I think that it was a good move to make the car safer, and last longer. I LOVE the way that you blended the sound of the grinder into the music (with the 303-esque synth) during the first timelapse.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I wish I could say it was deliberate...

Who wants to see the BX door?

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I will post a picture of the door...

You did a great job because now the car is safe to use and that is the important part. I know after you are done it will look a whole lot better than whatever it had before. Amazing what you can do in a crunch.

The welded sill may not look like a masterpiece (at least not for a Picasso😜) but it certainly gives the car a bit of well deserved extra time and miles.

Oh, this has taken me back forty years to the sills on my Renault 16! First "repair" involved a section of a forty gallon oil drum and pop rivets followed by underseal - and then when the left hand rear torsion bar bearing broke away from the inner box section (because Renault) my father and I fitted two new pattern sills but he also had to make up a huge inner strengthener because it had rotted just like the Picasso's had. The car was welded with gas, so fire did happen on more than one occasion. God, I miss that car... great sound track, by the way!!

Combi boiler - love it 🤣🤣🤣

Must be a first for me to click on a up N Down video without binge watching. It might not look pretty, it might have a bit of bx door but it adds character to the car, you have given it more time on the road to rack up the miles. A excellent video as always Rich.

Great work and great content Kitch - its not just made the Picasso well again its made it safe which is very important

A lesson for car buyers the rust you see is only about 20% of the actual extent of the rust

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Truth.

Bring it to Matt the furious “Sill Welder”! 😂😂😂

Fill the cill with newspaper or expanding foam, skim of filler and some black hamerite. Boom, structural! Joking, I'd like to think, obviously, but...

@hadtopicausername

11 ай бұрын

Oh, yes, highly structural! I've seen that done to a load bearing part of a house once.

@mikecleasby709

11 ай бұрын

Use Brillo pads to stuff the sills before filling……. Drive in a good downpour and you get self cleaning wheels and inner arches! 😂😂

@terryatkinson3182

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget to add the key ingredient chicken wire🤗

Thanks for the hours of toil you spent on keeping pass on the road for a bit longer - it was great to see how bad the sill was, how much metal you had to cut our and replace and for the lesson that weld quality needs good preparation (and not terrible metal) ... and the electric file (grinder) is a key part to making welds look better

Dude, even I mostly wear gloves and sleeves these days! You'll be chain smoking next.. Fun fact, in a reverse of the usual situation, replacement sills for these things are better quality than Citroen managed at factory. Still, for a 21 year old, half million mile car there was a surprising amount of metal left down there. Anyway. The music that could almost be Moby? Who dat? It's ace. I need that in my life.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

It's just music in the audio library on here. Downloaded a load I liked ages ago and use them for the vids.

@adventuresinrust1644

11 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN I don't even know how to use the audio library!

My lads stepdad asked me to weld up a hole his landrover chassis he said 'It's only the size of a 2p piece' When I cleaned ti up it was 14 inches long and 3 inches wide!

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Sounds about right!

I bought a £400 2.0 HDI Picasso a couple of years ago - the home trader seller said he’d put 12m mot on but he just had to do this same part of the sill. Few days later I pick the car up and he admitted it was a horrible nasty job. Completely fell in love with the car though, they are a skip on wheels that can be parked anywhere. It felt cheap on the inside but not in an annoying way - it was just very honest about it’s purpose. I’d love another, not many 2.0D’s left though… which is a shame because that motor suited the car.

I can't help but think of Ronnie Pickering whenever I see a Xsara Picasso.

Good job done with what you had and with the time you had. Fair play to you.

As I keep telling the wife I may not look pretty and I can be temperamental and difficult to get started but you have invested so much in me already that you may as well make sure I keep going. So far she keeps falling for it.

Given the constraints. a practical and functional repair, well done. I kind of like the smoke streaks up the door, laquer over them and it's part of the story.

Look it's 150% better than it was you had no option mate, and it's stronger than it was.

Impressive work for the time used!

I would call that a very functional repair, needs must etc. Nice "heavy metal" background music to boot.👍👍

At 7.20 "you can pick holes in it" right now you can literally pick holes in it so I'd say you've improved it 😂😂😂

Brilliantly done considering everything you had to take into account. Yes it might not be beautiful but like our own scars it shows a life lived and gives a lead to stories that can be told of adventures had ( bit OTT but you get my meaning) . In the same way as cosmetic surgery hides the real person your work and time with Pass has been captured for the rest of its life . Now that’s OTT😊

Congratulations on your persistence with the sill. I think you did a good job given the circumstances.

THANK YOU, RICH!!! Really grateful for your efforts.

That was a Big Success from me. Done within the Time Constraints. In my opinion "Not Bodged" It was a solid and legal repair. Well done. Cheers.

I've also done regular rust repairs, so I know how big the fight is. It always takes longer than you hope.

Poor Old Picasso. You are doing right by the Old Picasso even though it's just a quick patch job. This car needs to survive, Well Done.

Always more hidden rust, good solid job 👍 & entertaining as usual 😊, nice one Rich .

Interesting and educational to watch. Definitely safer than before considering the various factors you were up against.

Well I must admit when you said you were doing it against the clock I thought, well this is going to look like a dogs breakfast. Guess what, you proved me absolutely right......good man! 👍

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

😁

Not bad at all for a rush job on a car of that value. Perfectly functional.

~Brilliant. Well done working at❤ speed

Cracking job given the subject matter. Pass the Picasso lives once again 😅

Can of worms, Made great video content. Excellent

Ah! Rich thanks for showing the old citroen some love your a good egg. I see some good citroen carma coming your way from the citroen gods.

I just did a pretty major welding job on my elgrand (check my last vid if you so please) and everything takes 8 times longer than you think. I felt your pain when you said making the outer skin out of two parts would suck, I had to, I've got no way to bend a sheet of metal that long. So then I had to spend hours matching the bends, getting them flush, welding them flush, grinding flush etc. I refuse to overlap welds, everything was flush. frigging nightmare. When you said I'm gonna try do it under an hour, I was thinking 'hes having a laugh'. You still did it faster than I imagined even if it 'only' took you 5ish hours.

Saw it at the fest and didnt think it looked too bad! Its all about keeping the wheels turning and thats done that :)

Pass the Piccaso well done for your extra hard work in sorting out the sill. Many years ago my boss had a red and black roof Ford Capri . The sills were bad on that car and to get it thr' the MOT he got his staff to help make paper mashie paste which we placed on those sills. Then that night he undersealed it and sent it for an other MOT. It passed with flying colours . So there an answer for the next time you have a problem >>>>>>>>>>>>

I guess one way in which a Xsara Picasso HDi COULD be exciting would be if one of the sills gave way at motorway speed (sorry, I mean 70mph, which is not necessarily motorway speed IRL). It was great to see your act of love on the Picasso, even if it was necessarily a bit rough.

It was fun to watch at least :D. Love your content. ///A Citroën nerd

Saw this beast at FOTU - we’ve had 2 of these and they’re pretty impressive, fun, quick enough and mega practical bikes, engines the like, it then got stacked

Lovely job 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You might (in this case) have done a stupid thing..... But you are a good man. And thats what counts, innit?

No matter how many times I tell myself not to, I always end up doing jobs while looking at the clock, and it invariably goes wrong!

I think you gave the correct part the attention it needed, i.e. the bracing. The rest is cosmetic, and who doesn't like a bit of combi boiler and BX door? Increased the value, I'd say.

I feel your pain, I was a welder in an MOT station and some of the old repairs I had to cut away to do a proper repair were incredible. A Mercedes’ came in and had three cover calls welded over each other. I ended up stripping out the interior to replace the inner cill front to back then the strengthening membrane and then the outer cill. I had phoned the owner and got the ok to do this, he had bought the car a week earlier with a months test on it and brought it to us to check out. Did the one side and he arranged to get the other done the following month. The tales that repair shops could tell you would scare you shi*less.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I've seen some pretty bad things over the years, but I suspect MoT stations see the worst!

Well, it is stronger, and that’s a win… and the French adore.. the BX door!

I would be happy with that repair with a bit of titavation:}

No bad at all (Work) .... Funny video...Greetings from SPAIN

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Hello there!

tremendous music to go with the rushed wielding and hammy acting 🙂 love all of it !!

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

What's hammy acting?! lol

@chrisperyagh

11 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Shame you can't use Sisters of Mercy's 'This Corrosion' for fear of a copywrite strike.

@Qlyphy

11 ай бұрын

a compliment 🙂, keep it up - makes me smile even on a rainy day@@UPnDOWN

If it's like the Peugeot 406 they have an inner and outer sill with a plate in the middle that all rots because the sunroof drains into it. Nothing wrong with a bit of recycling; I used a computer case and washing machine case and it's already painted.

It looks OK to me, for a quickie job - definitely not a bodge, more like the rectification of a previous bodge!

This is perfect for the person looking to get some more time out of a good running but rotted out POS. This is how I do it at least. I chop out the rot, weld in steel and I don't concern myself over the scars. As long as it's solid, I don't care. I can get more out of my vehicles. Was that a Union Jack on your cutoff wheel for the grinder?

Yes that sill was bad but still not as bad as the sills on a certain Ford Crown Victoria

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Yes, thankfully not *that* bad!

I've got a Mazda MX-3 in at the moment with the very same issue, just at the back of the sills. Complete with the same sort of dodgy MOT repairs.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I like the MX-3, they're funky.

As far as hidden rusts goes, there is always the other sill....................

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I'm not looking at that...

I've been feeling bad about my '05 celica, which has rotten rear wheel arches. One side made a small hole when struck. A lot of umming and ahhing about whether I should bother paying for the repair... Suddnely I don't feel so bad.

Reminds me of a ford at Whitelands restorations!!!!!! Any chance I can have the window rubbers from that old door. Mine are all shot.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

So are these.

I tend to use concrete, when repairing other folks’ cars.

A blind man would be pleased to see it - as my Dad always used to say.

I hand beat a sill for a Standard 8, won't be doing that again...

@christhesnaildriver

11 ай бұрын

I have that exact job on a 1953 8 waiting for me to get round to it, along with floor pan outer edges and door bottoms. I'm rather hoping with the 8's thicker sheet metal, welding the many rusty bits will at least be easier than the paper thin metal on my 2cv or my latest job Mk1 Focus... That will of course be countered by the thicker steel being more work to cut & bend ;-)

@mikecleasby709

11 ай бұрын

Scuttle panel for a Mk2 transit was my most difficult piece of hand forming & beating Jiggery-pokery……. Never, ever again…….!

@MattBrownbill

11 ай бұрын

@@christhesnaildriver mine was a '56, turned out to be too rotten to continue, but I did get a lot of practice.

I had a 6 year old picasso with holed sills & my brother who is a very experienced welder told me once its fixed get effing rid as this car is built with monkey shit metal 😂 Never again

10:07 i think you can cut this width repair under and weld same parts external. that steel doesnt looks bad a connection and drain bad

It's always the hollow bits...

Reminds me of the first time I looked under a Fiat Uno…

Had two Picasso's they were great. So unfortunate that they rust at 12-13 years. The battery lasted 13 years on the second one.

I would actually have been pleased with that if i had done it. MIG and plasma cutter both have similar effects in my hands when trying to butt weld thin steel!😢. My welding was once described as a collection of metal bird turds! Wasn’t that BX door worth more than the Picasso?😂

You should get Matt from from Furious Driving on and do a welding tutorial, hes got lots of welding ahead of him (mostly on the Crown Vic) 😊

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Can he not already weld then?

@MrCHrisfj

11 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN take a look and see what you think. Although he is hampered by mostly having to work outdoors on his cars. I could do with the tutorial myself as I want to learn...

Good job, your quick fix was better than the MOT fix by a bodger that either doesn’t know better or doesn’t care, or both. What would you usually charge for a job, like the sills on the Pablo?

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I don't normally do stuff like that, to be fair. Would be a bodyshop.

Edit: I posted this to the wrong channel. Ooops. As Rich suggests, I had too many tabs open. I was totally sober. I'll leave what I posted below for posterity, and copy-paste to Hubnut 😁 "This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, big success." (To quote GLaDOS) Absolutely stunning views! One can only hope that Miss Hubnut will eventually have a 4X4 2CV in her fleet for future capers. I do have to take issue from 03:58 - 4:03: "My little gate assistant is just um... opening the gate" - that is NOT a little gate. I've seen FAR smaller gates, far and wide I'll have you know! (grabs ma hat and makes a sharp exit stage left...) Please can this be the start of a new series? Or can you both compete against one-another in one of those off-road trials car climb events; you just need to find a willing trials car owner(s) to collab with.

@matthieumeewis

11 ай бұрын

I think you might be commenting on the wrong video

@isaacplaysbass8568

11 ай бұрын

@@Richard-jp8rz lol yes, many tabs, and on the kitchen computer which is sloooow..... Lol.

@isaacplaysbass8568

11 ай бұрын

@@matthieumeewis yup, you were SO right, hahaha. I need to upgrade the kitchen computer, or use fewer tabs as Rich said 😂

Front end of my next van is looking good there towards the end😉😆😆 ….…… and as for the patch? (#patchthepicasso 😆) I’ve seen long term jobs from others that claimed to be “professionals” look far, far worse……. One of them including a garage that put sills on my old T2 camper…..and they melted/ set fire to the cool box lining in the process….. I’ve never been too busy to do my own repairs since! 🙄🙄

Never seen a Picasso without Stonechipped sill or one without a patch put in. Must be a design fault and even the C4 Picasso suffered the same problem.

I fixed a rust hole in a K11 micro with top off a microwave.

It's amazing how you end up with cars that need a full rebuild..🤣🤣🤣

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I'm obviously a magnet for borked cars.

Only on the bottom 😂

now that was funny.

Hi, It would be worth putting some anti rust treatment in the Sill while it is open.

@johnmoruzzi7236

11 ай бұрын

How many years life do you seriously think that thing has ahead of it ?

@malachy1847

11 ай бұрын

@@johnmoruzzi7236 Good internal repair inside that sill, the rust there was taken out, so that won't be coming back any time soon, a buff of the weld on the outer sill with a Flap disc on that angle grinder and a few coats coats of zinc primer followed up by blacks Stone Chip along the sill length and its then well sorted. thais wasn't a Bodge Job by any means, SORTED.

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

It's caked in zinc-primer inside, I'm sure somebody can buy it a can of Dinitrol or something.

@niallsommerville9813

11 ай бұрын

Can't do everything, not even on KZread, I thought the idea was to do your bit and pass it on to the next user to do a bit etc.

Needs more lip-smacking, unruly ginger beards and tepid cans of Tribute 😂

@adventuresinrust1644

11 ай бұрын

I'm currently enjoying a few pints of tribute whilst watching a man welding bx steel into a Picasso.. Sacrilege!

What is this? A Furiousdriving video?? 🤣🤣

@terryatkinson3182

11 ай бұрын

Furious driving would have found more rust as he went along 🤣

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

And filler.

It was good of you to do that. It just needs a tidy up. I wonder how many more gas boilers are going to end up in car bodies once this heat pump rubbish gets enforced?

8:55 > tunage 💃🕺

My 307 was like that from the front of the sill right to the back.. absolutely rotten. Inside and out. Great car but the rust issues..:(

Would it not have been just easier to buy the repair panel, probably could get the inner sill, outers are easy to get and would save some time?

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Customer didn't want to spend money on it, in fairness. I took it upon myself to do this.

God what a bodge !!

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Not my finest hour, though it's a bit deeper than a bodge. A bodge is what it had before.

A re-remap is actually a de-map? When you said under an hour you meant elapsed time on the video? 🙂 Fair play its taken me two years to do one side of my own car...

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Demap - yes, that's it!

If it wasn't French with 513000 miles on it, the scrap man would be beckoning.

Its solid should last a while

For free you cant complain.. you didn`t have too. Technically you potentially saved it

This is when you dont pour oil in your rocker panels every year

Did you discounted the battery, check the interior

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

Nah, left it for fun to see if I could ruin the ECU a second time!

Renault's don't seem to rust im surprised at the Picasso so rust riddled i thought they were galvanized shells.?😮 i remember welding up sills on my old astra 1.7 td 1992 model like a patchwork quilt it was when id finished but it passed the test took me a month of weekend's to do it.😅

I’ve seen much worse. Please tell me the name of the first music you played in this video. Thanks

@fookmyoldboots7208

11 ай бұрын

this is it if its the welding music kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKSNuMh6hcbRoqQ.html

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I honestly don't know, it was from the KZread audio library!

@Invisibleman7

11 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Thanks man appreciated

Wait...we didn't see the hole in the BX door...😢

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I shall post a picture of it one day.

You remind me of father Fintan Stack off farther Ted

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

I've had my fun.

@rogerhanbury677

11 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nothing wrong with the repair but I would have wiped the door marks off...😁

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

It's character.

Who's getting away with doing all these bad repairs! Can't beat digging under someone else's dodgy patchwork 😅

@UPnDOWN

11 ай бұрын

You'll have this in one day to undo what I just did!

Why do these rot, and Berlingos don't?

That is actually a well done job, not pretty but solid!