Chris - possible tip for you - When you are joining wires (like at around the 2/3min mark) if you have enough length, stagger the cuts so the joints are spread out and are not as bulky when you come to put them back into the sheathing.
Yep I was going to post the same thing thats the way I was taught, especially when repairing 306 door looms with around 26 wires & all black & having to go by wire numbers
Greatest respect to Chris but I actually posted the same thing on a previous video many months ago. I've actually been a qualified cable jointer and you definitely stagger the joints which not only makes a nice slim repair but also removes any chance of the solder joints possibly shorting together even with the heat shrink as they are all jointed around 1cm apart.
@@GARAGESXERO solder joints are more brittle and fatigue more easily than a small crimp (OEMs don't use the massive barrel crimps you get in Halfords...) Solder tends to wick up the wire so can create weaker brittle areas beyond the repair area. In reality, if your soldering is super neat and you use enough strain relief (i.e. heatshrink and loom wrap) solder will probably be okay.
It genuinely makes me so happy watching the progress of these cars... When they start for the first time and you take them out, it's so awesome . You guys make thousands of folk really happy each week, what a job you have! Big love from Essex!
As a sparky I always cut and join in different length as it makes easier getting in the conduit and stops the touching if a solder point pierced the heat shrink, nice repair on the mini 👍
Red, white and blue very patriotic! My wife was asking about Chris's thumb nail varnish design where he got it done 😂 On a serious note that bonnet transformation was brilliant. 👍
Can I give you a small tip. You need to put something over the windscreen when you use a grinder I use a thick piece of cardboard. The time I didn't I had sparks weld themselves to the glass and wrecked the window
When Chris started to pull the bonnet arch, I thought “damn, it’s not coming out”..I think I might have given up at that point but Chris got it sorted, as usual! (I apologise for doubting “the master”……) 😊👍💪
Chris, when splicing your cables you can get a Heatshrink Butt splice that has the Solder within the splice and when heated it solders the wires and creates a Hemetically sealed connection, good bit of kit.
Bit of a tip Chris. If you are splicing multiple wires together. Cut them all at different lengths. The joints are a bit easier to get inside the loom tape and have less chance of rubbing together and causing a future short circuit.
Wow fixing those wires on the loom is so fiddly, I can see why no one likes doing it. You chaps work so damn hard, you are amazing! Always enjoy your videos, thanks!
Oh forgot to mention...Our lass is now addicted to SRUK...&...even comments how Professional & Consciousness you are...&....she,s NOT easily impressed...so Well done lads.... 👏 👍
It's a little 1.5 turbo buts it's a single turbo with twin scrolls so she should be quite a nippy little thing ,also I could watch Chris doing bodywork all day as he makes it look easy 😉
Hi guys, have been watching but very busy love your videos, and you two could fall into a skip of pooh and come out smelling of roses. Another great video.
Rob and chris- i find it fascinating that something like does not fase you in anyway- it is brilliant the way you guys bolt these massive jigsaws back together with ease- keep up the good work,brilliant viewing.I have to go into hospital next week for major surgery and I hope whilst I'm in there your videos will help my recovery.
I know you're both really busy but any chance one day Chris could do a video explaining the basics on things like soldering welding filling he is a such a clever man and people who don't know how to do these things would probably appreciate it as I think it's things that are easy and everyone can do with a little bit of know how
Watching Chris do the dent pulling on time lapse was brilliant! Seeing it come back to the right shape before your very eyes. Chris, you are a master 👍
I love the idea of a three day turn round with some of these crash damaged cars! The pace of sourcing good second hand parts and reconstructing sometimes fairly new modern cars is quite exciting (as well as miraculous!) well done both, “the best recyclers in the business!”😊👍
Chris was thrilled when you pointed out the full tank of petrol! (He had that “I’ve just found a pound coin under the driver’s seat” Cheshire Cat smile on his face ha ha!) loving it lads, loving it…..🥰
Hiya Rob & Chris you know what I love about your garage is it’s always clean and we lit hats of to you doing all that work And still keeping things very tidy 👌
This was a real Mess when it came in. In double quick time, stripped, parts sourced, Lady Luck and Chris’s considerable skills and she is back on the road. Great content, lot of things happening 👍🇬🇧😎
Chris is a panel master, this car has come along so well. Looking forward to final and numbers. Thanks guys for continuing to entertain and be a wealth of knowledge…..
When joining wires together in the loom it’s best to stagger the positions of the joins so that all the lumps in the joint don’t all appear in the same place in the loom otherwise there’s a chance they could squeeze through the heat shrink and cause a short circuit?
Soldering tips you may find helpful when joining such looms or wires. Cut cables at different lengths so no bunching when taping up and less chance of shorts in future if any vibration as joins are at different places among the loom. Use a no clean flux, this will help wet the solder into copper strands and travel along strands cleanly without solder blobs. For heavier cables in possible damp places use glue lined heat shrink tubing and seal the soldered joint with hot glue before slipping the tube over and heating. With practice can make a totally waterproof join. Hope makes sense. 👌✌️👍🇬🇧
As only quite a recent sub to your channel I've been watching a few of your older uploads and it seems Chris has come right out of his shell. You never really heard his voice much or seen him for long periods in the videos. Fair play to you mate 👍. Looking forward to seeing this one back on the road lads .....
Always love to see Chris sorting those dents out - a craftsman at work! This one was in a state when it arrived and can't believe how quickly its gone back together, you dropped lucky on the parts but you maximised your advantage👍
that bonnet looked a bit of a bugger to fix, now you know why it was originally replaced i'm with chris on the wiring repair, every repair stiffens the harness, if you staggered them on short sensor harnesses, the harness would loose flexibility all the way along, leading to breakage at either end. leave the stagger for fixed body harnesses that don't move/vibrate keep up the good work chaps
Well done guy's , 👏 yes this little mini , has come together , very well & quickly , you have been fortunate to be able to find all the bit's so soon , very well done ," captain fantastic " , strikes again !!! .
I, like many others here, would always try to stagger the joins on any electrical repair. Great chanel, love watching you work, now I've gotten too old and fragile to be able to do this sort of thing myself.
Thanks Rob this was a very interesting rebuild. So good also to have the naturally reticent Chris explain the detail of reshaping the sheetmetal damage and reasons why he was doing certain things. A mixture of the technical and artistic. Well done guys! Philip 🇳🇿
Top work as usual guys. I was amazed to see Chris twisting the wires together before soldering, it goes against all the advice you hear, but it's exactly how I've always done it as well. It just makes more sense to me than holding them flush. I don't think I've seen anyone else do it like that either so it was nice to see. It's the little things like that which show how good you guys really are.
Same here - make a mechanical joint first then solder it. I always cringe when I see people laying wires side-by-side then trying to solder them neatly.
Those Union-Jack tail lights also appear in New Zealand 🇳🇿 models as well, I gather there are many models with the BMW range of Mini's, well done 👏 with the refurb of the driving School red mini Chris & Rob 👌👍🍻🌎💚
Just a little tip for Chris. Stagger your soldered joints so you don't get bulging under the conduit and makes a neater job or even better if replacing just the multiplug just depopulate the terminals from the plug and poke them in to the new plug, it's much quicker and no need to solder
great work fellas. I had to mention to Chris that i have a pair of those claw type wire strippers from my old dad who had them in the 1940s when he was a Jag/ Austin mechanic in Bathurst. Even though they've done more stripping than a 2 dollar hooker they still work fine and the adjuster screw still works too. Small things i know but its great to see things like this on the tube. Looking forward to the finished product..
Outstanding job on the Mini Cooper. The car has really come along way. You’ve cracked on with this one. You’ve sourced all the parts you need for it and getting them fitted back on the car. Huge shoutout to Chris for pulling that nasty dent out that bonnet amazing work mate you have made a great job of it. Keeps it up lads. See you on Friday.
Hello Rob and Chris, 4:50 Thousands watching as Chris solders up those wires.. no commentary..no music.. just a skilled man concentrating.. Cordialement,
Hi guys loving the videos especially when ;Chris showed his welder i used to live just along the road from ESAB beachings way and walk past there on my way to school every day I now live in Cardiff I’m just saying that brought back lots of happy memories keep up the good work Rob
To all subscribers of this Channel if you can not get enough of Rob and Chris go back and Watch the old episodes so much to enjoy great work too you both Rob and Chris I have watch and laughed 😂 and enjoy always look forward to next episode 🫶👏👏👏
I dare say a bit of fettling with the prep work get it in your booth and paint it save you forking out good money for the paint shop and eating into your profits at the end. But fair play boys u have smashed it again .
Cor, you fellas are good at this stuff! You've pulled that back together and no mistake. Looking forward to the last one, knocking this on the head. Love Chris's mechanic's black thumbnail - probs from all that dolly work, lol.🤣🤣
This one is going together much better than many, you have the momentum, and I can see why you want to keep rolling. It should be a lovely, easy, rapid turn round case for the business. Damaged vehicle in, a bundle 0f replacement parts and a touch of Chris body work magic and success should be knocking your door shortly, an excellent job from start to finish.
Chris - possible tip for you - When you are joining wires (like at around the 2/3min mark) if you have enough length, stagger the cuts so the joints are spread out and are not as bulky when you come to put them back into the sheathing.
Yep I was going to post the same thing thats the way I was taught, especially when repairing 306 door looms with around 26 wires & all black & having to go by wire numbers
Absolutely. And if going for an OEM repair you should really be crimping and not soldering.
Greatest respect to Chris but I actually posted the same thing on a previous video many months ago. I've actually been a qualified cable jointer and you definitely stagger the joints which not only makes a nice slim repair but also removes any chance of the solder joints possibly shorting together even with the heat shrink as they are all jointed around 1cm apart.
@@amstrange1 hi why is this ??
@@GARAGESXERO solder joints are more brittle and fatigue more easily than a small crimp (OEMs don't use the massive barrel crimps you get in Halfords...) Solder tends to wick up the wire so can create weaker brittle areas beyond the repair area. In reality, if your soldering is super neat and you use enough strain relief (i.e. heatshrink and loom wrap) solder will probably be okay.
The thing is, Chris works so fast you need the music to know when it’s time lapse and when it isn’t!
It genuinely makes me so happy watching the progress of these cars... When they start for the first time and you take them out, it's so awesome . You guys make thousands of folk really happy each week, what a job you have! Big love from Essex!
Some may find watching Chris solder wires less than interesting. But to me, jobs like these are classic Salvage Rebuild moments!
I love the way Chris has become more confident on camera, he’s discharging his knowledge and lots of useful tips for idiots like me
Still surprised the airbags didn't go off after the crash. Cracking job lads....as usual 👍
As a sparky I always cut and join in different length as it makes easier getting in the conduit and stops the touching if a solder point pierced the heat shrink, nice repair on the mini 👍
Soldering and sleeving joints.....takes me back 35 years to my days at BT as a Telephone Engineer!
Red, white and blue very patriotic! My wife was asking about Chris's thumb nail varnish design where he got it done 😂 On a serious note that bonnet transformation was brilliant. 👍
I absolutely love these mini’s I own one myself it’s awesome to drive mine is automatic in white silver with midnight black roof
You be surprised how fast they are good work to you both 🤓💯👍
I'm amazed at both your mechanical and electrical knowledge, well done 👍🏾
Can I give you a small tip.
You need to put something over the windscreen when you use a grinder I use a thick piece of cardboard.
The time I didn't I had sparks weld themselves to the glass and wrecked the window
When Chris started to pull the bonnet arch, I thought “damn, it’s not coming out”..I think I might have given up at that point but Chris got it sorted, as usual! (I apologise for doubting “the master”……) 😊👍💪
Chris, when splicing your cables you can get a Heatshrink Butt splice that has the Solder within the splice and when heated it solders the wires and creates a Hemetically sealed connection, good bit of kit.
Bit of a tip Chris. If you are splicing multiple wires together. Cut them all at different lengths. The joints are a bit easier to get inside the loom tape and have less chance of rubbing together and causing a future short circuit.
You can see how much Chris is a perfectionist, with the way he did that wire.then Bonnett.well done Chris.
Wow fixing those wires on the loom is so fiddly, I can see why no one likes doing it. You chaps work so damn hard, you are amazing! Always enjoy your videos, thanks!
*Tickle off with grinder* I'm getting a t-shirt with that on 😂
Nice work. Chris, have you ever tried "tinning" the wires? Makes a neat, strong soldered joint. Not trying to tell you what to do ok. 👍🏼
That white and blue front end actually looks alright as a two tone.
Nice solder job, but if you stagger the joints, the repair takes up less space in the loom.
So so nice putting all those disparate lil bits onto each other...
You fellas are the best...
I love how Chris is showing us and telling us how he is doing it. Great content
Oh forgot to mention...Our lass is now addicted to SRUK...&...even comments how Professional & Consciousness you are...&....she,s NOT easily impressed...so Well done lads.... 👏 👍
Hi guys and welcome back to our favourite channel
It's a little 1.5 turbo buts it's a single turbo with twin scrolls so she should be quite a nippy little thing ,also I could watch Chris doing bodywork all day as he makes it look easy 😉
Hi guys, have been watching but very busy love your videos, and you two could fall into a skip of pooh and come out smelling of roses. Another
great video.
Two talented lads all the best from an English OAP Living in n/ Ireland
Rob and chris- i find it fascinating that something like does not fase you in anyway- it is brilliant the way you guys bolt these massive jigsaws back together with ease- keep up the good work,brilliant viewing.I have to go into hospital next week for major surgery and I hope whilst I'm in there your videos will help my recovery.
Hands like a surgeon Chris!🖐🖐
Chris is magic on bodywork repair you can tell how he can just feel the panel
chris is like car surgen do any thing like your self as well rob great duo
I know you're both really busy but any chance one day Chris could do a video explaining the basics on things like soldering welding filling he is a such a clever man and people who don't know how to do these things would probably appreciate it as I think it's things that are easy and everyone can do with a little bit of know how
Watching Chris do the dent pulling on time lapse was brilliant! Seeing it come back to the right shape before your very eyes. Chris, you are a master 👍
All coming together nicely.
I love the idea of a three day turn round with some of these crash damaged cars! The pace of sourcing good second hand parts and reconstructing sometimes fairly new modern cars is quite exciting (as well as miraculous!) well done both, “the best recyclers in the business!”😊👍
Chris was thrilled when you pointed out the full tank of petrol! (He had that “I’ve just found a pound coin under the driver’s seat” Cheshire Cat smile on his face ha ha!) loving it lads, loving it…..🥰
Hiya Rob & Chris you know what I love about your garage is it’s always clean and we lit hats of to you doing all that work
And still keeping things very tidy 👌
This was a real
Mess when it came in. In double quick time, stripped, parts sourced, Lady Luck and Chris’s considerable skills and she is back on the road. Great content, lot of things happening 👍🇬🇧😎
Chris is a panel master, this car has come along so well. Looking forward to final and numbers. Thanks guys for continuing to entertain and be a wealth of knowledge…..
He is good at spraying also, so don't know why he doesn't do the lot? He does the hardest part and that's the preparation 👍
When joining wires together in the loom it’s best to stagger the positions of the joins so that all the lumps in the joint don’t all appear in the same place in the loom otherwise there’s a chance they could squeeze through the heat shrink and cause a short circuit?
Really great to have Chris recomend a local business . I know you both support local trade as much as possible.
Peace and love ✌️ 🧡
Soldering tips you may find helpful when joining such looms or wires. Cut cables at different lengths so no bunching when taping up and less chance of shorts in future if any vibration as joins are at different places among the loom. Use a no clean flux, this will help wet the solder into copper strands and travel along strands cleanly without solder blobs. For heavier cables in possible damp places use glue lined heat shrink tubing and seal the soldered joint with hot glue before slipping the tube over and heating. With practice can make a totally waterproof join. Hope makes sense. 👌✌️👍🇬🇧
He was using flux and the joints had to be bunches as it’s a flexing wire 👍
As only quite a recent sub to your channel I've been watching a few of your older uploads and it seems Chris has come right out of his shell. You never really heard his voice much or seen him for long periods in the videos. Fair play to you mate 👍.
Looking forward to seeing this one back on the road lads .....
Nice one Rob and Chris 👍👍👍
Always love to see Chris sorting those dents out - a craftsman at work! This one was in a state when it arrived and can't believe how quickly its gone back together, you dropped lucky on the parts but you maximised your advantage👍
that bonnet looked a bit of a bugger to fix, now you know why it was originally replaced
i'm with chris on the wiring repair, every repair stiffens the harness, if you staggered them on short sensor harnesses, the harness would loose flexibility all the way along, leading to breakage at either end. leave the stagger for fixed body harnesses that don't move/vibrate
keep up the good work chaps
Well done guy's , 👏 yes this little mini , has come together , very well & quickly , you have been fortunate to be able to find all the bit's so soon , very well done ," captain fantastic " , strikes again !!! .
You've both done great job putting that wee Mini back together and getting her up and running again.
Well done Lads. 👍
It's coming back together nicely 👌
I, like many others here, would always try to stagger the joins on any electrical repair. Great chanel, love watching you work, now I've gotten too old and fragile to be able to do this sort of thing myself.
Lovin the progress of this little car .. well done guys
Thanks Rob this was a very interesting rebuild. So good also to have the naturally reticent Chris explain the detail of reshaping the sheetmetal damage and reasons why he was doing certain things. A mixture of the technical and artistic. Well done guys! Philip 🇳🇿
Wow the work Chris did on repairing the bonnet was top end. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic progress on this little project!!!
Well done guys ,you ve worked hard on this and it shows !!!
Back with the background Tunes 🤙🏽
Top work as usual guys. I was amazed to see Chris twisting the wires together before soldering, it goes against all the advice you hear, but it's exactly how I've always done it as well. It just makes more sense to me than holding them flush. I don't think I've seen anyone else do it like that either so it was nice to see. It's the little things like that which show how good you guys really are.
Same here - make a mechanical joint first then solder it. I always cringe when I see people laying wires side-by-side then trying to solder them neatly.
Rob doesn't trust Chris's driving, with him hiding behind the fence!! 🤣
Those Union-Jack tail lights also appear in New Zealand 🇳🇿 models as well, I gather there are many models with the BMW range of Mini's, well done 👏 with the refurb of the driving School red mini Chris & Rob 👌👍🍻🌎💚
Enjoying watching your RUclips channel from sunny Cyprus 🌞😎🍻
Salvage rebuilds,V mangled mini,.
' Who dares wins'.
Another enjoyable video, many thanks, from New Zealand.
Like seeing a surgeon at work.
Chris is a next level talent the man can put his hands to anything
Just a little tip for Chris. Stagger your soldered joints so you don't get bulging under the conduit and makes a neater job or even better if replacing just the multiplug just depopulate the terminals from the plug and poke them in to the new plug, it's much quicker and no need to solder
great work fellas. I had to mention to Chris that i have a pair of those claw type wire strippers from my old dad who had them in the 1940s when he was a Jag/ Austin mechanic in Bathurst. Even though they've done more stripping than a 2 dollar hooker they still work fine and the adjuster screw still works too. Small things i know but its great to see things like this on the tube. Looking forward to the finished product..
Mention to Chris ?
This two chillie rebuild has now become a sorbet course awesome lads .
My missis bought one of those little blow torches to brown of her cakes but I nicked it and now it resides in my toolbox 😉
Hi Rob and Chris yet again thank you for a great video. And thankyou for keeping things going on the channel at this sad time take care both 😌
Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Outstanding job on the Mini Cooper. The car has really come along way. You’ve cracked on with this one. You’ve sourced all the parts you need for it and getting them fitted back on the car. Huge shoutout to Chris for pulling that nasty dent out that bonnet amazing work mate you have made a great job of it. Keeps it up lads. See you on Friday.
Hello Rob and Chris,
4:50 Thousands watching as Chris solders up those wires.. no commentary..no music.. just a skilled man concentrating..
Cordialement,
Hi guys loving the videos especially when ;Chris showed his welder i used to live just along the road from ESAB beachings way and walk past there on my way to school every day I now live in Cardiff I’m just saying that brought back lots of happy memories keep up the good work
Rob
I do look forward to my 3 day fix , you both never fail to amaze me.
Chris is a machine, he’s a different class
Always happy to see a new video, repairing vehicles properly and selling them honestly. Top blokes!
Won't be long till you have that oil drip feed log fire stoked up keeping you both toasty warm
To all subscribers of this Channel if you can not get enough of Rob and Chris go back and Watch the old episodes so much to enjoy great work too you both Rob and Chris I have watch and laughed 😂 and enjoy always look forward to next episode 🫶👏👏👏
Loved the welding Chris, I could watch you do bodywork all day 👍🏻
Can't for the life of me understand why a lot of vehicles these days do not have a dipstick?
Great video again lads 👍
I dare say a bit of fettling with the prep work get it in your booth and paint it save you forking out good money for the paint shop and eating into your profits at the end. But fair play boys u have smashed it again .
thankyou gentlemen,,
looking forward to part 4 and crunching the numbers as there was so many parts...👌👌
Nice mini once painted 🎨 great job once again guy's 👍
Great progress. That bonnet took some work and skill to get back into shape
To think Chris didn`t even like being on camera not all that long ago. Great progression, great vids. Keep them coming please....
Hi Rob & Chris that mini is come a long way very quickly. Well done. Keith.
Cor, you fellas are good at this stuff! You've pulled that back together and no mistake. Looking forward to the last one, knocking this on the head. Love Chris's mechanic's black thumbnail - probs from all that dolly work, lol.🤣🤣
Nice video, boys. Lots of really hard work. Thanks again.
Really enjoying the basically back to back videos, fresh in my mind as to how the project is coming along, top stuff.
Nice touch mentioning the welder supplier Chris. One thing for sure is that level of service is rare these days. 👍
That Mini.Cooper looks spectacular and now that it is ruining
Well lads how apt is this video for today with the patriotic Red White and Blue colours on the minis body panels 👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 great work boys 👍
always had a soft spot for a mini glad you have brought it back to life. 😎😎
Really enjoy watching Chris doing the bodywork repairs. Great video as always
Nice little turn around lads... winner winner chicken dinner !!!
Nice motor saved will make someone very happy.👍👍👍
Another big 👍 from me guys, keep working like this and you'll be TV soon before you know it.
Good work again keep it up paddy in high Wycombe 🤓💯👍
Great to see the wee.mini up and driving.Rob and Chris as usual great job..It should make someone a great little car when it's finished..
Coming together nicely, good work gentlemen, from the dash cam you would have thought it was a very serious rebuild.
Favourite time of the day!!!!
This one is going together much better than many, you have the momentum, and I can see why you want to keep rolling. It should be a lovely, easy, rapid turn round case for the business. Damaged vehicle in, a bundle 0f replacement parts and a touch of Chris body work magic and success should be knocking your door shortly, an excellent job from start to finish.