How NOT to run a business (ft.

If you went to Festival of the Unexceptional, and you saw #passthepiccaso there, firstly, you're welcome.
Secondly, if you saw the sills, I apologise. Hopefully this video will explain things.
Thanks to @ashleywinston from Palmdale Motors for being entrusted with this rare piece of exotica.
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[@Eleftheria_i_thanatos]

Who wants to see the BX door?

[@UPnDOWN]

I will post a picture of the door...

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

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]

I wish I could say it was deliberate...

[@jorgefernandez-mv8hu]

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.

[@OldCarsNewVan]

Combi boiler - love it 🤣🤣🤣

[@bobwalker8907]

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]

Sounds about right!

[@PieterB76]

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.

[@HowardLeVert]

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!!

[@arieplomp8906]

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

[@p24hrsmith]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

Truth.

[@adventuresinrust1644]

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]

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

[@adventuresinrust1644]

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

[@chrisperyagh]

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

[@huwdavies6650]

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.

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

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.

[@johnnorth9355]

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.

[@darrenwilson8042]

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

[@JimBiddle.]

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]

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

[@mikecleasby709]

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

[@terryatkinson899]

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

[@SeasideGarage]

Impressive work for the time used!

[@tomwinch9107]

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

[@niallsommerville9813]

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.

[@johngrubb1590]

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

[@tommypayne1980]

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

[@bryjan51]

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

[@johnwaga3702]

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

[@craigyllyn]

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😊

[@exgtt2061]

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.

[@dinatarkteruz]

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

[@micheltebraake7915]

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

[@jonathanphillips3257]

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

[@normanstephens5391]

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.

[@ashleywinston]

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

[@Tagora2664]

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]

😁

[@JohnLawley24v]

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 😂😂😂

[@richardhaywoodh]

Can of worms, Made great video content. Excellent

[@ratgreen]

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.

[@borntorestore]

~Brilliant. Well done working at❤ speed

[@darkwaterblue]

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

[@roybroughton6615]

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

[@heliarche]

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?

[@planetshauto]

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

[@MrTopgearnerd]

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

[@GoldenCroc]

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

[@bobr9731]

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.

[@ianjackson3799]

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 >>>>>>>>>>>>

[@georgelowles5077]

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]

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

[@michaelwright2986]

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.

[@bondbug73]

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

[@Qlyphy]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

What's hammy acting?! lol

[@chrisperyagh]

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

[@Qlyphy]

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

[@BelfastMurf]

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

[@Daz_Stap]

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!

[@zubeystinzen540]

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

[@jimmyquinn9639]

Lovely job 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@B_-.-]

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.

[@darrenwilson8042]

such an Achilles Heel on these cars all the survivors given the odd rarity have had sill repairs to varying degrees ok skill and beauty - given the mechanical soundness of cars like the Pass the Picasso shows that there could have been so many more survivors of what is a very sound family wagon

[@flipperth1]

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

[@michaeljohnson1006]

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.

[@MrGrtx]

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

[@davidsharp9166]

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]

So are these.

[@lukemallory7832]

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.

[@stefencooke]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

Yes, thankfully not *that* bad!

[@Moncho68]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

Hello there!

[@cbmsysmobile]

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]

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

[@MGBetts1]

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

[@StopTeoriomSpiskowym]

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

[@delukxy]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

I'm not looking at that...

[@davidhayes4814]

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

[@jaggass]

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.

[@robinwells8879]

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?😂

[@sandwichbar8226]

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

[@adventuresinrust1644]

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

[@hadtopicausername]

It's always the hollow bits...

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

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.

[@ebutuoyYT]

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]

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

[@dwarfshortage244]

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

[@Taz6688]

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]

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

[@MrCHrisfj]

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]

Can he not already weld then?

[@MrCHrisfj]

@@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...

[@sandwichbar8226]

8:55 > tunage 💃🕺

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

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]

I think you might be commenting on the wrong video

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

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

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

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

[@stephenmilne2541]

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

[@johnmoruzzi7236]

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

[@malachy1847]

@@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]

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

[@niallsommerville9813]

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

[@richardhunt809]

Only on the bottom 😂

[@andybramwell9179]

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..:(

[@ImmediateWalter]

What is this? A Furiousdriving video?? 🤣🤣

[@terryatkinson899]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

And filler.

[@MattBrownbill]

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

[@christhesnaildriver]

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]

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

[@MattBrownbill]

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

[@Invisibleman7]

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

[@fookmyoldboots7208]

this is it if its the welding music kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKG8h5l3isieqKM

[@UPnDOWN]

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

[@Invisibleman7]

@@UPnDOWN Thanks man appreciated

[@simonscott8636]

Did you discounted the battery, check the interior

[@UPnDOWN]

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

[@mikecleasby709]

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! 🙄🙄

[@QuickSplashVideo-rm2kh]

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?

[@Vidsinmotion2]

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

[@davefrench3608]

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

[@damiantuttle1348]

God what a bodge !!

[@UPnDOWN]

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

[@franksmith4254]

now that was funny.

[@roberttaylor7462]

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]

Demap - yes, that's it!

[@proluxelectronics7419]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

I'm obviously a magnet for borked cars.

[@lesklower7281]

Its solid should last a while

[@charliemansonUK]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

I shall post a picture of it one day.

[@grahamclark4518]

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

[@garywinterbottom6073]

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.😅

[@willdatsun]

Why do these rot, and Berlingos don't?

[@1marcelfilms]

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

[@adventuresinrust1644]

Also, what was the rating on the boiler? Be ironic if it failed the mot because the boiler is bad for the planet!

[@UPnDOWN]

Haha!

[@WhitelandRestorations]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

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

[@terryatkinson899]

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

[@UPnDOWN]

It's character.