The Rise of DIY Car Upgrades: A Look at Canadian Innovators and BMW's Historic Milestone

In the world of cars, innovation often comes from unexpected places. Take, for instance, the Canadian duo that has been making waves with their DIY car upgrades. These individuals have taken it upon themselves to figure out how to modify high-tech vehicles like Tesla's, using electronic high technology computers and stuff that are not typically associated with the average car owner.

One of these innovators is Benoit, a rich rebuilt guy who doesn't want to mess around with this kind of advanced technology. Instead, he's found a way to do things cheaper and more efficiently. His approach has attracted attention from others in the industry, who see the potential benefits of his work. However, it's worth noting that these kinds of modifications can come with risks, such as voiding warranties or potentially interfering with car owners' rights.

Take, for example, Tesla's supercharging stations. If someone were to modify their car to work with these systems without paying for the upgrades, there's a risk that Tesla might refuse to service the vehicle or even ban it from using their charging infrastructure. This is because the technology involved in these systems is complex and closely tied to the car's computer system.

Meanwhile, BMW has been celebrating a milestone of its own. The company has just produced its five millionth vehicle, an X5M competition model that will be part of its historic collection and museum. To mark this occasion, BMW has released a statement expressing pride in its production record and the significant role that the X5M plays in it.

But what makes this milestone so remarkable? For one thing, it's clear that BMW is still committed to producing high-performance vehicles that appeal to enthusiasts around the world. The fact that they've chosen to celebrate this achievement with an X5M competition model suggests a deep understanding of what drives their customers and a commitment to delivering on those expectations.

Interestingly, BMW has also noted that there are five million people in the United States who didn't do enough research on cars before purchasing them. This lack of knowledge can sometimes lead to subpar ownership experiences, but it's worth noting that not everyone needs or wants a high-performance vehicle like an X5M. In any case, BMW is celebrating its production milestone with style and sophistication.

In related news, BMW has celebrated other significant milestones in its history. The company's millionth car was a Z4 Roadster produced in 2006, the two millionth was a BMW X3, the three million was a BMW X5, the four million was another X3, and the five millionth was this very X5M competition model.

But what does it mean for customers that these vehicles are being produced in large numbers? While it's true that BMW is still committed to making high-quality cars, it's also clear that the company has learned from its mistakes and is moving forward with a focus on innovation and efficiency. By producing five million units of an X5M competition model, BMW is demonstrating its ability to scale production while maintaining quality and performance.

The Production of 2000 Toyota Solara: A Look at ABS System Malfunctions

For many car owners, the sight of a dashboard warning light can be a source of anxiety and concern. One such light that often comes with this feeling is the ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) warning light. In many cases, this light will come on when the wheel speed sensors are malfunctioning or not operating correctly.

In the case of a 2000 Toyota Solara with an automatic transmission, the owner has replaced the wheel speed sensors as recommended by Scotty. However, despite this repair, the ABS light remains illuminated. The question then becomes: is it safe to drive the car in this condition?

Fortunately, it's worth noting that modern cars like the Solara have sophisticated computer-controlled systems that are designed to minimize the impact of individual component failures. When one sensor fails, the system can modulate braking force to compensate and maintain overall safety.

However, to fully diagnose the problem and ensure that the vehicle is operating safely, a more in-depth analysis is required. In this case, it's recommended that the owner seek out a professional mechanic with access to an ABS scan tool. These tools allow technicians to analyze data from the car's computer system and identify specific trouble codes related to the malfunctioning sensors.

It's also worth noting that modern cars like the Solara have fail-safe systems in place to minimize the risk of accidents even if individual components fail. In this case, it's possible to drive the car safely as long as you know how to operate it.

However, it's not recommended to continue driving a car with an illuminated ABS warning light without addressing the issue. The risks associated with malfunctions can be significant, and ignoring these issues can lead to more serious problems down the road.

In this case, seeking out a professional mechanic with access to the necessary tools is the best course of action. With their expertise and the use of advanced diagnostic equipment, they can help identify the root cause of the problem and make any necessary repairs to ensure safe operation of the vehicle.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enBrandenburg says I'll come Toyota and Honda can make good CD teaser pretty much no one else can all right because they have very good engineers they are the typical Japanese philosophy perfection over time they don't build something it doesn't work and say throw it away throw the baby away with the bathwater and start all over like a lot of American companies do they perfect things over time so as an example let's give you Honda the original Honda cvts they put on had lots of problems a lot of them just fell apart after 30,000 miles but that was quite some time ago they found the problems and they perfected even just a few years ago their problems with the shaft and wearing out things could break he recalled hundreds of thousands of them and they did a software fix so there's less strain on a shift but the newer ones don't have that problem they found a problem they fixed the old is the same way is it working right they don't throw it away they think how can we fix this and they have some very good engineers the Japanese philosophy is not planned obsolescence like the American philosophy has been since pretty much the end of World War two make it break it buy another one Japanese aren't that way they want to keep things rolling along smoothly have good relationships with all the companies that they buy parts from analyze it when there's a problem fix it that's really why there's work better they don't just come up with something that oh geez that was a pile of junk throw that away let's try something else no it is better to perfect stuff over time well you never know what people will pay a lot of money for a 1979 unrestored ford bronco just sold for sixty seven thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars setting an all-time record for a second-generation Bronco now this basically shows you that you never know what something old is going to be worth if you leave it original this thing is on restored painting everything's good somebody obviously has stored it in a good place California that makes sense yeah they don't rust in California it went for top dollar you never know when something's going to be popular when it's that old and is all a Ridge unrestored the guys that modify them the value goes down the toilet it doesn't matter if you've got a 67 Mustang GT if you've radically modified it it's not worth anywhere near a totally unrestored original equipment one there's just how vehicles go I was kind of shocked but somebody paid that much money for one but you know somebody wanted it and you're never gonna find another one it looks like that probably not granite Dale you made the second generation Bronco for two years so there's lots of them out there if you're interested in collecting cars getting cars they're worth money to maybe trying to buy one and make profit on it over time that's what you got check out how rare is it unique characteristic does it have compared to other vehicles cuz it doesn't matter how cool their goal is if they sold 500 thousand over a year it's never gonna be a collector's item cooked almost seventy thousand dollars it's just a new record for sales price of a second-generation Bronco tell you some of the other ones are even gone for more money you never know what people are gonna find collectible make twenty SS and a study conducted by IHS your vehicle's two thousand eight to twelve the following Toyota models has zero drivers deaths per million registered vehicles lexus rx350 toyota highlander and toyota sequoia very impressive okay it shows you a couple of things the main thing is size does matter people it does matter those are all large vehicles and you can talk all you want about oh it can make small car safe you got a large vehicle growing fast that's kinetic energy of motion if the large vehicle going fast it's a small vehicle the small vehicles gonna take the brunt of the power this just out goes the energy and it's gonna dissipate it when it smashes in to the smaller vehicle and knocks it all over right so sighs doesn't matter the other thing is so does quality and safety if you have very good airbag system and even though those are bigger vehicles they're still built with crumple zones if let's say you don't hit another car but yet something like a tree but Toyota will crumple enough that it won't do any damage to you now the two fault process there but it doesn't surprise me cuz I read a thing the other day that the most deaths are still with smaller vehicles million there way way over what the bigger ones are just pure physics you can't escape that kinetic energy is kinetic energy and the less kinetic energy you have when you get hit you're gonna be a worse shape than the person who has more kinetic energy well those sneaky Canadians there's a Canadian shop now that has cracked tussles acceleration boost if you have a Tesla and you want it to go faster and have this boost you gotta pay two thousand dollars extra for it well these Canadian dudes I figured out how to do it for about eleven hundred dollars themselves you figured out how to swap a single motor a Tesla three to a dual motor shut up and figured out a half into the software in order to make it go faster and work also to add fifty extra horsepower using the acceleration boost without paying the money to Tesla for the software they call it the booze fifty upgrade and they're offering it for 1,100 bucks instead of the two grand the Tesla stylus companies based in Canada but it's also partnered with electrified garage rich Benoit of rich rebuilt let's face it if you get electronic high technology computers and stuff you know it's gonna be guys out I don't want to screw around with this stuff I figure out a better cheaper way that's the game those guys play now of course they'll be backlash things like if you modify a car like this you may lose any kind of warranty you have with Tesla and they might refuse to work on the car or even allowing to use their super charging station who knows all that stuff computer Sun up and if they wanted they could ban your car if they see you got a car that has this upgrade and you didn't pay them for it when you plug it into a superstation there's all kinds of computer interfaces and they probably could figure out a way to ban you so you can't use it anymore but it just kind of intrigued me that these sneaky Canadians decided hey we're gonna figure out how to do this stuff cheaper so we get all this horsepower not as let's pays so much money told Elon for the upgrades you can't stop those computer guys when it comes down to it who knows how much time and energy they put in to figure out how to do it they just like to do that kind of stuff and it's only common sense that if they see a challenge they're gonna go ahead well BMW just celebrated a milestone they silver in b5 mmm the vehicle that has been assembled in the United States so I guess as far as old Scotty's concerned there's five million people out there who didn't do enough research on cars and bottle BMW kind of shocked me that there's that many people out there and as usual people I do crazy things with you know milestones this is an x5m competition model that's going to be part of BMWs historic collection and their museum nobody's actually buying a thing kind of ironic you know nobody's actually buying her five millionth vehicle I find that toggling ironic myself you know the adult of Euclid nobody actually bought and put it in the museum I think that's all BMWs you build them and put them all in museums so people don't end up buying those endless money pits be an x5m competition it's finished in Toronto red metallic paint I don't know what Canadians have to do with this paint but they call a Toronto red metallic paint Jeremie car made the United States with Canadian colored paint against its men south carolina where their factory is which is also celebrating other things the millionth BMW was a z4 roadster in 2006 the two millionth was a BMW x3 the three million was a BMW x5 the four millions was a BMW x3 and the five millionth was this x5 m competition so they may get an awful lot of them but they're not selling them to my fans that's for sure put together five million Mississippi must assault both somewhere they wouldn't continue making them be dog 98 so Scotty I got a 2000 Toyota Solara with an automatic transmission my ABS light comes on I replaced my wheel speed sensors like you said but the light still on is it safe to drive and how can I fix it if possible you're gonna have to find a better mechanic to work on the thing you said it was some local mechanic ABS systems are computer-controlled the idea is simple there's just sensors on each wheel they feedback when you brake if one wheels not stopping the same that can modulate how they break so it breaks evenly but it's all run by computers it's complicated system got to find a guy like me with it abs scan tool Johnny the good ones cost three to five grand take it for road tests and analyze its gonna be able to figure it out because there's so much data that you can get from those and there are so many even trouble codes that not gonna turn the check engine light on but they'll flash up on my fancy machine from my experience with that one you gotta use the Toyota OAM ABS sensors to make sure that's done you gotta have a guy with that machine to double-check everything to make sure that they're operating because small the sensors are operating and they're all reporting back that generally means the ABS module itself going back now ABS is a fail-safe system so safe to drive that way you just will not have ABS brakes back in the day a lot of guys when they broke and they find out that the module cost $1500 they just said to heck with it and they were to unclog BBS running like would stay on but then it just had normal brakes with no ABS function whatsoever it's not particularly dangerous if you know how to drive it just means that your ABS system is no longer operating so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that BellBrandenburg says I'll come Toyota and Honda can make good CD teaser pretty much no one else can all right because they have very good engineers they are the typical Japanese philosophy perfection over time they don't build something it doesn't work and say throw it away throw the baby away with the bathwater and start all over like a lot of American companies do they perfect things over time so as an example let's give you Honda the original Honda cvts they put on had lots of problems a lot of them just fell apart after 30,000 miles but that was quite some time ago they found the problems and they perfected even just a few years ago their problems with the shaft and wearing out things could break he recalled hundreds of thousands of them and they did a software fix so there's less strain on a shift but the newer ones don't have that problem they found a problem they fixed the old is the same way is it working right they don't throw it away they think how can we fix this and they have some very good engineers the Japanese philosophy is not planned obsolescence like the American philosophy has been since pretty much the end of World War two make it break it buy another one Japanese aren't that way they want to keep things rolling along smoothly have good relationships with all the companies that they buy parts from analyze it when there's a problem fix it that's really why there's work better they don't just come up with something that oh geez that was a pile of junk throw that away let's try something else no it is better to perfect stuff over time well you never know what people will pay a lot of money for a 1979 unrestored ford bronco just sold for sixty seven thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars setting an all-time record for a second-generation Bronco now this basically shows you that you never know what something old is going to be worth if you leave it original this thing is on restored painting everything's good somebody obviously has stored it in a good place California that makes sense yeah they don't rust in California it went for top dollar you never know when something's going to be popular when it's that old and is all a Ridge unrestored the guys that modify them the value goes down the toilet it doesn't matter if you've got a 67 Mustang GT if you've radically modified it it's not worth anywhere near a totally unrestored original equipment one there's just how vehicles go I was kind of shocked but somebody paid that much money for one but you know somebody wanted it and you're never gonna find another one it looks like that probably not granite Dale you made the second generation Bronco for two years so there's lots of them out there if you're interested in collecting cars getting cars they're worth money to maybe trying to buy one and make profit on it over time that's what you got check out how rare is it unique characteristic does it have compared to other vehicles cuz it doesn't matter how cool their goal is if they sold 500 thousand over a year it's never gonna be a collector's item cooked almost seventy thousand dollars it's just a new record for sales price of a second-generation Bronco tell you some of the other ones are even gone for more money you never know what people are gonna find collectible make twenty SS and a study conducted by IHS your vehicle's two thousand eight to twelve the following Toyota models has zero drivers deaths per million registered vehicles lexus rx350 toyota highlander and toyota sequoia very impressive okay it shows you a couple of things the main thing is size does matter people it does matter those are all large vehicles and you can talk all you want about oh it can make small car safe you got a large vehicle growing fast that's kinetic energy of motion if the large vehicle going fast it's a small vehicle the small vehicles gonna take the brunt of the power this just out goes the energy and it's gonna dissipate it when it smashes in to the smaller vehicle and knocks it all over right so sighs doesn't matter the other thing is so does quality and safety if you have very good airbag system and even though those are bigger vehicles they're still built with crumple zones if let's say you don't hit another car but yet something like a tree but Toyota will crumple enough that it won't do any damage to you now the two fault process there but it doesn't surprise me cuz I read a thing the other day that the most deaths are still with smaller vehicles million there way way over what the bigger ones are just pure physics you can't escape that kinetic energy is kinetic energy and the less kinetic energy you have when you get hit you're gonna be a worse shape than the person who has more kinetic energy well those sneaky Canadians there's a Canadian shop now that has cracked tussles acceleration boost if you have a Tesla and you want it to go faster and have this boost you gotta pay two thousand dollars extra for it well these Canadian dudes I figured out how to do it for about eleven hundred dollars themselves you figured out how to swap a single motor a Tesla three to a dual motor shut up and figured out a half into the software in order to make it go faster and work also to add fifty extra horsepower using the acceleration boost without paying the money to Tesla for the software they call it the booze fifty upgrade and they're offering it for 1,100 bucks instead of the two grand the Tesla stylus companies based in Canada but it's also partnered with electrified garage rich Benoit of rich rebuilt let's face it if you get electronic high technology computers and stuff you know it's gonna be guys out I don't want to screw around with this stuff I figure out a better cheaper way that's the game those guys play now of course they'll be backlash things like if you modify a car like this you may lose any kind of warranty you have with Tesla and they might refuse to work on the car or even allowing to use their super charging station who knows all that stuff computer Sun up and if they wanted they could ban your car if they see you got a car that has this upgrade and you didn't pay them for it when you plug it into a superstation there's all kinds of computer interfaces and they probably could figure out a way to ban you so you can't use it anymore but it just kind of intrigued me that these sneaky Canadians decided hey we're gonna figure out how to do this stuff cheaper so we get all this horsepower not as let's pays so much money told Elon for the upgrades you can't stop those computer guys when it comes down to it who knows how much time and energy they put in to figure out how to do it they just like to do that kind of stuff and it's only common sense that if they see a challenge they're gonna go ahead well BMW just celebrated a milestone they silver in b5 mmm the vehicle that has been assembled in the United States so I guess as far as old Scotty's concerned there's five million people out there who didn't do enough research on cars and bottle BMW kind of shocked me that there's that many people out there and as usual people I do crazy things with you know milestones this is an x5m competition model that's going to be part of BMWs historic collection and their museum nobody's actually buying a thing kind of ironic you know nobody's actually buying her five millionth vehicle I find that toggling ironic myself you know the adult of Euclid nobody actually bought and put it in the museum I think that's all BMWs you build them and put them all in museums so people don't end up buying those endless money pits be an x5m competition it's finished in Toronto red metallic paint I don't know what Canadians have to do with this paint but they call a Toronto red metallic paint Jeremie car made the United States with Canadian colored paint against its men south carolina where their factory is which is also celebrating other things the millionth BMW was a z4 roadster in 2006 the two millionth was a BMW x3 the three million was a BMW x5 the four millions was a BMW x3 and the five millionth was this x5 m competition so they may get an awful lot of them but they're not selling them to my fans that's for sure put together five million Mississippi must assault both somewhere they wouldn't continue making them be dog 98 so Scotty I got a 2000 Toyota Solara with an automatic transmission my ABS light comes on I replaced my wheel speed sensors like you said but the light still on is it safe to drive and how can I fix it if possible you're gonna have to find a better mechanic to work on the thing you said it was some local mechanic ABS systems are computer-controlled the idea is simple there's just sensors on each wheel they feedback when you brake if one wheels not stopping the same that can modulate how they break so it breaks evenly but it's all run by computers it's complicated system got to find a guy like me with it abs scan tool Johnny the good ones cost three to five grand take it for road tests and analyze its gonna be able to figure it out because there's so much data that you can get from those and there are so many even trouble codes that not gonna turn the check engine light on but they'll flash up on my fancy machine from my experience with that one you gotta use the Toyota OAM ABS sensors to make sure that's done you gotta have a guy with that machine to double-check everything to make sure that they're operating because small the sensors are operating and they're all reporting back that generally means the ABS module itself going back now ABS is a fail-safe system so safe to drive that way you just will not have ABS brakes back in the day a lot of guys when they broke and they find out that the module cost $1500 they just said to heck with it and they were to unclog BBS running like would stay on but then it just had normal brakes with no ABS function whatsoever it's not particularly dangerous if you know how to drive it just means that your ABS system is no longer operating so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that Bell\n"