It's one thing labelling all the wires (if you can) so that you know where they go, and a whole different ball game trying to remember how to get them there. Good luck and best wishes.
Wow Ryan I comment on here most weeks about the fantastic job that you have been doing regarding the fabrication and welding work that you have done on this as well as the other vehicles on your uploads but the stripping out of the remaining parts along with all of that wiring is something else ,there must be times when you must feel like you wish you had,nt bothered it must be an absolute nightmare. I for one would have passed it up (not that I have the skills) a long time ago. However the fact that you continue to persevere is testament to your professionalism and craftsmanship to which I and your other viewers I,m sure really appreciate
Thanks so much for the very kind comment Anthony as well as your previous ones! It was a nightmare getting them harnesses out but I'm learning every day. I enjoy a challenge and wont back down to something like this. It may take some time but it will all go back in.... eventually :D
Amazing how many cables and how much stuff you had to take out. It really makes me appreciate how complex cars are even an old one like this let alone modern cars.
I was in the motor trade (body shop) in the 70s & 80s. I've done re-shells and major accident repairs. Watching you remove all that wiring and other components makes me wonder how the hell I remembered how to put them all back together again. lol. Looking forward to the next instalment.
Superb identification of the wiring positions and functions. I could see the hours countdown during that operation but, a job well done (as usual). You have worked hard and put in the effort on this car and it shows! I can now to start to see light at the end of the tunnel. Thumbs up!
Your a brave man dude , ain’t no way I could ever get that back in there ! This car must be a real labour of love there’s so much to do to it …great work impressive 👍
@carcult01 do you think? I'm not sure you know. I do work on cars still and looms seem simpler. The components are much harder, but there seems less wires due to a lot being computer driven. I'm not saying I'm definitely right, I've never stripped anything this far. It's just my perception.
Thanks so much for the kind comment! I really do appreciate it! MA does have some crazy plans for this car though, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product
Can't say I've ever restored a car before - but I have restored a few 80s arcade machines and fully stripped them down. And wow.... this is at least 100x more complicated. The amount of wiring and components is insane!
Amazing those speaker magnets with the rust attached , but also logic with the bmw's rust. The rest is very understandable, meaning the rust. Damn rust, but I love the welding part and you show how it is supposed to be done. As a me mechanic doing MOT's I always have short welding job to get them(the cars) approved. But your way is how I love it, but I never get the time in the garage to such a extensive repair job. Love you work and always wait for the next video of the beamer.
my fave music at 17 mins. How on earth do you remember where everything goes.? Great video and I love how you let a little bit of work sound come through the music occasionally. Brilliant stuff.
I acknowledge that the rust repair work that has been done on this car is exceptional and enlightening. There is something very appealing about watching this project proceed. I still wonder though, why? I know this car is extremely collectible, but there must be thousands of examples out there that are more worthy of the care and attention this car is getting. Can anyone explain?
It’s a showcase for the skills and capabilities of the firm, attracting paying customers. They’re not charging Mat. In lieu of money, they’re getting huge traffic from being associated with a very popular channel. I’m a case in point. I visited via Mat’s channel and now I much prefer YCR! If I had a valuable car with cash value and sentimental value, I’d spent a stupid amount with YCR to get it to a high standard. As it is, I’m a old motorcycle guy, but I’ve very much enjoyed watching everything Ryan and Steve have put out.
@@yorkshirecarrestoration well, you have shown that in spades! Keep up the great work. I love your channel. I am looking forward to see Matt wax eloquent about the job you have done. Cheers.
there are no snakes in the outback.....except for the inland typan of course , but you dont have to worry about those , what you do have to watch out for is the drop bears !! great work rian
More like wrestling with a red belly black snake. I'm also thinking I wouldn't want to be the one putting that wiring back. Another great video ! Cheers
Excelent video yet again, love your work. Greetings from a Norwegian fan! Btw, do you have a merch store? Would love to buy a hoodie with your yt logo on it. Cheers.
Hey.. I was wondering when will this video come and it jus came right on time.. but when I started playing the video, 18 mins went like secs... can we get one more video on this before next weekend... please manh!!! After all.. we're seeing something.. other than rust.. so.. kind of excited here.. 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤ love from India brother ✌️✌️💫❤️
Didn't know there would be so much wiring in the car well done lets hope it all goes back in, im really looking forward to see next video of it gettting blasted
Would love to see this back to standard, how it left the factory however I know that won’t happen. Either way I’m looking forward for the end and to see it finished but you guys are totally amazing and so skilled.
The amount of rust typically discovered in restoration projects like this reveals that most car manufacturers did not really put any substantial effort to minimze/prevent corrosion. The cars were pretty much rusting already, the moment the vehicle leaves the factory......
I have 2012 mercedes e class.The way factory secured bottom is a joke.Another 10 years and everything will fall in pieces.Just had to replace rear subframe as rust went through welding in one place and broke off joint bit to one of arms.
Matt has this thing about how many nuts and bolts are left over when refitting a dashboard, it'll be inreresting to see how much is left over from this after refit
Your more reliable with content than Matt is 😂… mate, you probably take your skill set granted. That looks like an absolute nightmare..keep up the amazing work loving the build 👍🏻
While that takes some time to remove all those wires and circuits, I would hate to have to rewire all those wires and circuits back in the car. Thumbs Up!
I felt sick 🤢 looking at the wires! God knows how your going to put that lot back, not to mention all the other little nick nacks you removed! Still, your doing a fab job and made my might night when you said your almost ready for sand blasting….😊😊😊
I restored a Suzuki bike of the 1970s, stripping all the harnesses out, and there was a fair amount of damage to plugs and conductors. I labelled everything as it was fed out of the headlamp shell, and under the side covers. I did worry about whether it would go back in neatly and most importantly whether it would all work. That was only a couple of dozen plugs and the hardest part was getting everything which belonged in the shell back in properly. At first I wasn’t close to being able to put the reflector back into the shell, because there seemed to be 50% too much harness etc! I learned that routing is absolutely crucial, otherwise the loom plugs for the peripherals don’t reach one another. Ryan has ten times more loom connections. I expect they’ll be similar internally to the block connectors I wrestled with, with flat, copper pins crimped onto the ends of up to a dozen, different coloured wires, which are wrapped in loom tape. You need extreme patience imo. I’ve seen three approaches. Most of the guys I know restoring the same model buy new looms. They’re not too expensive considering what you’ve to spend anyway and at least you won’t have a half century old wires and connectors. I restored & reused mine and I learned a lot more that way, fixing design flaws as I went. There are well known weaknesses in the original, where they saved a bit of money at the cost of later lesser reliability. The last approach is just rip it all out, and shove it back in afterwards and only then fix whatever didn’t work. Nightmare that, trying to diagnose why it’s over-charging and boiling batteries or why there is a weak spark on one cylinder….. On my next full restoration I confess I went the new loom route. Perfect. I’ve bought looms for the oldest resto and when I’m presented with an excuse, I will strip the bike again and improve the electrics. It’s already too good of a restored bike,but I do take it out for a thrash occasionally!
that massive work on that old car. one starts to wonder what the pricetag would be for that repair(not just the rust repair, but the whole of it). those speakers have seen better days for sure :D
After all this hard work this car needs a really nice paint job. Im saying JPS black, with a nice set of gold BBS rims. A modern M5 engine followed by a red leather interior.
I felt my mouth water at that prescription. If not your proposal, how about old English white with subtle black and blue pin stripes and a set of high end alloys of the era? It’s a must to get it fully painted and not wrapped. It’ll be expensive but we saw how beautiful his yellow Cayman came out. I could eat the finish on that Porsche. It looks better than factory, though he spent what ten grand on it? This BMW is going to be boss. I hope Mat just makes it look like the best original car it could have been. A bit more power but not lowered & with boy racer wheels and a bloody great spoiler! I fear he will fit a wide body kit, like his excellent Audi, but I think an elderly lady like this E24 needs class, not tarting up 😮 Apologies for upsetting anyone who thinks I’ve misgendered this vehicle 🙃
Good luck putting it all back together. Presumably even as early on as this car, assembly lines would have had some parts of the dash and interior preassembled and installed in larger sections in one go? Or is that more 90s/00s onwards?
Some of these restorations remind me of when people restore WW2 aircraft, they start off with recovering the build plate and manufacture a brand new Hurricane around it…….🤦🏼♂️
im looking forward to seeing how you progress with this now . will it be blasted ? dipped and then start to see it being build up and becoming a car again . is the engine being stripped and rebuilt or is that a matt question?
I saw people commenting why everybody put so much effort in this car. But as far as i understood. This has something to do with his dad and the past. I think ( and don’t shoot me if i am wrong ) he’s gonna give this car restored back to his dad 🤷🏽♂️
Generally wiring looks worse than it is as it has to be logical. What is an absolute pain in the rear end is when 'someone has been here before' and patched in God knows what. Those looms look an absolute mess but lay them out flat and they should become (sort of) obvious where to rebind them. Call me soft but I love sorting wiring looms out. The difficult bit is recalling what route the looms followed. Tank God for your videos!
@@yorkshirecarrestoration looked it. What a mission that is. Doing an unbelievable job on the metal work 👏 matts going to be blown away when he sees it finished. 👍
That is insane! Why the hell do they need that amount of wiring? I've had to do wiring work on a car for welding, and it was quite plush for it's day, but it never had or needed a harness like that. What on earth is it all for?
They probably made one master wiring harness that covers every model, they still do it today, cheaper to make one with all the connectors loaded and ready for different models, and being BMW they dont cut corners with cable sizes that car had a lot of technology for its day
Look how long it took to take it out…imaging having to review all the vids ensuring all goes back in correct sequence…gives me anxiety just thinking about it 😖
Why so many wires? BMW equipped these luxury vehicles with almost all electric systems that were available those days and hat to connect all these systems with discrete wires since bus systems were not yet introduced by the automotive industry. I think this nightmare of a wiring harness explains why Bosch and Intel developed the CAN bus in the 1980th.
Great work gezza hats of to you daft question but why didn't you do that and get it sand blasted before you started the rust repairs wouldn't it have been easier to see what you are up against
Ryan, holy cow😮😮 I dont think there is room to stuff one more wire in there 😂 This car has came along way from where yall started with it!! Whats the scoop on the Red Audi in the background?
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It's one thing labelling all the wires (if you can) so that you know where they go, and a whole different ball game trying to remember how to get them there. Good luck and best wishes.
Matts dad is going to have fun putting that lot back!
Poor Tony will have his work cut out.
Wow Ryan I comment on here most weeks about the fantastic job that you have been doing regarding the fabrication and welding work that you have done on this as well as the other vehicles on your uploads but the stripping out of the remaining parts along with all of that wiring is something else ,there must be times when you must feel like you wish you had,nt bothered it must be an absolute nightmare. I for one would have passed it up (not that I have the skills) a long time ago. However the fact that you continue to persevere is testament to your professionalism and craftsmanship to which I and your other viewers I,m sure really appreciate
Thanks so much for the very kind comment Anthony as well as your previous ones! It was a nightmare getting them harnesses out but I'm learning every day. I enjoy a challenge and wont back down to something like this. It may take some time but it will all go back in.... eventually :D
Amazing how many cables and how much stuff you had to take out. It really makes me appreciate how complex cars are even an old one like this let alone modern cars.
It's crazy looking at all the parts which have come from it!
What a massive undertaking. Good job you have the videos to help put it back together! Good luck.... 😉
I was in the motor trade (body shop) in the 70s & 80s. I've done re-shells and major accident repairs. Watching you remove all that wiring and other components makes me wonder how the hell I remembered how to put them all back together again. lol.
Looking forward to the next instalment.
Superb identification of the wiring positions and functions. I could see the hours countdown during that operation but, a job well done (as usual). You have worked hard and put in the effort on this car and it shows! I can now to start to see light at the end of the tunnel. Thumbs up!
Another great watch well done to all involved 👏👏👏👏
Looms that huge is why Canbus was invented, everything needed its own connection. Canbus allows everything to share a common bus.
I must say I admire your determination to continue with that "thing"
Your a brave man dude , ain’t no way I could ever get that back in there ! This car must be a real labour of love there’s so much to do to it …great work impressive 👍
Please do one video lasting about 45 minutes. You guy's deserve a lot more subscribers. Outstanding work 👍
Well said. 👌
I wouldn't want to be responsible for trying to put all of that back together. Looks like an absolute nightmare!
I just thought exactly the same thing. It's monstrous!
Easy when you compare it to modern day cars
@carcult01 do you think? I'm not sure you know. I do work on cars still and looms seem simpler. The components are much harder, but there seems less wires due to a lot being computer driven.
I'm not saying I'm definitely right, I've never stripped anything this far. It's just my perception.
@@jeffwilton-love I re shell a lot of cars and the wiring has gotten more and more
actually, modern cars have less wiring, thx to the cam bus
@@carcult01
It’s not just what they connect to but where they run also. My god what a job.
Cured me of any curiosity I might have had about my M635 wiring anyway!
I’ve enjoyed following along on this, What a craft! Your video production skills have improved with each video too!
Thanks for the video. You guys have your work cut out for you with that wiring! Good luck! Can't wait for the next video.
I bet MA is going to give this BMW away to Ryan. So much love and passion restoring this car.
Thanks so much for the kind comment! I really do appreciate it! MA does have some crazy plans for this car though, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product
Can't say I've ever restored a car before - but I have restored a few 80s arcade machines and fully stripped them down. And wow.... this is at least 100x more complicated. The amount of wiring and components is insane!
Thank you for your content.
Amazing those speaker magnets with the rust attached , but also logic with the bmw's rust. The rest is very understandable, meaning the rust. Damn rust, but I love the welding part and you show how it is supposed to be done. As a me mechanic doing MOT's I always have short welding job to get them(the cars) approved. But your way is how I love it, but I never get the time in the garage to such a extensive repair job.
Love you work and always wait for the next video of the beamer.
my fave music at 17 mins. How on earth do you remember where everything goes.? Great video and I love how you let a little bit of work sound come through the music occasionally. Brilliant stuff.
I'm a mechanic, and l had anxiety watching that, how will it ever go back together and work properly? Great watch, keep up the good work👍
Glad it’s not just me, then. That seemed like an impossible amount of stuff to ever put it all back together
Its a minefield of wires. It will take time but we will get it all back in :D
I acknowledge that the rust repair work that has been done on this car is exceptional and enlightening. There is something very appealing about watching this project proceed. I still wonder though, why? I know this car is extremely collectible, but there must be thousands of examples out there that are more worthy of the care and attention this car is getting. Can anyone explain?
It’s a showcase for the skills and capabilities of the firm, attracting paying customers.
They’re not charging Mat. In lieu of money, they’re getting huge traffic from being associated with a very popular channel. I’m a case in point. I visited via Mat’s channel and now I much prefer YCR!
If I had a valuable car with cash value and sentimental value, I’d spent a stupid amount with YCR to get it to a high standard.
As it is, I’m a old motorcycle guy, but I’ve very much enjoyed watching everything Ryan and Steve have put out.
@GT380man very well put, thanks for the reply on that, you hit the nail on the head
Thanks John, and its a challenge that we took on to show it can be done
@@yorkshirecarrestoration well, you have shown that in spades! Keep up the great work. I love your channel. I am looking forward to see Matt wax eloquent about the job you have done. Cheers.
I hope that somewhere there is a nice friendly drawing of the loom and where all the routes are...
There surely is…he just need to get his hands on one
Fantastic Channel love watching these such skill
One question
Why didn’t you sand blast first to save on all that under seal stripping time ?
❤❤❤ audi ur quattro mr2 tbar M635CSI mk1 escort mk1 golf cosmo manta what a amazing work environment
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Wow....best of luck putting that back together
Ha! Thanks!
Wow not for the faint hearted . Your doing a cracking job can’t wait too see finished product but I’m enjoying the journey 👍👍✊🇬🇧
Thanks so much John, I really am enjoying the journey too :)
there are no snakes in the outback.....except for the inland typan of course , but you dont have to worry about those , what you do have to watch out for is the drop bears !! great work rian
Do a collab with m539 resto , he's amazing at fixing up the component parts, and a bmw nut
Awesome work Ryan
Thanks so much!
More like wrestling with a red belly black snake. I'm also thinking I wouldn't want to be the one putting that wiring back. Another great video ! Cheers
Haha yeas seemed like that! And yeah, it a mess :D. Thanks!
I rewired the back end of my 1974 mini and I thought that was a nightmare and it only had like 12 wires, good lord that looks like a nightmare
Only 12 :O
I enjoy every video, the skill and insight is amazing, but there’s no effing way Mat is putting this thing back together 😅🇮🇪
what a disaster well done getting it all out ryan, and i hope you can do a video on the car when it gets sandblasted that would be good
Thanks so much. And yes I will be :)
Excelent video yet again, love your work. Greetings from a Norwegian fan! Btw, do you have a merch store? Would love to buy a hoodie with your yt logo on it. Cheers.
Thanks so much!! And yes we do :)
www.ycr.uk.com/
Thanks!!
Thanks , ordered now 🙂
Hey.. I was wondering when will this video come and it jus came right on time.. but when I started playing the video, 18 mins went like secs... can we get one more video on this before next weekend... please manh!!! After all.. we're seeing something.. other than rust.. so.. kind of excited here.. 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤ love from India brother ✌️✌️💫❤️
Love the Audi in the background 😍
I consider rewiring a bike bad enough, it`s nothing compared to that ! Cracking job as usual
haha, its crazy the amount of wires than have come from this! Thanks!
Ryan, I saw you and Steve pulling many more pythons out that BMW..😮😂 Greetings from South-Africa!!
Unbelievable! Respect...
Crumbs I admire your guts. This just confirms my suspicion that anything beyond a Moggie or Landy is too much for me!
Didn't know there would be so much wiring in the car well done lets hope it all goes back in, im really looking forward to see next video of it gettting blasted
Would love to see this back to standard, how it left the factory however I know that won’t happen. Either way I’m looking forward for the end and to see it finished but you guys are totally amazing and so skilled.
The amount of rust typically discovered in restoration projects like this reveals that most car manufacturers did not really put any substantial effort to minimze/prevent corrosion. The cars were pretty much rusting already, the moment the vehicle leaves the factory......
Very true
I have 2012 mercedes e class.The way factory secured bottom is a joke.Another 10 years and everything will fall in pieces.Just had to replace rear subframe as rust went through welding in one place and broke off joint bit to one of arms.
Crazy effort!!
That Audi in the background!!!! 😍 Need a video on that please!
It's putting the wiring back in that's the fun part
Yup.
Matt has this thing about how many nuts and bolts are left over when refitting a dashboard, it'll be inreresting to see how much is left over from this after refit
Unbelievable!!! I hope it's all worthwhile 😮
A stand-alone Haltech from Australia 🇦🇺 would be easier for the resto would be a whole lot easier
Thanks for the video
Your more reliable with content than Matt is 😂… mate, you probably take your skill set granted. That looks like an absolute nightmare..keep up the amazing work loving the build 👍🏻
While that takes some time to remove all those wires and circuits, I would hate to have to rewire all those wires and circuits back in the car. Thumbs Up!
Yeah...... it will be a challenge
Would love to be there when Matt is watching this video.
I’m excited to see it sandblasted!
Ryan you’re an absolute legend 😊 How on earth did you do that 👍🏻
Thanks so much :) it was a challenge but I got there, the bigger challenge will be getting it all back in the right place :D
I felt sick 🤢 looking at the wires! God knows how your going to put that lot back, not to mention all the other little nick nacks you removed! Still, your doing a fab job and made my might night when you said your almost ready for sand blasting….😊😊😊
The HVAC and a/c system has so many circuits it's complicated! G-luck!
Check you out marking all the plugs, I thought you were supposed to just pull it out then go into a mild panic when your trying to put it back haha
I restored a Suzuki bike of the 1970s, stripping all the harnesses out, and there was a fair amount of damage to plugs and conductors. I labelled everything as it was fed out of the headlamp shell, and under the side covers. I did worry about whether it would go back in neatly and most importantly whether it would all work. That was only a couple of dozen plugs and the hardest part was getting everything which belonged in the shell back in properly. At first I wasn’t close to being able to put the reflector back into the shell, because there seemed to be 50% too much harness etc! I learned that routing is absolutely crucial, otherwise the loom plugs for the peripherals don’t reach one another. Ryan has ten times more loom connections.
I expect they’ll be similar internally to the block connectors I wrestled with, with flat, copper pins crimped onto the ends of up to a dozen, different coloured wires, which are wrapped in loom tape. You need extreme patience imo.
I’ve seen three approaches. Most of the guys I know restoring the same model buy new looms. They’re not too expensive considering what you’ve to spend anyway and at least you won’t have a half century old wires and connectors.
I restored & reused mine and I learned a lot more that way, fixing design flaws as I went. There are well known weaknesses in the original, where they saved a bit of money at the cost of later lesser reliability.
The last approach is just rip it all out, and shove it back in afterwards and only then fix whatever didn’t work. Nightmare that, trying to diagnose why it’s over-charging and boiling batteries or why there is a weak spark on one cylinder…..
On my next full restoration I confess I went the new loom route. Perfect.
I’ve bought looms for the oldest resto and when I’m presented with an excuse, I will strip the bike again and improve the electrics. It’s already too good of a restored bike,but I do take it out for a thrash occasionally!
that massive work on that old car. one starts to wonder what the pricetag would be for that repair(not just the rust repair, but the whole of it). those speakers have seen better days for sure :D
Getting there mate getting there 🙌😊
Great video 👍 BMW engineer's thought it was progress lot's of computers but the guy's on the production line thought otherwise.😅
That's way, way above anything I would even consider. Mate, assuming you do get it all back together (haha) you're a genius.
Respect to you 100%
It will be a challenge haha. Thanks
The moment you have taken out the last wire and just before you have to bring it all back is the time to ask for a raise
Perfect timing there! Haha
Don’t know if this will ever get rebuilt impossible job ..nice work
congrads on 60k subs :)
Thanks so much Steve!!!!!!!!
After all this hard work this car needs a really nice paint job. Im saying JPS black, with a nice set of gold BBS rims. A modern M5 engine followed by a red leather interior.
I felt my mouth water at that prescription. If not your proposal, how about old English white with subtle black and blue pin stripes and a set of high end alloys of the era?
It’s a must to get it fully painted and not wrapped. It’ll be expensive but we saw how beautiful his yellow Cayman came out. I could eat the finish on that Porsche. It looks better than factory, though he spent what ten grand on it?
This BMW is going to be boss. I hope Mat just makes it look like the best original car it could have been. A bit more power but not lowered & with boy racer wheels and a bloody great spoiler!
I fear he will fit a wide body kit, like his excellent Audi, but I think an elderly lady like this E24 needs class, not tarting up 😮
Apologies for upsetting anyone who thinks I’ve misgendered this vehicle 🙃
It will get a very nice paint job :) And I know MA has big plans for this car!
@@yorkshirecarrestoration Great to learn that :)
Good luck putting it all back together. Presumably even as early on as this car, assembly lines would have had some parts of the dash and interior preassembled and installed in larger sections in one go? Or is that more 90s/00s onwards?
Some of these restorations remind me of when people restore WW2 aircraft, they start off with recovering the build plate and manufacture a brand new Hurricane around it…….🤦🏼♂️
Sounds like Ryan’s Datsun Z disaster restoration!
Haha so true!
im looking forward to seeing how you progress with this now . will it be blasted ? dipped and then start to see it being build up and becoming a car again . is the engine being stripped and rebuilt or is that a matt question?
You have the example of old car without network CAN, it explain the massive wiring for the same function of the newest…
You’re a better person than me, i would end up cutting it all 😅
Ha! that would have been easier :D
@@yorkshirecarrestoration 😂😂😂 not so much when it came to putting it all back on though ay 😅
I saw people commenting why everybody put so much effort in this car. But as far as i understood. This has something to do with his dad and the past. I think ( and don’t shoot me if i am wrong ) he’s gonna give this car restored back to his dad 🤷🏽♂️
I'm sure Mat has some really good plans for this car.
Respect 😉👍
Thanks David!
How you are going to get that car back together is beyond me 🤷♂️🤷♂️. Good luck and a very entertaining and enjoyable video 👍
Good question :D Haha thanks
Should have used white tape for the engine compartment, green for the interior and yellow for the trunk. You now have one big yellow mess
My dad is absolutely amazing at reinstalling wiring looms. He's completely blind, and does everything by touch. 😮
Generally wiring looks worse than it is as it has to be logical. What is an absolute pain in the rear end is when 'someone has been here before' and patched in God knows what.
Those looms look an absolute mess but lay them out flat and they should become (sort of) obvious where to rebind them. Call me soft but I love sorting wiring looms out. The difficult bit is recalling what route the looms followed. Tank God for your videos!
Spaghetti junction of wires 😂❤ thanks for the video 📹
It was bad!!
@@yorkshirecarrestoration looked it. What a mission that is. Doing an unbelievable job on the metal work 👏 matts going to be blown away when he sees it finished. 👍
Hope you took hundreds of photos ready for re install😮
How long did it take in real time to remove those looms
One nice long loom would be best. Tell it’s an older car. The electrics in that car are amazing though.
I couldn't believe the amount of wires in there!
Imagine putting it back together, what a nightmare 😂
haha, where to start!
you'll be a Master of fixing a Disaster when it is finally done
Look at that red Audi , looking sexy af
Agreed
@@yorkshirecarrestoration is it a 100 quattro?
state of that tunnel shows the heater matrix was leaking and the sunroof...
i got ocd from this episode. Great job
🤣🤣
Madness
Imagine putting them back in :D
That is insane! Why the hell do they need that amount of wiring? I've had to do wiring work on a car for welding, and it was quite plush for it's day, but it never had or needed a harness like that. What on earth is it all for?
They probably made one master wiring harness that covers every model, they still do it today, cheaper to make one with all the connectors loaded and ready for different models, and being BMW they dont cut corners with cable sizes
that car had a lot of technology for its day
Look how long it took to take it out…imaging having to review all the vids ensuring all goes back in correct sequence…gives me anxiety just thinking about it 😖
Great video again, I love your videos. Please can you tell me the title and artist of the song at 16:44? Thank you
The song:Lucid (Nomyn)
It’s from “the Ambientalist”. Most stuff on his Vids is from him
He’s great , thinks he’s got balls of steal !! 👍🏻👍🏻 and quite funny! 👍
I would have just pulled out that wiring harness long ago completely because it's going to have to be totally rewired anyway
Why so many wires? BMW equipped these luxury vehicles with almost all electric systems that were available those days and hat to connect all these systems with discrete wires since bus systems were not yet introduced by the automotive industry. I think this nightmare of a wiring harness explains why Bosch and Intel developed the CAN bus in the 1980th.
I am distracted by the Audi Quattro. Is there a series of it?
🤣 those speakers 🔊!
Great work gezza hats of to you daft question but why didn't you do that and get it sand blasted before you started the rust repairs wouldn't it have been easier to see what you are up against
Ryan, holy cow😮😮 I dont think there is room to stuff one more wire in there 😂 This car has came along way from where yall started with it!! Whats the scoop on the Red Audi in the background?
At least the existing wiring harnesses looks to be mostly salvageable. Unlike the rat food wiring that they put on recent German cars.
It is, but a lot of the plastic clips have perished, but should be salvageable
I suppose we're all wondering how much all this epic amount of work is going to cost!.........will it ever be revealed!!
We are doing this free of charge for Mat
Are you reassembing it?@@yorkshirecarrestoration
Let the dog see the rabbit 👍😉💪