Briebee72
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First please forgive me it is 3 AM I cant sleep and my wife is snoring LOL and this was on my mind.
2nd this might be a long post so if you are a to long didn't read person might want to bail out now
OK so I am healy into electronics (ill get to Mustangs in a sec just some background info) and let's say tweaking them to make then do things they weren't meant to. So tutorials... but they are always incomplete. Seems most people use the south park underwear gnomes method of making tutorials. Step one get the underwear... Step 2 ??... Step three profit. It is infuriating. what should be simple instructions always has steps skipped, parts missing, half way explained steps or is simply out right wrong.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate the effort and the time the people took. But if you are gonna do something to help people why not do it correctly?
Today's world is pretty much buy something they throw it in a box and there is absolutely zero instructions on what to do or how to use it. So you go to the internet and it's a minefield of misinformed, garbage, useless, outdated time wasting tutorials. The manufacturer themselves seem to have no clue how their own products work.
So on to Mustangs. ( ill make this up) but Buy X product, Get X product with zero instructions. go on net. Yeah simple x product simply plugs into the blue wire. OK spend three hours taking apart said area of car and there is no blue wire??? then spend hours looking at tutorials that say yeah man blue wire. I don't have a blue wire and I doubt my car was the only one with no blue wire. after days of looking and forums and phone calls one person will finally say oh hey I know you have to stand on your left foot and remove the hood and then under that flap is the blue wire. Damn why didn't the instructions or any of the 15 tutorial videos tell you this? There is always info missing and typically its the hardest info or the part that's the biggest pain.
So real world example. Spacers.. I know I know... but hear me out. So get spacers and get confusing instructions with spacers. so go to install videos. One popular one says well the correct torque is 150 but don't do that instead do 120... ok why? The another top vendor has a tutorial that says torque to factory spec of 100lbs... ok so we all know thats is not correct because it is 150. A third just says torque the nuts... um ok to what? You call the vendor they don't seem to know. some spacers tell you to do 90 on hub but 150 on wheels... that seems wrong. Another video that says they know the safest and correct way to install spacers has the guy telling you to put the wheel lugs on the spacer and the spacers nuts on the wheel...idiot. you come to the forums and it becomes 17 pages of guys comparing their manhood and bragging about how they invented space travel so they know yet 17 pages later no ones actually answer the question.
Anyway you get the point. Can people please if you are gonna take the time to make a tutorial at least make it complete with all the steps and the complete info needed to actually finish the job.
Like changing your front springs everyone gets to the two big ass bolts holding the wheel to the strut and they edit it and just simply say ok take these bolts out and then skip to them out job finished and again they say and torque everything to spec. Ugh which is? all you sent me was a box with springs in it. What are the specs? Why not tell me since you know instead of making me spend 3 hours on the net trying to find non conflicting info on exactly what those specs are? With the two big bolts they don't ever mention ok to take these two bolts out you need to go work out first get a 2 lb hammer and take 75 running swings at them to get them out while working in teams of two and taking small breaks.
They also need to accurately update their videos not just simply say this part fits 2015 through 2020 models... cause I can tell you they don't. I ordered both tail lights and the back trunk plate and neither fit my 2019 gt without modding them. Ford has made changes and the videos need to be update with current info most are 2 or more years old. Yet they update the product info to say yeah it fits that too.
Anyway please vendors and tutorial makers please make sure you give all info and full steps in your tutorials. As an example don't simply say ok now torque everything and show a clip of you torquing everything but then not tell anyone what the torques are.
Again I appreciate all you do but if your goal is to help us then please make sure you include all the info.
Any way thanks for reading my late night ramblings.
2nd this might be a long post so if you are a to long didn't read person might want to bail out now
OK so I am healy into electronics (ill get to Mustangs in a sec just some background info) and let's say tweaking them to make then do things they weren't meant to. So tutorials... but they are always incomplete. Seems most people use the south park underwear gnomes method of making tutorials. Step one get the underwear... Step 2 ??... Step three profit. It is infuriating. what should be simple instructions always has steps skipped, parts missing, half way explained steps or is simply out right wrong.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate the effort and the time the people took. But if you are gonna do something to help people why not do it correctly?
Today's world is pretty much buy something they throw it in a box and there is absolutely zero instructions on what to do or how to use it. So you go to the internet and it's a minefield of misinformed, garbage, useless, outdated time wasting tutorials. The manufacturer themselves seem to have no clue how their own products work.
So on to Mustangs. ( ill make this up) but Buy X product, Get X product with zero instructions. go on net. Yeah simple x product simply plugs into the blue wire. OK spend three hours taking apart said area of car and there is no blue wire??? then spend hours looking at tutorials that say yeah man blue wire. I don't have a blue wire and I doubt my car was the only one with no blue wire. after days of looking and forums and phone calls one person will finally say oh hey I know you have to stand on your left foot and remove the hood and then under that flap is the blue wire. Damn why didn't the instructions or any of the 15 tutorial videos tell you this? There is always info missing and typically its the hardest info or the part that's the biggest pain.
So real world example. Spacers.. I know I know... but hear me out. So get spacers and get confusing instructions with spacers. so go to install videos. One popular one says well the correct torque is 150 but don't do that instead do 120... ok why? The another top vendor has a tutorial that says torque to factory spec of 100lbs... ok so we all know thats is not correct because it is 150. A third just says torque the nuts... um ok to what? You call the vendor they don't seem to know. some spacers tell you to do 90 on hub but 150 on wheels... that seems wrong. Another video that says they know the safest and correct way to install spacers has the guy telling you to put the wheel lugs on the spacer and the spacers nuts on the wheel...idiot. you come to the forums and it becomes 17 pages of guys comparing their manhood and bragging about how they invented space travel so they know yet 17 pages later no ones actually answer the question.
Anyway you get the point. Can people please if you are gonna take the time to make a tutorial at least make it complete with all the steps and the complete info needed to actually finish the job.
Like changing your front springs everyone gets to the two big ass bolts holding the wheel to the strut and they edit it and just simply say ok take these bolts out and then skip to them out job finished and again they say and torque everything to spec. Ugh which is? all you sent me was a box with springs in it. What are the specs? Why not tell me since you know instead of making me spend 3 hours on the net trying to find non conflicting info on exactly what those specs are? With the two big bolts they don't ever mention ok to take these two bolts out you need to go work out first get a 2 lb hammer and take 75 running swings at them to get them out while working in teams of two and taking small breaks.
They also need to accurately update their videos not just simply say this part fits 2015 through 2020 models... cause I can tell you they don't. I ordered both tail lights and the back trunk plate and neither fit my 2019 gt without modding them. Ford has made changes and the videos need to be update with current info most are 2 or more years old. Yet they update the product info to say yeah it fits that too.
Anyway please vendors and tutorial makers please make sure you give all info and full steps in your tutorials. As an example don't simply say ok now torque everything and show a clip of you torquing everything but then not tell anyone what the torques are.
Again I appreciate all you do but if your goal is to help us then please make sure you include all the info.
Any way thanks for reading my late night ramblings.
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