Fixing my wrecked Maybach cost WAY MORE than I thought

okay wizard here is the final tally let's see the air struts wiring 22 000 for the wiring yeah 24 000 24 000 yeah there's like 100 hours of wiring into that thing welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and my friend ed bullion gives excellent financial advice he says among many other things many many things that the best way to look rich on a budget is to buy cars that makes it look like you won the lottery 15 years ago and i've certainly done a great job of that because all these cars well most of them were a small fraction of what they cost new rather than winning the lottery though i tend to think of myself as somebody who would qualify to be on mtv cribs 15 or so years ago flexing in his driveway with all of his rides and while that's sort of the goal that i've set forth in life and i think i have achieved it in this maybach in the driveway is the perfect example of that i bought this thing actually wrecked it had a horrible hole in the back from a terrible impact wolverine hitting it a semi something and i bought it salvage at copart and it was a very long journey to fix this my buck took many more months and many more thousands of dollars than i thought it would but budgets really don't matter anymore in 2021 since i bought this thing in 2020 back when well cars were cheap and i would certainly like to thank copar for sponsoring today's video and this build series which is reaching its conclusion on the mybach and i'm sure you all have heard of them as they're the largest source of online auctions for salvage and insurance cars but with over 175 000 vehicles listed at any given time you can find just about anything on there so if you're looking for a project maybe a father-son project for father's day there's clean title cards listed with mechanical issues or light damage offered on co-part ranging from ferraris to fiero's bentleys lamborghinis everything's on there repairable luxury vehicles well like this one along with 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this mybach well not that bad actually but i'm not quite sure just yet i bought it for 22 000 making it the cheapest running and driving my buck in the usa with some very obvious body damage back here i opted for a complete repaint and to make it two-tone and i know a lot of you don't like the two-tone or the red that i did but if i just repainted the same color it would have looked just like any other old s-class what made my box special was when they were two-tone to accentuate the different lines of the mybakken i just wanted to do something different with it now i took it to mako for this paint job but i had to buy some parts first that came from latvia i think it was and the parts weren't stolen at all they were legit this guy breaks up my box in latvia he sent me the door and the rear quarter the glass a bunch of other parts that was all about five thousand dollars in addition mako charged me six thousand nine hundred dollars to mount this stuff actually the wizard put the door on but the rear quarter was put on the frame was pulled out the whole car repainted so we're looking at twelve thousand dollars just in body repairs which is actually very very reasonable is it concore quality no but it is very very nice if i was taking this to a normal body shop for that kind of work it would have been double or triple so when you look at this car when we go around in the tour a little bit just keep that in mind that i'm not going to spend 30 000 on a concours restoration on a hundred and twenty three thousand mile maybach which is another issue 123 000 miles brought some mechanical issues that were existing probably before this thing got into the accident yeah the biggest thing that bit me really hard on this car was the front shocks they were collapsed they would fall down within minutes of turning off the car and both shocks in the front were four thousand dollars four thousand dollars for the set which is really really expensive in addition i spent another two thousand dollars of labor to put that on and sort out some other things with the wizards so that's another six thousand dollars so 22 000 plus 18 000 so far in repairs and the body work and everything that puts me at 40 thousand dollars into this my baka but we're not quite done yet the wizard has one more bill up at his shop 40 000 does sound like a lot especially since i was thinking i was going to be mid 30s in to this mybach and maybe six months ago a year ago that would have been a lot to have into this my block but thanks to the crazy world of 2021 the cheapest my box 57 for sale right now is almost 60 000 they've gone up in value that much and the only having about forty thousand dollars into this car maybe the car wizard hasn't told me the final bill yet uh well really doesn't seem that bad even though it is salvage title i'm going to have to buy new tires and uh well the windshield i'm going to have to figure out because there is a crack in it maybe i'll have it filled in maybe i'll have it replaced so another few thousand dollars to go from there and what the wizard bill says so maybe we're not done yet but fingers crossed the next wizard bill isn't that bad as we we head up there but first i'll walk you around the car show you the new paint job and the bodywork and the interior it all looks really nice yes the foursome tires are still on there the worst name of tires ever and certainly unbefitting of a my box so those do need to come off but the entire car was repainted this is the factory silver that the car came with and this is a bordeaux red metallic a mercedes factory color that i've always liked and i think it does complement the two-tone aspect of this maybach really really well especially out in the sun now keep in mind this was seven thousand dollars spent in a lot of bodywork and a complete repaint on a mybock it was a value repair and i think i got much better than a value job on this they did a very nice job and i haven't done a final pass on the paint job yet with my detailer normally he buffs things out again and what lingering orange peel and imperfections you see are usually gone but this door completely replaced it was a completely different color i believe gold and tan something like that now it is matching very very well you can see the rear quarter was grafted on there quite nicely and the gaps well they aren't that bad i mean you look at the other undamaged side and the gaps definitely aren't perfect here either for comparison so really a decent job on this car and yes the door opens it closes it slices it dices one doesn't do that anymore it would have before with the hole in it we still need to to fix that pouch there but interior wise it's cleaned up everything is working that's the other thing after some wires were repaired in the rear here everything came alive again and pretty much everything in this car is working and with the new shocks it drives really really well once i get some new tires on this car it should be it should be spot on let's complete the walk around quickly before i dive heat stroke or the allergies that's what's messing up my voice uh uh does me in but it does look really really nice and there are some things that i like about this car way more than my old phantom it certainly doesn't make as big of a statement it looks a lot more like an s-class and the phantom while there's no mistaking it for anything else but a rolls-royce phantom but there are some things that are much much better with this car which i'll show you as i drive up actually i need to put all these hoopies away and then we will drive up oh yes air conditioning and ventilated seats that's something that my phantom didn't have the phantom was kind of low on technology and that was okay because it delivered the goods and the comforts but this car is nice because it does deliver both it has all the great stuff the s-class had of the day and well just kicks it up a notch for sure and something this thing has way more than the phantom is horsepower the same v12 engine as my old s600 or the cl65 twin turbo v12 it breaks the tires loose yes collision alert tundra in front of me yes i know i know more technology obviously a lot of power in this car so it is more fun to drive in that sense and while it doesn't have the presence of my old phantom even with the two-tone paint job that i've done it it still feels special it doesn't feel like an s-class when you drive this thing people say these are just glorified s-classes but really it's not you look over that extra long hood you see the double m hood ornament as you settle into your cocoon of silence and just relax this is supposed to be a car uh that you're going to be driven in you want to sit in the back but honestly this is a great car to drive too if you just want to relax and and just enjoy the road like you're enjoying your living room and the windshield is a tv screen it's it's very nice even though it's quite old you can just tell that this was a cost no object build car and to own it for well 15 percent of its original msrp is is pretty cool the upkeep is not going to be cool is if the struts are any indication of what the future maintenance costs will be but i mean you got to pay to play i suppose these cars were very expensive new and the parts aren't going to get cheap just because the car got cheap unfortunately but i'm happy i'm especially happy since i don't have any warning lights either other than the tire pressure monitor which i think aftermarket sensors will fix that no other warning lights no check engine light no airbag light it's all working it's at the moment it's all it's all working the fluids are staying in the car i did it i did it it only took twenty thousand dollars but i did it what's going on it works it works it works i can kiss you it works it runs it drives it's beautiful 99 effective i told you 99.9 yes yes uh there is the trunk that's still kind of funky it's not going up needs an oil change too it's saying add a quart we haven't done an oil change yet right so there are a few things left to do but it's it's done it's done very very good i can show you the springs over there real quick oh sure yeah did they come from latvia um they came out of a wrecked one of the i'm not sure from latvia or not but here's the broken one that was in there oh no i was going to go ahead and put two new ones well did you just steal those from a kid's trampoline set uh no it's actually from the older my buck what would be the model before this uh the 140 yes okay but they use the same springs all right interesting yeah that looks like trampoline springs basically but when we spoke earlier today you were saying like everything else is done up here yeah pretty much well not not that no not that not that no that's waiting on permatunes and not that that's quite dead that's dead but this this is done yes we're waiting on a mirror and that's it glue a mirror in and well that's not mine anymore but the blue thing behind it the corvette's done it's done my 66 427 corvette had a gauge that was a liar uh said it was overheating when it wasn't but still the fan was weeble wobbling brake caliper exploded how's it looking i'm a new fan very pretty yes it fits in the original factory fan shroud i did this actually to euro asian bob's corvette urination bob's corvette so it's just the same thing yes awesome it works very well and also put a new gauge in and it's reading right 190 200 all the time perfect perfect and i have brakes that aren't going to kill me yes all your calipers hoses everything has been replaced even pads awesome okay well that's that's not mine either surprisingly to me though it's a mineral oil car so it's always going to be here some other customer you have uh but uh white mercedes my cl class outside is fixed it is done so i have options i guess i'll leave the my box i've enjoyed it for about a week but i'll i'll leave it with you for the oil change in the springs and i guess i'll take this home if you don't mind i got a bill on the maybach though oh that's right you do have the final bill the final tally because right now i'm about forty thousand dollars into it oh good well yeah we got the bill up there for you to take care of cool actually as we walk towards the bill wizard i'm still debating what to do on this and my friend leonard who's a big porsche guy said that we need to take the valve cover off to see if there's a head bolt fragments in there okay see if it's been shattered or whatever if it breaks then that would cause the zero compression and you can kind of get away with uh well not a full rebuild but just fixing that basically still to take the engine apart obviously but that may be the way to go something to check that's the case then we'll see where we go from there i'm procrastinating because the final bill i don't know i don't really want to know you did a lot of work yeah we did a lot to that car oh okay wizard here is the final tally let's see the air struts wiring twenty two thousand dollars for the wiring yeah twenty four thousand twenty four thousand dollars yeah there's like a hundred hours of wiring into that thing now i knew it got sliced really bad but there's not a hundred hours what no that's not the real bill wizard there you go that much people wanted me to fake for real goodness okay 1052. okay that's more like it yes the wiring repairs were 480 okay instead of 20 000 and you already paid for the struts in the past yes i did all right wizard did your blood pressure go yes okay so i'm forty one thousand dollars into my book not sixty thousand dollars sixty five thousand dollars into my book that's much better okay i can stomach that i'm happy i like that car i was hoping you wouldn't catch it and i could just swipe away i would have caught it i would have said keep it you could have the car pretty much at that point but i do really like the car i'm happy with the outcome it's it's on my box i finished it i didn't i paid everybody to finish it but i finished it it's done it's a running driving car again yes yes achievement unlocked thank you for watching welcome to movies garage voice changer welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and my friend and come on tyler welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and my friend friend friend friend welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and my friend at bullion gives excellent financial advice [Applause] can't talk

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Published: Tue Jun 15 2021