We’ve made a MISTAKE which cost us £1500!

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@composedlight6850 Ай бұрын

Good Show --- i am sure people will pick up on the fact that you own your mistakes and dont try to pass them on to the customer.

@ianhere9290 Ай бұрын

For heaven's sake, turn your compressor of while making a video. Otherwise, top channel.

@jamesplotkin4674 Ай бұрын

Mark, the Cozzie owner, sounds a lovely chap who's reasonable. If only you could have a thousand of him to every moanin' MGB guy ;-)

@robthompson819 Ай бұрын

Should have looked on the forums on how to price a job Lee 😂😂😂😂

@damianbutterworth2434 Ай бұрын

I`ll list a few mistakes we have at work. 3 lorry loads of crankshafts go to France with the wrong number on them. All had to come back and be re stamped. 200 huge CAT crankshafts with the hole drilled the wrong way round on the ends. All scrapped. This month we have had a £250,000 fine for out of tolerance parts going to a mine in Australia.

@445fhn Ай бұрын

Wow, would like to be an ISO 9001 assessor visiting your business.....

@damianbutterworth2434 Ай бұрын

@@445fhn I`m sure we have to have all that already. It`s one of these really old companies where everyone used to take their time. Now it`s all rush rush and things go wrong. I run 3 CNC millers now when I used to run one.

@christophersebastian4855 Ай бұрын

Flipping hell.😮

@mikeprzyrembel Ай бұрын

So where was your inspection/quality control, it is one thing producing out of tolerance parts but they should never get to the shipping stage?

@damianbutterworth2434 Ай бұрын

@@mikeprzyrembel they got into trouble too for missing the problems.

@JoeKyser Ай бұрын

I love this channel. So many things to learn.

@1961kickboxer Ай бұрын

I think your honesty is your ace in the pack .

@kenbradley5032 Ай бұрын

an estimate isnt legally binding, whereas a quote is i believe. However sometimes a business decision overides all that legal stuff and is the best, worst option

@ColinWatters Ай бұрын

+1 You don't want to get a reputation for bumping up the price after stripping an engines, at least not without good cause.

@robertfrye5161 Ай бұрын

I have seen all kinds of problems when I worked for an engine builder in the 1970's. The man I worked for checked everything and on occasion he would make a mistake. He owned it and fixed it. He sent a lot of pieces out to a shop like yours for the heavy machining, but when it came back it had to be right. You run a quality business.

@phillipdodd Ай бұрын

Love to see the finished product running

@BryanHolmes-j4r Ай бұрын

Might be a pain initially but make up job spec for the different types of work that you do and use them to tick off what’s needed for each job

@Ibh111142 Ай бұрын

No changes. As they say “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”

@pam3071 Ай бұрын

We need more John 😂

@Jester-Riddle Ай бұрын

He makes enough noise during filming to remind us that he is there somewhere hidden away ... ! 😂

@boba5984 Ай бұрын

So, going forward Cosworths are pretty much sorted. What engine is next in the list that you might deem it prudent to give you longevity in work and become a specialist in ? Niche markets might still be a thing ??

@jeffheld3971 Ай бұрын

Ask your buddy to make you some “piston stands” (trays) with the BE logo.

@fredflintstone8048 Ай бұрын

Haste makes waste. I've done it myself. Ran through a quote too quickly and missed something important. Either wound up eating it, or it was very embarrassing to have to admit my error to a customer who ended up not trusting me, and I could not blame the person. Where is can burn you is if they get another similar estimate they will wonder why it costs more, or if they pass on information about the deal they got on the work to someone else who comes to you for a quote and the new potential customer wonders why they're not getting the great deal too. Explain it to them and they won't believe you.

@robertburrows6612 Ай бұрын

Simple put on you you emails when you price a job. This is an estimate, the final price may different, it could cost you more . Im a self employed sparky , I'm not a charity. I rarely doma job to a fixed price. I can't see inside walls I can't see underneath floor boards ect. I also tell customers on a fixed price jobs if they add to the job it will cost more and the quote changes to an estimate.

@brianread9781 Ай бұрын

It was only ESTIMATED & an estimation is not actual price it’s a rough idea . If you had quoted X amount that would’ve been different. From a legal standpoint you’ve done no wrong,part prices & machining prices vary.

@stigg333 Ай бұрын

An estimate is exactly what it says......an estimate, not a quote an estimate!!

@jsh6952 Ай бұрын

@BarumEngines Is the bloke looking for a full porting job, including bowl blending, or would he be happy with porting to just match the gaskets?

@abzzeus Ай бұрын

That why you price out each bit of the job even if you give the customer a discount for doing it all with you - in case you miss a bit

@ataxpayer723 Ай бұрын

"That why you price out each bit of the job even if you give the customer a discount for doing it all" You can also quote the entire job, then add a % for your time in preparing the quote, then add 10% for a prompt payment ( add 10%, but offer 5% discount if the invoice is paid within 24 hours )

@drewtonhouse Ай бұрын

admit your mistakes .. nothing wrong with that .. but be careful with your language and always use discussion emails to draw a line under matters in dialogue to clarify the status of what you will do .. in other words .. notwithstanding what we have discussed previously "this is the current understanding of your requirements"

@peterbrown6458 Ай бұрын

kudos to you to take the hit

@jeffheld3971 Ай бұрын

Print emails out and put them in a file folder by customer name. Done.

@charlesgraham9954 Ай бұрын

we are human mate, learn from it and move on, u being honest will go alone ways in the end making u money.

@Nicknofish Ай бұрын

Off centre!!😂😂😂

@michaelthompson6885 Ай бұрын

Keep the channel as it is please.

@msa-tt4bg Ай бұрын

So if you'd told Mark you couldn't do all the work required, within his budget, where would Mark have taken the engine?

@nextechsolutions5955 Ай бұрын

You guys could solve that easily by itemizing your estimates. Granted that’s more work I suppose?

@brianread9781 Ай бұрын

But an excuse to get a young lady to do paperwork & office stuff ! 😂

@nextechsolutions5955 Ай бұрын

@@brianread9781 True indeed.😎

@BrianCox-z2n Ай бұрын

Guys re crank bearing running clearances,,what are your thoughts on clearances and oil viscosity? I’m thinking my k20/24 dry sumped runs 10/60 which is way different to std vtec oil at around 5w30 ,,, mines dynoed at 344.8bhp na ,,,so on doing tuned engines do you ask customer what oil they are going to run ?

@BrianCox-z2n Ай бұрын

Please , I forgot my manors 😮

@colinscutt5104 Ай бұрын

why did you need to change to thicker oil ? especially when cold seems an odd choice

@BrianCox-z2n Ай бұрын

@@colinscutt5104 I didn’t I bought the car complete and told that’s the oil they run ,, similar with the Millington s

@bigturboxr3i Ай бұрын

Cherz.

@jamesplotkin4674 Ай бұрын

It'd be awesome for your channel to grow to the point where you've your own Estate and charging rent to like-minded customs.

@DS246416 Ай бұрын

itemise your estimates :)

@ianryan606 Ай бұрын

Great channel chaps, I no very little about engines, but what I would like to see is a job from start to when it leaves the shop, in one or several video's. I think this would make great content, but I still love the channel what ever way you do it.

@milesgoff7261 Ай бұрын

Dull 🫤

@richardbartlett6932 Ай бұрын

go somewhere else for your free entertainment then..

@milesgoff7261 Ай бұрын

@@richardbartlett6932 Who put you in charge? 🫡

@danielbridson8534 Ай бұрын

The lights in there are fairly new

@milesgoff7261 Ай бұрын

@@danielbridson8534 Badoom-tish... 🙃

@milesgoff7261 Ай бұрын

@@richardbartlett6932 Who put you in charge?

@joe-mac Ай бұрын

I'd love to see a turbo on that beautiful m50 in the corner 😍. Just think, a turbo m3 e30 that would be awesome especially on low boost 10psi or so would definitely rip on the track. But I love the channel and I'm here for every video great job guys

@davidgourlay2287 Ай бұрын

Funny how you always get people who think they know everything about the work that you guys are doing and it makes me angry because they have no clue about engineering methods but they still comment about things they know nothing about I take my hat off to you guys because you are one of the leading engine builders in the industry and still have to deal with stupid comments from people who can only dream about having the same knowledge as you guys big respect for you guys love your work and you always do a proper job so don’t listen to anyone else who doesn’t have the credentials to comment on anything that you’re doing

@Jester-Riddle Ай бұрын

Sounds like you need to use the Pricing Terminology 'WAG' in your estimates/quotations ... ( *Wild-Assed Guess is the expanded acronym ... known to many 🤣)

@TheStudio49 Ай бұрын

Love the channel here's a controversial question to say the least oil viscosity What where when ???

@JockStrapp-o4j Ай бұрын

G'day You are a pair of legends, the back ground noise in the first part of the video was a pain , just a heads up lads really enjoy your posts

@christopherkingston9601 Ай бұрын

Two observations. The bottom two red bins were crooked in the left hand column 😢. I enjoy finding the meaning behind terms we use nowadays , while no longer knowing the origin of the saying. Over a barrel has an amusing one concerning Tuesdays and glory holes. Who’ed have thought 😂..