Another $6000 FAILURE on my Lamborghini Diablo! Will it ever be fixed?

uh a wizard wizard um you told me there's some bad news on the diablo but uh that's uh uh that's that's not what you want welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i'm not feeling very dumb with my latest purchase a 2001 bmw z8 in my opinion this is the greatest bmw of all time the tribute to the legendary classic bmw 507 an all-aluminum modern chassis with a m5 v8 putting out almost 400 horsepower and a 6-speed manual in a beautiful retro throwback high quality interior now i bought this thing in houston texas 37 000 miles and it's the first bmw i think i've ever bought in my entire life that wasn't extremely extremely broken really there's only a few minor issues but since this is a z8 and they didn't make very many of these i'm slightly worried one of them being the trunk struts which don't hold themselves up so you have to hold the trunk up the entire time and the fuel door doesn't release under the hood though everything seems pretty solid so hopefully when i take this thing to the car ninja he loves it just as much as me but this is the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and we're not done yet unfortunately my lamborghini diablo up the car wizard has some really bad news and then some more really bad news and then some really really really really bad news according to the car wizard but one dose of good news so after we visit the ninja and check out the bmw we will head up to the car wizards and check on the bad news on my diablo so let's hit the road ninja oh yes just the best bmw ever made think so you like it well i like what you've done to the ferrari here the car trek ferrari finally has those hideous hideous wheels off of it pain it took you a year to do it yeah but these are not these are not 360 wheels what are these california i guess it's probably why it's a pain is it a different bolt pattern or offset or something the bolt pattern was different the guy who sold them is like it's a straight fit no not true not true no so there is a company in texas they made special adapters for it and it worked a lot i mean it's just a nice clean five spoke yep it's simple but elegant it definitely works for the car are they the same size or staggered uh they're staggered yes yeah well it drives so much better so that car's come a long long way in a year for sure and come up a lot since i sold it in value turned out to be a great investment for somebody if somebody had kept it but uh thank you yeah let's talk about this i mean this is wow 2001 z8 37 000 miles as far as issues there's only two the first one is this i go and i pop the trunk and uh there's no strategy at all oh they're they're leaking really good yeah yep hopefully those are shared with some three series or whatever and then this uh they're way too small this uh does nothing i have to pry it open with a piece of plastic to get fuel in the tank okay okay wow you want to see my tool yes special need for it oh no kind of pulling the lever there oh do it again just like that just as bmw intended right it should be easy fixed does that happen a lot on bmw's i think right um no so that's maybe a z8 special thing an easy eight special thing and we're uh we're we're in trouble no no one part that's not z8 special is under the hood right yes got the same as the m5 over there which has just been sitting it's not your fault though right on parts yes the clutch specifically right yes for some reason the clutch is hard to get in this supply chain weird world we have so just yeah waiting on that i thought i was doing good on parts but i mean i'm gonna go ahead and say don't blame it on fedex okay so well wow i see is that oil up there uh this is more like condensation i mean it's just okay yeah it's no big deal yeah probably somebody um detail it with you know those shiny right it's not leaking though it's good let's look underneath here it's spotless i mean it's like spotless they just change the oil too right it looks very very clean well we'll have to compare it to the hundred and sixty thousand mile motor i guess in a little bit just for reference but it's the same motor as the 2000 m5 which is quite a project hopefully this one is it because it was a lot of money still the cheapest z8 in the usa how much was it i don't want to say it's the most expensive car i've ever bought like over six figures yeah yeah well usually i don't go on a test drive but i'm taking this one you mean for your inspection you want to test drive it keys please oh okay have you driven a c8 before no no all right what's these i uh that was a good question i didn't know it's just sticking out yeah they're not supposed to so what they're supposed to go in there yeah like inside inside yes why would somebody pull them out um maybe they have the steering wheel out or some um i'm not sure but definitely it's supposed to be inside like this well that makes a lot of sense yeah okay i'm already getting something fixed how much are you gonna charge me for that oh i'll trade it for them and five how does it handle you know really really good it's it's like a sports car but a very luxurious quiet comfy sports car wow i mean bmw's never made anything else even close to this right so i think it's healthy very very i don't know what are you trying there's no creaks or rattles and any warpage in the brakes so wow very very tight we're gonna throw it on the left just to double check but it's like brand new car yeah well one thing that does go wrong is uh i guess when it hits potholes like the strut perches will warp and crack yeah this one looks great but usually people add the bracing to it to stop that from happening and i kind of feel like with kansas roads i mean this will be smart to do probably a good idea to do yeah the transmission is very smooth looks like it's just been serviced too so one of the best we've got so far well that's that's a low bar as far as bmws go as far as the cars that i've taken to you unfortunately either yeah there hasn't been a single nice one yet let's be honest compared to them five this is like yeah all right well let's get it on the lift or yeah are you going to romp it some more no no yes this poor m5 but when's the clutch getting here uh hopefully tomorrow oh good it's in the weeds you've got your landscapings growing in pretty good now okay but same engine same exact engine just a little more darker way looking yeah yeah totally different but same engine so all these parts would be the same but my struts just look at you here in the bush here this rear trunk struts and that fuel door and even the hood strucks they're they're pretty weak so oh crap um hopefully there's not more when we get on the lift and here we're gonna chop some wheat here a little too low for your lift huh [Applause] [Applause] [Music] bugs yeah just got annihilated on the trip back well so far so good is this the only non-leaking 20 year old bmw in the world indeed indeed yeah there is nothing there is just kind of moist little bit on the valve covers but okay oh i i saw that that's a little there's a little drip there huh it's nothing that is nothing at all nothing here so that's the that's the seal for the differential there this is not leaking it's just that's not even a leak um this one though this axle leaked at one point but it's not leaking anymore so i don't know if they had it out or they replaced it but it's not leaking so it looks very oh so it was slinging from the boot it looks like yeah at some point and now it has a new so you can see the residual of it yes yeah i said it was maintained really well and it is actually i wish you didn't have the tire shine yeah nice nice air fins on the differential one thing i'm gonna do in the m5 i'm gonna remove this valve here it makes your clutch way more responsive okay so when you're replacing my clutch you're going to take that off yes on the m5 not this car on vampire yeah which i would probably do it on this one too everybody removes this it's way more responsive all right well whenever it needs something i guess all it needs right now is the uh struts and the uh yeah i guess on these now struts in the fuel lock release which how much do you think those are gonna be all right so ninja's looking at parts now to make sure none of those struts are some gotchas how are we looking each part you need is 75 dollars 75 times well for four struts and actuators on the back [Music] i can't do math that's why i do youtube videos i'm not an accountant obviously 375 yeah that's it huh not bad well it's in labor half hour okay well the car wizard has some bad news apparently for me on my lambo the diablo yeah let's head to the wizards uh a wizard wizard um you told me there's some bad news on the diablo but uh that's uh uh that's that's not what you want there's nothing to be worried about oh oh it's the smoke machine yes so you have it hooked up to the smoke you're making smoke you're not generating smoke from wiring on italians right right it's not a wiring problem it's not an exhaust fire or something crazy so why are you showing me this smoke we're trying to recreate something that we saw earlier so that we can show you what we found so we've moved the smoke machine down to the exhaust pipe and you've plugged it with a glove which looks very uh yeah like you're milking something so you said there's good news though what's the good news so the good news is you had issues with the air conditioner it wasn't working for you yeah it didn't work at all and we found out you remember we did a bypass with a little switch in the in the cabin in there yes that you didn't want to mess with actually you can't even fix the electrical unit they ate the stuff you can't even fix the climate control computer anymore really right so we just rigged a switch for the ac compressor and that's what turned it on right you had it in the wrong position hit it backwards so it was off so i had flipped the switch the wrong way yes the ac works fine it's ice cold it works perfect when you turn it on so what's the bad news bad news is you mentioned that your fuel gauge would flutter here kind of funny we pulled it out and tested and there's some bad spots on it but i've got in contact with several of my suppliers and they say it's discontinued there are no more so it doesn't i mean it works i can tell when it gets low it just never goes full and it's got a few weird spots but when it's empty it's it's telling the truth okay but you don't need to smoke test a fuel gauge with the exhaust so is this having to do with my moaning here my oh every time i accelerated it was oh it's kind of like a clarinet the little wooden reed they having and when enough pressure would build in the exhaust under acceleration you would just go through the correct exhaust manifold right there you see it that back exhaust manifold is cracked yes it's making the oh sound that's a common thing for italian exhaust manifolds to do i think they sell them in like threes right because there's three three three three there's four sets of three yeah how much is that we could probably get a good use one for 1200 bucks and then there's going to be labor to actually pull without gaskets and everything and put it back together so that's my bad news that's the bad news but then there's worse news that's all that was wrong with this thing oh there's more just wait there's more why are we going up wizard i'll see yes it's really good news for me but bad news for you [Music] that little board stuck to the wheel that's uh that's amazing that is some uh you haven't been doing appropriate things with my lamborghini have you the stickiness okay okay okay so uh so you've been having power steering fluid everywhere and we're worried about this is the fourth rack are we having you thought this am i racks blown again no no we'll take a look your rack up here it's dry as a bone just like bro so for those who haven't been following one of the issues was a steering rack which we had rebuilt once and then we tried to fix it and then there was another problem right so we ended up with a new rack but it was such an ordeal took months and months and so you're saying i'm liking power steering fluid again yes but you can see the rack as dry as a bone it's still brand new looking it is dry so where am i leaking from oh the lift shocks uh oh crap so those are the front axle lift system integrated into the shocks yes and i was told by john tamarion who knows these cars very well that when they fail it is a very very expensive thing and it will happen and uh it's happening and this side as well look at how that one is it's just splooged everywhere [Applause] so the rack was leaking and now that the pressure's back up it's probably gone to the next weakest link or something yeah so i think it has to do with the amount of time that it set for a long time so how much is that just the shocks alone are gonna be four grand that's parts and labor together so i'm looking at four thousand dollars in shocks and then another potentially two thousand dollars to do an exhaust manifold yes but the ac fix was free fix is free and your fuel gauge we're gonna leave that alone for now let's just sit this one out huh i thought we had sorted this thing out well i mean the countach was so easy and so good and this car i enjoy driving it a lot more than the countach but what a massive massive pain in the butt it is okay well round two another oh my goodness um so hummer is outside i guess it's done yes yes it is done it is ready to go i guess i'll take it home that's a beautiful corvette over there well you got a bill to pay first oh he has a lot of really neat cars in the shop i see the v12s back together with the ferrari and the uh lightning i wish i kept mine that's a beautiful one and then this looks like a very nice survivor corvette yeah it's really sweet i'll meet you in the office oh yeah and the bentley's fixed come on let's go oh you got a gallardo too what are you doing with the gallardo clutch a clutch well that's great money for you that's awesome okay all right well i'll hit the road with the hummer that'll be oh you got a 911 c2 is the engine okay on this one yeah as soon as we get your bill paid you can take a look at it okay it's a two pager it is a two pager oh my god

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Published: Fri Sep 24 2021