Wheeler Dealers - New Series 2012

[kamilb1998]

A nice car, but certainly not my favourite shape of the SLK. There's something's about that front end that just doesn't do it for me.

[oobster]

Looks lie quite a shed. Drivers door seems to a slightly lighter shade than the front wing & back quarter too.

[oobster]

Was that make up I spotted on Ed there?

[littlebasher]

Look at the rot underneath that thing, has it been parked in the Sea?

[Butter Face]

'You don't need luck son, you need Mike Brewer'


Brilliant!!!

[BigBen]

So the dealer that specialises in re-possessed cars has a Fire engine in stock!

There is not going to be much wrong given the buying process took until the first adverts.

Ben

[SLacKer]

The Blue V6 Kompressor at the beginning is my old car. It had the chrome hoops, S2000 deflector and AMG Gear knob with a plate change. It looks fantastic and I want to buy it back. Anyone on here?

[BigBen]

Loads of surface rust on the suspension arms underneath, looked worse than my 25 year old SL with 100K + miles

[Faust66]

Enjoyed tonight's show as it was a return to WD of old: cheap car done on a budget.

Car did absolutely nothing for me but it was still interesting to watch.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Clearly a few people here not familiar with the shocking rust and poor build quality issues of late 90's early 00's Mercs!

Good episode tonight though - really enjoyed that.

[BMR]

Butter Face said:

'You don't need luck son, you need Mike Brewer'


Brilliant!!!

That was a classic!

I was a bit shocked by the amount of surface rust that was visible on that car, suspension arms, brake calipers etc.

[Megaflow]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Clearly a few people here not familiar with the shocking rust and poor build quality issues of late 90's early 00's Mercs!

Good episode tonight though - really enjoyed that.

Is that level of underside rust common then? I have always had a soft spot for the mk1 SLK, and when this came on, I thought, this might be a good lesson in how to pick up a cheap one and tart it up a bit. The I saw the rust on the underside...

My wife had a Y plate S2000, which whilst not pristine underneath, was night and day compared to that!

And I thought S2000's rust protection was poor...

[Highway Star]

Megaflow said:

Is that level of underside rust common then? I have always had a soft spot for the mk1 SLK, and when this came on, I thought, this might be a good lesson in how to pick up a cheap one and tart it up a bit. The I saw the rust on the underside...

There's not that amount on the underside on my wife's 1999 SLK which has now ticked over 125,000 miles, that said it's in the bodyshop tomorrow for correction on the rust that is just starting to appear in the wheel arches.

It does have a couple of the problems that the WD car had, the condensation in the headlamp for one, but at least the roof works!

[P-Jay]

Started watching, but after the Mustang, Bubble Car and TR6 I was slightly underwhelmed by a ten year old tarts runabout and went to bed.

Seems I missed out, I'll pick it up tonight.


Last in the series?

[BigBen]

P-Jay said:

Started watching, but after the Mustang, Bubble Car and TR6 I was slightly underwhelmed by a ten year old tarts runabout and went to bed.

Seems I missed out, I'll pick it up tonight.


Last in the series?

Don't think it was the last, at least they did not say so.

I thought it was a really good episode back to basics wheeler dealers and mostly jobs you could do in your garage as a DIY job without needing too many specialist tools

Ben

[airportparking]

Great episode, but that many probs on a car with 110k on the clock was shocking wasent it?

[Justin Cyder]

I was surprised at the state of the calipers & spotted a couple of perished brake hoses in amongst the close shots, but as Rusty Tractor pointed out, I would not be surprised if a fair bit of work you don't see hoes on.

I would imagine Discovery channel would be itchy about selling cars effectively with their name on that had potentially dangerous faults in the mechanickery department.

[Leithen]

It's a pity that they are so fixated on always returning a "profit". In the early episodes they declared a few losses IMMSMC. A touch more realism would do no harm and add a hint of realism to proceedings.

[Justin Cyder]

There is no profit. Add Edd's time in as you would do in the real world & they'd never make anything. It's telly for the spannerers amongst us.

[LuS1fer]

Justin Cyder said:

a fair bit of work you don't see hoes on.

i'm all for more hos.