'Supercar Customiser'? Really?
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I watched this week's episode where a young lady brings a McLaren P1 in and they put the most awful gold clingfilm all over it. The car looked like a child's toy by the end of it.
I was wincing watching them cutting the clingfilm with a knife, imagining the damage being done to the carbon fibre underneath. One of the "customisers" had to remove a panel from the P1 and he was messing about and throwing it in the air - not a good advert for their care of the customer's car.
Why would you cover a nicely painted McLaren P1 with hideous gold clingfilm? It's beyond me.
I was wincing watching them cutting the clingfilm with a knife, imagining the damage being done to the carbon fibre underneath. One of the "customisers" had to remove a panel from the P1 and he was messing about and throwing it in the air - not a good advert for their care of the customer's car.
Why would you cover a nicely painted McLaren P1 with hideous gold clingfilm? It's beyond me.
bass2rez said:
I watched this week's episode where a young lady brings a McLaren P1 in and they put the most awful gold clingfilm all over it. The car looked like a child's toy by the end of it.
I was wincing watching them cutting the clingfilm with a knife, imagining the damage being done to the carbon fibre underneath. One of the "customisers" had to remove a panel from the P1 and he was messing about and throwing it in the air - not a good advert for their care of the customer's car.
Why would you cover a nicely painted McLaren P1 with hideous gold clingfilm? It's beyond me.
I'll be interested to see how long the series runs - yes, West Coast Customs/Kindig Customs et al are the same basic premise each week, but at least have more strings to their bow. Supercar Customiser is just a wrap and maybe new wheels each week, the only variety being just how colossal a bellend the owner of that episode's car is. Yianni does come over as a decent enough guy, but I'm not sure about the quality of some of the workmanship - there was one episode with some matt black wrapped Mercedes. Or at least it was until the owner opened the door to reveal a blinding white door pillar. And is the 'critical' final inspection really just Yianni getting up close to the car and running his finger over some bits? - no sign of one of those white light tunnels that one might expect.I was wincing watching them cutting the clingfilm with a knife, imagining the damage being done to the carbon fibre underneath. One of the "customisers" had to remove a panel from the P1 and he was messing about and throwing it in the air - not a good advert for their care of the customer's car.
Why would you cover a nicely painted McLaren P1 with hideous gold clingfilm? It's beyond me.
And the whole hand-grab-into-hug/chest-bump thing is getting out of hand.
I've seen bits of two of them, the first one where they had to wrap some DJ bloke's Mercedes van with graphics, and when they nearly finished the wrap and came back around to the front wing, the graphics didn't line up with the bonnet, and it was too late to get a reprint. The second one was a McLaren P1 wrapped in 'rose gold' vinyl. The guys girlfriend came to pick the car up, he was crapping himself because he had to remove a panel under the rear wing to do the wrap and then fit it again. He video called the owner and shown him the car, he said it was fine and let him have a drive. Oh and whoever put the wrap on removed the Mclaren badge from the nose and didn't know which way up it was to stick it back on top of the vinyl.
If I did want a wrap on my car (and I don't), I wouldn't go anywhere near the guy to get it done.
If I did want a wrap on my car (and I don't), I wouldn't go anywhere near the guy to get it done.
Halmyre said:
waynecyclist said:
Biggest load of tosh I have ever seen, Pagani one was just a few stripes, could have gone to Halfords for some pintripes
An early candidate for Most Appropriate Typo of the Year 2018 
This programme is even worse than Wheeler Dealers - crikey, how did they manage that!
Watched one of the later episodes where they wrap a Ferrari in Billericay FC colours for the teams owner. They used a different car as the template so nothing lined up properly. They kept saying how he was a good customer and the job had to be perfect yet all the way through the guys wrapping it kept saying they would just have to make it work as best they could and one of them even tore the vinyl when doing the air vent and just stuck it back down like nothing happened.
The racing Ferrari was funny too when it wouldn't go on there lift so they got out scaffold boards and anything else they could lay there hands on.
The racing Ferrari was funny too when it wouldn't go on there lift so they got out scaffold boards and anything else they could lay there hands on.
Watched 10 minutes and turned it off, it is a prime example of all that is wrong with the look at me generation.
Ruining a P1 by making it rose gold just to make it more 'bling'? Why? It was pretty noticeable in the first place.
It depressing that is this the new car culture, whereas before it was about the mechanicals, the sounds and smells, the tweaking of your car to make it better, the shared passion for driving, now its look at my new haircut and expensive my ride is. Watch me drive slowly with terrible music blaring out.
Pure 'innit bruv' nonsense.
Ruining a P1 by making it rose gold just to make it more 'bling'? Why? It was pretty noticeable in the first place.
It depressing that is this the new car culture, whereas before it was about the mechanicals, the sounds and smells, the tweaking of your car to make it better, the shared passion for driving, now its look at my new haircut and expensive my ride is. Watch me drive slowly with terrible music blaring out.
Pure 'innit bruv' nonsense.
Edited by Mike335i on Friday 26th January 07:46
Yipper said:
It's been pretty good so far. Mindless entertainment, and the deadlines / slebs / drama are largely faked, but an easy way to spend an hour. In an era where 5th Gear is dead, Top Gear and Grand Tour are dying, and every YouTuber is pretty much the same, Yianni is something slightly different. Okay, it won't last more than a couple of series or so, but it's watchable for now.
These parody accounts must surely be funny to make them worth existing?Mike335i said:
Watched 10 minutes and turned it off, it is a prime example of all that is wrong with the look at me generation.
Ruining a P1 by making it rose gold just to make it more 'bling'? Why? It was pretty noticeable in the first place.
What exactly is wrong with today's society? Their tastes don't match yours?Ruining a P1 by making it rose gold just to make it more 'bling'? Why? It was pretty noticeable in the first place.
Is the Rose Gold any more "bling" than some of the factory colours?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the rose gold but I think its laughable that people can make such stupid statements purely because someone has different tastes.
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