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Shit don't do deisel. I was going to call and see if re would fit my timing belt.

Hello Ricky, in relation to the TCU mapping for the ZF8HP box you said someone in Poland? Could you link me to his site?

Mistake : Thinking parking sensors are great, thinking i've checked my mirrors - thinking all is well as I reverse park. Result : Discovered that a 3" branch stub had been left sticking out into the parking spot, just below the bootline. Found out it will really mess up your bootlid. Lesson : Fit a sodding camera! Everytime I see the dent, it hits me in the feels.

Just watched your dyno advice video I have a 2014 a45 amg looking to get it to stage 1. What tuners would you recommend to go to? I would want you to do it but I know you are more keen on the vag cars! Keep up the videos!

Top job there Ricky

Every day is a total treat of knowledge and stuff I didn’t no Rick and I an old fart who’s worked on cars for well over 45 years ! This super car shit is brilliant 😉👍🏻🇬🇧

When working for McAMS Yamaha at Assen, drove away from the track on Sunday night in a rush to Skiphol only to get a Team WhatsApp message asking has anyone seen the team bus keys. Heart sank and yes they were in my pocket an hour from Skiphol!!! Pulled over into next available service area and asked a very confused cashier to take the keys and wait for a team member to arrive in about 2 hours and collect them. They had to give a password which was 'Stato' as that was my team nickname, never lived it down!! :-D

That Ferrari Testarossa is the only Ferrari I would want to own, I could live out my outrun fantasy. 😂😂😂 My smallest mistake that had the biggest consequences was re-engaging a type 23 frigates anchor capstan under power and wrecking its clutch. 😳

Quality video as always 🫡💯

As the Dunlops are direct descendants of God, I feel for that man.

Great video, you know your onions Ricky! Good content with the questions and answers 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Was Going to Say Cam Sensor Ricky without watching episode as too your Lambo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Because I'm a fu##ing genius! That's the best saying on this channel so far!! Well done Rick 👏

watching Mitch go downstairs in the dyne room at 9.40s is classic!! 🤣

Small mistake - big outcome - was an apprentice at VW dealer in early 90’s, did a clutch on a golf , finished job and put all tools away , couldn’t find 19mm spanner , but after much looking gave up , started car and turns out spanner was on crank pulley , jumped timing belt , bent all valves , engine for the bin ! Learnt a lifeline lesson , always find your tools !!

Testarossa uses Bosch K-Jet mechanical injection ... can't compare that to the F355 which runs Bosch Motronic. Those cars are separated 20 years in terms of technology. You will need to completely change the injection system, not just the injectors. Much more difficoult (and time consuming) process than putting F355 on MoTeC. You can source injection parts from the 512TR (facelifted Testarossa), which already had the Motronic.

Working for my local ambulance service, got a Ducato in that needed loads of work, steering rack, brakes, driveshafts, gearbox renewal. It basically got put in the corner of the workshop, and as I got time and when parts arrived, I'd do what I could. Probably took two weeks of being on and off it before it was finished. I took it for a test drive, and after a couple of miles, the gear change started to feel stiff, back at the workshop, found I'd forgotten to put oil in it, brand new gearbox. To be fair my boss at the time just said, "Well, you won't do that again" He was quite within his remit to make me pay for it, but let it slide.

if you go and watch the ITV4s coverage of the TT they cover the dunlop visor incident on the Tuesday episode and speak to the fella who was at fault

I saw him pull over to fix his helmet and was wondering how that happened, thanks for showing us what went wrong. Got to feel for him and totally understand why he was so pissed

Small error, big cost? In 1999 NASA and Lockheed Martin launched a mission to Mars. The tiny snag was NASA used metric and Lockheed Martin used imperial. You can work out what happened as the navigation telemetry wrestled with the incoming data. What's $300m between friends?

Very enjoyable as always 👍

A lost a championship because a certain race car gearbox manufacturer fitted a roll pin incorrectly.

Its supercharged.

Small mistake....big cost.... Many moons ago I ran a garage, we had one particular customer that had a number of cars we looked after, including their Audi S4. He was going abroad on holiday & needed a set of tyres the night before he drove to the airport to catch an early morning flight & I'd agreed to fit them last thing in the evening (8pm) as we were booked up solid & it's just what we did sometimes for customers. Tyres fitted, dropped his car back to him, all went well....or so I thought. I wake the next morning to a number of missed calls, answer phone messages & selection of texts. He hadn't made it to the airport.....had missed his flight..... wasn't on holiday...as his N/S/F wheel had parted company with the car...at 70mph on the motorway...at 3am. As you can imagine he was less than happy or his wife. He had to have the car recovered back to his house at great expense & claimed off our insurance. Moral of the story is DON'T answer your phone mid way through torquing wheel bolts up, as I did, then not rechecking you had been around them all like a numpty. The final bill for the simple mistake of the expensive call was just a shade under 12k plus I also had to pay for a hire car, 3 days missed holiday, more flights & transfer from the airport in Spain to the hotel he had also paid for🤦 I never Ever didn't double check wheel nuts again after that!

Totally agree with you People should have more attention to detail and be able to spot when things could go wrong. Saying that, I’ve found it impossible to find staff who are like that naturally. Most people now would rather spend more time on their phones than have an eye on the small details. It’s a dying game that is.

Hi Ricky, Thanks for another superb video. I was watching the TT and was absolutely stunned when Dunlop's visor flew off and the 25 second lead evaporated. Totally gutted for him as 2nd and 3rd place riders flew past him. Now, we'll have to wait another year for the record. Moving on. I'm building a McLaren 4.0l, and I'd like your opinion on an idea I had. I'm close to the point where I need to order new pistons and rods. I'm thinking about raising the compression ratio from 8 1/4 up to 9 1/2. My reasoning is that it would give it a little more grunt at low end/low boost, and I could keep the factory exhaust headers and turbos, and when I want to go full send, it'd be like tricking the engine into thinking it had bigger turbos. I was also wondering about using a 21mm wrist pin vs. stock 23mm and moving the ring pack up in order to use a bit longer con rod. There, by increasing rod ratio. Moving the pin hole up along with the ring pack, I was hoping to get a 4mm longer rod. Please feel free to call me a nutter. It wouldn't be the first time. Thanks, and keep the videos coming.

Little mistakes can't have massive outcomes, totally true. I cost myself a transmission with a big mistake a couple of days ago because of something I did over a year ago. A drive shaft yoke Got damaged at a drive shaft shop the replacement I purchased was too tight not enough lubrication for the brass bushing in the tail shaft housing. No one to blame but myself. I was fed up with the car and wanted it to be done. I should have known it wasn't right🤦‍♂️ Luckily I already have a rebuild kit for the (t5 wc)

I want to know how these people afford these cars ?

Wow, that Haltech must be an early one still running a Motorola MCU. They were the first to have live data and live programming. I bet if you contacted Haltech they'd sponsor an Elite 2500 for that project.

Could an Audi R8 intake fit on the S6 6.2 ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Just look after customers,, free help don't pay your bills

Passed pjft prmc filling in for 5 a side done my fib and thib goodbye marine corps beat that for a mistake

Small mistake was not changing a set of worn cleats. Went to dova sprint, my foot come out of the pedal but the bike into a wobble landed face down on the road smashed all my front teeth and spent the next 6 hours in the dental hospital getting stitched back up and looked likevi had been in boxing fight with Mike Tyson . It wasn't my best day

512 TR after Testarossa

Davla you should have Peter Griffin introduce this section called what grinds my gears 😆

Truimph 765 good bike

I have been an aircraft mechanic for 24 years. You are spot on with the awareness of what the fuck your are doing. Also, never punish a fuck up because the next one won't own up. Smallest (biggest) mistake I ever made. Working on a private Boeing 767 owned by a Saudi Prince. I had to replace a small bracket on the horizontal stabiliser. The stabiliser was in the nose up position when I was trying to remove the bracket, and there were 2 bolts I couldn't access because of the position of the stabiliser putting pressure on a seal depressor fairing. So, I loosened the screws of this depressor fairing and put them finger tight back in. So as not to lose them. Anyway, another bloke reinstalled the bracket, and at that time, the horizontal stabiliser was in the nose down position. The 2 bolts went in easy, and no one noticed the finger tight screws on the upper surface of the stabiliser because it was installed from below and the fairing was sitting down due to gravity so everything looked OK. I went for Christmas break. 2 weeks la di da. (Lack of communication) The aircraft went for a test flight. Everything went well and was signed off. On the final wave goodbye, the captain noticed something sticking up on the horizontal stabiliser. After a quick visual check on a cheery picker, it became apparent that the section (3 meters) of seal depressor. Half of it had become detached and just done a fucking proper high speed Bruce Lee chop chop chop in the airflow on the upper surface of the composite elevator. Absolutely destroyed it. The aircraft was stuck there for a further 2 weeks until a new elevator assembly could be sourced. The quality department informed me the bill would be at least 5 million. That was back in 2008. Always, always check your work. Always comunicate what you've done. Don't assume the next person knows what you've done. Look at the aviation dirty dozen. I think every industry should implement it. Rules learned with blood. Ricky your Absolutely 💯 % correct. It's why I like to watch your channel. You've learned from racing that anything can go wrong at any time and take 1 or more lives. Aviation is the same. Respect 🫡 Love the channel.

Gotta love VAG. Keep the mechanics in business 😂

I both love and hate that Testarossa. It's a beautiful abomination. Same with the Liberty Walk Countach.

DAYT-HATE. :P

Mistake, wasn't my fault but.... 2nd chicane at Combe on your track day, put a wheel on the curb and lost it into the wall, dho!

Small mistake big consequence, trying a shirt on for some doo after a shower , chuffed as it still fits, send pic in front of mirror to wife (only the shirt on btw) . Seconds later realise like a twat I’ve sent it on the group chat of the housing estate we live on. 😳😳😳😳 pic only up for 15 seconds, the longest and most panicked 15 seconds of my life, yet some folk still saw it 🤦‍♂️. Lesson learnt . Thanks for the great vids

Got to add to ‘don’t make mistakes’ …….. people who don’t make mistakes either don’t do anything or are liars.

Biggest "small" mistake. Getting an old CBR250R (the good old inline-4 ones not the modern junk) back on the road again. Loads of work, got it running well, took it for its first MOT in years (which it passed cleanly) Left the fuel tap "on" after the MOT while it sat in the garage for a week. Fuel seeped past the vac tap and float valves, filled the crankcases, washed all the oil out of the big ends and despite draining and refilling with clean oil a short distance later #1 big end let loose trashing the crank. It had lasted all of 9 miles.

You’re clearly a genius. I wish you the very best for your future.

Oh so I must have been electromagnetic electromagnetic parts are electromagnetic for a long time. Sometimes you talk rubbish. You're bad man sometimes

In the 80's, Oulton Park, pre race testing. Second engine change in 1 day, it was 4am in the scrutineering bay ,I didn't get the bottom hose to water pump hose clip on square. In the race it popped off, lost an engine and a race win,

Would the owner of the rossa be open to a road test video when it is finished?! I would love to hear and see that thing go a little.

Hell man i am late and ricky got his ears lowered Phack Phack Phack oh well howa about the TT Crazy mon truly Crazy mon LFG TT yall b safe there anyway Rickster u got ur ears lowered its truly summer time b cool so wats ur latest vid doin welp lets have a watch and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Mitch at 9:38😂😂😂