Wheeler Dealers 2014/2015 - New Series

Wheeler Dealers 2014/2015 - New Series

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joe_90

4,206 posts

230 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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That whole rear suspension, inc the shocks and lower arms looks brand new..

noell35

3,170 posts

147 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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joe_90 said:
That whole rear suspension, inc the shocks and lower arms looks brand new..
I was thinking that. Shocks were bright red.

joe_90

4,206 posts

230 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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noell35 said:
I was thinking that. Shocks were bright red.
All the lower arms and nuts had not seen a road by the looks of it.

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,185 posts

199 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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I was thinking how easily all those bolts came undone - as an ex owner of an alfasod(ing thing), I know each one would have been rusted in solid and snapped off. That car had been well looked after, or had recently had a lot of work done!

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,185 posts

199 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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pingu393 said:
I dunno. Edd used an induction heater to remove the transfers instead of his the wife's hairdryer. I bet that wasn't £10 from Argos.

But, again, I'm glad that he showed us a new toy for the man-cave smile.
It's free advertising for the company who make the tool, and Edd gets to play with some cool tools.

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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DrDoofenshmirtz said:
It's free advertising for the company who make the tool, and Edd gets to play with some cool tools.
Like that water-free coolant stuff that's made by...

... oh.

biggrin

wink

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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zygalski said:
WD Corrado VR6 up for sale.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C650740
So up to 2004 &98k miles it had VW service history then zilch up to 141k. Criminal really.

Blib

43,792 posts

196 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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JonRB said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
It's free advertising for the company who make the tool, and Edd gets to play with some cool tools.
Like that water-free coolant stuff that's made by...

... oh.

biggrin

wink
Good stuff that.ni first saw ot on the show and I used it in my Hawk Stratos.

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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Well, I have to say that I'm not overly impressed with the Caterham 7 episode so far. They just seem to be dicking around with it, and not adding a huge amount to it.

A deeper floor and comfier seats so fat / lanky bds can fit in it, a bit of arsing around on a keyless ignition system that doesn't add a lot, a largely pointless heat shield, a lightened flywheel, and a new airbox and ECU map to give it 12% more power.

Not exactly getting me going.

Edit: Oh, and a respray and some bling-bling. rolleyes

Edited by JonRB on Monday 7th September 21:55

MG CHRIS

9,077 posts

166 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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JonRB said:
Well, I have to say that I'm not overly impressed with the Caterham 7 episode so far. They just seem to be dicking around with it, and not adding a huge amount to it.

A deeper floor and comfier seats so fat / lanky bds can fit in it, a bit of arsing around on a keyless ignition system that doesn't add a lot, a largely pointless heat shield, a lightened flywheel, and a new airbox and ECU map to give it 12% more power.

Not exactly getting me going.

Edit: Oh, and a respray and some bling-bling. rolleyes

Edited by JonRB on Monday 7th September 21:55
Agreed very poor has been all series its getting stale now nothing new and got a hint of just running out of ideas the cars in this one shows it.

oobster

7,065 posts

210 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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I'd need to rewatch the Caterham episode to be absolutely sure but I though I heard Mike or the Caterham guy say near the start that the car was nearly 3 years old, but it ended up as a 64 plate.

Also, Ed said he'd cleaned/polished the exhaust before putting the heatshields on, it looked like a brand-new exhaust to me.

I was almost left wondering if the green car nearing the end was the same black car we'd seen through the first three-quarters of the show!

Easternlight

3,424 posts

143 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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All that faff, and they couldn't sell it? Sporting a new set of tyres at the end too didn't see that in the budget!

Megaflow

9,347 posts

224 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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oobster said:
I'd need to rewatch the Caterham episode to be absolutely sure but I though I heard Mike or the Caterham guy say near the start that the car was nearly 3 years old, but it ended up as a 64 plate.

Also, Ed said he'd cleaned/polished the exhaust before putting the heatshields on, it looked like a brand-new exhaust to me.

I was almost left wondering if the green car nearing the end was the same black car we'd seen through the first three-quarters of the show!
I suspect being a factory demo car for drift events, it was never actually registered.

I missed the tyres at the end, I'd probably stopped watching by the time they left the workshop, but yes, that exhaust was definitely new.

I also couldn't work out why he cut a sodding great hole in the dash for the power socket/immobiliser fob, when there was a perfectly good hole left by the starter button.

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Megaflow said:
I also couldn't work out why he cut a sodding great hole in the dash for the power socket/immobiliser fob, when there was a perfectly good hole left by the starter button.
I think he used that hole for the new starter toggle (which was actually pretty cool, I have to say).

I can't decide if the combined power socket / immobiliser fob thing was a stroke of genius or a little bit naff. smile

sandman77

2,366 posts

137 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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JonRB said:
I think he used that hole for the new starter toggle (which was actually pretty cool, I have to say).

I can't decide if the combined power socket / immobiliser fob thing was a stroke of genius or a little bit naff. smile
No the hole he used for the starter toggle was previously blanked off. He then blanked off the hole the starter button was in. Didn't understand the reason for this either.

I thought the immobiliser thingy thing was naff. In this day and ago who want to faff about with things like that. A standard ignition barrel on the dashboard would have been better.

rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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I'm not sure I'd be very happy if I found out that a car I thought was a year old from looking at the numberplate had spent two unregistered years being thrashed within an inch of its life by every Tom, Dick and Harry. If it was three years old it should really have a 2012 plate.

Edd did say that he'd polished the exhaust so maybe it wasn't a new item.

Again, like the majority of the USA shows, they didn't attract a genuine buyer. I think that it would be more honest either to keep dropping the price until they did so or to put the car on EBay and rather than maintaining a fiction of every car being a "nice little earner" find out what it's really worth, win or lose.

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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rohrl said:
Again, like the majority of the USA shows, they didn't attract a genuine buyer. I think that it would be more honest either to keep dropping the price until they did so or to put the car on EBay and rather than maintaining a fiction of every car being a "nice little earner" find out what it's really worth, win or lose.
That's one of the things I like about Fast n Loud - they're not afraid to show Richard Rawlings taking a loss on a car (whether it be a retail sale, trade sale or at a 'no reserve' auction).

justanother5tar

1,314 posts

124 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Welshbeef said:
So up to 2004 &98k miles it had VW service history then zilch up to 141k. Criminal really.
I read it as having a full comprehensive service history up to 141k. With the first 98k being VW, the rest being somewhere else?

Granted, either of us could be right, it isn't very clear.

PanzerCommander

5,026 posts

217 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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sandman77 said:
No the hole he used for the starter toggle was previously blanked off. He then blanked off the hole the starter button was in. Didn't understand the reason for this either.

I thought the immobiliser thingy thing was naff. In this day and ago who want to faff about with things like that. A standard ignition barrel on the dashboard would have been better.
I didn't get that either, remove the starter button and blank it off. Open up a hole for the starter switch (smaller than the push button so fair enough) and then make a new hole for the accessory socket/immobliser pickup, I can't see why the original starter button hole wasn't used for that role unless it was a bit too big.

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,185 posts

199 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Surely that immobiliser fob would just fly out of the hole and immobilise the car at the first set of lights!?