EricTheCarGuy's timing-chain job becomes a CRV engine replacement

The Used Car Experiment takes an unexpected detour, while a shorter sponsored workshop fix draws the week's largest audience.

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This Is Not The Video I Intended To Make

Eric set out to replace a VTC actuator and timing chain. He ended up replacing the engine instead, giving "This Is Not The Video I Intended To Make" a thoroughly literal title.

The Honda CRV repair stretches well beyond an hour, with Eric's chapter list taking viewers through axles, exhaust, subframe bolts and engine transfer before reaching the first startup. He says the timing-chain tutorial will come later. For now, the Used Car Experiment has supplied a much bigger job than planned.

That October 30 upload has reached roughly 39,000 views and is currently adding views faster than anything else on EricTheCarGuy. But the week's most-watched release is the much smaller job in "Problem Solved!", which has drawn about 119,000 views. It is a sponsored demonstration for Milton Industries: Eric removes an old air-hose fitting, seals the threads and installs a replacement coupler. Viewers are exchanging memories of stubborn fittings, preferences for push-to-connect designs and accounts of equipment that has lasted decades.

Two uploads, then, at opposite ends of the workshop workload. The older "What Scan Tool Should You Buy?" also remains among the channel's active draws, extending the practical tool theme beyond the air lines.

Subscribers held steady, while the channel added roughly its usual week's worth of views. Among nearby motoring channels, WD Detailing had a particularly busy week; EricTheCarGuy's audience was smaller, with the unexpected CRV engine replacement now its strongest daily draw.

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The videos drawing views on EricTheCarGuy right now

Problem Solved!119,012 views · 2026-10-28 What Scan Tool Should You Buy?217,246 views

The numbers

Here is how EricTheCarGuy's week looks across views, subscribers and active uploads.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

WD Detailing

5,066,839

JohnnyQ90

2,832,444

Rich Rebuilds

2,506,027

Gas Monkey Garage

1,837,310

TheStraightPipes

1,637,509

WhistlinDiesel 1000

1,608,462

POWERNATION

527,905

EricTheCarGuy

454,063

That Racing Channel

257,577

subscribers

1,860,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

413,238,472

views per day

53,361

typical day: 64,655

first-day views of each video posted this week

Problem Solved!

68,503

This Is Not The Video I Intended To Make

26,757

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

JohnnyQ90

2,050,000

WD Detailing

1,980,000

Rich Rebuilds

1,940,000

EricTheCarGuy

1,860,000

Gas Monkey Garage

1,820,000

TheStraightPipes

1,810,000

POWERNATION

1,780,000

That Racing Channel

1,700,000

WhistlinDiesel 1000

1,690,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.