Car SOS - New Series 2016

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CooperD

2,851 posts

176 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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I enjoyed the Volvo P1800 episode especially at the end with Roger Moore.

Vixpy1

42,620 posts

263 months

Monday 9th May 2016
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Anyone know where the Range Rover drive was filmed? Where they drive the 3 door and the new FF

E36Ross

501 posts

111 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Someone should be shot for putting those alloys on the Mx5!

Halfords specials in Blue.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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hehe yes, in the words of Hammond, theyre Catastrophically bad biggrin rest of the car looked lovely though.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Ooh new SOS! I spotted as I browsed. An mx5!?... Oh,
watches something else instead,
Morgana Robinson in Toast of London.. Mmmm, lovely.

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Great little car and a most deserving recipient - if it were mine, the first thing I'd do is change those awful wheels! What on earth possessed Tim that that neon colour was OK for a man of such an age! (or any age..)

Stu78

162 posts

134 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Those wheels vomit. I don't know if I like that Tim or not; he seems an okay one minute then he acts out those stupid scripted scenes like wazzing his Isuzu into an empty garage and pratting about with eggs in jars.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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I'm not fussed too much by this series overall, I do like what they do, but its not a "must watch" for me in the same vein as other car shows.

I did however have a little tingle when they did that 2002 turbo which I caught the other night.

one on the eBay for £70k right now...

rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Well given that the bloke's saved all the money he'd budgeted for doing up the car I suppose he can stick those horrors on eBay and put a couple of hundred quid towards some better wheels.

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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I can only add to the screams of "the wheels, the wheels" - rest of the car was lovely, it's a shame though that they couldn't go for a full engine rebuild, strapping an new turbo on an tired engine seems a bit of a waste, either way it might be a bit of a waste for him, he's not a fast driver it seems. I bet he's seen his share of horrible car crashes so I can understand why.

Still love the series, but like so many of these types of things to broaden the appeal each episode seems to be less spannering and more 'tragic back story' and Tim acting the 'full brewer'.

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Friday 20th May 2016
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A Singer Le Mans was the car restored last night albeit not a full job as the paintwork was not resprayed due to time limitations. It still looked very good nonetheless. I have special affinity for this car as it was the first sports car I went in at the age of 6 courtesy of my uncle. He's now 102 and lives in Montana . Where the Le Mans is I have no idea.

Faust66

2,028 posts

164 months

Friday 20th May 2016
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Enjoyed the show as always, but I was a bit perturbed by what they did with the wheels.

I always thought that wire wheels had to be checked carefully, new spokes added and tensioned as necessary and then trued - not just given a lick of paint to pretty them up.

(Of course they may well have done this but decided not to include the footage).

Winky151

1,267 posts

140 months

Friday 20th May 2016
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Faust66 said:
Enjoyed the show as always, but I was a bit perturbed by what they did with the wheels.

I always thought that wire wheels had to be checked carefully, new spokes added and tensioned as necessary and then trued - not just given a lick of paint to pretty them up.

(Of course they may well have done this but decided not to include the footage).
That was exactly my issue with this episode. When they've done wire wheels on Wheeler Dealers they provided all new spokes.

dvb70

118 posts

106 months

Saturday 21st May 2016
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Funny I thought exactly the same thing about the wire wheels and the place they took them too really did not look like a specialist in that type of wheel based on all the other wheels they had there. Maybe that's wrong but it looked like a placed that dealt in modern wheel refurb and I would just not expect such a place to know much about old wire wheels.

Anyway nice car though it was a shame they did not do the paint work as on the initial close ups it had a lot of flaws. It did look great when done but I wonder how it would stand up to close examination in the flesh. It just seems a shame to do all that work and not give it a fresh paint job. I don't really buy the time explanation so I wonder if there was another reason for not ding it. The whole limited thing is entirely contrived. Tim walking past the Volvo P1800 at one point gives the game away some what.

Edited by dvb70 on Saturday 21st May 17:13

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Saturday 21st May 2016
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I guess the family has to take some of the blame, if they only gave them a week to finish the car (if that was true, and not for the benefit of added drama..)

Steamer

13,846 posts

212 months

Friday 27th May 2016
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just watched the Astra GTE episode - loved it!!

Really nice to see a car that had all but dropped off my radar getting the SOS treatment, and as ever a proper touching back story.

Made me feel a bit old though, only 30 left on the road?! I remember when the white one up our street had its wheels nicked over night. First car I saw 'up on bricks'.

CooperD

2,851 posts

176 months

Friday 27th May 2016
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I enjoyed the Astra episode as well. Didn't realise that there were so few left on the road.

Nikolai

283 posts

145 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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Another good episode, really enjoyed it. Head and shoulders above WD at the moment and that mini shell looked stunning when Fuzz had it on the ramp partially rebuilt. Nice reaction from the guy during handover. Never was a Mini fan but definitely leaning towards them now!

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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I do wish sky would stop sodding about with the schedules, the EPG showed tonights episode as the P1800 which is a repeat so i cancelled it smash

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Friday 3rd June 2016
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Cupramax said:
I do wish sky would stop sodding about with the schedules, the EPG showed tonights episode as the P1800 which is a repeat so i cancelled it smash
That's odd as Sky had it down as a Mini Cooper S which it was. It's available on Sky Demand and its repeated several times. Great rebuild but Tim Shaw's blagging of parts is really starting to grate. Next week they have a 65 Mustang and are revisiting some of their previous ventures. Is there going to be another series?