Pleasure to watch a young man that got the training and experience to perform these tasks and working for a company that is not afraid to purchase good, necessary equipment. Carry on sir.
Did that for 40 yrs and I know while your doing the heavy hits the other guys are suckin up the gravy 😂 Great job. Glad I’m out of it got cancer in 2013 probably from breathing all that shit. Carry on tho 👍
My first job like this was in2000 on a 1995 Lexus ls 400. After i got done i was like damn i can fix anything. This vidoe doesnt show the work you put in. Great job coming from someone who knows
Roughly; How many hours total did you have on that Kyle? That was a Big Dang Job, That you made look quite easy by the video. I can only imagine the people that watch this and say: This doesn’t look too bad to do... Trust me people, IT IS! My family has been into the collision repair business for 50+ years. I do anything from, Frame, Structure, Body, Paint, Alignments to plain old Mechanical work. I can really appreciate seeing someone do such clean work, and taking a lot of pride in exactly what they do. Thank you Sir for allowing us to follow along! You do some really nice stuff... 👏👏👏👍💯
Arthur would never have changed those legs he would have heated them up with an Oxy torch pulled them while they were red hot, cut bits out then weld them back in ! Everyone knows in the trade, that's not the way to repair high strength steel !
I love SEM paint. So easy for me to paint while everything is removed. Painters love me. I put in a rear body or floor and when they get ot all they have to paint is the outside. Plus i get car back from them alot quicker
you either can do this shit or you can't lol, i have so much respect for people who can. not to many can do shit like this. hope you are taking it to the bank because you should be.
Great Video, just one question for you, when you realize your measurement was off by couple milliliter, how did u adjust it to specification. Sorry i'm new to this. Thank you in advance
Why did this one get repaired? Bill must have been more than the cost of the sprinter 🤔 We’re not allowed to repair anything that exceeds 80% of vehicle market price 🤔
Where's the cut off point for the insurance company to write the vehicle off? I've watched a few of these and whilst some of the repairs are vast, some of the vehicles values I would say are not?
Why not sway the rails back and cut a square on the side of the rail to repair them. Then reeled the rails, clean up your welds, prime and paint... you could just do pull for sway and mash on each rail. That’s what we do on all the cars we buy at auction most do the time.
Trump it that’s not called being a hack. If you ever look at a insurance estimate (which I have done hundreds of) you will see a line on some of them saying “pull for sway”. That is exactly what that does. Manufacturers are okay with it and it is the right away of fixing a car.
Nahiyan Haq because if you can’t cold pull it, it’s junk, no heat is to be applied to the rail assembly. And, being in the U.S. land of lawsuits, you won’t find anyone who will do a repair that way.
D Pupo read my comments gain. I didn’t say anything about applying heat. You still pull it cold and sway it but then you end up with buckled in the rail. You then cut a square in the rail from the outside to get access to repair the buckled. You weld just that square up again, clean up welds, body filler, sand, prime and paint.
Nahiyan Haq there is no insurance company in the states that would approve that repair, it is a liability and it’s in a crumple zone. There is no way you could guarantee 100% that rail would perform to manufacture specs in another collision if repaired in that fashion. That is why they tell you to replace the entire rail assembly. It’s a big job in any car, but it is the “correct” way according to manufacturers & ICar.
Not to be an ass but Could you shorten your intro after watching like 6 episodes in a row a gets a little annoying hahhahah but besides that keep it up
I’m not a genius when it comes to cars But this job is either equal to or more than the cost of this car Am I wrong? Fck me the man hours and parts for this must be immense
Looks like you need a better estimator. That should have totaled. That easily a $30k+ repair if written properly. Sometimes you have to know when to just send them down the road.
Mo A estimator does not decided whether it is a total loss. The image desk appraisers at the insurance company do that. If it’s snake farm insurance then they fix this kinda crap all day long
Mo A FYI image desk at DGIG does exist. I know several people at DGIG who do exactly that. This should have reached 70% ACV but again it comes down to the image desk appraiser to correct the estimate or to choose to write it off
Not a practical repair economically speaking. I can’t see a insurance company not writing this off. Way too much labour removing and reinstalling drivetrain and interior.
It sucks to be a full blown solid tech do you get stuck with all the jobs like this because youre capable and the guys next to you make the same money doing all the gravy work because they are too lazy and scared to tackle the big hits.
I’m not a body man, but does your boss ever say something is totaled? Or, tell the insurance company to take it elsewhere? Maybe it’s time for you to move on to white collar Kye? This repair job is bodyman abuse. Like to know how many hours you got paid for this? How many hours did it take you? And the guy who removed the engine? I worked at 2 GM dealers as a mechanic on commission, long ago. It was a scam. GM wants their warranty repairs done for basically minimum wage. Commission is just a way to screw the middle-class skilled laborer, and the customer. You are very talented, maybe you should put out your own shingle? You will never get anywhere working on commission for a millionaire.
Pleasure to watch a young man that got the training and experience to perform these tasks and working for a company that is not afraid to purchase good, necessary equipment. Carry on sir.
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Shocked with all that work it wasn’t totaled due to cost. Amazing as usual!
Ive been a mechanic my whole life good to see why I hate body work.. lol keep up the good work
Glad to see you found a challenge. Also thanks for breaking down some of the equipment you use!
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This is amazing this guy is rebuilding what precision robots do with his hands i hope ur proud dude
Big big job! I would have needed a break from that after a while
Did that for 40 yrs and I know while your doing the heavy hits the other guys are suckin up the gravy 😂 Great job. Glad I’m out of it got cancer in 2013 probably from breathing all that shit. Carry on tho 👍
My first job like this was in2000 on a 1995 Lexus ls 400. After i got done i was like damn i can fix anything. This vidoe doesnt show the work you put in. Great job coming from someone who knows
Holy hell! I would've quit my job on the spot if I saw this beast going into my shop.
If it paid good enough I'd do it but guarantee ot doesn't.
I love the car o liner measure system. Woohoo after the box is done
Nice work! Thanks for sharing!
I watched all your videos. This was posted before at the time when you had 2k-3k sub's. I follow you long back brother I love your work.
You the greatest Jack of your trades of all time real talk
First air chisel work I’ve seen since tuning in. Brutal!
Another amazing video. Good job man.
I like how you painted parts before welding. I do that too
I do the same thing Xs and dots for plugs and spots 😂
Roughly; How many hours total did you have on that Kyle? That was a Big Dang Job, That you made look quite easy by the video. I can only imagine the people that watch this and say: This doesn’t look too bad to do... Trust me people, IT IS! My family has been into the collision repair business for 50+ years. I do anything from, Frame, Structure, Body, Paint, Alignments to plain old Mechanical work. I can really appreciate seeing someone do such clean work, and taking a lot of pride in exactly what they do. Thank you Sir for allowing us to follow along! You do some really nice stuff... 👏👏👏👍💯
Believe this is my favorite video you have done.
Nice work shop that he's all the tools
Good stuff man love watching these vids wish I went to school for stuff like this
These vids are gonna get me through lockdown. Thank you and stay safe.
i never thought that would be fixed...so what does it mean when a car is Totaled. you are a true Artist.....great video
A total is the cost of repairing. This van must be new so they are repairing it. This video doesnt come close to amount of work he did
I'm suprised this job wasn't put on a bracket system. So much easier when installing new chassis legs
The welds are stronger so I'm gonna guess safer so that's probally why
Monster jobs bring monster money and plus it makes for a more interesting video too
That repair would make Arthur tussik very proud glad to see you do a hard hit
Arthur would never have changed those legs he would have heated them up with an Oxy torch pulled them while they were red hot, cut bits out then weld them back in ! Everyone knows in the trade, that's not the way to repair high strength steel !
Great job ❤
I love SEM paint. So easy for me to paint while everything is removed. Painters love me. I put in a rear body or floor and when they get ot all they have to paint is the outside. Plus i get car back from them alot quicker
This is Amazing!
first video longer than 15 min, thanks!!!
I hate when panels don't come with the studs. I was so second hand mad when you had to put them on 🤣
Its funny how many welds you miss after you put the welder away. Lol.
You do nice work....not a lot of blood.😂 been there done that...nice equipment too....
Good job brother I imagine that stick is worth at least about $20000
Those Mercedes Vans are very well made, the best vans in the market. You made a awesome work.
Zee germans!
I wonder if this is how all the sprinters are built even the old ones? Really makes me reconsider sprinter based motorhomes.
with this much work, and hella bent rails, i'm surprised they didn't total it out
Fuck that. Totalled to me lol
Great work dude
How was that not totaled dull motor pull and all holy hell
I was wondering the same thing. All this work must have cost so much money, let alone the cost of replacing half the frame and engine bay
Do you remember your clocked hours on this one?
Brandon Boyles, I was going to ask the same question.
me too
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I thought he’d have his car o liner measuring system in place when performing his pulls and install of the new rails
you either can do this shit or you can't lol, i have so much respect for people who can. not to many can do shit like this.
hope you are taking it to the bank because you should be.
Thats a great comment. As a body man we rarely hear compliments
Mechanics gloves is all i'm going to say, excellent work as usual though
Whatever they're paying you they are not paying you enough.
How come you don't use a plasma cutter on the thru holes instead of drilling a hole? You do awesome work by the way!
Great Video, just one question for you, when you realize your measurement was off by couple milliliter, how did u adjust it to specification. Sorry i'm new to this. Thank you in advance
I am surprised that the cavity wax did go on fire when you were welding the studs on.
BIIIIIG JOB
Would have been good to see the rest of it done, but I'm guessing you didn't do that part, pretty cool video.
What was wrong with it? They don't look crumpled, and was it cost effective?
Please talk about tools. What tools you are using for the job. Also why car-o-liner vs. Others.
Thank you.
Why do you pull things straight before removing?
Edit: And how on earth can that spindly frame rail take any weight..
those things cost way too much but I guess they are built pretty well
What’s the cost to get 2 of the rails replaced
Why did this one get repaired? Bill must have been more than the cost of the sprinter 🤔 We’re not allowed to repair anything that exceeds 80% of vehicle market price 🤔
Where's the cut off point for the insurance company to write the vehicle off? I've watched a few of these and whilst some of the repairs are vast, some of the vehicles values I would say are not?
Usually if repair is more than 70% of vehicle value its totaled.
Wow why repair it?
Tremendous amount of work just to get it where it is. Much left the work down in the video.
That bill was not cheap.
How did you get it off the rack with no suspension?
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You paid on commission or by the clock?
Why was this vehicle not a total lost write off ?
Carl Southern Estimator must have been new, or a intact field appriaser lol
This was probably state farm. Those clowns don't total anything.
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You need to invest in the air hammer must be hourly not commission pay where you're at
Why not sway the rails back and cut a square on the side of the rail to repair them. Then reeled the rails, clean up your welds, prime and paint... you could just do pull for sway and mash on each rail. That’s what we do on all the cars we buy at auction most do the time.
Because he's not a hack
Trump it that’s not called being a hack. If you ever look at a insurance estimate (which I have done hundreds of) you will see a line on some of them saying “pull for sway”. That is exactly what that does. Manufacturers are okay with it and it is the right away of fixing a car.
Nahiyan Haq because if you can’t cold pull it, it’s junk, no heat is to be applied to the rail assembly. And, being in the U.S. land of lawsuits, you won’t find anyone who will do a repair that way.
D Pupo read my comments gain. I didn’t say anything about applying heat. You still pull it cold and sway it but then you end up with buckled in the rail. You then cut a square in the rail from the outside to get access to repair the buckled. You weld just that square up again, clean up welds, body filler, sand, prime and paint.
Nahiyan Haq there is no insurance company in the states that would approve that repair, it is a liability and it’s in a crumple zone. There is no way you could guarantee 100% that rail would perform to manufacture specs in another collision if repaired in that fashion. That is why they tell you to replace the entire rail assembly. It’s a big job in any car, but it is the “correct” way according to manufacturers & ICar.
Your employer pay for the drill bits?
Ryan England Yes and can charge the insurance company
I wonder how much seam sealer he goes through, it always "seams" (terrible attempt) like he uses so few tubes.
Not to be an ass but Could you shorten your intro after watching like 6 episodes in a row a gets a little annoying hahhahah but besides that keep it up
I’m not a genius when it comes to cars
But this job is either equal to or more than the cost of this car
Am I wrong?
Fck me the man hours and parts for this must be immense
Looks like you need a better estimator. That should have totaled. That easily a $30k+ repair if written properly. Sometimes you have to know when to just send them down the road.
You had your work cut out on that one.
what a fuckin challenge bruh!?
Estimator must have been green if they couldn’t flag this as a total loss.
Mo A estimator does not decided whether it is a total loss. The image desk appraisers at the insurance company do that. If it’s snake farm insurance then they fix this kinda crap all day long
Nahiyan Haq I am image desk at DGIG State Farm doesn’t exist FYI. Estimator couldn’t even flag this at 70% ACV.... that’s a garbage appraiser
Mo A FYI image desk at DGIG does exist. I know several people at DGIG who do exactly that. This should have reached 70% ACV but again it comes down to the image desk appraiser to correct the estimate or to choose to write it off
Nahiyan Haq read my comment again, I work as a image desk appraiser at DGIG. Let me guess your a repair planner at fix auto or car star ?
Tek sada se vidi da je popravljano.Dobar posao ali nepotrebna zamjena uzdužnih nosača.Mogli su se poravnati i bio bi puno bolji posao!!
in balkan this is little repair
Not a practical repair economically speaking. I can’t see a insurance company not writing this off. Way too much labour removing and reinstalling drivetrain and interior.
Hi. Why change the both whole frame rails?
It sucks to be a full blown solid tech do you get stuck with all the jobs like this because youre capable and the guys next to you make the same money doing all the gravy work because they are too lazy and scared to tackle the big hits.
Time to total this car
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I’m not a body man, but does your boss ever say something is totaled? Or, tell the insurance company to take it elsewhere? Maybe it’s time for you to move on to white collar Kye? This repair job is bodyman abuse. Like to know how many hours you got paid for this? How many hours did it take you? And the guy who removed the engine? I worked at 2 GM dealers as a mechanic on commission, long ago. It was a scam. GM wants their warranty repairs done for basically minimum wage. Commission is just a way to screw the middle-class skilled laborer, and the customer. You are very talented, maybe you should put out your own shingle? You will never get anywhere working on commission for a millionaire.
This car should have been sent to the salvage yard
It would be nice if you keep the Rap crap out of your videos then they would be great videos
I wish kyle could fix my car ive had to send it back 3 times already.
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