high dollar radar and electronics in those taillights. The housing may only cost $20, but that stuff is expensive. The problem is putting that stuff in an easily and regularly broken part, like a pickup truck taillight
The last uhaul I used had a problem with people fishing the keys out of the drop box. When I rented the uhaul they were missing like two vans. They acted like it happens all the time.
@15:33 the most stolen emblem in the USA was the BENZ & Caddilac! No one thought VW emblems were cool in the US in the 80s or 90s😂. You were called LAME if you drove a VW
I can vouch for Nolan being a car guy. I met him at the Autoclub Speedway (rip) autocross and he was whipping his mustang around those cones with the best of them.
a point on the catalytic converter prices, They're only SUPER expensive if it is a 50 State cat. If it is a 48 state cat, you can find them, brand new, vehicle specific, for $100. Source: Just got rid of the P0420 code and CEL in my 98 Civic with a $100 cat.
Found out about the Yukon seats first hand while visiting Anaheim. Drove out from Oklahoma for a competition my kids were in. Staying at the hotel across from Disney and found our seats missing one morning. We were parked in the hotel garage, which conveniently did not have the cameras working. We did not buy any second hand but went through insurance, which was the cheaper route at the time.
I have a friend who back in the day before trucks got complicated electronics, would crawl under U-Haul trucks and disconnect the speedometer cable so the truck won’t read how many in-and-around-town miles were actually driven.
Swapping out a motor with the same kind is a fair bit of work, but easily doable. Swapping it with a different engine is usually a lot more. The ECU will be specific to both the engine and the rest of the truck.
You can order security hardware & wrench for pretty cheap. Then swap out the hardware on the tail lights, tail gate etc. It’s not a bulletproof solution but it’s an easy and cheap deterrent.
There was also the Simpsons episode where the emblem off of Superintendent Chalmers car. "Holy jumping Caesar's catfish. My H has been stolen. Aww that's how people know it's a Honda. What's the point of having a Honda if you can't show it off."
Nobody's growing with car headlights. People have tried and it works ok but LED grow lights are way more efficient and cheap enough. You would need more than 1 headlight for each plant to get the ideal PPFD and the reflectors are designed for lighting up the road not canopies.
Walmart doesn't have your new soap near me in florida. I found this that seems very similar Grip Clean | Ultra Heavy Duty Hand Cleaner For Auto Mechanics | Dirt-Infused Walnut Hand Scrub - Exfoliating Waterless Hand Cleaner. Lemon Scented Mechanic Soap & Paint Remover, for Grease, Oil, Paint
Jeep Wrangler JK factory half doors. I’ve walked out of the store, and work, a few times to find someone trying to either get in/take the doors. Luckily I live in Missouri and myself and damn near everyone else is strapped and willing to stop that shit.
As it should be. You have the right to protect what you worked for. Insurance sucks to deal with, will find every way to not cover you, will raise your rates or drop you, and won't get your stuff back.
For the gm seat thefts, the seats fitting through the rear window wasn’t an oversight. They were literally made that way on purpose. Don’t have time to click the seats back in place after removal? No problem, GM said. Throw the back in through the tailgate window and worry about it later.
Hey if anyone is wondering the guys from gears and gasoline used restore and protect oil from valvoline in one of their race cars for a couple years and just tore the motor down and found that it does actually work at removing deposits pretty well with continuous use 2:33
Pretty sure the reason Merc, Rolls etc switched to folding/hide away emblems was to comply with updated safety regulations, as if you were hit by a car that had one of those type emblems it's essentially going to impale you, if memory serves Merc put theirs on like a ball mount so it swivelled around and stuff which was just as easy to steal, don't think Merc use that style emblem anymore do they? The style Rolls went to where it electronically pulls it down under the panel is super cool, actually makes it kinda hard to steal too afaik lol
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My personal favorite is the person who THOUGHT they were getting my catalytic converter, but stole my muffler instead
free muffler delete
same thing happened to me, took it to a shop and ta-da $20 muffler delete
haha. Unfortunately I lost my cat TWICE. Got back from being re-installed (insurance paid for it), I think it took like 2 days and it was gone again.
I've seen a lot of fb and reddit posts of dumb asses doing exactly that in the past lmao.
Someone broke into our yard at work and stole the resonators off of 8 of our fleet trucks. Criminals are not always the brightest lol
My uncles old boss actually did the motor swap back in 07 he had a high mileage 04 2500hd sierra with the lq4 6.0 that had a rod knock he and his mechanic at the time rented a 6.0 express van and in 4 hours had swapped the engines between the two but then he had the balls enough to call you haul and report the issue if the engine knocking do the came with a replacement van and gave home half his money back for the inconvenience
Honesty... a lost art.
I'd hate to work for a guy like that. He will definitely shaft you at the first opportunity.
Damn... calm down, satan
The kind of mechanics that give good mechanics a bad name. Cool story.
Just remember any time you have to jump through hoops or have a company doubt you, people like him are exactly why.
Sorry to be the chemistry nerd but at 5:10 you are showing Rubidium (Rb) instead of Rhodium (Rh), it's actually next to Palladium on the table.
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Fact checked by nerds in the comments. Donut has really gone down hill.
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Don't be sorry homeslice 👍
@@jacobharryman822 I get strong "I'm voting for Kamala" vibes from Nolan.
A few years ago, I came home on my lunch break, and I had a guy trying to cut my catalytic converters out with a reciprocating saw, the very intelligent human unfortunately didn’t realize it was an unmarked police car and it was one of the most interesting arrests I’ve ever taken part of since he got secondary degree burns on his hands after he cut the exhaust pipes and went to catch the cats with no gloves…. Then he tried to sue the town for pain and suffering from his burn injuries.
ppl really do be stupid af...
If you're going to be that dumb, you gotta be tough.
I managed a uhaul. As long as the truck comes back running smooth, then nobody would know until it went in for its next service. And there could be dozens of customers in that time period, so no way to pin it on anyone. Uhual does have a fraud prevention service, but its all computer based, not set up for stuff like engine swaps.
The funny thing is, if they just didn't brag, they probably never would've been caught.
Also, customers would probably enjoy the better fuel mileage and not notice the performance difference because of a smaller engine. We expect UHauls to be slow garbage anyhow, so they'd not even notice.
@@guard13007 Agreed about the mileage. Some of the vans we rented had v10s that they absolutely didnt need. Woudl have been better off with a v6 for what they got used for.
No head light needs to be 2500 dollars
Ford tail lights apparently go that much and their CEO was just wowed by Chinese cars. Why is he CEO?
@@termiterasinlol Chinese cars are garbage
😂 search Buggati Chiron headlights,they cost 164,000$
@@hellcatmd7635that’s different these are just regular traffic with headlights that cost 2k
@@hellcatmd7635 Nobody here cares about Buggati anything.
In the late 60's early 70's people would steal the engines out of the hertz Shelby mustang and swap them into their mustangs
And Hemi Mopars
I can't imagine the audacity those people had lol, this is peak fuck you to the rental company lol, its so absurd that probably nobody would even assume someone would be so stupid to do something like this.
As someone who used to work at U-Haul they do not joke about finding their equipment.
Don't leave us at that. What's one of the worst examples of them going after folks?
I also used to work at uhaul. All they do is go after your credit. They can't really do anything if you give them a card that gets bounced back. @@Pemj2k I've seen people return trucks missing wheels and extra shit welded on and they don't care
@@Pemj2k I worked at enterprise in the department that would handle these sort of things. People try taking all sorts of things off rentals, wheels and tires are probably the most common. It’s also the easiest to catch. People are held accountable, yes they are given the bill for everything to be corrected, and no they will never be able to rent from any of their brands again. 15 years ago you may have been able to get away with it not so much anymore.
@@timcrampton7592 Thank you for enlightening me to another low of humanity.
I work at a uhaul people still do this. It’s actually common
The U -Haul engine swap isn't any different than when you could rent a Shelby from hertz and guys would swap them.
Won't they find you like really easily
@@simon_969 ppl can use counterfeits of certain documents
@@simon_969yes they will, they’ll send cops out of state just to get their truck back
@@ryanm4319 As they should lmao That's not exactly "light" vandalism.
They used these stupid gun lock ties on the engine that were tamper proof
Ive had the cats stolen off my 2011 gmc 2500HD because of the ground clearance. It got so bad in my area that the government stepped in, you need gvt photo ID to sell scrap metal to a scrapyard for anything now, and when it comes to catalytics, you also have to bring in the registration for the vehicle it came from, and they cross reference the vin number against a database of one's reported stolen. it hasn't completely stopped the thefts, however it has reduced it drastically, if I had to guess by around 90-95% if not more.
The yards where I live have all made a policy they do not buy or sell catalytic converters. Any car comes in they cut them off when they drain the fluids, and if you show up trying to sell one they ban you.
Had the same thing in tennessee cause one of the two cats for my 00 silverado were shot, but with ID (and them being unbolted rather than sawzalled) they accepted them heartily, even if one was blown out
@fraggingfox5225 exactly. I live in eastern Canada above maine. If you unbolt a cat rather than Sawzall it off. Odds are it is from your own vehicle. Bugger locktite, rust is the best threadlocker I've ever run into. Lol
Do you live in Virginia because that's exactly how it is here. Just to recycle a bag of soda and Monster cans the local scrap yard scanned my ID and put me in their system.
@Stonerman135 we have a different system for cans/bottles etc, when you buy, say a can of coke, you pay a 10c deposit on it (not taxed), and then they go to a seperate recycling place, not the scrap yards, and then you get the full 10c back for returning them. Surprisingly, a lot of people don't end up returning them, I think I saw somewhere around 3 million dollars worth of deposits paid, have not been redeemed, in a fairly small province is quite a bit. Not entirely sure why, takes all of 5 minutes to take them there.
My buddies FBO 17’ GTI was stolen last year, still don’t know how as there were no cameras in the parking lot. Friends FBO Accord stolen a couple weeks ago. Makes me glad I have the Mustang, PATTS system bulletproof.
Bolt on accord 😂
That's a great strategy, buy a car no one wants to steal
@@alikamiranda7368 meant to say FBO lmao.
@@thewhitedread7572 🧖🏽♂️- how bro felt when he said that.
Where was the GTI stolen? Europe?
I don't think they are common to steal here in the United States
The Emblems on 'luxury' vehicles don't pop up and down due to stealth or looks. It was passed as a law within the EU to protect civilians in case a passer by topples next to one and injures himself with the metal bling. Funny, yet looks cool.
EU seems very obsessed with random car parts injuring pedestrians
@@alienclay2 That's because random car parts can hurt pedestrians 😉
@@lordweinreich476 Pedestrians should stay out of the road. It's a shame Europeans don't seem to be smart enough to do that so they need big daddy government to penalize car manufacturers.
@@alienclay2 EU loves regulating business to death.
@@lordweinreich476 yeah but 2 things.
1.
Who makes the decision on if a hood ornament is dangerous or not? Are these rule put in by elected representatives? Are they fair?
And 2.
wouldn't it just be easier to put the responsibility on the driver/owner? Some of those rules can seem a bit arbitrary.
As someone who grows Cannabis legally, I can only imagine the garbage tier setup of someone who uses stolen Porsche headlights for their grow.
Thing is, a full-spectrum RGB light is a full-spectrum RGB light. They're not expensive or hard to find. So yeah, it has to be a real ghetto setup for that to make sense.
The Porsche lights have been tested by growers and found to work better than the best lights you can buy.
There would be garbage setups, but also the best setups money can buy. Turns out Porsche knows how to make a really good HID.
@@patton3338 I imagine the reflectors aren't ideal for growing. You also would need multiple if you want to cover a large area. One headlight would be like a 3x3 area.
Sell them and buy a good LED setup for 1/4 of the price. Pocket the rest. Using them to grow is crazy.
No grower is using hid. It's led....I'm a grower. They have never used hid. Do you mean hps? Led? The guy making the original post is smarter than all of you kids stacked up in a trench coat.
Yep. LEDs are what you use for growing. Some people used halogens way back in the day. You know... before LEDs.
I worked at an u haul location and rented a truck to a guy who decided to keep it and live in it on a logging road. U haul sent a guy named Wolfe to recover it. Had the guy arrested then took the truck back. This was before trackers so this guy literally went all Sherlock Holmes on him armed with a picture and help from the credit card company. Staked it out and waited till the guy was back "home" then called the cops.
U-Haul likes to bully poor peeps?
You sending the Wolfe?
The other reason F150s get targeted more is because they are often work trucks. They are often left on sites over weekends which leaves an opening for thieves.
I work at a salvage yard. We sell a ton of 3rd row seats. Also there's a lot of headlamp and tail lamps that cost 800-1000$ used. So I can see why people are stealing them.
On the Tacoma tailgate issue, we shouldn't pick on Toyota too much, most tailgates are easy to remove quickly, so long as you know where the electrical plugs are, or cut the harness. The Ford ones are priced through the roof here, like $1200 at the junkyard
Here in Finland, LED lightbars get stolen quite often.
You don't get as much money from reselling one vs a catalytic converter, but they're much easier to steal, just undo 2 bolts and snip 1 wire.
They're also very prevalent, feels like at least 30% of cars on Finnish roads have some kind of auxiliary high beams 🫠
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Been a Uhaul dealer for 30 years and can confirm this is nothing new. Trans, engines, brakes, seats, interior trim parts, I've seen it all stolen. Often, you can't even tell right away that anything is wrong. Cats are actually a rare item as Uhaul has a pretty stout rebar cage around most of their truck's cats. I've recovered a lot of trailers over the years since Uhaul has a no-sell policy so it's easy to determine if its stolen, despite the new owner's excuses. Best was a car trailer stolen in 1991 that I found down an alley, just by chance. Ran the VIN and found it was written off in 1992....towed it out, it got sandblasted clean, re-decaled and put back into service.
Is the no-sell new because there used to be a ton of ex-Uhaul box trucks and car dollies around (20-30 years ago).
Noland Ace Combat5 fan confirmed best moment in donut history
When i randomly come across my footage on a 9M sub channel
I want a remake/remaster so bad.
My family used to use our third row seats from our suburban as a couch, and my dads tool box as a tv stand
The bleeping of “shucks” as though it was the other s word has me wheezing
Like they bleep it when someone says "cockpit" lol
Gives this channel ...eeeedddge.
Btw, friendly reminder: If in Europe you need a practical car to do all truck stuff (except off-roading), you'd get something similar to this U-Haul van. It's the go-to handyman car here and it does literally everything better than a truck (except off-roading).
They absolutely suck at towing.
@@keon8625 Most trucks and vans tend to share the same chassis and engines, like the Ford F350 and E350. I believe the van's rating is slightly lower due to the added weight in the rear compared to a truck bed, but I don't see how it would "suck".
Jimmy: Nolan, have you ever stolen anything?
Nolan: I remember one time I made my school janitor mad...
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"welcome to BIGTIME" 0:10
It’s coming………
The hid lights from headlights are not being used for growing weed. Plant growing lamps are surprisingly made for it and cheap.
Yeah, LEDs made growing weed, or anything, really cheap and available.
Free is cheaper than "cheap".
People were absolutely doing it. It's not trendy anymore
Literally every pickup truck tailgate ever is taken off like that 😂
I’ve got a 92 Toyota that says different.
Have you guys done a video on unsolved infamous vehicle mysteries/ crimes?
16:11 I didn't know Nolan is married
That’s a lucky man, whomever he is
Just happened
@@joseeduardo4327 Nolan is considered a "Bear". Im guessing his husband is a twink
He recently got married. I follow him on Instagram. He posted about it.
That pot growing using porsche lights is a urban legend
13:40 Hell yeah Ace Combat 🔥
I've got an Audi A4 B5 1.8T. The catalytic converter sits high up in the engine bay and cannot be accessed from below at all, and the steering wheel airbag is held by two Torx bolts whose heads really like to crumble. Go ahead, take your chance. 😅
12:15 Its all about pre-prep. You have the old engine already removed and ready to go. You pull out the Uhaul's engine and put the old one in just enough to make it driveable back to Uhaul.. Not that I would do this...
But you've heard about it, right? From your mate?
yank yank yank is gonna be a new merch. mark my words
and during No Nut November is just cruel. 😂
Great work on the Valvoline ad.
Nolan being a Ace combat fan made me happy, frickin props to you Nolan!! 😎😁
For me one of the best videos you've made in a while
Stealing badges in the 90's wasn't just volkswagens. Every car on the road that had a badge sticking up was a potential victim. Some kid was walking around with the Chrysler badge from my parent's Caravan.
I was going to make this same comment. I knew a kid in the early 90's that used to steal hood ornaments. He gave me one he got from a Jaguar. He didn't want it because the tail broke off so it wasn't good enough for his collection. lol
Tailgates have always easily popped off. Easiest thing to do is put a hose clamp on the side that's opened
It’s crazy the stupid electronics on lights and mirrors. Had to replace some for mine. Scrapyard and 170 for a taillight and a mirror. The over a grand for a light is nuts.
I never thought about Uhaul, do you think they'll notice their van has a G13B in it after I swap the 6.0 LS into my samurai? 🤣
they won't, just put a speaker under the dash and have 6 liter sounds coming from it
@@Chevyguy2010 Pay no attention to the Sami rolling smoke off all four tires
we once thought our 2000 civic had it's cat stolen, turned out to be an exhaust leak lol
I completely agree about making yourself a hard target. I had my truck stolen in Texas and the cop that took the report said that even just putting a club on your steering wheel will almost eliminate the threat of a thief. As soon as they see something that is going to cost them time to take off they will just move on.
Donut has morphed into the Sbarro of car channels, and Nolan is the "team leader" who tries to make it feel like a fun place when in fact it's just a soulless corporate imitation of the genuine product.
When they all started to desert the sinking shit that was Classic & Quality Donut, I knew Nolan would be one of the last men standing, as he always came off a bit directionless and scared of some silly things, and too scared to branch out on his own or with one of the others, was hoping he would join James Pumphrey (Spelling ????) As they had great on screen chemistry when presenting together. But alas here he is still taking the shit from the corporate ass-holes who are trying their best to kill all these channels. While asking if he is bent over far enough, and swaying back and forth far enough, for them to shaft him further or make it more comfortable for them and do less work.
6:07 you can remove every tailgate like that
Can't believe how good this turned out!
I own a 2014 Porsche Cayman S. It does have HID headlights, but not the ones in this video. To remove the headlight units, you access the trunk, open a small rubber plug, and insert a metal tool with a 90 degree bend at the end, this is in your tool kit. You turn the tool 90 degrees and the headlight unit moves forward about 10 mm. You just use your fingernails at this point to pull it along its tracks and the whole assembly pops out in your hands. The earlier cars headlights could be removed with a toilet plunger, but not the later cars.
Then again, you can use a Sawzall as well, but I really do not recommend this since it tends to mar the paint~
0:40 quite possibly another way too accessing the CanBus system as well
There's a Ford dealership in the little town I live in. They typically have about 50 or so mostly new and some used cars on their lot. I'd say about 10 years ago they had no lighting throughout their lot. One night a group ( had to be a few ) of thieves went through and cut off and stole all the cats off of all the new trucks on their lot ( over 40 trucks ). Needless to say now their lot is fully lit at night.
Yes!! I was one of those UK kids that "chored" the VW badge. I got mine from a Rizla blue Beetle. The owner caught me, and being 10years old.... I pee'd my undercrackers.
New title of the video needs to be “top 10 car side hustles 2024”
Telling me everything i need to know so I can get Christmas presents🤔
i worked at a uhaul repair center in the early 2000's we had multiple trucks come back with the engine pulled and some were torched afterwards. this has been happening for decades
14:09 JAMES MENTIONED 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Growing up I remember people in my neighborhood getting their car stereos and radio antennas stolen. I remember my dad having to take off the face of his stereo so they wouldn’t steal it. Man have times changed.
1:20 thats not how that works, its the wrong wavelength for growing and wont yield good results compared to an actual grow light, its a myth, you also need to wire that up and have fun finding a powersupply/driver thats happy to run those lights.
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@@marinesole2 🤡
Yes sir but people don't know that it's just social media listening to one bit information and running with it because it sounds big and gets reactions. You're better off buying an led light for a couple hundred thats meant for growing I still have some that have lasted 6 years now.
So steal the wiring harness from another car to run the lights.
@@triscuitpower7196 no
Just got my whole shop outfitted with Porsche headlights, thanks Portland snobs 🎉
"Tailgate Gone in 60 seconds". Somebody call Nicholas Cage.
you guys have convinced me to get into the financially salubrious triple- perhaps even quadruple yank business. the yank market is critically underserved in my area.
stealing has been condemned specifically but "yanking"? nah it's fine. but seriously, i used to have a problem with casually stealing stuff as a kid. for some reason as a kid i always had to be carrying something in one of my hands. just casually clutching a toy car all day for no reason. so when my mom would take me to the store where i had no toys i would just subconsciously grab something and many times neither she nor i would realize i stole something until we got home and i would go to grab my toy car to clutch and i saw that i couldn't because i was already holding a candy bar or something.
i never got fully over that because several times when ive been shopping while tired or sleeo deprived, i would finish buying everything, leave the store, go to open my truck door and "oh i can't because i'm holding an unopened 20oz bottle of pepsi in my hand that i don't recall ever even passing a place that stocked them.
Due to the inefficiency of the F-150 burning only approximately 3.367% of fuel, the f-150s catalytic converters have to be bigger and contain more material than the Prius.
The only reason that the Prius is catalytic converters are so big is because the engine doesn't get as warm on the exhaust stream as the engine is not constantly running.
I drove Chevy express van for a company. That thing impressed me. Not only with the LS..but the stabilitrac system that saved all 16 of us when I drifted a off ramp and almost rolled it..
do you ever stolen? I've walked walls
WTF are you possibly trying to say?
@@mr.buddha365712:52
@@mr.buddha3657maybe it made sense before the edit? 😂
My new Gladiator has an automatic locking tailgate, plus I have the device that makes it more time consuming and in need of a special tool to remove. Underneath I have added skid plates, that not only protects vitals, but makes it seriously difficult to remove the cats.
it's like you are teaching thieves what parts to go for and how much you can get for it
Also how to do it.
My taco tailgate locks, but you can also just buy a hose clamp and use that. It will deter/slow down the thievery.
4:00 "...$2,700?...": The real problem is Ford who charges $2,700 for something that probably costs them less the $20. Think about it. All plastic; probably less that five sub parts all injection molded; automatically assembled by clip mechanism, adhesive, and/or heat.
There's high dollar radar and electronics in those taillights. The housing may only cost $20, but that stuff is expensive. The problem is putting that stuff in an easily and regularly broken part, like a pickup truck taillight
They put all kinds of tech in the tails now
@@ryanm4319 $2,700 worth of tech? My 1994 Ranger does just fine with no tech at all.
@@Sk3tchyD That's not the problem. That's the improper solution.
They used a electric metal shear like a drill on that Porsche
4:00 can you not lock the tailgate?
You can just put your arm over and unlock it from the inside.
@jeannin.wallace2795 then why the hell is it even there? Major design flaw right there.
Yes you can
@JHizzleinthebizzlePNW so if it's locked how do the get to the bolts?
@bobhopman4648 unlock it
The last uhaul I used had a problem with people fishing the keys out of the drop box. When I rented the uhaul they were missing like two vans. They acted like it happens all the time.
"this article is more than 11 years old" lmao
We using LED boards, not headlights 🤣
These dipshits won’t understand that comment. 😂
yall are just my favorite people. you know you loved doing that add!
Best way to keep thieves away?
Becomes known for playing with boomsticks.
@15:33 the most stolen emblem in the USA was the BENZ & Caddilac! No one thought VW emblems were cool in the US in the 80s or 90s😂. You were called LAME if you drove a VW
Donut became very stupid after all the car guys left.
It took a while to find this comment and I agree.
The quality is trash too. Sucks, used to love this channel
I can vouch for Nolan being a car guy. I met him at the Autoclub Speedway (rip) autocross and he was whipping his mustang around those cones with the best of them.
@@TurboHappyCar he doesn’t seem to know anything about cars, and has poor choice in vehicles.
As someone who worked in a now defunct dealership in Lismore during the Takata airbag recall and yes I can confirm they are connected with clips
How about a stolen thumbnail? As a Carwow watcher, this is a new low for Donut media.
I was wondering where i had seen this exact thing. I thought it was a re upload or smthing
a point on the catalytic converter prices, They're only SUPER expensive if it is a 50 State cat. If it is a 48 state cat, you can find them, brand new, vehicle specific, for $100.
Source: Just got rid of the P0420 code and CEL in my 98 Civic with a $100 cat.
Spot on. I did the same thing ($270 vs $1500) on my Australian Falcon in 2019, and again this year.
Found out about the Yukon seats first hand while visiting Anaheim. Drove out from Oklahoma for a competition my kids were in. Staying at the hotel across from Disney and found our seats missing one morning. We were parked in the hotel garage, which conveniently did not have the cameras working. We did not buy any second hand but went through insurance, which was the cheaper route at the time.
I have a friend who back in the day before trucks got complicated electronics, would crawl under U-Haul trucks and disconnect the speedometer cable so the truck won’t read how many in-and-around-town miles were actually driven.
Yor catalytic converter can't be stolen if you don't have one.
Swapping out a motor with the same kind is a fair bit of work, but easily doable. Swapping it with a different engine is usually a lot more. The ECU will be specific to both the engine and the rest of the truck.
I actually watched the Valvoline sponsored commercial. Good choice of sponsors today, guys
5:22 is that Jerry's laugh for when the elements move off the periodic table 😂😂😂
You can order security hardware & wrench for pretty cheap. Then swap out the hardware on the tail lights, tail gate etc. It’s not a bulletproof solution but it’s an easy and cheap deterrent.
There was also the Simpsons episode where the emblem off of Superintendent Chalmers car. "Holy jumping Caesar's catfish. My H has been stolen. Aww that's how people know it's a Honda. What's the point of having a Honda if you can't show it off."
Nobody's growing with car headlights. People have tried and it works ok but LED grow lights are way more efficient and cheap enough. You would need more than 1 headlight for each plant to get the ideal PPFD and the reflectors are designed for lighting up the road not canopies.
That was the coolest commercial I have ever saw on TH-cam
Ace combat mentioned in a second Donut video? It's a good day to be a fan of cars and planes lol
Walmart doesn't have your new soap near me in florida. I found this that seems very similar
Grip Clean | Ultra Heavy Duty Hand Cleaner For Auto Mechanics | Dirt-Infused Walnut Hand Scrub - Exfoliating Waterless Hand Cleaner. Lemon Scented Mechanic Soap & Paint Remover, for Grease, Oil, Paint
This past week I actually bought a totaled uhaul express van at an auction. 6.0L and 6L90 swap planned for my 1974 G20!
Donut: *points out how easy it is to steal my 3rd row seat*
Me: not the portable camping couch!!!!!
Chin up Nolan. Even with everything that's happened with Donut I still enjoy watching you, Justin and Jimmy do your thing.🙂
Jeep Wrangler JK factory half doors. I’ve walked out of the store, and work, a few times to find someone trying to either get in/take the doors. Luckily I live in Missouri and myself and damn near everyone else is strapped and willing to stop that shit.
As it should be. You have the right to protect what you worked for. Insurance sucks to deal with, will find every way to not cover you, will raise your rates or drop you, and won't get your stuff back.
Ram tailgates are just as easy to remove...
For the gm seat thefts, the seats fitting through the rear window wasn’t an oversight. They were literally made that way on purpose. Don’t have time to click the seats back in place after removal? No problem, GM said. Throw the back in through the tailgate window and worry about it later.
*I'm getting that scrub 😂* Nolan was so excited about it 14:10
Hey if anyone is wondering the guys from gears and gasoline used restore and protect oil from valvoline in one of their race cars for a couple years and just tore the motor down and found that it does actually work at removing deposits pretty well with continuous use 2:33
Great video love to see these guys on here! keep up the awesome work!!
Pretty sure the reason Merc, Rolls etc switched to folding/hide away emblems was to comply with updated safety regulations, as if you were hit by a car that had one of those type emblems it's essentially going to impale you, if memory serves Merc put theirs on like a ball mount so it swivelled around and stuff which was just as easy to steal, don't think Merc use that style emblem anymore do they?
The style Rolls went to where it electronically pulls it down under the panel is super cool, actually makes it kinda hard to steal too afaik lol