REPAIRING MY CRASH DAMAGED FORD FOCUS RS MK2 PT.3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2023
- In today's video we are back on the Ford Focus RS MK2 to start the repair work! Hows it looking? Well we need to do some welding and painting!
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Just an unhelpful afterthought, from a non mechanic, could you have used a grinder to make two flats on the old arm and then used a spanner, while it was outside? Great videos though, I look forward to getting the notifications.
This is better than Netflix. Good job Dean
A little tip for the inner tie rods, if your replacing for new with the spanner groove on.
Run a quick weld over the old ball joint on the inner tie rod then you can turn the tie rod to undo the complete unit from the steering rack
Awesome. I showed my wife yesterday my dream car, which is the rs in this colour, and as if by magic, I woke up this morning to this video. 5 cylinder sounds 😊👍🏼👍🏼
Snap my dream car also… one day maybe 😂
The Volvo 5 cyl motor is awesome
That battery pack cable something i would do
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Totally agree about it not being car S car Dean, keep up with the great videos matey.
That booster cable you screwed in behind the front panel really cracked me up😂
Hiya, st,RS specialist here, I’m so glad to see someone on TH-cam building an RS finally as not many documented , with the paint the base green is darker, the mid is a light green with pearl this brings it to the correct colour, the clear is just normal clear. But needs the mid to make it the same shade for ultimate green or it will be to dark and not pearly enough, also if you need any parts hit me up. Cheers
Good progress Dean . Favourite bit was seeing that jump pack cable 😂😂
Love the rs , great content for a Sunday morning ❤
Brilliant work Dean, looking great!!
Great job Dean, coming together nicely 👍
Morning... Great video!! Loved it, you've got some great projects ahead cant wait for the others, thanks for taking the time to share these videos 🙏👍👍
Cheers Deano, coming along nicely 👍👍
Nice work Dean, love the car and can’t wait to see it finished.
Top job it’s coming along nicely
Great progress mate 👍👍👍
Great progress Dean. Love that car 👍
Looking great, always surprises me how much progress can be made with so few parts.
thankyou Dean a brilliant job as usual,,,👍👌
Love the Focus makes such a change from VAG 👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️
Morning Dean, the RS is looking good 👍
Great stuff, good progress, nice job fitting that panel, very neat, coming along well as always well done Dean.
Dean great job well done
John
I see Mk2 RS. I hit watch. I like 👌🏻 Come out for a blast with me when it’s done 👊🏻
These videos are brilliant Dean look forward to every one just saying from North of Newcastle 👍
Nice job Dean looks good 20:57
Great job, nice progress !!
Great progress.
Nice work Dean. The slight difference in paint I wondered if Ford use a different colour primer for the green cars. I seem to remember this used to happen on earlier cars. Others will know more.
This will be a very nice piece of kit when finished. Great video Dean. Cheers, Bob
Great progress Dean. Makes me want to own one of these best shape RS Focus.....
Great work Dean
Excellent video and good progress
Nice one Dean starting to look good 👍👌
That start-up exhaust note on the RS 💯👌🏾 #highfive 🖐🏾
Superb work once again Dean
Cackling work Dean 👍🏻👍🏻💯
Looking good got to be a keeper
I went to buy one of these in UG a few years back now, Main Ford Delaer in Leciester, described as mint, but I could see staright away a bash had occured OSR corner due to the paint - the colour seemed to match quite well but as you looked atthe are at different angles, it looked so odd, revealing the area of damage. Once I spotted the repaired area the car dealer (sales man) walked off. So professional... So yes, interested to see how the paint comes out...
Taking shape ✨️
Really good to watch
Nice work Dean, coming along really well. Heads up though, there is a huge RS tax on the arch liners, as the boys over at Evil GT found out recently. Over £650 per corner I think it was. Eye watering when you realise that it’s just 1.5 ST liners riveted together.
Iv found on my green rs there is funny little quirky things that you wouldn't think one of the biggest car manufacturers would pass. Great vid we need more like this. 👍👍
Looking good great job.
Fantastic job
Buy yourself a plumbers pipe wrench for doing the inner tie rods.
Great content as always
Another great vid 👌🏻
Stilsons will grab it maybe, if the steel isn't too hard! As it's damaged no worries! Always liked the RS. Great progress.
Thats going to be a lovely little car 👍
Epic fail with the jumper lead 😂😂😂😂😂👍
Lovely progress , the colour to get it half decently close will need 4 or 5 coats of pearl to get it to match half decent , the pearl is very transparent 👍🏼
Hi Dean, seen this at Santa Pod today 16th July. Have to say you've done an amazing job with it been watching the progress on this one ❤
Great work, bud.
Great job.
Will love to have one👌
Coming on nicely bud
I saw that cable, and I thought...nah he won't 😂 looking good Dean 👍
Good on you dean! I like you and you're channel! Excellent content from a one man band! #simple
I was shouting at the screen ' Disconnect your jumper pack lead' Videos are getting better and better
Really good!
Hi Dean don’t forget Evil GT You Tubers are doing the same car at the same time as you. He has just shown how to do wheel arch liners to save you £500.
Nice job 👍
Plumbers wrench is the best for those inner tie rods. Done many as they are the same on the early generation volvos
I might be wrong but that blue plastic part on the inner tie rod pushes off to un cover those 32mm flats !! I did mine recently and found out as it had new covers inside the box with the new rod ! . Great video as always keep it up .
Much much much more beteererrrer than the banal upload you did with Copart Audi or BMW or whatever piece of boredom that was doing a sales pitch walkaround come an d buy i off me etc. This style (todays) is exciting and full of tension and detail and expresses your personality ,technical skill and confidence to a T . Keep doing this type .Grreat upoad - Thanks
Great video as always mate 👍
Good job deano
its looking well dean
Love it 👌🏻
Dean enjoying the content as for the dead battery if your charger has 24v output try putting it on 24 v and connect to the battery off the car obviously and run the charger on max 24 for about four to five minutes the battery plates will be covered in a layer of calcium oxide which acts like an insulator by using 24 volts you boil the battery electrolyte which starts the oxide layer to break up on the plates after the 24 volt stint put it on a 12 volt charge on the lower setting for an hour and then you can check to see if it has saved the battery 9 times out of ten it works
Getting there mate. 👌
Lovely motor dean
Good stuff, I think you mentioned wheel arch liner , not sure if I missed you talking about the liners, I follow amongst others Evil Gt and they are also repairing the same Focus rs and explained that the rs wheel liners were made from two st liners riveted together.
Wow Dean i didn't know you had all the parts too finish the Car. Nice one the camera work was brilliant with the time lapse. Only for the wing being at home you would be done 😊 Great work bro. 😅😅
Nice work
crackin job,welldone
Good stuff
Top vid
I think that paint has a pearl in the lacquer mate, hence the difference, body shop will be able to match the exterior panels 👍🏻
Yeah I have base and mid coat. But yeah I won’t be painting the exterior, I’ll leave that to the pro!
Not a dig dean did you put some plastic primer on before the base coat ?
On the top carrier? Yeah, I put weld through primer on the normal panels
@@SavingSalvage I use a clear plastic primer get it from ar Davis on baldock then go on with primer and paint .Like to know if it’s a 2 stage pearl or if the tint is in the clear coat
Weld-done on using the weld through primer, some would take a short cut, glad you didn't.
Need to invest in a pair of stilsons Dean.
Perfect for undoing tierods off end of rack
Pipe wrench boss (F shaped) takes em straight off everytime it’s designed to grip an bite in to round stuff
got one of the inner tie rod removal jobbies. only used it once.
Dunno what it is about these ‘modern’ performance fords but they just don’t spark my interest like an 80/90s RS Escort or Sierra cossy. Or am I just turning into an old fart? 🤣
In any case Dean another superb piece of content and love the fact you even include full bore noddy mistakes like the battery cable when most ‘tubers would probably edit that out - class mate and only adds to the genuine nature of the content you produce.
Great progress Dean. Insurance companies are too quick to write off cars with repairable damage
It’s not just the cost of repairing damage though, it’s the whole claim cost. They factor in courtesy car cost as well as everything else. The price cars are fetching at salvage auctions doesn’t help either. Makes more sense for them to write them off and recoup money at auction rather than repair.
You can get those inner tie rods off with vice grips or plumber plyers iv done it few times
Thank you for making these videos so far! My Focus got damaged in a similar fashion and this video has informed me so much on the names of the parts I have to replace like the control arm and the slam panel.
Couldn’t you just make a special unique shelf inside engine compartment for the power pack and let it go with the car when you sell it Dean , you might start a whole new trend in car manufacturing lol 😂. Coming together mate 👍🏻 and looking pretty good so far 👌🏻.
Hey Dean, I would love to see a left-hand-drive car as many here (including me) are from countries with left hand drive cars ;)
Can buy a tool to remove inner tie rods only cheap use them at work on all sorts of cars or a pair of stillsons gets em straight off.I did actually make one using a exhaust clamp years ago 😂
Nice one Dean, it's coming together well fella going to be a nice car for someone, have you sold the salvage car you got just to move on, looking forward to seeing your next post have fun
Coming together now 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
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Bonnet vents would look good in gloss black.
Just looking at the "Greens", When I first saw this focus i thought "that's a lighter, more lime green tone than I remember"! Thought it'd possibly be sun-fade etc but googling shows a few cars shown as "lime green" but could just be a nickname etc...
It almost looks like it has a gold flake coat ontop of the green
Isit a cliff hanger not telling us if you cut the jumper cable or not lol 😂
Great content, but that paint is way off. Good job it's under the bonnet. Love this beast of a car. Can't wait to see it on the road.
Great video Dean, the car is coming on well. I've got to replace a track rod on a similar age Focus, I agree access is very limited, was it difficult getting the gaiter clip back on the rack end?
Nice car