well nope it sounds like it's worse then the wheego as it never overheated and it's windows actually opened and closed maybe a little loudly but they opened and closed so this things more fragile then the wheego was I love it explains why coda went bankrupt
The wheego, a car that was made as a cheap rip off of a cheap rip off, of a already not reliable car. Vs a relatively decent production quality vehicle. And the coda managed to beat that. The Trabant at least can be dealt with basic tools (mostly) and honestly, you can fabricate half the parts if you really wanted, making it more reliable lmao
@@obbezwiers No. As a German, I looked a bit into the history of the Trabant. They were notoriously unreliable when they were even new from the factory. People had to tinker with them to get them running in a reliable way. They were simply engineered and built, but they had issues. People were upset about the quality but could not do anything. In a museum I saw a letter from a citizen who wrote to the GDR party all the things that were wrong with the car when it came new and attached an invoice for his own services so the car could actually run. Compared to the VW Beetle, they were crappy cars. But they were the only car that regular citizens could hope for, because pretty much only apparatchiks were able to procure Soviet cars. So they had to do. Despite the steel embargo. There are still some Trabis left that are driven, and they are nostalgia cars. They are explicitly not known for reliability. :D
@@Schmidt54 that's fair, thanks door looking that up! I guess the upside is that, when it eventually breaks down, you can probably do most of the repairs yourself😅
What is this channel? I'll tell ya what this channel is! It's some of the most entertaining car content on TH-cam. I don't want to see the fastest car, I don't want to see the cheapest whatever, and I definitely don't want to see anymore quirks or features. I want to see someone love his cars for what they are; someone who cares for his fleet, even as they age and start failing. And that, sir, is what you bring. And I appreciate it very much. Keep on keeping on, and I'll keep watching. Thanks.
Ditto. I think this, Chris fix, and Bad Obsession are the only car channels I'm subscribe to. I like seeing passion projects and truly unique collections, and this guy's sense of humor is excellent.
This channel is simultaneously the same as and total opposite of the British show Top Gear. How that is possible, I do not know, but I know what I like! 👍😎👍
Those of us who have consistently had more trouble with the electrical bits of normal cars than with the oily bangy bits have always gotten a bitter little laugh out of that assertion from the EV camp. :)
@@ZGryphon biggest difference (I hope, anyway) is that EV builders are inherently better at electronics, because that's all they build, where as for an ICE car builder, electronics mostly seem to be an afterthought and/of something to save money on. I hope. But any new car above the super basic ones are overcomplicated... EV or ICE.
Hello DrTauntsalot! The channel is called "Aging Wheels". The name should be somewhere on your cell phone below the video. If you tap on the name you can find a lot more videos. Take care and stay healthy! 🌈
@@MrDuncl Almost certainly. EVs have the potential to be more reliable than ICE vehicles but potentially being something isn't the same as actually being something. It's like LED Light bulbs, they can be way better than Incandescent or CFL bulbs but if you buy one that was cheaply made it'll fail much sooner than what should be an inferior alternative.
@@grn1 Funny that you should mention LEDs because one of the rear lights on a colleague's Tesla Model 3 failed about six months after she got it. Tesla did fix it for her.
@@MrDuncl From what I've hear with Tesla it's usually bad QC, especially on early batches. Once you get all the kinks out they're generally reliable (with notable exceptions). Tesla's batteries, motors, and drive trains are generally revered as the best of the best but other things that normal auto manufacturers got down Tesla screws up on. LEDs are usually overvolted as well which provides more light at the cost of more heat and a premature death. Most of the time the thing that actually fails isn't the actual LED but the driver behind/packaged with it.
For all these small plastic parts like gears etc, that keep breaking and might not have replacement parts available, you should consider investing in a simple 3D printer. They don't cost much anymore and you will be able to replace so much badly made injection molded crap. Something like an Ender 3 or CR-10 should be the right one for you (easy to modify and cheap)
@@FranNyan A wonky printer would be a Geeetech i3 Pro W^^ The Ender 3 gives quite decent quality prints even for beginners out of the box. But they have much more mods that can and should be made than e.g. a Prusa. They are fairly loud and their stock extruders have a low life expectancy.
@@FranNyan To be fair, Jay Leno has spoken about the value of using 3D printing to replace bad plastic parts, talked on doing it to a 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE Mercedes for the air conditioning knob. The knobs would have cost $500 each and he's able to print one for about five bucks. If it's good enough for Jay in a 2016 video, it's good enough for Robert in 2021, but let's be honest, Robert's more likely to make it out of wood.
I have a 3D printer and yet for plastic gears, i'd rather just take the original gear and its pieces and make a copy from epoxy resin, i do that quite a bit and never had a Nylon gear replaced by an Epoxy one fail. I use 2K kneading silicone to quickly make a mould. I used to have 3D printed toothed idlers on my printer to better control the belt cogging, since rolling over a smooth idler stretches it unevenly depending on angle, but 2-3 years later, all the mechanically loaded pieces i made from a given batch of PLA cracked, including those. I do think PETG should hold up better, but i didn't exactly get the detail resolution out of it, it just behaves weird. ABS doesn't work for gears, no surface abrasion resistance, also it's a menace to get an actually successful print out of. No experience with HIPS and ASA as of yet. But i absolutely love my Geeetech i3 Pro W. Excellent electronics (though needed repair due to a well-hidden cold solder joint under bed connector out of all places, and degrading power input connector), made to be reprogrammed and modified. Junk in every single possible other regard, quite deliberately so. It's made to be fixed. The single highest quality tool shipped with it is a (potentially fake, but still pretty nice) Japanese-brand diamond file, intended to fix the laser cut wood frame wherever it's not made correctly. I also really like the pen that came with it. Geeetech A10 is supposed to be fairly nice, but then you might as well get an Ender 3 V2 which is much nicer yet.
@@SianaGearz For a good mold you still would have to have one part that is still in good enough shape to make a mold froim it. In a car where everything breaks, you may only have a single gear of a particular type and that may be teethless. So you could just print it and if that isn't strong enough (which it should be, but whatever) you could use that that to make the mold. Though the resin would be just as strong as an SLA print, which isn't stronger than most FDM prints either, so he should be more than fine with regular old ABS, ASA, PET, PETG, Nylon etc. PLA could be too heat sensitive for the inside of a car. I have a Geeetech i3 Pro W as well and I have to say, it is really bad compared to all my other machines. The frame just isn't as stiff and the part quality is often rather bad. The mainboard is nice though, but still just 8bit. The worst cost cutting measure was to not have one big piece for the top and bottom , but using the Z-axis leadscrew (which was horribly bent on mine) and the smooth rods to keep the fram from wobbling side ways. Which means it wobbled as hell. I learned a lot by designing fixes for it though (which I printed on my Ender 3^^). Nowadays these i3 clones just aren't worth buying new anymore. You can get them for basically the same prices as an original Ender 3 (which usually costs around 150€ + free shipping within a week (atleast here in Germany)). I feel he would love the Geeetech i3 Pro W, since he also loves his Trabant and all the other cars, but the Ender 3 with its superior frame is just a far better starting point. The community and therefore the mods are also far greater.
"What is this channel?" - Robert Dunn It's demented gloriousness that also involves odd cars. And a bus/RV conversion, or so I understand, haven't seen it for a bit. ;)
There is a single random coda that appeared in a turkish second hand website, (I believe its the only one in the country) and guess what, its broken too.
@@sl06bhytmar As I recall from hist first video, the Coda is an electric conversion of a Chinese car. Of the problems he listed, the only Coda-specific ones would seem to be the status monitor and the Econometer. The door and window issues are probably endemic to the original car and the result of cheap Chinese parts. The one that personally worries me is the rear wheel bearing (and the bearing and u-joint issues in general); I'm a bit concerned that the weight of the batteries may be stressing the bearings, etc. If this is the case then, hopefully, installing higher quality replacement parts is all that is necessary.
@@cardioandfriends what he meant to say is that the failures might be stemming from when the car was still in Coda’s development fleet; if you have ever watched a video from a car manufacturer showcasing the development of a brand new model, they drive pre production prototypes in all sorts of conditions at the proving grounds until something actually breaks.
Couldn't a car be undestood as it speeding up under heat..? Ahahah!
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Yesterday I heard a loud fan noise outside our apartment, I looked out and a Tesla had just parked below the window. The fan noise was loud! Not the whisper quiet you expect from a top of the line electric vehicle. It was 30°C yesterday.
@ The A/C of the Teslas definitely makes a lot of noise when set to the max. Also on the recent models the same system is used to cool the drivetrain so it's difficult to say if the A/C is kept on or if it's just cooling the battery and motors after a hard drive.
Sooooo... What you're saying is... YOU GOT A PERFECT LEMONS RACE CAR AT THE PERFECT PRICE!!! Dude! I'm down with helping you get that thing race ready!
I’ve bought 4 Coda’s. Two just for parts. Now Have tons of spare parts. Sold one, The one I kept works fine with the larger battery. Water pump failure is the number one issue if you disassemble the water pump The impeller slides on the bushing and rubs the back of the house and the pump can’t rotate. The screw Hass to be put behind the trim on the rear door panel to pry it away from the door latch and lock rods.
This channel is my favorite automotive channel! Thanks for all the dad jokes and great content. I watch your channel and feel like Im part of process fixing everything I could never own or get a chance to repair
I absolutely love your enthusiasm and humour even in the face of utter crap (speaking as someone who owns and loves other crap himself). I admire you for taking on the unloved and unknown, preserving them but also enjoying them - that latter part is every bit as important. Your videos are so wonderful to watch; hugely due to your personality. Perhaps if you'd been one of the engineers at Coda, they'd still be around? Perhaps you can build a better electric car in your woodshop?
Is it overheating or is the sensor US? Have you tried cycling the power….or indeed, just cycling! 🚲🤣 I love your Coda. It is so much the underdog just like Hubnuts beloved TWK.
This channel is entertaining to watch while featuring interesting and real cars and projects - thanks so much and looking forward to the journey of fixing (and re-fixing) your Coda(s) ;)
"What is this channel?" Pure entrainment gold. Could watch you buy any shit box under the sun, and love every weird fact, joke, fix, and b roll you film of it
Reminds me of my 3 series BMW. Never left me stranded. Broke all the time. Also, the E46 is known to burst into flames. AT 2AM. In the garage. Electrical wiring issue with the radiator fan.
I remember seeing their setup at the LA auto show years ago. Truly a horrendously spartan car for what they wanted. Living in LA I saw four of these in the wild, which is impressive.
@@imitt12 It could've been a ton of things, except a rebadged Focus with styling that tries (keyword: tries) to resemble an older design. It's not even that special or interesting. If anything, it's a pretty average hot hatch, if you can even call it that.
Endearingly entertaining is what this channel is. Always a delight when TH-cam shows me that a new Aging Wheels video has been uploaded - and I can't do anything else until I've watched it. lol! We appreciate the efforts you put into each one Robert. :)
Hey Robert. Not sure if this information is helpful, or if you are already aware, but the sunglasses holder / map light thingy looks exactly like the one found in the 2000-2007 Nissan Almera (N16 generation). The Almera is also known as the Pulsar in other places, including the US, but that particular generation didn't make it to your side of the ocean it would seem. If you were wondering, the Nissan part is also crap. The plastic is about as strong as a wheat cracker, and folds in half just as easily if you try closing it with a bit of enthusiasm. Ask me how I know. Anyway, if you are unable to find that whole silly assembly over there, I'd be happy to assist with getting a replacement from over here. Plenty of scrap Almeras to be found around me!
In the end shot after Robert walked away from the Coda, I was SO expecting a grand piano or a caravan to drop on it from a great height as Top Gear did to so many woeful (or just British Leyland) cars!
You get to replace window regulators, wheel bearings and a CV axle - Yay! Always the upbeat presenter and enjoyable to watch! Keep up the good work! By the way, I recently replaced a window regulator in my MIL's 2004 Buick. All the plastic was disintegrating, and I expect the other 3 to expire soon. They had some 3rd party company name on them, so maybe you can also find what you need. Good luck!
Awesome channel: that is a massive understatement! Why? The video's are very informative, fun to watch, sometimes a bit random but that keeps it interesting! Thank you for these awesome interesting and very fun to watch videos. But I have a few questions: 1. Did you ever got back and got the third coda including the spare parts? 2. How is the the bus project going, are you going to continue that project? 3. Are you still going to use the battery cells of the coda to revive the weego? Thank you again for creating this awesome content! Greetings from The Netherlands!
You might try something like the diy/mod that Ford Super Duty folks do on the lock actuators. It’s the overload/overheat part of the circuit that fails on those, in the motor of the actuator. It gets bypassed.
The window regulators in my '95 Impala at least lasted 6000 miles. Granted the car was seventeen years old with those miles, I think the goop in the tracks had solidified and when the windows were actuated the goop bound on the glides and broke said glides.
Hey I have that exact same go-kart that’s in the back right of the video! I got it as a Christmas present when I was 9 I think and I’m guessing that is now your most reliable vehicle. All that’s ever happened to it is that we’ve changed the oil twice and pumped up the tires many times. I’m 17 now and I know me and my family have at least sunk triple digit hours into it.
Nuggeteering is a harsh mistress. Nugg on!
It’s himmm👀
I was just watching you 🤔
This car needs a strong application of the one grit.
I just watched the ben10 nug video...
Really didn't expect dank here
The wheego: finally a worthy opponent! Our electric battle would be legendary if we ran!
well nope it sounds like it's worse then the wheego as it never overheated and it's windows actually opened and closed maybe a little loudly but they opened and closed so this things more fragile then the wheego was I love it explains why coda went bankrupt
Stop the comments section, we have a winner.
Really makes you wonder how incredibly horrible the CVT prototypes had to be.
Only one way to find out, get one of them working again!
@@owenstockwood5040 thats assuming that they worked to start with...
@@AnIdiotwithaSubaru Good point. Who on earth thought that a CVT electric car was a good idea?
@@owenstockwood5040 Marketing department?
@@owenstockwood5040 bosch apparently. They're working on a prototype
Owning a Trabant and a Wheego and STILL managing to have an even less reliable car?
good lord
The wheego, a car that was made as a cheap rip off of a cheap rip off, of a already not reliable car. Vs a relatively decent production quality vehicle. And the coda managed to beat that. The Trabant at least can be dealt with basic tools (mostly) and honestly, you can fabricate half the parts if you really wanted, making it more reliable lmao
To be fair, the Wheego cheated by just not working at all anymore.
Which means it will never overheat & the wheel bearings will not wear at all.
A trabant is fairly reliable tho right, not that much to go wrong
@@obbezwiers No. As a German, I looked a bit into the history of the Trabant. They were notoriously unreliable when they were even new from the factory. People had to tinker with them to get them running in a reliable way. They were simply engineered and built, but they had issues. People were upset about the quality but could not do anything. In a museum I saw a letter from a citizen who wrote to the GDR party all the things that were wrong with the car when it came new and attached an invoice for his own services so the car could actually run.
Compared to the VW Beetle, they were crappy cars. But they were the only car that regular citizens could hope for, because pretty much only apparatchiks were able to procure Soviet cars. So they had to do. Despite the steel embargo.
There are still some Trabis left that are driven, and they are nostalgia cars. They are explicitly not known for reliability. :D
@@Schmidt54 that's fair, thanks door looking that up! I guess the upside is that, when it eventually breaks down, you can probably do most of the repairs yourself😅
It says a lot when the Yugo is your most reliable car.
I think his F150 is a bit more reliable, but probably not by much.
@@herbiehusker1889 by a microscopic amount
The volvo must be the most reliable car he has. Those things run forever, especially the older ones
Or the Ford
Yugo is a reliable car. Now a Trabant on the other hand.
The Coda is just trying to remind you to Wrench Every Day
Ha! I get it!
Hey its tavarish in disguise
Haha
Jared? That you playa?
@@christopherhamilton5557 one of the two
What is this channel?
I'll tell ya what this channel is! It's some of the most entertaining car content on TH-cam. I don't want to see the fastest car, I don't want to see the cheapest whatever, and I definitely don't want to see anymore quirks or features. I want to see someone love his cars for what they are; someone who cares for his fleet, even as they age and start failing.
And that, sir, is what you bring. And I appreciate it very much. Keep on keeping on, and I'll keep watching. Thanks.
I have nothing to add except for the thing I'm typing... Well said. I agree :D
I was a big fan of watching quirks and features years ago but now they don't excite me, i'm not sure why.
Ditto. I think this, Chris fix, and Bad Obsession are the only car channels I'm subscribe to. I like seeing passion projects and truly unique collections, and this guy's sense of humor is excellent.
Well said
This channel is simultaneously the same as and total opposite of the British show Top Gear. How that is possible, I do not know, but I know what I like! 👍😎👍
He's always so happy when he says "Wheego".
I suppose it does contain "Weeee!!".
"Wheeeeeego!", "Weeeezard!", both followed by talk of failure.
but no 'go' :-(
I was half-expecting for a meteorite, a hunk of space junk, or a wrecking ball to obliterate the Coda as Robert walked out-of-frame...
Is that wrong?
In his daydream while he was walking away it was all of the above
I was expecting him to come running back into frame wielding a giant sledgehammer and start thrashing the car with it XD
That would be solving problems, not making more of them.
I expected it to just blow up by itself.
I was expecting a piano to fall on it. Must've watched too much Top Gear back in the day.
People: electric cars are much more reliable than stupid gas cars with all those moving parts!
Coda: hold me beer!
Wheego laughing in the background
Those of us who have consistently had more trouble with the electrical bits of normal cars than with the oily bangy bits have always gotten a bitter little laugh out of that assertion from the EV camp. :)
@@ZGryphon biggest difference (I hope, anyway) is that EV builders are inherently better at electronics, because that's all they build, where as for an ICE car builder, electronics mostly seem to be an afterthought and/of something to save money on.
I hope.
But any new car above the super basic ones are overcomplicated... EV or ICE.
Less moving parts is less moving parts.
I know gas is short for gasoline but it remains weird that Americans call a liquid "gas" :-)
I guess a good way of describing buying a Coda would be: I wish I Coda bought a different car.
Please stop repeating that joke. Let's fine put that joke to rest.
@@jackielinde7568 So you're saying you wish Evan Coda picked a better joke?
@@mjc0961 I just like to say I’m glad I was able to come up with that on my own at least
@@mjc0961 It could have been tuned a bit better. Sadly, even your attempt feels a bit flat.
There are still a few you can buy brand new, with the tax credit!
Somewhere in Europe, a Trabant assembly worker just shed a tear...
What is this channel? Absolutely friggin legendary, that's what!
Hello DrTauntsalot! The channel is called "Aging Wheels". The name should be somewhere on your cell phone below the video. If you tap on the name you can find a lot more videos. Take care and stay healthy! 🌈
"It's an electric car that overheats, yay!" I think this is why Aging Wheels is one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
the wheego has trained the coda well on how to keep Robert happy by breaking on and on
I swear that dark cloud as he walked off at the end, tried to follow him.
Nope. It must be the drugs.
When a new-ish electric car is less reliable than a 2 stroke soviet cotton box
Actually it's East German.
It makes you wonder if the ICE car this was based on was also so unreliable. Things like door locks are nothing to do with it being electric or Coda.
@@MrDuncl Almost certainly. EVs have the potential to be more reliable than ICE vehicles but potentially being something isn't the same as actually being something. It's like LED Light bulbs, they can be way better than Incandescent or CFL bulbs but if you buy one that was cheaply made it'll fail much sooner than what should be an inferior alternative.
@@grn1 Funny that you should mention LEDs because one of the rear lights on a colleague's Tesla Model 3 failed about six months after she got it. Tesla did fix it for her.
@@MrDuncl From what I've hear with Tesla it's usually bad QC, especially on early batches. Once you get all the kinks out they're generally reliable (with notable exceptions). Tesla's batteries, motors, and drive trains are generally revered as the best of the best but other things that normal auto manufacturers got down Tesla screws up on. LEDs are usually overvolted as well which provides more light at the cost of more heat and a premature death. Most of the time the thing that actually fails isn't the actual LED but the driver behind/packaged with it.
For all these small plastic parts like gears etc, that keep breaking and might not have replacement parts available, you should consider investing in a simple 3D printer. They don't cost much anymore and you will be able to replace so much badly made injection molded crap. Something like an Ender 3 or CR-10 should be the right one for you (easy to modify and cheap)
Can go from tinkering with wonky cars to tinkering with wonky printers~
@@FranNyan A wonky printer would be a Geeetech i3 Pro W^^ The Ender 3 gives quite decent quality prints even for beginners out of the box. But they have much more mods that can and should be made than e.g. a Prusa. They are fairly loud and their stock extruders have a low life expectancy.
@@FranNyan To be fair, Jay Leno has spoken about the value of using 3D printing to replace bad plastic parts, talked on doing it to a 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE Mercedes for the air conditioning knob. The knobs would have cost $500 each and he's able to print one for about five bucks. If it's good enough for Jay in a 2016 video, it's good enough for Robert in 2021, but let's be honest, Robert's more likely to make it out of wood.
I have a 3D printer and yet for plastic gears, i'd rather just take the original gear and its pieces and make a copy from epoxy resin, i do that quite a bit and never had a Nylon gear replaced by an Epoxy one fail. I use 2K kneading silicone to quickly make a mould. I used to have 3D printed toothed idlers on my printer to better control the belt cogging, since rolling over a smooth idler stretches it unevenly depending on angle, but 2-3 years later, all the mechanically loaded pieces i made from a given batch of PLA cracked, including those. I do think PETG should hold up better, but i didn't exactly get the detail resolution out of it, it just behaves weird. ABS doesn't work for gears, no surface abrasion resistance, also it's a menace to get an actually successful print out of. No experience with HIPS and ASA as of yet.
But i absolutely love my Geeetech i3 Pro W. Excellent electronics (though needed repair due to a well-hidden cold solder joint under bed connector out of all places, and degrading power input connector), made to be reprogrammed and modified. Junk in every single possible other regard, quite deliberately so. It's made to be fixed. The single highest quality tool shipped with it is a (potentially fake, but still pretty nice) Japanese-brand diamond file, intended to fix the laser cut wood frame wherever it's not made correctly. I also really like the pen that came with it.
Geeetech A10 is supposed to be fairly nice, but then you might as well get an Ender 3 V2 which is much nicer yet.
@@SianaGearz For a good mold you still would have to have one part that is still in good enough shape to make a mold froim it. In a car where everything breaks, you may only have a single gear of a particular type and that may be teethless. So you could just print it and if that isn't strong enough (which it should be, but whatever) you could use that that to make the mold. Though the resin would be just as strong as an SLA print, which isn't stronger than most FDM prints either, so he should be more than fine with regular old ABS, ASA, PET, PETG, Nylon etc. PLA could be too heat sensitive for the inside of a car.
I have a Geeetech i3 Pro W as well and I have to say, it is really bad compared to all my other machines. The frame just isn't as stiff and the part quality is often rather bad. The mainboard is nice though, but still just 8bit. The worst cost cutting measure was to not have one big piece for the top and bottom , but using the Z-axis leadscrew (which was horribly bent on mine) and the smooth rods to keep the fram from wobbling side ways. Which means it wobbled as hell. I learned a lot by designing fixes for it though (which I printed on my Ender 3^^). Nowadays these i3 clones just aren't worth buying new anymore. You can get them for basically the same prices as an original Ender 3 (which usually costs around 150€ + free shipping within a week (atleast here in Germany)). I feel he would love the Geeetech i3 Pro W, since he also loves his Trabant and all the other cars, but the Ender 3 with its superior frame is just a far better starting point. The community and therefore the mods are also far greater.
"What is this channel?" - Robert Dunn
It's demented gloriousness that also involves odd cars. And a bus/RV conversion, or so I understand, haven't seen it for a bit. ;)
Demented gloriousness sounds awesome
...and chickens! 🐔
I kind of assumed he knew, because I don't know.
Robert: What is this channel?
ME: The best channel on TH-cam!
There is a single random coda that appeared in a turkish second hand website, (I believe its the only one in the country) and guess what, its broken too.
Well, it's not like he doesn't have two parts cars. :-)
He is going to need the whole series production to keep that 1 car running past 100 thousand miles.
@@sl06bhytmar As I recall from hist first video, the Coda is an electric conversion of a Chinese car. Of the problems he listed, the only Coda-specific ones would seem to be the status monitor and the Econometer. The door and window issues are probably endemic to the original car and the result of cheap Chinese parts. The one that personally worries me is the rear wheel bearing (and the bearing and u-joint issues in general); I'm a bit concerned that the weight of the batteries may be stressing the bearings, etc. If this is the case then, hopefully, installing higher quality replacement parts is all that is necessary.
Oops, I forgot the overheating.
Did he got the third car too?
I never knew he got back to get the third spare parts car..
Can you confirm this?
"This is the least reliable car I *have ever* owned."
_lowers sunglasses_
Dear God.
There's more.
@@llmkursk8254 No.....
@@jaysea5939 It contains the dying wish of every man here.
That gauge is the patented "You *Should've bought a Leaf Gauge.* Don't ya know. 🤔
I suspect that the immersion testing and the CV Joint/bearing failures are related. Soaking cars in salt water does odd things.
we ain't got no salt water here in missouri fucko
Lol it's a component test for electronic modules aka compliance testing more than likely a failed component or dry/cracked joint
@@cardioandfriends Well aren't you a pleasant little cretin?
@@cardioandfriends There is a river called Salt River that flows through Missouri so I will allow it
@@cardioandfriends what he meant to say is that the failures might be stemming from when the car was still in Coda’s development fleet; if you have ever watched a video from a car manufacturer showcasing the development of a brand new model, they drive pre production prototypes in all sorts of conditions at the proving grounds until something actually breaks.
3:00 Plot twist: This is the actual car that Coda used to stress-test components.
"What is this channel?" You ask? Why, it's one of my favorites, that's what it is.
You said what is this channel , its the best dam car channel on TH-cam, keep up the great work
It really is one of the best channels on TH-cam. It never fails to make me smile when a new video is posted. Thanks!
Electric cars don't overheat then, they thermal throttle like a CPU.
Couldn't a car be undestood as it speeding up under heat..? Ahahah!
Yesterday I heard a loud fan noise outside our apartment, I looked out and a Tesla had just parked below the window. The fan noise was loud! Not the whisper quiet you expect from a top of the line electric vehicle.
It was 30°C yesterday.
@ was it charging?
@@snjert8406 nope. Just parked.
@ The A/C of the Teslas definitely makes a lot of noise when set to the max. Also on the recent models the same system is used to cool the drivetrain so it's difficult to say if the A/C is kept on or if it's just cooling the battery and motors after a hard drive.
Sooooo... What you're saying is... YOU GOT A PERFECT LEMONS RACE CAR AT THE PERFECT PRICE!!! Dude! I'm down with helping you get that thing race ready!
Finally! Someone to challenge the ZomBee for TOTAL DOMINATION!
Hes got a flippin fleet of lemons ready dominators.
I’ve bought 4 Coda’s. Two just for parts. Now Have tons of spare parts. Sold one, The one I kept works fine with the larger battery. Water pump failure is the number one issue if you disassemble the water pump The impeller slides on the bushing and rubs the back of the house and the pump can’t rotate. The screw Hass to be put behind the trim on the rear door panel to pry it away from the door latch and lock rods.
Those dang wheel bearings are making this channel live up to its name.
Robert could start a sub-channel "Ageing Wheel Bearings" :-)
"Hi, I was an engineer with Coda" - yeah, I wouldn't mention that at your job interview.
To use the musical term - Da Capo Al Coda... ;)
Aaaaaaaaaaallllll da-Coda.
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The green screen looks like something you’d see on a free iPhone app from 2009.
Your twin brother will help you out, he is just behind the Wheego 😊 Thanks for the video
That is the best title to a video, not too over Exaggerating or has nothing to do with the video, Just straight to the point
"I'll fix everything in the Coda!"
Next video: I *dropped a grand piano* on my Coda
Really enjoy your narrative describing the "challenges and opportunities" you're having with your Coda.
"what is this channel"
The answer is "really damn good"
This channel is the only car channel I follow because of your sheer drive and passion for these terrible cars you love.
Regarding the Green-Screen: Your coolant fluid might be low.
During that long pause at the end I half expected an anvil to drop from the sky right onto the car.
6:55 "And the sunglass tray isn't" 😂😂
What is this channel?
One of the few of which I like the videos before I watch them because I know I will be entertained by a genuine dude!
Coda vids make me smile every time. It's just so nice!
This is by far the best automotive TH-cam channel.
I’m willing to bet a Trabant would do exactly the same as this if it actually had features that could break.
the speedo and the windows didn't break in the trabant
“What is this channel?”
One of the only 2 channels I have notifications turned on for. That’s what this channel is
I've owned cars with 200K miles that never experienced any of these issues. I see why Coda didn't make it.
This channel is my favorite automotive channel!
Thanks for all the dad jokes and great content. I watch your channel and feel like Im part of process fixing everything I could never own or get a chance to repair
Overheating? that'll be the head gaske.....oh wait....
I absolutely love your enthusiasm and humour even in the face of utter crap (speaking as someone who owns and loves other crap himself). I admire you for taking on the unloved and unknown, preserving them but also enjoying them - that latter part is every bit as important. Your videos are so wonderful to watch; hugely due to your personality.
Perhaps if you'd been one of the engineers at Coda, they'd still be around?
Perhaps you can build a better electric car in your woodshop?
Every time you mention something on the car that's broken I look forward to the video where you fix it.
Enjoy the wait. Learn a new trade or write a book. Retire.
Great video. Can't wait so see the detailed mending of each problem.
Is it overheating or is the sensor US? Have you tried cycling the power….or indeed, just cycling! 🚲🤣
I love your Coda. It is so much the underdog just like Hubnuts beloved TWK.
This channel is entertaining to watch while featuring interesting and real cars and projects - thanks so much and looking forward to the journey of fixing (and re-fixing) your Coda(s) ;)
I was ready for a jumpscare at the end
"What is this channel?" Pure entrainment gold. Could watch you buy any shit box under the sun, and love every weird fact, joke, fix, and b roll you film of it
Is it really "breaking" when it doesn't strand you or burst into flames?
Well if it needs an avalanche of repair, then it is breaking.
Reminds me of my 3 series BMW. Never left me stranded. Broke all the time. Also, the E46 is known to burst into flames. AT 2AM. In the garage. Electrical wiring issue with the radiator fan.
This channel is amazing, is what it is! You truly are the premier collector of badly-made deathtraps, and I am delighted to watch what happens next.
This channel makes me want to buy a Think! City so badly.
I remember seeing their setup at the LA auto show years ago. Truly a horrendously spartan car for what they wanted. Living in LA I saw four of these in the wild, which is impressive.
Feel this is pay for having bought that Volvo. That Volvo was the least "Robert" car you could've bought.
Should have been an S80 T6 with the GM auto trans, that would be more Robert.
@@imitt12 It could've been a ton of things, except a rebadged Focus with styling that tries (keyword: tries) to resemble an older design. It's not even that special or interesting. If anything, it's a pretty average hot hatch, if you can even call it that.
As long as you kerp acquiring cars that fall apar, we will always have something to watch.
That thumbnail is hilarious
3:37 - Stuff breaking up is such a leitmotiv for this channel that even the water dispenser, with that blinking light, seems to be broken!! xD
I’m a Patreon sub so I already saw this but I watch on TH-cam to support my favorite TH-camr even more
What is this channel??? Priceless. Love this channel and keep up the car loving!
great things happen when a US company converts a Chinese car to electric.
Endearingly entertaining is what this channel is. Always a delight when TH-cam shows me that a new Aging Wheels video has been uploaded - and I can't do anything else until I've watched it. lol!
We appreciate the efforts you put into each one Robert. :)
Is it even less reliable than a Wheego?
How is that even possible?
Not only that but sunglass holder was stolen from a Nissan exalta sentra (Philipine market) or Nissan bluebird sylphy there was too similar
"What is this channel" I will tell you sir, this is the only "car" oriented channel I watch! Thank you for the good work sir!
Huh, I've been watching your videos for 2-3 years now and somehow just realized you sound a bit like Kermit The Frog
Thanks, now I can’t un-hear that anymore
This channel really reminds me of an EV version of Hoovies Garage. Keep up the good work!
Does that mean that if Robert repairs enough cars he can buy himself a Yacht (or three).
Robert I want to be you when I grow up, lol and I'm 30.
You have lifts, wood working tools and fun cars and the time and ability to do so, I am pretty jelly!
Go onto your local car site and find a cheap, funny car!
Hopefully you upload weekly with the fix updates you've been doing. Looking forward to all of em.
damn man... if you are worse than the Travant you shouldnt be a car
I this man needs to buy more bad cars, that could solve the problem.
What is this channel?...
Pure gold, my man
"The ECO gauge thinks I should buy a Nissan Leaf." Laughed at that!
Still one of the most underrated channels on youtube
Hey Robert.
Not sure if this information is helpful, or if you are already aware, but the sunglasses holder / map light thingy looks exactly like the one found in the 2000-2007 Nissan Almera (N16 generation). The Almera is also known as the Pulsar in other places, including the US, but that particular generation didn't make it to your side of the ocean it would seem.
If you were wondering, the Nissan part is also crap. The plastic is about as strong as a wheat cracker, and folds in half just as easily if you try closing it with a bit of enthusiasm. Ask me how I know.
Anyway, if you are unable to find that whole silly assembly over there, I'd be happy to assist with getting a replacement from over here. Plenty of scrap Almeras to be found around me!
I love the titles on these videos. Concise, straight to the point. He’s right, this stupid electric car does keep breaking
In the end shot after Robert walked away from the Coda, I was SO expecting a grand piano or a caravan to drop on it from a great height as Top Gear did to so many woeful (or just British Leyland) cars!
You get to replace window regulators, wheel bearings and a CV axle - Yay! Always the upbeat presenter and enjoyable to watch! Keep up the good work! By the way, I recently replaced a window regulator in my MIL's 2004 Buick. All the plastic was disintegrating, and I expect the other 3 to expire soon. They had some 3rd party company name on them, so maybe you can also find what you need. Good luck!
Awesome channel: that is a massive understatement!
Why?
The video's are very informative, fun to watch, sometimes a bit random but that keeps it interesting!
Thank you for these awesome interesting and very fun to watch videos.
But I have a few questions:
1. Did you ever got back and got the third coda including the spare parts?
2. How is the the bus project going, are you going to continue that project?
3. Are you still going to use the battery cells of the coda to revive the weego?
Thank you again for creating this awesome content!
Greetings from The Netherlands!
What is this channel he asks, the answer is gold, pure gold.
Surprisingly, I had heard of Coda Automotive vehicles before this, but that was because I started actively researching EVs back in 2010!
All the frustrations of unexplained computer fails and faults - now brought to your driving!
You're enjoying me with your channel, thanks for that.
Stay safe ✌️
You are the Patron Saint of odd ball cars. Keep it up. It's awesome!
This is why I watch your videos! The sarcasm is unmatched
LOVE IT
Edit:
The content on itself is really good. Not just the commedy
You might try something like the diy/mod that Ford Super Duty folks do on the lock actuators. It’s the overload/overheat part of the circuit that fails on those, in the motor of the actuator. It gets bypassed.
Brilliant- we love an unloved underdog, no matter how bad it is. As always, a great video Rob
This is why I watch your videos! the sarcasm is really unmatched
LOVE IT
The content on itself is really good though, not just the commedy
This channel is pure entertainment, that's what it is!
"What is this channel?" Well, I'll tell you! One of the most fun channels on this platform. That's what!
Coda project videos coming up? I'm already salivating.
The window regulators in my '95 Impala at least lasted 6000 miles.
Granted the car was seventeen years old with those miles, I think the goop in the tracks had solidified and when the windows were actuated the goop bound on the glides and broke said glides.
Hey I have that exact same go-kart that’s in the back right of the video! I got it as a Christmas present when I was 9 I think and I’m guessing that is now your most reliable vehicle. All that’s ever happened to it is that we’ve changed the oil twice and pumped up the tires many times. I’m 17 now and I know me and my family have at least sunk triple digit hours into it.
As someone who can´t afford awful cars, i really love your channel - especially the Coda videos! Looking forward to the next update! :)