As a fully qualified panel beater an the manager of a large crash repair shop this guy did an acceptable repair,the fact that Dan has no ideal of how a repair is performed he should hope he never crashes his car , The fact Australia only has the skills to replace the whole side. Acceptable repair done by this guy,I would employ him!
This young man is everything an old school panel beater is. These days they just bolt on new panels and write of anything with a bit of a bend in a sub-frame.
In this area of Central Kentucky a High School Kid with a 100-dollar lawnmower makes more per hour than a seasoned Automobile Body Mechanic with 100,000 dollars in tools. Way More!!! That's what the Insurance Companies have reduced the profession to. That's why all the "Body Men" have quit and finally found something else to do. They actually refused the Insurance Company's offers to pay them for the honor of fixing their cars for their customers.
That car would have been junked in Australia. Too expensive to repair. And it looked like that young man took real pride in his work, and he did a great job.
Wow what a great job well done. Here in the united states this car would be considered totaled. What surprises me is that none of the air bags deployed. Those are usually a deal breaker because they cost so much to replace, but if you know where to go like ebay you can get air bag modules pretty cheap. Great job on this car.
It's definitely a skill, but in my country a wreck like that would just to the crusher because the labour cost of fixing it would be way more than it's worth.
That's a hell of a lot of work to save a Nissan Rouge. On the other hand, the technique and craftmanship displayed here are truly lost arts. The fact that any US insurance company would have totaled this car tells you everything that is wrong with the collision business over here.
A lot of manufacturers actually specify plug welding for repairs because manual spot welds rarely duplicate the strength of the precise robotic welds at the factory.
Such a nauseating video. Lovely sweet innocent smile plus white-as-snow teeth as he looks coyly into the camera and then butchers the wrecked car body with a sledgehammer. What's not to like. 🙄
Structural integrity is gone. Damaged metal/steel will never be as strong unless it is tempered with again. 10 year old cars will still have close to new structural integrity.
I'm not sure what Nissan's recommended procedures are, but many automakers specify using plug welds in place of spot welds for repair work because manual spot welding can't always duplicate the precision of the robots at the factory. They did disassemble and reassemble at factory seams, which are designed to be welded on, and it looks like they welded in the factory locations. Assuming Nissan calls for plug welding during repair, and that they reapplied internal corrosion protection and sound/vibration deadening, this is likely a strong, durable repair.
Depending on which country the vehicle is manufactured and sold, most manufacturers follow the same strict standards for structural strength to comply with all or most counties safety regulations. .
Fairly good but just think how much better it would be if they were working on a mud floor, wearing open sandals and a shirt with just a hammer and an arc welder.
A acceptable repair but would not pass here in Oz where they have to be 'new'. The whole side would have to be replaced. And one presumes this was an insurance write off.
Yeah, but this guy is only getting paid minimum wage or by piece work. You'd NEVER see this kind of workmanship in America anymore. The good veteran body shop workers are disappearing like our WW2 veterans.
I did not see a complete video where he pounded out those dents. I did not enjoy this content. Too heavily edited. There is an Indian man who shows the art of straightening out dents.
Then you don't know what you're looking at. I've been doing these kinds of repairs for 25 years. Whenever I rebuild a wreck, it goes through a rigorous government mandated inspection process to ensure user and public safety before it is allowed to be registered, insured and driven. His repairs are properly done and just as safe as any other car on the road. Sometimes what scares people is their own ignorance.
@@genemaverick5705 I'm a dude for what it's worth and that vehicle may well have been totaled. I rebuild totalled vehicles very regularly, probably 3 a month. If the repairs are done properly the vehicle is just as safe as it ever was. ICBC, the government owned insurance monopoly here, agrees with me every time they certify one of my rebuilds. I've even seen them after accidents years later. I drive a rebuilt car. It's fully insured and safety certified. I trust it more than anything I'd find at a used car lot.
@danb.3397 Plug welding drilled out spot welds is the most viable option for a shop that doesn't have a spot welder - and I didn’t see anything wrong with the welding there. FWIW generally the result is stronger too - spot welding is the lowest cost fastest quick and dirty zero skill expedient production welding method available. It's adequate, nothing more - which is why race/rally car builds go to all the trouble of seam welding what the OEM spot welded.
Nothing shabby about the welding. Many manufacturers specify plug welding for repairs. Spot welding to factory specs is very difficult to duplicate manually. Plug welds are perfectly acceptable provided that the manufacturer says to use them. I know BMW usually calls for plug welds during repairs, sometimes supplemented with structural epoxy in a process called weld bonding.
This young man takes pride in his workmanship. Excellent job!
Pretty much exactly what I was about to say
Good work. Please wear eye and ear protection. You will be glad 20 years from now.
02:20 no eye protection when cutting metal with a grinder. Safety squints won't save you! Amazing rebuild though! Look after your sight!
Just buy a new car the whole of this vehicle’s dimensions are out of sync with that damage, all you see here is cosmetic
@@blissy1 they don't do it for them self's, they will buy a new car, this is going to Balkans as a "NEW" low millage car for the poor....
@@blissy1 If the frame the body sits on is not damaged, then the car is fine.
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Incredible work. Awesome to see young folks like this doing great work.
Anything can be fixed if enough time and money are allocated, and talented people do the work.
The gap clearances are excelent👍👍👍
This guy was trained to give a damn. You can't get these results by just punching a clock for a decade or so.
As a fully qualified panel beater an the manager of a large crash repair shop this guy did an acceptable repair,the fact that Dan has no ideal of how a repair is performed he should hope he never crashes his car , The fact Australia only has the skills to replace the whole side. Acceptable repair done by this guy,I would employ him!
Sorry, most people only speak English.
I think they'd deal that totalled here in the states.
Until you do 60mph on the highway.
I only clicked on this because I thought it was going to be pdr
@@stephen1774
LOL
This young man is everything an old school panel beater is. These days they just bolt on new panels and write of anything with a bit of a bend in a sub-frame.
Great work, very talented. That Xtrail would have been written off here in Australia 🇦🇺
Give that young man a raise awsome job😊😊
Nice.. I'd have liked to see some primer sealer on the inside before the top coat went on, even though that will be hidden.
Que trabalho incrível meus parabéns 😍
In this area of Central Kentucky a High School Kid with a 100-dollar lawnmower makes more per hour than a seasoned Automobile Body Mechanic with 100,000 dollars in tools. Way More!!! That's what the Insurance Companies have reduced the profession to. That's why all the "Body Men" have quit and finally found something else to do. They actually refused the Insurance Company's offers to pay them for the honor of fixing their cars for their customers.
You have Amazing skills
Talented young man.
No safety glasses ... he’ll be blind soon
@@davidjohnmiller4849 I noticed that too.
Hes Young. WOW, what a good job.
Excellent work!
I've got a 50's era car that had a building roof collapse on it. I need someone like this talented fellow :)
From a 35 yr sheet metal Fab guy this was satisfying.
Excellent work.
I like !
I think this was excellent work especially with this type of damage
I think major dents are easier to repair than Rust damage!!
When labor is only $1 an hour
Don’t forget he also makes declining scale overtime for every hour over the standard 80 in a Chinese workweek.
That car would have been junked in Australia. Too expensive to repair. And it looked like that young man took real pride in his work, and he did a great job.
wow thats some skill from this kid he is gonna go places
My brother fixes damage like that, but he's way older. He always take before and after photos and sticks them in a photo album to show everybody.
Every Body
😂
@@mercoid No, it's everybody. It's "every body" when you're talking about particular objects, such as every dead body. I know, English is difficult.
Wow what a great job well done. Here in the united states this car would be considered totaled. What surprises me is that none of the air bags deployed. Those are usually a deal breaker because they cost so much to replace, but if you know where to go like ebay you can get air bag modules pretty cheap. Great job on this car.
Smart and skilled worker!😊 my respects!😊
It's definitely a skill, but in my country a wreck like that would just to the crusher because the labour cost of fixing it would be way more than it's worth.
"Was in a minor fender bender. Runs great."
Master technician seems pretty smart but should know to wear eye protection when grinding or cutting metal with a grinder. Unbelievable !
The saftey squint is good, but would work better with the saftey sandles i see in some videos.
That's a hell of a lot of work to save a Nissan Rouge. On the other hand, the technique and craftmanship displayed here are truly lost arts. The fact that any US insurance company would have totaled this car tells you everything that is wrong with the collision business over here.
The love for the car puts a tear in my eye.😢
Good work. From USA
This type of work happens in body shops every day, the lack of personal safety bothers me, eyes are precious.
Using a real spotwelder would ad to the factory specs and would save you a lot of grinding..
Mig is probably stronger
A lot of manufacturers actually specify plug welding for repairs because manual spot welds rarely duplicate the strength of the precise robotic welds at the factory.
The cost in man hours to do this is why you don't see this much in the U.S.A. Insurance will total the vehicle rather than repair it.
...and this vehicle will be as safe as an out-of-the-factory one in case of a crash???
About as safe as a 10-year old undamaged one, but you'd drive that.
Such a nauseating video. Lovely sweet innocent smile plus white-as-snow teeth as he looks coyly into the camera and then butchers the wrecked car body with a sledgehammer. What's not to like. 🙄
Structural integrity is gone. Damaged metal/steel will never be as strong unless it is tempered with again. 10 year old cars will still have close to new structural integrity.
I'm not sure what Nissan's recommended procedures are, but many automakers specify using plug welds in place of spot welds for repair work because manual spot welding can't always duplicate the precision of the robots at the factory. They did disassemble and reassemble at factory seams, which are designed to be welded on, and it looks like they welded in the factory locations. Assuming Nissan calls for plug welding during repair, and that they reapplied internal corrosion protection and sound/vibration deadening, this is likely a strong, durable repair.
Depending on which country the vehicle is manufactured and sold, most manufacturers follow the same strict standards for structural strength to comply with all or most counties safety regulations. .
Fairly good but just think how much better it would be if they were working on a mud floor, wearing open sandals and a shirt with just a hammer and an arc welder.
Outstanding! 👍🏻
The car needs to have "totalled " written on the title and sold for about half of its undamaged price.
Amazing transformation
Where the cost of labor is cheaper than the cost of material. Who want's this car now?
Really nice work. But grinding with no eye protection and @ 3:29 welding with no helmet/eye protection does not seem like a good idea.
Awesome!
Wow, great work!
did they check the frame alignment? I wish you showed them how to fix the doors :(
Great job
In Mexico, they would straighten everything...sort of...then it goes back on the road...
how can this be cheap enough (from man hours and parts) to make repair worth it?
Amazing skills unreal.
Crazy!!! Good hands there
I disagree! Where I live. Minnesota. There’s at least one decent body shop in literally every town.
Good job ! Tradesman, at your best,
Good job greetings from Austria 👍👍👍👍
mig is probably stronger
Why the heck pull that rear quater out when he was going to cut it out anyway? Am I missing something?
Kids an artist
that was pretty interesting. the actual damage looked much worse that it actually was.
They stove that car all to hell .
A acceptable repair but would not pass here in Oz where they have to be 'new'. The whole side would have to be replaced. And one presumes this was an insurance write off.
I hate lifting seats. I bet the most un-liftable object ever designed to be lifted by man is seat shaped :o
Feel sorry for people being abused to work in unsafe conditions, using a grinder without eye protection, wonder if they even supply it for him.
My only beef with their technique is they put bog over anything but baremetal: that's not going to last.
100 % Talent maestros
It's not weather you can or can't, it's who's paying for it
Luego eso lo mandan para españa...
REVISADO Y CERTIFICADO
In the West....the labor costs!!! Oh the labor costs....
How’s that welding helmet going ...
Nice job u did excellent but is that car a salvage title lol
Guaranteed to pass an MOT for sure!
where are the eye protections....???
That car was totaled…didn’t anyone tell him?
WOW!
but at what cost ??.... the work he did out weighs the value of the car
Hahahaha that cars body is warped and can never be properly straightened , sure you can fix it to drive but ya nope !
More sweat shop body work🙃
Wear hearing protection kid.
Wow.
Dude you R O C K. 😊
Why don’t you give credit to the UA-cam channel you stole this from?
Yeah, but this guy is only getting paid minimum wage or by piece work. You'd NEVER see this kind of workmanship in America anymore. The good veteran body shop workers are disappearing like our WW2 veterans.
I do this exact work in Canada where the minimum wage is $17.50/hour. Americans can do it too, they're just too lazy.
Factory patch panel ! .
who can afford to have such a job done? try and get an ins co, to pay that tab.
👍👍👏👏🚘🚘🙋🙋
Wow
This video is played in reverse.
I guess they don't have PPE in Japan.
China
@@fidelcatsro6948 I stand corrected. I was thrown by the fact the car is a Nissan, but the car in the background has Chinese license plates.
@@fabio40 😺👍
All this work for .10 an hour 😊
Ok
But why ?
I did not see a complete video where he pounded out those dents. I did not enjoy this content. Too heavily edited. There is an Indian man who shows the art of straightening out dents.
The panel wasn't repaired, he replaced it.
Perfection??... hardly! Once hit its never the same.
Just pay extra, for one that hasn't been wrecked.
It's not that hard I've done harder hits then that! I was doing bodywork probably 2 or 3 decades before he was ever born!
I wouldn’t trust that car ever again in a wreck !! Smh
Then you don't know what you're looking at. I've been doing these kinds of repairs for 25 years. Whenever I rebuild a wreck, it goes through a rigorous government mandated inspection process to ensure user and public safety before it is allowed to be registered, insured and driven. His repairs are properly done and just as safe as any other car on the road. Sometimes what scares people is their own ignorance.
@@kriscarr389 not ignorant lady , that car will kill someone in a wreck !!! The body has been compromised. Should have been totaled !
@@genemaverick5705 I'm a dude for what it's worth and that vehicle may well have been totaled. I rebuild totalled vehicles very regularly, probably 3 a month. If the repairs are done properly the vehicle is just as safe as it ever was. ICBC, the government owned insurance monopoly here, agrees with me every time they certify one of my rebuilds. I've even seen them after accidents years later. I drive a rebuilt car. It's fully insured and safety certified. I trust it more than anything I'd find at a used car lot.
Sorry but I would not want him working on my expensive vehicle with shabby workmanship like his welding
@danb.3397 Plug welding drilled out spot welds is the most viable option for a shop that doesn't have a spot welder - and I didn’t see anything wrong with the welding there. FWIW generally the result is stronger too - spot welding is the lowest cost fastest quick and dirty zero skill expedient production welding method available. It's adequate, nothing more - which is why race/rally car builds go to all the trouble of seam welding what the OEM spot welded.
Shut up! 🤫 you have no expensive car!
Nothing shabby about the welding. Many manufacturers specify plug welding for repairs. Spot welding to factory specs is very difficult to duplicate manually. Plug welds are perfectly acceptable provided that the manufacturer says to use them. I know BMW usually calls for plug welds during repairs, sometimes supplemented with structural epoxy in a process called weld bonding.
@@puckcat22679 I am guessing that you missed that the metal underneath was painted when he was Plug welding
@@danb.3397it's called weld-through primer. It's used to help prevent corrosion in the future.