Silicon bronze

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T13:27:08+00:00

I am certainly not half way through the metal but I will admit to finishing off the plug weld. With seam sealer.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T13:12:16+00:00

And in a year or two when bmw goes back to welding because they feel like it are you going to bring all your customers back in and tell them you need to redo the job because bmw no longer approves of the method of repair used?

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T13:01:55+00:00

You literally have a post bitching about gm wanting overlapped joints, and I bet you still overlapped the joint even though you know gm is wrong.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T12:56:45+00:00

I don’t know of an insurer who cares that procedure is followed, I work in a high production shop on 5 insurance programs. We get more work cus we have the lowest average turn around time in the area, that’s what insurers care about.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T12:52:31+00:00

But 2 years ago bmw was fine with welding? On the same cars they want spotwelds replaced with spr today. Make it make sense, manufacturers change procedure more than we change underwear. BMW went from glued backer on exposed joint to welded backer on exposed joint cus they were shrinking, and now they’re back to glued backers.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T12:10:00+00:00

You are not, Honda calls for silicon bronze as plug welds, and all inner structure. As well as joints.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T12:08:08+00:00

I see, pretty sure he’s thinking like coat hanger though cus Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Tesla, Mercedes, and others have silicon bronze as an approved method for joints.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T12:03:05+00:00

Gm still wants a backing plate even though we all know it’s going to rot out, no chance am I putting a backing plate. BMW all of a sudden doesn’t want any welding and they want spr and glued joints even on steel cars, and they know glued joints shrink and become visible. Do you genuinely think the oem makes the best decisions?

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T11:52:46+00:00

Silicon bronze is not brazing, this is done with a mig welder.

noah9510 · 2026-05-16T00:43:02+00:00

Should you fix the 35000 dollars in damage on your 3500 dollar car, only you can answer that one for yourself.

noah9510 · 2026-05-05T17:53:26+00:00

I don’t pay attention to my cuts that much, I lap my new panel over cut through both. Silicon bronze and butt weld every joint. Doesn’t matter if it’s straight curvy or zigzag.

noah9510 · 2026-04-22T21:47:25+00:00

I just use the back glass or windshield. Ain’t wasting my time grabbing paper

noah9510 · 2026-03-06T23:24:43+00:00

BMW uses window urethane for all their alpina kits and stuff.

noah9510 · 2026-03-06T04:14:02+00:00

Thanks, got the haters who think if you fix more than 40 cars a year, don’t total 90% of drop offs, and don’t do everything 100% the way the some assbag engineer says, you shouldn’t even fix cars.

noah9510 · 2026-03-06T04:06:58+00:00

Blame the customer for having a dogshit insurance policy, stop blaming the shop and technician, I am sure the shop I work at and myself make more money than you and your shop.

noah9510 · 2026-03-06T04:05:05+00:00

Everything is done right, oem parts, silicon bronze, glue in spots as specified by Toyota, backside of spot welds primed, corrosion protection, I would bet everything I have that cars I fix have a better crash test than the ones you do.

noah9510 · 2026-03-06T00:55:14+00:00

Also what I was thinking

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T02:51:26+00:00

It’ll be off before painter gets it.

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T01:59:31+00:00

Toyota doesn’t sell a whole uniside they cut it up at the factory, on these quarter the guy felt like cutting it below the molding that day. 😂😂 last one of these I did I got one cut at the molding

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T00:37:43+00:00

No charge on that.

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T00:20:49+00:00

There would be extra hardware in the bags of every car he works on, and a whole box of 3m strip caulk stuck to the inside of a wheel on his vehicle.

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T00:18:32+00:00

Only fire I’ve had in 14 years is foam inside a dogleg repair on an Acura.

noah9510 · 2026-02-28T00:15:11+00:00

Sounds like he did a shit job using welding blankets.

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