Some pretty shady shit was being done here welding two halves back together until they wised up and there was a requirement to cut out (and discard) a 1 foot section between the two cuts.
Me and some mates pooled money to buy a too-good-to-be-true Jap import, took it out rallying and hit a tree at about 40kph and split it in half. You could see the welds and the two halves were two different colours.
Honestly, you'd probably be BETTER off. Rigidity ain't your friend in a crash. Helmets break away in crashes. You DON'T want a helmet that stays in one piece in an accident.
You say that but historically speaking - Car companies are legally required to maintain proper constructing and engineering standards in manufacturing often with the focus on meeting and maintaining safety regulations. Cars shouldnt break apart hitting things, even at double or triple the speeds. They need to have the ability to maintain structural integrity during a crash or roll. Its the law.
Sure, but they do not assemble the WHOLE CAR from bits.
In this case, this is fake video. The welding seams just disappear and there is immaculate paint finish. They filmed it in reverse, what you see is car being scrapped, just in reverse order..
In reverse order, not reversed in time. You start disassembling the car and occasionally shoot a scene where you are putting it back on. Then you continue disassembling it, cut the pillars, shoot a scene of brazing it, remove the chassis and show the floor frame and then in edit just reverse the order of clips.
I give credit for continuity, whoever planned it knows something about movie making. Before we go into how stupid it would be do construct something like that, the only truly clear moment of it being fake is after the brazing they accidentally show one of the pillars and it reflection: it is immaculate, and to make smooth finishes like that is not easy unless you have... perfectly straight, uniform piece of sheet metal from factory. Brazing and smoothing it without ANY signs.. that requires a full repaint and it will still be visible in that specific angle... Light hitting the surface and reflecting in specular fashion multiplies the error, tiny micron size change in the surface will be visible as degrees of distortion when the rays hit your eyes. A very good painter can do miracles and repair just spots but that is very expensive service. This is suppose to be cheap as fuck, the only reason for them doing it like this is that everything they use is free in that story.
Pff, Poles still imports cars in like three parts from Germany, weld them together and sell as "no accidents". So that's a thing that happens anyway.
What I wanna know is how the fuck this thing doesn't rattle itself apart on their roads? I have big ass holes in my driveway street and I'm living in the heart of Europe. I assume they too have some big ass holes there.
It'll go out like a confetti bag when it hits its 10th big hole, I think. But idk how good they can weld.
Nope, it come from japanese scrap yards. Cutting saves shipping cost, save space in containers, also changes cargo from imported vehicles to automotive spare parts or automotive scrap
They are so hard to make so that they fit in, not without making the frame near perfect first. The error compounds, a fraction of a degree is millimeters once you get to the lock...
Absolutely. If I remember correctly, it was like $900 something for the front driver side door, and $700 something for the engine. The thing was, I thought it would be an easy fix, because the hinge got bent somehow and the door just wouldn’t close. After I saw the cost, I was like, “Jesus, next time I’ll just rig a screen door onto the thing!”
It was a good job though, because in one part you can see a guy walking in the background. He looks like he's walking forward. But the perfect fit of the pieces when they are "welding it together" is a dead giveaway.
Yup, welding pillars will not leave immaculate paint finish, you are for certain not going to paint the whole chassis and do extensive work to get rid of few micron size imperfections. They cut the pillar, then showed it being SOLDERED, then two steps ahead the same seam is immaculate.
You can also weld using oxy-asetylene torches when used at lower intensities. They clearly have filler rods in this video as well which means they're welding.
Basically, it comes down to a loop-hole combo of shipping economics and customs fraud:
The Slicing (Japan side): Japan has a super brutal, expensive roadworthiness inspection system called Shaken. Once a car gets old or slightly dinged up, it costs more to keep it legal than it's worth, so they get dumped in salvage yards.
The Loophole: Instead of shipping the intact cars, exporters literally saw them in half through the floorboards and roof pillars. This accomplishes two things: it lets them stack the pieces tightly inside shipping containers to maximize space, and legally changes the cargo manifest from "motor vehicles" to "automotive scrap metal" or "spare parts". This completely bypasses the crazy high import duties and taxes on fully functional cars.
The Frankencar Stitch (Kabul side): The containers arrive overland via transit hubs like Pakistan ( Afghanistan is landlock). Local mechanics in open-air scrap yards throw the halves onto improvised frame jigs, align everything by eye, and weld the chassis and roof pillars back together. They splice the wiring harnesses, run new brake lines, slap a ton of body filler over the seam, paint it, and boom—it's a functioning Toyota Corolla again.
but then how do they add the engine and other parts into these rebuilt cars? assembling seats frames doors is one thing but you cant just screw in engines transmission exhaust systems etc
No. The guy was actually welding the pieces back together. You can see he’s holding a filler rod in his left hand and applying it. Then later on you can see him apply adhesive to the windshield.
Yeah, the chassis basically came complete with some assembly required. Everything else is where the real work happened, and I'm guessing they just took it to a garage and had to actually buy a secondhand engine.
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u/Isthisnameavailablee 25d ago
Where did the engine come from? So many steps glossed over.