Non political: I subscribe to them and watch them often.
Cars and DIY
Waldo’s World: he is a young technician/mechanic/engineer who has fixed quite a few larger European luxury cars and other equipments (some are huge). I like his troubleshooting analysis, logics and approaches. Hint: not “parts fodder”. I watched some of his videos, including this Land Rover LR3 Project. It was a success, as you can see from near the end of this part 4. I never drove off-road, although I know some people do like it, e.g., some Jeep drivers and some ATV (Polaris and Honda came to mind) people like to go off-road.
Now I just realized, for a YT creator, making a playlist has almost the same effect as the Netflix “binge watching” a new series.
Some background: I studied engineering in my undergraduate. But I really didn’t have much hands on experience working on things so far, because I switched to my software engineer career about 24 years ago. I was usually impressed by people who are handy, basically any guy or girls who are hands on, fix things, or get things working. Things don’t have to complex. For example, last night at a friend’s house, I saw this Tramontina Induction Cooking System the first time. I wasn’t sure how it works: and googled 1st. A friend just took the pot and put it there, and it seems starts working. Another time, long time ago, I recall a fraternity brother took apart his Toyota Celica engine or something, and put it back (he is Mechanical Engineering major too).
So far, my automotive repair or hands-on experience is limited to replacing the batteries (for the Camry and Sienna), replacing head lights bulb. I did put on spare tire once (Subaru Forester, a while ago). I also diagnose the rodent or squirrel issue in my Sienna, and the gas cap (interfere with the sliding door) issue. For the former issue (rodent got under the hood, made a nest, and chew up cables etc.), I found the lint paper for dryer is the way to go. It appears rodent or squirrel didn’t like the small of that paper. For Sienna, I also empties some acorn shells from the AC fan (behind the cabin air filter) as I heard noise, ordered the new fan (motor) from Amazon, before i found out the noise was really caused by the left over acorn shells.
I like to learn more, and if not working on the European luxury sedan (which seems hard to ramp up that skill), as a minimum I like to do more more to my Camry and Sienna: replacing cabin air filter may be something I will do.
The Car Care Nut: the founder is an immigrant from Iraq, and he is also the owner of TCCN Automotive (Chicago Suburb). He is Toyota certified master diagnostic technician (highest level among Toyota technician community). He is probably one of the car channel on YT that has highest subscribers. He started the channel during pandemic (due to shutdown), and later he started his own shop as the US quickly reopened. He is also quite technical. He occasionally did review of other Japanese brand including: Mazda, Nissan and Subaru. But the main focus of the channel and his shop are still Toyota and Lexus.
I found this channel recently. He is also pretty good. Some of the videos I watched:
Ranking The Top 5 Least Expensive Vehicles To Maintain That We Work On At Our Shop!
Ranking The Top 5 Most Expensive Vehicles To Maintain That We Work On At Our Shop!
Single Dad Opens a Repair Shop – His Story
The 3 Biggest Scams We See In The Auto Repair Industry
It’s Time To Talk About Extended Warranty Companies! (I tend to agree, also from my personal experience I only bought extended warranty once, and felt it’s not good use of the money).
How To Find A Great Auto Repair Shop That You Can Trust!
Chinese
Below are all technicians. And they speak in Mandarin Chinese. I believe they are all from mainland.
小韩修车：“入行十几年的修理工，分享汽车维修知识🚗🔧”
小徐的汽车生活：“我将在这里分享我的日常汽车维修工作，分享二手车整备的过程与汽车相关知识。”
车二哥说车：“大家好，我是车二哥， 我是一个干了16年的汽车修理工。。。”
Pundits or Journalists
Note I prefer technicians or engineers (hands on, handy, DIY) over pundits or theories.
AutomotivePress: I noticed him from The Car Care Nut
savagegeese: I think I came across them both independently (cannot find the Mustang mach e video for some reason), and also from The Car Care Nut