Mechanic issues stark warning to drivers after detailing the 'worst' problem he has EVER seen on a used car

A mechanic pinch years of acquisition has warned of a awesome reddish emblem erstwhile it comes to buying a utilized car.

Dave, from Centerville, Utah, often takes to societal media to stock his tips and tricks of nan trade.

In a caller clip, he recalled a scary communicative of a customer who came to him erstwhile his conveyance wasn't moving - discovering it was because nan motor was held together pinch duct tape.

Dave, who has complete 536,000 followers connected his TikTok account, Dave's Auto Center, shared nan communicative aft he was asked astir the biggest problem he's seen successful utilized cars.

'Guy brings maine a car [and] nan cheque motor ray had been removed from nan dash truthful nan ray wasn't on, but nan car had a problem,' he recalled successful nan TikTok, which has had complete 161,000 views.

After saying nan car was not moving very well, nan video trim to a clip of personification hitting nan glowing cheque motor ray connected nan dashboard of a car truthful it turned disconnected - meaning nan driver was not alerted to immoderate issues.

'I commencement looking astatine it, and it's a 4 cylinder, and it's missing. It's not firing,' nan mechanic explained. 

'I propulsion nan spark plug disconnected from 1 of nan holes and it's conscionable not hitting, it's not firing astatine all,' he said.

Dave said he past ran a compression trial connected nan motor and sewage zero compression.

'Then I noticed I sewage a small spot of an lipid leak connected nan floor. Just a small drip,' he recalled.

'I'm not kidding you. Duct portion connected nan broadside of nan motor, it had blown a connecting rod correct done nan motor, had a spread done nan broadside of nan block,' Dave said incredulously.

'So nan piston, but it was still running, it blew nan rod wholly retired of way. 

'So nan motor would support connected moving - it didn't make immoderate sound - but nan piston wasn't going up and down origin it had blown nan rod retired nan broadside of nan motor.

'Somebody, I kid you not, sold nan centrifugal for illustration that,' nan knowledgeable mechanic said.

Users shared their thoughts connected nan unspeakable secondhand purchase.  

'Yeah that's marketplace,' 1 personification commented.

'My friend bought a car wherever nan personification [just] welded nan hole,' shared another. 

'People don't person capable consciousness to cognize nowadays that you thrust and trial and cheque retired nan conveyance earlier you bargain it,' berated personification else.

Mechanics often stock tips and tricks of nan waste and acquisition connected societal media.

Recently, a Georgia-based Royalty Auto Service relationship issued an urgent informing to anyone wanting to pine up nan interior of their car - saying it could effect nan information measures successful place.

In a clip, a mechanic sat successful a Hyundai, showing disconnected a steering instrumentality that had mini gems each astir nan instrumentality and connected nan logo.

'We spot this measurement excessively much!! Get these retired of your cars now! Very dangerous,' nan overlaid matter reads.

In nan video, he continues adamantly, 'That's unsafe y'all,' pointing astatine nan sparking bling.

He urged drivers not to bedazzle aliases alteration their steering instrumentality - arsenic it could travel backmost to deed you successful nan face, literally.

'Do not put it connected thing pinch an airbag,' he urged, pointing astatine nan bejeweled logo successful nan halfway of nan steering wheel.

'If this airbag goes off, that's coming disconnected astatine you.'