For info, the Triple QX oil is not a cheapo oil. Its repackaged Shell Helix !. So its very good, but at a discounted price. Ive been using QX on my 510hp Saab for 8yrs or so.
Used Triple QX in my TDI Seat Leon for 6 years. Car is 16 years old with 140,000 miles and still has the original turbo - I know that because I've owned since 2006.
Triple QX is actually refined in France, but all of their oils meet the specifications they are supposed to, and all are dealer approved, meaning they have been tested by O.E labs and meet their criteria
My first car way back in 1986 was a 1977 950cc classic mini with a coloured sky blue body and a white roof... now 33years later my youngest lad who's 20 yrs old just arrived home with a 2004 1.6 mini with a dark blue coloured body and a white roof lol.. Keep your video's coming pal, love the fact that your not a mechanic but like me you want to learn.. Best wishes..👍👍😁
you all prolly dont care at all but does someone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was dumb forgot the login password. I love any help you can give me!
@Andrew Gary Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site through google and im in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
I’ve been looking forward to the end result and you didn’t disappoint. You should be extremely proud of yourself buddy, no small job that. Well done that man 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Mate i dont know what it is about your videos but they are so relaxing. Every video you do has an absolutely great vibe about them. You are an inspiration mate honestly. You are one of the best out there man and i cannot wait for more vids. I cant get enough. Keep on going bud. Loved the mini series 👌👌 hats off to you
James at 12:54 it looks like the center of the old filter is still in the cap, hence why it was difficult to push the new one on. At 13:23 you can see the same thing inside the new filter, I'd change it again or at least get the plastic tower out.
I can confirm this, not long serviced my mini, and I did not have that plastic tower bit sticking out when I changed filter. I had to go through all of comments to see if anybody else spotted this! Otherwise a job well done and would have a go at this myself if needed. Thanks for the great content!
this was a very helpful vedio for me.I just purchased a 06 mini with a blown head gasket,and have no working knowledge of how I was going to repair the issue.Now I feel more informed as to how to go about the repair.
Just wanted to say thanks for these mini videos. Gave me the confidence to buy a mini one that needed a head gasket. Followed your videos and did the job perfectly. Now my daughter has a great little car 😁
Good work on the mini throughly enjoy the series and all the work you have done on your other cars. You have inspired me to start my own little project this summer. Keep up the good work, cant wait to see the mini on the road.
Hell yeah starts first time and didn't even struggle Brilliant result!! with all the hard work and attention to detail you put into this job I'd of been very surprised if it went any other way. Nice touch letting your good lady do the honours starting it too bet it made her day hearing it bursting into life again. Well done James on another great job 👍
Good work, well done. I’ve had some success cleaning header tanks with a dishwasher tablet, some warm water and a good shake, then tip it out. Add some more warm water and use a bottle brush to get at the stubborn bits.
Tip on those oil filters: get a plastic bag and put it over the filter before you draw it out of the housing. Then fold it into the plastic bag as you remove it. Saves a lot of mess!
just binged this mini series! Very similar to the astra series which was my favourite so far! Great work especially with filming as well. Glad it fired up for you!
Hello sir, I've just found these video's for the mini. Bloody brilliant !! as i've just got a 2005 cooper..I know it's 3 years down the line but..Not seen them all yet still got sum to watch... keep it up fella.CHEER'S..
Just an FYI, with canister style filters crack the filter housing off before you drain the oil, it allows all the oil in the housing to drain into the sump. Only about 0.4 or so of a litre but every little helps
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Change the oil filter when the oil pan is open. You will see more oil drain out. Nice video man from France !
Good work mate! Glad she fired right up. I've just fixed a BMW x5, 3.0l d auto box problem for my father in law. Garage quoted him grands for new box, I saved him a fortune! Stuffs always better when you can do the job yourself and get a positive result. :-)
Cracking job done, there is always that little worry of "what if?" in the back of your mind when carrying out anything major. Sounds good and hopefully should last a while.
Very well done! That was a lot of hard work both in fixing the car and producing the video blog. Your very good at both, looking forward to the next video.
Good job done , your TLC for the mini seems to have paid off , really you should get some good running miles from your mini , I enjoyed watching the fix , well done 👍👍 from Tony from bedfordshire
It's been great and very easy to change my sons mini copper head gasket by your videos I will hopefully finish tomorrow and get ready to starting up finger's Cross
The fear/nervousness you get before starting a car up after major work never goes away. However many you do. I've even seen experienced blokes like Eric O bricking it before turning the key. 😂 Keep up the good work mate.
Great work. I have learned from this. I also have a Cooper. It slowly loses a small amount of coolant and hesitates to start. I had resealed the stat housing thinking that was the leak. I never thought of the tissue on a stick to test for coolant in the combustion chamber.
I've ran triple QX in my last couple of cars with no problem's at all. At the end of the day euro's supply trade as well so your getting exactly the same as what you would on a service. The exhaust does sound nice! Job well done!
Thought I would share a good tip I was given years ago. If you want to clean out bottles on a car put uncooked rice in the bottle with the degreaser and give it a really good shake, make sure you rinse it well after and make sure all the rice is gone works wonders. 👍🏻
Well done with the head gasket + headwork! Done the exact same on my 14 16v corsa b it started the same as the mini did, i was prepared for a fight to get it started but it fired up straight away 😈😈 Keep up the good work!
Well done James. The 36mm socket you have is probably for the Mondeo it has the same canister type oil filter. Are you back working on the Mondeo soon??
Good job , all looks good. Just make sure the electric fan is coming on at the correct temp. You will be able to monitor it on your scan tool. Well done.
Well done James! Top job sounds mint with it purring away nicely! Eagerly awaiting the road test thanks for the heads up on the draper ratchets I happen to have not long killed my 1/2" drive ratchet so just ordered one from ebay at 12.99 so very pleased for the heads up! Keep up the good work and quality content!
Good job! Enjoyed the series and has shown these minis are fairly easy to work on hopefully will give others confidence to tackle things like this themselves 👍🏻
Nice quick start, like it should be! Quite a loud tick though? The 2 minis in my circle of friends are nowhere near that loud. My mums is totally silent running, can barely tell it’s on. Great work, keep it up!
Good Job mate. Love it. So good to see it running and back up again. I wanted to say fingers crossed that it's all good. But I know it is cause the one handed youtube mechanic James did it. Also consider doing an affiliate program with ebay and Amazon to put affiliate links on your videos when you do reccomend tools and whatnot. It's a good source of revenue even if it comes as small amounts.
You can clean inside the expansion tank with a bottle brush (the type you can buy for cleaning baby bottles) and they're just a few pounds for a pack of 3.
@@lukey3507 too late I had 4 of them, still currently got two😂, a five door puma swap and a stock 3 door bulletproof endura engine. best shape fiesta in my opinion before they went all weird, not a fan of the st150 or st180. plus I have a mk1 mazda mps aero so wouldn't need one
@@Dazza2292 To be honest, my Pumesta was way better than a ST150 in terms of build quality. My Pumesta was bulletproof and lasted to 140 or 150,000 miles on the engine. The shell rotted out around it. I have a MK6 Fiesta as a beater, and it's vacuum leak after vacuum leak or other plastic shit going wrong. The build quality between the MK4's & newer models is night & day. Just a pity they rot so much, but you won't find any car approaching 20 years old without rust.
The reason you got coolant out the oil first, then the oil, is water sinks to the lowest point, and luckily it hadn't emulsified, so it was separate. I would say, the oil coming out, would carry any excess coolant with it, so you could probably get away with just using the new oil, dont bother changing it again until its needed, and thinking about it, af there is any traces of mousture, they would be evaporated off anyway. You could wait until engine us hit, take off the oil cap, and if it dont splash, just let it steam off, jtst like how I dry my biofuel after washing it and draining off the water. Andrew Mckenna, Nottingham.
Excellent series of vids, really grateful for these as I’ve been doing exact same job on my own mini which I wouldn’t have been confident doing without your help. Great to see that your mini purring like a kitten. Just an observation but the way you’re beginning to collect cars it’ll not be long until you need to move 😂😂 Thanks a million for these vids James .... total legend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Little tip, I used a packet of the popcorn you microwave to clean out the expansion bottle. The stuff is like ball bearings and was all I had at the time. Worked brilliantly and the expansion bottle came up like new... Liked the bit about your mam buying your pants.... haha.
Just a tip always check gsf carparts against eurocarparts as they have sales that beat euro for things I mean 10l oil 2 filters and flush for 2 cars was 40quid.
