Its not what he said it was 

I think your neighbour will be very appreciative. I bet a replacement would have been very expensive. Great repair. Thanks for sharing.

Not gonna lie, was not expecting to see THAT face on a thumbnail for a pc hardware repair video 😂

"Ripped a few traces"lol

Like a good neighbor northwestrepair.

New York - 'The hell of all places on Earth" LOL! I like this guy!

Every time you say "right there" I think of Northridge fix 😂😂

Not sure what's better the work you do, or the digs you take at northridge.

Awesome , your back ! I never get tired of watching you work your magic

Wow. THAT was incredible. You are insanely skilled...wow.

Good fences make good neighbors, too. haha. Nah, it's nice that you help out your neighbor. What goes around, comes around.

Schoygu, Gerasimov.....that's a computer inside headlamp

My ASMR for the day! Great as always

Soon you will also repair Benz key FOB lol

You are Bob the Builder… Can we fix it? YES WE CAN! Another great job, nice change from GPU repair too.

You are the Bob Ross of PCB repair. People make happy little mistakes, and you fix them. He paints with a brush, and you trace with a soldering iron

This is a strange GPU. is it a NVIDIA 5090 with ultra melting connectors feature?

in case anybody is wondering, that part is off of a 2013-2020 BMW 3 series GT :)

Sunlight will cure that! Interesting fix - hope it was successful! What a heat sync for 8 tiny LEDs.

That’s an led or headlight module and can be anywhere from 50-300 dollars generally.

Why are people not careful around these snd connectors like gawd damn it's been 15 years opening every thing in my damn house I have never ripped a connector off

This was great Tony. You give components new life. I’m surprised your cat didn’t get in on the action scraping wires with claws but likely your cat was napping. Russ

Whew, glad to see you post Tony. I was worried that that 'other' guy found you. By the way, do you need any more neighbors?

i'm shouting 'wrong side' but you couldn't hear me

Funnily enough I played with some of that coated style wire when fixing some headphones for my kids. The coating was a headache to deal with but found that by burning it with a lighter cleaned the coating off and made soldering a breeze. Thanks for the quality content!

When I design any PCBs with such connectors I will usually put bunch of stitching vias to the mechanical pins on the sides or sometimes even the signal pins to make it a bit stronger.

Where TF did Prigozhin come from? lol Unless... that's your neighbor?

You are the man my guy this is the kinda crazy stuff we do to keep our junk running in the driveway in a rain storm on a saturday night because we have to lol, when you are poor and you want something ti live on you find a way to make it work

"New York, the hell of all places on earth." Facts

its very tempting to superglue the connector back on but superglue (cyanoacrylate) + a soldering iron is a real bad combo! been there too many times and without fume extraction my eyes sting just thinking about it!

Good Job. I would have just tossed that module in the trash but you saved it! Awesome

Hey Tony, that was a hard work done perfectly.. and for the UV you wanted it longer 🤣😅 .. did the magic at the end 😃👍

I’ve only watched a few of your videos and I’m impressed by your repair skills. I have basic soldering skills but nothing like that, I’m going to practice tracing traces as I didn’t even know you could really do it like that.

I like to scrape lines with a sharp soldering iron. the heat helps to soften the top layer and it comes out without damaging the copper traces.

I wish I was your neighbor you seem like a cool guy. None of my friends are technically inclined or care about technology that much. Very knowledgable in electronics and pcb boards.

thanks for the tip on the clear soldermask - i always had problems getting a blob of coloured mask to harden all the way through - was always hard ontop but still wet underneath if it was to thick as i dont think the UV could penetrate past the top layer - so clear mask is the way to go - cheers

Neighbors helping neighbors, it's the grease that makes life easier. Most people don't even care to 'know thy neighbor'.

Thumbnail is effing wild bro.. iam all here for it

Immaculate as always.

daym ur extreamly talented

Well that was different! Nice wire repair of traces, well done. I think your neighbor ought to feel like he owes you one...

Looks like a job well done! Love your videos, and I try to watch them all throughout and give a like. I'm sure your videos must help many people out there. I don't do anything like the work you do, but on occasions I like to DIY and fix things, on occasions this involves electronics. Watching your videos has improved my knowledge of soldering. My skill on the other hand is a different story.. lol! I don't have all the kit yet but I have a few soldering irons a few tips, a board holder, a rework air station and a pre-heater and a bunch of components I buy as I need them. I haven't detached and de-soldered a surface mounted IC yet or performed a re-ball, so I'm just a noob really. Love your work, please don't quit anytime soon! I have two old Titan pascal cards (connected) in my tower that have lasted a decade without any maintenance apart from the odd vacuum to remove dust. I probably should replace the paste but I'm a bit worried about my level of skill to do that. Any advice for a noob would be welcomed?

Nooo! your'e damaging my eyesight blasting UV at me! ........

I do auto electrics - we call those light modules and they do a few different things depending on the car The basic ones are just LED drivers with a LIN or CAN interface - BMW routinely throw 3+ of those on EACH HEADLIGHT (for the angel eyes/highlights/indicators etc.) Then there are the ballast units for Xenon/Laser lights - these are more complex and WAY more expensive With these lights the bulbs also have built-in igniters which are a another stack of electronics - a bulb is 3 figures alone... Then there are the modules which control self-levelling motors and other gubbins which are part of the headlight 'box' so when they fail it's the entire housing to change... All of that will - sooner or later - get wet and rot and die - once water is inside the headlight 'it's a matter-of-time before you'll be spending a few thousand PER SIDE The absolute latest lights can control every part of the beam thrown - using cameras to map the world and block-out oncoming cars or highlight the side of the road or a hazard etc. - I don't even know where to start on those but a single headlight is many many thousands of pounds - a front-end hit taking out both would be 5 figures for the lights ALONE It's all a BIT different from the H1/3/5/H7 bulbs we know and love...

Thanks for the video. I am an auto mechanic, too. These " modules " are very expensive. That's why I watch.

It's a hid modual

I really enjoy this format. nice work sir!

Thank you for uploading this such a realy nice relaxing and knowledge video, when I see notification for your upload I just say thank you Tony for your exist :D Cause these day's watching something normal and positive on yt is realy hard, once more thank you Tony for upload ❤

Oh, cool. This should be a simple repair. Wait, NOOOOO! Ripped pads! I am automotive guy and computer guy, myself.

I really like the clear UV mask you demonstrated. it makes better sense to me as you can see whats been repaired and how it was repaired under the mask. Would be really helpful in this regard, plus like you said it cures faster and harder. I love it, I going to pick some up. Cheers Tony!

Did that connector owned him money that he used so much force to rip it off the board ?😂🤣

Cramolin flux-off, best I've ever used. White bottle with pink writing, made in Germany.

99% IPA with a adjustable spray nozzle bottle works great for flux cleaning

Плата в местах оторванных дорожек белая. Это плата керамика / алюминий с белым керамическим напылением под слоем меди или просто свет подсветки микроскопа такой?

Your finger is quite fire immune, so close to the solder, I guess it's acquired from many many years of practice. 👍👍

Just a bit of info about the UV torch or UV source you use for curing conformal coatings etc. They come in two 'flavors' so to speak, the more common and cheaper 395nm wavelength type, and the 365nm wavelength type. Both will cure the coating, but I've found that the 365nm wavelength is much _MUCH_ faster and handy at curing than the 395nm. I use resins a fair bit and this is true for most of the resins I use, and the conformal coatings.

Big Thumbs Up.

great to watch thank you 😎

Nice one 👍 Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹

looks better then factory...nice job

Awesome job man

A good neighbor wood have beer too. 😂😂😂

Good work 💯👍

That's the first stage radiator to a thermonuclear weapon😅

Very impressive repair.

Amazing repair

the skills think you are are one off the best

I've read a lot of complaints about LED headlights not being able to melt snow, so if driving in heavy snow at night one needs to continually stop and get out to clean the headlights. Looks like a bit of that massive heatsink should be on the inside of the headlight enclosure.

Awesome, you are an artist 😂

Looked like a good fix!

I have very few channels I thumb up even before start watching

Thank you

yeah helping hand, nice one

You could also connect those 2 support pins to 2 wide pieces of metal and then glue those 2 plates to the main board.

Does it show a picture?)

Nice! This was a perfect video for AI voice 😉😉, love those!

Respect Sir From India

I definitely apreciate your content ^^

New microscope? its super clear high res video nice fix

Great skills, great content. That's what i subscribed for ❤ keep it coming

here i was shouting "the other left" ... you found out anyway 😆

thanx for this video and nice job

you need to post on update of this on hes car!

You sound like me, I love helping people... I love electronics so videos like this help so much, so thanks for taking the time to do this, and after this, I just had to subscribe to see more repairs. did I mention I also love fixing things?... 🧐 👍👍

Im glad that inside my headlight is a bulb

Very impressive work! But I think pin 5 from the left wasn’t soldered properly, as the wire moves around while cleaning with the toothbrush. The displaced wire can be seen at 20:00.

Impressive!

Just as advice, something like temperature cured Seal-glo NE8800T (aka "Fuji red glue") will cover vibration issues better. Or J-B weld epoxy, but it is less durable.

I'm concerned about that broken trace under the 0-Ohm resistor. Good chance it's touching where it shouldn't be under that resistor and making all three pins the same line. Would have measured it before restoring any traces.

Very nice repair. Some of those God damned automotive electrical connectors will not separate without a fight, even using multiple small flat heads or picks with the release tab depressed or held up. Same with some rubber grommets.

That proves that you can fix anything electronic! How about doing a restoration video at some point? You know, take an old damaged device and make it work again!!! Provided you can find the time of course

I love your content 😊

Where the ammo at tho?

Oh if I can only learn from the feet of the master!

Yeah i sometimes use the "plastic-safe" Caramba brake cleaner. Though it's almost the same stuff as potentiometer cleaner (residue-free contact cleaner), barely any difference.

But does it work?

Nice work. Do you use a fume extractor? Recently saw some reports of how unhelthy it can be to breath the fumes.

Thats what neighbor's are for lol great work as always bud

no such thing as a GOOD NEIGHBOR from new york!

Damn I really want a good soldering station I have so many things to repair I just don't have the tools. You need a quality soldering iron with high heat and a small nozzle heat gun would be heaven for me.

4:00 - The gap between the GND plane and the traces is nearly zero? Oh ... there is no GND plane and there is only black solder stop. This is good. I do not use alcohol, because in it is mostly some type of bitter taste substance, which is then the left over at the surface of the PCB. It is like a white powder. So I use only Isopropanol for cleaning the surface.