You know you got solid Mates when they not only facilitate you getting new wheels, but they fix the dent on it before they give it to you. good job guys!
Yea, I was coming to say similar! Of all the internet, we've found two of the legitimate good ones. Love these guys. Wade and James 🫡 _edit: ok... I typed that after watching 15min, but seeing _*_how much_*_ they did... 😮 LEGENDS!!_
If a mate gave me a car when I was in need I'd be thinking hard of figuring out how to repay him. That's not just "being nice", it's really going the extra mile.
High fuel economy? 6 liters for a 650ml 2 cylinder engine is terrible. If only it made some power, but no, 24 hp _when new_ His Maluch probably makes closer to 18 hp, something's horribly wrong with that engine. Normal Maluch hits 140-150 down a hill, 120 on its own. He can't even hit 100. It shouldn't have that much of an issue going up a hill.
every time james does something, he’s just so casual about it, while doing a stellar job. he’s honestly incredible. everyone needs a james in their life
My girlfriend "accidently" bought an auction car i was looking at (for more than i was going to pay) when it arrived, it was absolutely busted. Somehow, my dad (a panel beater of 20 years, 20 years ago) took pity on me and did such an incredible job in such a short time. Really impressive how much they can fix
Imagine Wade's mate watches this video after receiving the car. Just 20 mins of Wade just screaming "THIS IS WHY IT'S EXPENSIVE" lmao. It reminds me of a dad who begrudgingly spoils his kids, but is secretly happy to.
Oh so James is a panel beater now? On top of being a mechanic, electronics expert, museum curator, GC, and presenter? Of course he is, there's nothing that man can't do
I knew a guy back in the early 90's who was absolutely mental. He was planning to paint his VK Commodore black. My mate at the time who knew how to spray paint offered him help, even when this guy rang him at 6am one Saturday saying he was prepping the car to paint and again he said do you want my help and this guy refused. I shit you not, this guy had finished prepping and painting the car black within 3 hours and he arrived at my mates house saying "I'm done". It looked like Popcorn Ceiling in black. My mates little brother commented the best bit is under the boot lid, to which he got a punch in the face.
Seeing the use of sikaflex to hold that bumper on hurts me so much having previously worked in a panelshop. That stuff makes it so painful for the next poor bastard that has to work on the car lol
@@dagda1180 long story short in this case yes it should shatter making metal harder hard enough to cut other metal makes it brittle Brittle enough shatter when approximately the same amount of force that would cause low carbon steel to bend or yeild
Even at the depth of bodywork misadventure, the cheerful brass band music creates a buoyant mood. Amazed an LPG barra pulls less revs on the hill than Jeff.
Well it pulled 100 more revs. Really close considering the 4L on LPG is quite a bit less powerful than the older petrol V8, and it's like 200 kilos heavier. I guess having a 6 speed gearbox instead of 4 might mean it has more efficient gearing.
Love the detail of using filler as skimmer and skimmer as filler. Also stepping on an old file would probably snap it too since they're made of hardened steel so they'll file stuff.
Plastic repairs are particularly fucked as well Edit: often bumper bars and other plastic panels appear to be poorly matched from factory, mainly because plastic fucks with the color a bit. Also because those bits are often painted at other factories. You can look yourself, most cars will have slightly different coloured bumpers.
That's why I'm glad fullsize trucks still use Chrome Bumpers because you don't get that problem with chrome, I mean I guess you can get the chrome not matching but that's across the car
About 10 years ago I restored and resprayed a HQ ute from my parents farm. I was intent on doing everything myself, sanded it all back, disassembly etc. I got a local guy to start teaching me panel beating, after an hour of banging on a panel with a hammer, it ended up worse than I started, he walked over with a heat gun and many years of experience and fixed it in 5 minutes. He offered to do the rest of the panel beating for 5k and I instantly said yes. Bloody hard work. Much respect to the panel beaters out there.
A mate turned up at my house some 25 years ago with the gift of his old car. Even though he'd been giving me lifts everywhere for years, he had never twigged I couldn't drive (nor afford to). XD Lovely thought, utterly misplaced gift! :D
Automotive detailing and automotive body work are the two most time-consuming and most finesse requiring extra services for a car there is. The cheaper you pay the cheaper the work you get
The LPG business reminds me of GNV back when I lived in Brazil with my parents. It was everywhere for the longest time and then it just disappeared. Dad loved it, converted every car he had because they ran twice the miles for half the fuel. The gov also cut your taxes for having it.
They used to burn LP gas 24/7 for years at the refinery (not far from the hill Wade uses).. it was a by product... You cd see Pt Stanvac for miles around cos of this big flaming pipe!
@@ferretyluv in Brazil is E100 and we want a good deal. At the time GNV was a good deal. But the kit costs got high and the yearly inspection was a pain.
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh E100 means pure ethanol, 100%. In reality there are stabilisers added so that it doesn’t absorb water as quickly. It’s around 110 octane.
I find it comedic that the channel that essentially started because of a polish nugget, and polish stuff keeps finding itself into the garage for some reason
The body filler and hardener mixing and application reminds me of the mid-90s back when my parents' box-type Corolla underwent an at-home paint job for days or weeks and seeing and smelling the entire process. Good times. That gold-colored Corolla was a treasure to have.
***Steps on a file and gets mad when it breaks*** THATS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!! Files are heat treated high-carbon steel. When you heat treat metal, the grains of the metal form a smaller/finer bond causing the metal to become more hard, less malleable, and more brittle. That’s why knife steel can keep an edge whereas a knife made from any old scrap metal will dull the moment it touches anything. Think of metal as glass. Glass is an incredibly strong material, super solid. You can’t bend glass, you can’t compress it, can’t shape it (cold), and it’s one of the sharpest materials (shards). It’s incredibly strong but it’s brittle and will shatter if stressed. Same as metal.
@17:18 guys, take a direct beam light (phone flashlight, LED headlamp,) hold it on a perpendicular angle to the panel. It will highlight all the bubbles. If you learn about drywall work, it's basically the same thing, but with less different compounds you gotta use!!! I know you're all now addicted to perfecting bodywork after this XD so learn those little tricks!
Kind of funny how things work out. When your car crapped out, your mate gave you the keys to Bruce the lpg falcon ute (Rest in peace). And now a mate of yours needs a car and you're handing them a falcon sedan lpg. The cycle continues.
We have Dolphin Glaze here in the US also, first time I used it I did the same thing with the hardener. Their stuff is deceiving because it doesn't change colors when you mix it in like nearly every other filler. However when you get it right, it's the best for skim coats and finishing work.
Metallic silver is one of the most difficult colors to match All the professional car painters ive talked to before say that if they paint a silver metallic car, they paint the whole car, so they can use the paint of just a single batch
fun fact in Dominican Republic they have a lot of lpg pumps but they also fit lpg tanks to gasoline cars but for some of those cars they are not used to starting up with just lpg meaning you'll get a special button where you can go from Gasoline to lpg hell even while diving you can switch on what you want your car to run on and you wont even know when it happens. but this does mean you'll need to fill both lpg and gas.
In Australia we used to have a lot of gas conversions. Ford and Holden always made them at the factory, but a lot of people had their Gas systems installed afterwards so those usually worked just the same as you're describing. There's still a few odd gas cars around but I don't think anyone's making new ones.
Regarding the headlight cleaner, wonder if Repco just uses decent OEMs for their in-house products. Their tools are apparently made by Sidchrome, a well-regarded local brand.
Well they're Stanley Black & Decker tools, parent company Stanley closed down Sidchrome (and Stanley) production in Australia back in the early 90's sadly. The Australian-made stuff was excellent IMO! It was a shame to hear about the misadventure Stanley had trying to restart American production of Craftsman tools (built a factory, had huge quality problems with the new automated production processes, liquidated the stock and closed it down), but at least the Taiwanese-made Craftsman and Sidchrome (+ Repco) tools are reasonably decent. Some of the more expensive Sidchrome and Craftsman V tools are sourced from Stanley's French tool brand Facom. There are some cheaper Craftsman and Sidchrome tools made in China which are a bit rubbish though...
James is just so good at everything he dose ....It honestly makes me not even wanna try to human anymore.... I'll never be a James....he's just too good.
That saying "jack of all trades master of none" doesn't apply to James for him it's "jack of all trades master of most" he will take his hand to anything even if he's not done it before he will do it the "wtf method" but the end result is always fantastic. Amazing man and entertaining while also doing brilliant work. Claps for james
This is propably my favorite Aussie car, for a very simple reason. Forza Motorsport 4 was the first brand new game I ever bought with my own money and it had lots of supercars from thst Era. They were the first Aussie cars I was exposed to and I absolutely loved their design. And drove the Gis #9 SPTools car hundreds of times. I really want one... But the import prices would propably kill me. Lmao
He previously got given a car from (i assume a different) friend, actually similar to this one, just the big ute variant, when he was struggling financially
The lack of economies of scale of Ford and General Motors by having totally different cars in Europe, Australia and North America is horrific! For a time, the Holden Commodore used somewhat of a widened Vauxhall Carlton and Omega body, but the engines & mechanicals of the car were totally different. (AFAIK there was zero relationship between the Holden straight-six and the Opel straight-six for example, then Holden moved to the Nissan straight-six and then Buick V6 engine, totally ignoring the Opel straight-six engine family.) The Falcon never shared much with the Granada or Scorpio, and after the first two Falcon models which were similar, the Mavericks and Fairmont & Mustang Fox bodies in the USA branced off into a completely unrelated car to the Australian Falcon (and it's straight six that gained crossflow, SOHC and DOHC) too. No wonder the likes of Toyota cleaned up! Front wheel drive Camry/Avalon/Aurion are very similar all over the world, which is efficient. Rear wheel drive Crown/GS300 is very similar all over the world, which is efficient.
@TassieLorenzo Absolutely, think it's just one of the problems with those big car conglomerates I don't know how it can possibly work out financially for them. Seems like they take once great brands and start making them produce utter rubbish. Wish the UK was able to keep hold of some of its classic brands rather than losing them all to the highest bidder, it hurts everytime I see one of those new godawful MGs driving about and I wasn't even around for the heyday of MG.
The panel beating was impressive (minus the fact that you should always sand away the paint on the exposed side before you do it from the other side), but Wade, I gotta level with you - not only is silver the hardest colour to paint match, but the end result is actually somehow worse than when you started. I commend the effort though, 110%!
Also you can get metallic flake VERY CLOSE if you do 2 or more thin coats, and then one thick coat on the tacky last sprayed coat. I've done it for my truck's lund visor and small repairs
The nail polish thing is no joke. When my mom was getting rid of some old red nail polish, I grabbed it and now I use it as touch up paint for my toolbox. It's a perfect match too.
My hand me down FG from my dad is going in for all the body work next week. Super looking forward to seeing it fixed up. About the driving position, its a couch you drive, you can tell the main thought for most of the car was "someone is going to sit in this for HOURS at a time let's make it as comfy and relaxed on the inside as possible" It wants you to sit so far back your shoulders are at the b pillar. Then use a engine that only pulls ~1500rpm at 110kph. Only thing I would tell you to check is driveshaft bearing and diff bushings.
So the reason that dolphin glaze is so runny is because it’s supposed to be the 2nd to last coat of body filler you put on. It’s really good at not at getting pinholes. It’s actually a really good glaze, I used to use it all the time when I was a bondo bozo and I still use it on 3d prints to hide layer lines. I did a whole 3d printed daft punk helmet using it.
You've gotta love the old Falcon transmissions ( replaced it about every 100,000 kms on the XF), bumpers and door handles. When I saw the mileage I thought it might have been an ex cab. I remember the XF Falcon I drove as a cab. It was at nearly 1,000,000 kms and it was due to come of the road due to age. The boss put a new motor in it claimed it on his tax and keep it as his private vehicle. He then replaced it with an EL wagon with the taxi pack.
I never knew that bodywork and fixing up an oldschool model-kit to be -presentable- had so much in common... James' spraycan control is PREMIUM, love seein' a master in action.
You guys are amazing. Like honestly I would not have bothered with the door dent on my own car, much less on something I was fixing up for someone else. Just clean it off and give it a bit of paint so it don't rust.
Wade, you gotta' see the silliness we're doing for new car engines in the USA. Putting a 1.2L 3 cylinder turbo in compact SUVs, and they roar like a Mustang going uphill. It's pure madness, a true 2024 nugget. 😂
@@ferretyluv Yeah, I can lift the back end of my 2024 Trailblazer by hand, and I'm NOT a particularly strong person (I did bend the rear bumper doing so though, oops). The whole car weighs nothing compared to how it looks, and the engine bay is twice the depth it needs to be for the dinky little engine, so it ships by default with this enormous intercooler that barely gets warm, and everything but the fuel filter is super accessible right up front, just because what else are they going to fill the space with?
I think it's supposed to be as in swamp. Its sticky mud like stuff you use for filling in gaps so it makes sense to me. Bog is a common Australian word as well as British for either toilets or swamps.
The file snapping after James stepped on it actually makes sense. Files are hardened tool steel: hard as nails, meant for cutting any other steel. But the hardness comes at the price of brittleness. Those files always snap easily - it’s a sign that they were probably good.
I just find it depressing how many tools you've had to throw away because they're low quality despite their high price. We really are living in some dark times.
I mean yes, but atleast in both cases shown in this video there was another one they swapped to that was just fine. Good products do still exist for quite a bit of stuff, the problem is distinquishing them from all the crap (which is why its important to do research on stuff you buy whenever you can, the less sales crap gets and the more sales good stuff gets the less the crap stuff grows) (and NO, im NOT saying "ohh their fault for not researching", everyone SHOULD be able to buy stuff freely while getting quality, its just the way things are that they cant)
Im gunna name my car after you Wade, its an 08 Civic
please don’t make it rice.
"Garbage time"
@@Forrest_O. please make it rice 🍚
I named my 03 civic Carlton, as an homage to the “a car” joke. Because that’s what it was… it was, an car.
@@background0001 i dont want the channel disrespected like that.
You know you got solid Mates when they not only facilitate you getting new wheels, but they fix the dent on it before they give it to you. good job guys!
Also a dent that no one will care about for the sake of garbage time content
Yea, I was coming to say similar! Of all the internet, we've found two of the legitimate good ones. Love these guys.
Wade and James 🫡
_edit: ok... I typed that after watching 15min, but seeing _*_how much_*_ they did... 😮 LEGENDS!!_
he's perpetuating the legend that was the teacher that gave him Bruce 1.
*IT'S EVEN LPG AND EVERYTHING LOOK*
If a mate gave me a car when I was in need I'd be thinking hard of figuring out how to repay him. That's not just "being nice", it's really going the extra mile.
I'm glad James wore a mask when sanding. I figured he'd just do the ol' mate trick of holding his breath! 😂
Clearing up foggy headlights is like a cheat code to make any car look 10x better.
Extremely true. Made my 99 jeep go from looking like a high mileage beater (which it isn't even) to a decent, somewhat well kept looking machine.
Like Grandma's old Grand Prix can go from boring to 2000s Sport Sedan Muscle Car real quick just from cleaning the headlights
my corollas headlights were that screwed they would project 5-10m... scary to use while going 100 on a road with no light poles and high traffic
Still a sh1tbox
If only there was an easy way to fix sun damage on the paint.
Tony scoring a DNF on the hill brings joy to my heart to compensate for being so high on fuel economy
High fuel economy? 6 liters for a 650ml 2 cylinder engine is terrible. If only it made some power, but no, 24 hp _when new_
His Maluch probably makes closer to 18 hp, something's horribly wrong with that engine. Normal Maluch hits 140-150 down a hill, 120 on its own. He can't even hit 100. It shouldn't have that much of an issue going up a hill.
@@masterkamen371 Keep in mind,that's with 2 people inside, AND 2 ice coffees or something
Tony's #1 in the "fun to drive" leaderboard
You have INFINITE fuel economy if the car can't drive! 😂
every time james does something, he’s just so casual about it, while doing a stellar job. he’s honestly incredible. everyone needs a james in their life
I’m a James do you need me in your life
@@ceasarjamestolentino9749I got a 2005 Passat and oh lord it has some weird thing called *rust*
@@ceasarjamestolentino9749I need you.
When I was 17, I fixed my car's bumper with bandaids. I couldn't afford Hello Kitty bandaids, so it was never truly fixed
My girlfriend "accidently" bought an auction car i was looking at (for more than i was going to pay) when it arrived, it was absolutely busted. Somehow, my dad (a panel beater of 20 years, 20 years ago) took pity on me and did such an incredible job in such a short time. Really impressive how much they can fix
Panel beaters are magicians
Yeah no kidding it's magic to watch honestly
Mhmmmm what do you mean by "accidently"
@@poop-bq9evi feel like they explained that in the following sentence in brackets. She spent much more than they were going to pay.
Your girlfriend is a very kind lady.
Imagine Wade's mate watches this video after receiving the car. Just 20 mins of Wade just screaming "THIS IS WHY IT'S EXPENSIVE" lmao. It reminds me of a dad who begrudgingly spoils his kids, but is secretly happy to.
20+ minute DankPods AND garbage time videos on the same day?? Wade, you’re spoiling us
Oh so James is a panel beater now? On top of being a mechanic, electronics expert, museum curator, GC, and presenter? Of course he is, there's nothing that man can't do
I think being a panel beater is part of being a mecanic
And saver of magpie
@@VichoXD14moreso the other way around. And you become an auto leccy as well haha
We do radiators and smaller mechanical stuff, and some wiring when needed
he also can read japanese
James is a wizard. Most wizards use wands true, but a hammer is clearly an acceptable alternative.
Heavy wand
7:54 is that the Bunnings spec methylated spirits? Good to see Tony didn't drink it all, the thirsty nugget.
Diggers Metho..
The alcoholics fave!!
ps. I rekn it's Turps, but Bunno's have that too!!
I'm from Poland and trust me, I was been used car dealer and think like this was normal. Hummer and body filler xD 😂
@@DriverAnonim Me mate's just gone to Lublin, he was born there, came to Aust as a kid....
Yeah, he's dodgy as!!
@@DriverAnonim I was been used?
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Could be! Tony sucked up his fair share of the methylated in the abuse mini-series, would've been funny if it was the same bottle.
this is the pure definition of born to be technician a, forced to be technician b
I knew a guy back in the early 90's who was absolutely mental. He was planning to paint his VK Commodore black. My mate at the time who knew how to spray paint offered him help, even when this guy rang him at 6am one Saturday saying he was prepping the car to paint and again he said do you want my help and this guy refused. I shit you not, this guy had finished prepping and painting the car black within 3 hours and he arrived at my mates house saying "I'm done". It looked like Popcorn Ceiling in black. My mates little brother commented the best bit is under the boot lid, to which he got a punch in the face.
I read this in Wade's "bad quality telephone voice"
@@araarathisyomama787 "I'm in jail."
If ya squint, it’s mint. Great job guys.
Congrats you turned this car from an *"an car"* to a home made nugget for your mate. This deserves a chef kiss emoji
🤌
Seeing the use of sikaflex to hold that bumper on hurts me so much having previously worked in a panelshop. That stuff makes it so painful for the next poor bastard that has to work on the car lol
19:18 files are made out of high carbon steel wich is britle, drop it on the ground it almost souds like glass
Yeah, super common to find them with the end snapped off because someone tried to open a tin of paint with them.
Yep files are hard steel
Hard steel is normally brittle
@@bluejayfabrications2216Still, METAL shouldn't shatter because someone stepped on it (unless it was broken beforrhand).
@@dagda1180 long story short in this case yes it should shatter
making metal harder hard enough to cut other metal makes it brittle
Brittle enough shatter when approximately the same amount of force that would cause low carbon steel to bend or yeild
Even at the depth of bodywork misadventure, the cheerful brass band music creates a buoyant mood. Amazed an LPG barra pulls less revs on the hill than Jeff.
Well it pulled 100 more revs. Really close considering the 4L on LPG is quite a bit less powerful than the older petrol V8, and it's like 200 kilos heavier. I guess having a 6 speed gearbox instead of 4 might mean it has more efficient gearing.
Love the detail of using filler as skimmer and skimmer as filler.
Also stepping on an old file would probably snap it too since they're made of hardened steel so they'll file stuff.
Sorry DankPods I'm a Polish and I found you just like the products of my people. Feel the founded-ness.
Plastic repairs are particularly fucked as well
Edit: often bumper bars and other plastic panels appear to be poorly matched from factory, mainly because plastic fucks with the color a bit. Also because those bits are often painted at other factories. You can look yourself, most cars will have slightly different coloured bumpers.
Part of the reason I think unpainted plastic bumpers can often look better, even if it does also make the car look cheaper.
Yeah my Miata front bumper is a whole different shade from the body :'( it only bothers me EVERY DAY
@GetOffMyLog hey if it's black an white find a contrasting shade to paint your car...make it fun! Make it yours.
Came here to say this. I work with brand new Toyotas and even those have a slightly different shade between the bumper and metal panels.
That's why I'm glad fullsize trucks still use Chrome Bumpers because you don't get that problem with chrome, I mean I guess you can get the chrome not matching but that's across the car
About 10 years ago I restored and resprayed a HQ ute from my parents farm. I was intent on doing everything myself, sanded it all back, disassembly etc. I got a local guy to start teaching me panel beating, after an hour of banging on a panel with a hammer, it ended up worse than I started, he walked over with a heat gun and many years of experience and fixed it in 5 minutes. He offered to do the rest of the panel beating for 5k and I instantly said yes. Bloody hard work. Much respect to the panel beaters out there.
Congratulations to the old mate nick, and nice work by everyone involved on getting it back to proper shape.
What a hero, using his youtube money to hire a mechanic and give away used cars
"Good from far, but far from good" is the way.
A mate turned up at my house some 25 years ago with the gift of his old car. Even though he'd been giving me lifts everywhere for years, he had never twigged I couldn't drive (nor afford to). XD
Lovely thought, utterly misplaced gift! :D
I'm honestly impressed at how well the body work came out. It looks almost brand new. Well done James and Wade
At my technical college there's a collision repair class across the hall from our machining tech class... I got a new respect for em now
I swear, Poland has a grasp on this man. But that's what you get for getting the most polish, most gremlin car on the planet.
Watching you try to fill a big dent with top layer skim coating was really something lmao
I almost think you would have been better off using primer and JB-Weld... xD
That's the Garbage Time way, mate
For a free car, it's amazing work. Hell, for dudes eho aren't auto body specialists, it's amazing work. James is a treasure. You two are good mates.
Automotive detailing and automotive body work are the two most time-consuming and most finesse requiring extra services for a car there is. The cheaper you pay the cheaper the work you get
On the subject of power tools, Makita is awesome. Most of their tools are still made in Japan and that can be seen in their quality.
Next thing you know James is gonna be up Wade's place installing a brand new AC system in the garage. I swear that man does it all.
Probably already has
The LPG business reminds me of GNV back when I lived in Brazil with my parents. It was everywhere for the longest time and then it just disappeared.
Dad loved it, converted every car he had because they ran twice the miles for half the fuel. The gov also cut your taxes for having it.
They used to burn LP gas 24/7 for years at the refinery (not far from the hill Wade uses).. it was a by product...
You cd see Pt Stanvac for miles around cos of this big flaming pipe!
I thought Brazil prefers E80.
@@ferretyluv in Brazil is E100 and we want a good deal. At the time GNV was a good deal. But the kit costs got high and the yearly inspection was a pain.
@@jlGenozzV E100 is ethanol or octane rating mate?
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh E100 means pure ethanol, 100%. In reality there are stabilisers added so that it doesn’t absorb water as quickly. It’s around 110 octane.
I find it comedic that the channel that essentially started because of a polish nugget, and polish stuff keeps finding itself into the garage for some reason
4:22 James casually panelbeating an FG falcon with the layshaft of a classic Mini
It’s a good day when Garbage Time uploads
Gonna have to politely disagree. It's a GREAT day when we get some Garbage Time.
The body filler and hardener mixing and application reminds me of the mid-90s back when my parents' box-type Corolla underwent an at-home paint job for days or weeks and seeing and smelling the entire process. Good times. That gold-colored Corolla was a treasure to have.
tip for next time, take a deflated soccer/basketball, put it in the fender the inflate it. it will push out the dent
For being a "wham bam, thank you ma'am" fix, this turned out swell
***Steps on a file and gets mad when it breaks*** THATS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!! Files are heat treated high-carbon steel. When you heat treat metal, the grains of the metal form a smaller/finer bond causing the metal to become more hard, less malleable, and more brittle. That’s why knife steel can keep an edge whereas a knife made from any old scrap metal will dull the moment it touches anything. Think of metal as glass. Glass is an incredibly strong material, super solid. You can’t bend glass, you can’t compress it, can’t shape it (cold), and it’s one of the sharpest materials (shards). It’s incredibly strong but it’s brittle and will shatter if stressed. Same as metal.
As someone who despises the "throwaway culture" we're in, I love seeing you two madlads restore and breathe new life into these cars.
@17:18 guys, take a direct beam light (phone flashlight, LED headlamp,) hold it on a perpendicular angle to the panel. It will highlight all the bubbles.
If you learn about drywall work, it's basically the same thing, but with less different compounds you gotta use!!! I know you're all now addicted to perfecting bodywork after this XD so learn those little tricks!
Now I'm going to have "Like a G6" stuck in my head all day.
"we're just gonna do the bare minimum to get it up and rolling on the road"
The bare minimum:
as a polish person i will say we have no idea what we are doing
Two long form videos from ol danky dropping simultaneously?
Christmas came early and so did I.
youre not giving yourselves enough credit for how beautiful those repairs look
Kind of funny how things work out.
When your car crapped out, your mate gave you the keys to Bruce the lpg falcon ute (Rest in peace). And now a mate of yours needs a car and you're handing them a falcon sedan lpg. The cycle continues.
We have Dolphin Glaze here in the US also, first time I used it I did the same thing with the hardener. Their stuff is deceiving because it doesn't change colors when you mix it in like nearly every other filler. However when you get it right, it's the best for skim coats and finishing work.
The ford franklin.
Metallic silver is one of the most difficult colors to match
All the professional car painters ive talked to before say that if they paint a silver metallic car, they paint the whole car, so they can use the paint of just a single batch
fun fact in Dominican Republic they have a lot of lpg pumps but they also fit lpg tanks to gasoline cars but for some of those cars they are not used to starting up with just lpg meaning you'll get a special button where you can go from Gasoline to lpg hell even while diving you can switch on what you want your car to run on and you wont even know when it happens. but this does mean you'll need to fill both lpg and gas.
In Australia we used to have a lot of gas conversions. Ford and Holden always made them at the factory, but a lot of people had their Gas systems installed afterwards so those usually worked just the same as you're describing.
There's still a few odd gas cars around but I don't think anyone's making new ones.
I think that's how LPG systems work in general if they aren't factory installed; I wouldn't be surprised if some OEM systems operated this way as well
@@SineN0mine3 oh that’s cool here in dr we got it from Australia because of gas prices going up but at this point it’s close to the same price as gas
@@purpleneons well idk too much about em if I’m being honest I just see everything here in dr but honestly that’s cool
8:25 that Dolphin glaze is some good stuff. I've used it quite a few times and it works great every time.
The most car-shaped car to ever car 🚗
Regarding the headlight cleaner, wonder if Repco just uses decent OEMs for their in-house products. Their tools are apparently made by Sidchrome, a well-regarded local brand.
Well they're Stanley Black & Decker tools, parent company Stanley closed down Sidchrome (and Stanley) production in Australia back in the early 90's sadly. The Australian-made stuff was excellent IMO!
It was a shame to hear about the misadventure Stanley had trying to restart American production of Craftsman tools (built a factory, had huge quality problems with the new automated production processes, liquidated the stock and closed it down), but at least the Taiwanese-made Craftsman and Sidchrome (+ Repco) tools are reasonably decent. Some of the more expensive Sidchrome and Craftsman V tools are sourced from Stanley's French tool brand Facom.
There are some cheaper Craftsman and Sidchrome tools made in China which are a bit rubbish though...
When James is going at it with the hammer at 3:48 I was reminded of the car in Father Ted
I was thinking more of a jeremy clarkson type job
@@Hagrid216 that too!
James is just so good at everything he dose ....It honestly makes me not even wanna try to human anymore....
I'll never be a James....he's just too good.
I did basically the same job to my VE commodore last week and it looks like shit
Don't forget the trick of keeping the spray paint in some warm water to stop it from orange peeling
And don't forget to shake the absolute living shit out of it.
Most people don't.
Love all your channels!!! This is one of my favorites 😂 you very generous helping your friend out!
That saying "jack of all trades master of none" doesn't apply to James for him it's "jack of all trades master of most" he will take his hand to anything even if he's not done it before he will do it the "wtf method" but the end result is always fantastic. Amazing man and entertaining while also doing brilliant work. Claps for james
This is propably my favorite Aussie car, for a very simple reason. Forza Motorsport 4 was the first brand new game I ever bought with my own money and it had lots of supercars from thst Era. They were the first Aussie cars I was exposed to and I absolutely loved their design. And drove the Gis #9 SPTools car hundreds of times. I really want one... But the import prices would propably kill me. Lmao
So generous, giving his friend a car.
He previously got given a car from (i assume a different) friend, actually similar to this one, just the big ute variant, when he was struggling financially
These Aussie cars are so strange to me as a brit, everything looks like a combination of about 10 models we get here
The lack of economies of scale of Ford and General Motors by having totally different cars in Europe, Australia and North America is horrific! For a time, the Holden Commodore used somewhat of a widened Vauxhall Carlton and Omega body, but the engines & mechanicals of the car were totally different. (AFAIK there was zero relationship between the Holden straight-six and the Opel straight-six for example, then Holden moved to the Nissan straight-six and then Buick V6 engine, totally ignoring the Opel straight-six engine family.)
The Falcon never shared much with the Granada or Scorpio, and after the first two Falcon models which were similar, the Mavericks and Fairmont & Mustang Fox bodies in the USA branced off into a completely unrelated car to the Australian Falcon (and it's straight six that gained crossflow, SOHC and DOHC) too.
No wonder the likes of Toyota cleaned up! Front wheel drive Camry/Avalon/Aurion are very similar all over the world, which is efficient. Rear wheel drive Crown/GS300 is very similar all over the world, which is efficient.
@TassieLorenzo Absolutely, think it's just one of the problems with those big
car conglomerates I don't know how it can possibly work out financially for them. Seems like they take once great brands and start making them produce utter rubbish. Wish the UK was able to keep hold of some of its classic brands rather than losing them all to the highest bidder, it hurts everytime I see one of those new godawful MGs driving about and I wasn't even around for the heyday of MG.
The best thing to hide any imperfections, wait until it dusts up 👌
Now THIS is a birthday gift! 🎁
happy birthday!
Oi, happy birthday mate!🎂
So many fun videos from multiple CZcamsrs today. My sub feed got blessed.
Dankpods vid AND a Garbage Time video in the same day? This is amazing.
James is the type of guy that can say “I can fix her” and actually manage to do it
The panel beating was impressive (minus the fact that you should always sand away the paint on the exposed side before you do it from the other side), but Wade, I gotta level with you - not only is silver the hardest colour to paint match, but the end result is actually somehow worse than when you started. I commend the effort though, 110%!
Excellentmobile is my new favourite phrase
Poland mentioned! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Old mate James really is one of a kind.
“excellentmobile” is my new favorite phrase.
Also you can get metallic flake VERY CLOSE if you do 2 or more thin coats, and then one thick coat on the tacky last sprayed coat. I've done it for my truck's lund visor and small repairs
Been looking for dolphin glaze for years. I just couldn't remember the name. We use to use it on aircraft composites. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
The nail polish thing is no joke. When my mom was getting rid of some old red nail polish, I grabbed it and now I use it as touch up paint for my toolbox. It's a perfect match too.
Dang! The silver falcon cleaned up *nice!* Great job! Making me wish we had gotten that Falcon in the US.
My hand me down FG from my dad is going in for all the body work next week. Super looking forward to seeing it fixed up.
About the driving position, its a couch you drive, you can tell the main thought for most of the car was "someone is going to sit in this for HOURS at a time let's make it as comfy and relaxed on the inside as possible" It wants you to sit so far back your shoulders are at the b pillar. Then use a engine that only pulls ~1500rpm at 110kph.
Only thing I would tell you to check is driveshaft bearing and diff bushings.
So the reason that dolphin glaze is so runny is because it’s supposed to be the 2nd to last coat of body filler you put on. It’s really good at not at getting pinholes. It’s actually a really good glaze, I used to use it all the time when I was a bondo bozo and I still use it on 3d prints to hide layer lines. I did a whole 3d printed daft punk helmet using it.
You've gotta love the old Falcon transmissions ( replaced it about every 100,000 kms on the XF), bumpers and door handles. When I saw the mileage I thought it might have been an ex cab. I remember the XF Falcon I drove as a cab. It was at nearly 1,000,000 kms and it was due to come of the road due to age. The boss put a new motor in it claimed it on his tax and keep it as his private vehicle. He then replaced it with an EL wagon with the taxi pack.
I never knew that bodywork and fixing up an oldschool model-kit to be -presentable- had so much in common... James' spraycan control is PREMIUM, love seein' a master in action.
Two 20 minute videos in a day! Thank you!
The polish Bog part got me. Damn was that funny as heck.
You guys are amazing. Like honestly I would not have bothered with the door dent on my own car, much less on something I was fixing up for someone else. Just clean it off and give it a bit of paint so it don't rust.
Oi! Makita! That shit is good stuff. My dad still has his drills and shit from them after 20 years of AC work.
5:15 I see James is truly packin' heat
I swear all you need to survive the apocalypse is James
I have a 2009 g6e turbo, such a comfy car and can be fast with a bit of work, my one makes 410kw
As a body tech, it's nice to see something i do on the daily
As a former body tech, I found this entire thing incredibly entertaining.
Wade putting more care into a car he gives away to a friend than any of his own cars.
This just in: two Australians yell at car for 23 minutes until shiny
Wade, you gotta' see the silliness we're doing for new car engines in the USA. Putting a 1.2L 3 cylinder turbo in compact SUVs, and they roar like a Mustang going uphill. It's pure madness, a true 2024 nugget. 😂
That thing will tip over in a slight breeze.
@@ferretyluv Yeah, I can lift the back end of my 2024 Trailblazer by hand, and I'm NOT a particularly strong person (I did bend the rear bumper doing so though, oops). The whole car weighs nothing compared to how it looks, and the engine bay is twice the depth it needs to be for the dinky little engine, so it ships by default with this enormous intercooler that barely gets warm, and everything but the fuel filter is super accessible right up front, just because what else are they going to fill the space with?
@@KiraSlith Oh I meant from the high center of gravity. Turbo + fast engine + high center of gravity = will tip over on a gentle curve.
@@ferretyluv That's funny you mention that, look up the Trailblazer's engine. it's shaped like an old computer tower, it's so weird looking!
so basically you caught up with us europeans then. good on ya.
When you say bog, all i hear is british for bathroom or english for swamp.
I think it's supposed to be as in swamp. Its sticky mud like stuff you use for filling in gaps so it makes sense to me.
Bog is a common Australian word as well as British for either toilets or swamps.
James is like, THE best dude. Continues surprising with his kindliness.
The file snapping after James stepped on it actually makes sense. Files are hardened tool steel: hard as nails, meant for cutting any other steel. But the hardness comes at the price of brittleness. Those files always snap easily - it’s a sign that they were probably good.
I just find it depressing how many tools you've had to throw away because they're low quality despite their high price. We really are living in some dark times.
*dank times
T H E || B L U R S T || O F || T I M E S
@@thekingoffailure9967 I wish it was dank times :(
I mean yes, but atleast in both cases shown in this video there was another one they swapped to that was just fine. Good products do still exist for quite a bit of stuff, the problem is distinquishing them from all the crap (which is why its important to do research on stuff you buy whenever you can, the less sales crap gets and the more sales good stuff gets the less the crap stuff grows) (and NO, im NOT saying "ohh their fault for not researching", everyone SHOULD be able to buy stuff freely while getting quality, its just the way things are that they cant)
Does Bruce 1 still exist?