38 thoughts on “I Am SO Glad I Quit Working On Cars For A Living”

  1. I was a certified master auto mechanic for over 30 years. Every now and then i miss it. Then I’m reminded of how much it sucked… and it sucked for so long before i finally escaped.
    I can totally relate to this guy.

  2. I had a Jeep for a while. I gave it the loving nickname of The Repair Of The Month Club. I got rid of it when I made the amazing discovery that surf fishing was a much more enjoyable hobby than constant work on an automobile.

  3. Not only do the cars put out now look like something a demon would 5hit out after a particularly nasty burrito, but the construction for repair requirements as revenge for that same burrito.

    • All the engineering is concentrated on “speed and ease of assembly” for workers that want to get it out the door and are never going to see it again, let alone fix it.

  5. I was a mechanic/nys inspector from 1979 to 85. Graduated with Associates degree in auto technology. Things were changing so fast and unless you were a computer guru you weren’t worth much to the dealerships, prolly worse now. I love cars, old cars.

  6. I have great respect and admiration for an good mechanic that can express themselves so eloquently!

    • Yes, I certainly get the impression that he’s not having a good day. Unfortunately he forgot the manufacturer’s mantra: ” repairs? Nah, just buy another one”.

    • ROGER THIS!! Barry Soetoro, the fucking queer Commie fucked up the used car market single handedly with that one market altering deal. THAT is the reason that all those good repairable cars are gone now. Commie queer, pedo, Satanist, mo fos fuck up everything they touch!!!!
      I’m AM telling you how I really feel! With my tree service, I was the mechanic, unless it was more cost effective to have a mechanic do it. Now? If it’s computer related, off to the shop that is going to warrantee the repair. If I fix it wrong, or it doesn’t last, NO WARRANTY!
      My 1st taste of fucked up engineering, was as a fighter jet mech back in ’69-73.
      I’ve calmed down now. Remember kids, the whole Green Industry, emissions scam, is just PART of the NWO,WEF, scam to degrade life, the economy and incrementally crash Western civilization. Just another straw.

  11. I worked for a boos that said that a gashed head and skinned knuckles were more useful in a design office than a first class honours degree from a top university. Watching that, it reminded me of him.

    As sure as fucking makes babies, the guy that designed it had never worked on an engine in a crowded engine bay.

    • I wouldn’t matter jot if the engineer had worked on an engine a crowded engine bay.

      Anyone who thinks that engineers have any control at all over the cost requirements of what they design is totally ignorant of how these things work.

      All this crap comes from designing for ease of assembly at lowest cost. Those are the requirements that the engineers have, so that’s what they do.

      It’s the financial side that sets what’s acceptable. If the engineers design for maintenance, but it costs more to assemble they are told to go away and do it again. Unless the company places a value on the ease of maintenance.

      And how do I know this for a fact? Because when I was a young man, I was that engineer who knew how to rebuild a V8 and saw how money drove the design briefs that I had to fulfil.

      Just look at Boeing today. You think that the skilled engineers signed off on a critical MCAS system being designed by low-cost IT workers from India, or was that driven by the money guys?

  12. I like my Toyotas but every one of the steel bolts going into an aluminum block presents an opportunity to fuck something up. Also getting the electrical connecters apart on any wire harness without breaking them is a near impossibility. The good new side is that you really don’t have to work on them much. My son is driving my 2003 Tacoma with 400K on it.

    • Dam it man.
      Why’d you have to go a say it out loud?
      That frickin Aussie loves them. And you’re probably going to set him off. He claims near total blindness but I’ve come to realize that it is selective. I made the mistake of giving him my email and now he’s going to blow it up with Mopar crap.

  14. That head is not repairable. Remove and replace it. Make the Jeep owner sorry. Hasn’t been a good jeep made since the korean war.

  15. Motor was assembled at one line the swung on to the line that had the jeep. Motor needs to be take out. Most likely 4 bolt drops the entire drive train. Wires and all.

    Then you can work on it.

    Course my truck had a thermostat lock open. Cost 1700 to fix that POS as the moved it to under the intake. Now that is a design fuck up.

  17. Don’t get me started on the current coolant reservoir and sensor system on the Duramax. Same-Same. I can’t wait for the day when we start hearing about the auto engineers being taken out on the streets.

  18. I am a retired auto mechanic, and I feel for the guys trying to make a living at the trade now. No telling how little he is being paid to lose his sanity. I will offer this: The easiest vehicle that you are trying to fix is the one in front of you right now. Next year they will be more complex, more crowded into the engine bay, and a lot more electronics.

    • …and you have to take all the plastic engine covering panels off just to see what’s what.

  20. If you think that’s bad, try working on a submarine.

    Best description I’ve heard is…

    Rebuild your car engine. You can only go through the glove box.

  21. Anti-seize is your friend, which is why Detroit doesn’t use any. Steel bolt, aluminum block or head. Changing basic designs every 3 years. Transverse mount on engines causing interference fits (my Taurus SHO is the worst for that.)

    The manufacturer simply drops the powertrain in, hooks up the hoses/electrical/linkages, and drives it off the line, they NEVER take repair or replacement into account. Probably never will. Because they make enough money to NEVER have to actually WORK on their abortions they design. Bastards.

    I always design my circuits or mechanical or structural stuff with KISS and “You’re gonna have to tear it apart eventually to fix the darn thing” in mind. I also overdesign when I can, which is why if I ever designed a plane it would be too heavy to fly or a rocket to launch. But they won’t break… ;P

    • Not all anti-seize is not always your friend in the mechanic world. With the popularization of various alloys and metals in all vehicles and machinery, we need to be more than mechanics and also be chemists or metallurgists. When you place copperkote (anti-seize) between iron and aluminum, then heat them up, what happens? You have created a very low-voltage battery and have initiated a slow chemical reaction. Once the copperkote has finished marrying the to dissimilar metals, they have achieved Zen and become as one. This is why on higher-quality aluminum cylinder heads, they are manufactured with stainless steel thread inserts, and they recommend a proprietary lubricant during assembly.
      Unfortunately, this is a rare exception to the rule. Everything I work on (Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit and Mercedes) has aluminum components so expensive, the fasteners would rather break off than risk damaging the component – that damage is for when you sacrifice nine reverse drill bits and several easy-outs to those heathen Engine Gods………. only to be informed there is a new, updated version of this part (made in India now, instead of China.)
      This morning, I spent three hours outside in -25F changing a starter. (only three nuts for the wiring and three bolts to mount the starter, how BAD could it be?

  22. So much of farm machinery has a similar problem. The people who design it never have to work on it. And now with the DEF diesel motors and computers it’s all a nightmare. Neighbor’s John Deere combine had a DEF problem and wouldn’t run over an idle. The tech sat in the cab for nine hours with his laptop and finally got it running right. For half an hour and then back to the same problem.

  23. A few moons back a rancher neighbor finally got himself a new pickup, Dodge Bighorn diesel…towed stuff all the time of course. Gets pulled over 6 months after purchase because of a bad tailight on the trailer, takes it in as it’s under warranty. No joy. They tear into the electrical gremlin…find nothing. Finally, after a week at the dealer they tell him it’s an ECU fault. $1800…but they are on back-order, none, zip, nada, available in the USA…bad part overran the JIT supply chain. Turns out the friggin’ engineering geniuses wired the trailer controller thru the ECU. Who does that? GM engineering…because ‘if it works, they’ll fix it.’

  25. Edison Motors.
    This Canadian semi-truck manufacturer has mechanics on the design crew, mechanics on the engineering crew, and mechanics on the everything else crew.
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    Their trucks are designed wy commonly available parts from the dismantlers.
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    Their latest version is a Cab-Forward.
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    I operated a television repair shop.
    I required a us$100 deposit before the broke set crossed the counter.
    If I had an automotive repair shop, I would need a thousand fedbux in advance.

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