I BOUGHT A WRECKED MCLAREN THEN REBUILT IT IN 7 DAYS

Mat Armstrong buys a wrecked McLaren 600LT in Greece and rebuilds it in 7 days, overcoming challenges with parts and repairs.

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Key Takeaways

Buying a wrecked supercar sight unseen is risky but can be rewarding with careful inspection and repairs.
Specialized parts like McLaren lithium-ion batteries and pyrofuses are expensive but can sometimes be sourced cheaply from other brands.
Thorough damage assessment and part compatibility checks are crucial for a successful rebuild.
Rebuilding a McLaren 600LT requires knowledge of carbon fiber components and advanced electronics.
A 7-day rebuild is challenging but achievable with proper planning and resourcefulness.

What the video covers

Mat Armstrong purchases a damaged McLaren 600LT from Greece at a low price, sight unseen.
The car is transported back to the UK for a 7-day rebuild challenge.
Initial inspection reveals damage including a blown pyro fuse and airbag deployment.
The team works on reviving the expensive lithium-ion battery to avoid costly replacements.
They bypass the blown pyro fuse temporarily to start the car and assess engine condition.
Damaged parts such as the front bumper, door, radiator, and suspension components are removed and assessed.
Replacement parts are sourced, including cheaper alternatives like Mercedes pyrofuse and 720S wheel hubs.
The rebuild involves careful fitting, alignment, and repainting of carbon fiber panels.
Challenges include resetting seat belts, fixing alarms, and ensuring all electronics function properly.
The project highlights the complexity and cost-saving strategies in rebuilding a high-performance supercar.

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Why was the McLaren 600LT so cheap to buy?

The car was crashed and located in Greece, with damage that initially seemed minor. The seller's insurance did not cover the accident due to being out of country, allowing Mat to buy it cheaply sight unseen.

What is a pyro fuse and why was it important in this rebuild?

A pyro fuse cuts power to the starter motor in an accident to prevent fires or engine damage. The McLaren's pyro fuse was blown, preventing it from starting until replaced or bypassed.

How did Mat save money on expensive McLaren parts?

Mat sourced some parts like the pyro fuse from compatible Mercedes parts sold cheaply on eBay, and used parts from the McLaren 720S where compatible, reducing costs significantly.

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I've just bought this McLaren 600LT and it was so cheap I just couldn't say no. I received a message saying that their friend has crashed a McLaren and was looking to sell it. And just from looking at the photos, the damage

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doesn't look too bad. The only issue is that the car was all the way in Greece.

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But as the damage of the car didn't look too bad and the price was good, I committed to buying it sight unseen.

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After six hours, we finally put it in. Matt, good luck taking this out. The McLaren was then trailered all the way back from Greece to the UK before I finally drive in with me.

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The date is Wednesday, the 29th of July, and I want to have this car rebuilt by next Wednesday. And for that to even be possible, we need to get the car inside and start stripping apart all the damaged parts and work out what we need

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to order. I've got a vision for this car, what I want it to look like at the end, and I just hope we can make that come true. Let's get it inside. Let's go. I am excited for this one. The 600LT

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only weighs 1.3 ton and has nearly 600 horsepower from standard. And then you look in the rear view mirror and you see flames.

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This car, it's just alive. But if I've got any hope in rebuilding this in 7 days, we need to inspect the damage.

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McLaren is in the air ready for assessment. I've noticed something bad, but we'll get to it.

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We'll get to it. This didn't get as far as the insurance because the guy had the car in Germany, drove it to Greece, crashed it in Greece, and then his insurance told him that he wasn't insured to drive in Greece. So, it

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hasn't gone as far as the insurance. So, that's good news for me, but also bad news because the insurance hasn't assessed it and I could only assess it over WhatsApp photos. So, we took the risk. We have found a little bit more

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damage than usual as we always do. To start off with, get the trailer out and let's start just getting all the broken parts off and then we can kind of make a tally. Now, to make the 600LT as light

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as possible, McLaren tried to save weight everywhere. Carbon bucket seats, shorter exhaust systems, lighter suspension, and near enough every panel is made from carbon fiber. So, a lot of this stuff could be pretty expensive.

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First step, what I want to do just to eliminate anything is see if this car actually runs. And to get it running, we need a good running battery. It's a lithium ion battery. It's a genuine McLaren one that's on it. I want to try

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and revive it. It's completely flat, but to get to it really, we got to remove this tub, and we're going to have to remove it anyway. And I do think there's a pyro fuse on it, which we'll get to.

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That could stop us from starting it. First off, let's remove this. Out we come. The battery for the McLaren is right under the tub here. And it's important we try and revive this because even a secondhand one is over two and a

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half grand because they're these special lithium ion batteries which are like lightweight ones. So to get to it, I'm removing this tub and then we're going to get the battery charger onto it.

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Okay, we're going to need a tub definitely. We're broken in the corner. We're broken at the top.

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Unfortunate, but I don't think there'll be too much. But now we can access the battery.

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Did he crash into the beach of Bruce? Yeah, it looks like he has. Here we go.

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There's a pyrofuse. And we all know what the pyrofuse does. Cuts power going to the starter motor, which is there. Before we even try and attempt to start it, when we get a good battery, we should check to see if the

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pyr fuse is any good. I imagine it's going to be off a Mercedes on this cuz I use a lot of Mercedes electrics. We'll check the continuity on it and we'll see. We all know by now that the pyro

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fuse blows when the car is in an accident, stopping you from restarting it, causing any fires or just damaging the engine. The only reason I think it's blown in the McLaren is because the airbag is blown on the driver's side

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door. So, before I even attempt to start it, we're going to check whether this one is any good. When these two touch, makes a beep. shows it makes a connection.

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Let's see if we get a beep across here. Oh no, no beep. So that means no power going to go to the starter motor. So that means we need a new pyro fuse. If you try and order that from McLaren, no

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doubt they're trying to sell you the whole fuse box. I'm not even going to ring them because if we just take that pyro fuse off, we'll be able to find the part number, get it off eBay for like 10

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quid. experience. You proud of your son's experience? She's learned a lot in it over the years.

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Oh god, what was the talks back on that? 5,000. It's right. It's likely if you call up McLaren to order a pyrofuse, they won't sell you it separately. And if they will, it's going to be expensive. So, I'm just popping off the old one now

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that I can inspect it, check the part numbers, and see exactly what other car this fuse has come off. But you can see clearly that this one has broke. Look at that. That is supposed to be joined to

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that. And you can see even more when I take out the two terminals that is supposed to be joined. If that were joined, it would stop. So for Mercedes, but £13.15.

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So this power fuse is used in loads of Mercedes and it's only going to cost us £13.15 to replace. So, with that on order, I can now put the battery on charge and hope it revives.

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We're going to lose one day of waiting for this to charge now. Oh, it's going though.

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Go on. First step complete. Battery looks like it has revived itself. Sometimes when you turn them off and then turn it back on, we stayed at 13.6.

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And when was turning off before, it's dropping straight back down to nothing. So, the battery seems like it's revived itself. The pyrofuse is on order. But what we can do to see if it actually runs now is jump the pyro fuse from here

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over to where it's constantly got power. So, at the minute, it bridges that gap.

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We're going to put this on this side where there's constant power here from the 12vt. Then, we'll see if it will start. We know we got a broken radiator, so we don't want to run it for too long.

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We just need to know whether it starts because if it does start, so far we haven't spent anything, only the money to get it back to the UK. Let's do that.

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So, to get it started temporary, we're taking the starter motor wire away from the side of the pyro fuse it's supposed to be connected to and then just connecting it to constant power. And then when we press the start button

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inside the car, we should then hear the McLaren start up. Okay, let's see if this starts. I have no doubt that it should start. No oil leaks on the back.

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No oil coolers damaged. Just the water one at the front. McLaren parking brake not applied.

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Can't do that because the back wheel is a mess. Go. I've got ignition. Yeah. Why is the alarm going off? Why is the alarm going off?

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Sounds good. Sounds smooth. Why is the alarm going off? Stop. Shut up. WHY IS the alarm going off? Is the alarm been hit or something? Airbag fault. ABS fault. All the faults on.

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But at least the car started up first time. Run smooth. Why you keep doing that? Shut up.

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Oh my god. Good news then. The McLaren starts. Now we need to turn our attention to the damaged parts. Let's start by removing all of the broken parts and then we can work out exactly what we need to order. First thing we're

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going to start off with is the front bumper. And actually some of this might be savable. Seeing that. Do you know why front bumper and front ends in a million pieces rather than just one toe?

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I don't know. It's to keep the insurance premiums down. That's actually true. The more pieces a front bumper is made out of, then the easier it is for the insurance. If a car does have an accident, it's likely

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they'll only need to replace little parts of the bumper instead of buying an entire thing, which keeps that premium down. I'm looking for the right hand side front wheel. That's had a bit of damage, but generally the right hand

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side suspension looks all right. Now, I'm removing the arch lining on the front right so I can access the bolts to remove this front bumper. And it looks like to get the bumper out, I've got to remove the headlights first.

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Boom. Good headlight. Tony, do you like McLaren? Yeah. This is uh going to be a good car.

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Some people say they're for nerds. Nerds. You got I generally think McLarens are some of the best driving cars. Just sometimes they're a little unreliable. But good news for us, both headlights look okay, but this lower splitter does have a bit

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of damage to it. Yeah. Right. I think the body shop will be able to solve this. It should save us a lot cuz this is all well expensive cuz it's all carbon fiber. Look, this is all made out of carbon. Then it's painted

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over. So, it's so expensive from McLaren. So, if we don't have to repair like if we don't have to replace it, way better. Again, the bumper being in multiple different parts has ended up in our favor. The headlights are all good,

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and the lower end of the bumper looks like it could be repaired. We just need to replace the left cheek of it, which my dad's got here. Next thing we need to take a look at is the under tray, cuz

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surprisingly this is ridiculously expensive. 4 grand secondhand for that under tray. That is ridiculous.

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I think we'll be getting our carbon guy to repair the carbon on that. Why would you put something of that value so close to the ground? Those speeds. £4,000 for a secondhand under tray. We're definitely going to be trying to repair

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this. The good news, it is in one piece. And there's only two little bits of damage at the front. So, we might get away with it. Okay, so Neutron's about to take all the broken panels to the body shop that we think are repable. Um,

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and I think this is one of them as well. It's going to save us a bit of money getting that repaired.

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Can't call me a cheapkate. We're saving money here. Hopefully, this could be fixed. Again, another benefit of having the bumper in separate pieces.

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Right. What needs to be fixed on this? This left cheek of the bumper is damaged, but it might actually be repairable. It is all in one piece, and these tabs could just be glued back on.

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So, we're sending all the parts which have little scuffs and scrapes in them now to the body shop in hopes that they could touch them up and get them back to us within the week. Still got damaged panels on. We've still got a damaged

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wing. So, we're going to remove that wing. And we know we need to get this airbag out and the door card off there.

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I've got another suspicion as well that the seat belts might have a fault on because they should lock out in an accident. But these seat belts haven't locked out. But that's not to say they don't have a fault on them. So, I'll

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probably scan the car to check that. But for now, let's get the wing off and the door card off and then we can start working out uh what's broken here as well. Off we go.

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Unfortunately, it looks like the front left wing isn't going to be repairable. But fortunately, the front left wing is made out of aluminum, not carbon fiber like a lot of the other panels, which makes it a lot cheaper than the carbon

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fiber parts. Right, this door's broken. Very broken. The mirror might be okay. We definitely got to get the door card off and we definitely got to get that airbag out. I don't know whether we definitely need to take the seat belts

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out. We need to scan the car for that. So, I might do the definitely jobs first.

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What have you found? You might need some of those to be fair. Put that in the pocket.

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It's always interesting what you find in these salvage cars. Let's say that box of pills could make this job a little bit harder. All we've got to do now is remove this door card because this is definitely going to need to be repaired

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because the airbag has broken open the top piece. A lot of the door card is on clips, but also there are some bolts in some hidden places like behind the switches here.

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Once all the bolts are out, we can lift the door card off. And there's one last speaker we need to disconnect so we can get to the wire behind it and pull that loose. Then the door card will come away

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from the car. Here's the airbag. Got to get this airbag out. And because there's no holes in it, it can actually be repaired. New explosive in it. We We can put it all back in. We got to send that to the airbag team. And

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the actual door card got this tear in here that's got to be restitched and fixed.

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The door card can also go to the airbag team and they can restitch the Alcantara and repair it back to the OEM standards.

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So that way if the airbag does blow again, it'll work in the exact same way.

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Because I imagine ordering a door card from McLaren is not only going to be expensive, it's also going to be a long wait because each door card is different depending on spec. Right, again, this job could either get really could be

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easier or it could get a bit harder from here because there's no other airbags which have gone off in this car. But if the seat belts have got a fault on them, then we're going to have to remove the

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seat belts, which remove like which means removing a lot of trim inside here. Um, which is already coming to bits because we won't say why cuz it's a McLaren.

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I'll scan the car for fault codes and we'll see if the seat belts have a fault code in them. If they don't, that is an absolute breeze. We just got to worry about the exterior and we could The

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seven days build is looking pretty Oh, don't I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. Let's get the battery connected and we'll scan it. This is going to decide whether the job gets slightly harder and a little bit more

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expensive. Right now, I'm scanning the fault codes that are on the car, and there is a lot, but we're looking specifically for ones with the seat belt that's taken out. Oh, driver belt pre-tensioner above limit and passenger belt pre-tensioner above

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limit. Driver side crash recorded. So, the seat belts have got to come out. Even though they're not locked out, we have a fault in them. So, that means we won't get the airbag light off the dash if we don't

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replace them. So, we've got to get the seat belts out. Unfortunately, these faults for the seat belts mean they've got to be removed and fixed. They have explosives in there which detonate when the airbags deploy to hold the driver

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and passenger in place. And if we don't replace these, we're going to have that airbag fault on the dashboard regardless of how much we fix this car. and then that isn't going to pass an MOT test, which means it's not road legal on the

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roads in the UK, so they've got to be fixed. To get to the seat belts is pretty tricky. They're sort of in a cage behind the seats. And I'm guessing for some kind of protection in case the explosive caused any heat damage to

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anything. Once I've unbolted the cage, the top of the seat belt will come out.

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Then I've just got to unbolt it from the bottom of the seat. My dad's doing the same on the other side. There's the seat belt. The issue is this explosive here. So where this goes in little explosive inside that

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blows off and it's supposedly meant to knock the seat belt out. This one hasn't locked out but there's obviously a fault with it.

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I don't think it's supposed to sound like that. Another job done. Both seat belts and door card and airbag off. These all got to go to the airbag team and then they should be all reset. Same original ones original ones could go back in. So

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whilst we wait for them and the seat belt lady to turn up, we should inspect the damage on the front, the suspension and the radiator. Get those two bits off as well and then we move to the back. So the

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next step is this front radiator which my dad is starting to remove now. It's supposed to be square. Well, rectangular shaped and it isn't. Is no longer rectangular shaped. This radiator has definitely seen better days. So, we've got to get

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it replaced. Not a lot of coolant in that. And on top of that, it looks like the surround and holder is broken as well, which is just made out of plastic, so it can't be too expensive. That's the radiator off. and

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a new one put on order. Now to see what damage has been caused to this front suspension. It looks like it's just disconnected from the lower ball joint and yammed backwards.

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And alongside that, it looks like it's broken the carbon disc as well, which isn't going to be cheap. And unfortunately, there's no way of saving a cracked carbon disc. Next thing to come off is the track rod end, but that

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looks all good. And the ball joint feels good as well. Next off is the drop link, which connects to the anti-roll bar.

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Once we've got that off, I can start removing the lower control arm, which holds a lot of the suspension together.

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And once this was off, most of it dropped to pieces. And we can see that McLaren also used shims to adjust the alignment. Is definitely finished. That's done. That is bent as a banana. And it has took bottom of the damper with it as well. So

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now all the spring could just fall off it. So we need a damper, a lower arm, possibly a top arm, and I'd like to replace a wheel hub.

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Drop link as well. Look at the drop link. That's got a little kink to it. As this stuff is all aluminum and aluminium bends, it's worth replacing all of it.

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Same part number as a McLaren Center and 720S and with a wheel hub. Get in there.

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495 for the front. Okay, I'm going to buy it. $495 for a wheel hub and the top arm isn't so bad. But I've got a feeling the actual suspension struck with a spring is going to be a lot more expensive than that.

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Next thing to get off is the top arm and the wheel hub cuz we have that new one on order. And although it doesn't look bent, you just never know with these aluminium parts. Okay, all the suspension that we think is damaged is

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off. Got that on order. There is a little bit more damage here, which Eagle Eye viewers may have seen, but we'll get to that. We'll get to that. That part we can't fix ourselves, but we're going to come to it towards the end of the video.

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We know the door's damaged. Not took that off just yet. For now, this is our main concern. this where it looks like majority of the damage actually was.

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Although there's no real body panel damage and like it looks like the wheel is hit back, damaged the rear bumper, but I don't know how the wheels ended up like that with nothing else. It's just completely detached and it's like it's

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ripped up a curb or something. We've got to get this off and we got to hope hope there's no damage to the subframe and there's no damage to the actual frame when this all comes out or the gearbox

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because the drive shaft ain't looking good. Out we go. Tony, what do you think happened?

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What do I think happened? Yeah, he hit something. I think my dad's right. They did hit something.

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Oh my. Oh, there's the CO we need because that's broke. Look at that wheel. That is mental.

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And that's the third wheel that we've seen in a bad way. I guess these lightweight macaron wheels don't do so well in an accident. Next off, the arch lining is coming off so we can see if there's any more damage behind it all.

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And of course, there was pretty much all the suspension on the back, including the drive shaft, was completely broken.

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So, everything is going to come off this rear left. And all of it I've got to order. So, out remove the wheel hub and all the suspension arms. And the next thing to come out is the drive shaft.

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Then this rear track rod. Whilst I was doing that, Neutron headed over to the airbag team.

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There you go. Two seat belts to be reset. Thank you very much. And there's a door card and was that door airbag? I think bag. Yeah, sounds good.

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No problem. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, we're looking good. We're looking good. We've got all the damaged suspension off the back. Um I think I'm going to replace this brake caliper.

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It's had a bit of a whack there. I'm not going to risk it cuz it is brakes after all. The only thing is I've ordered a secondhand one and it's yellow. So, we're going to have to try and match

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that paint to the caliper when it comes. Uh, we've got a broken under tray off just down there. It's not too bad though. And then here's all the damaged suspension. We've got the handbrake caliper that's broken. Order a new one

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of them. We've got a drive shaft that's broken. Rear tie rod that's broken. actual suspension unit with the spring and damper that's broken. And then everything here I want to replace. Like I'm gonna replace the wheel hub. It's

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had a massive hit. So I think it's worth just replacing everything on the back left. The good thing is that most of the body work is in place which is pretty good. Now some stuff has arrived. So, I

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think we can almost start actually rebuilding stuff now, which is going to be exciting. The rear drop links arrived, the drive shafts arrived, the suspension at the backs arrived, the rear tire rod has arrived, and the upper and lower arm at the rear has arrived.

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Time to get fitting it all. Luckily, the rear frame, where all of this bolts to, looks all good. Because previously, I've seen before the suspension armors ripped out of suspension next. and cause damage to that rear frame. But for us, we're all

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good. On goes the rear suspension. And because the rear suspension is electronically activated through the different modes, you've got to plug it in. Then we can bolt it to the rear arm.

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Looking good. Next up, the link that drops. Yep, it's the drop link. This bolts to the rear arm, then connects to the anti-roll bar.

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Okay, tighten that up at the top and at the bottom. Next up, drive shaft.

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They're not bolted in. It's just literally pushes into the gearbox. Few pushes into the gearbox. And we're in. Ready for a wheel hub, which we don't have yet. This can all be connected to the wheel hub. One with a

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disc, caliper, and handbrake caliper, which we are waiting for. But that's so far not too bad. We got a broken airbox.

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That's also on order. That should come. But we're looking good so far at the back of the car. So, whilst we're waiting for parts, we can crack on with some parts that have arrived for the front as well. Okay, whilst we wait for

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the rest of the stuff to arrive, we do have a radiator from McLaren. But the shrouding is not available. So, what I think we're going to do is slot this in place, uh, fit the radiator, see if we

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can reuse the shrouding, which holds it, and then we might be able to get it running to temperature. Now, I have ordered this shrouding. It's just 50/50 whether it's actually going to show up.

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So, for now, I'm just trying to recycle this shrouding that we've got. Sliding the new radiator into it, and then just using some bigger washers on the bolts so the shrouding can bolt and stay in place. And that's all fitted now. Right,

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radiator's in. I am debating whether to vacuum fill it or just fill it up and run it with to temperature. Now the radiators are are on the front. It all depends of whether the air can escape because what happens is the the coolant

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you pour it in and you get an air lock and it will overheat. But if the air can escape and the coolant tank's high enough, the air should rise into the coolant tank. I can't remember on my 720S what I did. Let's uh fill it with

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coolant then and get it running to temperature. And we're one step closer. We're doing really good and we've been like taking our time as well. Right to the back. So to fill your coolant up on a McLaren, first you need an Allen key.

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You got to remove these two screws. And that removes well the engine cover. Yeah.

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Coolant tank is here. It's quite high up. We might be all right. I'm just going to pour coolant straight into the coolant tank and hope we don't get any air locks.

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Do you think this is going to work? I've got mixed feelings. I think this will work on this cuz look how high the coolant reservoir is.

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Right. I've got things wedged in the brakes. Put the battery on. I like it. That's cool.

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We need to wedge things in the brake caliper because we're going to need brake pressure to start the car.

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It's not filling it up. Sounds smooth. I was just adding some coolant whilst it was running to make sure it stayed at the correct level.

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We'll make sure it's not going on the floor. Definitely getting better pouring in it. And everything was looking good.

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No leaks so far. Yeah, you look all right. The temperature is sitting at 53° at the minute, and we're looking for it to reach 90 and stay there.

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And it does look like the air was escaping from the reservoir. The temperature then went up to 91.

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91. 88. What? Fans must have come on. 87. Yeah, I think we're clear. What a car.

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Things were going really well. Who would have thought rebuilding a McLaren would be this smooth and easy? But we still got a long way to go. And we're only 2 days in.

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Reckon we could have this done. What we think about the color? I think the comments need to say about the color. I do actually like silver. I think it's becoming trendy again. The next day, the rear wheel hub showed up. I got this

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secondhand off eBay which was from a 720S and they seem to have the exact same wheel hubs. So I'm fitting this to the car now. Bolting all the arms to it.

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Then the drive shaft. Then using a hammer and punch to lock the drive shaft bolt into place. And that is almost one rear left suspension complete. We're just waiting for a brake disc and brake calipers to turn up. Next up, I want to

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get this door off. There's no saving it. All the electronics for it are underneath the front wing. The airbag connection, the electric connection, and I think the wing mirror connection. And once I've undone them, I can start undoing the four bolts which hold the

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hinge to the door. Then we can lift it away from the hinge. Okay. Is it out?

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Is it ever? Not really. Oh, it's stuck on my shorts. It's stuck on my shorts. Stuck on my shorts. It's stuck on my shorts.

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Can you unshort me? Oh my god. How's he done that? That's proper wedge. That how's he done that?

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I'm stuck. Yes, not stuck. Holding my shorts. Small problem. We've noticed things were going too smooth. This hinge broken. Cast aluminum.

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I think I know a guy and we're going to have to call him. Should we see if he's free? Yo yo, how's it going?

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Good. It is a hinge off a McLaren, the door hinge, and it's cast aluminum. Can you fix that?

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There we go. So, as I waited for Bob from the machine shop to come down to see if he could fix the door hinge on the McLaren, I started stripping apart the old door. Taking apart the window regulator, the window

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out, and leaving the old door completely bare, ready for the new one. Here is the door. This is how it comes. So, the door is part aluminum and it's part carbon fiber. This bit is carbon fiber and it's actually bonded to the door.

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You can see where it's bonded here because a little bit has come away. But thing is to build this door up there is so many pieces. And I've taken off a load of this door. We've got aluminum pieces,

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we've got plastic pieces, we've got window regulator. This is the actual sits inside the door. And all of this is literally there just for the door switch to open and close the door. I don't know how. I'm trying to remember how everything went

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back together. There's seals, there's clips, there's everything. And it only goes in one particular way. So, I'm going to do it bit by bit and try and remember it. I think the first thing to go in because this was the last thing I

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took out was the door handle. This door handle sort of slides in between the carbon fiber and clips in place. Then I can put the wing mirror in place. Bolt that on with three bolts. Then start sliding in the wiring loop. After that,

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the aluminum piece goes on the back of the door. And the bolts for it are on the inside. This is again got a lot of adjustment in. So I'm just going to nip it up. And then we're going to have to

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test it in the car before we tighten anything up. So just nip it up so it don't fall out.

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The window needs to be aligned with the body work and we can't do that until the door is on the car. So we need Bob.

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Bob. Hello. You're back. I am back. We're fixing a hinge. Do you need hinges fixing as well?

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Ah, funny. Nice. Uh, don't know if it's weldable. I've never welded on a McLaren before. We'll get the door back on. Bolted to these holes. Then we'll bolt that one on so we know that that flat surface is on the

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same plane as that flat surface. Put some tack welds around it. Take the door off, then weld it.

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And if it doesn't weld, like why would that be? Um, so there's a number on here, AL ZN5MG.

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Uh, that's the type of alloy. Uh, some are weldable, some aren't. Hopefully this is weldable. It doesn't look weldable. Sometimes you can tell when the uh the surface is kind of weird and janky looking like that. But some stuff

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is weldable, some isn't. Let's try it. If Bob's got any hope in welding this door hinge, he's got to make sure that all the paint and the area is nice and clean where he's going to be welding to.

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As Bob said, this part is not only just aluminum. There's parts of magnesium in there and I think zinc. But to see if it's weldable, first we're going to hang on the old broken door to the broken hinge. So then Bob can line up the hinge

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correctly before he starts tack welding it on. So in goes the bolts. Now time to see if he can tack weld it in place.

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Is it weldable? Yep. Easy. Never in doubt. Not a problem for Bob. There's not much he can't fix. Now that that's tack welded in place, we can lift the old door out. And now Bob can begin the proper TIG welding of the broken bit of

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the hinge to the rest of it. You seem to have caught fire. I like that shirt.

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Oh, now you're looking good. It's all welded. Now we just need to make this surface as flat as I can and then just tidy up the outsides, make it look pretty.

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So with that all welded, Bob's now sanding down the shape so it sits nice and flat, ready for me to paint. Big up Bob. He saved us a hinge there, which is about 300 quid on eBay, but also about 3

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or 4 days wait. So that is all welded up now. Just going to give it a bit of etch prime and a bit of paint and we can finally hang the new door along with loads of other body panels which have

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turned up. So, let me get my Picasso skills on. It's a good job he's not a graffiti artist.

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Once the edge primer had dried, I could then go over it with the satin black.

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This is just to protect it from any corrosion, and that's good enough for me. Once the paint had dried, we can now hang on the new door. Sliding it onto the hinge that Bob's just repaired.

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Putting in a few bolts, and then connecting up all the electrical connections at the front, which sat just underneath the wing.

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First step, going to do the window down just to make sure it don't clatter into anything. So, connect the battery up.

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Oh my god. Did the window just go down? Yeah. Oh. Oh. Why is it doing that?

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Oh, I ain't got the door card. Uh, right now. Let's see. Now, we got to line it up with the body panel. Before we start trying to align the window, we got to make sure the door is in line with the

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panels. And at the minute, it's just a little off. In fact, it's almost too close to the rear quarter. And at the bottom, it's quite far out.

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That needs to go like that, doesn't it? So, to adjust this door, I've got to loosen off the hinges at the front, move it around there, and my dad is going to loosen the catch at the back. This took

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a fair amount of time before we was happy. But once we were, we have to tighten it all up. Next up, we have got to line the window, but we've just realized I've sent the door card away to

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the airbag team. And inside the door card was the window switch to do the window up.

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I think Tony will have a solution to that. Yeah, I can bypass. So, now that we're happy with where the door sits on the quarter panel at the top and at the bottom, my dad's going to align the window.

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Okay. So, we're bypassing the electric window motor now. Well, we're not bypassing the motor. We're bypassing all the electrics that goes to the motor.

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How are we doing that? And then we're going to we're going to put two wires onto the motor here because it does have this big plug.

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Look, but only two of those have got thick wires which are going to be the power wires that operate the motor. M.

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So if we can connect another wire to that and another different wire to that and then that will bypass everything but the motor. So it won't do any damage to anything else which is super duper result.

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So my dad's now connecting on his positive and ground wire directly to the window motor so we can send it up and down to adjust it to sit in the door.

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Right. You ready? That's down you with that. Oh. Oh, crunchy nut cereal. Oh, yeah. Something's wrong with the with the cable with the cables. Whilst my dad is going to carry on aligning the window up cuz it's a bit of a finicky

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job. It Before I fit the wing, we got a new one of these because like this is a bit it's a bit broken and it's a bit everywhere and we think it's just going to rattle around and break. So, we got a

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new one. It's arrived. I'm going to fit this. Then we can fit the wing. We're getting all to the last bits now. Let's get this off. Fit it in. Good news. The radiator shroud actually turned up. So, out goes the old one and in goes the new

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one. Now, it's going to be completely fresh at the front. And whilst I was doing that, some of the parts returned from being painted at the body shop, like the front wing and the front bumper.

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Wo. Silver. Looks good, doesn't it? Looks nice. Here we go. Old wing, new wing that we got from McLaren and sent to the body shop to have painted.

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Lovely stuff. So now I can actually slide on the wing to the car. I'm going to bolt this in loosely because when I close the door, I want to make sure I can align it not only with the door, but

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also the bonnet as well. All of this took a lot of time, but eventually we got somewhere. My adjustments are done.

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Look at that. Super duper. That's lovely. That Tony, that was good. That's better than OEM. That is it?

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I'd like to think so. Do you think McLaren will offer you a job? I don't want them to.

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Next up, the front bumper. And this is the original part of the bumper. That's the original part. That's the original part. The only thing that's new is this little piece here which the body shop have painted and that little piece there

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which the body shop have also painted. Everything else is reused again. We've done well. We just got to fit it to the car. Slowly by shore, slowly but surely, it is coming together nicer. And when this goes on, I'm hoping more and more

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it's going to look like it's not been in an accident. And that's the thing, there's a lot of cars on the road which you can't tell have been in an accident. And sometimes the only way to find out is to check

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them out using Car Vertical. Oh, would you look at this? To check a car out in Car Vertical, you simply just enter the VIN or the registration plate and then it will give you the full history of that car. It'll

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tell you whether it's ever been stolen, whether it's ever been exported, whether it's ever had any mileage fraud, and whether it's ever been in an accident.

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And if it has, it might even show you photos of when the car was auctioned off at the car crash auction site.

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Side skirt, not new. Repair that where there was a hole there. It's not a hole there anymore. Car Vertical is literally the perfect bartering tool. I think if you find out some hidden history about a car that you

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might not know about and you're buying it, you could either use that information to walk away or maybe ber the seller down. The cool thing is that you can see a full timeline of the car, even down to if it's ever had a personal

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number plate on it. Yeah, that's looking sick. Brand new. Brand new. Remember to check your car out on Carver Vertical. Do it with the link in the description box below and use the discount code which is on the screen round on the screen now to

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save some money on that check. We're so close to almost getting this back on the road. Sometimes we hit these cars and the headaches and sometimes gone pretty good. This one has gone well so far. a dread dread to say it, but we might

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actually do this quite easily. Here's our old pyrofuse, which you remember which was broken. And here's our lovely one off eBay.

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Not a problem. That's going to now do the proper job of bridging the gap rather than the jumping it way how weeded it. So, let's get the new one on.

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If we didn't put the pyro fuse back in, then again, we'd have a constant airbag light on the dash because there's those two signal wires which clip into the parro fuse to tell the car that it's all good. But now that we fitted a new one,

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we're one step closer for this car being faultless. Another thing you might notice is that this area is pretty dirty and sandy. So before we finished up, we decided to give it a bit of a clean and wash down, which brought it up really

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nice. Last day today. We're on exactly a week. Bearing in mind we have had a lot of time waiting for parts and we haven't been on the car the whole time. I reckon we might get done or very close to being

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done today. The next job is this rear bumper thing. Again, this has been repaired. There's a few broken tabs at the top. I don't think it's worth replacing the whole thing just for a few broken tabs. So, we're going to try and

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make sure that that fits on somehow when we put it in. So, I'm going to slide the back bumper cheek into place and then bolt on the tabs which the body shop have glued back on. And then we're just

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going to use a bigger washer and a nut to hold it to the rear quarter, which all seems to work. Then the reflector can go in place. And I think that looks as good as new.

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Break this carbon fiber 1,400 quid off eBay. That looks mega, doesn't it? That's the nicest brake disc I've ever seen.

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The good thing about these carbon discs is that they do last a lot longer than steel. But one thing that didn't last long was this handbrake caliper. And that's next. This is the old handbrake caliper, and it is completely broken.

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We've got a new one off a McLaren 720S, which does look the same. So, I'm hoping that works. The McLaren uses a separate handbrake caliper. I can only assume so it gives time for the actual brakes to cool if you've been on a track day or

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something. The old caliper off the rear, which we're not going to risk cuz it's had a bit of a big hit and it's a it's a bit too risky to risk on break. So, I've got a new caliper, but it's orange. We want

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to match it to that. So, I sent the yellow caliper off to the body shop and a few days later it come back orange. I think the body shop done a pretty good job again of matching it. This caliper

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is going to go on. We've got new brake pads. I'm going to replace the brake pads on each corner as well, not just one side. And that's the next job to do before we hang the brake caliper on the

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wheel hub. The sliders have got a bolt in. Then out come the brake pads.

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There's a brake wear sensor which slides into the brake pad. And when the brake pads wear down, it breaks this sensor and then throws a light on the dash to tell you you need to replace them. Then I'm going to add a bit of copper grease

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to the back of the pads just to make sure they don't squeal when I put them in. Then the pads can go into the caliper and I knock the pins in along with the anti- rattle bracket to hold it

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all in place. Now I can slide it over the disc and tighten it to the wheel hub.

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Right, calipers on, brake pads are on the rear. Now we're going to bleed the brakes. I have got to push the pedal inside whilst my dad breaks the nipples on there and gets all the air out the caliper. I'm just going to check this

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front. should be okay. So, my dad is cracking the bleed nipple on the rear brake caliper, and you can see all the air and the dirt escaping from it. Whilst I'm inside the car, pumping the brake pedal, trying to get out all of that air. Once

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he's done the inside brake nipple, he's then going to do the outside until there's no air left in the system. Let's feel.

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Yeah, it's rock hard. Great. Get in there. And now that I've got a good brake pedal, my dad's going to move over to the right hand side and just replace the brake pads on that caliper as well.

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Getting good at these now. Should be done in 3 2 1. Done. And it's also going to do the front right brake caliper. New pads are going on that. And we're also going to be fitting new pads to the front left one

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once all the parts turn up for it. Final thing to do on the rear is replace this airbox where the air filter sits in.

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This has got a small break in it and we might have got away with reusing it. But on a really rainy day, if any water sprayed up in there and then it sucked water into the engine, it wouldn't have

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been a good day. So, I bought a new airbox and after removing the old one, I can slide the new one in place, which was a little bit tricky, underneath the rear quarter. I bolt that all down, slide back in the old air filter cuz it

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didn't look too bad at all. Then bolt on the access cover on the side. Job done with the airbox. Last thing to do now, the arch lining. It is a little bit rough and ready, but it is reusable. I

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don't think it's worth spending a lot of money on the new arch lining when the old one can actually be used, especially how much beating they actually get as well. With that done, the car can go in the air. And you can see we're actually

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missing part of an undertraay from the rear diffuser which covers the rear of the gearbox cuz this was the old one and the new one is here. I think it's actually made from carbon fiber. So, it's really rigid and it works as part

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of the arrow with the rear diffuser. So, it's quite important. Me and my dad have lifted that in place, bolted it down, and now that's most of the car underneath pretty much done. Time to bring the car down so we can start

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fixing the front end. There is no suspension on here. And all the suspension is here. Part of it secondhand, part of it's new. We got what we could get secondhand and we got what we couldn't get new. First thing to

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go on is this, which is the suspension control thingyamajiggy because ours is broken, which is right in here. So, I've got to get that off. Switch that over and that's going to be our first point of action. Let's go. Now, the 600LT has

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electronically controlled compression and rebound on the suspension. But to know the right setting to do, it needs to know the ride height of the car. And the way it figures that out is with these sensors here. They sit on the body

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and then the swinging arm attaches to the lower wishbone. When the wishbone moves up and down, it adjusts the suspension to make it stiffer or softer to try and keep the car as flat as possible because the flatter the car is,

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the more grip we're going to get. So, these sensors are pretty important else we're going to get a suspension fault.

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So, on goes the new one. Now, the sensors on. Next step, shocker. That looks shiny.

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That's because it's new. for the suspension to even adjust, we need to have the suspension on in the first place. So, my dad's attaching the new shock absorber with the spring to the body of the car. And something the front

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shock absorber has, which the rear doesn't, is nose lift. This hydraulic line, which is connected into the top of the shock absorber here, pushes fluid into it to lift the front end up when you press the button in the car, usually

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when you're getting towards the speed bump. The next thing is the top wishbone. And the wishbone have these shims sitting behind it. When we get the four-wheel alignment done, no doubt there's going to be different size shims which are going to be put in that top

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wishbone. Then finally on the front, it's the lower wishbone. Again, also has spacers sitting behind it which can adjust the camber in or out depending on the size of the shims.

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Arrival from the airbag team. Again, we're recycling. We're saving money by getting the seat belts not only reset, but also spiced up with a little bit of orange. We got orange seat belts.

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They've changed the color of them. Thank you again to the airbag team. We've been using them for years now. Never let us down. So, let's pop this in. Pop the seat belts in. And on top of that, we do

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have the door airbag as well. So technically after we fit the seat belts and the airbag, we should have no airbag warning light. In fact, we should have no warning lights at the end of it. In fact, we've got to have no warning

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lights at the end of it because remember this car is from Greece. So to import it into the UK, we need to have an MOT certificate. So it's got to go through anote, which means no warning lights on

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the dash and no silly exhaust yet. Let's fit the seat belts and the airbag inside.

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Fitting the seat belts is always tricky, especially when you've got carbon bucket seats and a roll cage. The seat don't move forward and the roll cage isn't going to get out your way. Just like removing them, they slot in behind this

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panel here. We put the seat belt in place and then we have to bolt it to the carbon bucket seat as well. And I found it easier to just unbolt the seat to do it. That is in. There's a lot of oress

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going on, but they ain't got a bad color match there. Orange seat belt, orange harnesses. I don't know. It's quite cool. And I think it's an optional extra spec with the roll cage and that. That's looking good. Round two on the passenger

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side. And now it's the same for the passenger side. The airbag team have put in a new explosive in both of the seat belts. And you can see that yellow plug plugs into the new explosive. And this should stop all of our fault codes. And

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also, if the car's ever in an accident again, the seat belts will work just as usual. And now that's both of them in.

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Next step is the door airbag that sits just in the top of the door behind this bracket. The dad slides it in place, puts both of the bolts in, tightens them up, and then it's a yellow connector again, which goes into the explosive.

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And that is all the airbags back on the car. Okay, we're nearly there with the front of the car, but we've noticed an issue, and that's with this bottom arm. We bought his bottom arm secondhand. But we've just noticed now the ball joint

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has got play up and down. This was like a £400 bottom arm, secondhand. We've been trying to find a ball joint separately.

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Can't find one. But in the end, we found another bottom arm on eBay. How much was this one?

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£225. £225 with a good ball joint in it. So, we're just going to send back because we bought it on eBay. We're going to send back that bottom arm, replace it with this bottom arm, and then we should be

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good to go. McLaren wanted like 700 and what was it like 70 quid, something like that.

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And a two week two day weight. Two two day weight. Yeah, this is this has saved it really. So, let's uh pop this bottom arm on, take that bottom arm off, and uh send it back to eBay. It's a good job we

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check this before putting the wheel hub in place, else we would have had knocking suspension. Luckily, we've got the new one here, so we're going to remove the old one to put the new one in place. Now, we couldn't find a 600LT

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lower arm, but the 720S arm looked exactly the same. That was until we went to fit the drop link. I know why it's different as well.

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What? 720? Because the 720S has different suspension which has hydraulically controlled. So, you don't need an anti-roll bar. And this has got an anti-roll bar. And I've got a drop link. And I'm putting the drop link and I've got nowhere to put it because

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the 600LT uses electronic suspension and then an actual mechanical anti-roll bar. So, I bet the bottom arm on the 600T has got a hole.

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Yeah. So, we found a difference. Although the arms on the 720S and the 600LT look the same, the McLaren 720S doesn't have an anti-roll bar because the suspension is hydraulically controlled between all four corners to try and save the weight

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of anti-roll bars. Whereas the 600LT has a mechanical anti-roll bar. And because of this, when I'm putting the drop link into the anti-roll bar, I've got no place to screw it into the lower wishbone. But it's just got that thread

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in it. That would be the difference. Well, all McLaren have done is drilled a hole. True.

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I think we do that. And then you can measure from there to the center of that to get your center.

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Yeah, I I think we can do that. I think we're out. Thinking outside the box, we need to now make a spot to make a 720S lower arm into a 600LT lower arm.

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And that is what we're going to do. My dad's measured where the hole is on the 600LT arm, marked it on the 720S lower arm, and now we're going to start drilling a hole into this bottom arm so

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we can tap a thread into it. Just like the 600LT lower wishbone, the dad's using a tap now. Then it's going to use the belt sander just to make the area nice and flat where the drop link goes

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into. And now we can see whether the drop link screws into that lower wishbone. And it's looking good.

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Look at that job in the town. How will they know? How will they know? If that is the only difference between the 720S arm and the 600LT arm, then we've just saved a fair bit of boner. But I guess we'll find out

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when we come to do the four-wheel alignment. Next step, the wheel hub. This slides onto the lower ball joint.

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And then we got to push it up onto the upper ball joint and connect up the track rod end and everything else attached to that hub. Next up, new disc because the old disc is going to go to

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one of you guys. We're going to sign it and we're going to give it away whether by some of the Miami merch which we've got on HWBT shop, make it into a clock, put it on display or refurbish it and sell it.

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Whatever you fancy. We're going to pick someone out of the next 100 orders. another £1,500 for a brake disc. But before we fit it, I've got to fit the new brake pads on the front caliper, and that's going to be easier to do without

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the disc in place. Once I've done that, I can slide the disc in place, then slide the caliper over the top of the new disc. There is a few scuffs in that caliper, which I think will probably come out with a little bit of polish.

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Next up, the front tub. Here we go. Right. Whilst my dad's doing art drying, we managed to get secondhand front tub.

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Oh, it looks brand new. Brand new. You sure that's secondhand? This is literally brand spanking new, isn't it?

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Wow. Looks like we've got ourselves a bargain. Before we fit it, I'm going to connect up the battery because the tub almost obstructs the battery. Then once that's connected, I can slide in the front tub between the two front wings of

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the bumper. This is held in with four bolts, two at the front and two in the middle. Then there's a seal which goes all the way around the outside of it to stop the water getting into your storage. I then plug in the light and

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the 12vt system. Push that into the tub. And then there's another seal which actually sticks to the front of the tub which we've taken off the old one. Put new tape on and sticking to the new one.

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And finally after that, it's all the towing eye, the first aid kit, and the puncture repair kit, which sits in the front of it. Right, Neutron's got a job as well. This is a proper apprentice job. 600 LC on the other side. It's

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badge job time. Go on. Just explain just this so I don't have to voice over it. Go on, you can do it.

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I found a sens. But it wasn't long until Neutron realized his stencil had a little problem.

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It is Neutron. See the 600 LC is slanted to the right and then look at his stencil. It's standing to the left.

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Did you flip it? You can't look at both sides at once. There. You make a decision.

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I don't want to make a decision. Oh, it look at that one. You're 18, nearly 19 now. So, you got to start making decisions for yourself. You can't rely on your mom and your dad anymore. So, look at that.

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Take it in, remember it, and go and apply it onto that door over there.

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Measure. Yeah. Come on. COME ON. COME ON. COME ON. COME ON NEUTRON. LET'S HAVE IT, NEUTRON. COME ON. STICK IT ON THAT DOOR. COME ON.

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COME ON. PEEL IT OFF. Stick it off. I've already forgot. No, you've not. Say yes or no.

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JUST I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S A BUDDY. That was perfect. Swear that shouting like that again.

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You do not tone. All you got to do IS STICK IT ON. STICK IT ON THE DOOR.

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It's dark outside. Good. Stick it on. That's good. Yeah. You've got this. Come on, Neutron.

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Big boy pants. I'm lining up with that big boy pants. Let's see what that looks like.

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Hold on. Let's get the measuring tape out. Get the measure. Get the measuring tape out.

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How far is he away from the edge? Move it forward. Oh, hold on. I don't think it's that bad.

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You ready? That's to the edge there. Okay, let's I think he's got this. Good. I think I think he's got this good.

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I mean, he's a little bit out, but you can't see both sides at once. So, neutron can't look at both sides.

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Well done. I like that. That's good. Saying that you can. Who would have thought it had taken so long to stick a badge to a car?

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Everyone's got to start somewhere. Next step, we're putting on the under tray, which does have a bit of damage to it, but we're going to drop this to a carbon guy once the car's passed its inspection. We're almost there. Almost

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there. Last bit, the wheels. These were fully perished. And as we've kept it kind of stock, we found some wheels online. The McLaren lightweight alloys with the original tires on, but again, they were secondhand. tires have seen the track maybe a few times, but

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they're legal and they'll get us through anote. But these ones are upgraded carbon center caps. Moged.

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Absolutely mob them wheels. Get out of here. I thought as McLaren spent so much time trying to save weight with the 600LT, it was only right to reuse their lightweight wheels on it, even though they were pretty expensive. £4,000 for

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the set secondhand. And I may need new tires. Right, the alarm's on again. I don't know why, but we're going to check fault codes before we show you guys.

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Uhoh. Why does the Why does that come on soon as I put the ignition on? That is odd. What I'm going to do to start off is see what we've got on the dash.

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It looks like we've got a fault for an airbag and just the tire pressure warning light.

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We still have the airbag light on and the alarm is just going mental. So, first things first, I'm just going to scan the fault codes to see if there's any, which we shouldn't have. Window switch open circuit. Window open circuit

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because we don't have a door card yet. That's not back from the airbag team.

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But we've got no fault for the for the um why are the alarms going off. So, we thought the best thing to do now is to latch the doors shut, lock them, step away from the car, and try again.

Speaker A

Right. Okay. Doors are latched. Still think something's open. Is the front open? No. Is it because the keys in the car?

Speaker A

Yes. Don't move else. The alarm's going to go off. That light. Yeah. Lights gone off the dash.

Speaker A

What's the warning? Mechanical release. The warning is because we don't have the switch on the door to open the door because the door card's missing. It's overreacting just because it hasn't got a door card on. But hopefully we

Speaker A

shouldn't have any faults apart from driver door internal release fault. That sounds like a malfunction on an airplane or something, doesn't it?

Speaker A

Sounds terrible, doesn't it? It sounds like you like something really bad's going to happen.

Speaker A

Yes. And no faults. No faults. Dash is completely clear. Come on. Look at the dash. to look at the dash.

Speaker A

We're looking good. We're looking good. We only need that door card left from back repair. But for now, let me show you the car that we've just managed to rebuild in 9 days.

Speaker A

9 days later and £28,000 after that and we have a rebuilt McLaren 600LT. Bearing in mind we still are waiting for a door card on the left hand side that to be repaired and we need the tracking done as well and we also need to

Speaker A

register it inside the country. But other than that I am absolutely over the moon with that. It looks so like I haven't had a silver car in like I don't think ever and I think that looks really really nice. Like I need to get PPF. I

Speaker A

need to decide whether we're going to go for satin PPF or keep the gloss PPF. But it's so aesthetically pleasing that car.

Speaker A

And I can't believe it's newer than the 720S. The interior is really nice. I'm absolutely buzzing. Even all the wheels, the brakes, it's such a clean looking car. And we've got it at a bargain as well. This car cost me £95,000 which is

Speaker A

around £81,000 the car has cost me which is probably one of the cheapest 600LTS in the country. On top of that the £28,000 to fix it. So all in £109,000 for a complete 600LT. We are well in the

Speaker A

green and we're at Oh, now we're at 10 days exactly right now. But you know what? We did it in nine.

Speaker A

And when you look at the other 600LTS for sale, the cheapest one in the UK is £142,000.

Speaker A

So I think we've done well. Went pretty smoothly. Quick build before we head to Miami to carry on with the Bugatti Chiron. But if you remember earlier in the video, we did mention that it had a bit of damage. We brushed over a bit and

Speaker A

it turns out to be a little bit more serious than we first thought. So let me take you back. Hello, Matt from the future. We're now back with Matt from the past. And there is one thing that we

Speaker A

didn't know when I bought this car, but we suspect it may have had a little bit of damage to it, and that is the carbon fiber monco. So, the whole tub of the car is made out of carbon fiber. Same as

Speaker A

the McLaren 720S. Makes it rigid, makes it light as well. And normally if the insurance see any damage to the carbon fiber, they'll completely write the car off as unrepairable because it's all weaved into one another. And we found some

Speaker A

damage to it, which is just right here on just under here on the tub. You see all the shards coming out. It looks like the brake when the suspension's gone back, it looks like the brake disc has hit it in that perfect spot there. But

Speaker A

for me, just looking at it, I don't think it's in like a structural place which is going to like have any effect on anything because there's nothing that bolts to this actual area.

Speaker A

It's just like part of the whole shell and it's not actually too deep. But to be sure also it is two layers as well.

Speaker A

Like when you put your hand through here there's another layer behind it. But just to make sure we wanted to call someone who can who does work with carbon to make sure they can repair it.

Speaker A

And we're going to get a second opinion on that. But I I've got good hopes. I've got good hopes. Let's see what he says.

Speaker A

How we doing? Good. How are you? I'm all right. How about you? Good, thank you. We have got a little bit of carbon fiber would like you to take a look at.

Speaker A

Let's have a look. Is that possible? I'm going to pass you over to Mr. Armstrong.

Speaker A

All on the corner of the tub. Uh, is that something that you could repair?

Speaker A

Yeah. Just zoom out a little bit. Zoom. Yeah, it looks like it's stopped like that that little opening, doesn't it?

Speaker A

Yeah, looks like it's stopped here. You can get like behind it kind of thing there as well.

Speaker A

Yeah, it looks it looks pretty localized. I think we can uh Yeah, we'll be able to do something with that, mate.

Speaker A

That is the news we wanted to hear. Good. Good. And how how long how long would that take you to do?

Speaker A

Um, it gets done in like stages. So, if we've got the car for about a week, we should we should be able to sort that out, mate. Sounds good.

Speaker A

Yeah, we just just do like it has to be done incrementally. So there'll be bits where we're bonding bits on, then bits where resin's got to cure and all those different stages. But in span of a week, we should be fine for that. Wicked.

Speaker A

Sounds good to me. Legend. Thanks for that. I'll um I'll drop the car to you next week.

Speaker A

Well, this weekend we'll get it sorted. Legend. Nice one. Cheers. Thanks, mate. See you in a bit.

Speaker A

Bye. Bye. So luckily that damage looks like it's going to be repaired, but it takes another seven days on top plus more expense there as well. But in seven more days, we should have that carbon bit repaired, registered in the country,

Speaker A

MOT, and then we can start maybe a few modifications on the 600LT. I'm absolutely buzzing with that. What a car. What a repair. Nicely done in 9 days. Thanks so much for watching this video. If you've enjoyed it, hit the

Speaker A

subscribe button, hit that thumbs up button, and I'll see you in the next video. Peace out.

Speaker A

That just shows how lethal this car is. It has to have like six seat belts.

Speaker A

like a trumpet.

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