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wtf u gotta be kidding 🤦🏽‍♂️ what pieces of sh*t

That's bad if those were deployed, that means it was wrecked ,what else is patched together?

They really laid the solder to that one! I have a 2002 Toyota Tacoma V6 that the rodents shorted out #1 injector driver. Waiting on the parts to fix it. Thanks!

Forty years of probably screwing other customers and now lying about what he has done here. He put those resistors in permanently and now trying to weasel out now that he got caught. He is more concerned about getting caught and the bad publicity he is about to get. Good you named him. Yeah right, he was going to disclose it to the customer; that will make it legal--nudge/wink. This guy and his son have no ethics. He should have just quit talking instead of digging a deeper hole telling more lies. Unfortunately, that's the way it works until someone gets hurt or killed, THEN the law steps in. Wait until the car is sold and Registered, then step in with what you knew? I can understand how you feel over this scumbag attempting to get you involved with his dishonesty or what to do about what he tried to pull.

U need some shavin..

Nothing new. Taking shortcuts to cut overhead on cars happens from the original manufacturer to the junkyard has always happened and will continue. Buyer beware. It's always been the case. We do an abysmal job in this country at educating ourselves as consumers. There is a price to be paid for that complacency. This subject brings up a better topic. Which is why it should be made illegal for cars to not be 100% user serviceable. That includes your(or dealer) programming services. All the technologies that supposedly make us safer are failing. While there have been initial declines in fatality rates after tech introductions, they have all been negated in less than a decade. Finally, my final point, as constructively as possible, don't make serious accusations and then show the drama and no evidence. On that model, are the resistors merely defeating an irritating no seatbelt alarm, are they simply keeping the ECM from throwing codes, or are they defeating a warning of missing or damaged electro-mechanical restraining system. Instead of showing nothing but the stupid drama, which could be overblown, show us some info on what that hack is doing and why it's a bad idea. No one should just take your word for the danger any more than taking a dealers word for "everything works great."

It's $200 to repair both seatbelts. These are some cheap people.

I think that all of us who want to change this industry should Make videos about the bad practices we found and exposed the name of the shops . What else can we do with this workshops

I have a 2000 dodge ram 1500 and I went to batteries plus they ordered me a key fob and couldn’t program it so they told me to take it to a locksmith oki took it there today and they told me their computer or whatever they use to program it wasn’t communicating with their system told me that I had a fuse blown so I’d like to know if it is a fuse and if it is which one is it?

In Manitoba Canada a person must have a safety inspection before transferring the ownership. Obviously he is lying.

Romy from car source did this to my ex wife. I warned her not to go to that place and they got her on a GM terrain 2018. Every airbag had resistors in every seat belt. Thank god for guys with integrity still. Im interested in training because i want to HELP people and be the change in our crumbling society. Society needs good men to stand up to the bad ones

This is why you never go to a used car lot to buy a car,most cant be trusted,go to a new car dealer and buy a certified preowned,,thats what i told all my customers

I’ve seen way too many vehicles that have bypassed safety systems around the Bartlesville area as well, and what is sad is dealerships think this is normal and acceptable. Even trained professionals have no problem with this type of hackery

what a jerk, thanks for exposing these guys!

Don’t get why the insurance industry doesn’t insure these cars until they’ve been inspected by a certified, insured shop. These shops should be exposed!!! I refuse to work on cars like this due to insurance.

Is that the first time you come across something like that? We get vehicles in like that very often it seems like we tell them and most of the time dont work on them.

What a lying POS......RED HANDED !!!

Scum. In my 23 years in the field this comes across as one of the worst things I’ve seen. Should be reported and shut down. God knows how many rolling death traps he’s sold over the years. Good work Keith

I did Google the vin number and found out it was totaled by the insurance , And then fixed , issued a certificate of a rebuilt car. And the mileage varied from 10k miles when totaled ,to 83 k when rebuilt . Who put all the miles on it ? Him.

Contact the State licensing board

Oh My God, Love you Man! Best line: "Lots of vehicles with 3 wheels, We don't take one wheel off and say there's plenty like it" HAHAHAHA

It sure is crazy what the flippers and used car lots do to make a buck.

What?? How can they do that?? its illegal? disgusting, so glad you are honest.

Thank God for guys like you! Brave dude.

You are a good honest man. Good on you mate.

Respect!! Working on a car you have someones life in your hands.

Doing God’s work Keith! Bless you!!

Should have tried to get more evidence this has occurred. Then they can't weasel out of it.

Yep, I've run into this multiple times after a client was about to purchase a vehicle/ already purchased it,Then brought it to me for a pre purchase inspection 🙄. Not sure what state you're in, but just report them to the agency that deals with used car dealers, they'll get shut down immediately.

Thank you for exposing these corrupt bums. Working in the auto repair world for 30 years, I have seen some shady things mechanics/shops will do. These are the people who ruin the industry for the rest of us who have invested our time in training and have pride in our repairs

Great jobb keith.. your a good man

Wow, anyone who would do this work also knows it isn't the right way or safe at all. Bypassing safety systems to increase profits. Insurance fraud 101. Good for you pointing it out.

This will be the downfall of my family business. I trained myself on computer programming and pico scopes, forscan coding only for my dad to cut corners in the end. Now we are overrun from lawsuits from my dad cutting corners on engine jobs. My dad only put me on the jobs his "yes" men couldn't figure out on wiring and drive ability. I gave my life to my family business, and I'll be left with nothing now, because my dad cut corners My dad always blamed the manufacturers for making stuff complicated. The worst part about it is that my reputation will be damaged because of my dad I always took pride in helping people with knowledge because dad didn't pay me very much and the gratitude i got for educating the customer was the only payment i got.

Report it to KBB hopefully other shops will use there maintenance reporting and notify the customer of this. This is just shameful to our industry

Place a letter in the air cleaner box explaining to the current owner this automobile’s situation with your phone number .

Report to Carfax.

Umm, you exposed your self to a law suit with this. I understand your position, but still no way to prove if they are reparing the vehicle or not. Police was the way to go and document it. But doing a video and showing the name of the shop is a different thing. Hope all goes well for you.

Actually I just did a huge repair on a 24 bmw m4 competition. Service info states they allow repairs to srs wiring if using oe pigtails. The pigtails deploy when the seat belt retractors deploy. This info came from the oe tool in my laptop. The older stuff I'm not too sure but that's my most recent encounter

All I work on is insurance repairs, I treat every car I work on like my girl and son will be driving the car across the US without me. Ain't no way I could sleep at night don't stuff like that.

What I think I heard that guy say was he's been scamming people for 40 years. What are dirtbag.

Tell the police or the authorities to buy it. The second it is sold it becomes a fraud case. If they are not interested, ask the importer or the manufacturer to buy it. It’s their reputation on the line as well, they might be more inclined to play along.

Seen a few comments to the effect of "But the primary air bags will still deploy" i guess this suggests its not veiwed as being sooo bad..... Here's my thoughts. Short story, who knows how the SRS control module may behave in the event of an accident. Long story, The dummy resistors are unlikely to behave the same as the pretensioner igniters. This is because although the SRS module is looking for a 2-3 Ohm load, i suspect the igniter wont have a purely resistive impedance. I'd hazard guess the igniter has a heater element, which would be subject the inductance and PTC heating effect, both of which would affect the operating impedance (It would increase when operating). If this is the case, a purely resistive load like a dummy resistor would allow much higher Current flow during a deployment, which could... Cause an over Current, and if the other air bags used a common driver circuit within the SRS module, this may fail to operate correctly/at all. Cause a DTC to set and since a fault is detected, airbags may fail to deploy/have increased latency. Lets not forget the exact circuit designs and logic behind every manufacturers SRS systems is different, so what may work with one, wont with another. No part of any SRS system should be modified, regardless or how important you view its function.... or if you think the rest of the system will operate correctly. It took balls to call this one out, i have no doubt you may face some criticism, but you have my respect big time. Fucking twisted wires and tape..... wasn't even a hack done well.....

I know the video is only one day old when writing this, but any updates on what ended up happening? Need more people like you in the industry willing to stand up and speak about issues like this. Seen it time and time again, and the scary thing is, there is absolutely no way of knowing if this has been done unless you went through every safety device and set eyes on it, even then the resistors could be placed anywhere in the circuit, so until you really need them how can anyone really know if their used car is actually safe…. Well done for exposing this dealer, it’s scary how laid back they sound about the situation not realising that they could kill someone or multiple people who think there car is as safe as when it left the factory….

I don’t think you can wavier that. “You can put it in the hand of your attorney but it’ll never stand up in court”, comes to mind.

all you can do is to get the customer to agree that there are committed to fixing the issue , because sins you worked on it that you are also liable. if they don't agree to fixing it right ,you cant work on it

Keeth I reckon you giving a good name for the industry but let’s be honest in America the government don’t give a flying F about automotive shops unless is hazardous waste problem In another country for example Mexico to actually work at a dealership you need real college training just to work at a dealer . America so sad when it comes to regulations on technician , literally anybody could work on a car even if they don’t know anything

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He’ll sell it as is no warranty or with some kind of clause trying to dodge any kind of liability by playing dumb and pretending to be ignorant of it. Can’t play dumb now. That car is already practically a Mario cart. It needs every safety measure it can get.

Samcrac has a video where he bought a cadillac with the same issues resistors installed instead of replacing the seat belts correctly

Yeah, sting operation. Send somebody you know to buy it with news crew undercover.