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I do body repair and that's a £80 job and that includes the paint, I use to work for Jaguar many moons ago as a sprayer and also worked in bodyshops and its a massive scam in bodyshops
If you do decide to do your own DIY repair I would suggest 'Dolphin' body filler.. It's great to work you can buy it from any Halfords outlet stores.. £10 ish to buy.. You did a decent job so far.. 👌
Thanks Stewart. Jury's out atm, it is difficult to see repair until close up, but I may just go ahead and perfect it as I will always know it is there.
I think most body shops now are old school, they don't want to Spend the time doing it your way , they won't to replace the door or the scin , And insurance the same so they right the car off ?.
Big house nice motor ppl have to make a living and yes they would paint n blend after its been pulled n filled then polished after so you wouldnt even know its been done nearly 1k is a bit steep but not far off see plenty think they can do it therselves then bring it to get it done properly why did only go to one bodyshop usually shop around for qoutes
Hi Jim. I like to challenge myself and get a real kick trying new things. It's not going to be as good as a professional can turn out but there's something great about having a go.
I'd leave it at that. As it stands, it's all pretty much original paint. As soon as you start DIY'ing paint on a nice original, smart car it's inevitable the repair will spread and spread. The lacquer won't be anything like the quality of the original (or bodyshop 2K). As it is, you've stopped the eye going straight to it and it's 100% honest. I think you have a high chance of doing more work and then thinking 'you know what, I wish I'd quit when I was ahead. As for the quote, they just didn't want the work, simple as that. It was a 'go away' price.
Hi Kenny here, painter and body technician at bmw for 15 years.. £250 we would probably charge in my bodyshop, for the above damage including materials which would be a small blend within the panel and the entire door clearcoated. Could be taken up to the body line but for warranty and a good job whole panel should be clearcoated. The damage itself fixed in a few hours which doesn’t even merit £250 but we do have to warranty the paint etc.
The issue with clear coating the whole door is the door will end up slightly darker relative to the rest, and once you spot it, it would annoy you forever. Taking the least invasive route as you have is possibly the best compromise, and light flatting with 1000 and G3 should improve it further.
A bit of isopropyl alcohol will aid in removing the hot glue. Warming the area slightly (very slightly) as well helps avoid paint breaking as you pull the dent out.
@@SuperRealityKid Ha ha I do bodywork for a living last 35 years that quote was ridiculous, they probably do loads of Insurance work and have plenty on. I think more like £450 + vat. The longest part of your job is the detrimming. Cheers
Firstly well done! You have disguised quite awkward damage to a standard where the eye is not drawn to it. Be interested to see how you get on refining the job if you decide to go down that road. But lets not confuse this with a job any reputable body shop could turn out. Modern paints are VERY different to those of yesteryear. Twenty years ago a bit of stopper and filler could have been used a quart ltr of cellulose mixed up and a little masking tape and newspaper applied before a dust with primer and then on to paint. Its not like that today. We expect flawless paint. For that you need a booth and heat lamps. For an invisible repair, you would certainly need to use fade out thinners and paint into the back door. Then there's the PPE that needs to be used on each job. The air fed mask etc etc etc. Crazy though it sounds, that was actually a competitive quote. I am not knocking what you have done, I think its great, but you cannot compare it to a professional modern H&S compliant repair. Premises are a fortune these days as is the power needed for all the kit! Is this progress from what we had say 25 years ago? Not in my opinion no. And this is why small paint shops that were everywhere back then simply dont exist anymore. Tragic really. And its why insurance is so expensive! Great content. Great job. Well done!
@rexjames0015 - Rubbish, I want to see it ....... justified as such a quote may well be, I'd like to see the standard an enthusiastic amateur can achieve, not every can afford perfection.
Good day. This was very informative to watch thanks for sharing. Would it be possible to share information about the tools you used? Regards Karl. PS I am looking forward to the next parts should you decide to go ahead.😄
Great job! I learned things watching you make the repair, the main thing being... you have much more patience than me! Well done, it was very interesting watching you work, and I'd love to see the paint work job if you do decide to take it on. 👌🏻👍🏻
I think that panel beater is a graduate from the “ Australian school of rip offs “ , that’s where I live and feel constantly ripped off , so it’s not just a UK thing . I was quoted over $3000 to change a clamp on a heater hose , because “ we think the heater core is faulty so it needs a strip down “ , I managed to get it fixed for $380 , still a rip off , but not such a shock on the back pocket .
The World over, we are being taken for a ride. These repair shops treat us like mugs, partly fueled by their unholy alliance with the insurance industry who appear to conspire to overcharge unknowledgeable customers.
The juddering is far easier to see if you have an object in the video that is attached to the camera such as a car going around a round about. This is a problem in a racecar that changes the pan faster than the suggested 7 seconds. My testing gave best results that match what you have said - 4K 30fps, wide view with hypersmoorth as standard. The camera is over my left shoulder so with fast hairpins my helmet goes in and out of view, but the wide lens has reduced this annoyance. Cheers. watch the helmet - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0qgGix3BfZw.html
As long as you can locate physical ends of the + and - terminals of the enclosed batteries, it will work. The problem with a deeply a discharged battery of this kind is it does not even have enough internal power to run the onboard circuit board that "allows" charging to start. Good luck.
The real bottle must be without the name of the perfume. You can clearly see that the fake bottle has the name J'adore on it. So this is the easiest way to recognize a fake.
Beautiful video, that is amazing to see them still in perfect working order. Thanks for posting, enjoyed that as a occasional visitor to that airfield.
I have recovered the battery without opening it up, as others have commented here. I used the outer terminals, identified the positive and negative with a multimeter - for me, with the battery oriented with the printing rightside up, the left was the negative and the right one the positive. I had about 1V in the garmin battery. With wire I connected the positive terminal of a 9V battery to the positive of the Garmin battery, and likewise the negative to the negative (reversed polarity so the greater voltage from the 9V battery forced the current backward thru the garmin battery). Left it over night and resulted in about 5.5 V in the garmin battery after disconnecting. Put it back in the 296 and it charged back up from external power.
Oh how wrong you are. Sounds like you're anti British? We love the Americans and an aircraft carrier in Portsmouth was a big deal. Don't forget there was an exclusion zone around her but there were masses of folks sightseeing from the shore and organised trips from Portsmouth into the bay to look at this magnificent sight.
Haha. Therein lies a tale 🤣. Ventured out from Keyhaven in a brisk easterly and as we rounded the end of a spit, a sideswipe from a wave inverted us and we spent half an hour righting it and getting back in. Lesson learned 😎
"I don't like this." Your wife said it all right there. You are fortunate it didn't close in solid behind you. Glad you didn't become a 2-person fatal statistic.
No Nigel but watching my old footage has got me thinking I would like to get back into it. I just loved it, 120 hours in my paramotor log book, stopped in 2001, but nearly 1600 hours in my GA log.
@@SuperRealityKid That’s an impressive total number of hours and having your own strip must be a big advantage for being able to fly regularly. Maybe not the right weather and temperature to start filling in your paramotor log book, but maybe a challenge for next summer? It would be good to catch up with you at Compton sometime. Have you a Christmas video planned for this year? I enjoyed the last one of two years ago, it was very happy! Biannual event perhaps?
Hi Nigel. We fell kinda out of love with Compton with poor cafe organisation, (the people are fab though) and it has become very formal and GA unfriendly to our mind. Our apron outside our hangar is impassable at the moment with standing water. I'm feeling the need 😎😎@@nploates
@@SuperRealityKid You are right about the catering. Not great for visiting pilots. Have to book a table in advance to get a meal. Earlier in the year they at least had tuna baguettes, etc, but recently the only savoury food choice without booking was a pasty or a sausage roll. Where are the bacon (or any other filling) sandwiches and burgers? The 100$ sausage roll sounds a bit ridiculous! The only advantage for a resident is that the place stays open late to have a drink and a get together. Although I enjoyed landing with the Spitfire and Harvard waiting for me at the hold once, quite honestly Spitfire weekends are a bit of a nuisance once the novelty wears off. However, I did enjoy your video of the DC3 and Spitfire. Anyway, I hope your apron dries out soon, not a problem for a paramotor though - there's a thought!
Thanks for this great video! We experienced stuttering pans quite often with our Hero 10, and this confirms my suspicion that the Hyperboost is the primary culprit.
I was sent on a wild goose chase to look at used tractor trailers. As I was walking around wondering why I was really there I saw something move. It was a kitten, his mother no where in sight, his eyes were still blue and he fit into my tiny hand perfectly. He turned into quite a noble fellow, over 18 pounds and so smart. He passed close to 20 years later. That first night without him was hard. He always waited until I settled in before picking his place beside me. As he came into the room, the motion sensor night lights came on. I silently asked him to turn the lights on again so I'd feel him. The lights came on and have come on every night after I've settled in. It's been 6 years and he's never missed a night. They travel with us forever. Love never dies. I hope this gives comfort to those still mourning.
