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WPA

8,971 posts

115 months

Tuesday 14th May
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Interesting update on the M3 rebuild last night, de-cats again but looked nice when finished.

Shocked to see him take apart the front struts without any spring compressors, ok laughing about it being ok but they are deadly if it goes wrong.

ThingsBehindTheSun

248 posts

32 months

Tuesday 14th May
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WPA said:
Shocked to see him take apart the front struts without any spring compressors, ok laughing about it being ok but they are deadly if it goes wrong.
A bit like where they had the (Audi RS6 I believe) car in Tavarish's garage on the ramps with fuel pouring out of the car like rain.

Again they were laughing about it, but that was also sketchy as and at some point someone is going to get hurt.

Muzzer79

10,176 posts

188 months

Tuesday 14th May
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I'm a fan of the channel, but the latest video left me a little cold.

It felt like it was a bit out of sync - like they covered 90% of the re-build in the previous videos and had to fill 40 mins on this one with mods and a pointless race with a Lamborghini.

One assumes it's difficult at the bodyshop stage, because it's outsourced therefore it can't be documented on video. Your car disappears in 3 colours and comes back shiny in one colour.

For the first time, I fast-forwarded through some of it.

Still, looking forward to more RR updates and the other projects. thumbup

Pistom

5,000 posts

160 months

Tuesday 14th May
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Muzzer79 said:
I'm a fan of the channel, but the latest video left me a little cold.

It felt like it was a bit out of sync - like they covered 90% of the re-build in the previous videos and had to fill 40 mins on this one with mods and a pointless race with a Lamborghini.

One assumes it's difficult at the bodyshop stage, because it's outsourced therefore it can't be documented on video. Your car disappears in 3 colours and comes back shiny in one colour.

For the first time, I fast-forwarded through some of it.

Still, looking forward to more RR updates and the other projects. thumbup
Agreed - I used to look forward to the MA videos - one of the YT highlights but I'm quickly losing interest.

Looking forward to him getting back on form.

tim jb

203 posts

4 months

Tuesday 14th May
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Is he hiding a syrup under the hats?

audi321

5,247 posts

214 months

Tuesday 14th May
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ThingsBehindTheSun said:
WPA said:
Shocked to see him take apart the front struts without any spring compressors, ok laughing about it being ok but they are deadly if it goes wrong.
A bit like where they had the (Audi RS6 I believe) car in Tavarish's garage on the ramps with fuel pouring out of the car like rain.

Again they were laughing about it, but that was also sketchy as and at some point someone is going to get hurt.
Agreed but I did lol at the NHS reasoning

nick1871

377 posts

113 months

Tuesday 14th May
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WPA said:
Interesting update on the M3 rebuild last night, de-cats again but looked nice when finished.

Shocked to see him take apart the front struts without any spring compressors, ok laughing about it being ok but they are deadly if it goes wrong.
Included purely to wind up the H&S police on here I reckon..

The OG Jester

160 posts

15 months

Wednesday 15th May
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Still some turnaround from the state the car was in till now. I do think this will be a raffle car, just can't see any reason for keeping this one.

super7

1,950 posts

209 months

Wednesday 15th May
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Pistom said:
Muzzer79 said:
I'm a fan of the channel, but the latest video left me a little cold.

It felt like it was a bit out of sync - like they covered 90% of the re-build in the previous videos and had to fill 40 mins on this one with mods and a pointless race with a Lamborghini.

One assumes it's difficult at the bodyshop stage, because it's outsourced therefore it can't be documented on video. Your car disappears in 3 colours and comes back shiny in one colour.

For the first time, I fast-forwarded through some of it.

Still, looking forward to more RR updates and the other projects. thumbup
Agreed - I used to look forward to the MA videos - one of the YT highlights but I'm quickly losing interest.

Looking forward to him getting back on form.
Agree as well, I'm getting tired of the performances.... same old hangers on each time, and same old process. Needs to find something to keep the channel moving forward into new topics....

I'm particularly tired of all the different takes on the same subject by other you tubers... They won't stop at anything if it creates content, even if it's all the same story from each one of them.

The entourage are getting more coverage, more larking about, more pratting about. Get's a bit tiring.

Boleros

211 posts

7 months

Wednesday 15th May
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It still manage 1.8M views. STG yapping about buying a 456 GT managed 75k. A remarkable figure for a YouTuber.

CoolHands

18,793 posts

196 months

Wednesday 15th May
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It will all end once youtube decide to stop suggesting it though. Once it moves on there’s not much the creators can do, as other creators get ‘suggested’ to viewers

pork911

7,268 posts

184 months

Wednesday 15th May
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super7 said:
Pistom said:
Muzzer79 said:
I'm a fan of the channel, but the latest video left me a little cold.

It felt like it was a bit out of sync - like they covered 90% of the re-build in the previous videos and had to fill 40 mins on this one with mods and a pointless race with a Lamborghini.

One assumes it's difficult at the bodyshop stage, because it's outsourced therefore it can't be documented on video. Your car disappears in 3 colours and comes back shiny in one colour.

For the first time, I fast-forwarded through some of it.

Still, looking forward to more RR updates and the other projects. thumbup
Agreed - I used to look forward to the MA videos - one of the YT highlights but I'm quickly losing interest.

Looking forward to him getting back on form.
Agree as well, I'm getting tired of the performances.... same old hangers on each time, and same old process. Needs to find something to keep the channel moving forward into new topics....

I'm particularly tired of all the different takes on the same subject by other you tubers... They won't stop at anything if it creates content, even if it's all the same story from each one of them.

The entourage are getting more coverage, more larking about, more pratting about. Get's a bit tiring.
Keep the faith. Remember Tiger in 2019.

The Rotrex Kid

30,446 posts

161 months

Wednesday 15th May
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Boleros said:
It still manage 1.8M views. STG yapping about buying a 456 GT managed 75k. A remarkable figure for a YouTuber.
Absolutely. Look at Shmees recent figures as well.
2.6m subscribers, last video that went over 500k views was a Jesko….. 4 months ago. That’s gotta hurt.

CoolHands

18,793 posts

196 months

Wednesday 15th May
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The Rotrex Kid said:
Absolutely. Look at Shmees recent figures as well.
2.6m subscribers, last video that went over 500k views was a Jesko….. 4 months ago. That’s gotta hurt.
Just looked, his average in recent months seems to be roughly around 120k views per video. What kind of money does that bring in?

The Rotrex Kid

30,446 posts

161 months

Wednesday 15th May
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CoolHands said:
The Rotrex Kid said:
Absolutely. Look at Shmees recent figures as well.
2.6m subscribers, last video that went over 500k views was a Jesko….. 4 months ago. That’s gotta hurt.
Just looked, his average in recent months seems to be roughly around 120k views per video. What kind of money does that bring in?
Don’t know, but one would assume less than the 4-5 million views MA gets! The GT3 video MA did 4 months ago has done 11 million. Mental really.

WPA

8,971 posts

115 months

Wednesday 15th May
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The Rotrex Kid said:
CoolHands said:
The Rotrex Kid said:
Absolutely. Look at Shmees recent figures as well.
2.6m subscribers, last video that went over 500k views was a Jesko….. 4 months ago. That’s gotta hurt.
Just looked, his average in recent months seems to be roughly around 120k views per video. What kind of money does that bring in?
Don’t know, but one would assume less than the 4-5 million views MA gets! The GT3 video MA did 4 months ago has done 11 million. Mental really.
Does anybody know what happened to the GT3, not been seen since that video

Luke.

11,031 posts

251 months

Wednesday 15th May
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WPA said:
Does anybody know what happened to the GT3, not been seen since that video
Tavarish has it in the States.

thegreenhell

15,610 posts

220 months

Wednesday 15th May
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Luke. said:
WPA said:
Does anybody know what happened to the GT3, not been seen since that video
Tavarish has it in the States.
He did another one in the UK, fixed in 24 hours or something. It's still there in the background of some of his other videos.

mat-fos36

31 posts

22 months

Thursday 16th May
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Muzzer79 said:
I'm a fan of the channel, but the latest video left me a little cold.

It felt like it was a bit out of sync - like they covered 90% of the re-build in the previous videos and had to fill 40 mins on this one with mods and a pointless race with a Lamborghini.

One assumes it's difficult at the bodyshop stage, because it's outsourced therefore it can't be documented on video. Your car disappears in 3 colours and comes back shiny in one colour.

For the first time, I fast-forwarded through some of it.


Still, looking forward to more RR updates and the other projects. thumbup
Hard to please everyone I’m afraid. A lot of people enjoy the videos of actually finishing the car and enjoying it. I also really enjoy making them. Nice bit of difference to being locked in the unit all the time. Also I wouldn’t really change what works. The video did 1.7m views over night so it’s hard to deny that people don’t like it. Its like any show really there’s going to be episodes you like and some you don’t

mat-fos36

31 posts

22 months

Thursday 16th May
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CoolHands said:
It will all end once youtube decide to stop suggesting it though. Once it moves on there’s not much the creators can do, as other creators get ‘suggested’ to viewers
Doesn’t really work like that I’m afraid