This is much better than playing that cool Perth Pro advert over and over to see more of Heiner. Such an enthusiastic and interesting guy. I’ll have to pop into the shop one of these days, maybe he can help figure out my classic Rangie’s electrical issues 😅

Danke Schön! Well looks like to move and upgrade some good old German quality vehicle to discover the unknown. I assume the overland workshop is the first place to visit and study before ordering Egons Prost die Herren.

Good to see the boys get together before Christmas

Awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

Great interview/chat to listen to. Thanks I wish you hurry up with the videos of the new interior fit out both of the Australian built one and South African built one. This is because I’m waiting for my first Troopy to arrive in the next month.

Loved this session. Regardless of the industry, most consumers are obvilous and ungrateful particularly when talking about service industries. Not having expertise or knowledge in a particular field does not excuse the customer for being ungrateful but that's just how it is because most people are ignorant or too self absorbed , Thanks for the content. Cheers

As a dual traded electrical fitter/electrical mechanic, I have also seen domestic wiring that looks like it was done by an auto electrician, the way you would wire up a car. It was a shocker and a fire hazard waiting to happen. Auto elec's who think they are real electricians. It works both ways.

Great talk!

I can sympathise with what they were saying about customers who hire an expert and then tell them what to do. I recall one guy who suggested we approach a shoot in a certain way. I strongly, strongly advised against that approach. But he insisted. In the end it looked like crap and he was upset that I did it the way he wanted. I said, "remember how I really tried to get you to do it my way? " He replied "But you didn't force me to do it like that". I said "Yeah, but you're bigger than me so what was I supposed to do?" Ugh. Clients.... Business would be so much easier without them :-)

I'm only 6 minutes in Andrew, and I need to take a pause, make a drink and find a quiet place to absorb what Heiner is about to say.

Andrew, you mention the annoyance of customers being a challenge to navigate, and I can certainly appreciate that. Right now I’m commissioning my build of a Grenadier, and I can’t even get my chosen fabricator to reply to my emails for a request for quote… at what point is a customer considered nagging? 2 emails a week? A month? Every 2 weeks? Thanks!

Water tanks mounted in the inner panels.

Clients. You have told us this Andrew. The majority where arseholes and kept changing their minds or not happy with something that worked. But not how they thought it would work.

10:17 unfortunatelly he is obviously wrong talking about non engineers were taking over cause if you check the german car industry history you find what ? Piech, Pietschesrieder, Winterkorn were all engineers. Remember Mercedes boss Zetsche, a former Chrysler CEO ? an engineer So not the best memories and examples cause all of these were responsible for the last 3 decades and they allowed VW to grow quite fast and overtake the number 1 position from Toyota finally which btw also had the same issues and trouble cause they had used the steering to detect a test cycle to lower the consumption around 2005 or so when they had been caught. That was why I had thought they would not try that trick again cause toyota was afaik the first who had been caught at least in germany. What is missing is the discussion about what makes quality and what are the elements he choose to call the quality worser than before. And I bet their is not scientific research behind it, just the impression from a few small inside topics but at the end they do all the same tricks and copy from each other. The other manufacturer were obviously the first who had known about the tricks cause if you do not invent a new wheel then the key question was where is the tank needed for the adblue addon to clean the diesel gases. If the tank was so small as it was it meant: lot of refillments or as said before a new wheel or fooling and cheating about the real emissions And with the usual reverse engineering and the user manual they could easily find out: refillment intervalls were not shorter and there was no knew wheel invented to clean diesel gases so everyone in the rooms knew that they were cheating and that Bosch must been involved whiich then meant that all other german car makers would try to talk with Bosch about how VW got his diesel so clean which then ended in revealing the secret ingredients which went back to the competitors CEO and bosses to prepare decisions . There is a great podcast from the german public radio station NDR which is located in the home of VW , lower saxony, who tried to unveil in a 7 hours long podcast the different elements and levels how it all had begun and developed and who had known what, also got insider contacts and what not. Much effort, interviews in the USA and so on. .But all in german and it was called Winterkorn's Ingenieure or Winterkorn's engineers , the former VW group (not brand) boss who stepped down and is waiting for his trial due to health issues the usual german illness if things get serious like the corruption scandal with Franz Beckenbauer and all the others about the Football world champs in germany and who paid whom what amount to get the votes together to bring the games to germany 2006 . We still have to wait about the truth who had known what. The successor of Winterkorn as AUDI CEO Rupert Stadler was already in jail and unveiled how Audi had been involved to get out of prison or avoid a further longer sentence. It is a far more complicated story about greed and profits for all, cause if you can avoid costs you raise the profits and there is no cheaper exhaust and cleaning than no cleaning at all. It is just a question of integrity which way to choose and how someone could really believe to not get caught. And it was a decision across the world, not just single markets based on risks or likelihood to get caught. The motor got no proper cleaning to save money and raise profits especially in the VW brand due to their high costs in general which then raised the margin. Where others spend 300 or 500$ per car they had 0$ effort - until they got caught.

as weight is one of the bigger challenges when building a vehicle, why not titanium?

@DMSVICAU

7 ай бұрын

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$=Titanium

@overlandworkshop

7 ай бұрын

Not even SpaceX uses the stuff. Its far to complex to work with. And costly.

@peterpontikos3786

7 ай бұрын

@@overlandworkshop cost may be a good compromise for weight savings, especially for panels

@4xoverland

7 ай бұрын

It's +400% labour costs because it requires specialised skills, + 250% in material costs to save less than 10% in weight for added strength that is not needed. @@peterpontikos3786

@TheLukaszpg

7 ай бұрын

@@peterpontikos3786 you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Better don't touch the 12V in your car.

Just For your information Andrew, Robs product line has not changed at all, He still builds drawer systems under a new company , He actually joined up with custom installations to form Custom Overland Solutions, I would be nice if you could get your facts correct first before putting things on youtube for the world to see . Regards Rob and Chris

Sadly he lost all credibility when he started selling fuseboxes for $800

@overlandworkshop

7 ай бұрын

Its not a fusebox. if you think it is, you do not understand.

@overlandworkshop

7 ай бұрын

Let me explain. In a 12V installation where there are multiple accessories, there is a fuse box. Right? Also, mega fuses for high current items, and a bus bar, and fuses for chargers, and solar inputs, and house battery and starter batteries. With Heiner's invention, ALL OF THEM! Connect to one device. ONE DEVICE. This removes the need for ALL THESE THINGS that are normally scattered all over the installation. Now, being in one place, all connectors are cabled-tied down the same way, ALL fuses, large and small are on the same boards, and EVERY one has a self diagnostic LED that glows when a fuse blows. So, if there is a blown fuse, EVERY FUSE without exception is in the same location and can be fault traced in a matter of seconds. Also, its not $800. Its $600. And it saves $1000 in labour time. Its a huge money and time saver. If you had understood this, you might say he's a genius.