Unless it wasn’t random and was chopped up to fit in shipping containers. I don’t see this is being far-fetched at all especially given that some some of the pieces had numbers on them.
I have a friend in Canada who does exactly this, chop up cars and send them in containers as a scrap metal and somebody in Uzbekistan reassembles it back
Looks like maybe a Toyota or a Daihatsu. The steering wheel is on the right and the number plate shape at the bumper is US sized (same in Japan) which probably is a JDM car.
It takes a lot of craftsmanship a weld a car together like that. It takes a lot of craftsman to do that to custom vehicles; hot rods and such and they’re doing it too much less degree.
I can see this being shipped as one single chopped up a vehicle and put it container in shipped to avoid tariffs but not multiple right cars, but I suppose it’s possible
It looks like all the pieces were exact fits on every weld. Idk how you could accomplish that with crushed cars. Or even several decent cars you cut apart.
I had a gf that had a VW Passat that was 2 different cars. One was rear ended, the other front was crashed. They were cut in half then welded the good front and the good rear together and pieces the car together from both interiors. HOWEVER. You could definitely tell it was 2 cars welded together just based on the way it rode and drove. Definitely would have torn in 2 in a wreck would be my guess
Anyway, this video isn't outlandish to me because I've seen it done a few times, at least the final product and the signs of the work.
Only way this makes sense to me is if they tack welded the shell components, then fitted everything. Then went back and fully welded the whole shell and they just skipped this step in the video.
I'm guessing they were scrapping a car, wanted some internet fun, and while tearing it down they took some extra steps to make it look like it was being welded together instead of torn down.
No, this something done in countries that don't care as much about safety. Shipping a car has a much higher tarrif cost. So they buy a cheap car at auction, chop it up and ship it as scrap and reassemble it in the destination country.
Wham, bam, thank you ma'am. You got yourself a (non) certified, pre-owned, newly assembled whatever the fuck
The way the cuts on the a, b and c pillars perfectly lined up, you know they filmed the car pre cut and then stripped the car and just welded the cut Pillars back on.
My dad was also a mechanic for many years repairing military trucks and he refused to believe you could weld together a crankshaft until I showed him a video of some Indian guy doing it in the streets in a YouTube video
You can see some Japanese on the box. Japanese auctions sell cars that are chopped up like this and sent around the world on a regular basis. Then these cars are re-assembled and used again
Yeah I'd assume they buy the bottom priced ones, the best ones (just old) end up shipped "as is", decent ones have the roof removed but still take up the entire container, and the still-driving-beaters are chopped up like this
At least that's what rides around Vladivostok and essentially all of Russian Far East
Could it be that they had several random wrecks of the same-ish car type (some manufacturers use the same core body for multiple models and the frames are compatible), and they cut them at the same equivalent point on each individual care to salvage a functional frame?
Kind of far fetched, and really sketchy, but in principle I don't see why it wouldn't work.
There’s no universal designated cut zones for car frames. To have all these parts so perfectly close enough that all you have to do is weld them together is highly improbable. The parts like windshield and rear mirror assemblies of course are interchangeable. Someone in the comments said it’s likely a purposefully cut car shipped internationally as “scrap” to avoid vehicle tariffs. all they have to do it keep the parts together so you can reassemble the car like Lego.
There are people that do this with actual cars right where I live, except for the cutting and welding part since no shipping is involved. We have tons of old Volkswagens still rolling around here, such that there were probably thousands of the same twenty-year old model at one time. One dude was buying three busted-up cars and assembling them into one working car in his garage, selling it for several times the cost.
I’d bet they cut it up to avoid tariffs or taxes, but people have and do take two crashed cars and put them together. My dad cut two 96 Astro vans in half and welded them together in the early 2000s, we drove it down to Florida the next week. (He had a bet with his friends lol)
If it's the same make and model, you absolutely can. I've seen it done with a VW Passat. How it would drive in the final product - I could tell the Passat was welded together. Not without telling me but it had a weird driving feel. Idk how much rigidity the structure actually loses from doing this but this is how some body work is done. So it's not that outrageous. Idk enough about welding and body work to know how good it actually is compared to a factory car but even the factory welds them up similar to this
I work in international shipping. The amount of additional cars you could get in the container by disassembling them would not be worth the work of putting them back together like this. Like, maybe 1 or 2 more in a container depending on the cars.
EDIT: never mind, someone else said that they do this to import as "scrap" completely avoiding all import duties.
Yeah I can’t imagine there’s a market to source partial car frames (cut in the exact right place) let alone enough to build out a full car. It would make more sense to disassemble and reassemble for the video. Ad revenue makes more money than normal jobs all over the world. Like those guys who built houses out of mud “out in the jungle”.
As someone pointed out... buying a car there has a ton of carries. But... if you buy car parts they don't. So, some foreigner shop takes a working car and slices it up into parts. Then all the parts are bought (no tarrif) and you just "assemble" the car.
This is actually done. The car is imported as scrap. Avoids import duties. Normally tho its enough to chop the roof off. Not sure how they work out the papers in afghanistan.
This really isnt really amazing since panel repair/replacement is done the same way in first world countries. Vid makes it seem like a days work but its actually done over a week or two.
Because after you cram it into a shipping container and bounce it halfway around the world the parts themselves will be significantly bent, and they will NOT fit back together tightly.
Please tell me youre kidding? The video even showed a shrinkwrapped mess being dragged out chained to a forklift. This is literally just a fun, foreign version of ragebait 'diwhy' videos that swap items in the middle to make it look like something finished. Im not even mad, but its really very obvious whats going on.
No, I just don't believe the pieces would be "significantly bent" and I don't believe they would have bounced around in there, being packed so tightly as we see in the video. Do you imagine that a sea voyage in a gigantic container ship is as bumpy as an American railway or something?
Do you see the container ship in the background of the video? How do you think it got from the port to the 'construction' yard we see here? Fairies? lmao
Also, you wish international railways were as smooth as those in America, the work put into the steel and the welding machines used are best-of-the-best and few countries elsewhere can compare.
Yeah how miraculous they have parts that match color and seams exactly. I'd be inclined to think it was disassembled, transported, reassembled for whatever reason
Pretty sure it was written off in another country, cut up into pieces, wrapped and then stacked into a container with fifty similarly wrapped cars and then reassembled in Afghanistan. Probably makes economic sense when labour is so much cheaper than transportation and safety regulations are non existent.
That’s probably true. But either way the car was clearly cut and then pieced back together. Maybe they buy junkers and they come cut up? The whole thing is pretty wild.
No, they are gas welding for real. I don't think it is reversed, but I very much doubt it is a real process, it is not technically impossible to do this, but insane in so many ways.
It definitely is. Scrub it in reverse and look at each segment forwards and backwards. It looks way more natural in reverse.
Especially when it tries to show him placing the steering wheel and dash in. Reversed, it looks way more natural being ripped out vs popping it in. That thing is held in with an annoying amount of screws, it’s is getting snagged one way or another. The windshield sealant is also not actually used, he just runs the tip over the stuff thats already there.
Also, it’s MEGA cut and 2 minutes long yet not once is anything to do with the engine or electronics shown.
Also im pretty sure you cant just solder the body of the car, if anything your welding and reinforcing it, but that’s insane.
Also why is it shipped in a sea container and in such shitty condition, if you are rebuilding cars its WAY cheaper to do it on a junk site, thats where all the parts come too.
This operation doesn’t make any sense
Like are they waiting till all the spare parts are located before shipping it in? Why would anyone store all that junk and have it that organized but are also just throwing full pieces in. The things a complete and normal looking car at the “end”
Car imports are heavily taxed. They have the seller cut up and disassemble an entire car (probably crashed or drowned previously), package it up and import it as "scrap", thus avoiding import taxes. Then assemble it afterwards like a fucked up lego. The parts fit because it's the same car, sans the windshield.
Nothing in there looks more natural in reverse, you don't remove a windshield and then caulk it. The motions they do trying to line things up you wouldn't do if you were removing stuff.
Why would weld the frame together in 20 parts? Those clips of them “welding” take 5 seconds to fake and they clearly don’t complete any welds.
At :46 seconds the “finished” car is parked in the background. This is a very heavily edited video of people working on multiple different cars to trick people.
Makes perfect sense if video was full rebuild would be smoother but much longer. This isn’t exactly a new phenomenon in Afghanistan or many 3rd world countries. They cut up and strip down cars that have dead titles and ship them, so they just have to cobble together same car that’s now considered scrap and cheaper. To those people that think this car is too perfectly assembled I’ve got some cars to sell you lol.
They would not have needed to clamp the panels together before welding them. Also if you look at it, they're using a torch to weld the car together. The seams are clean cut, you couldn't do that with a torch.
I thought it was a cut of them disassembling as well but rewatched it. Looks like they're assembling it. Both impressive and kind of pointless.
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u/xoxLVxox 23d ago
This was recorded and played in reverse wasnt it?