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Thanks John for your foresight and experience in the industry. Folks like you are well needed especially for EVs coming off warranties or trying to get a quicker time to get repairs when the likes of Tesla have long lead repair times. We really are looking forward to seeing you guys in the Northern Virginia area soon.

Very informative. Looking to get a model x

Great video!

Thank you for the informative video. I am apart of an auto glass company and we sell franchises. Just to clarify, our franchisees do have the ability to complete full calibrations on 97% of all vehicles. Now, Rivian is not one that we can calibrate yet. This is why I’m watching your video. Please do not single out auto glass companies that show up at your driveway, because all of our franchisees are mobile and do have the ability to calibrate. They have different locations to take the car for the calibration.

I don't believe a visual inspection is going to tell you much with an aluminum casting, unless you have a crack the size of the grand canyon. You have to do a dye penetrant or eddy current test. But then you'll probably just uncover a whole ton of defects that were there when the part was initially cast. Do cracks way back there matter? Is that just a bumper support? I feel like if you made a part to mate to those gussets, then filled the whole area with epoxy you could make drop in frame sections.

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By the time quarter panel is removed it’s already total loss for insurance since used model y worth so little these days. You can fix it yourself but put it to a shop it’s 15-20k work no one is going to do it for the money

You can repair cracks with a standard TIG welder. Drill a hole at each end to prevent crack propagation. These types of repairs on cast aluminum are pretty straight forward.

Interesting, thank you for these videos.

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Being a cast part, I expect crack that can occurs and missed by visual inspection. It would be more logical to also have a load tests applied to observe deflections to see if they are out of specs. Also, you only pointed out they are repairable in this particular case but never mentioned the price. IMO, that’s the key factor whether the car is totaled by the insurance or not.

It looks like in this case the giga casting is undamaged so the repair is quite conventional. I assume if the giga casting was damaged beyond a certain point the repair situation would become quite complicated, hence the insurance companies raise the premium to cover themselves for that eventuality. I’m quite impressed with the strength of the body, looks pretty tough.

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Matters not. How many shops in the entire world know or can fix them? They are more expensive/harder to repair. Period.

Structural repair of a cast part with rivets an adhesive!? Just call a Tesla engineer on every Tesla car with structural problems?! Seriously!?

Structural repair of a cast part with rivets an adhesive!?

Sometimes a total car is worth more as parts.

You can't just have 2 Amazon EV delivery vans and not talk about what you guys are up to! Please share!

Do you train other Tesla authorized BodyShops? Your explainations dispels the idea ad myths that Giga casts are not repairable . thanks in advance for the reply!

We don't let EVs on the ranch. Not worth the fire risk. I definitely wouldn't let my shop guys work on one.

Can you do a video where you show the replacement of an entire giga cast?

Nice vid

So, how long to deliver an example replacement part for that section of the gigacasting? That is the next question. So, it also means that these parts have to be designed and tested and everything. Replacement part is robably not from Tesla. They are only interested in NOT having the effort for such parts.... oR they only do it for very few specific parts.

The background voices were really distracting.

Great vid , love the genius way these vehicles are made, reminds me of playing with matchbox cars in the 70s , I honestly thought this was how cars were made back in the day! Seems like we’ve been living in the past for too long! Musk is a true genius! Probably make a great president 😊😊😊

Nice to know, thanks.

2:00 replace aluminum casting by cutting, rivets, adhesive. sorry, no way that is the same structure as original. 2:52 as you said "doesn't mean there are no cracks" thus you cannot assure structural integrity post damage.

Why don’t you use a jig or spacers to set the position of the glass? I’m sure there’s a good reason, just wondering what it is. Thanks for the great video!

It is up to the insurance to call it a total loss, they salvaged my M3 in 2019 for two doors a front bumper and front windshield, I bought all the parts on ebay yes ebay because tsla woudn't sell parts to shops or just the wait time was ridiculous and fixt it myself for 5K. Still drive it today in 2024.

FANTASTIC! Another myth gone!

This reminds me of one time when I had to get a rocket panel in the unibody frame of a Mazda repaired. I thought the car was finished since I had no idea how to repair that. But it turned out they were able to cut the panel at predetermined points and weld in a new one. This looks similar - cut at designated points and attach new brackets one way or another.

I love your channel! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for another great video!

Great post again 😊 , could you maybe do something to the sound quality of your video’s ? Sounds a bit like your under water 😅 but ..eyy.. please keep posting this kind of clips 👌🏻

Is there a main battery isolator switch in this vehicle?

Nothing changed. Literally the same vehicle. It’s just ev zealots want to think there’s something different.

More involved that I thought. Are the Model 3 and Y glass panels simpler to replace?

Absolutely amazing with all the details just to install a roof glass. I can't wait for you guys to get out Northern Virginia area. Thank you.

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All Tesla need to do not is design a great internal combustion engine.

Very good point, I never thought this way. Tesla cars are incredibly light and strong vehicles and of course when you have an accident, passengers are much safer but it will be more expensive to repair.

So why does the gigacast model y weigh the same as their standard construction counterpart?

So why does the gigacast model y weigh the same as their standard construction counterpart?

The first gen headlights were better

Did they add back ultra sonic sensors on the 2024??

It's still a shitt cartoon doesn't matter it's new and it doesn't look doesn't have styles looks ugly

yikes , that giga casting cracked, it's a giga total

Is there an open connector for an future retrofit of an frontpumper camera?