As a man of near 60, seeing you work thru a problem like we do is lovely and rerfeshing to see. Well done that man, you're a credit to your industry and yourself.
Spot on old school workmanship someone who actually repairs rather than replacing costly parts refreshing to see in this throw away environment we live in now 👌
I once had an Audi Q8, bought new, and at some point when it was four or five years old the driver’s seat fuse used to blow. It was one of those slow-blow ones that I swapped out myself until service time. I asked the main dealer at Swansea to look at it during a service and according to them “our Master Technician has looked at it and diagnosed two burnt out non-replaceable seat motors but since you are such a good customer we’ll do you a good deal on a new seat at £1000 plus fitting plus VAT, call it £1400”. My local mechanic sorted it permanently with insulating tape and an hour of labour. So is the whole dealership corrupt or just a lazy or incompetent ‘master technician?’ They obviously thought I’d come down with the last shower. Never gave them a chance again and warn everyone of my experience if they ask.
Main dealers never seem to repair at component level. Their technicians are simply trained to replace faulty components with new ones to restore the car to "as new" specification. Since most electrical components are made by outside suppliers, I doubt if anybody in the manufacturer / dealer chain actually has the training to repair them. Non-replaceable simply means that the seat frame manufacturer only supplies complete built units, so the motors are not available for the dealer to order as a spare part. Most replacement jobs have a labour time allocated, so the dealer can give a firm price for parts and labour and allocate workshop time. Smaller workshops are more relaxed and willing to "have a look" and their labour rates are much lower, so the time taken is less relevant.
@@tollerdogz They are fitters not mechanics. Different skill level entirely. As for the bozo that allegedly looked at my seat, calling him a ‘technician’ is against honest trade description.
You need to remember that Dealerships have a 1st time fix policy and carrying out sketchy repairs that may fault again in the near future can not be done. They have Audi audit standards to meet and also they get bonuses if the return to workshop figures are low. Hope this helps.
@@skylinegtsrockyou know it , meddling with electrical components is fine until the pile of 💩 goes up in flames and the daft clunge would be crying then the Audi dealer bodged my chair up,and the fkr caught 🔥 Knoba 🤣
@@skylinegtsrock Absolute rubbish. In my case they were totally corrupt and not for the first time. They always, without exception, tried to upsell pads, rotors and wiper blades when these would easily last till the next 15,000 mile service. I have NOT dropped with the last shower of rain. I have worked at dealerships and know what the worse ones are up to. The service department are under pressure to maximise their profit every way they can, by fair or fowl means. They are now usually targeted to raise as much as 35% of the depot’s profit margin from a service department that must have competitive menu services that only see a car normally outside warranty every 15,000 miles or so if they are lucky.
Lovely to see a genuine honest mechanic. I had an omission alert on my car, it ran like a bag of shite, misfiring on start up, ran for approx 100 metres before it would run smoothly. Only 63k on the clock. Took it to 3 garages, last one said the fault was the injectors...replaced those, fault still in place, took it back...was told it was the hydraulic lifters...replaced those...still had the fault and a £800 bill! I gave up and decided to live with it. MOT time came around, sat in the waiting room hoping it would pass. Tester came for a chat saying he'd had problems getting it to pass the emissions test but had persevered till it did and the reason he got it to pass was to 'tinker' with a sensor on the exhaust system. Turns out the sensor was fecked and the reason for the fault. Booked it in the next day, sensor replaced...fault fixed. £108 bill. I'm left with a once quiet engine that now sounds like the entire cast of riverdance are tapping away under the bonnet. 😢
It's because most mechanics do not know HOW to test components before replacing and instead start replacing random parts. I tend to do the diagnostics on my own car, then drop it off at the garage with a box of the correct parts. Had one garage telling me the fuel pump needed replacing (£1500)... even though the diagnostics showed it was a crank sensor at £15 and 1/2 hour labour.
Just found you, you are a young version of me, the stories I could tell you would take forever and none of us has that amount of time, I'll only say I am VW Audi trained, 75 years old and trained form the very start of computer diagnostics, love what you are doing and urge you to keep up to date, you have the capability and enthusiasm, if I was your age I would be doing exactly what you are doing now, very best of luck, Stewart.
Well done mate, not many would have made that relay repair. This repair should give you plenty of work. Which you deserve, once the word gets around, that you supply good work and can be trusted.ps. Good to hear the Glasgow accent 👍
Too many bloody sensors on everything nowadays. Overkill just for manufacturers and garages to make money out of drivers. They have the Apple mentality. Make it near impossible for the average consumer to fix without specialist equipment. Thank goodness for honest techs like this guy.
If you watch Wheeler Dealers, Mike Brewer is quite often finding small companies who can repair units like this for pennies compared to the dealers charging through the nose. He quite often recommends using these small firms. He even found a TV repair man to repair an electronic component in one episode. So good on you for taking the time to do these types of repair. Totally justified.
Glad to see someone, who's very cleaver at his job but, who also, not only save money for his customer, but also saves the environment for the cost of making a complete new part.👍👍👍 💪💪
Hope you can feel me patting you on the back, wish there were more people like you out there doing a good repair at the correct price. You saved the lady a fortune, but not only that, you showed that cars can be fixed at a fraction of the retailer's repair cost. Honesty will keep you busy for a long time, good luck with all you do, and i have subscribed. Thank you.
Superb as always mate! The module repairs and manually reprogramming them with the module in the back of the van is always class and you don’t see too many other people doing it on RU-vid. The more detail the better. No doubt the channel will get to where it deserves to be 👍
You are a godsend to the public! proud of you my man sticking it to those greedy dealerships. also the thing is the fact you replaced the module with better relay chips means the customer wont need to worry about his reoccuring.
Great to see some integrity in the modern world. We're in the times of throwaway parts while saying we should be kind to the planet. I'm sure you could make more money going the easy route but your life will be more fulfilling doing what you're doing. Bravo, made my day watching that video. Subscribed for more.
Superb job you have done! Your customers must be very happy that you are saving them a fortune. You will never be out of work with the skills that you have!
I reckon you must be a disciple of Diagnose Dan or vice versa. Really enjoyed the video as always great to see a craftsman at work. Saved that lady a fortune with your patient and knowledgeable approach to the issue.
Component level repair on a circuit board? That requires skill that contemporary dealership service don’t have. Extraordinary, on what was more common 50 years ago that would save consumers a lot of money. I thought this was a lost art. Well done.
Great stuff Ryan.. I absolutely agree with you that it's become a throw-away culture. I have seen the same thing happen in the guitar amplifier business where the manufacturers have designed the amps using a lot of SMC's that are, as you'll know, difficult to diagnose and need special tools & equipment to remove and replace successfully. A lot of amp techs wont touch them and these amps end up in the recycling centre with one blown resistor or capacitor. Net Zero ? ? Hypocrisy personified.
Excellent. Your video was served up to by the algorithm and I am glad it did. As a retired seagoing marine engineer of 34 years - it was nice to see a young chap on top of his game calmly working through logically and methodically to restore operational capability, quickly, effectively and cheaply. With specific reference to the relays replacement in the BCM - you asked if it was worth doing. I think only you and your customer can answer that. Bearing in mind my background we repaired at component level because there was no choice (you cannot call out the AA in the middle of the Atlantic) and there was no labour charge penalty to consider. In your circumstances and for this repair I think you said it was a three hour job and I do not know your charge out rate but let’s say it is £125/hr so £375, I think there were 5 relays at £6 a copy, so £30 and then the VAT so all up £522. I believe you said a Dealer job would have been a new BCM at £1K and I would imagine 1.5 hours labour at say £175/hr and the VAT so all up £1515.So for the customer you were a third cheaper than the dealer and you did it in their drive. For you, you get the job satisfaction of actually doing something more than slinging spare parts at the problem and as long as you are making a net profit then all is good. Well done young man and subscribed. BTW: These sort of problems (relays) are entirely down to cheaping out on the quality of components. At production each relay would have cost them £0.60 not £6 - if they had spent a quid they would last 20 years.
Anymore most mechanics are just assemblers, buy a new module and plug and play. Your efforts actually finding the exact problem could help manufacturers source better relays, hopefully they know the source of the relay had a quality control problem. Without question definitely worth the effort. Just so nice to watch you work.
Spot on mate, definitely worth repairing the bcm, no point lining the pockets of the dealer for a part that should never have failed ! Top job that saved the customer a shit load of money and a nice chunk of job satisfaction.
Your a man after my own heart after fifty five years in plant maintenance as an industrial electrician for an apprentice commencing 1963. Building Services, heating, cooling, air con plus plant repairs. Having that electrical knowledge was a winner especially when boilers from domestic to large steam raising boilers. I did save customers using your methodology which meant I could repair with one visit with a stock of components and stocking some electromechanical controllers. It wasn't legal under Corgi and Gas Safety regs. Gas and hot oil is instantly explosive, call combustion a controlled explosion to identify the closeness to a bomb. The alternative,
I found your channel a week ago & have a channel myself, well done on the BCM repair. We are some bunch of people the lengths we go to in order to save the owners some money. It does sometimes go wrong & you can be seen as the worst technician ever, but your efforts restores my faith people. Well done mate 👏👏👏
Hopefully saved the customer big money and added to your experience and skill set. Lots of motor mechanics are keen to have an easy life and just replace rather than actually repair, great to see a young technician not afraid to experiment and improvise.
That's a rare skill you have there! Too often main dealers stiff customers for new parts when a cost effective repair is possible. Example - I had a cheap Chinese OBD scanner plugged in to my MK3 mk5. My buddy was under the bonnet & he pulled the lead on my maf whilst the engine was running. Engine then ran poorly, maf proved to be working correctly. Somehow doing this tripped the airbag warning light, which would not reset. Took it to to mazda who wanted £900 for new SRS ECU & £300 labour(removal & coding) I pulled the ECU myself & had it repaired by a chap much like yourself. Turns out the software was scrambled, no physical damage. £280 for a reboot/upload of software & problem sorted. Lost faith in mazda after that.
Excellent, well done with the repair. The amount of "throw new stuff at it till it's fixed" nowadays is disgusting and manufactures making repairs as difficult as possible so people have to go to the Stealers and get ripped off shows what a money obsessed world we live in.
You are to be admired. I for one detest the way we are going on this the wastage and cost is phenomenal. I worked in the electronics field before I retired. A friend chucked a 3 year old 50 inch smart TV my way which had sound but no picture. The quote was hundreds of pounds to fix. It cost me £2.50 for a single led for the lcd backlight and it was good to go. I also owned a Peugeot 207 which gave me absolute hell with its electronics and I virtually gave it away in the end as reliability was non existant. I could have done with you around then. I always said we needed electronic and computer experts over car mechanics to fix cars. ALL BUILT To FAIL. I was fascinated by seeing how they used loc tite on the screws. Unbelievable, and all this just to make a controlled explosion in a tiny little cylinder. ! WELL DONE.
What a fantastic diagnosis and repair video. I’m having a bit of trouble with the strong Scottish accent, but think I’ve ‘tuned in’, and can understand the work flow. I do repairs for people, as I love solving the puzzles. Just repaired “my grandfather’s Panasonic walkman’ for a friend, which was a long job due to battery corrosion. All the plate-through holes did not connect the top to the bottom track. Each pad was ‘etched’ away from its plate through centre. I had continuity from the centre to the track below, but not from the centre to its top pad. Had to fill nearly all plate throughs with a wire link. Anyway, traced the whole board through and found more breaks in the track. All repaired. Fixed it in the end. Absolutely loved your analysis and diagnosis. Using sound to find the faulty relay - fantastic skill. … and then tearing the relay apart to demonstrate the hard fault. Also liked your research. Other authors bothering to write-up their fault-fixes. What a useful database. Looking forward to the next video collection. Matt Lee
It' was a great repair. Doing this talks you into many other jobs on a vehicle. I repair treadmills and I'm always honest and open with my customers and don't rip them off. It's definitely the attitude to have. Most people are sooooo greedy, chancers and hustlers It's people like you and me who make a difference. The dealers are just greedy ******** through and through. I repaired my Mercedes, all it needed was a turbo actuator. Three bolts and a circlip job done. Cost me £137 and the dealer would have charged thousands for a new actuator and turbo. Good for you man 🙏
Quality video of really high class diagnosis and repair. Makes me sick when I see diagnosis by swapping components and modules. THINGS CAN BE FIXED EVEN TODAY - if you've got the brains to work it out. Well done sir ...
As an electronics engineer involved in board level repairs of obsolete equipment it is nice to see you repair something all to easy to swap a board and charge the earth... well done you. I assume swapping all the relays was a precautionary measure whilst you had it stripped down, personally I would want to investigate the cause of the burnt out contact, surge current / back emf etc.. keep up the good work.
Most places would not take the time as you did to repair and replace the individual relay. Top job that and I imagine your customer will be very pleased. 👍🏻
Just came across your video for the first time. Great content. Clear diagnosis and honest. Keep it up and a bonus that you are in Scotland. Subscribed.
These days everything is thorwn away and replaced with new (which costs a lot of money as you are aware with this BCM) because not many people are capable of taking things apart and repairing them. Very well done, i would be very happy with that repair!
RU-vid put your video on my homepage. I will need to remember you if I need work done. It is never a waste of time. If you can take money out of the dealers pockets, it's always worth it.
wow seen your van in Thornliebank today but in my wifes car car was telling them ...lol but their answer to me telling them was what are you like next to the tan place ..wow was so amazed to see you great work
Super job mate, yes your saving money for the customer, saving the environment, and your knowledge is fantastic and will keep growing happy daze mate great work.
Great channel ! Very good informative and a delight to view. TBH had to go back at times understand your Irish? accent. Your truck is just awesome hats off to you, you are a true 21st Century mechanic. Have a great holiday mate.
Some cars have test you can do which is accessed by performing a designatedsequence of buttons in the car or elsewhere. The tests are usually easy and require no tools or removing anything. Nissan has one for a power Module which is accessed through turing the ignition to On position (don't start the car) then opening the driver side door and pressing the door swithch ten times then turing the ignition to the off position and on again (don't start the car). The module will then cycle through with beep of the horn and then wipers moving then lights flashing and then engine fan operating. This test is the Intelligent Power Distribution module test - IPDM test. You can hear the relays operating. If you have problem such as wipers failing it stops at that failed module and you then know which one it is. You can then disconnect the actual failing component and replace it. On my car it was the dirty contacts in the wiper motor which I removed and cleaned with electical spray and it is now operating fine avoiding a $346 charge for new one. .
Your skill set is excellent, what a great fix from your van. I suppose most garages would give up at the first hurdle getting stuck into a sealed BCM. well done indeed. If you look out for a pair of Japanese pliers. Fujiya Engineer's Screw Removal Pliers - 160mm it will make the job even easier.
Your a clever man keep up the good work it’s good to see components replaced it sickens me when you have to buy a complete unit rather than the inexpensive part
Top job by a proper mechanic. Most dealers only have fitters, as in no repairs done to original parts. Just pull out a full unit and fit a new one. Plus labour costs these days at main dealers is scandalous.
That relay shouldn't have cost more than a tenner though, but well done, I didn't think a car technician would even think of repairing something like that these days.
Great Job!! That repair would be almost 2k at the dealership by the time you add labour and programming. Ironically, I bet nobody in the dealership could diagnose that it's 5£ relays at fault anyways. Maybe get a stand for the phone 😊 Great videos keep doing what you're doing
