Saving Salvage Cerbera

[FarmyardPants]

Polly Grigora said:

Having read your opinion and bearing in mind that there was a touch of sarcasm when I commented cheap, I now feel proper stupid

Unless the man @ youtube is doing the wiring repairs which means free labour but plenty of time spent, there's no point in farming the job out to a specialist for a loom repair

Repairing the engine loom will very likely take several hours by the time it's been belled out for what's what, then there's terminals heat-shrink and tape on top of the labour

A guesstimate of cost being 8 Hrs x say 50 Pounds/Hr + 30/40 Pounds materials + VAT

FarmyardPants, agreed, there's no point in having someone repair that loom as it will very likely cost more than a new one

Cheap in the long run was what I was thinking, yes. Fixing broken wires as you find them is not the best approach for a car like that IMO. For all he knows the loom running below the dash could be rodent fodder as well. It needs all tearing out or at least make a decision when you can see it all.

Even a well maintained cerb has wiring glitches so God knows how reliable a patchwork quilt of bullet connectors and solder joints would be (or diagnose in future) let alone how long it would take to rectify piecemeal

Edited by FarmyardPants on Sunday 26th June 21:45

[Polly Grigora]

FarmyardPants said:

It needs all tearing out or at least make a decision when you can see it all.

Agreed

Will be interesting to see the strip-down and total damage

Carried out the very same job about 5 years ago, fortunately for me my friend that owned the vehicle stripped everything out, is good fun searching for rodent damage, approx 50 cables chewed, not such good fun fixing in difficult places

All caused by someone borrowing the vehicle and parking it up with a window open

[DuncanM]

Touching large amounts of wood here, I feel incredibly fortunate that I haven't experienced anything too awful with my car. It was parked outside my house with a cover on it for almost 8 years. The paint is a bit sad, but I'll take that over chewed wires.

In fact, my car is running so nicely that it passed the fast idle emissions the other day!

[camel_landy]

Byker28i said:

Chassis - It can't be worse than mine was? although looking at the rest of the car...

Mine weren't much better:




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[Byker28i]

Safe to say if he's going to do it properly then he'll have to lift the body to get at the chassis, so at that point he'll strip the interior and discover all the other wiring problems?

[14]

He’s got a new video out now. I’ve commented his video about the used loom and hopefully he’ll read it.

Edit: I’ve just refreshed the page on YouTube, and my comment is no longer there.

Edited by 14 on Monday 11th July 18:41

[Welshbeef]

Watched a number of his different builds.

He has no fear of a challenge.
Pretty sure he repaired a 220,000 mile V10 RS6.

Then bought a broken rS4 v8 /ruined engine


Looks a decent set up too. The units the land / lifts and kit.

[DuncanM]

14 said:

He’s got a new video out now. I’ve commented his video about the used loom and hopefully he’ll read it.

Edit: I’ve just refreshed the page on YouTube, and my comment is no longer there.

Edited by 14 on Monday 11th July 18:41

Similar happened to me, I think his comments auto delete links perhaps? Mine had a link to the Cerbera site.

[PHZero]

DuncanM said:

14 said:

He’s got a new video out now. I’ve commented his video about the used loom and hopefully he’ll read it.

Edit: I’ve just refreshed the page on YouTube, and my comment is no longer there.

Edited by 14 on Monday 11th July 18:41

Similar happened to me, I think his comments auto delete links perhaps? Mine had a link to the Cerbera site.

Perhaps the pistonheads mods have been moonlighting.

They did a great job trying to help this chap:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Polly Grigora]

PHZero said:

DuncanM said:

14 said:

He’s got a new video out now. I’ve commented his video about the used loom and hopefully he’ll read it.

Edit: I’ve just refreshed the page on YouTube, and my comment is no longer there.

Edited by 14 on Monday 11th July 18:41

Similar happened to me, I think his comments auto delete links perhaps? Mine had a link to the Cerbera site.

Perhaps the pistonheads mods have been moonlighting.

They did a great job trying to help this chap:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Mmmm, no point in offering help at YT then if the help's deleted

[Byker28i]

Polly Grigora said:

PHZero said:

DuncanM said:

14 said:

He’s got a new video out now. I’ve commented his video about the used loom and hopefully he’ll read it.

Edit: I’ve just refreshed the page on YouTube, and my comment is no longer there.

Edited by 14 on Monday 11th July 18:41

Similar happened to me, I think his comments auto delete links perhaps? Mine had a link to the Cerbera site.

Perhaps the pistonheads mods have been moonlighting.

They did a great job trying to help this chap:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Mmmm, no point in offering help at YT then if the help's deleted

Same here - I've pointed him at resources (and here) several times

[Tyre Smoke]

So is it YT that is deleting the comments? Or does he actually want to struggle 'for good TV'?

[DuncanM]

I sent him a message on Instagram and he replied, and said he'd log in and say hello on here some time. I mentioned the tvr-cerbera.co.uk site too.

[porterpainter]

Tyre Smoke said:

So is it YT that is deleting the comments? Or does he actually want to struggle 'for good TV'?

We love a plucky underdog, so it could be the latter.

I’m enjoying watching

[Jabbah]

THe comment removal has happened to me on different YT channels when posting a message with a link so I expect it is a default setting of YT

[sixor8]

He's started stripping out parts for body removal (11th July):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoKX-GgQQhs

[6times7]

Jabbah said:

THe comment removal has happened to me on different YT channels when posting a message with a link so I expect it is a default setting of YT

YouTube no longer allows posts with links in, try breaking it up so its not recognised as a link, pistonheads DOT com etc

[camel_landy]

The body is off!

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[PHZero]

camel_landy said:

The body is off!

M

A real eye opener in relation to the amount of work involved in this task. Ed China made it look so easy.

[Belle427]

PHZero said:

camel_landy said:

The body is off!

M

A real eye opener in relation to the amount of work involved in this task. Ed China made it look so easy.

Thats because other people did most of the work.