re: What have you fixed lately thanks to youtube?

Fixed an issue with my car's brake lights. After parking and turning off the car, finally noticed the brake lights were completely on with no way to turn off without disconnecting the battery. Almost drained my battery as I didn't notice it in the light, but saw it after dusk.

Next day, thx to YT, I purchased a new brake pedal stopper pad(s) and replaced. Took about 3 minutes, hardest part shimmying underneath the driver's dash on my back to click in the pad.

If you see this happen to your vehicle, just look on the floor board for a little black disk maybe the size of a nickle. YT your make and model and don't take to a dealer or mechanic. It's a $0.01 part that costs $10 at the parts store, but will save you $100.00 plus by a shyster I'm sure.

Little black disk under the 2 silver nuts.

Replaced my power attic fan.

-Icemaker in my freezer wasn't working. Youtube videos knew what was up. Needed to clear the freezer, take off the back panel, and break up some ice that had accumulated.

-Had nonstop light dripping from a showerhead, regardless of how tightly I twisted the knobs. Turns out the washers behind the knobs had deteriorated over time. Fairly easy fix, but I needed to get a tool to pull the knobs off as they were stuck to the piping/whatever it's called, and were impossible to remove by hand unless you're prime Schwarzenegger. My other shower just started to have the same issue, so I'll be doing it again soon. Excluding the knob removal tool (~$10), it only costs about $5 of materials + 20 minutes of time.

Water flow was slow on my kitchen sink. I learned I could unscrew the small aerator on my faucet head and clean it with baking soda and vinegar. I also clipped the weighted extention hose with a chip bag clip, removed the large faucet head, and cleaned it for good measure while I was at it.

Lotsa stuff. And AI (Perplexity) walked me through killing off a McAfee fraud virus that had locked down my laptop.

My latest fix is dropping the fuel tank in my Tahoe to blow out all the charcoal in my vacuum lines.

I've been using Grok to assist me in sorting out a 1992 Deere garden tractor, starting circuit diagnostics, then the fuel cutoff solenoid, disassembly steps, saves a ton of time hunting through deere's online parts lookup, grok tells you right out what part # to look for.


Two weeks ago i found a pause and play youtube video for the set of airbags I got for the f250 so that still gets used too.

Just last wk I changed the relay and capacitor in my fridge. The fridge/freezer temp was fluctuating and I would hear an intermittent click. Compressor wasn’t kicking on every time it needed to cool. I actually didn’t know which part was bad but it was only $125 for both. Capacitor plugs into the relay which plugs into the compressor. Was a 5min fix.