A new video: Josh’s Crappy Car: Radiator Breakdown!

My own personal diagnosis? Josh, the owner of the “Crappy Car,” needs to watch one of Jeff Clinard’s (Example: Fuel Time, Episode 012) so-easy-to-do-you-are-an-idiot-if-you-don’t-do-it videos. Jeff makes car maintenance look simple; Jeff takes it lower than gutter level in this video about driving his trashed Civic for the third time while its engine is ACTIVELY emitting – yes, honest to goodness SMOKE! I suppose that if your car is running great, you might get some sick pleasure out of watching Jeff’s Civic smoke and burn, not to mention the entertainment value of his “blast it!” furor (at least he doesn’t cuss) and his use of such technical auto jargon as, “the engine thing” (temperature gauge.) Then, there is his misdiagnosis of an upper radiator hose as a cracked radiator, but it was hard to see clearly through all the smoke so maybe we can forgive him for that slip. As far as the radiator coolant “rain” that he discovered on his driveway, I am sure that Jeff would scan for that sort of thing on a regular basis, but Josh is too caught up in track practice to notice the extreme leakage that runs slimy and green under his neglected car. I’d feel sorry for Josh because he has to drive such a crappy (his word) car, but he doesn’t generate much sympathy from this female viewer because no girl wants to risk having to hitchhike home at the end of a date with the likes of him.