If someone is stupid enough to drive an SUV in reverse at 60 MPH, that's natural selection.

If only James had a yellow t-shirt on so he could literally look exactly like his microphone

"Wow, this Mazda is really underpowered, I think it's developing gremlins" "I think they're actually spiders"

Hey. This channel single handedly made me , a 23 yr old computer nerd, into a car guy. Y’all are so entertaining and helped me find something I love, so thanks man.

My BMW doesn't need biodegradable wiring to still have endless electrical issues

The gas pedal getting stuck on a toyota prius? Sheesh, who knew people couldnt handle the BLISTERING speed of the prius.

There's nothing scarier than lifting off the accelerator and finding your car is still accelerating. I had aftermarket floor mats, in a jeep. Thankfully I was the victor of the merging lane race so I didn't run up someone's rear end and merely exceeded the speed limit by far before I slid it off the pedal. It is scary in the moment

Pretty amazing that you left out the ignition switch failures of GM that caused the cars to shut off while driving, disabling all power assistance (brakes/steering etc.) and even the airbags. They caused many deaths, and GM tried to cover it up by changing the affected part but not changing the part number (industry standard practice). It was only discovered when a private investigator/mechanical expert hired by the family of one of the deceased disassembled crashed cars until he figured out that GM had quietly lengthened a pin in the ignition switch that was causing the problem. This is likely one of the worst fails/recalls that has ever happened, very unusual that you all did not mention it. Maybe there is another video dedicated to it that I haven't seen yet.

**technician opens hood** yep, just as I thought. Engine spiders.

"Handmade is just another way of saying the door will fall off" -Jeremy Clarkson

The Toyota floormat thing happened to me pretty recently, on my L's on the freeway and I notice the floormat was covering the break and gas pedal and was causing the car to lightly hit the break when accelerated. Scared the shit out of me

For a Washingtonian, the irony of the Tacoma being prone go rust is great. Tacoma, Washington is a city just south of Seattle and is also on the Puget sound, a large body of Salt water.

"I didn't put the Pinto on this list because I'm sick of talking about it." *_SAD AND ANGERY PINTO EXPLOSION NOISES INTENSIFIES_*

I never thought someone would say “rapidly accelerate” when talking about a Prius.

Instead of making the explorer an inch wider, they decided to run the tire air pressure lower for stability. Tires run hotter at lower pressures and when they blew, the suv rolled anyway.

#5 actually happened to me. I had a 95 Ford Explorer for my first car. Tire exploded going 80 mph. Super scary, but fortunately I was able to keep it under control and didn't roll it

Me looking out the window at my 2009 Mazda6 in horror.

The G-wagon didn't have a reverse flaw, it just adapts to Dominic Torretto's driving style.

The spider thing also applies to Hondas. My 08 Accord threw an evap code and I saw a post about spiderwebs clogging the fuel tank purge valve. To my surprise it turned out to be true. Washed it out and all is well.

when the Aztek first came out, I loved it. it was something different, it was neat. and like you said, it was ahead of it's time. I couldn't afford one when they first came out. but I got to own one later and loved it.

"Mazda 6 attracts spiders" Me: **Looks outside window and looks at my car** Also me: *oh*

What I learned from this: 1. Don't buy a 90's Mercedes. 2. Don't buy a Prius, they're too fast 3. Most importantly, Don't buy an SUV. (unless you enjoy rolling over)

I genuinely use the phrase “Blown out like a Firestone tire” to the continued confusion of everyone in my life

The Ford Windstar had a similar problem to the Tacoma. A poorly designed axle would cause it to rust over and crack. I remember Ford paid for a rental for nine months while they redesigned, manufactured, and installed a new rear axle on mine.

James: "I'm sick of talking about the pinto" **Sad pinto exploding noises**

Whoever didn't limit the G Wagons' reverse speed must have played Big Rigs Over the Road Racing, and thought it would go faster in reverse

I have a 2010 Corolla and the floor mat always moves around and more than once has ran up the gas pedal and caused unintended acceleration. I assumed the mats were aftermarket, but it sounds like this is a common problem and I love that I can tell people about that now.

As a kid, probably 20- something years ago, my dad had a Ford truck that burned down in our driveway. Ignition switch was the culprit. Sometimes you can still find charred truck bits in the rock driveway it was parked on

“It’s weird guys, it’s almost like these big companies don’t care about people” HMMMMMMM......

I thought a Toyota Prius accelerating was barely possible let alone deadly

2:00 Im in a toyota program at college, and they talked to us about that in class, toyota got sued so hard it reached the billions of dollars, all because floormats had a loose pin to them.

Ford always had a special place in my heart for their utter disregard for lives of their drivers. Happy to be reminded of that again... People shat all over VW for cheating the emission tests yet we're all willing to forgive Ford for willfully allowing their firebombs to be driven by unsuspecting customers just to save pennies. Honestly, this scandal should have been the end of Ford. They should have been shut down and their assets should have been liquified yet in the land of the free, it cost Ford nothing. Somehow not even any significant reputation damage. I have friends who'd never buy Fords just because of this incident. I'd never buy a Ford either.

Nobody Ford Explorer drivers: “Bono my tyres are gone man!”

"You have to drop the rear suspension to change the fuel filter!" Me, a 300ZX Turbo owner: "That's not so bad."

I was working for Tire Kingdom back when the whole Firestone/Ford deal happened, I ended up changing at least 5-12 sets of tires per day from that alone for the better part of a year. Can only imagine how busy dealerships were.

There's no need to disassemble the rear suspension to change the fuel filter on the FD RX-7. Just need to remove the two undercarriage trays located inward of the rear wheels and reach up for the filter that's near the top of the rear differential.

"I've heard of bug fixes, but this is ridiculous" *hits like instantly*

The G-truck reminded me of something. Citroen had a time around the 60s when they held a contest on a track with a 2CV, where if anyone could roll it, they get a car for free. Just go, drive the track, and if the car wrecks we give you one new, hand in key. Every guy took it, floored it, sharpen every curve, twisted the wheel in frantic need of a new car, to no avail, the thing was steady as a brick house. The secret? Every 2CV has mass dampers, it is so effective that is banned by the F1. Until it came. An old racer goes into the car, starts it, put it in reverse, turned the wheel all the way to the right... and it just plummeted. At the right speed the car just turns onto itself, and down to its side it went. And the man went home in a new car.

At 5:05 I saw the car in breaking bad but I didn’t think it was an actually car 😂😂

This reminds me of the CBC Fifth Estate review of GM Cobalts and other vehicles they produced had an ignition switch that could be jostled into accessory mode due to a spring being just a little too short inside the mechanism. Similar to the Ford situation, the car loses all power steering and braking and careens off the road, leading to multiple deaths.

I remember watching an episode of forensic files where a daughter had been charged for the murder of her mother who had died in a car fire while they were driving together, the police thought that it had to be a set fire bc there was nothing proving a mechanical failure. Years later, turns out its ford's faulty ignition switch. Sad stuff.

Hard to avoid spiders when your car looks so fly. XD

I'm so glad I found this channel James' random quotes are amazing and catch me off guard everytime "not even talking about 2 wolves" 🙌🙌 thanks past Donut for your epic backlog to go through

I have some insight on the time out dolls. They were a country kitch thing women who took up sewing used to do a long time ago. It was something relatively simple so a lot of people did it and made it popular. These things would be decorations you have in your home, and since car shows started to grow into a second home for old people, they would decorate their spot at the car show. Someone probably wanted to out-do a rival at one point because old people get overly competitive about trivial matters, and oneupsmanship escalates into the creepy thing we see today that used to be a simple decoration item from the past. The low rider community probably just borrowed it from the existing culture and adopted it as its own. I know this is an old video but I like rewarching Donut videos, so there.

I love how the G class was made to be an off-road vehicle but everyone uses as a normal suv.

My parents bought a Ford Explorer back then. They were driving in it when my sister was a baby. Right after they got home, and got her out of the car, the tires blew.

Random video to say thank you. But, THANK YOU! I've only recently came across your channel. Going though the videos... Absolutely amazing content! Thanks to all of the team for our entertainment. Really appreciate it. All the best going forward.

3:05 "Yes, I prefer the "G Merci" from when it was a slow and sturdy off roader, how did you know" -Giga Chad

Day 207 of asking James to do an Up to speed on his Dad

Dude, I owned one of those Mazda 6 and had to bring my car for the “fix”. Mazda sent a letter to every car owner explaining the story as a little fairytale. It was the funniest letter I ever received and it didn’t even seem real; wish I had kept it for posterity. That car was awesome regardless of gasoline addicted spiders.

I have an 08 tacoma. My leaves fractured and I replaced them with a OME (Old Man Emu) Leaves. They reimbursed the cost of them, as well as install. Not to mention you didn't mention that 05-11 Tacomas also had a frame recall! (I got one of those also!) MY truck has 195k miles. 13 years old. With a 2 year old frame, brake lines, and fuel lines.

Donut Media needs to do a Part 2, just to cover the recalls for the 2011+ Ford Focus/Fusion/whatever. Between the transmission and the weird valve failure that could cause your car to randomly cut off at a half a tank or less, I feel like it's prime shitty engineering material.

If I remember the Mercedes bio-wire debacle correctly, rodents also found the wire particularly tasty compared to regular wiring.

Can we get an up to speed on the whole donut crew?? Where everyone’s from, how they got to donut, their stories???

Another interesting point of that era , if you check the owners manual of the explorer after the "roll over gate" the tire pressure recomended by Ford was increased ( a cheap way to "work" the problem)

When I was a tech at Chevrolet we had an issue with spiders climbing in and clogging the vent pipe next to the filler neck on some models, too... can't recall exactly which vehicle or vehicles were affected by this, but there was a bulletin on it and I've ran into the issue a few times within the 2 years I worked there (mid 2000's). I HATE those things !! lol

"I've heard of bug fixes, but this is ridiculous"🤣 You had me there James

1:55 Toyota, Moving Forward EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO

0:46 Shows JNCO logo over what I believe is a Kikwear AD love it

I actually had a 2005 Tacoma with that same frame rust problem. And the gas tank straps went as well.

You forgot how mid-2000's BMW's had interiors that turned into Play-Doh after a couple of years.

Person 1: I have a Spider Car. Person 2: Oh, you mean an Alfa Romeo Spider? Person 1: No, a Mazda....

Apparently certain GM cars had a faulty key switch that had a detent pin that was just few millimeters too short, causing the key to literally turn out of RUN position MID-DRIVING when the key is bumped, such as due to leg brushing up against the keyring... And this caused many accidents in Canada, according to CBC News. Yikes.

I just love how James always pronounces everything intentionally wrong‐ "Mersaytsees"... "Fyord"... Makes my brain happy.

"The Aztec is so gross it's awesome. It's like eating your own boogers." Can we get that on a shirt?

other companies: *normal engineering problems with normal fixes* mazda: *sigh* ok fine r&d can get a spider chamber

Fun fact about the Prius, my dad is a fire Captain and he was telling me a bit ago that when the Prius first came out there were a lot of blind people getting hit because they couldn’t hear the hybrid electric motors

Wish i had known about this channel before I bought my Jeep Jk. Y’all talk about so many different issues to look out for. You guys make it so easy to understand about cars, that i have learned so much about them this last 6 months. I knew nothing about cars till i saw your vids. I changed my first Tire last year.

Missed: - GM ignition switches. I think that was even worse than Fords. - Corvair handling, though you may be sick of talking about that one too. - Chevy Vega: it would be faster to list the things that DID work.

Things we need an Up To Speed on: Ford Torino, Ford Flacon, Chevy Nova, Plymouth Road Runner, Oldsmobile 442, Mercedes 190e Evo2, Roush, Yenko, 25 Hours of Le Mans

Mazda Tech here, there was no PCM/ECU update. There was a long brush that we used to comb the tube for webs, and then there was a patch (not software) that we installed to prevent the spiders from entering and creating webs

With the Explorer and Firestone, I've been in the automotive industry a bit of time, from only changing tires and oil, to full on vehicle restorations. And I can say it was Ford and their Exploder that is the issue. They introduced a SUV with a higher center of gravity the public wasn't use to and that blame also goes to the owners of said vehicle who clearly didn't take that into account. Now with the tires, that brand and particular style of tire shouldn't have been ran with no less than 30ibs of air pressure. According to the enginerds at Ford they think it's a good idea to run a heavy vehicle on a all-terrain tire at 26-28ibs of air, and for the most part these SUV's hardly saw any traveling off paved roads. Now wonder why the tires exploded, the main tread cap got worn from the lack of air pressure then decides to separates from the tire at anytime Murphy feels like it. You run any tire on low air pressure for long periods of time and the inside of the tire will deteriorate in the process.

"Mercedes" "Reliable" Maybe the OLD ones. *Not* after the late 90s though. Especially the higher you go in the range, the less reliable it gets.

“Everybody makes mistakes” My parents: You’re right 😢

The #5 tire thing was actually on the tires. It was found out that depending on which production plant had manufactured the tire, they had quality problems leading to delamination

The story about the G wagons reminds me of the old Saab cars. I don't remember the exact model, but it had a two-cycle engine which could run forward or backward. If you knew how, you could switch the engine's direction so you had 1 forward gear and 4 reverse gears. So bascially it could drive reverse as fast as it could forward. There were even reverse races with these cars.

“If you’ve ever been a person in the past, you might remember this” -James Pumphrey 2020

Going way too fast on reverse: *exists* Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing: *Allow me to introduce myself*

4:20 if they weren't vulnerable to flipping, I would say that was made for some drifting Tricks

In reference to #2: I spent 7 years as a dealership auto tech, you wouldn't even believe the amount of people driving around with aftermarket floor mats that are literally covering their accelerator pedal. Seriously, I'd say it was 15-20% of cars i worked on.

I wonder what the phone call was like when the engineers learned about spiders getting high off their cars gas fumes.

Mercedes going 60 miles per hour in reverse... DAF cars: Hold my beer!

91 Honda Accord (and a number of later Hondas) had an ignition keyswitch issue where the contacts would corrode and not make reliable electrical contact, causing the engine to stop while driving. However, power steering, brakes, etc all continued working, so you only noticed when you stepped on the gas and had no power. Pulling over and restarting the car / jittering the key usually solved the problem, but I did get stranded once before I figured out the problem.

I have rarely seen any floormats that could not be "coerced" onto the accelerator over time. The exceptions are the ones firmly attached (velcro, grommets, etc) to the floor and even those over time pivot one way or the other.

James, we had a deal. We’ll be in Hi-Car if you want to talk about this smear campaign.

We should start a petition for James to do an episode in a bright green shirt.

"MATER!! Why in the hell you gear those Mercs to do 60 in reverse!!" "Cause I'm the world's best backwards driver! Watch this right here lover boy."

2:06 Just as I was swapping the floor matts from my Daihatsu to my Toyota

"The Pontiac aztek is so gross it's cool, like eating your own boogers" My new favorate james quote

Hey DONUT, JAMES, the chevy/opel/daewoo optra had a design fail that every time you wanted to check, or change its oil, and of course the oil filter, you had to remove an entire wheel and parts of the suspension. Big Brain Time

Not sure if its worth noting on a list like this, but it's something I learned from experience Pontiac G6's have a sorta trapdoor contraption that allows air to the vents. It pushes in but not out, which means I've pulled a dozen (literally counted) dead mice out of my ac after noticing the rotten stench.

Here's another: 90s Fords having electrical fires caused by Cruise Control fault without protection against shorting out (a non-fused circuit). Vehicles could burn down in your driveway in the middle of the night, like what happened to some poor original-owner of a F150 that I bought rearend parts off of. My '95 didn't have Cruise, which I had lamented for years until I realized how lucky I might just have been. If I'm not mistaken, the defect affected 89-96 models, F-Series trucks and E-Series vans. Repair was subsequently covered under Safety Recall. Most times just the front would get roasted, all the way down to melted tires.

Another huge, HUUUUUUUUUUGE issue with the Crown Vic (especially the CVPI!) was that if it was struck from the rear (giggity) at highway speeds there was a slight risk that the car would leak gas and/or catch fire. This rarely happened, but enough that the cars were recalled.

When you’ve been asking for donut to cover the Mazda6 and the first mention is about gas loving spiders 😭😭

As the owner of two 2003 Pontiac vibes I love the little shout out you did for Pontiac rest in peace

My Chevy had a recall for the gas pedal getting stuck down, the airbag may go off at any point, & the ignition may burst into flames. I traded it for an Explorer. After I got rid of the Firestone tires, it was an amazing vehicle!

Goin' backwards in a tiny house 🤣

Ford pinto: sets on fire in crash and kills loads of people Ford: ima pretend i didnt see that

Another one that could go on this list is the fact that the Ford Pinto had its fuel tank wedged between the rear axle and weak rear bumper. This had the problem of a high chance of the car bursting into flames if the car was rear ended. Ford didn't even fix the issue.

I wish I had headlight wipers. And the Pontiac Aztek looks cool except for the front and the AC fail.