As a man of near 60, seeing you work thru a problem like we do is lovely and rerfeshing to see. Well done that man, you're a credit to your industry and yourself.
I once had an Audi Q8, bought new, and at some point when it was four or five years old the driver’s seat fuse used to blow. It was one of those slow-blow ones that I swapped out myself until service time. I asked the main dealer at Swansea to look at it during a service and according to them “our Master Technician has looked at it and diagnosed two burnt out non-replaceable seat motors but since you are such a good customer we’ll do you a good deal on a new seat at £1000 plus fitting plus VAT, call it £1400”. My local mechanic sorted it permanently with insulating tape and an hour of labour. So is the whole dealership corrupt or just a lazy or incompetent ‘master technician?’ They obviously thought I’d come down with the last shower. Never gave them a chance again and warn everyone of my experience if they ask.
Main dealers never seem to repair at component level. Their technicians are simply trained to replace faulty components with new ones to restore the car to "as new" specification. Since most electrical components are made by outside suppliers, I doubt if anybody in the manufacturer / dealer chain actually has the training to repair them. Non-replaceable simply means that the seat frame manufacturer only supplies complete built units, so the motors are not available for the dealer to order as a spare part. Most replacement jobs have a labour time allocated, so the dealer can give a firm price for parts and labour and allocate workshop time. Smaller workshops are more relaxed and willing to "have a look" and their labour rates are much lower, so the time taken is less relevant.
@@tollerdogz They are fitters not mechanics. Different skill level entirely. As for the bozo that allegedly looked at my seat, calling him a ‘technician’ is against honest trade description.
You need to remember that Dealerships have a 1st time fix policy and carrying out sketchy repairs that may fault again in the near future can not be done. They have Audi audit standards to meet and also they get bonuses if the return to workshop figures are low. Hope this helps.
@@skylinegtsrockyou know it , meddling with electrical components is fine until the pile of 💩 goes up in flames and the daft clunge would be crying then the Audi dealer bodged my chair up,and the fkr caught 🔥 Knoba 🤣
@@skylinegtsrock Absolute rubbish. In my case they were totally corrupt and not for the first time. They always, without exception, tried to upsell pads, rotors and wiper blades when these would easily last till the next 15,000 mile service. I have NOT dropped with the last shower of rain. I have worked at dealerships and know what the worse ones are up to. The service department are under pressure to maximise their profit every way they can, by fair or fowl means. They are now usually targeted to raise as much as 35% of the depot’s profit margin from a service department that must have competitive menu services that only see a car normally outside warranty every 15,000 miles or so if they are lucky.
Spot on old school workmanship someone who actually repairs rather than replacing costly parts refreshing to see in this throw away environment we live in now 👌
Well done mate, not many would have made that relay repair. This repair should give you plenty of work. Which you deserve, once the word gets around, that you supply good work and can be trusted.ps. Good to hear the Glasgow accent 👍
Lovely to see a genuine honest mechanic. I had an omission alert on my car, it ran like a bag of shite, misfiring on start up, ran for approx 100 metres before it would run smoothly. Only 63k on the clock. Took it to 3 garages, last one said the fault was the injectors...replaced those, fault still in place, took it back...was told it was the hydraulic lifters...replaced those...still had the fault and a £800 bill! I gave up and decided to live with it. MOT time came around, sat in the waiting room hoping it would pass. Tester came for a chat saying he'd had problems getting it to pass the emissions test but had persevered till it did and the reason he got it to pass was to 'tinker' with a sensor on the exhaust system. Turns out the sensor was fecked and the reason for the fault. Booked it in the next day, sensor replaced...fault fixed. £108 bill. I'm left with a once quiet engine that now sounds like the entire cast of riverdance are tapping away under the bonnet. 😢
It's because most mechanics do not know HOW to test components before replacing and instead start replacing random parts. I tend to do the diagnostics on my own car, then drop it off at the garage with a box of the correct parts. Had one garage telling me the fuel pump needed replacing (£1500)... even though the diagnostics showed it was a crank sensor at £15 and 1/2 hour labour.
Not an automotive engineer but loved tracing faults on big industrial burner, pumps, controls and warm air heaters. The ability to use a multimeter in all of its function is essential. Were too many part swappers hoping to eventually find the fault. Nice work young man! Greetings from Cyprus! 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾👍
Just found you, you are a young version of me, the stories I could tell you would take forever and none of us has that amount of time, I'll only say I am VW Audi trained, 75 years old and trained form the very start of computer diagnostics, love what you are doing and urge you to keep up to date, you have the capability and enthusiasm, if I was your age I would be doing exactly what you are doing now, very best of luck, Stewart.
Too many bloody sensors on everything nowadays. Overkill just for manufacturers and garages to make money out of drivers. They have the Apple mentality. Make it near impossible for the average consumer to fix without specialist equipment. Thank goodness for honest techs like this guy.
Great stuff Ryan.. I absolutely agree with you that it's become a throw-away culture. I have seen the same thing happen in the guitar amplifier business where the manufacturers have designed the amps using a lot of SMC's that are, as you'll know, difficult to diagnose and need special tools & equipment to remove and replace successfully. A lot of amp techs wont touch them and these amps end up in the recycling centre with one blown resistor or capacitor. Net Zero ? ? Hypocrisy personified.
Superb as always mate! The module repairs and manually reprogramming them with the module in the back of the van is always class and you don’t see too many other people doing it on RUclips. The more detail the better. No doubt the channel will get to where it deserves to be 👍
If you watch Wheeler Dealers, Mike Brewer is quite often finding small companies who can repair units like this for pennies compared to the dealers charging through the nose. He quite often recommends using these small firms. He even found a TV repair man to repair an electronic component in one episode. So good on you for taking the time to do these types of repair. Totally justified.
Great to see some integrity in the modern world. We're in the times of throwaway parts while saying we should be kind to the planet. I'm sure you could make more money going the easy route but your life will be more fulfilling doing what you're doing. Bravo, made my day watching that video. Subscribed for more.
I reckon you must be a disciple of Diagnose Dan or vice versa. Really enjoyed the video as always great to see a craftsman at work. Saved that lady a fortune with your patient and knowledgeable approach to the issue.
Hope you can feel me patting you on the back, wish there were more people like you out there doing a good repair at the correct price. You saved the lady a fortune, but not only that, you showed that cars can be fixed at a fraction of the retailer's repair cost. Honesty will keep you busy for a long time, good luck with all you do, and i have subscribed. Thank you.
Component level repair on a circuit board? That requires skill that contemporary dealership service don’t have. Extraordinary, on what was more common 50 years ago that would save consumers a lot of money. I thought this was a lost art. Well done.
Anymore most mechanics are just assemblers, buy a new module and plug and play. Your efforts actually finding the exact problem could help manufacturers source better relays, hopefully they know the source of the relay had a quality control problem. Without question definitely worth the effort. Just so nice to watch you work.
Glad to see someone, who's very cleaver at his job but, who also, not only save money for his customer, but also saves the environment for the cost of making a complete new part.👍👍👍 💪💪
Some cars have test you can do which is accessed by performing a designatedsequence of buttons in the car or elsewhere. The tests are usually easy and require no tools or removing anything. Nissan has one for a power Module which is accessed through turing the ignition to On position (don't start the car) then opening the driver side door and pressing the door swithch ten times then turing the ignition to the off position and on again (don't start the car). The module will then cycle through with beep of the horn and then wipers moving then lights flashing and then engine fan operating. This test is the Intelligent Power Distribution module test - IPDM test. You can hear the relays operating. If you have problem such as wipers failing it stops at that failed module and you then know which one it is. You can then disconnect the actual failing component and replace it. On my car it was the dirty contacts in the wiper motor which I removed and cleaned with electical spray and it is now operating fine avoiding a $346 charge for new one. .
I really enjoy this type of content. A couple of suggestions and again please remember they are suggestions. Invest in a mic. The audio is kind of hard to make out, especially for an american that has a difficult time with your accent. Love the accent but just a little hard to decipher for us Americans sometimes. Maybe we are not your intended audience? if so then I apologize. It's a lot easier to understand when you were close to the mic. Keep up the great work!!
That relay shouldn't have cost more than a tenner though, but well done, I didn't think a car technician would even think of repairing something like that these days.
You are a godsend to the public! proud of you my man sticking it to those greedy dealerships. also the thing is the fact you replaced the module with better relay chips means the customer wont need to worry about his reoccuring.
wow seen your van in Thornliebank today but in my wifes car car was telling them ...lol but their answer to me telling them was what are you like next to the tan place ..wow was so amazed to see you great work
Spot on mate, definitely worth repairing the bcm, no point lining the pockets of the dealer for a part that should never have failed ! Top job that saved the customer a shit load of money and a nice chunk of job satisfaction.
Hopefully saved the customer big money and added to your experience and skill set. Lots of motor mechanics are keen to have an easy life and just replace rather than actually repair, great to see a young technician not afraid to experiment and improvise.
Great channel ! Very good informative and a delight to view. TBH had to go back at times understand your Irish? accent. Your truck is just awesome hats off to you, you are a true 21st Century mechanic. Have a great holiday mate.
Your a man after my own heart after fifty five years in plant maintenance as an industrial electrician for an apprentice commencing 1963. Building Services, heating, cooling, air con plus plant repairs. Having that electrical knowledge was a winner especially when boilers from domestic to large steam raising boilers. I did save customers using your methodology which meant I could repair with one visit with a stock of components and stocking some electromechanical controllers. It wasn't legal under Corgi and Gas Safety regs. Gas and hot oil is instantly explosive, call combustion a controlled explosion to identify the closeness to a bomb. The alternative,
Are you going to disclose what you charged the owner of the Jeep. Would be nice to know the difference between yourself & dealers? Not any criticism here, I like your work and would rather deal with people like yourself.
Superb job you have done! Your customers must be very happy that you are saving them a fortune. You will never be out of work with the skills that you have!
You are to be admired. I for one detest the way we are going on this the wastage and cost is phenomenal. I worked in the electronics field before I retired. A friend chucked a 3 year old 50 inch smart TV my way which had sound but no picture. The quote was hundreds of pounds to fix. It cost me £2.50 for a single led for the lcd backlight and it was good to go. I also owned a Peugeot 207 which gave me absolute hell with its electronics and I virtually gave it away in the end as reliability was non existant. I could have done with you around then. I always said we needed electronic and computer experts over car mechanics to fix cars. ALL BUILT To FAIL. I was fascinated by seeing how they used loc tite on the screws. Unbelievable, and all this just to make a controlled explosion in a tiny little cylinder. ! WELL DONE.
Great to see you fixing the box rather than just box changing, when you know what you are doing do it . That customer is going to mighty impressed with the savings and will tell other folk and you are going to get busier and busier ;)
Been there, done that. One car got three new alternators and three new batteries in a month. I found the shorted electric door lock switch in 35 minutes. Pulled the fuse for $0.00 and got it back to reliably starting every morning. Another car got an estimate for over $1000. I fixed all three problems for $135. My favorite scam was Air conditioners. An insurance company would send a technician to condemn an air conditioner for a cost of $3000. I would replace a $200 part and charge the bargain price of $1500.
Always like a fix rather a swap that's how we learn. Question for you or anyone fault b3101 (no response from remote) believe it's BCM.would supplying 12v to power supply wire to the remote receiver be safe. Thanks
if only you'd been around some-years-ago you could have fixed our Console-Back-Light-Problem in S500 (it worked again shortly after battery-dis-connect) ...
I wish I'd watched this repair earlier, having given up and paid for a BCM on a 2017 Vivaro. I knew there was something I'd missed, overlooked, dismissed. And boy did it empty my pocket. Lesson well and truly learned.
It's good for the customer. My solar panel inverter relays stopped working, a company wanted £ 700 exchange, I thought stuff that so I stripped the inverter and changed the relays at a cost of £15.00.
Your skill set is excellent, what a great fix from your van. I suppose most garages would give up at the first hurdle getting stuck into a sealed BCM. well done indeed. If you look out for a pair of Japanese pliers. Fujiya Engineer's Screw Removal Pliers - 160mm it will make the job even easier.
I don’t know many tradesman that honest now. Good on you! Problem with your fix is the time it takes to fix meaning your on 1 job to long. But hey if it still pays Amazing. Subbed. Ok…… After thinking about what I said thus could actually be the best action, cause if you order part you’d have to come back… essentially saving time…. Good lad.
Quality video of really high class diagnosis and repair. Makes me sick when I see diagnosis by swapping components and modules. THINGS CAN BE FIXED EVEN TODAY - if you've got the brains to work it out. Well done sir ...
The build quality of modern vehicles is appalling. I try to steer clear of any vehicles built after 2005/6. To much 'stuff' you don't need , too many electrics,
My mothers Clio had an issue with an indicator not working. She took it to a garage and they said she needed a new light relay module costing €300. I took a look at it and I found the pins on the module had separated over time. A small screwdriver to push them back together and hey presto, the fault was fixed. Garages are rip off merchants.
Super job mate, yes your saving money for the customer, saving the environment, and your knowledge is fantastic and will keep growing happy daze mate great work.
Main dealers must be clowns or something like. I've just been quoted £496 by a dealer to what would be effectively replacing a suspension ball joint - seems the rubber cover on it has perished. Having a laugh or something? Too early to be April fool. I'll be popping into my local garage on Tuesday to see what they can do.
Great Job!! That repair would be almost 2k at the dealership by the time you add labour and programming. Ironically, I bet nobody in the dealership could diagnose that it's 5£ relays at fault anyways. Maybe get a stand for the phone 😊 Great videos keep doing what you're doing
It' was a great repair. Doing this talks you into many other jobs on a vehicle. I repair treadmills and I'm always honest and open with my customers and don't rip them off. It's definitely the attitude to have. Most people are sooooo greedy, chancers and hustlers It's people like you and me who make a difference. The dealers are just greedy ******** through and through. I repaired my Mercedes, all it needed was a turbo actuator. Three bolts and a circlip job done. Cost me £137 and the dealer would have charged thousands for a new actuator and turbo. Good for you man 🙏
Good on you , too often a mechanic or technician nowadays just won’t do that type of work , just opting to replace the entire module, usually leaving a customer seriously out of pocket .. not sure what you charged but I’m sure it was a hell of lot cheaper than the 1,000 plus labour cost the dealer would of charged 👏👏👏👏
Are those torx security screws with the pin in the center? My drivers door lock works off and on so I suspect its a fauly BCM and I will be replacing it soon. A new Mopar one is $300-400 in the US.
I have a q7, and one of my sensors on the brakes was cracked ,audi wanted 1300 pounds to replace another wanted 900 and eventually a smaller garage actually repaired it for 180 . Still going strong
Great job. You are on a level far above a garage fitter. The shocker is that the production cost for that bcm is probably between £15 and £30 and they want a £1000.
This is why going to dealerships is a con. When things fail under warranty they're great but such is the nature of things these days that nobody seems to have the wit or will to actually fix something. This is partly appalling upper management, and partly a lack of training I think. Better to charge the customer for a new one and replace it. Also the hourly rate in these places is INSANE. Nobody in the retailer would ever actually think to try and fix it.
It's called "planned obsolescence" - manufacturers intentionally making things uneconomical to repair so you're forced to buy a new one. A lot of techs wouldn't even try to repair a BCM even if they knew it was just a failed mechanical component just in case there was ALSO a failed electronic aspect that might make the repair attempt a failure. A lot of people just consider outrageous repair costs for minor things to be part and parcel of vehicle ownership, which is just a hiding to nowhere. It should not be this way.
Relays are finicky things. If you don't pass enough current through the contacts, it will oxidise... then burn. Too much current and it will burn. Omron does a good guide. Engineer should have specified two different types of relays (as all are the same, yet guaranteed differing currents will go through it) but I bet the accountants got there first, so same relay everywhere to save on cost.
How refreshing to see a young man with a good old traditional attitude of fixing something rather than throwing it in the bin which today's modern consumer society seems to have adopted as an acceptable approach. Every credit to you for your diligent and analytical approach to diagnosing the problem and then following through with a practical fix. My big beef is with the corporate approach by major manufacturers who clearly make components hard to access and repair and then charge extortionate amounts for replacements which are produced on assembly lines for a fraction of the cost. You ask if reparing rather than replacing was the right approach - absolutely! Well done and please keep up the good work and the highly informative and enlightening videos. Thank you!
The majority of mechanics are rip off artists using the same regurgatated blurb like we are "reliable" and "honest"..full of shite most of them...find a good mechanic and stick with them.
Repairing when you can seems the only way forwards It would be different if the BCM was £200.. what normal customer at the moment can afford £1000 bills out of nowhere on such a new car
Nice repair and great video! Don't you find it difficult working in gloves all the time? They are ok for big dirty stuff, but undoing connectors and soldering you lose so much feel for what you are doing? Or is it just me hates wearing them for fiddly stuff?!
Everything can be fixed but the UK is losing the engineers and hardly any youngsters want to study engineering because the wages are not good enough. Main dealers employ technicians and 1 mechanic (so called master tech). They use a laptop instead of knowledge and experience and the garage can charge you more. Electric cars are very modular so expect big repair costs everyone.
These days everything is thorwn away and replaced with new (which costs a lot of money as you are aware with this BCM) because not many people are capable of taking things apart and repairing them. Very well done, i would be very happy with that repair!
Excellent, well done with the repair. The amount of "throw new stuff at it till it's fixed" nowadays is disgusting and manufactures making repairs as difficult as possible so people have to go to the Stealers and get ripped off shows what a money obsessed world we live in.
Need someone like you around my way 😂 having a right old time with my Nissan Note 😂 I was thinking of scrapping it, but the prospect of my faults being such easy fixes is frustrating!
My 2 year old Jeep Renegade Trailhawk 4Xe broke down 2 months ago. Last week the dealer told me they need to replace the engine. I’m wondering now if this really necessary after watching this.
As a man of near 60, seeing you work thru a problem like we do is lovely and rerfeshing to see. Well done that man, you're a credit to your industry and yourself.
Perfect repair. Saved the lady a fortune. Well done.
I once had an Audi Q8, bought new, and at some point when it was four or five years old the driver’s seat fuse used to blow. It was one of those slow-blow ones that I swapped out myself until service time. I asked the main dealer at Swansea to look at it during a service and according to them “our Master Technician has looked at it and diagnosed two burnt out non-replaceable seat motors but since you are such a good customer we’ll do you a good deal on a new seat at £1000 plus fitting plus VAT, call it £1400”. My local mechanic sorted it permanently with insulating tape and an hour of labour. So is the whole dealership corrupt or just a lazy or incompetent ‘master technician?’ They obviously thought I’d come down with the last shower. Never gave them a chance again and warn everyone of my experience if they ask.
Main dealers never seem to repair at component level. Their technicians are simply trained to replace faulty components with new ones to restore the car to "as new" specification. Since most electrical components are made by outside suppliers, I doubt if anybody in the manufacturer / dealer chain actually has the training to repair them. Non-replaceable simply means that the seat frame manufacturer only supplies complete built units, so the motors are not available for the dealer to order as a spare part. Most replacement jobs have a labour time allocated, so the dealer can give a firm price for parts and labour and allocate workshop time.
Smaller workshops are more relaxed and willing to "have a look" and their labour rates are much lower, so the time taken is less relevant.
@@tollerdogz They are fitters not mechanics. Different skill level entirely. As for the bozo that allegedly looked at my seat, calling him a ‘technician’ is against honest trade description.
You need to remember that Dealerships have a 1st time fix policy and carrying out sketchy repairs that may fault again in the near future can not be done. They have Audi audit standards to meet and also they get bonuses if the return to workshop figures are low. Hope this helps.
@@skylinegtsrockyou know it , meddling with electrical components is fine until the pile of 💩 goes up in flames and the daft clunge would be crying then the Audi dealer bodged my chair up,and the fkr caught 🔥
Knoba 🤣
@@skylinegtsrock Absolute rubbish. In my case they were totally corrupt and not for the first time. They always, without exception, tried to upsell pads, rotors and wiper blades when these would easily last till the next 15,000 mile service. I have NOT dropped with the last shower of rain. I have worked at dealerships and know what the worse ones are up to. The service department are under pressure to maximise their profit every way they can, by fair or fowl means. They are now usually targeted to raise as much as 35% of the depot’s profit margin from a service department that must have competitive menu services that only see a car normally outside warranty every 15,000 miles or so if they are lucky.
Spot on old school workmanship someone who actually repairs rather than replacing costly parts refreshing to see in this throw away environment we live in now 👌
Totally agree , to easy for them to say its this and provide it at silly prices... Then you find it wasn't that was the fault lol costs u even more.
Well done mate, not many would have made that relay repair. This repair should give you plenty of work. Which you deserve, once the word gets around, that you supply good work and can be trusted.ps. Good to hear the Glasgow accent 👍
Lovely to see a genuine honest mechanic.
I had an omission alert on my car, it ran like a bag of shite, misfiring on start up, ran for approx 100 metres before it would run smoothly. Only 63k on the clock.
Took it to 3 garages, last one said the fault was the injectors...replaced those, fault still in place, took it back...was told it was the hydraulic lifters...replaced those...still had the fault and a £800 bill! I gave up and decided to live with it.
MOT time came around, sat in the waiting room hoping it would pass. Tester came for a chat saying he'd had problems getting it to pass the emissions test but had persevered till it did and the reason he got it to pass was to 'tinker' with a sensor on the exhaust system. Turns out the sensor was fecked and the reason for the fault. Booked it in the next day, sensor replaced...fault fixed. £108 bill.
I'm left with a once quiet engine that now sounds like the entire cast of riverdance are tapping away under the bonnet. 😢
It's because most mechanics do not know HOW to test components before replacing and instead start replacing random parts. I tend to do the diagnostics on my own car, then drop it off at the garage with a box of the correct parts. Had one garage telling me the fuel pump needed replacing (£1500)... even though the diagnostics showed it was a crank sensor at £15 and 1/2 hour labour.
Hardly any proper mechanics they are fitters just keep throwing other people money at the fault instead of isolating the problem
@@khalidacosta7133 Most mechanics are now just fitters and throwers.
Not an automotive engineer but loved tracing faults on big industrial burner, pumps, controls and warm air heaters. The ability to use a multimeter in all of its function is essential.
Were too many part swappers hoping to eventually find the fault. Nice work young man! Greetings from Cyprus! 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾👍
Apart from your diagnostic skills, I'm impressed that you can desolder and replace a bank of relays inside a van while it's pissing down outside |-)
Just found you, you are a young version of me, the stories I could tell you would take forever and none of us has that amount of time, I'll only say I am VW Audi trained, 75 years old and trained form the very start of computer diagnostics, love what you are doing and urge you to keep up to date, you have the capability and enthusiasm, if I was your age I would be doing exactly what you are doing now, very best of luck, Stewart.
Well done, saved customer a fortune plus you are an excellent mechanic/diagnostic wizard🎉
100 % repair.
The customer is lucky you have the skill to repair it.
Great repair ! Good to see someone actually using their head for a change !
Too many bloody sensors on everything nowadays. Overkill just for manufacturers and garages to make money out of drivers. They have the Apple mentality. Make it near impossible for the average consumer to fix without specialist equipment.
Thank goodness for honest techs like this guy.
wet belt engine every dealer knows the issue with it someone should be going to jail for this
Great stuff Ryan.. I absolutely agree with you that it's become a throw-away culture. I have seen the same thing happen in the guitar amplifier business where the manufacturers have designed the amps using a lot of SMC's that are, as you'll know, difficult to diagnose and need special tools & equipment to remove and replace successfully. A lot of amp techs wont touch them and these amps end up in the recycling centre with one blown resistor or capacitor. Net Zero ? ? Hypocrisy personified.
Superb as always mate! The module repairs and manually reprogramming them with the module in the back of the van is always class and you don’t see too many other people doing it on RUclips. The more detail the better. No doubt the channel will get to where it deserves to be 👍
If you watch Wheeler Dealers, Mike Brewer is quite often finding small companies who can repair units like this for pennies compared to the dealers charging through the nose. He quite often recommends using these small firms. He even found a TV repair man to repair an electronic component in one episode. So good on you for taking the time to do these types of repair. Totally justified.
One of my favorites shows!
OUTSTANDING ,,,,,,, GOOD WHEN YOU CAN HELP A CUSTOMER OUT AND BE PAID FOR THE WORK . LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE THANKS !!!!!!!!!👍🏽
Great to see some integrity in the modern world. We're in the times of throwaway parts while saying we should be kind to the planet. I'm sure you could make more money going the easy route but your life will be more fulfilling doing what you're doing. Bravo, made my day watching that video. Subscribed for more.
I reckon you must be a disciple of Diagnose Dan or vice versa. Really enjoyed the video as always great to see a craftsman at work. Saved that lady a fortune with your patient and knowledgeable approach to the issue.
I thought the same. Another very smart young man with a great setup in his van. Keep at it, you will have 500k before u know it
Loving your Channel Chap, honest guy who knows his stuff.
Long may you prosper.
Greetings from S Devon.
That was a good repair, it saved the customer money, you get job satisfaction from it and it makes a great video. Cheers
Hope you can feel me patting you on the back, wish there were more people like you out there doing a good repair at the correct price. You saved the lady a fortune, but not only that, you showed that cars can be fixed at a fraction of the retailer's repair cost. Honesty will keep you busy for a long time, good luck with all you do, and i have subscribed. Thank you.
Component level repair on a circuit board? That requires skill that contemporary dealership service don’t have. Extraordinary, on what was more common 50 years ago that would save consumers a lot of money. I thought this was a lost art. Well done.
Anymore most mechanics are just assemblers, buy a new module and plug and play. Your efforts actually finding the exact problem could help manufacturers source better relays, hopefully they know the source of the relay had a quality control problem. Without question definitely worth the effort. Just so nice to watch you work.
Great repair mate, my word you're a clever man
Glad to see someone, who's very cleaver at his job but, who also, not only save money for his customer, but also saves the environment for the cost of making a complete new part.👍👍👍 💪💪
I love the fact that you've got a whole rework bench in the back of the van!
Brilliant repair wish we had more machanics like you
Great repair and good knowledge on the 2 parts from different cars being the same. Keep it up bro good content
Some cars have test you can do which is accessed by performing a designatedsequence of buttons in the car or elsewhere.
The tests are usually easy and require no tools or removing anything.
Nissan has one for a power Module which is accessed through turing the ignition to On position (don't start the car) then opening the driver side door and pressing the door swithch ten times then turing the ignition to the off position and on again (don't start the car). The module will then cycle through with beep of the horn and then wipers moving then lights flashing and then engine fan operating. This test is the Intelligent Power Distribution module test - IPDM test. You can hear the relays operating. If you have problem such as wipers failing it stops at that failed module and you then know which one it is. You can then disconnect the actual failing component and replace it.
On my car it was the dirty contacts in the wiper motor which I removed and cleaned with electical spray and it is now operating fine avoiding a $346 charge for new one. .
I really enjoy this type of content. A couple of suggestions and again please remember they are suggestions. Invest in a mic. The audio is kind of hard to make out, especially for an american that has a difficult time with your accent. Love the accent but just a little hard to decipher for us Americans sometimes. Maybe we are not your intended audience? if so then I apologize. It's a lot easier to understand when you were close to the mic. Keep up the great work!!
That relay shouldn't have cost more than a tenner though, but well done, I didn't think a car technician would even think of repairing something like that these days.
Well done. A true craftsman. It’s been a pleasure watching you at work.
You are a godsend to the public! proud of you my man sticking it to those greedy dealerships. also the thing is the fact you replaced the module with better relay chips means the customer wont need to worry about his reoccuring.
dealership cant be assed to change a chip and would rather rip you of buying new parts at £1k etc a rip off
what do we think ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a job well done ,,,,,,,,,,,
Proper job. A true repair and refreshing to watch your skill 😊
wow seen your van in Thornliebank today but in my wifes car car was telling them ...lol but their answer to me telling them was what are you like next to the tan place ..wow was so amazed to see you great work
At 17:06 you can see the magic smoke curling out of the dodgy relay as you energised it!
Excellent work as always mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Great job nice to see repairs not replacements as happens too often
Great Video Mate , Watching from Spain.
I was recently quoted £105 for a pair of tailgate lift struts by my dealer. £12.50 (E-Bay), 4 clips, and 5 minutes work the job was done. Says it all.
Spot on mate, definitely worth repairing the bcm, no point lining the pockets of the dealer for a part that should never have failed ! Top job that saved the customer a shit load of money and a nice chunk of job satisfaction.
Fair play to you, definitely worth doing,if i was the customer id be over the moon !
Hopefully saved the customer big money and added to your experience and skill set.
Lots of motor mechanics are keen to have an easy life and just replace rather than actually repair, great to see a young technician not afraid to experiment and improvise.
Great channel ! Very good informative and a delight to view. TBH had to go back at times understand your Irish? accent. Your truck is just awesome hats off to you, you are a true 21st Century mechanic. Have a great holiday mate.
Bob on job. Why bin a bcm that's 95 percent usable minus some relays. It'd be binned and replaced with a part just as vulnerable in time.
Superb repair. Going to pass on your details to someone at work who is having issues with electric windows on a vauxhal Mokka. Well impressed..
Your a man after my own heart after fifty five years in plant maintenance as an industrial electrician for an apprentice commencing 1963.
Building Services, heating, cooling, air con plus plant repairs.
Having that electrical knowledge was a winner especially when boilers from domestic to large steam raising boilers.
I did save customers using your methodology which meant I could repair with one visit with a stock of components and stocking some electromechanical controllers.
It wasn't legal under Corgi and Gas Safety regs.
Gas and hot oil is instantly explosive, call combustion a controlled explosion to identify the closeness to a bomb.
The alternative,
I have seen people blow up ECUs by not disconnecting the battery, good tip :)
Excellent work,subbed.👍
Brilliant repair Ryan👏
Great job mate typical manufacturer they don’t want anyone to repair apart from themselves so they can rip the customer off 🤔👏😎
Smashed it mate on the body control module well done
Are you going to disclose what you charged the owner of the Jeep. Would be nice to know the difference between yourself & dealers?
Not any criticism here, I like your work and would rather deal with people like yourself.
£308.90
That is damn good. Appreciated 👍
Bang on, great repair
Superb job you have done! Your customers must be very happy that you are saving them a fortune. You will never be out of work with the skills that you have!
You are to be admired. I for one detest the way we are going on this the wastage and cost is phenomenal.
I worked in the electronics field before I retired.
A friend chucked a 3 year old 50 inch smart TV my way which had sound but no picture. The quote was hundreds of pounds to fix.
It cost me £2.50 for a single led for the lcd backlight and it was good to go.
I also owned a Peugeot 207 which gave me absolute hell with its electronics and I virtually gave it away in the end as reliability was non existant. I could have done with you around then.
I always said we needed electronic and computer experts over car mechanics to fix cars. ALL BUILT To FAIL.
I was fascinated by seeing how they used loc tite on the screws. Unbelievable, and all this just to make a controlled explosion in a tiny little cylinder. !
WELL DONE.
Brilliant repair on the door lock! Diagnose Dan has a great channel, and good to see you using his online help, a great service. Well done Sir👋👋
Great to see you fixing the box rather than just box changing, when you know what you are doing do it . That customer is going to mighty impressed with the savings and will tell other folk and you are going to get busier and busier ;)
Been there, done that. One car got three new alternators and three new batteries in a month. I found the shorted electric door lock switch in 35 minutes. Pulled the fuse for $0.00 and got it back to reliably starting every morning. Another car got an estimate for over $1000. I fixed all three problems for $135. My favorite scam was Air conditioners. An insurance company would send a technician to condemn an air conditioner for a cost of $3000. I would replace a $200 part and charge the bargain price of $1500.
Always like a fix rather a swap that's how we learn. Question for you or anyone fault b3101 (no response from remote) believe it's BCM.would supplying 12v to power supply wire to the remote receiver be safe.
Thanks
This is why you should never go to a main dealership. (Unless your within warranty) Top man
if only you'd been around some-years-ago you could have fixed our Console-Back-Light-Problem in S500 (it worked again shortly after battery-dis-connect) ...
I wish I'd watched this repair earlier, having given up and paid for a BCM on a 2017 Vivaro. I knew there was something I'd missed, overlooked, dismissed. And boy did it empty my pocket. Lesson well and truly learned.
Keep up with your honesty , and you'll never be out of work. good luck.
It's good for the customer. My solar panel inverter relays stopped working, a company wanted £ 700 exchange, I thought stuff that so I stripped the inverter and changed the relays at a cost of £15.00.
Your skill set is excellent, what a great fix from your van. I suppose most garages would give up at the first hurdle getting stuck into a sealed BCM. well done indeed. If you look out for a pair of Japanese pliers. Fujiya Engineer's Screw Removal Pliers - 160mm it will make the job even easier.
I don’t know many tradesman that honest now. Good on you! Problem with your fix is the time it takes to fix meaning your on 1 job to long. But hey if it still pays Amazing.
Subbed.
Ok…… After thinking about what I said thus could actually be the best action, cause if you order part you’d have to come back… essentially saving time…. Good lad.
Quality video of really high class diagnosis and repair. Makes me sick when I see diagnosis by swapping components and modules. THINGS CAN BE FIXED EVEN TODAY - if you've got the brains to work it out.
Well done sir ...
The build quality of modern vehicles is appalling. I try to steer clear of any vehicles built after 2005/6. To much 'stuff' you don't need , too many electrics,
My mothers Clio had an issue with an indicator not working. She took it to a garage and they said she needed a new light relay module costing €300. I took a look at it and I found the pins on the module had separated over time. A small screwdriver to push them back together and hey presto, the fault was fixed. Garages are rip off merchants.
Super job mate, yes your saving money for the customer, saving the environment, and your knowledge is fantastic and will keep growing happy daze mate great work.
Good repair m8 nice to see something fixed not just pull out and fit new bcm 👍
Main dealers must be clowns or something like. I've just been quoted £496 by a dealer to what would be effectively replacing a suspension ball joint - seems the rubber cover on it has perished. Having a laugh or something? Too early to be April fool. I'll be popping into my local garage on Tuesday to see what they can do.
Great Job!! That repair would be almost 2k at the dealership by the time you add labour and programming. Ironically, I bet nobody in the dealership could diagnose that it's 5£ relays at fault anyways.
Maybe get a stand for the phone 😊
Great videos keep doing what you're doing
It' was a great repair. Doing this talks you into many other jobs on a vehicle. I repair treadmills and I'm always honest and open with my customers and don't rip them off. It's definitely the attitude to have. Most people are sooooo greedy, chancers and hustlers It's people like you and me who make a difference. The dealers are just greedy ******** through and through. I repaired my Mercedes, all it needed was a turbo actuator. Three bolts and a circlip job done. Cost me £137 and the dealer would have charged thousands for a new actuator and turbo. Good for you man 🙏
Good on you , too often a mechanic or technician nowadays just won’t do that type of work , just opting to replace the entire module, usually leaving a customer seriously out of pocket .. not sure what you charged but I’m sure it was a hell of lot cheaper than the 1,000 plus labour cost the dealer would of charged 👏👏👏👏
Are those torx security screws with the pin in the center? My drivers door lock works off and on so I suspect its a fauly BCM and I will be replacing it soon. A new Mopar one is $300-400 in the US.
Amazing work young man, it was worth replacing the relays if you have the parts and skills like you have.
I have a q7, and one of my sensors on the brakes was cracked ,audi wanted 1300 pounds to replace another wanted 900 and eventually a smaller garage actually repaired it for 180 . Still going strong
You smashed all these jobs. Well done! A true professional. I’m subscribing. All the very best for the future.
Great job. You are on a level far above a garage fitter.
The shocker is that the production cost for that bcm is probably between £15 and £30 and they want a £1000.
This is why going to dealerships is a con. When things fail under warranty they're great but such is the nature of things these days that nobody seems to have the wit or will to actually fix something. This is partly appalling upper management, and partly a lack of training I think. Better to charge the customer for a new one and replace it. Also the hourly rate in these places is INSANE. Nobody in the retailer would ever actually think to try and fix it.
It's called "planned obsolescence" - manufacturers intentionally making things uneconomical to repair so you're forced to buy a new one. A lot of techs wouldn't even try to repair a BCM even if they knew it was just a failed mechanical component just in case there was ALSO a failed electronic aspect that might make the repair attempt a failure. A lot of people just consider outrageous repair costs for minor things to be part and parcel of vehicle ownership, which is just a hiding to nowhere. It should not be this way.
Relays are finicky things. If you don't pass enough current through the contacts, it will oxidise... then burn. Too much current and it will burn. Omron does a good guide. Engineer should have specified two different types of relays (as all are the same, yet guaranteed differing currents will go through it) but I bet the accountants got there first, so same relay everywhere to save on cost.
How refreshing to see a young man with a good old traditional attitude of fixing something rather than throwing it in the bin which today's modern consumer society seems to have adopted as an acceptable approach. Every credit to you for your diligent and analytical approach to diagnosing the problem and then following through with a practical fix. My big beef is with the corporate approach by major manufacturers who clearly make components hard to access and repair and then charge extortionate amounts for replacements which are produced on assembly lines for a fraction of the cost. You ask if reparing rather than replacing was the right approach - absolutely! Well done and please keep up the good work and the highly informative and enlightening videos. Thank you!
The majority of mechanics are rip off artists using the same regurgatated blurb like we are "reliable" and "honest"..full of shite most of them...find a good mechanic and stick with them.
Great work and if it is worth your while doing the repair and customer is happy, WHY NOT.
Repairing when you can seems the only way forwards
It would be different if the BCM was £200.. what normal customer at the moment can afford £1000 bills out of nowhere on such a new car
An awkward situation,but you came up trumps.Very well done!!!?😅
Nice repair and great video! Don't you find it difficult working in gloves all the time? They are ok for big dirty stuff, but undoing connectors and soldering you lose so much feel for what you are doing? Or is it just me hates wearing them for fiddly stuff?!
Everything can be fixed but the UK is losing the engineers and hardly any youngsters want to study engineering because the wages are not good enough. Main dealers employ technicians and 1 mechanic (so called master tech). They use a laptop instead of knowledge and experience and the garage can charge you more. Electric cars are very modular so expect big repair costs everyone.
These days everything is thorwn away and replaced with new (which costs a lot of money as you are aware with this BCM) because not many people are capable of taking things apart and repairing them. Very well done, i would be very happy with that repair!
Bloody hare my audi q7 boot its always playing up why cant we just have a normal boot 😂😂😂
Excellent, well done with the repair. The amount of "throw new stuff at it till it's fixed" nowadays is disgusting and manufactures making repairs as difficult as possible so people have to go to the Stealers and get ripped off shows what a money obsessed world we live in.
Need someone like you around my way 😂 having a right old time with my Nissan Note 😂 I was thinking of scrapping it, but the prospect of my faults being such easy fixes is frustrating!
My 2 year old Jeep Renegade Trailhawk 4Xe broke down 2 months ago. Last week the dealer told me they need to replace the engine. I’m wondering now if this really necessary after watching this.
We had a similar quote some years ago. £1,100 + VAT. The repair, at another garage, cost £10, and it lasted for the life of the car.