This is the reason the old breakers yards were so good; you could break lots of somebody else's bits while removing the parts you needed at the same time finding how it all fitted.
ex-pat here in Canada, been watching since, well, close to the beginning I think. Really great to see how your videos get better and better with each one (as someone who makes videos for a living I give you mad respect for the work involved), And as a fan of VW and Audi cars, it's great to see you working on what we can't get over here, and makes me look forward to coming back there to visit family :)
Well done Dean….now that you are a fully experienced dashboard mechanic, some advice! If anybody asks you to replace the heater fan control valve on a Citroen C5 Exclusive then run away fast…it is an utter nightmare and men have grown old doing it. The design of that models aircon is such that you can see the dead valve and undo two of the bolts but the two more are buried under the alloy pipe work and firewall struts…you remove the entire dashboard to get any chance to undo the bolts and remove the valve. It took my Citroen dealers a week of hard work to get it all back up and running…they showed me the job half way through..what a mess! Good luck with getting yours back and working! 😀😀😀😀😀
I love this channel spot on when I was younger I did two jobs. I was a chair maker and I also repaired cars evenings and weekends and I was gonna go in to my own small garage with another man but he got ill so it never happened. I would love to do what you are doing.
( I'm watching you for 2 year's now , this is my first comment) I appreciate u so much bro ( as a mechanic) unfortunately in my country we don't have something like copart, that just the logic thing to do as a mechanic, by one broken car fix it and sell it!!!! Is just the proper thing to do as a mechanic!!! Kudos for that !
@@unsTo.89 If your talented - come to the UK you will earn fortunes when converted back to Romanian currency! Lots of mechanics retiring in their 50's and 60's and not being replaced by talented mechanics.
OK, that was the best intro yet!! This is a smart idea and when you sell the spares you should make out well! Great video. Can't wait till the next one.
Yes I’d definitely repair the front end over a rear end, especially with that level of damage. We did the exact same thing with an A1 a couple of years ago. The cost of front end parts was fat more than the cost of another A1 (in this case rear 1/4 damage) we didn’t make much on the sale of the repaired one but make a substantial profit on the spares from the donor car! Still have a gearbox in the garage 🤣 We also weighed the shell in and had a good amount from the cat! Great video as usual! Keep up the good work!
Nice to see you again earlier mate (im the chap with the dog that wanted to get an old porsche lol) , loving the content and looking forward to whats to come 💪
Great video, Dean. Definitely the right decision to repair the bolt on front end. That boot floor and quarter would have been a nightmare on the other one. The front end damaged car will be spot on when finished!
The reason they don't think about the dashboard fixings during the design process, is because it is all assembled on a jig to the dashboard frame and steering column with the heater and wiring loom pre installed. Then they lift the whole assembly into the car, do up a couple of fixings either side and plug in the dashboard loom into the main loom.
Wow! You are good! So much stuff to do to get where you want to. How on earth do you remember how to put it all back together! I was gobsmacked at your skill levels. 👏👍
Removing that dash looked like a days march and you have to do it again and then put it all back together - happy days!🙂 Great content to watch though and well done on the 200K.
Hi there Dean, this is a great idea, good to see how it works out. But I think this beyond most people, there is a lot to do and often twice everything.... will enjoy this process. All good mate.
"Arsehole bolts" haha, love it. Despite the pain of the interiors it looks like overall you made the right choice, and better than having to cut and weld up a bunch of panels at the rear (dubious safety?).
I'm glad to see the acting lessons are finally paying off Dean 😎. Love this channel by the way, I've watched it for years and I think this is my first comment
I once removed the dash of my old 2018 S3, while there is a lot of information online, since those are quite common cars with tons of fans, it was still a pain in the ass lol.
Fantastic video again. Since havng cancer in the last year I have been watching a ton of TH-cam during chemo and hospitals visits, I do love the tt. But as a 52year old I'm in to my meds, it's a family thing
love the start... gotta have a bit of fun with it. I have been in a TT as a passenger years ago, felt quite rapid to me but i dont know what engine it was or if it was even a quatro.
Usually on a modern Audi the pyro fuse will blow causing the airbags to go off. Unfortunately on Audis this can happen at as low a speed as 8mph, which can be a real pain, as we unfortuntely know in our family. You can simply bypass the pyro fuse with a length of wire to get the car started, if you don't have a spare pyro fuse to hand
Wish you all the Luck in the World Dean with this project ! It seem to me that it will be logical to having a donor car witch after you are taking all the parts you need, still can make a lot of money on stuff like engine and gearbox. I am only wondering why airbags not put in a special part of the dashboard, so they only can be replaced instead of removing the whole dashboard...why not ? Love the video and like i said Good Luck !!
Thanks, looks a swine of a job on the internal trims etc. Hard way to make a profit, especially with all the risk involved, but I love seeing stuff rescued and recycled, good luck. I am an engineer , not automotive, Chemical,and lots of stuff I designed worked very well until it failed, and then the lads on site gave me some serious grief.
Modern jaguar cars do the same thing on the hidden bolts of dash make me laugh take a car apart half a day but takes 14 days to put back together haha got to love it
In many places, halfing cars to make one good one is actually against the law. The term we had in Quebec for it, as an example, was "making a box". You just couldn't do it and get away with it. If both cars are marked as rebuildable salvage, you would have to show where all the parts came from, and when you get to showing chipping a car in half, well, the game is over and the car is marked for scrap.
Crazy to see these for their price, I live in Aus, repairable write offs arent a thing here, its not legal other than a few loopholes, they cost anywhere from 40k to 60k Australian, literally 20-30 thousand pound equivalent for an average mileage example
Dean you need to get some of those unfinished projects out of the workshop and into some of those green containers to give you more room in that ever shrinking workshop mate that would really piss me off not having enough room ideally having both of those cars side by side in the workshop would have been better
many years ago we bought a car a vauxhall 101, my husband kept saying , its making a terrible noise going round corners, turned out was a cut and shut. 😕
With them speakers wires just attach string to them and feed the string through the holes they need to go through in the dash during installation, as for them 2 top dashboard bolts they will have been installed before the windscreen was fitted on the production line, designers aren't interested in how someone's going to remove them during its life time, I don't know why manufacturers don't just make the passenger airbag as a separate unit so dash isn't destroyed.
The airbag has done its job and insurance is mandatory to sort everything from them on. The car can but isn’t intended to be repaired, passenger safety is the priority over someone making a few hundred.
I bought a Vauxhall Cavalier way back in the 80's and it turned out to be a cut and shut job. It seemed to go round left handers better than right handers and I kept checking tyres and suspension but in the end it was two write off's put together. ( Before internet and checks)
I use too buy 2x XR3I OR XR2Iin 1988 both damaged front and rear end none sun roof id chop them in half you couldnt see the join in the middle ever my welding was good .then my paint man was good ,then i sold the newest registerd one ,
Still don’t know why manufacturers don’t make a separate panel for passenger airbags, spare parts vehicle is always way forward if price is right, plenty parts afterwards
ive always said getting a donor car would be cheaper than getting all the parts needed seperately, no one ever listened to me though 😂😂😂😂the only issue though for a lot of people is having the extra space 👍👍👍
Definitely the right choice. Any rear ended car is always more work to repair especially if the rear floor and quarter has been crumpled.
This is the reason the old breakers yards were so good; you could break lots of somebody else's bits while removing the parts you needed at the same time finding how it all fitted.
This is the reason our local breakers stopped letting people into the yard.
What? This doesn’t make sense.
ex-pat here in Canada, been watching since, well, close to the beginning I think. Really great to see how your videos get better and better with each one (as someone who makes videos for a living I give you mad respect for the work involved), And as a fan of VW and Audi cars, it's great to see you working on what we can't get over here, and makes me look forward to coming back there to visit family :)
Well done Dean….now that you are a fully experienced dashboard mechanic, some advice! If anybody asks you to replace the heater fan control valve on a Citroen C5 Exclusive then run away fast…it is an utter nightmare and men have grown old doing it. The design of that models aircon is such that you can see the dead valve and undo two of the bolts but the two more are buried under the alloy pipe work and firewall struts…you remove the entire dashboard to get any chance to undo the bolts and remove the valve. It took my Citroen dealers a week of hard work to get it all back up and running…they showed me the job half way through..what a mess! Good luck with getting yours back and working! 😀😀😀😀😀
Congrats on 200k subscribers Dean! Really great to see your channel growing. You are pushing out some great content thank you!
the first 30 secs definitely something that i never know that i need. great video as usual, dean !
I love this channel spot on when I was younger I did two jobs. I was a chair maker and I also repaired cars evenings and weekends and I was gonna go in to my own small garage with another man but he got ill so it never happened. I would love to do what you are doing.
Dean dropping these videos like its a mix tape. Loving it!
( I'm watching you for 2 year's now , this is my first comment)
I appreciate u so much bro ( as a mechanic) unfortunately in my country we don't have something like copart, that just the logic thing to do as a mechanic, by one broken car fix it and sell it!!!! Is just the proper thing to do as a mechanic!!! Kudos for that !
Thanks mate! 😊
👍👍
What country are you in as a mechanic where the system doesn't have a co-part?
@@shifty277 Romania !
@@unsTo.89 If your talented - come to the UK you will earn fortunes when converted back to Romanian currency!
Lots of mechanics retiring in their 50's and 60's and not being replaced by talented mechanics.
OK, that was the best intro yet!! This is a smart idea and when you sell the spares you should make out well! Great video. Can't wait till the next one.
Yes I’d definitely repair the front end over a rear end, especially with that level of damage.
We did the exact same thing with an A1 a couple of years ago. The cost of front end parts was fat more than the cost of another A1 (in this case rear 1/4 damage) we didn’t make much on the sale of the repaired one but make a substantial profit on the spares from the donor car! Still have a gearbox in the garage 🤣 We also weighed the shell in and had a good amount from the cat!
Great video as usual! Keep up the good work!
Nice to see you again earlier mate (im the chap with the dog that wanted to get an old porsche lol) , loving the content and looking forward to whats to come 💪
Big Congratulations on the 200k subscribers Dean!.. 🎉👊👍😉
Yet another brilliant vag group edition by Dean. I must admit i wait every week for these. Cheers dean. Far far better than mats channel. ❤
Great video, Dean. Definitely the right decision to repair the bolt on front end. That boot floor and quarter would have been a nightmare on the other one. The front end damaged car will be spot on when finished!
Great video Dean as always man waiting on the mext one now mate see you then!. ✨👌✨👌👍👍👍🏴
The reason they don't think about the dashboard fixings during the design process, is because it is all assembled on a jig to the dashboard frame and steering column with the heater and wiring loom pre installed.
Then they lift the whole assembly into the car, do up a couple of fixings either side and plug in the dashboard loom into the main loom.
Really enjoyed this one Dean! Very satisfying!
A very entertaining video, plenty of swearing and chucking stuff around! Congratulations on 200K subscribers 👍
You made the right choice Dean. I would suggest that you try to get the donor car running so when you sell it people can see the engine runs ok 👍
Perfect engine in the donor car for the octavia??? Win win Dean??? Love the content as always mate! Keep it coming 👌
Congratulations on the 200k subs Dean cracking channel & content I watched you from the start. Keep up the hard work buddy 💪
Wow! You are good! So much stuff to do to get where you want to.
How on earth do you remember how to put it all back together! I was gobsmacked at your skill levels. 👏👍
Removing that dash looked like a days march and you have to do it again and then put it all back together - happy days!🙂 Great content to watch though and well done on the 200K.
Congrats of the 200K subs Dean. Well deserved a great channel 😃😃😎😎
Wow loving this one the dash was such a nightmare well done buddy love your Channel and never miss your videos 🎉 keep it up
200,000 subs well done🎉🎉,
Great project you have here too
Great video.. I can see why cars are written off once airbags are deployed. Would not have the patience to swap over a dash.
Hi there Dean, this is a great idea, good to see how it works out. But I think this beyond most people, there is a lot to do and often twice everything.... will enjoy this process. All good mate.
Not that I’ll ever be taking my Mk3 TTs to bits, I’m enjoying watching
Dean, this looks like a great challenge, more excellent content you are putting out on TH-cam, and it looks like it is going to be profitable.
great format on the videos dean i love them...
"Arsehole bolts" haha, love it. Despite the pain of the interiors it looks like overall you made the right choice, and better than having to cut and weld up a bunch of panels at the rear (dubious safety?).
Great idea and looking forward to the rest of the series
Love the videos, congrats on 200k. If you add the Mk3 TT dash repair in description, will it give you more hits?
Loving this one! Get your windscreen man to remove the good windscreen from the donor and fit into the good car. Will save you a few quid!
I'm glad to see the acting lessons are finally paying off Dean 😎. Love this channel by the way, I've watched it for years and I think this is my first comment
Congratulations on 200k subscribers Dean !
Thank you so much 😀
Genius idea got to work out cost neutral in the end (less labour) looking forward to end result 💪
jesus mate. how the hell do you remember where everything goes ? hats off to you 👍
I just rebuilt 2019 20th edition Audi TT Quattro. Similar damages as yours. Nice find with yours.
Great start Dean looking forward to the next one.
This should be good to see where you end up profit wise Dean.. kinda gives an idea of how a parts car stacks up against buying individual parts
Very amusing start and thank you.
I’m glad 🤣.. felt like a twat filming it 😂
@@SavingSalvage Not to worry and a very clever start. There are worse ways of being a twat.
@@johnjConnellan 😂👌🏼
Great work bud, not easy removing the dash at all.
Fantastic own a white mk 3 TT s line myself great content as always 👍
Awesome episode .. love these rebuilds thankyou..
I once removed the dash of my old 2018 S3, while there is a lot of information online, since those are quite common cars with tons of fans, it was still a pain in the ass lol.
200k subs. 🎉Keep growing bud.
That's the plan!
Grest vid Dean cant wait for next one !
I love this video D.
Keep up the good work.
If the windscreen needs replacing, take it out 1st. Fit new dash then put it back. Makes it's a lot easier
Fantastic video again.
Since havng cancer in the last year I have been watching a ton of TH-cam during chemo and hospitals visits,
I do love the tt.
But as a 52year old I'm in to my meds, it's a family thing
love the start... gotta have a bit of fun with it. I have been in a TT as a passenger years ago, felt quite rapid to me but i dont know what engine it was or if it was even a quatro.
Usually on a modern Audi the pyro fuse will blow causing the airbags to go off. Unfortunately on Audis this can happen at as low a speed as 8mph, which can be a real pain, as we unfortuntely know in our family. You can simply bypass the pyro fuse with a length of wire to get the car started, if you don't have a spare pyro fuse to hand
Wish you all the Luck in the World Dean with this project ! It seem to me that it will be logical to having a donor car witch after you are taking all the parts you need, still can make a lot of money on stuff like engine and gearbox. I am only wondering why airbags not put in a special part of the dashboard, so they only can be replaced instead of removing the whole dashboard...why not ? Love the video and like i said Good Luck !!
Great find, you r becoming Audi specialist by now hehe . Big Up!
Always have been a VAG specialist. 😉
Look forward to the other videos. 👍👍👍👍. What is happening with the Defender?/
Hi Dean. There's a nice bit of damage to the front of this Audi. Great video again, Alex 🙏👏👏🇮🇪
Oh mate, the TT mk3 is a dream of a car to work on! Great video! Currently rebuilding a crash-damaged one myself and its so much fun!!
Good luck!
Thanks, looks a swine of a job on the internal trims etc. Hard way to make a profit, especially with all the risk involved, but I love seeing stuff rescued and recycled, good luck.
I am an engineer , not automotive, Chemical,and lots of stuff I designed worked very well until it failed, and then the lads on site gave me some serious grief.
Enjoyed that one 😂 keep it up mate!
Dean good idea that pal buy 2 cars and swap the parts over repair the least with the damage
This is going to be a interesting series
awsome work bud keep up the dope builds man you legit inspire me 👊
I appreciate that! 😊
Great video, and an interesting theme.
Keep calm and carry on disassembling thanks for the vid and vids to follow good work
Nice mk8 golf r in background 😊
Another great video Matt just subscribed
Welcome!
Get a strip of metal, drill two holes in it. Bolt it in place of the pyro fuse and start the car.
Absolutely the right way to go well done.
Probably worth more in parts 👍. Like this one Dean, something a bit different
Great video we need more of them 👏
Great video - is there any gain to be had by taking the windscreen out of the 'rebuild car' before replacing the dash? Good luck
If you need repair methods I can help you out with manufacturers methods like getting that dashboard out
Love the videos and happy to help👌
Thanks!
Nice, love a TT especially MK3. The parts car for £4300 was a bargain!
Modern jaguar cars do the same thing on the hidden bolts of dash make me laugh take a car apart half a day but takes 14 days to put back together haha got to love it
Put the other engine in the Octavia 😉😉😉😉
Oh bloody hell it would fit straight in as well. Full circle moment that 😂
@@SavingSalvageyou know your gonna do it - just because you can. Go on Dean you know you want to…..
Love the content
In many places, halfing cars to make one good one is actually against the law. The term we had in Quebec for it, as an example, was "making a box". You just couldn't do it and get away with it. If both cars are marked as rebuildable salvage, you would have to show where all the parts came from, and when you get to showing chipping a car in half, well, the game is over and the car is marked for scrap.
Might aswell do the pollen filter as the dash is out. Access looks a pain with the dash in.
There’s a trim in the glovebox you remove so it’s really not hard at all.
@@SavingSalvage lucky you. I have to do the upside down head shuffle on my Mercedes
To put a full rear panel into that year TT means replacing both rear quarter panels, that’s why you see so many of these written off.
OMG, that's one hell of a massive jigsaw puzzle.
Love the work, I think you need a partner to help you with some bits though!
Crazy to see these for their price, I live in Aus, repairable write offs arent a thing here, its not legal other than a few loopholes, they cost anywhere from 40k to 60k Australian, literally 20-30 thousand pound equivalent for an average mileage example
No, in any univers regardless of space and time, it is not cheaper or normal to buy 2 cars to fix one
Always enjoy your videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
Well done Dean
😊
I love the intro, very funny!
Thanks! 😃
@@SavingSalvagecan you sell me the front centre console sliding lid?
Dean you need to get some of those unfinished projects out of the workshop and into some of those green containers to give you more room in that ever shrinking workshop mate that would really piss me off not having enough room ideally having both of those cars side by side in the workshop would have been better
many years ago we bought a car a vauxhall 101, my husband kept saying , its making a terrible noise going round corners, turned out was a cut and shut. 😕
With them speakers wires just attach string to them and feed the string through the holes they need to go through in the dash during installation, as for them 2 top dashboard bolts they will have been installed before the windscreen was fitted on the production line, designers aren't interested in how someone's going to remove them during its life time, I don't know why manufacturers don't just make the passenger airbag as a separate unit so dash isn't destroyed.
The airbag has done its job and insurance is mandatory to sort everything from them on. The car can but isn’t intended to be repaired, passenger safety is the priority over someone making a few hundred.
I bought a Vauxhall Cavalier way back in the 80's and it turned out to be a cut and shut job. It seemed to go round left handers better than right handers and I kept checking tyres and suspension but in the end it was two write off's put together. ( Before internet and checks)
Wow! 😲
So many cut and shuts in the 80s and 90s.
@@Falconhunter276family member had one, private buy. Police stopped him, first he’d heard of it.
I use too buy 2x XR3I OR XR2Iin 1988 both damaged front and rear end none sun roof id chop them in half you couldnt see the join in the middle ever my welding was good .then my paint man was good ,then i sold the newest registerd one ,
cracking video dean,very interesting
seems worth it still would have been a lot better if the 2nd one was a similar price to the first
That tvr looks mental thats a rare gem 😮😮
A rear-end collision can trigger all the seatbelts to lock, even if no one is seated there.
Still don’t know why manufacturers don’t make a separate panel for passenger airbags, spare parts vehicle is always way forward if price is right, plenty parts afterwards
ive always said getting a donor car would be cheaper than getting all the parts needed seperately, no one ever listened to me though 😂😂😂😂the only issue though for a lot of people is having the extra space 👍👍👍