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There‘s no such thing as a mistake, just more welding.That's why I prefer metal to wood - the joins are easier to hide
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angellonewolf
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i dont know why it takes 3 months for a few cables a bit of carpet and to put a engine in with out no front end on
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My vid's poo compared to theres haha.
To be fair, I read a post from them the other week, one of them had a bad injury as well as a load of other bits they said about, also reading their comments they've said another eposide is already being edited now. Hopefully a couple weeks and it'll be runningi dont know why it takes 3 months for a few cables a bit of carpet and to put a engine in with out no front end on
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tis only a wind up they have all ready had a vid up of why its not the work its the videoing editing etc that takes all the timeMy vid's poo compared to theres haha.
To be fair, I read a post from them the other week, one of them had a bad injury as well as a load of other bits they said about, also reading their comments they've said another eposide is already being edited now. Hopefully a couple weeks and it'll be running
ps whats your vid @KimB ?
was it about fixing your wiring on the defender ?
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Defo not that haha, that's a sore subject
.Just servicing my little pressure washer that I got from someone on here.
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Looking at the wiring loom on project binky brings something home to me on a (magnificent) E39 BMW 540i that I had from 2005 through 2012. I bought it with 19,000 miles on the clock from a BMW dealer and signed up for the frankly-bargaintastic perpetual BMW warranty at £70 a month. Might seem a lot but every single year I had that car, something important failed and the cost to fix it was pretty much £2k each time. So £840 spend for £2k service wasn't so bad.
Plus, every time it was in the shop the warranty required that the dealer put me in a current model of equal stature, so I'd tool around in a brand new 545i demonstrator for a few days / weeks while they fixed the latest gremlin.
Eventually, though, it was going in every couple of weeks with electrical problems. BMW then announced that the only option was to replace the entire engine loom.
It was in for three weeks while I drove around in a 740i with 500 miles on the clock.
Eventually got it back and I was chatting to the service rep (who was almost my best mate by then) and I asked how much it would have cost a normal punter. He said the loom was supplied at cost which was £3k from BMW and then there was 150 hours to replace it. Doubted I'd have got change out of £10k if I had paid "privately".
The good news is that it sorted the electrical gremlins out. I sold the car a few months later for £2.5k - the warranty was not transferrable.
Anyways - looking at what Rich had to go through with the loom on a mini/toyota, I'm not surprised at the £10k estimate to replace it on a beemer.
(brilliant car that beemer - even better warranty!)
Plus, every time it was in the shop the warranty required that the dealer put me in a current model of equal stature, so I'd tool around in a brand new 545i demonstrator for a few days / weeks while they fixed the latest gremlin.
Eventually, though, it was going in every couple of weeks with electrical problems. BMW then announced that the only option was to replace the entire engine loom.
It was in for three weeks while I drove around in a 740i with 500 miles on the clock.
Eventually got it back and I was chatting to the service rep (who was almost my best mate by then) and I asked how much it would have cost a normal punter. He said the loom was supplied at cost which was £3k from BMW and then there was 150 hours to replace it. Doubted I'd have got change out of £10k if I had paid "privately".
The good news is that it sorted the electrical gremlins out. I sold the car a few months later for £2.5k - the warranty was not transferrable.
Anyways - looking at what Rich had to go through with the loom on a mini/toyota, I'm not surprised at the £10k estimate to replace it on a beemer.
(brilliant car that beemer - even better warranty!)
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will cheak out a few more over the days thanksDefo not that haha, that's a sore subject
Just servicing my little pressure washer that I got from someone on here.
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Ive done a couple of loom transplants, its easy to end up in wiring hell
Many moons ago my friend and I both wanted to transplant Corsa engines into our Nova's, we hit on the idea of putting the full loom in the car.
I stripped the corsa loom and the nova loom and basically made the bits I wanted work, with a few modern upgrades such as the mpg display and integrated alarm, my friend forced the full, unmodified corsa loom into his nova, chopped plugs off and generally made a mess of it.
Suffice to say mine took far longer but I had a gremlin free car and learned a hell of a lot
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I wonder how many man hours, not to mention the price of bits, have gone into it...
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Unlikely.
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They might, Acorn to Arabella did a breakdown of their costs a little while ago, the logic was as it's funded by Patreon, it's only fair to tell the viewers where their money's going.
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Signed back up to patreon just to see that - monumental achievement after all that hard work!
My mind just continues to be boggled that they can make sense of everything that's needed, and in what order. In the previous episode there was something about heater cables having to go in otherwise after they fitted the next part there would be no way to do the heater cables up. How do they keep track of all of that? I have a faint recollection of some massive spreadsheet - whatever it is, it's as amazing a display of project management as it is engineering!
My mind just continues to be boggled that they can make sense of everything that's needed, and in what order. In the previous episode there was something about heater cables having to go in otherwise after they fitted the next part there would be no way to do the heater cables up. How do they keep track of all of that? I have a faint recollection of some massive spreadsheet - whatever it is, it's as amazing a display of project management as it is engineering!
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The engine runs !
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Maybe they did, but with a huge edit
