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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na chop, some wheat here a little too low for your lift huh 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 gon na do in the m5 i'm gon na 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 gon na, 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. 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 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. 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 gon na, 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 gon na 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.