Not to say that this applied to the vehicles you built, but, as someone who spent the better part of the 1990s driving around in ambulances (I recall Collins, but there were other manufacturers as well), I can tell you they used a lot of those "generic" crimp fittings, and we had constant electrical problems, especially with charging.
Of course, we did beat the poop out of them.
Those crimpers you linked to are the type that just make a single curved "crush" (kind of like () ) and are not the types described in Dan's links, which are military-approved, etc., and which make very specific round indentations.
I will not dispute whether they worked well for you, or for anyone else, because I think we've definitely entered "YMMV" territory here, but I have used them, and I have removed them after others installed them, because they failed, and I genuinely believe they don't work very well (note that a 5% failure / 95% success rate, in a connector hidden way up behind the dashboard, leaves room for far most cursing than I want to do most days).
I was trying to be helpful by making a suggestion that could save some future frustration, and I thought that what I was suggesting would be completely non-controversial, but it seems that this might be a topic I need to avoid, like oil filter selection.
I'm sorry this got so much attention.
– Eric
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