10 minute jobs, I have made a few more videos.

I changed the title of this thread as my 10 minute or less videos of jobs on cars has become a bit of a thing now.

To start with retros, I have made a 10 minute front spring change on a Mk1 Golf;


Finishing touches on the Beetle;


And then what seem to be really popular going by the number of views are the jobs I have completed on my wifes 2002 Polo 9n;

Boot struts;


Full service;


Back brake pads;


If you fancy watching them I hope you enjoy them or find them useful.

Dave.

Just completed another 15 minute fix video.

This time I treated my 2000 passat to a new window regulator.

Cumbernauld the passat (its called Cumbernauld because its a tired old estate) has covered 270000 miles and cost £400 2 years ago so it was only supposed to be a short term car to help me move house but it has stuck for the minute.

Anyway, here is the video;



Dave

I really wish I'd found this before I re-covered my Beetle seats. would have made it so much easier working out what all the bits I was missing were supposed to look like

I'm rather enjoying these vids. I appreciate that a lot of time and planning must have gone into pre-visualising what you wanted the final flow of them to look like, where all the shots were angled from and so on. Very cool

That's a pair of hogring pliers. Almost impossible to fit hogrings without them, you can do it with normal pliers but you need at least three hands and they still usually ping all over the place at exactly the wrong moment. The special pliers are sprung and have a notch in the jaws so they hold the ring in place until you're ready to crimp it

Hog ring pliers are pretty cheap and they usually come with a bag of hog rings. The good thing is that once you have them you can take off cloth covers and stick them in the washing machine and fit them back on the frames. I did this with Mk1 Golf covers and they came up like new. Just be careful of any damaged or worn stitching incase they rip going back on.

I just completed a new how to video and this time it was the process of re gassing a VW Polo's air conditioning system. It was fairly straightforward and the process is similar on most modern cars (I did my Audi A4 as well).



Dave

I thought I would try a do it yourself windscreen chip repair kit on a small bulls eye chip.

The process and results are shown in my video.



Dave.

Cheers Luckyseven.

I bought the kit two weeks ago and it was finally dry enough to use it on Thursday. Its rained every day since

I knew not to expect much from an £8.99 kit and as the chip is outside the MOT fail zone there was nothing to lose but if it was a more serious chip or in a more serious area I wouldnt have wasted my time.

Dave.

Got another. This wee Polo will soon be classed as retro



Dave