Edd China has left Wheeler Dealers
Discussion
Chris Type R said:
Edd China painting a fence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqxQhDTiGfY
He can do adverts too.Welshbeef said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
zeb said:
These videos strike me as someone who has sadly worked out he should have got another job to go to before leaving his current gig.
1. Option is resign or you are sacked
2. So utterly comfortable £ it matters not about having nothing to go to
3. stresss and you need total time out to chill and properly recharge those batteries
4. You are in a job so pressurised there literally is no time to get away for interviews so either burned up all annual leave or meetings just appear in your diary which you cannot miss which clash with pre booked interviews.
If I were him and wanted to leave I'd still hold my equity in the company it's a global brand.
It was too easy to continue with the job and not put enough effort into finding another one, especially as it was in the middle of the recession.
I left and was out of work for 3 months. I applied for up to 10 jobs a day until I got something else.
Ken Figenus said:
Higgs boson said:
Is it just me?
In that video, Edd seems to look at the camera for a, relatively, long time whilst talking, i.e. eyes not on the road ahead.
There must be a huge gap to the traffic in front.
Agree - love Ed but that is verging on distracted driving doing a 'down the lens' PTC whilst really driving on a main road and not being towed on a low bed trailer as you do for telly... In that video, Edd seems to look at the camera for a, relatively, long time whilst talking, i.e. eyes not on the road ahead.
There must be a huge gap to the traffic in front.
The rest could well be social media 'column inches' but only his mates will really know. All publicity etc?
DonkeyApple said:
Don't you suspect that Edd has been making a little more than a 'good living' the last few years? 
I don't think he will be needing to resort to YT income and sponsorships just yet.
he was in his garage wearing A Bathing Ape 'Space Apes' T-Shirt that is £100+ second-hand, so he is doing ok!I don't think he will be needing to resort to YT income and sponsorships just yet.
I'm also a fan of his segments on WD.
I stopped watching Top Gear as I felt the jokes had worn a bit thin though still liked the presenters, but to be honest I do have a soft spot for the old top gear with Chris Goffey giving us a tour of the glove box in a Talbot whilst William Woollard takes us through changes in regulations in the haulage industry.
Maybe Ed's understated presenting style would fit right in...plus not knowing one end of a spanner from another I like watching how he diagnoses and sets about the fixes.
Sneak Peek of the 'new' Wheeler Dealers sans Edd.
https://youtu.be/PBgaMrXg0zE
Informative and interesting... Edd Who?
https://youtu.be/PBgaMrXg0zE
Informative and interesting... Edd Who?
Interesting. The impression I got from Edd's comments was that they wanted to dumb it down even more. Now, what we are seeing here is only a clip obviously, and there may be 54 minutes of Mr Brewer talking at Americans, but the indication is that it seems to be just as in-depth as before.
Not sure about some of the "facts" though. The left hand thread is surely nothing to do with centrifugal force, simply that if it was a right hand thread the nut would tend to spin off. Also, "nothing to go wrong, no wires, no computers"... Well they tend not to go wrong, the bit that goes wrong is the £1000 worth of high speed spinny mechanical thing, and all modern turbos are computer controlled anyway. Fine if it is just worn bearings, but if the spindles worn, or the compressor / turbine have been out of alignment and ground themselves and the housing down...
On the up side: Yay Escort Cosworth!
Not sure about some of the "facts" though. The left hand thread is surely nothing to do with centrifugal force, simply that if it was a right hand thread the nut would tend to spin off. Also, "nothing to go wrong, no wires, no computers"... Well they tend not to go wrong, the bit that goes wrong is the £1000 worth of high speed spinny mechanical thing, and all modern turbos are computer controlled anyway. Fine if it is just worn bearings, but if the spindles worn, or the compressor / turbine have been out of alignment and ground themselves and the housing down...
On the up side: Yay Escort Cosworth!
DonkeyApple said:
Oh dear. That was very watchable.
I agree, was pleasantly surprised. If it is of similar standard throughout then should be interesting. DonkeyApple said:
It's a shame knowing that Ling's half brother, Cockney Jong Un is going to pop up at some point gabbling some form of crazy lingo.
Genuine laugh out loud there DonkeyApple, nice one!While the show's new direction will, if anything, be even more pronounced in the next series (ie less focus on the mechanical aspects, more on the actual dealing), if Velocity produce short segments like the one above with Ant and the turbo, going in-depth on a mechanical or engineering topic, that would be great.
Welshbeef said:
Anyone think Ed was pushed rather than any other reason.
I liked watching him but happy to watch someone else.
Yeah the technical content excuse did rather strike me as the televisual equivalent of the CEO 'stepping down to spend more time with his family'I liked watching him but happy to watch someone else.
Discovery also took the IP off the original UK production company and have started to produce the show in house as of last season, so perhaps there is more to it than meets the eye.
RemaL said:
Has anyone thought this 4:35 sneek peak may be the total time spent on the technical side and the rest is mike doing his thing
I think that's fairly unlikely. They may have well been thinking of going that way but with Edd's acrimonious departure and the resulting fall out over dumbing down, the producers would have to be insane to go down that path.I think we'll see largely the same format show as a result.
Dam,
That's actually pretty good.
Thing is though, Ed's bits were always good (Ant's a far more polished presenter but that's okay) it was Mike's ever increasing role that took the shine off Wheeler Dealers. I won't sit through 55 mins of Mike doing his usual thing to watch a 5 min demo on how Turbos work.
That's actually pretty good.
Thing is though, Ed's bits were always good (Ant's a far more polished presenter but that's okay) it was Mike's ever increasing role that took the shine off Wheeler Dealers. I won't sit through 55 mins of Mike doing his usual thing to watch a 5 min demo on how Turbos work.
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