Rab

How crap is this programme.

The mechanic bloke is a total arse, and that Mike person just gave away a set of 16" BBS split rims for some crappy orginal porsche alloys that needed a refurb...

Not much of a dealer is he


Plus, he knows the sum total of fuck all about cars Why is he on TV?

Martyn

The best bit is the totally shit acting on the selling bit of the show at the end

Didnt someone spot one of their cars on ebay awhile back if I remember right?

gingeRS

the guys spraying

Bungle

lmao did ya see the one with the old merc and the pattern wing they bought for it?

was about a mile out so he sat bashing it and filling it to make it right then at the end he tells the buyer its had a new pattern wing which was a great fit

Rab

I have no idea why they're on the TV?

They're just crap. I could do a better job!

TrevCos

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I find it quite entertaining.

I remember them doing a Capri and replacing the front wings due to rot but spraying them up really badly so it wasn't even close to a match. I wouldn't have touched it with a bargepole.

cozmeister

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The thing with the BBS rims is, they were useless for what they were doing - putting something back to original doesn't mean adding or keeping someone elses afterthought.

It also shows that if you look hard enough, you can find rare parts that you'd otherwise give up on. They're not aiming for concourse, as they have a limited budget - from what I've seen, bufty's have an endless supply of cash that goes on pristine shrinkwrapped spares, and polish - these guys don't have that. They aim to buy a car, tidy it up (make it more presentable), and sell it on, for a profit or a small deficit.

I like watching it - the mechanic, Ed, has given me an insight (not necessarily a step by step How To) of how my Cossie was put back together. And TCA bushes on the Capri? I've never done anything like that, and he made it look easy enough to do that I thought "I can do that!"

dojj

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i remember a few years back he was at the interford show at the motor heritage meuseam and someone shouted out "what do you know about cars then you muppet"
he was a bit shocked i think

i tell you what though, some of the things he flogs on that show are a bit much, sure he knows what they are worth according to the book, but how long does he spend arsing about getting bits for them and then for ed's time to fit them and stuff?

he's a bit of a tool mind, but not as much of a tool as that other posh bloke who he used to do a show with, the guy was flogging a 2.9 4x4 sierra ghia estate and the goon was going on about how much 4 driveshafts cost to replace if they went wrong as the transmission was a known weak spot and how the 2.8 was a thristy engine

i can't knock ed for his work though, he does do a fair amount of fiddling with motors, and is the original originator of the driving table/bed/armchair/other odd creation/etc

JonnyBravo

Edd China, sounds like a dodgy bastard before you have even seen his work.

Fair play on that sofa though, it was cool in its own way.

Some of his repairs though are fucking shocking

Rab

I know, some of the bodges are shocking

And whoever mentioned the bit about the fake haggling at the end... Jesus christ... It's Uber tacky

JonnyBravo

I think I actually recall him doing the old trick with filling rotten holes with old newspaper

How on earth can they get away with showing that sort of thing on tv

Rab

It's really shocking what they don't know... But that Mike fella, knows less than my Mum about how a car is put together...

Honestly, what a prat

tabetha

I can't see the point of it, as ED works effectively for free when you add in the total hours he spends on the cars, and MIKE B does not live in the real world prices wise.
I don't know many people who have a 4 poster lift either, would be more realistic to show some numpty with a bent half chewed screwdriver, and a couple of WW2 spanners doing it DIY, that would be worth watching as more real world, outside in the pouring rain.
I always think to myself when people ask CERTAIN questions, should they really be attempting the job they are asking about, ie resealing caliper as an example!!
tabetha

cozmeister

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That's me!

Porkie

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I like it!

tabetha

I remember when I first started tinkering with cars did not have a 24mm spanner, so welded two flat sections of metal together and then angle ground a slot then filed out to 24mm.
It promptly broke, as it split in two, down the(crap) weld a piece stabbed me in the hand and I spent 4 hours in the A&E having 12 stitches!!
Now that is more like it!!
tabetha
ps a VERY nice nurse did the stitching so not all bad I thought, until she put a needle right into the cut, F**k it hurt.

Terry Tibbs

I think its pretty good tbh..

Its not for mechanics, or in this case, wannabe mechanics who think they know cars inside out.

Its for people with a general intrest in restoring, or tidying up cars.

Thats what they do, and they do it effectively.

jaimesdna

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i like to watch it but not for the right reasons. just like to watch the shitness of it. anyone remember the suzuki jeep. they were suprised when it failed the mot for being rotten. hell how the fuck did they miss the huge hole right next to where they had installed the roll cage

Dan

Yeah I posted up the Merc 190E they did! Was fucking hanging by the time the poor bloke came to sell it!

My Dad has worked in the trade for over 30 years and can't bare to watch the program, he says they are both a pair of cunts!

L33 BYT

SOunds like my DIY stories. When I drilled through my hand I made the doctor heave. He said, "Through all that meat I can see the bone." He went and never see him again

BigMouthBillyBass

I watched the one with the old alfa spider the other day, why the fuck would someone want one of them? New italian cars are fucking unreliable, old italian cars are REALLY fucking unreliable

I like that thing on home & leisure where they're building hotrod's in that workshop and they're always having a go at each other and threatening to kick the shit out of each other

Moose 130

anyone see the Beach Buggy one?

I sold an engine to the guy who was 'selling' the donor beetle.

Turn out he was Eds workshop manager.

Told me Ed had owned the car for 2 years before they used it, how they only did the buggy as one of the production staff wanted one, they built it in two weeks and Ed did nothing on it.

Complete BS.

4x4

shittest programme ever

he ends up making Ł300 on average at the end but how is that worth it as his mechanic must have spent a week working on it...... for Ł300 between the 2 of them, what a waste of time.

he always says to hold your ground when selling or buying motors but the fool always rolls over to the buyer... what a prick

Fil

as said at the begining of this post, several of the cars sold for a profit were forsale on ebay at the same time, same seller

quality program tho, for the budget of a shitter, and all the cash is really blown on hookers for mike and ed

Rab

Lets bombard the people who make with with e-mails and get it taken off the air!

Kevin Sharp

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Mike Brewer is a prize cock!....no wonder he,s not in the motortrade anymore...he,s crap at it....mind you he,s just as bad as a TV presenter

what was that other programme when they did a new rover? a shonky suspension kit and he,s saying it handles like a propper touring car now

dojj

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the one where he forgot to put locking wheel nuts on them and some one pinched them over night?

smitsturbo

did any body see the 1 where they done a 4x4, fitted a roll cage, big diffs & lift kit & big wheels then sent it to get mot'd & failed cos the floor was rotten

cos you never realy notice these things after you put all that stuff on it do you


cock suckers

Kevin Sharp

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Thats the one!

Lee Reynolds

I bet mike brewers got more money than everyone on this thread put together(minus porkie and Mcsharp) so hes doing sommat right.....wank programme or not! LMFAO

smitsturbo

this 1

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UMZ0_7...elated&search=

smitsturbo

george michael has more money than most on here & does fuck all right

Lee Reynolds

smitsturbo

lmao

4x4

how would you know that then

Lee Reynolds

4x4

oh shut up FFS im taking the piss...

Benni

He had a 3dr sierra Cosworth on once....

Rab

I'm beginning to think I'm the only man on PF that understands your sense of humour

I dunno if it's a good thing or not

Lee Reynolds

no its not i cant be seen to have a scot agree with me

Rab

Dunno what you're moanin about mate. Yorkshire is practically in scotland anyway... You should be proud to be associated with the greatest nation on earth

Lee Reynolds

Who said that