Wheeler Dealers
Discussion
Pickled Piper said:
My personal favourite is an early episode (China prior to his showbiz hairstyle) tackling a Capri. The pattern wings didn't fit and when they were sprayed with rattle cans, stuck out like a pair of sore thumbs.
Top class bodging !
pp
I remember that episode. They sold it to a girl with pink hair for not much more than they originally paid for it. It must have been one of the earliest episodes they made. Top class bodging !
pp
CooperD said:
Pickled Piper said:
My personal favourite is an early episode (China prior to his showbiz hairstyle) tackling a Capri. The pattern wings didn't fit and when they were sprayed with rattle cans, stuck out like a pair of sore thumbs.
Top class bodging !
pp
I remember that episode. They sold it to a girl with pink hair for not much more than they originally paid for it. It must have been one of the earliest episodes they made. Top class bodging !
pp
Pericoloso said:
I watched the T5r episode last night , I zoned in and out to avoid the BS.
Did Mike do any of the bumper repairs or just stood next to the expert with a mask on ?
I think he did the usual mini patch on a small section but the rest was done by the specialist, whilst he repeated "that's plastic welding" enthusiastically a number of times Did Mike do any of the bumper repairs or just stood next to the expert with a mask on ?
Thanks Alex , I tend to lose attention when he's pretending to fix stuff , especially when people keep saying that Ant doesn't even do as much as tv suggests ,with a team of real mechanics doing most of it.
I do remember MB knocking the seller for $3000 and then patronisingly saying , you don't have to accept it.
I do remember MB knocking the seller for $3000 and then patronisingly saying , you don't have to accept it.
RC1807 said:
Ah, come on Swisstoni ... As a car salesman yourself ( 
) you should know Mike really is that thick. His negotiation "technique" when selling is pretty poor, IMO. 
I imagine the sale and negotiation is done and dusted before they film it, which is why the negotiation looks so false. ) you should know Mike really is that thick. His negotiation "technique" when selling is pretty poor, IMO. swisstoni said:
As someone just started a separate thread (which was redirected here) about whether Brewer deliberately tries to sound thick.
Absolutely he does IMHO.
He’s a pretty shrewd professional mockney and businessman.
He was on one of the Car Throttle podcasts, and the cheap car video when they bought a Streetka a few months ago, I don't like him on WD but he came across ok on that, and helped them out with buying cars.Absolutely he does IMHO.
He’s a pretty shrewd professional mockney and businessman.
Pericoloso said:
Thanks Alex , I tend to lose attention when he's pretending to fix stuff , especially when people keep saying that Ant doesn't even do as much as tv suggests ,with a team of real mechanics doing most of it.
I do remember MB knocking the seller for $3000 and then patronisingly saying , you don't have to accept it.
I think Ant might take offence at not being classed as a ‘real’ mechanic!I do remember MB knocking the seller for $3000 and then patronisingly saying , you don't have to accept it.
LuS1fer said:
I imagine the sale and negotiation is done and dusted before they film it, which is why the negotiation looks so false.
It's all actors AFAIK. I remember the old VW T25 episode where he apparently bough the van off a farmer mate, the one with the sliding door that fell off in his hand. It was all nonsense as the guy who sold it to the production company cropped up on a VW forum with the real story. bobbo89 said:
It's all actors AFAIK. I remember the old VW T25 episode where he apparently bough the van off a farmer mate, the one with the sliding door that fell off in his hand. It was all nonsense as the guy who sold it to the production company cropped up on a VW forum with the real story.
I seem to remember that the previous owner of the yellow Land Rover popped up on a forum moaning that Wheeler Dealers had made him out to be an idiot, and that half the things that were wrong or bodged or incomplete had been fine when he sold it and had been made that way after the sale. Not WD. But, I know of a recent series that used a staff member to stand in for a car's owner as they didn't want to appear on TV.
They also 'invented' a staff post to enable a professional presenter to appear throughout the series. He was called the "Customer relations" officer, or some such.
I'm sure this stuff is pretty common.
They also 'invented' a staff post to enable a professional presenter to appear throughout the series. He was called the "Customer relations" officer, or some such.
I'm sure this stuff is pretty common.
Blib said:
Not WD. But, I know of a recent series that used a staff member to stand in for the car's owner as they didn't want to appear on TV.
They also 'invented' a staff post to enable a professional presenter to appear throughout the series. He was called the "Customer relations" officer, or some such.
Vintage Voltage. Petrol Ped.They also 'invented' a staff post to enable a professional presenter to appear throughout the series. He was called the "Customer relations" officer, or some such.
Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff