You know you got solid Mates when they not only facilitate you getting new wheels, but they fix the dent on it before they give it to you. good job guys!
Yea, I was coming to say similar! Of all the internet, we've found two of the legitimate good ones. Love these guys. Wade and James 🫡 _edit: ok... I typed that after watching 15min, but seeing _*_how much_*_ they did... 😮 LEGENDS!!_
If a mate gave me a car when I was in need I'd be thinking hard of figuring out how to repay him. That's not just "being nice", it's really going the extra mile.
@@dagda1180 long story short in this case yes it should shatter making metal harder hard enough to cut other metal makes it brittle Brittle enough shatter when approximately the same amount of force that would cause low carbon steel to bend or yeild
Love the detail of using filler as skimmer and skimmer as filler. Also stepping on an old file would probably snap it too since they're made of hardened steel so they'll file stuff.
Even at the depth of bodywork misadventure, the cheerful brass band music creates a buoyant mood. Amazed an LPG barra pulls less revs on the hill than Jeff.
Well it pulled 100 more revs. Really close considering the 4L on LPG is quite a bit less powerful than the older petrol V8, and it's like 200 kilos heavier. I guess having a 6 speed gearbox instead of 4 might mean it has more efficient gearing.
The nail polish thing is no joke. When my mom was getting rid of some old red nail polish, I grabbed it and now I use it as touch up paint for my toolbox. It's a perfect match too.
@17:18 guys, take a direct beam light (phone flashlight, LED headlamp,) hold it on a perpendicular angle to the panel. It will highlight all the bubbles. If you learn about drywall work, it's basically the same thing, but with less different compounds you gotta use!!! I know you're all now addicted to perfecting bodywork after this XD so learn those little tricks!
You guys are amazing. Like honestly I would not have bothered with the door dent on my own car, much less on something I was fixing up for someone else. Just clean it off and give it a bit of paint so it don't rust.
fun fact in Dominican Republic they have a lot of lpg pumps but they also fit lpg tanks to gasoline cars but for some of those cars they are not used to starting up with just lpg meaning you'll get a special button where you can go from Gasoline to lpg hell even while diving you can switch on what you want your car to run on and you wont even know when it happens. but this does mean you'll need to fill both lpg and gas.
In Australia we used to have a lot of gas conversions. Ford and Holden always made them at the factory, but a lot of people had their Gas systems installed afterwards so those usually worked just the same as you're describing. There's still a few odd gas cars around but I don't think anyone's making new ones.
James is just so good at everything he dose ....It honestly makes me not even wanna try to human anymore.... I'll never be a James....he's just too good.
Also you can get metallic flake VERY CLOSE if you do 2 or more thin coats, and then one thick coat on the tacky last sprayed coat. I've done it for my truck's lund visor and small repairs
I never knew that bodywork and fixing up an oldschool model-kit to be -presentable- had so much in common... James' spraycan control is PREMIUM, love seein' a master in action.
The panel beating was impressive (minus the fact that you should always sand away the paint on the exposed side before you do it from the other side), but Wade, I gotta level with you - not only is silver the hardest colour to paint match, but the end result is actually somehow worse than when you started. I commend the effort though, 110%!
Thanks to this channel I bought a nugget Citroen Xsara Picasso from 2001. It is a shitter but a fun one, and can haul 15 crates of beer with place to spare.
my only gripe is using the bondo on the bumper. the plastic bumper will expand and contract and flex with heat and use but the bondo and paint on top wont. So after years of being in the sun it might crack and look bad. Only speaking from working with cars where such a thing has happened. Otherwise pretty solid!
Naturally aspirated Inline6 is my favourite type of engine, I have M20 in my BMW e30, still can hold coin on its side while idling, also almost no electronics, just lovin' it💚💚💚
Wade, you gotta' see the silliness we're doing for new car engines in the USA. Putting a 1.2L 3 cylinder turbo in compact SUVs, and they roar like a Mustang going uphill. It's pure madness, a true 2024 nugget. 😂
@@ferretyluv Yeah, I can lift the back end of my 2024 Trailblazer by hand, and I'm NOT a particularly strong person (I did bend the rear bumper doing so though, oops). The whole car weighs nothing compared to how it looks, and the engine bay is twice the depth it needs to be for the dinky little engine, so it ships by default with this enormous intercooler that barely gets warm, and everything but the fuel filter is super accessible right up front, just because what else are they going to fill the space with?
19:29 (Wade)"Fresh out the car wash ! You tell me this has been repaired ! You tell me that this has been repaired" ! (James) It's been repaired" (Wade) "Shut up James" !😂😂!
James really is a gift to this channel. I'm sure I am speaking for everyone here that we would all love our own James as he really is a master for everything. I hope the Falcon gets a good life and manages to get a few more kilometers on it. As someone outside Australia I do love these things to and would love to at least see one in person someday
Watching this video is giving me nostalgia of watching my grandpa do bodywork repair jobs in our backyard before he retired. There was nothing I didn’t want to eat more than the paste after the red activator’s been mixed in lmao. I can even remember the smell
I think it's supposed to be as in swamp. Its sticky mud like stuff you use for filling in gaps so it makes sense to me. Bog is a common Australian word as well as British for either toilets or swamps.
Left a bottle of that diggers acetone in the back seat of my Honda and the shape of the bottle mixed with the clarity of the Acetone made a lens like a magnifying glass and set my back seat on fire. Almost lost my blackice and pie wrapper collection, was a dark day.
I realized that I have that same type of Meguiar's headlight restorer in my garage. It worked for me and my 2001 Civic, so no idea why it did not work for Wade.
If you want to add non-petrol vehicles to the Literboard you could always do an economical comparison, by calculating how many $AU it costs to do the whole rout. I know prices go up so you could get the prices now and use the same amount of money from here onwards (untill the difference in cost is significant). This could also be done with EV's, by using the average price in KW/h in your region and using the same process
for the paint not matching its because the paint aged on the car you have to bring a part of the car to a paint shop to get the exact match the code is not accurate after years of use.
Btw you could technically put it on the litre board. Petrol has 8,9kwh energy per litre and lpg 6,57 kwh per litre. That means you just have to multiply the lpg usage by 0,74 to compare it to petrol :) It would be really interesting for me if lpg is more efficient. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
I think James has earned a title, after all the absolute nonsense we’ve seen him pull (the test light that wasn’t comes to mind, or the water bottle shift ring). From me to you, good sir, I pass on the title of “The Jankifier”- acquired from turbocharging a Club Car golf cart and arming it with blades to cut a path through the brush on the trails. May you wear it well and create many abominations
I once had to paint a replacement bumper and mudguard after I messed up mine. I got the code and took it to one shop, and the colour was shit, not even a match. Tried a different store and it was actually perfect, I couldn't even tell. It was this really nice goldish metallic flake colour, very beautiful car. Old Ford Laser that one. Sadly I wrecked it properly a year later, but what are you gonna do.
@@DarrellWilkerson4.6 Wow that's even better, definitely jumped to the top of my list of favourite sporty sedans. Too bad I'll probably never see one in person because these are probably half impossible to import to Finland
James: Mate James + Dank: Maaaaaaaaate Legend? Legend. Bro can turn a wrench, I'm jealous, mate. Only had good experiences with Ford, I feel like I'm the only one. Had an 05 focus that was great going through 100k miles. Miss it honestly, got it so I could pass my drivers test (If you can't parallel park you fail! Wanted a short car for that reason, passed with flying colors, miss that car)
Oh my god the car’s bodywork actually is designed to receive a front plate elegantly, it’s wild how many cars (in the US at least) look like the front plate is an afterthought, I just guess to placate the like 2 or 3 places where they don’t have them?
I've always wanted to hear Wade's thoughts on the current gen Ford Ranger. Apparently it was developed by Ford Australia and IMO there's something neat about it that really makes it seem that way
Im gunna name my car after you Wade, its an 08 Civic
please don’t make it rice.
"Garbage time"
@@Forrest_O. please make it rice 🍚
I named my 03 civic Carlton, as an homage to the “a car” joke. Because that’s what it was… it was, an car.
@@background0001 i dont want the channel disrespected like that.
You know you got solid Mates when they not only facilitate you getting new wheels, but they fix the dent on it before they give it to you. good job guys!
Also a dent that no one will care about for the sake of garbage time content
Yea, I was coming to say similar! Of all the internet, we've found two of the legitimate good ones. Love these guys.
Wade and James 🫡
_edit: ok... I typed that after watching 15min, but seeing _*_how much_*_ they did... 😮 LEGENDS!!_
he's perpetuating the legend that was the teacher that gave him Bruce 1.
*IT'S EVEN LPG AND EVERYTHING LOOK*
If a mate gave me a car when I was in need I'd be thinking hard of figuring out how to repay him. That's not just "being nice", it's really going the extra mile.
I'm glad James wore a mask when sanding. I figured he'd just do the ol' mate trick of holding his breath! 😂
19:18 files are made out of high carbon steel wich is britle, drop it on the ground it almost souds like glass
Yeah, super common to find them with the end snapped off because someone tried to open a tin of paint with them.
Yep files are hard steel
Hard steel is normally brittle
@@bluejayfabrications2216Still, METAL shouldn't shatter because someone stepped on it (unless it was broken beforrhand).
@@dagda1180 long story short in this case yes it should shatter
making metal harder hard enough to cut other metal makes it brittle
Brittle enough shatter when approximately the same amount of force that would cause low carbon steel to bend or yeild
Love the detail of using filler as skimmer and skimmer as filler.
Also stepping on an old file would probably snap it too since they're made of hardened steel so they'll file stuff.
Even at the depth of bodywork misadventure, the cheerful brass band music creates a buoyant mood. Amazed an LPG barra pulls less revs on the hill than Jeff.
Well it pulled 100 more revs. Really close considering the 4L on LPG is quite a bit less powerful than the older petrol V8, and it's like 200 kilos heavier. I guess having a 6 speed gearbox instead of 4 might mean it has more efficient gearing.
On the subject of power tools, Makita is awesome. Most of their tools are still made in Japan and that can be seen in their quality.
The nail polish thing is no joke. When my mom was getting rid of some old red nail polish, I grabbed it and now I use it as touch up paint for my toolbox. It's a perfect match too.
@17:18 guys, take a direct beam light (phone flashlight, LED headlamp,) hold it on a perpendicular angle to the panel. It will highlight all the bubbles.
If you learn about drywall work, it's basically the same thing, but with less different compounds you gotta use!!! I know you're all now addicted to perfecting bodywork after this XD so learn those little tricks!
You guys are amazing. Like honestly I would not have bothered with the door dent on my own car, much less on something I was fixing up for someone else. Just clean it off and give it a bit of paint so it don't rust.
fun fact in Dominican Republic they have a lot of lpg pumps but they also fit lpg tanks to gasoline cars but for some of those cars they are not used to starting up with just lpg meaning you'll get a special button where you can go from Gasoline to lpg hell even while diving you can switch on what you want your car to run on and you wont even know when it happens. but this does mean you'll need to fill both lpg and gas.
In Australia we used to have a lot of gas conversions. Ford and Holden always made them at the factory, but a lot of people had their Gas systems installed afterwards so those usually worked just the same as you're describing.
There's still a few odd gas cars around but I don't think anyone's making new ones.
I think that's how LPG systems work in general if they aren't factory installed; I wouldn't be surprised if some OEM systems operated this way as well
@@SineN0mine3 oh that’s cool here in dr we got it from Australia because of gas prices going up but at this point it’s close to the same price as gas
@@purpleneons well idk too much about em if I’m being honest I just see everything here in dr but honestly that’s cool
A lot of cars have mismatched colors on three plastic and metal panels from the factory too. Many cars had bumpers painted separately at the factory.
James is just so good at everything he dose ....It honestly makes me not even wanna try to human anymore....
I'll never be a James....he's just too good.
I did basically the same job to my VE commodore last week and it looks like shit
Also you can get metallic flake VERY CLOSE if you do 2 or more thin coats, and then one thick coat on the tacky last sprayed coat. I've done it for my truck's lund visor and small repairs
8:25 that Dolphin glaze is some good stuff. I've used it quite a few times and it works great every time.
Omg its the Australian dude screaming at cars again, my day is way better now
I never knew that bodywork and fixing up an oldschool model-kit to be -presentable- had so much in common... James' spraycan control is PREMIUM, love seein' a master in action.
Been looking for dolphin glaze for years. I just couldn't remember the name. We use to use it on aircraft composites. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
Now THIS is a birthday gift! 🎁
happy birthday!
"the bumper has a bit of how ya goin" hahaha
The best thing to hide any imperfections, wait until it dusts up 👌
The panel beating was impressive (minus the fact that you should always sand away the paint on the exposed side before you do it from the other side), but Wade, I gotta level with you - not only is silver the hardest colour to paint match, but the end result is actually somehow worse than when you started. I commend the effort though, 110%!
I do body work for a living and your repair method to that car made me cry.
Thanks to this channel I bought a nugget Citroen Xsara Picasso from 2001. It is a shitter but a fun one, and can haul 15 crates of beer with place to spare.
my only gripe is using the bondo on the bumper. the plastic bumper will expand and contract and flex with heat and use but the bondo and paint on top wont. So after years of being in the sun it might crack and look bad. Only speaking from working with cars where such a thing has happened. Otherwise pretty solid!
James is like, THE best dude. Continues surprising with his kindliness.
Naturally aspirated Inline6 is my favourite type of engine, I have M20 in my BMW e30, still can hold coin on its side while idling, also almost no electronics, just lovin' it💚💚💚
So glad Mazda have brought back the inline six in ‘normal people’ cars, even if those happen to be lumpy SUVs…
I'm so glad you convinced me to get some HD600's and a BTR5 so i can experience the echo of every wall in the room, sublime
Wade, you gotta' see the silliness we're doing for new car engines in the USA. Putting a 1.2L 3 cylinder turbo in compact SUVs, and they roar like a Mustang going uphill. It's pure madness, a true 2024 nugget. 😂
That thing will tip over in a slight breeze.
@@ferretyluv Yeah, I can lift the back end of my 2024 Trailblazer by hand, and I'm NOT a particularly strong person (I did bend the rear bumper doing so though, oops). The whole car weighs nothing compared to how it looks, and the engine bay is twice the depth it needs to be for the dinky little engine, so it ships by default with this enormous intercooler that barely gets warm, and everything but the fuel filter is super accessible right up front, just because what else are they going to fill the space with?
@@KiraSlith Oh I meant from the high center of gravity. Turbo + fast engine + high center of gravity = will tip over on a gentle curve.
@@ferretyluv That's funny you mention that, look up the Trailblazer's engine. it's shaped like an old computer tower, it's so weird looking!
so basically you caught up with us europeans then. good on ya.
19:29 (Wade)"Fresh out the car wash ! You tell me this has been repaired ! You tell me that this has been repaired" ! (James) It's been repaired" (Wade) "Shut up James" !😂😂!
James really is a gift to this channel. I'm sure I am speaking for everyone here that we would all love our own James as he really is a master for everything.
I hope the Falcon gets a good life and manages to get a few more kilometers on it. As someone outside Australia I do love these things to and would love to at least see one in person someday
Watching this video is giving me nostalgia of watching my grandpa do bodywork repair jobs in our backyard before he retired. There was nothing I didn’t want to eat more than the paste after the red activator’s been mixed in lmao. I can even remember the smell
proper shade tree repairs going on there, well done!
Everyone needs a James in their life
Loved this episode. You guys doing body work is hilarious.
since files are really hard they're also brittle af, it'll happen even to the good ones
Theres just something about that grey on the falcon. It just seems super iconic.
i don't usually care much for cars but i will literally watch these two do literally anything because it's so entertaining :)
I have a 2012 G6, its my first car, I love it. Get's fantastic fuel economy on the motorway and has plenty of bells and whistles to keep me happy.
When you say bog, all i hear is british for bathroom or english for swamp.
I think it's supposed to be as in swamp. Its sticky mud like stuff you use for filling in gaps so it makes sense to me.
Bog is a common Australian word as well as British for either toilets or swamps.
Unintentionally learning so much about bondo, would've done the same exact mistakes but without the banter.
Oi! Makita! That shit is good stuff. My dad still has his drills and shit from them after 20 years of AC work.
Left a bottle of that diggers acetone in the back seat of my Honda and the shape of the bottle mixed with the clarity of the Acetone made a lens like a magnifying glass and set my back seat on fire. Almost lost my blackice and pie wrapper collection, was a dark day.
8:09 ultra fine lacquer covering
I realized that I have that same type of Meguiar's headlight restorer in my garage. It worked for me and my 2001 Civic, so no idea why it did not work for Wade.
If you want to add non-petrol vehicles to the Literboard you could always do an economical comparison, by calculating how many $AU it costs to do the whole rout. I know prices go up so you could get the prices now and use the same amount of money from here onwards (untill the difference in cost is significant). This could also be done with EV's, by using the average price in KW/h in your region and using the same process
i imagine how wierd the women in the makeup section looked at him coming with a fuel cap looking for the exact color 😂
"adjusting the mounts...with the hammer and whatnot"
Best looking Falcon, you guys did a great job!
THAT TOP GEAR ESQUE SET OF BOARDS FOR THE TIMES IS AWESOME
for the paint not matching its because the paint aged on the car you have to bring a part of the car to a paint shop to get the exact match the code is not accurate after years of use.
I work at an automotive paint store in the US and we literally sell dolphin glaze too lol, I'll have to check if ours has Polish too.
Man i wish we got these in the states. The barra is excellent, and what a sharp car it is!
James dinging away with a hammer reminds me of Father Ted trying to fix a dent
I've got the ute variant, exact same interior. Beautiful thing to drive
Classic flacon ding, every other falcon i see has something like this, everyone heavily under estimates how wide they are
i'm going into an auto body class soon so seeing this was very reassuring
Back in like 2006 I knew someone who bought a BRAND NEW TK Barina, from new, the red on the bumper didn't match the red on the bodywork
Also, are there ANY LPG pumps still in Adelaide? I thought they were all ripped out years ago
Usually I have had a lot of luck doing cut ins on cars with the ez coat spray cans at my job, that shit comes out pretty good
8:22 Bondo smells like every hair on my face melting. Oh my god.
We have propane tanks here in the states where i live. It is LPG, so it probably would work in a car fitted with lpg
Btw you could technically put it on the litre board. Petrol has 8,9kwh energy per litre and lpg 6,57 kwh per litre. That means you just have to multiply the lpg usage by 0,74 to compare it to petrol :)
It would be really interesting for me if lpg is more efficient.
Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
15:37 "Yes I do help some times"...
16:17 "But I'd rather do this"
19:19 Files are meant to be hard, and hardened metal gets brittle it happens
The quick n' dirty way for ol' mates is the BnB method; Buff n' Bondo :D
I came for the Ipods, I stayed for the automotive
I need more auto body repair in my life from you
I did not expect this when I read bogan repair, excellent work, James.
Bondo:The Favorite product of sketchy Used car sales men everywhere
Mate, this looks class! Nice job fixing that up for your old buddy
i used that meguiar's 2 step on my car and it looked like the right one, maybe that's another instance where they jip the aussie's lol
She's a great 10-footer!
I think James has earned a title, after all the absolute nonsense we’ve seen him pull (the test light that wasn’t comes to mind, or the water bottle shift ring). From me to you, good sir, I pass on the title of “The Jankifier”- acquired from turbocharging a Club Car golf cart and arming it with blades to cut a path through the brush on the trails. May you wear it well and create many abominations
21:41 you’d have no idea, but you’d just assume it does
8:13 Funny thing is I live in Poland and I've never seen this brand of filler in my life
I once had to paint a replacement bumper and mudguard after I messed up mine. I got the code and took it to one shop, and the colour was shit, not even a match.
Tried a different store and it was actually perfect, I couldn't even tell. It was this really nice goldish metallic flake colour, very beautiful car. Old Ford Laser that one.
Sadly I wrecked it properly a year later, but what are you gonna do.
What I've gained from this is that bodywork is expensive
It's so funny to me how great of a time Ford was having in every country except the US. Oh 6.4 Power Stroke, I'm probably that motors only fan lmao
Man James is just so talented
That's honestly a pretty good looking sedan, it's not even boring. Well, except for the paint colour but whatever
Search fg f6 and fg gtp
@@DarrellWilkerson4.6 Wow that's even better, definitely jumped to the top of my list of favourite sporty sedans. Too bad I'll probably never see one in person because these are probably half impossible to import to Finland
Actually came out pretty nice!!!
Seems like 3 months of grate stacking fun
You, guys, should think about opening a used car dealership someday
James: Mate
James + Dank: Maaaaaaaaate
Legend? Legend. Bro can turn a wrench, I'm jealous, mate.
Only had good experiences with Ford, I feel like I'm the only one. Had an 05 focus that was great going through 100k miles. Miss it honestly, got it so I could pass my drivers test (If you can't parallel park you fail! Wanted a short car for that reason, passed with flying colors, miss that car)
Still love my FG. She’s a ripper mate!
Oh my god the car’s bodywork actually is designed to receive a front plate elegantly, it’s wild how many cars (in the US at least) look like the front plate is an afterthought, I just guess to placate the like 2 or 3 places where they don’t have them?
Love callin mud, bog guess we all have the similar thoughts for nicknames
It’s funny how this video comes out just 2 days after I crash my car
wow, that paint just woke up! good job guys!
I'd like to add I got myself a George after the garbage time review.
Man I wanna import a falcon to Indonesia sometime, matey looks handsome
not the Aussie hair products commercial on your videos LMFAO
I owned an fg xr6 for 7 years. Best and most reliable car I ever owned.
With the hill test, were you using it performance mode? Cause that does tend to get the gearbox to kick back earlier, changes throttle map.
I've always wanted to hear Wade's thoughts on the current gen Ford Ranger. Apparently it was developed by Ford Australia and IMO there's something neat about it that really makes it seem that way
It never ends with bodywork. Rats off to ya! 👏🏻
And I’ve spent two years of my life getting a degree around auto body 😆. No regerts!!
i wish i knew someone like james
I just got back inside from taking video of my car from an accident this past weekend, then I see this notification 😂
Can't buy that car in USA. 10/10, would drive
Dugglue & father ted would be proud