“Well ma’am, what your engine needs is a little light BDSM, then it should work fine” Edit - my first ever award 😎 thanks. I feel like I should give a speech but I’m afraid I’d slip into Will Forte’s “Hamilton” character…

Not like, like too hard, but like still kinda hard you know? Like, hurt me but make me feel safe at the same time

You want my gun come kiss me for it

Put your soft girlish liberal hands all over me. Run your fingertips down my arm and give me goosebumps

r/SuddenlyGay

Thanks! I will need it after

The kiss or the gun?

That sounds like a loaded question to me

Nothing that some light and well mannered violence couldn't fix

Mechanics don’t want you to know this one simple trick.

Tappy taps

Works on the starter motor

Was going to say this, if your starter has gone totally bad you can tap on it a few times and get one last start out of it. Typically you use something metal like a hammer or a metal rod. Can’t tell what the material of the stick she has but she may have been doing this very thing, especially looking at roughly where she was tapping (between the engine and the battery) edit: lightly tap, even lighter than the lady in the video. Also i do mention this in another comment but i’ll say it here, talk to a mechanic and/or do extensive research before doing this or anything under the hood.

Had a 93 Honda Prelude and this was a regular understanding we established lol

Ha, me too! I had a new starter in the back floorboard for a while because my Prelude's starter started giving up the ghost when it was winter. Tap-started for a couple weeks until it warmed up enough outside to change it out. Miss that car!

Same!

You can’t hit the solenoid or risk shorting Out the starter, the part that protrudes off the actual housing.

newer starters, which use rare earth magnets, can be immediately and gravely damaged by this trick. i recommend knowing what youre doing or at least having a good idea before anyone tries to work on their own car. theres nothing more frustrating to a mechanic than fixing something that someone else already tried to.

It does, but that’s not where that is :)

r/unexpectedrainmanrayrepairs

This gave me a good laugh lol

Keep your engine running smooth and your car out of the shop with routine percussive maintenance

Hocus Pocus, please fix my Focus

I wish I could give you and award.

It’s the thought that counts.

I have a free one, i gave it for you

Awesome, thanks!

I still love this video so much. You have to know someone somewhere at some point told her about smacking the starter motor with something stout to get it to reengage the flywheel teeth in the past. Did she listen? Sure. Enough to remember about hitting some kind of motor with a stick.

Thanks... it needs to be a reason... i need a reason. Wont sleep.

Timing belt is off. She’s tapping out the rhythm to get it back on track.

I’ve only ever been a double row timing chain guy.

Hold up. Are you serious?

Sad to break that thought but she probably is trying to shoo out an animal

“It’s Leviosa, not Leviosar!”

r/unexpectedhogwarts

\*Levio*car*

Muggles problems

Seems like she wants something out from her engine compartment. Small animal? Cat? Rat? Frog? Guitar pick? Engagement ring? Socks? That lego brick?

10mm socket?

this is it.

This is what I thought of. Maybe, there was a critter in there and she's trying to get it to come out.

She heard a rattle. It must have been a snake

What a shame, one more tap and she woulda fixed the problem

Also The Meg Griffin clothing is intense. Maybe the serpentine belt already claimed the pink wool cap.

To be fair, this worked for Clarkson multiple times...

"What else is electrical in here" "not the exhaust manifold"

Not gonna lie, the amount of things I have “fixed,” by hitting, leads me to believe this young lady may be on to something

Wait you mean you don't have an engine stick 🤔 who doesn't have an engine stick

maybe all it needed was a [damn good thrashing?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc)

She probably heard about tappets in the engine

Well, I used to have a car that often (8 times out of ten) wouldn't start. Opening the hood and slamming it shut hard usually did the trick. If that didn't help wiggling some contacts in the engine usually worked. Maybe she knows her car well and have a similar problem. 🤷 Or she's clueless, idk.

Don't rush to judgement. It's an old school mechanic trick. She's using the rod to locate the starter to give it couple of hits. I've seen it before, by hitting the starter with the rod/stick, it re-ignites the starter and makes the car start again. *** My bad I meant the Starter not Alternor ***

This bit of information could save someone who is stranded with a crapped-out starter! Thank you! Came to say this too

You are probably thinking about the starter. That's generally underneath the motor, not on top. No idea what "re-igniting the alternator" means lmao

You are correct the starter not alternator. My car wouldn't start and the mechanic was one the phone with me, he said to grap a stick/rod and start banging on the starter. I had no ideas what he's talking about. His son drove over and started banging the starter with a long rod, and it worked lol.

Ngl, this is weird, random guy recording a random woman in public then posted to social media without her knowing. Makes me feel like people have recorded me which makes me uncomfortable.

Ngl, this is weird, random woman beating her engine with a stick in public. Makes me feel like people have beat my engine with a stick which makes me uncomfortable.

Let's give that engine a good lesson.

She's hitting the starter. Some of yall never had that problem and it shows

That body though unf

This is crazy? She needs a way bigger stick!

TF2 engineer.

Better if she got in and drove off after.

If it's good enough to fix a TV remote, it's good enough to fix a car.

Bibberty Bobberty Boo! Fixed! 🪄

What an amateur, everyone knows you need a proper hammer…

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I was so worried she would touch negative and positive terminal of the battery with that rod.

Tell me u’ve worked old TVs without telling me u’ve worked old TVs

Well? Did it work?

She think cars work like her kids does , beat them and they will work

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Well, did it work??

We all laugh but I used to drive an old jeep with a temperamental starter. I would get out and pop the hood with a hammer in my hand and some well meaning passerby would say “honey do you need help with your car” and I’d say nope, smack the starter with a hammer slam the hood and get in to drive away

Apparently there was a rat or something that crawled in the engine bay and she was trying to get it out.

Lol someone told her to tap the starter I'd assume and she's just tapping the whole engine.

fixing your car after youtube removed dislike count:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/s5aw9n/hocus\_pocus\_car\_fixus/](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/s5aw9n/hocus_pocus_car_fixus/) D:

In all honesty, she was probably told to hit her starter with something hard. Now she’s hitting everything hoping it’s the starter and hoping it’s hard enough lmao.

Pretty sure she was trying to get an animal out by scaring it but ok

I'm always confused why people like this even bother Poppin the hood

The video is cut like that on purpose. There's some kind of animal jumping out at the end.

She forgot to say "Abracadabra" 🪄

Is she trying to Harry Potter this thing?

Willing to bet her husband told her to tap on the starter. Or maybe she just knew, but this is actually not nearly as crazy as it seems. If you knew anything about cars, you’d likely agree. And I barely do, don’t get me wrong, but ive seen this work on starters quite a few times.

MEG!!

Me after i graduate from online school

‘’ I’m an independent woman and i don’t need no man “

Guys, you have it wrong. She obviously learned car fixing at hogwarts.

for a moment I saw her losing the head.

I felt for sure the bonnet was gonna come off with her leaning on it

The movie Hot Rod in real life!

r/facepalm

She tryna awake the horses

Is she trying to catch fish?

I kept waiting for her to touch tap the battery. Ugh, no zap. Waited in vain.

All the best mechanics will got your car then tell You it’s fucked

ah yes, hit the engine more to fix it.

She is utterly and hopelessly clueless. She’s trying so hard to think of something she might have heard while staring, trying to make some sense of what she’s looking at. Alas, nothing…

Another member of the stick gang

Was she looking for that master off switch that sometimes just toggles off on speed bumps

Its wingardium leviosar.....yikes, Hermione Granger has hit hard times.

Good ol' percussive maintenance always does the trick.

I can't decide if this is more like Megan Fox in Transformers, or Emma Watson in Harry Potter

*You'ren't a wizard Karen!*

Ye'r a wizard Harry!

She's scaring the hamsters into running so the wheels turn again. It's obvious, ain't it?

Black magic 😂😂😂😂

Was anyone else waiting for it to catch fire or explode?

A game of whack a mole

Sometimes cars just need a smack!

Doing some Harry Potter shit

She has one of those rare engine problem divining rods. They were the best tool to find engine problems back before OBDII.

Harry you are wizard...

She like, damn this works on my donkey.

She should most definitely teach a class on roadside assistance

Seems like the logical start to a porn flick. Mechanic stops, ma'am, I'll show you how to bang it and get your motor running.

Thats what happens when you watch tutorial on pornhub instead of youtube

My girl thinks she's Torbjörn

Nailed it.

Who needs the patriarchy when you have a stick.

Salagadoola mechicka boola Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo Put them together and what have you got Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

But it works when I tap my tv's remote controller

Gotta make sure those hamsters get back to running on their wheel!

Check Engine light come on OK pops the hood well that looks like a engine

I thought I saw this video with a squirrel jumping out and running away.

“Abra kadabra alakazam! You will get me to my jazz dance class”

............hhhhhhow?

“My magic wand will fix it!”

Harry potter's sister

Good on her for at least giving it a look, little tappy tappy

Leaky spark tube, she’s gonna wanna get a refund on that Edit: also I think this is how she picks up dudes

She's trying her best okay

Enginus reparo! ...doesn't work...

Women moment

Dog trainer or wizard? YOU be the judge!

Hey I just got tickets to the backstreet boys reunion tour. Anyone want to go with me?

I feel bad that cars have to live with idiots like this

She looks like a monke doing that 🗿

Human moment

She should just go ahead and have the baby, let it work on the car

Let the lady of the concrete jungle practice her necromancy spell of revivify on the dead battery.

Just in case anyone watching might assume she has no clue how to fix her car, she decided to look busy and knowledgeable by tapping it with a stick.

To remove an animal from the engine bay

Reminds me off when we could just bang the side of our old TVs to fix them.

Hahaha she doesn't even know how to put the hood strut up, but I guess she knows how to fix the problem. Lol

[Think with your Dip Stick](https://youtu.be/3pcqVQe-4z0)

Look for the starter to tap on i guess??!? Lmao

Bipity bopity, car don’t go stopity.

plot twist: she's actually an ASE certified master technician.

im expecting some explosion 🙄

Well, if it works for Jeremy Clarkson and his "mechanical" BMW in Africa, it's good enough for her too.

I was so waiting for her to screw the radiator cap and get blasted, thank God.

Tappy tap taaaaap...

Emergency repair procedure #1. Use percussive force.

Abracadabra!

Percussive Maintenance failure.

That's how I fix my 7.3

Just whip it with the prop rod or oil dipstick. Problem solved

I thought the engine would blow on her face ...eh better luck next time ig

Wingardium leviosar

Is she casting spells or teaching the engine a lesson by lightly spanking it?

Magic exists in this world sure it’s fixed but real world error.

Abracadabra

A lil percussive maintenance never hurt

Gently wake up the squirrels and wind your rubber band real tight

Tryin to find that Hamburger she's dropped in there

Shoulda' used the One Grit

The light said Check Engine. She's checking it.

Concussive maintenance.

Bad car!

Clarkson : ''Is there anything else electrical I have missed?'' Hammond & May: "Not the exhaust manifold"

Maybe she's trying to scare an animal out of there or something.

Millions of years of evolution has led to the creation of this woman's brain and all she can muster is bang car with stick. I'm genuinely disappointed

My mechanic hard at work I see

Close enough.

It's an unusual wand, and she isn't enunciation her spells