rev up your engines, today I'm show you how to attempt to fix a Mercedes cheaply
without spending a fortune on parts but before I do you remember I have videos
that show you how you can use your cell phone to fix your car by using the
software that's inside and some programs but in this case the customer used the
phone to help destroy your car so please don't talk or text while you're driving she
ran into the person in front of her by not paying attention now this is an 06
v8 Mercedes needless to say it's turning into an endless money pit all by itself
she's not gonna keep it for all that much longer so when she bashed in she didn't
want to put a claim on her insurance policy so I'm gonna attempt to fix this
to make it look at least decent now to fix it the current way you got to replace
this whole front piece and it may be cheap plastic crap but it costs a lot of
money and as you can see here they don't all go to well so I'm gonna brace it
finally good place right so now the hood won't hit me on the head while I'm
working now the customer mainly doesn't like because there's a big hole here now
I sourced out an emblem there's a zillion different ones and it turns out
that on a broken one like this nothing's gonna fit perfectly but I'm
gonna rig it so at least it looks decent now this plastics broken we're gonna try
to put together at least decently the piece is being flexible the first
thing I'm gonna do to see that this press is in reasonably close now all the
fasteners are broken inside so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to use a special
type of dental adhesive sounds crazy but it works I bought it on Amazon
it's called Stowsen white surface repair kit the dentists use
stuff like this but luckily this comes with various different colors and I'm
gonna use the clear one as you can see here as this one is clear so I won't
really leave any stuff and it'll look decent
now since the part we're gluing to is all broken up we're gonna get some of
this nice Gorilla Tape and tape the inside of the top plastic so at least
it's held together somewhat in one piece as you can see not least this is going
to be together as a solid piece so at least it will stay there now of course this
isn't perfect but we're just all broken up we're gonna have the tabs on the
outside instead of the inside so it'll help hold it together then we take the
end off of the clear and screw in this little betty tip so you can really
control what you put on since it's clear you're not really gonna see much on it
you make sure it's on there tight well start on this side we'll put a little
bit leave it up gently then we cure it with the ultraviolet light this will
cure it and it'll stay on do it again just to be sure it runs for about 20
seconds so you can turn it back on hold it on make sure it's nice and hard
before you turn it off then we'll do the other side here turn it only up behind
the ultraviolet rays curing the sealer and like I said we'll do it a few times
because it's cold outside now you can see it's on pretty solid it's the same
stuff dentist use for your teeth so and of course you can use the ultraviolet light
and the sealer on the little pieces to tell off I glued them over here and
inside here yeah it's old and there's lots of cracks but at least it's one
piece now it doesn't look bad when you close the hood as you can see as we take the prop out
it's certainly a lot better looking than it was in the beginning of the video
with the giant hole pieces falling off this is basically good enough so she
decides finally it's time to get rid of the thing that's got oil leaking it's
gonna request to take the engine apart to repair so really it looks a lot
better driving around without having a hole in front of the car if you don't
wanna spend over a thousand dollars for a bunch of plastic crap hey necessity is
the mother of invention now being an ex hockey player I got a few fake teeth and
capped teeth sometimes the caps come off hey I actually use this stuff and
sometimes it goes years before they fall off again I don't advise other people to
do this but I find it interesting myself that my grill has something in common
with this mercedes-benz grill and since this is mechanic Monday I'm giving away
one of these sets of really great bonding agents with
violet light kits they have a chance to win place to clean non-offensive comet
on the YouTube comments below to get this cool kit that you can bind all
kinds of things with because it does say safe to eat off and I've been eating off
of it for years with some of my teeth caps and here's some bonus questions and
answers Joseph Rivera says Scotty is in 1999 Honda Civic good for long drives I
was wondering cuz I want to take my Civic to a different state and Colorado can I do that, if
it's in good shape now what we're talking about a 21 year old vehicle it's
got some age on it but if it's in good shape reason I'd say go ahead and drive
it yes highway mileage going to 65 miles an hour more that where is equivalent to
10% city driving so there isn't that much wear so if your car is in great
shape hey you know they're gonna be perfectly fine but realize what it's a
21 year old car I mean you might be going down the road and your pump breaks you need a
fuel pump well I mean it's a Honda and these days you can get parts for miles
so it's not like you're gonna be stranded in the middle of nowhere
unless you're stranded in the middle of nowhere it doesn't matter what kind of
car yep you're the middle of nowhere year ago you
couldn't get parts or Japanese cars but now you can anywhere in the United
States I would know he says good shape I would have any qualms about driving it
there Johnny suede says I got an 01 Toyota Camry 186,000 miles it won't pass
smog because the cat is not ready I drove it a thousand miles since the smog
Tech told me to you drove a thousand miles and a cat is still not ready you
got a problem in that system now it can be oxygen sensor it could be running
too rich run too lean or it could be a bad cat but that thing's got 186,000
miles on it you probably need a new cat the advantage of that is you got an
older camry it's an 01 camry you can go out and buy a universal cat you don't
have to go to the Toyota dealer and buy their expensive
five six seven eight hundred catalytic converter you can use like I use Walker
mufflers all the time so big company and Walker makes cats too you can buy
Walker cat for a very good price and install that and that's what you
probably need to do because if it keeps saying not ready it means that the catalytic
converter isn't bad enough to fail and put the
check engine light on but it's not good enough
to pass and be ready so odds are you need a new cat for that
Daniel Olson said hey Scotty what do you think of mom-and-pop dealerships a
good place to buy a car now if you're talking about a mom and pops up I'm
assuming you're talking about buying a used car because a regular dealership
none of them are mom-and-pop dealerships I mean there might be a mother and
father that owns them but they're very wealthy people because it requires
millions and millions and millions to have a dealership these days the United
States of any large corporation so but the idea of mom-and-pop doesn't exist
but if you're talking about buying a used car from a small place hey if
they're honest people and they know I'll taken by in that area at a good price
and then sell it and mark it up and not mark it up too much hey there's nothing
wrong with that make sure that you know they've been
around in business a long time and ask some of the people that bought cars and
them what their experience was as the saying goes would you trust this man to
buy a used car do you put a lot of trust in something when you're buying a used
car and you want to make sure they've been doing it for a while if they're
honest people Joe very a says thoughts on the 2020 Honda Civic type-r
they're excellent vehicles they're little racecars now they're not giving
those things away they are very expensive vehicles there's no arguing that
but I got a couple customers that just bought them and they loved them I mean
they brought them over here for me to road-test I had fun driving around if
you don't mind spending that kind of money for a fast little car go right
ahead me I'd never spend that kind of money cuz I'm too cheap but if you got
that kind of money and you want to zip your little car go ahead again I'm sure
the resale values will always stay high because they're well made people like
them they're very popular sandy C Belanger says I love Toyota but
I don't like I'm rusty and then he suggested to make them last longer in
the Midwest well you would stand off of all Toyotas because ages ago
Toyota went to the whole body and frame and a car goes into this pond of paint
and it's electrically charged so that the zinc not only gets on the metal but
if the zinc's negative the metals positive it even gets inside the frame
through all the holes my mother has a 13 year old Toyota
Corolla in Buffalo New York no rust on it at all
and it lives outside in a driver in the snow she never she never garage
they really don't rust any other newer ones and that's the 13-year old one you
must be talking about the old ones and yeah they rusted the old everything
rusted father in a 54 Ford Fairlane 300 trees first car we had to win over 100
miles an hour and it was just rotting away you could see the road and here in
the back of the kid looking at your feet everything was rotting away that the
newer cars better designs especially it's the Toyotas you don't have to worry
about the new ones rust Brandon or Hamid says would you buy a
new car no not in a sense of brand new cuz I'm too cheap you buy a brand new
car doesn't matter what kind it is let's say you pay $40,000 you drive it off a
lot you lost at least 15 grand there I on the other hand well buy them when
they're 8 to 15 or 20 years old and as long as they've got 60 70 thousand
thirty thousand miles they got so much life left in them maybe I will pay 20
percent of the original price but the car might have 80 percent of its value
left cuz it can last so long that's why I like Toyotas now s for buying new cars
you're talking about new to me but a used car yeah that's how I always bought
I bought nothing but used cars and used motorcycles my entire life I'm too cheap
I refuse to pay the sticker because I know they depreciate fast and if it's a
good vehicle and there's plenty of life left in it hey pay it when it's use save
a ton of money, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
videos, remember to ring that Bell