I know James wasn't too happy about working on this car originally so I just wanted to say thank you James for all your hard work, your dedication to this channel does not go unappreciated
he wasnt too happy because he didnt want to risk destroying it, especially knowing just how much water damage it took he knew that one small mistake could just can the whole damn nugget. at the very least it wasnt nearly as bad as he originally thought so i guess that is a good ending.(if it werent for wade spilling the coffee from a lack of cup holders it wouldve been able to be restored to pristine condition, now its sub par)
@@UserAccount-ThisOneA professional auto upholstery could restore it to factory by rebuilding the foam and replacing the carpets. It’s possible even that Mercedes sell replacement foam, assuming you have the money
@@mystarafilms yeah and mercedes would sell it for an upmarked cost of 1000x, the restoration could cost less than the first option but will most likely take 100x longer.. but what doesnt take 100x longer when it comes to car parts anyway
I've been using ozone in cars for a long time. I also happen to be an actual biochemist. Twice in my land rover in the last 10 years. You just need to be mindful to re-hydrate the leather, it won't kill your plastics. The benefit to ozone is it gets into places you cant see, and kills spores too. The merc needs ozone, Wade.
I used ozone on a used Ranger to get out a headache-inducing cigarette smell, had a grossly oversized ozone generator running in there for two nights in a row. Been driving it for a couple months now, no plastic degradation at all.
Context: Wade lives in a city with among the best cafes/coffee in the world… and he got a Maccas cappa instead. This is the universe punishing his insolence.
I spilled OJ in my first car (magna) just before I went on holidays and it let it sit in the Australian summer sun and become truly horrific. After many failed attempts to clean it, i took all the seats and carpets out, and threw them all in the pool to soak for a couple days and let the chlorine do its magic This was a trick i learned from dad, he would chuck his dirty old lawn mowing shoes in the pool for a day to give them a clean as they wouldn't survive the washing machine mum saw me hurl the drivers seat of my car into our family pool and came out on the balcony "screaming what are you doing!!??" After taking them out, and hosing them off and drying them in the sun, genuinely good as new!
James is such a wizard with this stuff. That cupholder install was so clean. He's the perfect blend of loads of experience and know-how, and a "fuck it, full send" attitude.
I love how Wade constantly encourages the "fuck it, good enough" attitude, but still James takes pride in his work and it shows! It really feels like a good time in the shop!
As a former janitor: coffee is one of the worst things you can throw into a public trash can. It is due to literally every ingredient. Water makes it go everywhere its a liquid, coffee itself makes it stain, sugar makes it sticky and fuel for the next one, milk and milk based products give you a time limit before the horrors begin. Theres a good possibility the bag may tear just a little leading to not fun times. If you for whatever reason cannot finish a coffee and have to dispose of it, dump it in a sink or something, not the trash
I cannot say with confidence that Wade doesn’t take sugar in his coffee, but a typical Aussie coffee drinker his age would not. Then again it was a McCafe cappuccino, so it’s more likely to be adulterated with sugar than a latte or FW at a proper cafe.
Current Custodian, coffee is very much terrible to clean. Even worse when some people are not only serial coffee-drinkers, they also serially never finish their drinks.
"What you do with this yellow gross fuel? You put it in the Goodber™" WHY DO YOU PUT EVERYTHING IN THE GOOBER, WHAT HAS THE LIL GOOBER BOY DONE TO YOU????
man I don't envy luxury car owners. I love my little shitbox hyundai. I change the oil, fill it up with cheap gas and beat the piss out of it and she just keeps going without any complaints
Was just thinking about this. Most cars don’t have this much foam and carpet, right? So if you spill something on it you’re not gonna end up like a poor Mercedes owner having to clean every corner of the car
I think its quite surprising that there's no cup holders in a fairly higher-end car. Like I've got a 27y/o Jap nugget that doesn't have cupholders 'because race car' spec and its essentially tractor technology. But zee Germans are really stingy with their fittings on what would have been quite an expensive new panzer
Back in the day (late 60s) my dad had a nice motorbike which got an oil change every 1500 miles (no filtration or synthetic oils back then - you change the oil before it gets slightly dirty or you say hello to the con rods when the big ends seize) and poured the used oil straight into a trash tier 250 cc runabout he used for work... where it mostly just leaked out.
The fact that the cupholder install looks OEM even though James literally took a demolition saw to the center console to make it fit shows how much of a pro he is at this stuff Legit took me by surprise seeing the finished result, given that Jeff just has a hole through the front bench seat for the ebrake LMAO
@@Zerbey im surprised he used a motor saw instead of a circular one as well, and where was the nes console that he planned to somehow integrate into the car as well?!?!?!?!?
6:55 Previous Mercedes Benz service writer here, we would ozone the interiors whenever someone smoked in a loaner car. It never seemed to get the plastic to off gas, but the car would have a tinge of ozone smell until it was sold
also, good call with removing decent portion of the foam, since no George, no f10, no steam, no nothing would properly clean it, you would get like the top layer kind of cleaned, but the coffee would absolutely still stay in there, because cleaning foam anything actually sucks
mercedes is THE WORST with "replace the whole thing, not the part". every brake pad job the dealership replaces the rotors too for """""saftey""""" and they make the rotor scream early on purpose.
So true. I used to write service for Mercedes - you could never get like a spring for the e-brake pedal, you had to get the whole $300 e-brake assembly. What’s funny is they recommend pads/rotors together because “the 2 surfaces need to mate properly” and yet if you’re hard on the brakes they can start to squeak within 1000 miles. Had a 2022 G63 owner spend $10k on brakes 2 years after buying the car cuz she was sick of them squeaking. Not even 3mo later she was back saying her brakes were squeaking again
When I was working at as apprentice mechanic back in the day around 2007, I did a pre-apprentice course and 6 months of 1st year until I quit (I was a bit older than most, started at age 20 instead of usual 16-18 and couldnt get by on the $5.80 an hour at the time, just under a quarter of regular pay elsewhere). The independent mechanic, and the holden dealersahip both said the same thing, you can't machine rotors on euro cars. Apprently its because unlike japanese/aussie and american cars, the rotors are only designed for the life of one set of break pads, so when you change them, the rotors are close to or at the minimum thickness, so the """safety""" aspect would be true, as BS as it sounds. Don't get me wrong, it's still crap that even an astra or vw polo needs new rotors each pad change.
Why am I not surprised a quarter million dollar car doesn't come with cupholders stock. Also, we all know exactly why they make you replace the whole pump instead of just the filter. Cause it makes them more money. I call shit like this "hostile engineering", where it's ridiculously hard to change a part, or it's ridiculously expensive to change, or both so you're more inclined to go to the dealership to get a part changed and they can charge you whatever they want.
Really? I just call it "capitalist pigs seeking profit" I don't get these buzzwords like "enshittification", they miss the real issue of who's doing it and why
Can confirm McDonald's coffee is always scalding, burns me every single time. And is now guaranteed to, as the employees put the lid on incorrectly 50% of the time, and it's full all the way to the top so it can also steam/bubble out while you're trying to carry it into your house. Insane Edit: I used to work in food service and an not blaming the workers, but rather the customers and the company, as there's always that one geezer that wants their coffee filled to the top and a little more, and corporate for buying cups made out of wax paper
@@daKaosjr no you see, they got hit with a lawsuit, then made sure to tell the media to make fun of the person who did the lawsuit, and everyone bought it
Similar topic to the fuel filter, merc charge me £300 to replace the command online knob on my SLK which still has the dodgy plastic bit in it that causes the fault. Wider Mercedes community found you can replace the plastic cylinder in the unit with a £5 metal part and it’s a permanent fix 😂😂
I commented on the James channel portable SNES vid that it was clear he could make things look incredibly neat if he wanted, but chose chaos for the fun of it. That cup holder installation was exquisitely done.
A former job of mine allowed me access to nearly all car brand/type service shops in my province. A gearhead myself, speaking to a Mercedes technician about a car on the lift, a customer's car made a clunk only after a few days it left the shop. It turns out, those double rubber isolated suspension bushes for mounting the strut to the control arm wore in such a way that when placed on the lift, the suspension sagged enough it popped out of the worn part Something maybe to think about, idk, I'm a hobbyist at best.
It's a knock off factory option cup holder I dug into some old Mercedes Forum cuz I remember my old 2005 A200 has cup holders, there's no way the CLS doesn't have it. And I found it They do have cup holders as a factory option
@@iamcarl4591the fact that their a class had cupholders, many budget econoboxes had them standard yet a quarter million performance luxury car had it as an option is insane
fun fact, the mould you guys trimmed off is probably in the whole carpet since its a type of fungus and the mycelial network is probably in the whole ass foam bit and the carpet. its also possibly a biohazard and you should have been wearing respirators especially when james was grinding the foam with the dremel and the wiery bit. edit: just trying to keep yall healthy since mould is an actual health hazard and it gives horrendous respiratory problems
I know the car is already screwed but when James cut into the center console with the sawzall I died inside, but then came back to life when I saw the finished job, amazing work.
i feel the situation on 6:19 , customer came in one day with her volvo, the injectors were ruined because water was leaking into the diesel tank at the gas station
once was reading up on a cheap petrol station before filling up and google reviews was filled with people talking about the water in the fuel destroying their cars
10:00 Thankfully it looks like that board is urethane-coated, so a bit of water getting on it wouldn't be an issue whatsoever so long as it stayed out of any connectors!
The circuit board that came out of the “body control module” has had a resin poured over it to seal it as part of the manufacturing process. It’s called a conformal coat and it seals the board and protects it from potential water damage. If the coating hasn’t been chipped away much it works very well to protect anything on the board from getting damaged if some ol mate happens to pour their whole iced coffee on it.
5:40 Oh, it'd be *so* easy for you to just replace the seal right? *flips open South Park cable company nipple flaps* Aww, darn, it looks like they only come in assemblies! Looks like you gotta buy the whole tank assembly!
My snakes especially the boas hide their poo too lol. Always fun cleaning the enclosure and find a solidified poo back under some coco block somewhere or something.
James isn't a happy camper. I just wanna remind everyone this is the idiot that James had to dig into while Wade was off in nugget fishing in the Hudson Bay. The same one James insisted and said "Don't you dare. I don't wanna deal with this thing don't you dare."
And boy do I understand him. Not quite related story, but my family used to have an Audi 100 (C4) and it had an onboard computer malfunction, nothing severe, but it refused to display any of the information it's supposed to. We've owned it for well over 10 years, serviced it regularly, and not a single service shop had an idea on what the problem was. Tl;dr German cars are a nightmare to troubleshoot in electric department.
@@JeanMarceauxI'm an electronics person and very very much a not-car-owner, but is the cost for a new circuit board really that bad that it couldn't be wholly replaced over those years? That really sucks, because sometimes that's the only solution to something like this. Or some horrid micro-soldering.
You can use ozone, just don't go overboard and leave it on for hours. I've used it on mold and cigarette smell and a long with competent cleaning works wonders.
pro tip for repairing cracks on the top of those stupidly expensive fuel filter all-in-ones, dry it real good and then mix some graphite powder and superglue together on top of it. do a few layers and it'll be sealed really well. did it on a volvo and it never stunk again, screw paying $1000+ for a new one
@6:24 - In all my years servicing fueling equipment, I have never pulled dirt or debris from a good tank. Mediating an old steel tank - probably rust, but those are mainly long gone. On top of that, there are usually sock filters over the STPs in the underground tank as well as individual filters for each separate dispenser nozzle/product. Now, water in a tank - that's more common that you may think since the ethanol phase separates from the fuel (with even slight water ingress to the tank) leaving the water to sit on the bottom of the tank (fuel being lighter than water for those that do not know.) I've pumped a few barrels of water from the bottom of tanks in the past. Former factory-trained Gilbarco/Veeder Root/Passport technician.
My car smelled like gas all the time and when I gave rides they complained. I replaced all lines, seals, and connections and nothing fixed it. Now I just say I can fart to cover it 🤣
Also ive actually soaked that foam(similar stuff from a diferent vehicle) in a bathtub with a few chemicals, cant remember what i used but it didnt eat the foam but killed all the mould and bought it back to new. From memory it was like some sort of salt like cjemical ie dishwasher powder or something
I have a W211 E500 and it shares a chassis. The airmatic suspension is so easy to replace and not super expensive. It's definitely not cheap. There was also a recall for the gas tank cracking.
I spilled an entire coffee in my 78 series troop carrier and it went straight under the carpet through the gap, the whole lot! Poor girl is only a year old. But because the 70 series was designed in the Paleolithic era, I was able to just ratchet the seats out, pull up the carpet, hose it off, and reinstall the whole box and dice in a few hours. Love my Troopy
I have an online friend from the Brisbane area who did a US tour with their sister when they graduated. When they got to LA we took them to In-N-Out for what is widely considered the best fast-food burger on the West Coast. They told us they were about as good as Maccas back home. Which leads me to conclude that Macdonald's Australia actually has decent burgers. When my Aussie friend said I should come try them for myself I pointed out the Australia has spiders BIG ENOUGH TO HUNT BIRDS AND SNAKES. They reassured me that huntsmen are so large it's really easy to hear them coming which did not make the point they were thinking they were making.
That cup holder install was neat!! I had one of these cars, a 55 AMG model and that one didn’t have a cupholder either, it was an optional extra apparently and mine wasn’t specified with it. I never took the carpet out but I shudder to think how many takeaway coffees met their fate in there! Keep up the amazing work!
The cupholder install is impressively clean, it's almost like James is a literal professional or something.
Not just a pro. A magpie that flew into his chicken coop saving legend.
I read this in Wade's voice
Just don’t give him a SNES or Gameboy console. 😂
Everyone gets one once in their life. That one is a mint looking job. He just spent his one on this.
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I know James wasn't too happy about working on this car originally so I just wanted to say thank you James for all your hard work, your dedication to this channel does not go unappreciated
he wasnt too happy because he didnt want to risk destroying it, especially knowing just how much water damage it took he knew that one small mistake could just can the whole damn nugget. at the very least it wasnt nearly as bad as he originally thought so i guess that is a good ending.(if it werent for wade spilling the coffee from a lack of cup holders it wouldve been able to be restored to pristine condition, now its sub par)
@@UserAccount-ThisOneA professional auto upholstery could restore it to factory by rebuilding the foam and replacing the carpets. It’s possible even that Mercedes sell replacement foam, assuming you have the money
@@mystarafilms yeah and mercedes would sell it for an upmarked cost of 1000x, the restoration could cost less than the first option but will most likely take 100x longer.. but what doesnt take 100x longer when it comes to car parts anyway
That cupholder install was insanely good
@@mystarafilmsi was thinking about that, wouldnt it be possible to replace cut parts by adding spray foam and then cut it into the correct shape
I've been using ozone in cars for a long time. I also happen to be an actual biochemist. Twice in my land rover in the last 10 years. You just need to be mindful to re-hydrate the leather, it won't kill your plastics.
The benefit to ozone is it gets into places you cant see, and kills spores too.
The merc needs ozone, Wade.
we need to upvote this comment to the top!
ozone indeed is useful, just make small pauses to ventilate the interior a little
I like trains
This confirms my underqualified suspicions
I used ozone on a used Ranger to get out a headache-inducing cigarette smell, had a grossly oversized ozone generator running in there for two nights in a row. Been driving it for a couple months now, no plastic degradation at all.
Yeah, I knew that thing about the plastics thing was rubbish because I've seen people use ozone for retro computer stuff and they seemed to be fine.
Context: Wade lives in a city with among the best cafes/coffee in the world… and he got a Maccas cappa instead. This is the universe punishing his insolence.
A McCafe tan-coloured hot milk*
@@AgentTasmania lmao
You're like Joey Diaz complaining about Domino's in New York City.
>spending 8 dollars on coffee
can't be me
@@LongPeter I don't know how Adelaide of all places has one of the best coffees in the world
That 'clacka clacka' sound could be the TPMS modules loose inside your tire. Mercedes are notorious for that happening.
I was just thinking that! As a tire shop technician, I've seen loose sensors more times than I'd like to admit 😅
mmm, tire pressure :D
Those be the modern $1000 spokey dokies mate.
German engineering, not always as superior as they want us to think.
2009 Lexus as well
I spilled OJ in my first car (magna) just before I went on holidays and it let it sit in the Australian summer sun and become truly horrific.
After many failed attempts to clean it, i took all the seats and carpets out, and threw them all in the pool to soak for a couple days and let the chlorine do its magic
This was a trick i learned from dad, he would chuck his dirty old lawn mowing shoes in the pool for a day to give them a clean as they wouldn't survive the washing machine
mum saw me hurl the drivers seat of my car into our family pool and came out on the balcony "screaming what are you doing!!??"
After taking them out, and hosing them off and drying them in the sun, genuinely good as new!
Hmm. Is it too late to give Jeff's interior a swim?
Or perhaps FreeCar could be dunked
Ya know this has potential.
@@AgentTasmaniaJeff's interior might've been set on fire in a pit
This is a reasonable level of chaos 🤣Well done
1 year since the great water leak incident
That land boat really loves water damage
@@clementpruvost8670true😢
You make that sound like a very tragic event
@@Northernford550AUbecause it was, just go back to the first video and listen to the utter pain in the poor guy's voice as he got completely soaked 🥲
I still get wet James flashbacks
James is such a wizard with this stuff. That cupholder install was so clean. He's the perfect blend of loads of experience and know-how, and a "fuck it, full send" attitude.
I love how Wade constantly encourages the "fuck it, good enough" attitude, but still James takes pride in his work and it shows! It really feels like a good time in the shop!
Some people pay big $$$ to have a car with flames coming out of the back. Just leave the fuel leak, add a spark plug, enjoy!
Bet
the first gen aventador actually had the fuel vent go right next to the exhaust wich could burn your car down in stop and go traffic haha
There is car with flames, then there is flames with car. Flames with car sounds cooler to be honest.
"Ferb I know what we're doing today!"
But what if the fuel leak worsens and he ends up shoving flames up the exhaust ports?
As a former janitor: coffee is one of the worst things you can throw into a public trash can. It is due to literally every ingredient. Water makes it go everywhere its a liquid, coffee itself makes it stain, sugar makes it sticky and fuel for the next one, milk and milk based products give you a time limit before the horrors begin. Theres a good possibility the bag may tear just a little leading to not fun times. If you for whatever reason cannot finish a coffee and have to dispose of it, dump it in a sink or something, not the trash
What savage puts sugar in coffee?
@@Eric_Hunt194 most people. That or its in the creamer, syrups, etc.
I cannot say with confidence that Wade doesn’t take sugar in his coffee, but a typical Aussie coffee drinker his age would not.
Then again it was a McCafe cappuccino, so it’s more likely to be adulterated with sugar than a latte or FW at a proper cafe.
Coffee is the reason the gray carpet in my previous office job was brown.
Current Custodian, coffee is very much terrible to clean. Even worse when some people are not only serial coffee-drinkers, they also serially never finish their drinks.
"What you do with this yellow gross fuel? You put it in the Goodber™" WHY DO YOU PUT EVERYTHING IN THE GOOBER, WHAT HAS THE LIL GOOBER BOY DONE TO YOU????
thirsty boy needs a drink 😊
It exists.
Be cheap.
It knows what it did.
All cars are equal, but some are more equal than others!
man I don't envy luxury car owners. I love my little shitbox hyundai. I change the oil, fill it up with cheap gas and beat the piss out of it and she just keeps going without any complaints
Was just thinking about this. Most cars don’t have this much foam and carpet, right? So if you spill something on it you’re not gonna end up like a poor Mercedes owner having to clean every corner of the car
Okay koreaboo
@@RGG800 nah most cars do just not thinner foam
same here with my shitbox corolla, cheap gas, new oil, redline
I think its quite surprising that there's no cup holders in a fairly higher-end car. Like I've got a 27y/o Jap nugget that doesn't have cupholders 'because race car' spec and its essentially tractor technology. But zee Germans are really stingy with their fittings on what would have been quite an expensive new panzer
You fed the Goober premium second-hand Merc fuel? That's way too uptown for that nugget! It'll start thinking it's to big for its britches!
It's like that coffee that is eaten and shat out by an animal, very fancy
I was hoping he'd fill the black coffee that came out of the fuel filter into the Goober.
That’s actually what cappuccino is, funnily enough
@@AfferbeckBeats yeah coffee luwak.
The animal is called luwak
They sell it in bali indonesia.
They call it catpoochino also
Back in the day (late 60s) my dad had a nice motorbike which got an oil change every 1500 miles (no filtration or synthetic oils back then - you change the oil before it gets slightly dirty or you say hello to the con rods when the big ends seize) and poured the used oil straight into a trash tier 250 cc runabout he used for work... where it mostly just leaked out.
The fact that the cupholder install looks OEM even though James literally took a demolition saw to the center console to make it fit shows how much of a pro he is at this stuff
Legit took me by surprise seeing the finished result, given that Jeff just has a hole through the front bench seat for the ebrake LMAO
James's cuphold craftsmanship was awesome
I'm a little disappointed he didn't use hot glue.
@@Zerbey😂James is a hotglue magician.
@@Zerbey im surprised he used a motor saw instead of a circular one as well, and where was the nes console that he planned to somehow integrate into the car as well?!?!?!?!?
6:55
Previous Mercedes Benz service writer here, we would ozone the interiors whenever someone smoked in a loaner car. It never seemed to get the plastic to off gas, but the car would have a tinge of ozone smell until it was sold
I don’t know what ozone smells like but I’ve been in 4 dealer cleaned secondhand cars and all had the same smell to them for the first few weeks
How did the ozone smell know to leave when it was sold
@Suzumi-kun kinda smells like a indoor swimming pool treated with chlorine pellets.
whenever i see this merc i feel bad for James, he never deserved this kind of treatment
also, good call with removing decent portion of the foam, since no George, no f10, no steam, no nothing would properly clean it, you would get like the top layer kind of cleaned, but the coffee would absolutely still stay in there, because cleaning foam anything actually sucks
"Unhook me already, I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment!" - James, probably
Expectation of the cupholders: Jank
Reality of the cupholders: Holy crap they look like they belong there?!?!?!?! James you absolute wizard!
mercedes is THE WORST with "replace the whole thing, not the part". every brake pad job the dealership replaces the rotors too for """""saftey""""" and they make the rotor scream early on purpose.
is that legal if you don’t explicitly tell them to replace it?
So true. I used to write service for Mercedes - you could never get like a spring for the e-brake pedal, you had to get the whole $300 e-brake assembly.
What’s funny is they recommend pads/rotors together because “the 2 surfaces need to mate properly” and yet if you’re hard on the brakes they can start to squeak within 1000 miles. Had a 2022 G63 owner spend $10k on brakes 2 years after buying the car cuz she was sick of them squeaking. Not even 3mo later she was back saying her brakes were squeaking again
That's luxury cars for you. Total junk.
@@coryswanson2247Just gotta lubricate them really good
When I was working at as apprentice mechanic back in the day around 2007, I did a pre-apprentice course and 6 months of 1st year until I quit (I was a bit older than most, started at age 20 instead of usual 16-18 and couldnt get by on the $5.80 an hour at the time, just under a quarter of regular pay elsewhere). The independent mechanic, and the holden dealersahip both said the same thing, you can't machine rotors on euro cars. Apprently its because unlike japanese/aussie and american cars, the rotors are only designed for the life of one set of break pads, so when you change them, the rotors are close to or at the minimum thickness, so the """safety""" aspect would be true, as BS as it sounds.
Don't get me wrong, it's still crap that even an astra or vw polo needs new rotors each pad change.
Why am I not surprised a quarter million dollar car doesn't come with cupholders stock.
Also, we all know exactly why they make you replace the whole pump instead of just the filter. Cause it makes them more money. I call shit like this "hostile engineering", where it's ridiculously hard to change a part, or it's ridiculously expensive to change, or both so you're more inclined to go to the dealership to get a part changed and they can charge you whatever they want.
Germans have some _thing_ against cup holders
Just waiting for the Dankpods x Louis Rossman crossover
Really? I just call it "capitalist pigs seeking profit"
I don't get these buzzwords like "enshittification", they miss the real issue of who's doing it and why
Germans used to think that cup holders would result in people drinking while driving so they didn’t use them a lot of the time.
THIS SHIT WAS $250K?
Can confirm McDonald's coffee is always scalding, burns me every single time.
And is now guaranteed to, as the employees put the lid on incorrectly 50% of the time, and it's full all the way to the top so it can also steam/bubble out while you're trying to carry it into your house. Insane
Edit: I used to work in food service and an not blaming the workers, but rather the customers and the company, as there's always that one geezer that wants their coffee filled to the top and a little more, and corporate for buying cups made out of wax paper
They got hit with a lawsuit and fixed nothing. A true sign of a great company.
I only get iced from there if I ever do get coffee there for this very reason
Hot McD's coffee actually does 3x thermal damage to anything it touches.
to be fair I don't think they get paid enough to care.. (whether they should is a different story)
@@daKaosjr no you see, they got hit with a lawsuit, then made sure to tell the media to make fun of the person who did the lawsuit, and everyone bought it
Similar topic to the fuel filter, merc charge me £300 to replace the command online knob on my SLK which still has the dodgy plastic bit in it that causes the fault. Wider Mercedes community found you can replace the plastic cylinder in the unit with a £5 metal part and it’s a permanent fix 😂😂
Whoa, overcharging for questionable parts on a german luxury car? Say it ain't so!
0:15 STINKS?😧 Don’t be rats don’t be rats not again
2:43 no!
the rats .....
Another nugget loses its interior rights!
@@Tommythetomler oh woaaaaahhh
@@AyyEfAnother superleggera enters the fleet
I commented on the James channel portable SNES vid that it was clear he could make things look incredibly neat if he wanted, but chose chaos for the fun of it.
That cup holder installation was exquisitely done.
When James pulls out a saw, the best reaction is either "Oh no" or "Here we go!"
Dank: You know, I really only deal with crappy garbage cars that are falling apart and with bad smells
The Mercedes: Don’t worry fam, I got you
Yeah, if ya get mold in foam, ya just gotta throw the whole chunk out. You don't know how far the mycelial structure goes in, kinda like moldy bread.
The cupholder job is damned nice. If you didn't show it, I'd assume it was always there.
A former job of mine allowed me access to nearly all car brand/type service shops in my province.
A gearhead myself, speaking to a Mercedes technician about a car on the lift, a customer's car made a clunk only after a few days it left the shop.
It turns out, those double rubber isolated suspension bushes for mounting the strut to the control arm wore in such a way that when placed on the lift, the suspension sagged enough it popped out of the worn part
Something maybe to think about, idk, I'm a hobbyist at best.
Great insight!
One of the things I always notice about project/problem cars is when there’s handprints on the bonnet: Someone needs to get in and out of there often!
13:39 forbidden wheat bread
Liquid-related damage: 2
Poor Mercedes: 0
I forgot that they put bad smells in the petrol in Australia because people kept huffing it
Did they really? That makes sense, gas smells strongly, but I wouldn't say it smells terrible in America.
That sounds so australian, but in romania sniffing glue was used for a long long time until low quality drugs came around
12:43 Honestly I don't think I would notice that's not factory original.
Easily the highlight of the video and the coolest janky thing James has done on this channel.
@@orijimi Its not even jank, its good! Modding those CRT's into gameboys and making portable NESses paid off!
It's a knock off factory option cup holder
I dug into some old Mercedes Forum cuz I remember my old 2005 A200 has cup holders, there's no way the CLS doesn't have it.
And I found it
They do have cup holders as a factory option
@@iamcarl4591the fact that their a class had cupholders, many budget econoboxes had them standard yet a quarter million performance luxury car had it as an option is insane
@@Suzumi-kun lol
That's what we call design over function
Luxury at it's finest lol
4:29 goober takes all fuel. New, old, liquid, solid
Heck you could pump LPG into it and it'd still run
@@SparkingEXEven Chocolate
@@nickrustyson8124 maybe as fuel
As oil, I am not as sure
I can’t wait for James to have a look at all the electronic stuff so the dashboard (and windows) can stop freaking out!
fun fact, the mould you guys trimmed off is probably in the whole carpet since its a type of fungus and the mycelial network is probably in the whole ass foam bit and the carpet. its also possibly a biohazard and you should have been wearing respirators especially when james was grinding the foam with the dremel and the wiery bit.
edit: just trying to keep yall healthy since mould is an actual health hazard and it gives horrendous respiratory problems
I'm surprised that 10 year's worth of filth didn't end up in the goober lol
Don't give him ideas
I know the car is already screwed but when James cut into the center console with the sawzall I died inside, but then came back to life when I saw the finished job, amazing work.
i feel the situation on 6:19 , customer came in one day with her volvo, the injectors were ruined because water was leaking into the diesel tank at the gas station
once was reading up on a cheap petrol station before filling up and google reviews was filled with people talking about the water in the fuel destroying their cars
impressive coffee theme on this mercedes. Black and tan, and the filter is full of the forbidden espresso.
6:34 flat pepsi max
At 2:54, in my drunken stupor, I thought you said something not family friendly lol
Same wasnt looking and got shookd
I heard it too
Any idea what coin? Why is it not a good coin?
Got home from working on my own rusty little shitbox to get a nice little Garbage Time video, gotta love when timing lines up ❤
10:00 Thankfully it looks like that board is urethane-coated, so a bit of water getting on it wouldn't be an issue whatsoever so long as it stayed out of any connectors!
You can close your eyes with this one and get to experience "James and Wade Explore the Goon Cave"
I love the literal nose-job on the cupholder, peel it back, remove the bone, bolt it together again
The circuit board that came out of the “body control module” has had a resin poured over it to seal it as part of the manufacturing process. It’s called a conformal coat and it seals the board and protects it from potential water damage. If the coating hasn’t been chipped away much it works very well to protect anything on the board from getting damaged if some ol mate happens to pour their whole iced coffee on it.
5:40 Oh, it'd be *so* easy for you to just replace the seal right? *flips open South Park cable company nipple flaps* Aww, darn, it looks like they only come in assemblies! Looks like you gotta buy the whole tank assembly!
11:40 "Give That a Sniff... NO!" hahahaha love it
The CLS is slowly turning into Jeff 2
Curse of the V8 if you ask me
1:59 its a miracle that this car hasnt burnt down yet
but... tesla fire!!! _not_ petrol car, tesla!!!
@@caramelldansen2204 the car designed around mini-explosions might be a safety hazard? color me surprised
@@TriflingToad completely unthinkable, containing flammable fluids in a tank or moving from one tank to another is so safe, it's common knowlege!!
3:58 as soon as you said "You put it in the Goober" I genuinely belly laughed
1:26 looks like some Hollywood movie BTS
My snakes especially the boas hide their poo too lol. Always fun cleaning the enclosure and find a solidified poo back under some coco block somewhere or something.
I flinched when you said "knee grooves" but can't put my finger on why.
You just reacted to the information that a luxury 50-60k$ Mercedes sedan needs to have knee grooves because the rear seats are cramped.
Unbelievable.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
For a split second I got pewdiepie bridge flashbacks
@@JeanMarceaux its mainly luxury for the driver and passenger, rear seats in these kinda luxo barges havent been very "good" until recent
I mean it barely even sounded like that, so I'd chalk it up to it probably being that current year cultural programming and brainrot getting to you.
4:34 "I hate myself" -James, 2024
Me too James. Me too
James isn't a happy camper. I just wanna remind everyone this is the idiot that James had to dig into while Wade was off in nugget fishing in the Hudson Bay. The same one James insisted and said "Don't you dare. I don't wanna deal with this thing don't you dare."
And boy do I understand him. Not quite related story, but my family used to have an Audi 100 (C4) and it had an onboard computer malfunction, nothing severe, but it refused to display any of the information it's supposed to. We've owned it for well over 10 years, serviced it regularly, and not a single service shop had an idea on what the problem was.
Tl;dr German cars are a nightmare to troubleshoot in electric department.
@JeanMarceaux even worse are the brittish cars that reverse engineer that stuff, and make it more likely to fail and just as hard to troubleshoot.
@@JeanMarceauxI'm an electronics person and very very much a not-car-owner, but is the cost for a new circuit board really that bad that it couldn't be wholly replaced over those years? That really sucks, because sometimes that's the only solution to something like this. Or some horrid micro-soldering.
@@dado__ could be the unavailability of spare parts, but at this point my memory is extremely hazy
Convert to electric. Also give James $50k. Not to do any work or anything, just give it to him.
Don't fix the windshield leak, either. Just put a bunch of extra batteries in there. It'll be great.
Why would a petolhead drive an elctric car? lol
Nugget time, set everything aside.
I find it funny how Wade's cars are always smelling bad. It's like the staple of this channel at this point.
The tan interior is so tan the goldie looked silver
Fuel with the pulp absolutely killed me lmao
You can use ozone, just don't go overboard and leave it on for hours. I've used it on mold and cigarette smell and a long with competent cleaning works wonders.
pro tip for repairing cracks on the top of those stupidly expensive fuel filter all-in-ones, dry it real good and then mix some graphite powder and superglue together on top of it. do a few layers and it'll be sealed really well. did it on a volvo and it never stunk again, screw paying $1000+ for a new one
Dankpods/Garbage Time/The Drum Thing/Hi. I’m gaming
-Full time drummer
-Full time car enthusiast
-Part Time Gamer
-Part Time iPod modder
-Part Time Simpsons Music Remixer (Dankmus, although he doesn't do that anymore)
"Only the yellowest fuel for my goober." Sounds like a preview from an upcoming Nicolas Cage movie.
F10 spray really does work. All the vets I knew in South Africa used to use it.
Leaking fuel is no joke. My grandpa’s 1984 Ford F250 caught on fire from it leaking from the carburetor
6:28 let the Goober have the Guinness.
“Look at this black soup” i was fully expecting wade to put it in the Goober
6:39 I thought they were gonna put it in the goober
The reason they sell the fuel filter with the housing, is because the plastic gets brittle and risks cracking. So you replace the entire unit.
Leaking gas onto the exhaust is something else. Lol.
@6:24 - In all my years servicing fueling equipment, I have never pulled dirt or debris from a good tank. Mediating an old steel tank - probably rust, but those are mainly long gone. On top of that, there are usually sock filters over the STPs in the underground tank as well as individual filters for each separate dispenser nozzle/product. Now, water in a tank - that's more common that you may think since the ethanol phase separates from the fuel (with even slight water ingress to the tank) leaving the water to sit on the bottom of the tank (fuel being lighter than water for those that do not know.) I've pumped a few barrels of water from the bottom of tanks in the past. Former factory-trained Gilbarco/Veeder Root/Passport technician.
My car smelled like gas all the time and when I gave rides they complained. I replaced all lines, seals, and connections and nothing fixed it. Now I just say I can fart to cover it 🤣
I remember when I was 14-15 I saw a silver cls500 AMG in a car sale. The cls has been my favourite car since was 12.
would be more impressive if a mcdonalds coffee fixed your mercedes honestly
Also ive actually soaked that foam(similar stuff from a diferent vehicle) in a bathtub with a few chemicals, cant remember what i used but it didnt eat the foam but killed all the mould and bought it back to new. From memory it was like some sort of salt like cjemical ie dishwasher powder or something
The Goober gets all of the forbidden tea
2:56 the what?!?
I had the same thought
@@callumsutherland8750 great minds think alike
Would you rather watch a tree groove? or...
this channel a bit on enthusiasm for cars in me- all the while showing me exactly how stressful car enthusiasm can be...
Sall Goodman always wanted some cup holders in his Mercedes too!
That was one reason he gave it up!
0:30 I love the smell of petrol. up there in my top 5 scents.
This channel makes me so glad smell isn't transmittable via TH-cam.
I forgot this thing existed, thought that you finally explained what happened to your 80s merc
I believe the original cup holder that is supposed to be in there is a folding unit that folds out and has double decker storage for 2 items
The cup holders were a factory option
what in god green earth are you trying to say at 1:06
"I just parked the car (laughing starts) and I haven't driven it since"
He caught a whiff and the memories came back 😂
Garbage Time would be so much more immersive with Smellivision. It would also be unberable to watch.
...I'm not sure you can financially compensate James for what you've put him through.
that little but beautiful success of installing the cupholder was weirdly inspiring
14:07 Disinfect the evil
I have a W211 E500 and it shares a chassis. The airmatic suspension is so easy to replace and not super expensive. It's definitely not cheap. There was also a recall for the gas tank cracking.
What I've learned to do is stay even farther away from Macca's Crappucinos.
3:43 ive NEVER seen a pair of channel locks that big before good lord
The worlds biggest fuck off adjustable wrench
Oi mate, one of the capacitors (top cebter) at 10:04 is starting to bulge, so itll dump its guts and can eat through the traces
Change that shitter
7:24 it has quirks
(Pacific Drive reference)
I spilled an entire coffee in my 78 series troop carrier and it went straight under the carpet through the gap, the whole lot! Poor girl is only a year old. But because the 70 series was designed in the Paleolithic era, I was able to just ratchet the seats out, pull up the carpet, hose it off, and reinstall the whole box and dice in a few hours. Love my Troopy
I have an online friend from the Brisbane area who did a US tour with their sister when they graduated. When they got to LA we took them to In-N-Out for what is widely considered the best fast-food burger on the West Coast. They told us they were about as good as Maccas back home. Which leads me to conclude that Macdonald's Australia actually has decent burgers. When my Aussie friend said I should come try them for myself I pointed out the Australia has spiders BIG ENOUGH TO HUNT BIRDS AND SNAKES. They reassured me that huntsmen are so large it's really easy to hear them coming which did not make the point they were thinking they were making.
That cup holder install was neat!! I had one of these cars, a 55 AMG model and that one didn’t have a cupholder either, it was an optional extra apparently and mine wasn’t specified with it. I never took the carpet out but I shudder to think how many takeaway coffees met their fate in there! Keep up the amazing work!