A Sudden and Bizarre Hard Fault: A Journey to Gentani

I've never seen a hard fault go away on its own ever, it's not there it used to be right here and now it's gone. You guys that is so bizarre like for real it's a hard fault it's a red fault they shouldn't clear themselves they should be there until like the dealership or you use an altel or something to clear it and the altel won't even clear it on this car maybe that's a good sign it's going to make it to gentani or it'll blow up. I'll take it nice and easy on it no I won't.

What are you doing I see you doing something nitrous we should have never gave Dave nitrous this thing sounds absolutely nuts give me a little spray it's freaking fast oh the echo damn it damn it it's back and I'm stuck in neutral on the side of the freeway. We'll go into gear look put on the brake and it did it right when we got into traffic so something about this car does that as soon as you get like below fourth gear I don't know what it is but if the car is moving it's fine so now I'm stuck all right.

We're going to have to let it sit for a second when I say a second I mean like 2 to 3 minutes and then try it again damn well it happened again I couldn't pull over in time we were in traffic which is why the car is neutral. So currently in the tent of Meridian in a very nefarious position literally between that freeway and that accident now the question is getting back on be very very difficult but California man all right.

It's been a few minutes and yes success now I got to try to get back into this freaking traffic I got to stay in the right lane cuz the odds of it hopping in are very good and there's just so much traffic. I'm in a bad spot let's just jump this curb oh big curve big curb back on and good news was the svj see it cool down great com I keep moving I keep moving we get behind him so I can block traffic. It happens again this is what's screwing me it's traffic slowing down and then I end up in a gear lower than you know fourth gear and that's when it freaks out.

So I'm trying to keep a bit of a gap same thing that was happening in Europe if we were open road proba be fine for hours the second it hits this traffic and I got to slow down I'm screwed and to think we're only halfway into the journey to gani normally would have been at a shop by now but now he's another 30 minutes further north we still have 35 minutes to survive LA traffic and freeways.

Okay as I suspected we didn't hit any more traffic but now I have to slow down at my exit and this is where I'm talking about if I have to go down to fourth gear is it going to to be okay or is it going to freak out. All right it's holding at the moment holding holding holding let see if it freaks out this is what it does.

It'll be fineing on the freeway and then I go to turn so far so good still in second all right I'm close to gani I'm only 1 minute away way let's see if this thing holds all the way there it's this whole under fourth gear slowing down stuff it does not like I going to see if I can simulate it actually doing this I am interested why why is it working now and why did it do it to me on the freeway.

See I slow right down seems to be okay so bizarre and now it's not doing it and we made it K we got another svj right out front look at that we pull right in hey that looks familiar I can't believe we made it they open well no nobody's here svj is in here the 720 is also in here the GTR if you want to have a look at that because these guys haven't seen anything with that I haven't given you guys I haven't given you guys the update on that yet cuz I wasn't really sure where we were at with it but yeah I'll yeah here all right so we are leaving the svj here Alex is going to swap the transmission out he's going to try to do it in the better part of seven short days so then we can take this and get the new livery put on for Gumball Asia that is right we're going Saigon to Singapore for F1 now when I have more news on this once Alex is in I will give you that.

I do need to come back anyhow because we need to make a full update video on what's going on with the 720 GTR but all I'm going to do is leave you before we get into that whole video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell you guys have been asking for it and I have a massive update on the svj so as you guys know the svj transmission has an issue it's basically popping out of gear going into neutral that was the issue I was having on Gumball all throughout Europe then we took the car and we sent it off to Lamborghini of London and they triy to do their best to diagnose and correct the problem to the tune of about $125,000 off my credit card this car came all the way back we had it transported after sitting in Europe for another 6 months cuz we thought we were going to drive the car over there we couldn't obviously get any insurance that would allow us to do that so we decided to put it in a container on a boat and send it back to North America and well here you have it it's here and it's still broken now I spent $60,000 to buy a brand new gearbox from Lamborghini in the transportation of that gearbox from Italy to North America it got lost okay so now what well here's the update we had to wait a 30-day period in order for them to do their own internal investigation the shipping company to find out if they could in fact find that transmission they could not which now put us into a position to file an insurance claim that's 3 to 6 months for us to eventually probably get our insurance money back and in that time frame well we are going to have to fix this car so that means I either have to put out another 60,000 or I have to find another solution here's the good news I have another solution in fact I have two solutions solution number one would be to try and repair the current gearbox in this car I've been told by many many people including John from Yo who's an ex actual certified Lamborghini technician like a real one and he said that he'd actually been to the school that Lamborghini provides to rebuild these Aventador Transmissions they basically show the technicians they can do it in house if someone needs to do that and when he went to that school and they showed him he said even the guy teaching the class was struggling to rebuild the transmission and at the end of that class he never did see a properly rebuilt transmission go into a car and work and solve the problem so his advice was do not rebuild the transmission that is an option I have but he said do not do it so that means I'm pretty much left with option number two I would go and get another gearbox I could buy new but I could also buy used and we've been looking around and I found a couple I found out that I could buy an Aventador s or an Aventador SV or an svj of course or an ultimate gearbox because for the most part they're basically the same gearbox same clutch system all that sort of stuff plus the gearbox in my car is technically good all the gears are good the clutches are good everything's good the only downside is the leaking of the Teflon seals and those are the super super hard part to replace so I found two used SV gearboxes the SV was only made in 2016 and 2017 both the gearboxes I found or the latter models are of a lot cheaper availability than the svj brand new gearbox so instead of it being $60,000 I can save myself about 40 Grand and pick one up for $220,000 this is made a carbon fiber but it's still a little heavy by yourself all right oh we had the battery tender on it but let's still hope that it starts fingers crossed guys well she got the juice let all the electronics kind of fire Up 3 2 1 official svj cold start it's been a minute uh yep it reminds me every time I get in gear box malfunction press brake to engage gear little red light right there indicating gearbox malfunction but here's the weird part it still runs it's beyond me the svj is Dave's and my favorite for many many reasons one it sounds amazing it looks amazing oh I love this car it sounds so freaking good I was just bringing everybody up to speed on the situation with the svj did you tell them when this car has to leave no I haven't gotten to that problem yet that's a big problem well the other thing too is is I've been told them it's leaving I haven't told anybody what we're taking So Jamie cut that no you don't have to cut that Jamie now that Dave's giv it away Dave and I have decided that the svj is the gumball car I know a lot of you be excited if we brought another car on that Adventure because I'm sure you would love to see any of our cars and honestly we talked about bringing both the 599 bringing two cars for change of up the thing is this when we're vlogging together the best videos when the same car together capturing solo the whole time the Vlogs feel way different so it is better to bring one car yeah driver co-pilot we work together as a team that is the best way to do it and we also have more fun cuz you can chat being alone by ourself for 12 hours every day on a rally it's exhausting the challenge is is where this car is going it's no secret it's Vietnam's starting point Vietnam does not accept Air Freight there's no option to fly the car it can't happen you can fly it to Singapore but you still have to ship it to import it to Singapore has to sit for 3 Days in Singapore then Gober so it's the same timeline this car more money has to leave June 30th what today is May 27th this car has to leave to the port in just over a month you have to get it fixed and obviously if you decide to change delivery or any other modifications you want to do on this car no June 30th cars in will pick it up it'll go to the shipping yard because they have to do a car on this car so Vietnam is the most complicated one of the most complicated countries for temporary Import in fact they're creating a new system just for Gumball so Gumball and the government of Vietnam are creating a car a just for the event and that's not done yet either so there's a lot to do that leads me to the solution that I'm about to present to you guys which is we found an Aventador SV gearbox we actually found two of them and you won't even believe who has it because I myself and Dave went out of our way to try to find a gearbox cuz we're panicking due to the timeline and so we start calling people and in fact one person we know reached out to us and that's a buddy of ours at another shop and he goes hey I have a gearbox if you want to look into it I have it sitting here it's 20 grand if it works for you cool try it you know no stress so then I reach out to Alex atani our boy the flamer who does a lot of work with Lamborghini the yes and he did the exhaust on here and he designed a whole Turbo System for these cars so Alex knows a lot about this car so I said Alex is the SV gearbox the same as an svj gearbox and he confirmed yes you can put it in here it'll all be all good and he goes by the way I have an SV gearbox yeah I was like oh nice to know Alex thanks for bringing that up after I brought it up so Alex has a gearbox our other buddy Josh has a gearbox and I just have to pick a gearbox they're basically the same price the easiest quickest fastest thing is if I don't want to go pick up a gearbox you know Alex could install the gearbox for me I did make a phone call last night to him and I said hey man this is the whole situation the car's got to get the hell out of here it's got to be on transport to be shipped to Vietnam it's going to take 2 and a half months the car has to leave by the end of June no bll uh the paperwork had to be done on the 17th of May it's already been submitted it's already been submitted we actually picked two cars just in case this car somehow wasn't able to be done in time because the paperwork had to be done we actually submitted two cars it's this car I'll tell you the other car in a little bit we're going to take this car I decided to gon first thing tomorrow morning Alex is going to do his best to try to get this car done in the timeline guys please fingers crossed put good positive energy out to the world that the svj will make it cuz this is the car ultimately Dave and I want to take but we do have a backup just in case there's no Lambo dealers in Vietnam it's not like we're in Luxembourg and Lux Le there's a Lambo dealer like we're on our own the entire rally plus there's more pressure on Alex because we would actually be able to drive this car some miles yes make sure it's actually stress test we don't want to it's good and then it's not exactly the other part is I changed the cars for the liveries for the gumballs so this Livery as much as it's going to pain me to take this Livery off the car this will have to come off the car and an svj is very very very challenging to wrap there are a bazillion pieces that come off this car if you guys have seen when I've shown it before a PFS when they're in the process of wrapping this the whole car is blown apart something like 37 Parts come off this this car so they'll have to take all those parts off again and rewrap every single piece with a brand new Gumball 3000 Livery with the new colors for the 2024 25th anniversary Gumball that bad boy right there what color scheme would it be I have no idea so there's your update on the svj what the hell is going on with yeah actually I have no idea why it's dumped in the back right now looks like it's aired out it looks like it's broken I haven't heard it yet the boys to the full straight pipe so it has an exhaust I heard the video and did a FaceTime it sounds crazy want to hear a real cold start on the uh cold start let's go loud this is very loud very loud we warm it up this B go up oh it just went up a little and it fill the juice up the best part of the Bentley is a nitroxide K in the back the cold start just chilled out now we can talk dude it's very loud it's cooler when the bottle is filled when the bottle's filled it's bad when it's empty you can hear it a little bit but you can't see the Mist right now you can see the Mist oh you can hear the freaking turbo whistle it sounds super sick a lot of you guys were kind of tearing Dave apart in the last video that he produced with the boys Dave and I are veterans at this we've been holding cameras for well me well over a decade Dave for the past 6 and A2 years I've been like a mentor to you about what I saw working on YouTube how we did it while I was learning and together we've basically became the YouTubers we are today we know how to hold the camera we know what to look for lighting audio all these things we check now subliminally Mike Essa is an epic car builder Tim is an epic you know Tim Tim yeah and when we leave we have to story out you know the problem and how to basically put that into a video and Dave laid out a lot of stuff that the boys kind of unfortunately missed and that explained a lot more about what's going on with this Recall why it is so serious and the fact that people from these manufacturers that like our Channel reach out to us all the time there's people at Lamborghini have reached out to us there's a bunch of guys at MSO McLaren that reach out to us when we came up with the Bentley as a project car people at Bentley thir reaching out to us yep and I can't say who and we can't say exactly what department but they reached out and said the recall for this car is a serious one it's the gas pedal sticking right yeah so right now it's only applies to the the European right-and drive cars officially far so far I can't say anything else about that but like that's where it started there's incident the us somewhere by the border where a flying spur got stuck and the car launched in the air unfortunately driver passenger passed away in that that's serious so here's the issue it will be a software most likely a software issue more than a hardware issue which means I can't go and buy the thing to fix the car why is that important well if it's software has to go to Bentley if we have modify it they won't do the recall update on the car which means the car is not safe to drive they can never sell it ever again so the question comes down or they'll do it cuz it's a safety issue but they might have a problem with the fact the car is so modified that all of a sudden it's not free so now we have to pay like $10,000 for the software the guy also said they can Blacklist your VIN number and not offer any updates because of the modifications under the car to far to that video I'm not canceling the bill cuz I want to find out first if I put this kit on how does that affect all that will they still do the recall on the car the second part of the video that was missing was we had a plan to do a bunch of custom stuff louvers the splitter more aggressive side skirts rear diffuser and a wing as a mid build while waiting for the big expensive kit we're working on right now with M sport cancel that because mic slake is not going to look good the angles are wrong the air tank for the suspensions in the back right behind the bumper right here is all the air suspension system right here so makes like we can't cut the bumper so I decided cancel the mid build don't put wheels on don't wrap it don't do any of that until we actually get the proper kit but first let's figure out the recall it was a cascading effect too Jason at PFS actually was like Hey we're looking at the car if the car doesn't have diffusers s skirts a a big Wing you know kind of race car styling stuff the liery we picked for the car is going to look dumb that's where we were like all collectively everything came crumbling down Mike was like this car is going to look really stupid if we try to do stuff like we did on the mercial logo it's not period correct for the mercy it's period correct to have a chassis mounted Wing exactly how it is to have a metal diffuser in the shape and design that that metal diffuser is to have that all the way it is that is period correct for a 2003 Lamborghini a Bentley period correct is the Big M sport kit there is no in between we thought we might be able to make it look cool we can't we don't want to look dumb so we canel it so the next big step in all this aside from that is to find the actual race car which apparently in California there is the actual race car M wants to take the two and compare them what will it actually take to put the kit on we didn't realize the air suspension prob the engine different spot like I don't want to all sudden the kit shows up we didn't do our homework now that we have the car and go like the back bumper won't fit the front bumper won't fit so we need to get the actual race car for a video side by side start pulling panels off to go when the kid arrives how's it all going to work that would be crazy in the meantime why don't we take the svj and go grab some lunch take both the cars and get lunch can want take both cars I want to drive this I want to hear the exhaust in this bad boy and when your car breaks down you a ride back to the shop that's true if it breaks down that would suck all right let's put some heat in the engines and you take the Vlog camera the audience wants to see they do love the Bentley I'm not hitting on the Bentley but I know you guys would rather see the svj driving down the road especially because the Livery is going to come off fa fair fair fair fair so I'll actually later in the video show you guys what Livery I had picked out for this car it's definitely something I've never done before and I was really pumped about it now ironically there will be a wheel review because the boys didn't get a hold of Adrien and the wheels already cut so we'll get some Wheels on the car it's dumped now I could possibly do just a color change in the meantime well we have a lot on our plate and it's definitely not the biggest priority but dude it sounds so good I'm pumped I love this car we get some faults well that's weird I've never seen that before that's an aggressive fault it's a little TLC see so the Bentley has some aor lights you have a check engine light well straight piped now so it's fully there you go loud better thank you very much looks way better the E bra fault that's something silly it's an Audi product so for the most part it's just a lot of Audi technology so it's not super hard to diagnose and maintain and fix the car really isn't that modified on the outside though to have all these airls is a bit confusing especially the E braake so that could be just an issue with the car nothing what we've done to it so far I am going to miss this Livery oh dude you know what I think it's honestly been my favorite one should we put this on the Bentley for now how bad would that look this yeah like this body like this no funny it actually probably wouldn't look that bad if done right I think it would actually look cool I think this Livery honestly would go on quite a few cars the base is white yeah right and then a lot of the design is straight down over the top of the car you know what's really annoying when your car has a problem that's intermediate like right now you have false hope that you can drive thej as much as you want go cuz it break sometimes remember the day we got it back we were like let's go on a big long drive actually I wasn't there for that but I watched the video oh that's right you weren't the home the car lasted hours and then all of a sudden it randomly did it and I was like are you kidding me I was pissed that's the r we're taking on this next Gumball you know you guys really enjoyed the videos in Europe but behind the scenes it was really stressful it was a really hard rally Gumball is hard inherently Max doesn't want to make it a vacation he doesn't make it too easy he wants people to come really get their money's worth on an adventure while we're doing that we're also trying to make a video every day for you guys with the daily upload so I hope you can appreciate just what it takes forget dailies across the board here but also while on the road internet issues health issues we all got food sck at the end time to go for a drive I really hear that Bentley under load and get some cool rollers with the svj I can't wait takes to a dealership get the reaction from the service staff we're in a luxury Bentley right now oh she's a be did it click her no I don't know why recently a fan brought us 10 clickers and I don't know they are we have 10 of them and these cars don't have any of them so we're going to do it manual for now something's going on here in front of the HQ is a bunch of construction pylons and cones and no par working so that it's a slm course barely moving how did that popping noise remember this is pre- tune holy sh love it the pops are ridiculous you know what comes next this car straight pipes and it's modern and Alex has a computer and Alex known for what swearing but yeah also a flame too oh my God I missed that car it's been far too long since you heard some svj screams here on the channel I missed that thing it oh my god let's hear it yeah barely doesn't sound that great does it yeah I know definitely missed the delivery unfortunately besides Gumball it didn't get a lot of screen time and that's just the nature what we do sometimes what's you doing what are you planning back there oh you forget you forget the piercing and the one feedback I always get from fans when you meet them in person is the cars look and sound way crazier in person there's only so much this camera can pick up I'll mention it for the last time we are building the Bentley GT3 car the question is when I need to do a lot more research we might have to pull the air suspension if it has to do all that this could be like a yearlong project the idea was it buy it bolted on but it's happening it will happen be patient and I apologize if you guys get upset but also I appreciate those of you who are loyal because you guys con turn really quick there's some crazy comments people want me to leave the channel like I need you guys to be chill might not love all the videos but we make a lot of videos for you guys and sometimes they hit differently and like I said in that video some things are left out but here we are building the car I love the Bentley for you true fans you true Bentley lovers the time will come currently looking for lunch right now the first fast spot was closed California there's lots of places to get food we all like to eat down here marked over there for that exact reason what reason well your splitter is a little more forgiving than Mine mine's actually attached to my bumper that's uh that's impressive it's pretty good just kissed it you also still have no Grill I know I need to call Bentley or lie that's pretty ugly no so I have to this sucks um might tried to make a grill but he like it looks so terrible because there's a lot of reasons behind it just trust Mike Mike says looks bad looks bad one of them we saved the other one's gone the freeway so tomorrow you got by the other half it's probably going to be I don't know what would what would you say for that piece probably at least $600 yeah a piece of plastic we are going to go and get some f we like our Vietnamese food or Vietnamese soup specifically so we're going to go to a little restaurant around the corner we are prepping for Gumball by eating Vietnamese food cuz we head to Vietnam very very soon that's right a few moments later all right now we're going to drive up to gentani and drop this bad boy off pray this thing doesn't die on the freeway quick little fuel up though she is thirsty all right David demon follow me in the Bentley because we only know that this thing may or may not make it all the way to gani fun fact in the Bentley I can't use navigation on my phone something in the car blocks the GPS signal so you have to lead I know what uh I know what blocks it you it's like every time you're co-piloting we get lost it's always the phone's fault or the the Bentley's fault I'm a good co-pilot you actually are a really good co-pilot not as good as my wife though I get extra marital favors and she is done this thing was thirsty 8375 and that is a right off let's put the cap back on head all the way up to gintani Simi Valley that is quite the hike hopefully no traffic usually it's about an hour with no traffic from where we are and we're already 30 minutes more north than we used to be when we were in Huntington Beach please make it don't get me stuck on the freeway 1 Hour 4 minutes from as you can see Compton to basically off the map because Alex lives in timbuk 2 now Northern California and during rush hour that'd be 3 hours so that's pretty good it'd be brutal let's hit the road please follow me get massage you son of a you're not even going to believe this the red transmission fault on my Dash is all of a sudden gone I've never seen a hard fault go away on its own ever it's not there it used to be right here and now it's gone you guys that is so bizarre like for real it's a hard fault it's a red fault they shouldn't clear themselves they should be there until like the dealership or you use an altel or something to clear it and the altel won't even clear it on this car maybe that's a good sign it's going to make it to gentani or it'll blow up I'll take it nice and easy on it no I won't what are you doing I see you doing something nitrous we should have never gave Dave nitrous this thing sounds absolutely nuts give me a little spray it's freaking fast oh the echo damn it damn it it's back and I'm stuck in neutral on the side of the freeway we'll go into gear look put on the brake and it did it right when we got into traffic so something about this car does that as soon as you get like below fourth gear I don't know what it is but if the car is moving it's fine so now I'm stuck all right we're going have to let it sit for a second when I say a second I mean like 2 to 3 minutes and then try it again damn well it happened again I couldn't pull over in time we were in traffic which is why the carrent are neutral So currently in the tent of Meridian in a very nefarious position literally between that freeway and that accident now the question is getting back on be very very difficult but California man all right it's been a few minutes and yes success now I got to try to get back into this freaking traffic I got to stay in the right lane cuz the odds of it hopping in are very good and there's just so much traffic I'm in a bad spot let's just jump this curb oh big curve big curb back on and good news was the svj see it cool down great com I keep moving I keep moving we get behind him so I can block traffic it happens again this is what's screwing me it's traffic slowing down and then I end up in a gear lower than you know fourth gear and that's when it freaks out so I'm trying to keep a bit of a gap same thing that was happening in Europe if we were open road proba be fine for hours the second it hits this traffic and I got to slow down I'm screwed and to think we're only halfway into the journey to gani normally would have been at a shop by now but now he's another 30 minutes further north we still have 35 minutes to survive LA traffic and freeways okay as I suspected we didn't hit any more traffic but now I have to slow down at my exit and this is where I'm talking about if I have to go down to fourth gear is it going to to be okay or is it going to freak out all right it's holding at the moment holding holding holding let see if it freaks out this is what it does it'll be fineing on the freeway and then I go to turn so far so good still in second all right I'm close to gani I'm only 1 minute away way let's see if this thing holds all the way there it's this whole under fourth gear slowing down stuff it does not like I going to see if I can simulate it actually doing this I am interested why why is it working now and why did it do it to me on the freeway see I slow right down seems to be okay so bizarre and now it's not doing it and we made it K we got another svj right out front look at that we pull right in hey that looks familiar I can't believe we made it they open well no nobody's here svj is in here the 720 is also in here the GTR if you want to have a look at that because these guys haven't seen anything with that I haven't given you guys I haven't given you guys the update on that yet cuz I wasn't really sure where we were at with it but yeah I'll yeah here all right so we are leaving the svj here Alex is going to swap the transmission out he's going to try to do it in the better part of seven short days so then we can take this and get the new livery put on for Gumball Asia that is right we're going Saigon to Singapore for F1 now when I have more news on this once Alex is in I will give you that I do need to come back anyhow because we need to make a full update video on what's going on with the 720 GTR but all I'm going to do is leave you before we get into that whole video with thiswell you guys have been asking for it and I have a massive update on the svj so as you guys know the svj transmission has an issue it's basically popping out of gear going into neutral that was the issue I was having on Gumball all throughout Europe then we took the car and we sent it off to Lamborghini of London and they triy to do their best to diagnose and correct the problem to the tune of about $125,000 off my credit card this car came all the way back we had it transported after sitting in Europe for another 6 months cuz we thought we were going to drive the car over there we couldn't obviously get any insurance that would allow us to do that so we decided to put it in a container on a boat and send it back to North America and well here you have it it's here and it's still broken now I spent $60,000 to buy a brand new gearbox from Lamborghini in the transportation of that gearbox from Italy to North America it got lost okay so now what well here's the update we had to wait a 30-day period in order for them to do their own internal investigation the shipping company to find out if they could in fact find that transmission they could not which now put us into a position to file an insurance claim that's 3 to 6 months for us to eventually probably get our insurance money back and in that time frame well we are going to have to fix this car so that means I either have to put out another 60,000 or I have to find another solution here's the good news I have another solution in fact I have two solutions solution number one would be to try and repair the current gearbox in this car I've been told by many many people including John from Yo who's an ex actual certified Lamborghini technician like a real one and he said that he'd actually been to the school that Lamborghini provides to rebuild these Aventador Transmissions they basically show the technicians they can do it in house if someone needs to do that and when he went to that school and they showed him he said even the guy teaching the class was struggling to rebuild the transmission and at the end of that class he never did see a properly rebuilt transmission go into a car and work and solve the problem so his advice was do not rebuild the transmission that is an option I have but he said do not do it so that means I'm pretty much left with option number two I would go and get another gearbox I could buy new but I could also buy used and we've been looking around and I found a couple I found out that I could buy an Aventador s or an Aventador SV or an svj of course or an ultimate gearbox because for the most part they're basically the same gearbox same clutch system all that sort of stuff plus the gearbox in my car is technically good all the gears are good the clutches are good everything's good the only downside is the leaking of the Teflon seals and those are the super super hard part to replace so I found two used SV gearboxes the SV was only made in 2016 and 2017 both the gearboxes I found or the latter models are of a lot cheaper availability than the svj brand new gearbox so instead of it being $60,000 I can save myself about 40 Grand and pick one up for $220,000 this is made a carbon fiber but it's still a little heavy by yourself all right oh we had the battery tender on it but let's still hope that it starts fingers crossed guys well she got the juice let all the electronics kind of fire Up 3 2 1 official svj cold start it's been a minute uh yep it reminds me every time I get in gear box malfunction press brake to engage gear little red light right there indicating gearbox malfunction but here's the weird part it still runs it's beyond me the svj is Dave's and my favorite for many many reasons one it sounds amazing it looks amazing oh I love this car it sounds so freaking good I was just bringing everybody up to speed on the situation with the svj did you tell them when this car has to leave no I haven't gotten to that problem yet that's a big problem well the other thing too is is I've been told them it's leaving I haven't told anybody what we're taking So Jamie cut that no you don't have to cut that Jamie now that Dave's giv it away Dave and I have decided that the svj is the gumball car I know a lot of you be excited if we brought another car on that Adventure because I'm sure you would love to see any of our cars and honestly we talked about bringing both the 599 bringing two cars for change of up the thing is this when we're vlogging together the best videos when the same car together capturing solo the whole time the Vlogs feel way different so it is better to bring one car yeah driver co-pilot we work together as a team that is the best way to do it and we also have more fun cuz you can chat being alone by ourself for 12 hours every day on a rally it's exhausting the challenge is is where this car is going it's no secret it's Vietnam's starting point Vietnam does not accept Air Freight there's no option to fly the car it can't happen you can fly it to Singapore but you still have to ship it to import it to Singapore has to sit for 3 Days in Singapore then Gober so it's the same timeline this car more money has to leave June 30th what today is May 27th this car has to leave to the port in just over a month you have to get it fixed and obviously if you decide to change delivery or any other modifications you want to do on this car no June 30th cars in will pick it up it'll go to the shipping yard because they have to do a car on this car so Vietnam is the most complicated one of the most complicated countries for temporary Import in fact they're creating a new system just for Gumball so Gumball and the government of Vietnam are creating a car a just for the event and that's not done yet either so there's a lot to do that leads me to the solution that I'm about to present to you guys which is we found an Aventador SV gearbox we actually found two of them and you won't even believe who has it because I myself and Dave went out of our way to try to find a gearbox cuz we're panicking due to the timeline and so we start calling people and in fact one person we know reached out to us and that's a buddy of ours at another shop and he goes hey I have a gearbox if you want to look into it I have it sitting here it's 20 grand if it works for you cool try it you know no stress so then I reach out to Alex atani our boy the flamer who does a lot of work with Lamborghini the yes and he did the exhaust on here and he designed a whole Turbo System for these cars so Alex knows a lot about this car so I said Alex is the SV gearbox the same as an svj gearbox and he confirmed yes you can put it in here it'll all be all good and he goes by the way I have an SV gearbox yeah I was like oh nice to know Alex thanks for bringing that up after I brought it up so Alex has a gearbox our other buddy Josh has a gearbox and I just have to pick a gearbox they're basically the same price the easiest quickest fastest thing is if I don't want to go pick up a gearbox you know Alex could install the gearbox for me I did make a phone call last night to him and I said hey man this is the whole situation the car's got to get the hell out of here it's got to be on transport to be shipped to Vietnam it's going to take 2 and a half months the car has to leave by the end of June no bll uh the paperwork had to be done on the 17th of May it's already been submitted it's already been submitted we actually picked two cars just in case this car somehow wasn't able to be done in time because the paperwork had to be done we actually submitted two cars it's this car I'll tell you the other car in a little bit we're going to take this car I decided to gon first thing tomorrow morning Alex is going to do his best to try to get this car done in the timeline guys please fingers crossed put good positive energy out to the world that the svj will make it cuz this is the car ultimately Dave and I want to take but we do have a backup just in case there's no Lambo dealers in Vietnam it's not like we're in Luxembourg and Lux Le there's a Lambo dealer like we're on our own the entire rally plus there's more pressure on Alex because we would actually be able to drive this car some miles yes make sure it's actually stress test we don't want to it's good and then it's not exactly the other part is I changed the cars for the liveries for the gumballs so this Livery as much as it's going to pain me to take this Livery off the car this will have to come off the car and an svj is very very very challenging to wrap there are a bazillion pieces that come off this car if you guys have seen when I've shown it before a PFS when they're in the process of wrapping this the whole car is blown apart something like 37 Parts come off this this car so they'll have to take all those parts off again and rewrap every single piece with a brand new Gumball 3000 Livery with the new colors for the 2024 25th anniversary Gumball that bad boy right there what color scheme would it be I have no idea so there's your update on the svj what the hell is going on with yeah actually I have no idea why it's dumped in the back right now looks like it's aired out it looks like it's broken I haven't heard it yet the boys to the full straight pipe so it has an exhaust I heard the video and did a FaceTime it sounds crazy want to hear a real cold start on the uh cold start let's go loud this is very loud very loud we warm it up this B go up oh it just went up a little and it fill the juice up the best part of the Bentley is a nitroxide K in the back the cold start just chilled out now we can talk dude it's very loud it's cooler when the bottle is filled when the bottle's filled it's bad when it's empty you can hear it a little bit but you can't see the Mist right now you can see the Mist oh you can hear the freaking turbo whistle it sounds super sick a lot of you guys were kind of tearing Dave apart in the last video that he produced with the boys Dave and I are veterans at this we've been holding cameras for well me well over a decade Dave for the past 6 and A2 years I've been like a mentor to you about what I saw working on YouTube how we did it while I was learning and together we've basically became the YouTubers we are today we know how to hold the camera we know what to look for lighting audio all these things we check now subliminally Mike Essa is an epic car builder Tim is an epic you know Tim Tim yeah and when we leave we have to story out you know the problem and how to basically put that into a video and Dave laid out a lot of stuff that the boys kind of unfortunately missed and that explained a lot more about what's going on with this Recall why it is so serious and the fact that people from these manufacturers that like our Channel reach out to us all the time there's people at Lamborghini have reached out to us there's a bunch of guys at MSO McLaren that reach out to us when we came up with the Bentley as a project car people at Bentley thir reaching out to us yep and I can't say who and we can't say exactly what department but they reached out and said the recall for this car is a serious one it's the gas pedal sticking right yeah so right now it's only applies to the the European right-and drive cars officially far so far I can't say anything else about that but like that's where it started there's incident the us somewhere by the border where a flying spur got stuck and the car launched in the air unfortunately driver passenger passed away in that that's serious so here's the issue it will be a software most likely a software issue more than a hardware issue which means I can't go and buy the thing to fix the car why is that important well if it's software has to go to Bentley if we have modify it they won't do the recall update on the car which means the car is not safe to drive they can never sell it ever again so the question comes down or they'll do it cuz it's a safety issue but they might have a problem with the fact the car is so modified that all of a sudden it's not free so now we have to pay like $10,000 for the software the guy also said they can Blacklist your VIN number and not offer any updates because of the modifications under the car to far to that video I'm not canceling the bill cuz I want to find out first if I put this kit on how does that affect all that will they still do the recall on the car the second part of the video that was missing was we had a plan to do a bunch of custom stuff louvers the splitter more aggressive side skirts rear diffuser and a wing as a mid build while waiting for the big expensive kit we're working on right now with M sport cancel that because mic slake is not going to look good the angles are wrong the air tank for the suspensions in the back right behind the bumper right here is all the air suspension system right here so makes like we can't cut the bumper so I decided cancel the mid build don't put wheels on don't wrap it don't do any of that until we actually get the proper kit but first let's figure out the recall it was a cascading effect too Jason at PFS actually was like Hey we're looking at the car if the car doesn't have diffusers s skirts a a big Wing you know kind of race car styling stuff the liery we picked for the car is going to look dumb that's where we were like all collectively everything came crumbling down Mike was like this car is going to look really stupid if we try to do stuff like we did on the mercial logo it's not period correct for the mercy it's period correct to have a chassis mounted Wing exactly how it is to have a metal diffuser in the shape and design that that metal diffuser is to have that all the way it is that is period correct for a 2003 Lamborghini a Bentley period correct is the Big M sport kit there is no in between we thought we might be able to make it look cool we can't we don't want to look dumb so we canel it so the next big step in all this aside from that is to find the actual race car which apparently in California there is the actual race car M wants to take the two and compare them what will it actually take to put the kit on we didn't realize the air suspension prob the engine different spot like I don't want to all sudden the kit shows up we didn't do our homework now that we have the car and go like the back bumper won't fit the front bumper won't fit so we need to get the actual race car for a video side by side start pulling panels off to go when the kid arrives how's it all going to work that would be crazy in the meantime why don't we take the svj and go grab some lunch take both the cars and get lunch can want take both cars I want to drive this I want to hear the exhaust in this bad boy and when your car breaks down you a ride back to the shop that's true if it breaks down that would suck all right let's put some heat in the engines and you take the Vlog camera the audience wants to see they do love the Bentley I'm not hitting on the Bentley but I know you guys would rather see the svj driving down the road especially because the Livery is going to come off fa fair fair fair fair so I'll actually later in the video show you guys what Livery I had picked out for this car it's definitely something I've never done before and I was really pumped about it now ironically there will be a wheel review because the boys didn't get a hold of Adrien and the wheels already cut so we'll get some Wheels on the car it's dumped now I could possibly do just a color change in the meantime well we have a lot on our plate and it's definitely not the biggest priority but dude it sounds so good I'm pumped I love this car we get some faults well that's weird I've never seen that before that's an aggressive fault it's a little TLC see so the Bentley has some aor lights you have a check engine light well straight piped now so it's fully there you go loud better thank you very much looks way better the E bra fault that's something silly it's an Audi product so for the most part it's just a lot of Audi technology so it's not super hard to diagnose and maintain and fix the car really isn't that modified on the outside though to have all these airls is a bit confusing especially the E braake so that could be just an issue with the car nothing what we've done to it so far I am going to miss this Livery oh dude you know what I think it's honestly been my favorite one should we put this on the Bentley for now how bad would that look this yeah like this body like this no funny it actually probably wouldn't look that bad if done right I think it would actually look cool I think this Livery honestly would go on quite a few cars the base is white yeah right and then a lot of the design is straight down over the top of the car you know what's really annoying when your car has a problem that's intermediate like right now you have false hope that you can drive thej as much as you want go cuz it break sometimes remember the day we got it back we were like let's go on a big long drive actually I wasn't there for that but I watched the video oh that's right you weren't the home the car lasted hours and then all of a sudden it randomly did it and I was like are you kidding me I was pissed that's the r we're taking on this next Gumball you know you guys really enjoyed the videos in Europe but behind the scenes it was really stressful it was a really hard rally Gumball is hard inherently Max doesn't want to make it a vacation he doesn't make it too easy he wants people to come really get their money's worth on an adventure while we're doing that we're also trying to make a video every day for you guys with the daily upload so I hope you can appreciate just what it takes forget dailies across the board here but also while on the road internet issues health issues we all got food sck at the end time to go for a drive I really hear that Bentley under load and get some cool rollers with the svj I can't wait takes to a dealership get the reaction from the service staff we're in a luxury Bentley right now oh she's a be did it click her no I don't know why recently a fan brought us 10 clickers and I don't know they are we have 10 of them and these cars don't have any of them so we're going to do it manual for now something's going on here in front of the HQ is a bunch of construction pylons and cones and no par working so that it's a slm course barely moving how did that popping noise remember this is pre- tune holy sh love it the pops are ridiculous you know what comes next this car straight pipes and it's modern and Alex has a computer and Alex known for what swearing but yeah also a flame too oh my God I missed that car it's been far too long since you heard some svj screams here on the channel I missed that thing it oh my god let's hear it yeah barely doesn't sound that great does it yeah I know definitely missed the delivery unfortunately besides Gumball it didn't get a lot of screen time and that's just the nature what we do sometimes what's you doing what are you planning back there oh you forget you forget the piercing and the one feedback I always get from fans when you meet them in person is the cars look and sound way crazier in person there's only so much this camera can pick up I'll mention it for the last time we are building the Bentley GT3 car the question is when I need to do a lot more research we might have to pull the air suspension if it has to do all that this could be like a yearlong project the idea was it buy it bolted on but it's happening it will happen be patient and I apologize if you guys get upset but also I appreciate those of you who are loyal because you guys con turn really quick there's some crazy comments people want me to leave the channel like I need you guys to be chill might not love all the videos but we make a lot of videos for you guys and sometimes they hit differently and like I said in that video some things are left out but here we are building the car I love the Bentley for you true fans you true Bentley lovers the time will come currently looking for lunch right now the first fast spot was closed California there's lots of places to get food we all like to eat down here marked over there for that exact reason what reason well your splitter is a little more forgiving than Mine mine's actually attached to my bumper that's uh that's impressive it's pretty good just kissed it you also still have no Grill I know I need to call Bentley or lie that's pretty ugly no so I have to this sucks um might tried to make a grill but he like it looks so terrible because there's a lot of reasons behind it just trust Mike Mike says looks bad looks bad one of them we saved the other one's gone the freeway so tomorrow you got by the other half it's probably going to be I don't know what would what would you say for that piece probably at least $600 yeah a piece of plastic we are going to go and get some f we like our Vietnamese food or Vietnamese soup specifically so we're going to go to a little restaurant around the corner we are prepping for Gumball by eating Vietnamese food cuz we head to Vietnam very very soon that's right a few moments later all right now we're going to drive up to gentani and drop this bad boy off pray this thing doesn't die on the freeway quick little fuel up though she is thirsty all right David demon follow me in the Bentley because we only know that this thing may or may not make it all the way to gani fun fact in the Bentley I can't use navigation on my phone something in the car blocks the GPS signal so you have to lead I know what uh I know what blocks it you it's like every time you're co-piloting we get lost it's always the phone's fault or the the Bentley's fault I'm a good co-pilot you actually are a really good co-pilot not as good as my wife though I get extra marital favors and she is done this thing was thirsty 8375 and that is a right off let's put the cap back on head all the way up to gintani Simi Valley that is quite the hike hopefully no traffic usually it's about an hour with no traffic from where we are and we're already 30 minutes more north than we used to be when we were in Huntington Beach please make it don't get me stuck on the freeway 1 Hour 4 minutes from as you can see Compton to basically off the map because Alex lives in timbuk 2 now Northern California and during rush hour that'd be 3 hours so that's pretty good it'd be brutal let's hit the road please follow me get massage you son of a you're not even going to believe this the red transmission fault on my Dash is all of a sudden gone I've never seen a hard fault go away on its own ever it's not there it used to be right here and now it's gone you guys that is so bizarre like for real it's a hard fault it's a red fault they shouldn't clear themselves they should be there until like the dealership or you use an altel or something to clear it and the altel won't even clear it on this car maybe that's a good sign it's going to make it to gentani or it'll blow up I'll take it nice and easy on it no I won't what are you doing I see you doing something nitrous we should have never gave Dave nitrous this thing sounds absolutely nuts give me a little spray it's freaking fast oh the echo damn it damn it it's back and I'm stuck in neutral on the side of the freeway we'll go into gear look put on the brake and it did it right when we got into traffic so something about this car does that as soon as you get like below fourth gear I don't know what it is but if the car is moving it's fine so now I'm stuck all right we're going have to let it sit for a second when I say a second I mean like 2 to 3 minutes and then try it again damn well it happened again I couldn't pull over in time we were in traffic which is why the carrent are neutral So currently in the tent of Meridian in a very nefarious position literally between that freeway and that accident now the question is getting back on be very very difficult but California man all right it's been a few minutes and yes success now I got to try to get back into this freaking traffic I got to stay in the right lane cuz the odds of it hopping in are very good and there's just so much traffic I'm in a bad spot let's just jump this curb oh big curve big curb back on and good news was the svj see it cool down great com I keep moving I keep moving we get behind him so I can block traffic it happens again this is what's screwing me it's traffic slowing down and then I end up in a gear lower than you know fourth gear and that's when it freaks out so I'm trying to keep a bit of a gap same thing that was happening in Europe if we were open road proba be fine for hours the second it hits this traffic and I got to slow down I'm screwed and to think we're only halfway into the journey to gani normally would have been at a shop by now but now he's another 30 minutes further north we still have 35 minutes to survive LA traffic and freeways okay as I suspected we didn't hit any more traffic but now I have to slow down at my exit and this is where I'm talking about if I have to go down to fourth gear is it going to to be okay or is it going to freak out all right it's holding at the moment holding holding holding let see if it freaks out this is what it does it'll be fineing on the freeway and then I go to turn so far so good still in second all right I'm close to gani I'm only 1 minute away way let's see if this thing holds all the way there it's this whole under fourth gear slowing down stuff it does not like I going to see if I can simulate it actually doing this I am interested why why is it working now and why did it do it to me on the freeway see I slow right down seems to be okay so bizarre and now it's not doing it and we made it K we got another svj right out front look at that we pull right in hey that looks familiar I can't believe we made it they open well no nobody's here svj is in here the 720 is also in here the GTR if you want to have a look at that because these guys haven't seen anything with that I haven't given you guys I haven't given you guys the update on that yet cuz I wasn't really sure where we were at with it but yeah I'll yeah here all right so we are leaving the svj here Alex is going to swap the transmission out he's going to try to do it in the better part of seven short days so then we can take this and get the new livery put on for Gumball Asia that is right we're going Saigon to Singapore for F1 now when I have more news on this once Alex is in I will give you that I do need to come back anyhow because we need to make a full update video on what's going on with the 720 GTR but all I'm going to do is leave you before we get into that whole video with this\n"