In the previous video's you could enjoy Stéphan fooling around with his tires and Nic not really nailing replacing his brake lines.
Today however, it's time for the real deal. The pinnacle of automotive technology. And to help me, it's the CEO of the garage: Herman.
Herman, there's a lot that needs to be done. Are we able to replace strut braces and such in half an hour?
Nope, we're not going to do that. Electronics are much more important. The lights for example. It's getting darker much sooner these days,
the lights are very important. That should be doable. - Well, I do have a light that doesn't work. But when I changed...
the bulb, it still didn't work. There's something wrong back there. - So let's have a look then. Maybe we're able to find the problem.
It's like Bach, but as a door.
Let's light it up, so we can see. Does it work?
Nope. It doesn't work.
Hey, when I tap it, it does work. - So what's the problem. Let's have a look at the rear.
Show me. Where do you think the problem is? Let's wiggle it around.
If you move this mass, you can see it turning on and off. - Oh right.
You can see the sparks.
The mass is corroded. The plus-sparks are coming through, but the minus-sparks aren't. Time to repair that with a small set of pliers...
and some sanding paper. That way, the connection is repaired.
Rust on a French car, who would've thought.
If the car can't really be saved anymore, you get off easy here. Just sand a bit of metal with sandpaper. Easy peazy.
Go ahead. It's good-old sanding work. by hand.
We're saving a lot of money by doing this by hand.
Right, it works. Shall I have a look at the rear lights? You can't do that on your own of course.
Now?
Right, the next job. The license plate lights. Frank does have a history with speeding camera's, so he needs to be visible at any time.
The car hasn't seen a lot of love for the past few years, so let's make it up to it.
Oh yeah, the exhaust is a bit too bouncy. And because this car is meant for comfort, we're investing in a few tie wraps for it.
So what's the problem? The rubber has too much play in it, which we can fix but putting some tie wraps around it. Like this, see?
This was the cheapest repair of all three cars, by far. It might be the worst car, but it has the cheapest repairs.
Some cars are rusted through, but they get a green light anyway. Other cars might have small pieces of rust in certain area's, and they won't...
get an MOT. It's really dependant on which parts are rotten. Things like the springs can't have any rust, or welds.
Right, it's all clean again. Time to choose a winner. Come on boys, let's have a meeting.
So what do you think. - If you ask me, the brake line-guy did very well.
Please tell us, who's the winner?
Right, we've discussed it for a bit and we couldn't really choose a winner. However, we still have to give you guys points.
That's why the Ford comes last, the Laguna comes first because the risk is the highest and the Rio comes first as well.
Two firsts and one second place. Everybody happy?
I can imagine Stéphan isn't, let's tally up the points.
Two winners in garage. Both Frank and Nic get ten points, which respectively give them 16 and 21 points. It was very nice for Stéphan to even show...
up with his Mondeo, so he gets a point as well for a total of 16 points.