BUSTED BALL JOINT LEAVES CUSTOMER STRANDED IN THE RAIN @darkwingtech2024

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]All right, guys. Uh, not sure how much you're going to see cuz it's dark out. It's a mess. It's raining.

[00:00:09]Um, and I got a Honda Accord with a broken ball joint. So, I'm just going to set up some lights over here.

[00:00:16]Um, so these are the UFO lights um that are really bright and amazing.

[00:00:25]So, I'm just going to set these out real quick so we're blocking the traffic.

[00:00:33]So once you pull them off the base, they light up.

[00:00:49]All right, that'll be here for a little bit.

[00:01:07]Just got it looked at like two days ago.

[00:01:11]>> Yeah, it is what it is. It's one of those things where, you know, one minute it'll be all right and then the other minute it's not, you know.

[00:01:18]Um, so you hit the button and they all synchronize.

[00:01:28]All right. You want you can jump in the truck so you're not sitting here getting wet.

[00:01:34]That's it. That's the base that it comes in. They light up nice and bright.

[00:01:44]I got that from there.

[00:01:49]in the car.

[00:01:50]>> Yeah. Yeah. Not a problem. Just Just hang out there so you're not getting soaking wet.

[00:01:59]>> Yeah. So, it's 3:00 in the morning and this is what I'm dealing with right now.

[00:02:03]These freaking lights are amazing.

[00:02:06]Um, ball joint broke out. Broke on that side.

[00:02:18]See, it's all twisted.

[00:02:23]All right. Uh, so let me grab gloves cuz now I got to jack these up and try to get it off the road.

[00:02:42]That's the whole problem with the way those things break, man.

[00:02:47]Um, trying to figure out the best way to do this, honestly.

[00:02:56]This is where the road back comes in handy cuz now I got to jack this up and get this back onto the road. Or if I can even jack it up enough, I'm going to try to jack it up. This thing that sucks is that it's on the dirt.

[00:03:12]Hopefully, it's not soaking soaking wet.

[00:03:15]Um, I'm going to try to jack it up, see if I can get it right from the spot where it's at. Um, if not, I'm going to have to do something.

[00:03:37]problem is where it broke and she tried to move it. It ended up on off the the side of the road.

[00:03:55]If I can jack it up enough and get the wheel lift under it, that'll be great.

[00:03:59]But I don't know what it's going to be like right now because I got to jack this up on the dirt and I can barely get a jack underneath.

[00:04:12]So, I'm going try and slide the jack under and over.

[00:05:06]Yeah, parents if we're here and they kind of wanted to go because there we go. That's what I need, baby. That's what I need right there.

[00:05:17]They wanted to go home, which I totally understand because it's 3:00 in the morning. They got to get up in a couple of hours. All right, I'm going to leave the jack there like that so that I can get underneath it and lift it up cuz that's almost perfect and I can't thank God enough for that. Um, okay. So, first things first, let's put on the parking brake so that that doesn't go rolling. Here's the keys.

[00:05:46]All right. You can't beat that.

[00:05:48]That That's like almost perfect. I should be able to back up under that.

[00:05:55]She only going about a mile down the road.

[00:05:58]Um, I think that's what she said.

[00:06:02]Hopefully I'm not covering the camera.

[00:06:06]I came out and I didn't realize it was raining. It's supposed to be raining for the next few days.

[00:06:17]Long as that stays like that, that'll be beautiful.

[00:06:23]That'll really work out for me. Um, all right. God, I am loving those lights. There's a discount code for that to man 127. You'll get 10% off. Um I'll add the link in the description.

[00:06:38]Okay.

[00:06:40]>> You was able to do it already?

[00:06:42]>> No, we're going to hook it up now, but I was able to jack it up and get it to a position where it would be a lot easier.

[00:06:50]>> Uhhuh.

[00:06:50]>> Without having to move the car and causing any other damage, you know, >> just my luck. My birthday's literally in 5 days. So, >> that's all right. It could be worse, you know. But right now, I got it jacked up a certain way, so it should work in my favor.

[00:07:09]Should is a key word.

[00:07:14]So hopefully, God willing, it it'll be easy to set up. It's not the worst thing, you know what I mean? It's just you got some damage fender because that's what happens when those things fall apart like that.

[00:07:27]All right.

[00:07:35]All right.

[00:07:38]Uh, so it should be good like that. As long as it stays like that, which I pray it does.

[00:07:47]All right.

[00:08:16]Put the guardian angel on the roof so they don't hit the truck.

[00:08:34]Oh, those lights are perfect, man. This is amazing. And you can change all the colors, too.

[00:08:41]And they have a threeack. I think they just came out with a fourack.

[00:08:45]And threeack, fourpack, six-pack, and eight pack.

[00:08:51]They came out with Okay. Uh, all right. Let me go up, tilt down, up, tilt down.

[00:09:12]Biggest problems that this is lower than the other side.

[00:09:17]So, got to try to get it the best that I can, which is why I'm trying to lift the wheel lift up and tilt.

[00:09:28]Okay, let's get this side in.

[00:09:37]Yeah. See, I'm bottomed out in the middle, but on the side, I still have room. So, we're going to do what we can.

[00:09:49]Okay. Okay. Come this way. Come this way. Here you go.

[00:10:05]>> He dropped the keys. They come through the house.

[00:10:08]>> To the house.

[00:10:10]>> Okay.

[00:10:17]Oh, that sucks.

[00:10:20]Says he lost the keys to the house.

[00:10:26]All right.

[00:10:29]Hopefully God will not stay.

[00:10:53]Okay. You need a flashlight.

[00:10:57]>> I'm wondering if am I able to open the car door?

[00:10:59]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:04]Well, hold on a second. Cuz I got Is this the key to your car or their car?

[00:11:12]>> Oh, no. That's That's theirs.

[00:11:13]>> That's theirs. Okay. It was on It was on the seat.

[00:11:16]>> Oh, okay.

[00:11:17]>> I was wondering, too, cuz I'm like I wasn't sure. I'm like, when did these Hondas come out with push buttons, >> right? And this Oh, this one. Oh, >> yeah. That's it. All right. Just tell them just don't run over the lights.

[00:11:27]>> Okay.

[00:11:27]>> That's them then. No.

[00:11:28]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:11:30]>> I was wondering why the key looked a little different. I'm like, these cars don't have fobs. All right, that's cool.

[00:11:36]All right. Uh, put on this light.

[00:11:43]Okay, let's get two straps on it. Put the jack away and head on out. And I can't thank God enough that this went as smooth as it went. Um, cuz I told the customer depending on how smooth it goes is what they pay.

[00:12:01]All right. All right, we'll be out of here in like 2 minutes.

[00:12:03]>> Are you able to like when we do this and we get to Are you able to back it in?

[00:12:07]Because our thing is like on a it's like a slant a little bit down and it's a circle >> roundabout.

[00:12:14]>> Yeah. And they're going to be on like one side of the circle unless >> it should be fine. Like we'll we'll figure it out when we get there. Well, let's get off the road. We'll get there and then we'll figure out the best way to back it in. But I should be able to back it in as long as I got room to maneuver.

[00:12:26]>> Okay.

[00:12:27]I'll get back to the truck.

[00:12:29]>> Yeah. Yeah. Just hang on to the truck so you're not getting soaking wet.

[00:12:34]And thank you Mr. Hi there for the jacket because I came out. It's raining and the jacket is in the truck. I was able to put it on which keeps me dry.

[00:12:54]I have another raincoat, but this one I like because it's thinner and the other one is thicker, which makes me hotter.

[00:13:01]So, this one works out perfect. I'm not going to take the parking brake off until I have everything tied down.

[00:13:10]Um, and usually with broken bolt joints, I put dollies on it and load it from the back. Um, but they're only go about a mile and if I have to put dollies and I'm gonna have to charge a lot more um for the for the job itself. Um, you know, so right now I'm trying to, you know, obviously we want to make money, but we want to take care of our customers. So, this right here is good because this is not as much work as having to like I was going to literally take off the wheel and I was going to take off the wheel, put a control arm skate to pull it out onto the road, but I was able to jack it up and get it where I need it high enough that I could back the truck at an angle and load it up. So, very grateful that it went that way.

[00:14:04]for me and for the customer.

[00:14:07]I know a lot of people will probably like, "Oh, just charge them whatever, whatever." But we try to be honest, you know, we try to be as honest as, you know, we we're honest people and we try to do the right thing by people, you know. So, like, yeah, obviously we're here to make money, but I'm also here to help out people in the community in my area, you know, help them get back on their feet and whatever. So, we try to do the thing the best that we can, you know.

[00:14:34]take care of our customers and give a little glory to God for everything.

[00:14:40]Okay. Uh now I'm going to pull this onto the main road and then get my lights.

[00:14:49]All right.

[00:14:52]That went extremely well.

[00:14:58]Got them loaded up and we're going to pull out, get on the main road, and then put all my lights away. But these lights are freaking amazing. There will be a link in my bio, or if anybody needs a link, let me know. I'll send a link, and there's a coupon code for these. Uh, to man 127, you'll save 10%.

[00:15:19]Okay. Okay. Let's take off the parking brake real quick so that we can roll down the street.

[00:15:29]You just got to go nice and easy because of the ball joint.

[00:15:39]All right.

[00:15:41]Sorry if it's hot in here. You could open the window a little bit. There's rain guard so you won't get soaked.

[00:15:53]All right.

[00:16:00]All right, just give me two minutes.

[00:16:01]I'll grab all my lights and then we can get out of here. Of course. You're welcome.

[00:16:10]This freaking thing is amazing. Look at these lights. I freaking love these lights, man. These lights are freaking amazing.

[00:16:18]So, again, shout out to Chris Perelf uh getting this deal done.

[00:16:24]All right. So, you pick them up. The bottom has magnets and you just put them back in the base and they'll shut off.

[00:16:34]All right. So, here's the magnets.

[00:16:37]And like I said, so whichever one is the last one you put out, you can hit a button on here and you can change the colors. Green, amber, blue, which is beautiful.

[00:16:52]um red. So you have all the colors and then you have the patterns. If you hit the other button, then it changes the patterns. So you got fast strobe, you got all of them together strobing, which I don't recommend cuz you want people to be seeing them. So you have that kind of strobe, you have that strobe like that. Slow.

[00:17:16]So, I like the slower one because it gives you a nice pattern and they're synchronized.

[00:17:26]So, put these back in here and they can only go one way. Um, and you pop them in and they shut off.

[00:17:36]Then you take them and you just put them back to charge.

[00:17:42]Freaking love these things. Oh my god, these things are amazing.

[00:17:47]I I wonder if I order more if they'll all synchronize. Um, but this is the six-pack. And like I said, they have up to eight. So, we'll see you guys at the drop.

[00:18:00]All right. Uh, hopefully you guys are seeing this.

[00:18:05]All right. Um, so how far back do you want to go?

[00:18:10]>> This is perfect.

[00:18:11]>> That's fine. Right there.

[00:18:12]>> This needs to be able to get out this way.

[00:18:14]>> Okay. All right.

[00:18:17]I'm going to put the parking brake on.

[00:18:20]Um, do not take it off until they're they're moving it to fix it or whatever it is because right now the axle's broken. So, with the axle broken the way it is, the car can roll even in park.

[00:18:31]So, just Yeah. So, just leave the parking brake on all the way and then that's it. All right.

[00:18:38]All right.

[00:18:55]Did that light die? I guess.

[00:19:00]All right. So, I was using the safe wall light with the battery. Oh, it's low.

[00:19:07]Time for charging. But I was using that light with the backup light so I could see what I'm doing. Take that, put it in the truck, and charge it.

[00:19:17]This will be, I think, the third time I charge it since I've gotten it.

[00:19:24]All right.

[00:19:42]All right. Uh hopefully when I drop it, it stays doesn't move. Before I forget this, I'm guessing the battery died on this as well. Oh, no. I don't know. Whatever. I put that to charge.

[00:20:06]Uh, PTO on.

[00:20:16]All right. Park and brake.

[00:20:22]Okay, shut this house light off.

[00:20:32]All right, here's your keys before I take them home and then you calling me again.

[00:20:37]>> All right, let me drop this. You back up a little bit. I'll drop this and then I'll take care of the payment. All right.

[00:20:57]Make sure I take this side out.

[00:21:06]Yeah. See how I was able to get it back straight? I rotated it and then pushed the axle back into the transmission. So this way it lined up straight. I'm glad it went the way that it went cuz normally they don't go that easy back in. So, this made it this made it a lot easier.

[00:21:25]Oh, don't be a jerk. Come out. Please come out. There we go.

[00:21:32]That's why I love scoops.

[00:21:37]Now, I recommend that when you get that ball joint done, you do this side as well. Get them both done because if that one failed, this one's not too far off.

[00:22:02]All right, let me move up.

[00:22:19]All right.

[00:22:23]All right. That's pretty much it. Just going to close this all up, get paid, go home, and go back to bed.

[00:22:42]All right. You can sit in the truck if you want if you don't want to get wet.

[00:22:46]>> Oh, no.

[00:22:46]>> I got a rain coat on, so it's different.

[00:22:55]>> All right, let me toss my gloves in the truck and then we'll take care of payment.

[00:23:01]See you guys in a minute.