Our favourite YouTube videos of the year
The Haynes YouTube channel is full of step-by-step videos that'll help you carry out popular maintenance jobs on various models. Take a look and subscribe here and don't forget to hit the notification bell to be informed when we upload new content, such as the 'short', below, on 5 things to include in a winter emergency car kit.
Here are three of our favourite videos from our YouTube highlights series this year:
Edd China
Fixing a rusty fuel tank
Edd is brilliant at explaining how to work on your car, and in this vid he shows us how to treat rusty tools and car parts.
First, he sets up a test to show us how a variety of different products perform, before choosing the winner and setting to work on removing the rust from the outside – and inside of the petrol tank.
Sorting the exterior is the easy bit, and it doesn't take long to 'kill' the rust before it's ready to be primed and painted. The interior is more of a marathon, though, because the corrosion is more extensive and the rust removal liquid needs time and movement to do its job. We’re not sure about you, but by the end of the video we were starting to favour paying the £140 Edd mentions for a replacement tank!
Bike World
Write-Off Re-Builds
Bike World has a playlist of Write-Off Re-Builds, with this one being the first. It's a written-off BMW S1000RR, bought for £3000. The aim is to make it road- (and track-) worthy again.
It starts and runs, so the first step is to identify the damaged body parts and work out what can be repaired, what needs to be replaced and then to see if the frame needs to be realigned.
Car Wizard
This Tacoma Needs a Clock Spring!
The Car Wizard is a regular in our YouTube highlights blogs because, although he's a professional mechanic, he does a great job of explaining what goes wrong and how to fix it.
In this video, David traces a fault code to the connection within this Toyota Tacoma pickup's clockspring (Haynes’ manuals show you how to get to the clockspring).
What does a clockspring do? For the uninitiated, it allows your steering wheel’s buttons (for the radio volume or cruise control, for example) to operate while the wheel is being turned. In other words, it enables an electrical connection between the powered items on and within the steering wheel and the vehicle's electrical systems.
Can the Tacoma’s be repaired, though? You’ll have to watch the video to find out.