rev up your engines today I'm going to show you how you can save money
replacing broken lenses on your car that evil swine's have bumped into in the
parking lot then water got inside it started ruining it
when I wipe it off you can see inside check it out look close so you can see all
the paint inside it's bubbling up because it got wet from a crack and sure
that's annoying but even more annoying is there are almost $200 at the Toyota
dealer so something I normally don't do I did I went online I bought a beautiful
one instead of 200 bucks this one cost 50 bucks brand-new I'm gonna show you
how easy it is on most cars to change open the trunk the when we go to it we can
see that's not even part of the lens here this is the lens there's no nuts
and bolts it's all done internally so it's always good idea to
have a new one first cuz then you can just turn it back and say uh-huh one two
three bolts nuts on the inside so we got to get to them to unbolt them whatever
you got to change any kind of part like that you get a new one you can look at
it and see exactly how it comes apart any part can be done that way you have
the new one in your hand even like a starter you can see oh okay it's got
three bolts here that's all I have to think of always look at the new one to
make sure you're taking off the old one right without wasting a lot of time now
we gotta get in here so this is just a cover now we can get in here you just
pop this copper off we can actually access the whole thing inside now
knowing an access is first thing when you just unplug this these stupid tangs
there's always a clip somewhere there it is right here you put your finger on it
easier with two hands with ones holding the camera so we'll try it this way ah
now that's off now as you can see here are the bolts are long so you get a 10
millimeter deep socket to get on time bolt them inside that way it fits over
cuz there's not much work that fits over then you can easily unbolt you start on
then you can use your finger if they're not rocket science but if you don't have
the long socket the short ones will not fit you can see it's long
there goes now I lost it fell inside don't magnet on a stick comes in handy we can
just stick it in there and fish it out you can't beat a magnet on a stick they come
in handy then there's just two more to remove there's a socket one and hand twist it
like I say they're long threads takes a while a spinning to get
them off sometimes they get a little bit carried away here ah there's the third
one now you might think you didn't get them all off but there's three on a new
ones of this three here you got a pull like mad sometimes
they'll stick you can hear it clicking yeah we got an off transfer the parts
sockets come out two and three out they come if you notice
these are regular incandescent bulbs that this is an LED that's because these
are backup light LEDs that are super bright and I like it I'm getting old
can't see as well right so I put any super-bright LED backup lights so not
only can people see you backing up but you can see better cuz it throws more
light not a bad idea they don't cost that much money and of course they just
go in and twist inside you gotta get them at the right angle okay there's one
and there's two twists and three now they're all in you can see bulbs are all
in now before I put it back in you can see the crud around here just blow it
out of the way but the main thing is it has to be clean here cuz that's the seal
the seal goes on you can see any old one it's kind of dirty and crunched up and
this is a new seal here make sure it's slid on right make sure the gaskets are place
line up oh yeah fits pretty good but here's a tip sometimes when people hit them
they bounce stuff and that little metal bends and they don't fit right
what you can do is you can get a drill bit that's bigger than this and make the
holes a little bit wider so you got some play room to slide it in on that model
it doesn't matter you can see how wide the seal is so if you make these holes
bigger there's no water gonna get inside it'll still seal it but it would fit
here better if some of that's bent you can just ream them out with a bigger drill
bit but in this case hey as you can see
it's been good by itself it didn't bend anything but before we bought it on
let's connect it make sure everything works right turn on parking light that's
working right check the turn signal that's working fine and check the backup
lights and that's working fine on both sides as you can see they're super
bright backup lights they're really great now we can bolt it back on don't
forget to do all three there we go nice shiny new tail light we'll just stick
this back on the cover nice at the other cuff some cars yes it's a bigger pain
you gotta take all this plastic crap but tie in with smart and put a cover on now
and you'll snap the cover back on these you're getting them on and off y'all
won't have one of these covers because then when you close the trunk the people
walk inside it's ten it but you still can't see the cover covers everything up
so if you got stuff in there people don't see anything open and what people
can't see they won't steal and so rather than spending $200 the Toyota dealer I
spent 50 bucks online and fixed it myself you can see it's not that big of
a deal like I said even if it had been hit further and bad in and bet those
little metal tanks you can fix that easier self by getting a drill making a
little slot so you have more room to maneuver to slide the thing back in I've
done that a numeral times for customers over the last 52 years rather than
saying no you got to go to a body shop yada yada yada
you can always improvise if you only have a brain and since this is mechanic
monday I'm gonna give away an interesting product I've been testing out
it's called trusted crayon markers you might think what Scotty doing those
crayons I'm not good with crayons but these are special crayons these
crayons are working crayons they write on anything you're working in a car you
want to mark parts where things go they work on plastic as you can see I'm not
any good at drawing they work on metal
they work on just about any surface junkyards use these things all the time
they mark parts they generally get totally wrecked cars they start taking
an engine and transmission out and write what year what size engine it is
sometimes I'll write the mileage but a lot of times they lie on that
it's got 150 and they might say it's got $65 and when they write it up you can't
always trust them but you can trust these little crayons hey they really
work quite well if you need to mark anything you forget which way something
goes before you take it off put an arrow marking that way in
their really handy little crayons hey even working a concrete and I'll be giving
away a case of these cool crayons you have a chance to win place a clean non
offensive comment under YouTube comments below and a winner will be chosen
randomly by computer to get these cool colored crayons for when you're working
on your car or maybe your kids want to play around with them they really do
work quite well and here's some bonus questions and answers not as interesting
questions 10:23 says Scotty hope you're having a great day I was
wondering if some eyes are better made than Toyotas okay well it's actually
kind of an interesting even though you're comparing apples and oranges it's
a very interesting question semi trucks are well made because they're commercial
vehicles and Toyotas are well made because Toyota generally makes good
vehicles and that's how they went from making little puddle jumpers to taking
over and some of them are cars that routes to the world but make the quality
vehicles the semis it's a different situation but same kind idea they have
to make those things well built because they're commercial vehicles that
companies are buying let's say one company made horrible trucks the other
company makes better ones they're gonna buy the other ones because these people
are looking at the bottom line they want to see how many million miles there last
it actually analyzed everything a lot more than an average person analyzing
what they spend on their car they have to be well made that's one of the
reasons that for ages in the United States for quite some time especially
recently the trucks pickup trucks are better made now out of the cars because
the pickup guys are particular a lot of them use them for businesses we thought
apart so say they had a ram truck and it fell apart they're gonna say heck on that
I'll go buy a Ford truck right there's a lot of competition and they got to build
them better cuz people use them for commercial things so the semis yeah
they're well built because they're commercial vehicles and generally you
get better built stuff done because the companies that buy them are really ill
eyes and a lot more than an average person will
Tommy John John says I got a 2011 f250 again overheating message
displayed every once in a while when it does engine loses power intermittent
generally means there's some kind of either computer or wiring fault there's
a switch for your engine oil temperature and for some reason the wiring wasn't
made that well so what you want to do is with it just idly go to the engine oil
temperature sensor wiggle it and if you wiggle it and then you start getting
weird things and the light starts coming on that means that wiring harness has
got a problem inside cut the old one off and splice in a new water it's kind of a
design flaw those things but you know anytime you get any kind of intermittent
problem like that the first thing you want to do is go to all the sensors and
start wiggle them and if you're wiggling then it starts acting up you know the
problem is there and in this case the sessions themselves are generally okay
they're both the side of the engine they don't do anything but the wiring
harnesses were kind of weak to short out you wiggle them then they do that and of
course when you hit bumps and stuff it'll make it happen intermittently
because then it's getting the power it isn't getting power and it makes the
engine light come on so check that oil temperature sensor first it's a known flaw
in those, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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