Car SOS - how good are their restorations?
Discussion
Dids444 said:
I love watching car SOS and I'd be surprised if any of their work was under par as even for a TV show they do seem to go the extra mile.
Did you see the Daimler Dart episode for example? When this came out the spray booth it looked a million dollars
Look at that E34 touring! Lovely piece of kit. Did you see the Daimler Dart episode for example? When this came out the spray booth it looked a million dollars
Anyone any ideas on how to get the £50k golden ticket? I have an E30 here rusting away on axle stands which has a sob story behind it.
I think Car S.O.S is pretty decent. Ok Tim Shaw is clearly playing a role and I don't doubt it adds a bit of non car nerd entertainment but Fuzz seems a knowledgable guy.
I'll be honest, I think regardless of how the shows are put together, both Fuzz Townsend and Edd China are top mechanics.. Regarding Car S.O.S., i've not seen any cars come out of the show that would make me wince!
I admit i've not seen ever episode of Wheeler Dealer (most, not all) and the only cars that really didn't work for me were the Porsche 944 and the Mazda RX7 (and perhaps the Mini), as the custom jobs they did were a bit grating..
I'll be honest, I think regardless of how the shows are put together, both Fuzz Townsend and Edd China are top mechanics.. Regarding Car S.O.S., i've not seen any cars come out of the show that would make me wince!
I admit i've not seen ever episode of Wheeler Dealer (most, not all) and the only cars that really didn't work for me were the Porsche 944 and the Mazda RX7 (and perhaps the Mini), as the custom jobs they did were a bit grating..
I've given up on this show because there's so little actual car content these days. We all know the formula, Tim Shaw is incredibly irritating, and Fuzz gets all histrionic about how bad the car is/how little time they have. Then they unveil the car in some awful over-contrived manner.
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to p
s off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to p
s off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
Doofus said:
I've given up on this show because there's so little actual car content these days. We all know the formula, Tim Shaw is incredibly irritating, and Fuzz gets all histrionic about how bad the car is/how little time they have. Then they unveil the car in some awful over-contrived manner.
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to ps off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
That episode sounds great, when's it on ?They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to p
s off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
I series-linked these when it first started, mainly for the Fiat 500 episode, but after watching the Merc 190SL episode over the weekend, I was stunned at the amount of work that has gone into getting that back on the road.
Yeah, there's a lot of contrived/scripted filler, but isn't that the same with any of the mainstream TV shows with a car theme - TG, TGT, WD etc.
Yeah, there's a lot of contrived/scripted filler, but isn't that the same with any of the mainstream TV shows with a car theme - TG, TGT, WD etc.
I really like Car SOS and Fuzz is a really decent chap. He also actually gets his hands dirty rather than taking credit for other people's work, like Ant Anstead or those idiots on Goblin Worst Garage.
I must admit I really detest GWG and called them out on their contrived sales at the end of each show. In fact, there's a whole list of claims I asked them about via their social media. I touched one too many nerves though and they blocked me. The last one being why the £50k Capri they sold only made 20 at auction and why the service records included the bills from the people who really built it?
I used the like the old Wheeler Dealers and my daughter is friends with the chap who owns the e39 M5 they did. It's still going strong and sounds great.
The best thing I've watched recently though, is Retro Power on YouTube where they're building a resto-mod Escort Mk1 for Gordon Murray. Well worth checking out.
https://youtu.be/nSiG7oNXC6w
I'm not really into American cars but watch Roadkill every month and used to like Gas Monkey Garage, till they got a bit too full of themselves.
I must admit I really detest GWG and called them out on their contrived sales at the end of each show. In fact, there's a whole list of claims I asked them about via their social media. I touched one too many nerves though and they blocked me. The last one being why the £50k Capri they sold only made 20 at auction and why the service records included the bills from the people who really built it?
I used the like the old Wheeler Dealers and my daughter is friends with the chap who owns the e39 M5 they did. It's still going strong and sounds great.
The best thing I've watched recently though, is Retro Power on YouTube where they're building a resto-mod Escort Mk1 for Gordon Murray. Well worth checking out.
https://youtu.be/nSiG7oNXC6w
I'm not really into American cars but watch Roadkill every month and used to like Gas Monkey Garage, till they got a bit too full of themselves.
Doofus said:
I've given up on this show because there's so little actual car content these days. We all know the formula, Tim Shaw is incredibly irritating, and Fuzz gets all histrionic about how bad the car is/how little time they have. Then they unveil the car in some awful over-contrived manner.
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to ps off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to p
s off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
Spot on.
I guess shows like this always get a bit stale or become a bit of a parody of themselves after a while. Still watchable though, for now.
Doofus said:
I've given up on this show because there's so little actual car content these days. We all know the formula, Tim Shaw is incredibly irritating, and Fuzz gets all histrionic about how bad the car is/how little time they have. Then they unveil the car in some awful over-contrived manner.
They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to ps off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
Think youre talking rubbish. I've met someone who had a family member who had a car done and had nothing negative to say about fuzz or tim.They see a car. Fuzz whines about how awful it is, Tim has a cup of tea.
They return to the workshop. Everyone whines about how awful the car is. Somebody does some grinding.
Tim goes on day-release to p
s off some local tradespeople. Fuzz rotates the engine with a spanner. Somebody does some grinding.Tim returns to the workshop with some wheels/seats/sparkplugs, and gets in the way while somebody does some welding.
The owner's family turns up and whines about how awful the car is. Tim nominates an almost impossible date for the handover.
Fuzz and the workshop crew pull another all-nighter. Somebody reattaches a rear light lens.
Tim then explains how he's going to dress up as a pirate and pretend to attack the owner's wife whilst she's at Lidl. When her husband leaps to her defence, Fuzz will run him over with the car. Ta Daa!
Family clambers into the car and everyone waves as the owner drives it straight to WeBuyAnyCar.com
I dispair.....not sure what people want from a TV programme. We have something, probably the only thing that is still british in its production and presentation and yet you still slag it off. Thats when we end up with shiiite like goblin works.
careful what you wish for......
zeb said:
Think youre talking rubbish. I've met someone who had a family member who had a car done and had nothing negative to say about fuzz or tim.
If you'd read my post you'd have seen that I was slagging off the format, and the fact that there's very little actual car content in it.zeb said:
We have something, probably the only thing that is still british in its production and presentation
Now who's talking rubbish?zeb said:
I dispair.....not sure what people want from a TV programme.
Well fortunately, unless you're a Commissioning Editor, your lack of insight isn't a significant issue. The fact that you know somebody who knows somebody who doesn't dislike Fuzz or Tim doesn't change the fact that I think the format is tired and uninteresting, and Tim Shaw's character is annoying.
wow....youre really good at this. I cower in your reflected glory.
For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
I still enjoy this show, but I've recently ended up either muting or fast-forwarding through Tim's supposedly amusing skits. For instance, if you work on the basis of the current season being repeated on More4, dressing up in military fatigues & night vision goggles and undertaking a smoke bomb exercise to sneak some alloys into the refurbisher, rocking up at Rimstock and blagging a free set of wheels for a Caterham off Matt Neal, turning up unannounced at a pub that just happens to have all the important people from the Dino club having a meeting, etc.
I'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
I'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 5th March 22:06
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