Can We Fix An Overheating Car For £50?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Alex: / autoalex
Ethan: / ethansmale
Jack: / jackwjoy
Ellie: / elliecarter91
We recently bought our friend a car with an overheating issue, so we're back this week to see if we can fix it for no more than £50!
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This is a typical car maintenance experience. Break 3 things to fix 1
Except they missed out the bit where the wrench slips, you gouge a huge chunk of flesh out of your hand on an adjacent sharp piece of metal, and spend the next six hours waiting in casualty...
Get it up you you just flexed on all of us Americans with that😔 come on man snap-on not fair at least my wrench wasn’t 400 dollars
Get it up you snap-on has their place but not with people who just need tools yeah if ur doing 15 cars a week for life snap on is worth the investment but ur telling me a whole tool case being 15k is cheep😭🤣🤣
Richard Peers So you don’t wrap some gaff tape over the wound and just keep working?
Why is my clutch position sensor so god damn close to my clutch safety release!?
Not gonna lie, Alex and Jack turning Ethan into a car guy is adorable.
@Get it up you What actually happened with Gareth?
Why does Alex always stand like he is carrying a sheep under each arm?
Lil boy think he fit af
Cus he thinks his lats are so big
Because Alex is THICCC.
I belive he keeps confusing hairsprsy with his deodorant
@@HassanPoyo i mean he is tho
Alex: "Were you keeping your eye on the needle"
Ethan: "Yeah, but I think it was the wrong one"😂😂😂
i was going out with Ellie, and at one point it (read: the needle) came up .. when it became too hot😂
Who needs gauges? I just started my channel where I take trucks up into the bush and wreck em. Hoping to make some folks laugh!
@@bushtruck nobody cares
who would laugh from things being destroyed anyway
unless it's like the top gear airport vehicle racing challenge
that was funny
@@poiiihy Well everyone is entitled to their opinion! Thanks for reaching out! I don't wreck em too hard by the way...yet
Ethan: *looks at the heroïn needles laying everywhere in the car
Alex: "Touch wood"
Also Alex: *touches crotch*
Lost it 😂😂😂
ZavBlue haha 😂
Cock knock
Wait.... I thought every one did that?!
TomzMotoVlogz yes
TomzMotoVlogz well they do, right?
2:44 when a girl touches my leg after 6 months of quarantine
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The females when the straight piped 1.2 fiestas arrive at the car meet
HassanPoyo dude, best original comment 😂
Camsty 1 hahahahaha
Camsty 1 I liked yours better
swear words, brute force and ignorance is the only way how you repair a car yourself
Also hammers
Also breaking exhaust 8mm mount bolts
after destroying it
destroy things when trying to get it apart; put it back together with replacement parts :P
Or get anything else done in life really.
Alex: she's probably forgotten she has a car
Ellie: I'd nearly forgotten I had a car!!!
magic of television/editing videos...
Just like Oregon in Fresh Meat
When i heard Ethan curse, it gave me a serious backflash to my 12th birthday when my dad gave me a moped so i could start to learn how to wrench. That wasn't the only thing i've learned that day...
atleast you got a moped... even though you couldnt legally drive it
backflash.... *facepalm* its flashback!!!!!
@@nugsnotdrugs1423 Backflash LOOOOOL
This is what most DIY-inclined men look like when they try to fix something. Turning a 1 hour job into a 2 week job.
Even the best mechanics snap a bolt or two. They also keep your car for about 3 weeks just to do a simple job.
Work expands to fill the time available
But the best mechanics will try to get the snapped bolt out using tricks like welding a nut on it or using a swiss pipe wrench first before try to drill it out.
@@maarten332 Forgive the roadside amateur mechanic for not carrying a welder with him
@@jase6709 lol, if it aint out the shop within two days?
we gonna ring you and harass you tbh.
Let's be honest, Ethan's presence is why we're all here.
sure definitely
yes
of course
meh
yes
Alex: what’s this?
Ellie: Air filter
Alex: what’s this?
Ellie: Plastic
Well done Ellie you now know as much as Ethan
Love Ethan’s confidence, fixing a car in a blinding white shirt. Baller : )
5:45 I think the beep machine ran out.
My husband says this is a typical day for a car mechanic; due to customer neglect, something breaks - something difficult to source at short notice - and then the customer rants and accuses you of swapping out good parts just to jack up the labour costs.
Ethan would’ve probably found those hose clips easier if you had been using anywhere near the right tool!
Where's the fun in using the right tool?
Nimmo1492 being able to do the job properly and without injuring yourself 🙄
@@johngarland6782 how is that funny ?
@@johngarland6782 That's just part of the experience!
Yeahhhh but what diy-er has the money to buy literally every specialised tool for removing hose clips, jubillie clips and Clic-r clips?
Ethan has never - or just very rarely - removed a hose clip. Alex clearly has experience working on cars and can make good use of tools available. Not hard to do any job if you have the specific tool. But when a tool costs more than its worth to a diy-er, they're gonna make do with what they have.
Including Ellie in the videos just has a whole different vibe
She should be featured more imo
"Can we fix a car for £50?"
week and a half goes by, housing gets ordered..
Go on, what was the final budget?
14:07 - Ethan has finally become a roadman
Ye what next lol
Bro, you do know that housing has a rubber gasket to seal without using that instant gasket shit. Probably cost like 2 quid.
This just perfectly explains the time frame we all lie to ourselves about when fixing cars
Would you have recommended spraying some WD40 on that, would it have possibly prevented that bolt from snapping?
also need to hit with hammer couple times, light or medium taps on bolt, then little bit screw it out, spray some wd40, screw back in and out little bit, then spray again and leave for couple minutes, doing that i never snapped bolts
I don't think it would help at all. It is aluminium housing so there is no rust. And there is no rust on the bolt either. WD-40 is good for bolts seized in rust.
If you let it soak for a day, then pump some more in it, it'll probably snap. Torch would be more effective and much quicker
Its peugeot bolts they will snap no matter what😅
Jk
@@DashCamSerbia Try and search for Galvanic corrosion aluminum and steel. It's not called rust but there's a reaction between the bolt and casing. If WD40 will work on it I don't know though.
One reason I love this channel is it seems to be followed by people actually interested in cars. Haven't seen a single gross/lewd comment about Ellie. Good job comment section 👊 and great vid guys!
Ethan was so determined 😂
F 2
Love this video as it shows a realistic show of what its really like working on a car in the UK! :)
Alex! Top tip! I fixed my halfords Pro socket set box last week with a couple of household door hinges and some 20mm screws. Granted it looks weird (OEM minus?) but after spilling them all over the floor many, MANY times over the last 10 years I dont care what it looks like. Pure luxury - Go do it and smile every time you pick it up by its handle 😅👍✌
"Don't want to go tight as a tiger on that one do we" use a torque wrench, look up the correct torque, and/or locktite. You don't want your thermostat housing bolt working loose from vibration.
Not really nessecarry with a tourque wrench. Just tighten good.
No wonder hes having a hard time with the hose clamps your using a damn needle nose! Use bigger pliers!
There is a set of pliers designed for them clips.
long bent nose needle nose pliers work well
@@Supraboyes Yes. And also one that operates by a wire, so you can reach much tighter places.
maybe they just didnt bring them
Agreed, those clips are the worst! Mole grips or water pump pliers!
"Can We Fix An Overheating Car For £50?" Not if its a rover k series engine!
S Hopkins are you referring to the head gasket issue that was sorted years ago? 🤣
You can, a used k series is like £50, simple swap.
Don't remind me please
then... 49?
Fixed mine for less
13:38 Nice and safe way to leave a chisel! 🤦♂️
We need more Ellie and Ethan please!!!!
"Hey Guys; EthanFix here"
Alex: "now let's put in some coolant"
*puts in de-ionised water*
@Sumit Rangle antifreeze is the coolant, hence why he said to dispose of it properly
@Sumit Rangle totally understand that. I usually use premixed coolant, hence the confusion on my part. I thought you were saying just water🤦♂️
@@sweatybandit0 Antifreeze just prevents the heat medium from freezing which fucks its effectiveness.
3:00 how nice of Alex to explain this... a bunch of mechanics I knew didn't dispose of it properly... heck I saw a bus having coolant issues and it was being repaired on the street and all of the coolant that leaked was just left on the street, big poodles. I know a clean-up would have been costly but still.
The anti-freeze is sweet tasting so the animal doesn't know that it's actually poison. :(
Dispose your flushed coolants properly folks!
PS: the green coolant (Propylene glycol) is non toxic, just the red one (Ethylene glycol)
I like that this shows the reality of wrenching, rather than everything always going exactly to plan.
03:34 Well what do you know... If you give Ethan a car fix to do he becomes Gunther Steiner.
An inside joke, but a damn good one!!
Props to Eli and Ethan for going on with this. Also Eli had a nice fashion style and sense of humor, please bring her back and have Ethan fix more cars👻
Ethan: (screams of disgust)
Alex: "YYYYAAAASSSSSSS!!"
16:04, the face, the zingy electric roof noise, the _mm_ . cinematography at its finest
2:26 giggidy
You're bang on about those Halfords Professional tool kits! Most crappest box design on the hinges, I've had 3 of them and the hinges always fail after the tabs on the sides snap off first!
Its so cute how patient and gentle you are with your people when you try to teach them :D
Also, instead of drilling, try first to carv a bit, and just rotate it out with a flathead. I was surprised, but I managed to do it on a 60 year old engine, so.... not impossible.
In all honestly ethan deserves a bonus. Its all fun and games but he isn't a car guy and tbh always gives it a good go
No ones commented in Alex's t shirt 😔 . Love the rotary shirt !
Jack's right, it's just the nature of fixing old cars. Sometimes everything is fine. Most of the time something is stuck or you drop something where you can't reach, or strip a thread or shear a bolt. I hate shearing bolts; that feeling where you think it's just starting to turn then you realise it was actually starting to snap and now you have half a bolt in a blind thread.
Sometimes, fixing cars is type 2 fun.
4:15 true car guy attitude ethan
Just taking the bottom hose off does not flush the system there's still coolant in there . You need to fill , flush , fill flush etc with water and when it's fully clear then finish with coolant
Ellie, a delightful young lady! Ethan swearypants was very funny. Jack cool as a breeze. Alex off his chomp, as usual.
Love car throttle 👍💛
Alex, advice that also works on exhausts. cut in the middle with a grinder, the thread become loose. after that, just use longer bolt and a nut, because the cut thread will not hold strongly
The way he struggled with the pipe then alex just pops it on 🤣
Snapped bolts, prolific swearing and a 2 hour job taking multiple days? It's just like when I work on a car.
Ellie is the sweetest thing I've seen on the internet
Alloy & steel weld together, a simple way to remove it without breaking it is (1) try tightening it first & (2) try heating it before & then there is no cost of a new housing!
I’m a huge fan of the 206 especially the looks and I gotta say the 206 has competition against ellie
I love my 206 cc, its a fine car.
In Poland when u CC with stock back lights is almost miracle
"Your engine flushes real nice" [cheeky Ethan smile] lol
14:25 There is. It's called farting and it is indeed satisfying
@@Gandalf721 Exactly. Makes all the difference 😂
Did you use a 45mm drill bit or what?
7:03 You could use a (swiss) pipewrench to screw it out if you have some of the bolt sticking out.
@K Man The only way that seems to work is to drill the bolt out and then tap the hole again or put in a helicoil insert if you can.
Major automotive TH-cam channel, struggles to change a thermostat on a Peugeot 😂
Does it normal to break the housing thermostat? I already break one when I'm trying to change thermostat for 97'Kia Sportage.
Working on a car while wearing a white shirt. That’s confidence for you!
My 60hp 206 had the same cooling issue. The temperature went up to like 110°C sometimes, even higher on hot days with the a/c on. I still drove it 800km to Croatia in one go and I drove it for like 50k km in total (from 70k to 120k) without any issues.
To be fair, I redlined that car half the time I drove it though.
Fixing a broken banger is a rite of passage. My eldest is 14 , I've bought him a pit bike and a moped to fix , fair play he fixed the pit bike after a lot of fucking about (dodgy floater in the carb) found the fault with the kick start on the ped but the electrical issues with it broke him. Anyway we finished it , will mot and sell and he wants the profit to but another pit bike to fix and sell. Never harms to have a little mechanical knowledge
Hey guys i have to say i really enjoyed this video a lot , hopefully you could make more 'fix it' videos in the very near future . already subbed and of course liked. keep up the great work.
9:15 Is that an early 2000's Volvo V70? :O
Probably the Volvo used in their 150mph for £1000 vid.
I havent seen youve done that but thats not how you replace the coolant fluid on a 206. Theres a little screw at the highest point of the cooling system to release all air bubbles.
It's so worrying that people don't even know how to open a bonnet. Buying used cars will become even more of a pot luck thing with owners never checking oil levels and letting it run dry
4:12 , hey he's turning into a real DIY er!!!
I bought a car cheap years ago that overheated. The upper radiator hose had been cut on the underside. Replaced the hose for $8 and fixed the problem.
"Can we fix it for less than 50?" *breaks more than they fix*
The amount of times I have looked at bits in the way, worked out if it is really useful or not, then just binned it is astounding.
But the more modern the car the more of the bits seem to be for looks rather than function.
"I've plumbed a thing or two in my time"
"Well you've had a child so yeah"
a peugeot TU engine overheating ... Maaan sure seems like a hEaDg4sK3t
Lol I replaced the head gasket on my 1.1 106, and the bloody new one blew again with 200 miles! The block and head were both fine too.
@@iainmacrae6982 you sure that wasnt just you doing it wrong or something? Or peugeots are shite 😂 ive had 2 207s and nope of them had a blown gasket and my last one had 200k miles on it and I done like 100k in it
It's really scary when you realise that most people don't know anything about the their cars and just think that they will drive forever without any maintenance.Imagine how many good cars have been damaged beyond repair due to lack of care and attention. I have just scrapped my 20 yr old Vw passat with 280000 miles on it.Engine was still great but the rest was worn out.
And then, we buy those used cars from them. :I
love you guys you're awesome
1:10, you can see they cut the vid😂
Undoing the hose?
Most radiators have a drain plug that just needs a screwdriver.
Shame about the bolt, I had the same struggle on my car. Patience, PB blaster, and vise grips got me sorted.
On a pug, of a certain age I would pop a hose off rather than run the risk of wrecking a radiator by trying to remove a bolt on it
Alex is always standing like he is standing by moms room waiting to tell her that he shit his bed.
Ooooooh, Ethan felt soooo good being the one who knew something that another person didn't know! (Opening the bonnet).
Quick tip with coolant flushing.
Leave the thermostat out.
Easier for flush to get round the system as you don't have to get it up to temperature for it to open
@Get it up you why would it through a code on a Peugeot 206 🤣
I winced when ethan put the chisel in alex's pocket 'blade up'
The last time I was this early the pandemic was a myth
You mean the thing, the thing with the panda bears?
Mr.Nelloxx yeah that show was crazy
th-cam.com/video/msBQblicMg0/w-d-xo.html
@@vivavideo-videofilmer Lmao my bad...
Tbf 9 times out of 10 the cause of overheating in a 206 is the corroded fan plug terminals in the front inside the plastic casing built into the radiator support. If the problem persists and the fan isn't kicking in that's the cause.
If the fan kicks in and it's still overheating then it's probably a blocked radiator and/or heater matrix.
Very rarely is something more serious such as head gasket.
First thing to check, Is the coolant fan working?
2:33 close your eyes and listen.....
I love how they made him pull the coolant hose without draining the radiator lol
Seeing Ethan try so hard and have that 50/50 chance of getting it right. But when he doesn’t get it right, it’s awesome lmao!
5:50, where was the beep??!!
There's a very easy fix for Peugeots of this area and interestingly not many know about it:
Step1: Get another car with which you can tow your Peugeot safely, so it doesn't overheat
Step2: Attach the towing cable to said Peugeot
Step3: Take it to the nearest junkyard to have it crushed. Set it on fire too just to be safe.
Step4: Leave in the car with which you've towed
Hahahaha
I fixed my Range Rover from overheating by paying 20 quid for a new coolant cap😂
Nice. Cheaper fix than with my povety Sandero, when I had a coolant leak on a termostat housing.
I actually got money for fixing my overheating old Range Rover! I sold it to the scrapyard. kkkkkk
Could have done it cheaper - they use the same coolant caps as mk7 - onwards fiestas and basically any ford/volvo after 2009.
AlexYeets the range Rover sport sport 2008?
@@jackboss7701 oooh the older one. Well, a discovery 2 depending on trim level uses the same one and costs a tenner. The ford/volvo ones that the slightly newer rangies use are a fiver.
I *hate* those kinds of hose clamps!! Ethan, you are not alone! They are the *worst!*
Arms are looking good Alex. Very swole! Hard work is paying off!
This started by looking like some awkward speed dating between Ellie and Ethan 😂😂
Ethan is married tho 😂
@@harveywhite3001 I didn't know 😂 but it quickly fades out ahaha I just thought about that right in the begging.
You absolutely need to get Ellie on the show more often!!
Damn Ellie really painted her face yellow at the end
Bro I was gonna say 😂😂 she fall face first in a field of dandelions
Poor lass haha! Don’t think the camera and the sun was doing hers any justice poor lass, (sound girl btw and seems lovely no dig at her and maybe remove all that crap off your face)
didnt notice but now that i look at it, 😳
Peugeot's don't like being flushed, my 106 never worked right after it was done.
The block is higher than the radiatior so you need a special unit to raise the height of the cap.
If the gasket is gone fix it don't scrap it.
Check the fan relays on the front under the bumper. You can activate them with diagnostics to check for normal fan operation. If AC doesn't work then fans probably don't either.
i had a similar problem with a 206, it was the temperature sensor and the thermostat which was stuck but was actually an easy and cheap fix.
I actually own the same car in black and had to replace the engine, really nice to work on, provided not every bolt has rusted away, which was the case with the donor car sadly.
10:54 lmao
🤣🤣😳😳
6 minutes in and I'm remembering the first time someone lent me a set of flexible hose clamp pliers. No more cussing endlessly while trying to remove coolant hoses!!