Bob From The Machine Shop & Dips P1 AutoKeys on Mat Armstrong, Mark, Ferrari, Bugatti & More!

Bob From The Machine Shop & Dips P1 AutoKeys on Mat Armstrong, Mark, Ferrari, Bugatti & More! Road To Success with Benedict Fowler · Jul 6, 2026

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Term

wing

A “wing” here means the outer metal panel over the wheel—basically the fender. They’re saying they were trying to weld and accidentally damaged that panel.

Term

weld

To “weld” means to fuse metal together using heat. In car repair, welding is used when metal panels or parts need to be joined or fixed.

Car

The Lamborghini Gallardo is a high-end sports car with a very powerful engine and a dramatic design. It’s known for being a “supercar” that many people recognize. The podcast brings it up in connection with a personal story about the Gallardo.

Car

Audi Tt

The Audi TT is a small sporty Audi with a coupe or roadster body. Here they’re talking about one that was damaged by a fire, which usually makes repairs more complicated than normal wear-and-tear.

Car

M5

The BMW M5 is a powerful BMW sedan meant for performance driving. In this story, the key situation is the point—someone thought the keys were locked inside the car.

Term

keys were locked in

This means the car keys ended up inside the car and the doors locked anyway. With newer cars, getting back in can require more than just opening the door because the car may have anti-theft electronics.

Term

Clear code

“Clear code” means wiping the error messages stored in the car’s computer. People do it after they fix the problem so the warning lights and stored errors go away.

Term

Ferrari chassis number

A chassis number is like a car’s unique ID number. For a Ferrari project, that number helps prove exactly which car/frame it is and ties the build to the right paperwork and history.

Car

Volkswagen T5

The Volkswagen T5 is a van model from Volkswagen that’s often used for work. The host is saying that repairing a van and repairing a supercar can feel similar because you’re still diagnosing and fixing problems.

Term

wired

In automotive contexts, “wired” refers to the vehicle’s electrical wiring and how components are connected through the harness. The host is arguing that even expensive supercars use the same basic electrical architecture concepts as other cars—so repairs often follow the same diagnostic logic.

Term

coding

Automotive coding is the process of updating or configuring a car’s electronic control units (ECUs) so features and behaviors match the correct setup. It’s often used for functions like key/immobilizer behavior, module compatibility, or enabling/disabling options after repairs or parts swaps.

Car

Volkswagen Golf

A VW Golf is a common everyday car. The host is using it as an example of a “normal” vehicle to show that the general process for the work they do is similar across car types.

Car

Lamborghini Huracan

The Lamborghini Huracán is a high-end supercar. They mention it to show that even on an expensive, complex car, the basic approach to their work is still similar.

Place

Silverstone

Silverstone is a famous race track in the UK. It’s where big motorsport events happen, and in this story it’s just the location where the shop owner was when the message came in.

Car

Audi S3

An Audi S3 is a sporty version of Audi’s A3 family. It’s the kind of car people buy when they want something quicker and more fun than the regular model. Here, someone is asking the shop to fix an air-conditioning problem on their S3.

Term

air conditioning fault

This just means the car’s AC system isn’t working properly. It could be something simple or something that needs diagnosing, and the customer is asking the shop to fix it.

Topic

Formula One

Formula One is the highest level of race car driving in the world. The speaker is using it as an example of how pressure can build up when everyone is watching and expecting top performance.

Person

George Russell

George Russell is a professional race driver in Formula One. The host mentions him to make the point that even top drivers can struggle when conditions and pressure aren’t ideal.

Person

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen is a top Formula One race driver. The speaker brings him up to show that even the best drivers can have stretches where they don’t feel like they’re on their game.

Person

Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri is a Formula One driver. The host includes him to make the point that even very talented racers can have times when they aren’t performing as well as expected.

Person

Charles the Clerk

“Charles the Clerk” is a nickname for Charles Leclerc, a Formula One driver. The host is using it to talk about how pressure can affect performance, even for top drivers.

Term

box section

A box section is a strong metal frame piece that’s hollow inside, like a metal tube with flat sides. Car body structures often use these, and welding them back together restores strength and alignment.

Term

boot lid

A boot lid is the rear door you open to get into the trunk/cargo area. If it pops open by itself, it usually means the latch didn’t catch properly or something about the closing alignment is off.

Term

recovery driver

A recovery driver is someone who helps when a car breaks down or gets stuck—usually by towing it. Here, people assumed the friend was doing that job because he was helping get the car back on a trailer.

Term

trailer

A trailer is like a platform that gets pulled by another vehicle to move a car. It’s used when the car can’t be driven normally, so it gets transported more safely.

Term

bungee cord

A bungee cord is a stretchy strap people use to hold things down. The speaker is saying they were the one who used it, which matters because it could affect whether something stays secured during moving.

Term

12 volt system

Most older cars use a 12-volt electrical system. That means the battery and a lot of the car’s electronics are designed to run on 12 volts.

Term

hybrid system

A hybrid system is a car setup that uses both a gas engine and an electric motor. It also adds extra electronics and a battery, so the car’s computer systems work differently than on a normal gas-only car.

Term

ECU for the combustion engine

This is the computer that controls the gas engine. In a hybrid car, it still runs the engine, but it also has to communicate with the other computers so everything works together.

Term

transmission control module

The transmission control module is the car’s computer for the gearbox. It decides when to shift and how the transmission should behave, based on signals from the engine and hybrid systems.

Term

body control module

The body control module is the car’s computer that handles lots of everyday electrical features, like lights and wipers. It also communicates with the other car computers.

Term

suspension

Here, suspension means the car’s ride/handling system. On newer cars it can be electronically controlled, and it can communicate with the other computers to help the car behave correctly.

Concept

undo everybody's work

If someone else already worked on the car and it still isn’t right, the shop may have to undo that work first. That way they can figure out what the real problem is and fix it properly.

Term

half electric thing

They mean the car is partly electric, not fully gas-only. That usually means it has a battery and electric parts working alongside the engine.

Term

wiring

They mean the cables and connectors that connect the car’s electronics together. If you’re working near the front wheel area, you may have to move or pin out wiring to reach parts safely.

Term

driver's side front wheel

They’re describing the specific corner of the car they were working on—the front wheel on the driver’s side. That’s where they noticed lots of electrical parts and wiring.

Term

electric system

They’re talking about the car’s electrical parts—wiring, modules, and related components. On hybrids, these can be more complex and take more effort to access during repairs.

Term

reverse engineer

Reverse engineering is the process of taking an existing system (like software or electronics) and analyzing it to understand how it works, often to replicate or modify its behavior. In this context, the speaker says the necessary software wasn’t available yet to reverse engineer anything for the car.

Term

secondhand wheel

A “secondhand wheel” in modern cars can be more than just a physical rim—some wheel setups are tied into the car’s electronics (for example, sensors and calibration). The speaker’s issue is that a used wheel wasn’t compatible and was also damaged, so the workaround didn’t solve the problem.

Term

right to repair

“Right to repair” means car owners should be able to fix their own cars or use an independent mechanic. The idea is that manufacturers shouldn’t block access to the information and parts needed to do repairs.

Term

multi-spline bolt

A multi-spline bolt is a bolt with a special shaped head that needs a matching tool to remove it. It’s designed so the tool grips better and is less likely to strip the bolt.

Term

caliper

A caliper is part of the braking system that squeezes the brake pads against the spinning brake disc. The bolt they mention is part of how that caliper is held together or serviced.

Term

brake pads

Brake pads are the parts that create stopping power by squeezing against the brake discs. If the car is designed so owners can’t service them easily, it can push repairs toward the manufacturer or a specialist.

Car

Chevrolet C5

The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car designed for fast driving and fun handling. It’s known for being a popular choice among people who like performance cars. The podcast mentions it while talking about earlier cars they had around that time period.

Car

Citroen C5

The Citroën C5 is a popular Citroën family car. Here, the speaker is talking about an early diesel system and how the car’s computers can limit power (“limit mode”) if something goes wrong.

Term

common radio diesel

A common-rail diesel is a type of diesel engine fuel system. It uses a high-pressure fuel line (“rail”) to deliver fuel to the injectors in a controlled, precise way, which helps the engine run smoother and more efficiently.

Term

limit mode

“Limit mode” is a protective strategy where the car’s engine management restricts power and/or throttle response after detecting a fault. It’s meant to prevent damage, but it can feel like the car suddenly won’t accelerate normally.

Term

main dealers

“Main dealers” are the brand’s official service centers. They usually use the manufacturer’s repair rules, which can lead to replacing expensive parts instead of fixing smaller issues.

Term

module's faulty

A “module” is an electronic control unit or subsystem (like a body control or sensor controller) that manages specific functions. When a module is “faulty,” the dealer may diagnose it as defective and choose replacement rather than component-level repair.

Term

clone all the data

“Clone all the data” means copying the ECU’s settings from the old unit to the replacement. That way, the replacement computer can be made to work like the original one.

Term

second-hand ECU

A “second-hand ECU” is a used computer from another car. It can be cheaper than a new one, but it usually needs to be set up so it works with your specific vehicle.

Topic

main dealer vs specialist service

They’re discussing whether it’s better to service a supercar at a dealership or at a specialist shop. The host is basically asking if specialists are more competent for these cars.

Car

Audi R8

The Audi R8 is a fast, high-performance supercar. The host is saying they’d rather have a specialist work on it than rely on a dealership.

Car

Ferrari 458 Spider

The Ferrari 458 Spider is a Ferrari with a mid-mounted engine and a roof that can open and close. In this part of the episode, the speaker is talking about their car while they’re at a Ferrari dealership.

Term

instrument cluster

An instrument cluster is the part of the car that shows important info to the driver, like warning lights and gauges. The speaker is describing a small one mounted up near the roof.

Brand

Bugatti

Bugatti is a famous luxury car brand that makes very expensive, high-performance supercars. Here, the discussion is about whether problems or bad press are hurting how people feel about the brand—and whether that changes sales.

Term

reputation

A brand’s reputation is what people think about it—whether they trust it and respect it. If the reputation drops, fewer people want to buy the car or show it off.

Term

B58

“B58” is the name BMW uses for a specific engine. It’s a turbocharged six-cylinder, and it’s known for being powerful without being wasteful.

Term

service centres

“Service centres” are the official places where a car brand sends you to get repairs done. The discussion is about whether independent shops might start doing more of that work instead.

Concept

private garages

“Private garages” are independent mechanics/repair shops that aren’t run by the car brand. The speaker is saying owners might use them more if parts and fixes become easier to get.

Car

Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron is a famous supercar that’s known for being insanely fast and expensive. Saying someone is beating on it means they’re driving it aggressively, even though it’s a car most people treat with a lot of care.

Car

Bugatti

Bugatti is a luxury performance car brand that makes some of the most extreme supercars in the world. Here, they’re talking about a “Bugatti room,” meaning an area connected to that brand.

Topic

YouTube views for supercar builds

They talk about how well supercar build videos do online—how many views they get and why people watch. It’s more about the media side than car mechanics.

Concept

factory at the end

“Factory at the end” means the finished car looks like it was built that way at the factory. It’s praising the quality of the work and how clean the final result looks.

Term

fuses

A fuse is a small safety device in the car’s wiring. If too much electricity flows to a circuit, the fuse blows so the wiring doesn’t overheat and get damaged.

Term

pinout

A pinout is like a wiring diagram for a connector. It tells you which specific wire goes to which contact, so you can check whether the right signals are reaching the right parts.

Term

communication

On modern cars, many computers talk to each other. “Communication” means those computers can exchange messages—so if one system isn’t talking properly, it can cause multiple symptoms.

Term

whole circuit

Instead of checking only one part, you trace the entire electrical path. The issue could be anywhere along the wiring and connections between the computer and the component.

Term

Canvas

“Canvas” sounds like a main wiring loop that runs around the car. Other parts connect to it, so if there’s a problem in that main loop, more than one system can act up.

LIVE

The men they all call when something is impossible to fix.

Bob and Dips want to know exactly who the worst is to work with.

If you're telling you the worst is to work with, yeah?

Shall I tell you that now?

Go on, then.

Matt rang me because I think the keys were locked in the M5

and then after that is just everyone else.

There's 278 million views on my work

across all YouTube channels in two years.

I don't know what he does.

Absolutely no idea.

You just leave me sitting there on a somewhat weird house.

Keys and breaking into carriages and going there.

I was trying to weld and I just blew a big hole through the wing

and now I was just like, I really need Bob right now.

Where do I start?

Bob, you must be now itched.

As much as you recall the Lamborghini's wedges of cheese,

something like that coming to the channel to take on.

I don't think of anything worse.

I have no interest in it.

Like, I was always happy with my bike

and, you know, just going to work and enjoying it.

I've got a David Lloyd gym membership.

You've changed, I've lost myself again.

Have you ever had to ask for work, though,

to be cut out of a video?

Yeah.

So it's usually on videos.

I'm like, listen, just please delete that.

One of the six out of my head was when I was doing the radio

was going to refine the radio back and forth.

That entire thing was such an eye right.

And then on one of the trips.

The men, they all call when something is impossible to fix.

Bob and Dips, both of you have sat in the back of this van before.

Yeah.

But on your own, individually for a road to success podcast,

understanding about how you got to where you are today.

But I have always wanted to sit you together in the back of this van

because I knew it was going to be an hour of absolute carnage.

So I think what we'll do is kick off with Bob and ask,

do you remember the first time you ever met Dips?

Yeah, I do, actually.

You were just sat in the car.

I knew who Dips was, but you're sat in.

I don't know what Carol was.

It was definitely about Matt's new unit.

Yeah.

It would probably be the Revolto.

No, it was before that.

I don't know which one because they all looked the same to me.

We're just like fast cheese wedges.

And yeah, you're like unreasonably quiet.

When I'm working, I just kind of stick my head into my work

and stay away from everybody and just like do my own thing.

So I would have said hello and say and introduce myself and stuff.

And then just like, yeah.

I just thought he was arrogant.

Yeah, did you?

No.

I thought we had some early flipping drama there.

So you met what two years ago now, a year ago?

I don't know, about a year ago.

Yeah, something like that.

So I've been working with Matt two years.

Actually, two years today is when I did that Gallardo guy.

What are you bro?

The date down.

No, I came up with it in my hand.

He's tattooed it on his arm.

And how long have you been working with Matt?

I don't know about four years maybe, something like that.

Because I know the first automotive YouTuber you really did any work with

was Matt before then, all of them started dropping into your DMs.

But was that the same for you?

No, so it was Chris that rang me first and then I worked on his Audi TT,

the fire damaged one.

And then Matt rang me because I think the keys were locked in the M5.

Well, we thought the keys were locked in the M5.

And then after that, it was just everyone else.

Yeah, we're going to go into everyone else today

because you've pretty much done jobs for absolutely everybody.

And I want to know exactly who the worst is to work with.

Who causes you the most trouble?

It's exactly what they asked me not to do.

Which of you the worst is to work with?

Yeah, shall I tell you that now?

Go on then, you.

You walked into it.

Oh, my God.

Since you two have met, what was the first project that you're on together?

We don't really work very closely together

because there's two different ends of the spectrum.

Like I'll come in, I'll do like the structure and stuff.

And then I'm like usually a lot of steps before you.

I mean, so I'll make it into the shape it should be.

And then you get to running.

So I don't know what he does.

Absolutely no idea.

Just see me sitting there on the keys and breaking into characters and going there.

Obviously, it's two completely different things.

But is it really that alien to you?

Because you're obviously mechanical and technical to be able to do what you do.

Far beyond both of you, my abilities are.

But is it still really alien to both of you?

I don't know.

For me as well, like watching him do what he does is like it's mind blowing.

Like just to see his mind, he'll just like I can see him.

Just like you can see the cogs just go in and you're like flipping.

That's good to know the way that he does it.

And he makes it look so simple.

That's the crazy part.

I was saying to Bob the other day, I was just trying to we've got the welder

and everything and I was trying to weld and I just blew a big hole through the wing.

And I was like, I'm so glad that wasn't my Ferrari when there's just a separate wing

that we had and I was trying to weld some aluminium on it.

And I was just like, I really need Bob right now.

Because I don't even know what settings I'm supposed to be pressing on this thing.

So you've had a go at doing what he does, not my own one.

But have you ever had a go at doing what he does?

It's easy. You just wave it down.

Clear code.

Press it to your butt.

Yeah, press it to your butt.

Clear code.

Done.

We think to make everything look easy because since both of you were last on

quite a lot's happened in each of your respective lives.

Dip, since you were last on a year ago, you've acquired a Ferrari, which is

I don't know if I call that Ferrari because it's well, it is buying.

Yeah, it is a Ferrari chassis number.

That's it, but it's not really a very clean one.

And since you were last on, you've gone from 100,000 subscribers

to north of two.

I bet you know the exact number as well, but north of 200,000 subscribers

in like three months or just a few minutes ago hit 230,000.

That is amazing.

Yeah, it's insane.

I don't see any kind of growth like that.

It's and I find so you've managed to kind of carve in your content of recent

a completely different style to a lot of the channels that are out there as well.

There's so much entertainment levered into it.

And you get so much of your personality pulling through as well.

But dips, it's been a while since you last uploaded a video and people know

that you bought a Ferrari.

So what is going on with it?

So I've just been that busy.

I have recorded it.

I've recorded everything.

I've probably got about four videos that I just need to edit and upload.

I just have not had the chance, depending on when this podcast goes out.

There might be one out already by then.

So I'm going to kick my ass to this weekend.

Actually sit down and edit a video because I'm not as rich as Bob.

So he has people that do the editing for him and everything.

People like me who are just just there at the bomb have to do it all themselves.

So I just saw that's the first time anybody's ever referred to me as rich.

From the guy from the Ferrari.

I'm feeling it.

I'm just in my van.

Yeah, I looked at it and I was like, he does welding.

Why is there so many dents on it?

Oh, that's perfect.

But you're referring to yourself there.

Yes, in a jokey manner, but I'm down here at the bottom on this guy and that guy.

Yeah, you're probably the most well known car auto technician in the country.

You created a huge personal brand of yourself, got into all of the right doors

with all of the right people, all the right channels to allow yourself

the opportunity to do something like take on projects of yourself and a Ferrari

build for you. But just how screwed is that car?

It's bad. It needs a lot of work doing to it.

So we noticed when we pulled the engine out, there was loads of things like

bolts were loose, engine, the gearbox wasn't even mounted on one area of it.

Like the mounting point of it was no bolt in there.

The engine had loose bolts on it, like the sump bolts were all loose.

So I'm glad we've took all that out.

The framework was completely bent.

So we need to get Bob into work his magic on that as well.

But yeah, there's it's going to look good when it's done.

And we've got I think we've got thousands of signatures on it now as well.

And I've got a feeling that hand.

Yeah, and the hand. I was wondering, I was like, who's hand is this?

Who's hand is this?

It's just picked me when he said that it is.

Yeah, there's a lot to do on it still, but it's going to look good when it's done.

Bob, you must be now itched as much as you

call the Lamborghinis wedges of cheese and all the rest of it.

I'm nearly sure that there'll be something like that

coming to the channel to take on that's absolutely smashed to bits at some point.

Is that is that correct?

Or is that far from the truth?

Can't think of anything worse than doing that.

I have no interest in it.

Like I am.

So I my interests have changed.

I'm not sure if it's kind of getting older

or because of people hanging around or like have money now.

And like I can compare them to my old friends and my better friends now.

So I've got like the other people that hang around here

and then like all the rich YouTubers I hire under like

and it's kind of give me a bit of a taste of different lives and stuff.

And I'm I've always kind of had like not a lot.

Like I was always happy with my bike and you know, she's going to work

and is enjoying it, but I am starting to enjoy like the finer things in life.

I've got a David Lloyd gym membership.

Oh, you really do.

It's my only luxury life. I love it.

You've changed.

I've come out since then.

He's the most certainly guest.

David Lloyd.

Not even just like a normal gym around the corner or anything.

It's got to be David Lloyd, isn't it?

No, it makes sense to me because like I literally have no other.

I work, you know what I work like I just never stop.

A seven days a week is 10, 12 hour days every day.

And you know, I'm just getting I'm making sure I get up earlier, two hours earlier

and I go in and I'll go to the gym, I'll have a swim and I'll come in here

as a rule, you know, at least four days a week.

But well, I don't really enjoy doing it.

So I might as well make it a little bit more nicer by going somewhere nice to do it.

So just changing bits and pieces like that.

But to go back to the car side of things, I I'm when I was over at

Matt in Miami, he took me to the keys of the hurricane.

I was driving around and I was like, yes, it's not bad.

It's not bad. No, I did enjoy it.

And my cameraman, Gish, he thinks it would be really, really great for the channel

if I go and get a smashed up hurricane and rebuild it for myself.

And I'm like, all I do every day is take apart people's crashed stuff,

put it back together, weld it and hand it back to them.

Yeah. And the last thing I want to do on spare time is do that again.

Like it's just I've been doing it for 20 years.

I like my my spare time is like

I challenge you on that a bit, though.

You have clearly enjoyed growing your YouTube channel

enthusiastic about reducing really good content.

You've got a great cameraman.

Does the idea of not just doing it for the content come into your mind?

Yes, it does.

But we've got we've got lots of things that we're planning on doing.

So we've got another building that we're looking at making

for to move the machine shop to.

We're also looking at possibly getting a massive truck,

like a rigid truck and converting that.

And then we can move that to different YouTubers

and provide a better service in a bigger way.

And like a mobile media kind of a

thing that you can move around like camera stations or all sorts of fancy stuff.

I'm more interested in building that because that's

it's not just repairing another car.

It's you know, it's woodwork.

It's it's it's I get to learn more doing that than I would rebuild another car.

Look, there's there's no difference in any car to me.

Like you can have all Volkswagen T5, you know, crashed

or you can have a Huracan crashed.

It's still Ben Chassie rails are still a radiator.

It's still panels. It's still lights.

It's still the same the same stuff all.

They're all the same of you.

The different shapes only necessarily learn that to its

fullest extent since working with the YouTubers like both of you.

Is it open your eyes to the fact that a Ferrari

that's worth 300 grand is wired the same as something else?

So for me, I was working on super cars before the YouTube stuff.

It became more obvious when obviously we started doing the videos and everything.

But it's always been like that for me, like a car is just a car.

But I still love cars.

So a Lamborghini is a wow thing for me.

It's not just a normal car.

But when I'm working on it, it's just a normal car

because all I've got to do is fix the fault that's on there.

You know, I mean, like there might be a wiring or there might be coding

or there might be keys or something.

So whether I'm doing a VW Golf or I'm doing a Lamborghini Huracan,

the process of that is still going to be the same.

There might be slight differences, but generally it's the same.

So you said a minute ago just how busy you are and the days you work.

I know that you are exactly the same.

But the one difference in that conversation is you teased in

that he's got all this money and all these people.

Maybe it's more like he can actually delicate a new car.

I just I think that's it is a problem of mine.

I think I'm not trying to micromanage or anything.

And I hate that because I just don't think it helps in anyone.

It doesn't help the people that are doing the work.

It doesn't help the person who's micromanaging it.

But for me, it's just like if I've got to train someone up

and then send them out on the road and it's just that whole you train them up.

And then if they don't stay, then they go and I've just wasted that.

Have you had that with people before?

Years ago, yeah.

But I think I need to just open up to the idea of right, OK, look,

just get someone budding and we were talking outside the van.

And I'm sure the viewers could maybe visualise this

because it is millions of views weekly

that people are seeing you guys and your skills and what you can do.

Genuinely, how many phone calls have you had in a day before?

Fifty.

Big day. Yeah.

And that's just the phone calls.

Then I've got the text messages, WhatsApp messages, emails,

messenger messages, like I've actually put my phone on silent

because I just know at some point it's probably going to get an email

or a WhatsApp or something like that.

So but it is so hard to keep up because I was just talking to you outside about this.

I got a message of someone and it was on a Saturday night at 6 20.

We were at Silverstone.

This was last week and the guy the guy messages me and he's like,

Hi, I've got I've got an air conditioning fault on my Audi S3.

Can you fix it?

So it was 6 20 in the evening.

And I'm like, we were at Silverstone.

It was noisy. I was like, oh, when I finish and I get back home,

I'll reply back to them within one hour and 20 minutes.

He's messaged back saying, oh, so this is this is what you're going to do.

You're going to air me.

Don't worry, I'll leave a review.

I got that. I'm like, seriously.

So then I messaged back instantly because I was like, I don't want to.

I don't want to be rude.

And I was just like, look, unfortunately, I'm not in work right now.

I'll be back in work on Monday.

Soon as I get back into work, I'll have a look into this and let you know if it's

something that we can take on.

You're a lot more diplomatic than I know.

And then, yeah.

And then on Monday, and then he the weird thing was is as I messaged that,

he was like, oh, thanks, Tips.

I'm a really big fan.

And I'm like, hang on a second.

You just told me you're going to like give me a bad review.

And now you're saying you're a really big fan.

And then on Monday, I just messaged him back and I was like,

unfortunately, it's not a job I want to take on.

So and he goes, what, you can't help me?

And I was like, it's not a job and that I want to take on.

So how have your lives changed from the famous things from being on camera?

Because you're both so recognisable for different things.

Oh, the highs everywhere.

Everywhere I go, women are throwing bras at me.

Oh, Diz.

No, it's not nothing like that.

You're jewelry.

No, no.

But is it changed your lives positively or negatively?

Positively.

Yeah, absolutely positive.

I'm not one for fame.

I'm very much like, keep to myself kind of guy.

And when I'm out and about and somebody comes up and introduces me,

so that sells me a while to take a picture or whatever.

Yeah, brilliant.

Absolutely.

I can say like, I love it and enjoy it.

I get excited about it whatsoever.

But it's really nice to know that somebody's out there

and kind of appreciating the work and that sort of stuff.

And it's it's really good.

It made me very uncomfortable at the start.

I didn't like it.

And then I kind of realized that you're being a bit of a nob.

Like this is they're coming up just be nice to you.

And like they're they're they're really happy for you.

It's as you give them your time.

Yeah, exactly.

And I've had to kind of train my brain into stop being kind of

introverted around that sort of stuff.

And just like, yeah, no problem.

Take two seconds, introduce, always ask the name or say what you're doing.

Why do you watch your videos?

Why are you interested in what I'm doing?

And and nearly 100% of the time, they just they want to do something like that

themselves. And, you know, that's been my career for years now is just teaching

people that had a bit of an interest and had to do stuff.

So it's just a continuation of that.

And the other side of it is the opportunities that come along with with that as well.

Like tips were saying, like your phone never stops.

I've had to, like, put order applies on every platform to funnel everybody to a

business WhatsApp.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one going through that.

I was saying I was like, I'm so I'm struggling so much because I'm trying

to reply back to people and then you'll send them a message.

And then it's like, oh, I need another message.

But it is so hard to get it all to one thing.

What I've what I've done is like order applies.

Yeah, this is the number and this is how you ask for a job.

So what we do is we say send a video of what you want doing.

Yeah, make it no longer than a minute long because I won't watch it.

Yeah, because there's this guy who's like, oh, I've got you some welding to do on my

bike. It's a 1947 BSA.

I'll show you.

And he turns around and he opens the back door of his garden.

He starts walking to his shed.

Yeah, and this is all he's lovely.

You can tell he's having a lovely and it's like a four and a half minute video

and two minutes of him taking a lot of stuff.

It's kind of a new the mock up thing.

He's like, I'm just going to put the phone down once.

So you get videos like that and which is fine.

You get them from time to time, but it's a it's a you kind of have to be a little

bit like it's a really, really nice position to be in because there's other people out

there and I spent the first four or five years of my business struggling to get

work, like fighting, like really being really scrappy, trying to get work.

I remember going to a boot first.

They get boot sales days.

Yeah, I am sales.

Yeah, yeah.

And Stanley and I made to steal them.

I don't know if it's a really we don't really have a whole lot of car boot sales

in Ireland because when you go to a car boot sale, it's a really strange

like culture there because it's just

like one person sells their crap to another person.

And they sell it.

I don't think anything ever leaves a car boot sale.

There should be a YouTube or car boot sale.

Cars and pots and everything have been moved around everywhere.

That's hilarious.

So I went there.

I was handed out leaflets.

I was going to different car meets and bike shows.

And I had a plot of all the the local bike meets in all the different pubs

in the area and I'd go out to them.

I went cycling one time because my van blew up.

It was in the middle of Covid.

We were just coming out of a lockdown.

I had no money to repair my van.

So I jumped on my bike and I cycled from here to Coventry on the canal routes

and leaflets to body shots teach them how to weld.

And like I was scrapping for just like absolutely just paid around to keep

the doors open.

That's all stuff who's miserable.

And now it's it's there's people still out there like that.

That would be having that sort of like having to scrap and people

that start new businesses and be a isn't that or maybe haven't dialed

down to the admin side of the business like what you're saying yet.

You've got inquiries coming from all directions.

You need to figure out how to get them into one place.

And there were people out there that are new to business and haven't figured

out the stuff that I had to figure out that are struggling to get enough

money in or get enough custom.

And now I'm on the other side of that where I've got too much,

which is he's really privileged place to be.

And well, yeah, I'll give you a hand with what was more stressful having

more or less, even though you like having more.

And it's good because it's more stressful to manage.

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It's what stress would you want?

Do you know what I mean?

For me, I know I'd rather the work be there continuously and I'd rather be able

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And we were talking outside the van about could you guys

because you've pretty much been on everyone's channel.

I mean, you had a front bumper of a Bugatti Vailer in your head the other day

from another YouTuber, Mark McCann, who if you haven't seen,

everybody was on the podcast with Jane just the other day.

Alex Kirsten's Carleton.

Oh, is that Alex?

Yes, exactly.

So could you could you guys almost be full time for the YouTubers?

And do you ever have to control that with new creators,

even if they've got good followings and are coming up and going like, I've got enough.

I have been in that position where I've had two or three YouTubers

trying to get to me in one week or trying to get work for me in one week.

And I have had to like just put the extra hours in the way I see it.

When a YouTuber comes to me, it's it's an opportunity.

And like, I don't know how many all-nighters I've called for for YouTubers.

It's not who they are.

Get it done.

And I'll just stay up all night.

Because I think it's just kind of from going through all that earlier on in the business

where I didn't have it.

I didn't have the opportunities to do this sort of stuff.

I'll just take it.

I'll grab it with both hands, but I don't need to do the all-nighters now

because I've got a team behind me now and it's working really well.

It's flowing now.

But it's just very different.

But it's good different.

What about for you?

It's something that I'd like to do, go full time, have it as full time purely YouTube.

But for me to do show the videos, I have to get the cars in,

which means I can't only be doing YouTubers cars,

I've got to be doing everyone else's jobs as well.

But could they fill your time?

YouTubers, yeah, yeah.

Easily.

But the thing is, I have to sometimes say no as well.

Not say no.

If I like with Bob, when you've got like four or five YouTubers

that want a job doing in that week, but they're all around the UK,

but I have to get my paid work done as well,

because if I don't, then I don't pay the bills.

Do you see what I mean?

So I have to do that.

And it is an opportunity for me as well.

When I go and do like Max work, Chris is where Mark's work.

If I go and I said this before and I'll openly say is,

if I go and advertise on Google ads, it's going to cost me so much money.

If I get on a video and it goes out to millions of people,

it works for both of us.

Do you see what I mean?

In my eyes, it's the perfect way of advertising, really.

Also, it's how the transaction is done.

Yeah, so some YouTubers are bigger than other YouTubers.

And some YouTubers, a massive YouTuber might have a very small job.

That might take a few minutes.

Or a smaller YouTuber might have a huge job or vice versa.

And then it's kind of like, right, I could go and do this massive job

for a small YouTuber.

I need to charge him.

How much do you charge him?

You do a cost, do you do a free?

It's kind of weighing up and then why are they expecting from you?

And I'm finding that hard to navigate,

especially because my channel has grown so much.

It's like people who are used to do jobs for free

just to try and get on their channel and grow.

My channel is now bigger than theirs.

And I'm like, that's kind of an awkward conversation.

I'm like, yeah, I have no kind of...

It's fun, they're all here.

You say it on air now anyway.

I'm always straight out with it because I don't have the memory to light somebody

because they could call me out in about 10 minutes and I'll be like, huh?

So I'm just like, right, I'll do as much as I can for as cheap as I can.

This is what I think I can do it for.

If it goes beyond that, then this is what it might cost you and beyond that.

So giving kind of bands, I think would be fair.

So like Matt, everybody's like this.

The comments about me and Matt's videos are just wild.

Oh, Matt should build me a car and I'll ask, why should he build me a car?

First of all, I don't want a car.

Second of all, I don't deserve a car because I was helping him out.

That being on YouTube with Matt and the opportunities,

that's opened up even more with other YouTubers.

For example, when I first start working with Matt on his Gellardo,

there's 278 million views on my work across all YouTube channels in two years.

I've got a playlist of them and it's not just Matt's channel.

It's Save and Salivage, it's Chris, it's my own.

It's professional idiots.

It's all the time.

I've been on like 15 or 16 different channels since May.

It's 278 million views as of last week or something when we last counted it up.

And it's kind of a.

I'm getting a huge amount of work flowing towards the business.

We've got the WhatsApp that comes in and then the boys take care of any bits and

pieces of jobs and like the HMRC series and stuff that's going really well.

And we're just working on loads of stuff for people all the time.

But costing up for jobs is always kind of a really kind of,

I don't know how to do it and I don't know where I sit within their head as well.

I don't know what they're expecting.

And what is my, am I an asset to their channel or am I not?

Are like, are they expecting me to do a free?

Or if I ask for, you know, if I put in a cheap price, are they going to go?

Who's this fellow?

I think he is there and be offended by it.

And then if I put, and then sometimes I put in a price there, that's way too low.

Like charge properly.

I'm like, oh, I didn't know.

It's always a kind of a thing that I'm trying to figure out,

but I'm straight out with them.

I'll give them a phone call or just say, like, where are we?

Where are we standing on price?

Just get out on the table and talk about it.

You guys are obviously extremely talented in your individual fields.

And I'm going to think of this almost like Sports Month.

And there'll be so many people because it's an Automotive podcast

that's followed Formula One here.

And even in F1, you can have some of the best drivers on the gray,

George Russell, Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri at the minute,

isn't really performing.

Charles the Clerk isn't really performing and there's a bit of pressure.

In front of the cameras, when the cameras are on and everyone's on

and your phones are ringing off the earth from other work and customers,

and it's like all this pressure, are there times

because you're doing something that requires so much problem solving,

where you do actually like, the brain's just not working?

Or are you guys just, is it like putty?

Do you never have a problem?

Rarely. And when I do it, I kind of notice it.

So I do experience burnout, but a lot of what I do is repetitive.

So fixing the front end of a Ferrari here last week,

it's box section welded together, put in a bit of measurement tape.

It's like, I've done it so many times, I kind of know what to do.

And I find when I've burnt out, I can kind of sit in that

and still maintain my, or say not maintain, but still kind of truck along.

I've got, I get very slow, but I can still get the job done.

But some people are affected by burnout a lot more than I am.

Yeah, I think for me, it's not just a burnout,

but for me, it's more about if I'm doing a job and I have to really concentrate

on trying to figure something out, because I've never done it before.

And it's maybe some coding or trying to code a module or just anything like that.

And then my phone's going and I'm like, oh, I'll ring them back.

And then they're constantly ringing, then they'll message,

and then you get another phone call, another phone call.

And it's just like, I feel like just screaming, like,

just leave me alone for a moment.

I just want to concentrate on this thing.

And sometimes it's so, so difficult because you've got the camera on you.

You're doing something you've never done before.

So you might make a mistake, but you know that on camera,

I don't want that to be seen because then people will be like,

oh, look, he doesn't know what he's doing.

And I'm like, I'm human.

I'm still, I'm, do you know what I mean?

I've never done it before.

Do you know when something goes wrong on camera?

That does bother me.

I want you to be honest here.

You always are, but I can tell you track the figures.

Like you track the figures, you track your players,

you're very organized.

How much do you track the comments when you've been in a video?

I am aware of pretty much all of them.

You got better with dealing with them,

or have you always been sandwiched with dealing with them?

It's a learning thing.

I'll kill you.

No, it's trying to get into the mindsets of somebody

who says stuff like that.

Like, some of the comments are wild.

The hidden comments are the best.

That's the forest face I'd go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's crazy, isn't it?

It's vile sometimes.

I'm like, why did you say that?

I would tell that section.

No, I don't think everybody...

Don't.

I had a hard time.

The lad that had some money

that had a bit more opportunity than everybody else.

Dada, Dada, Dada.

Go on Matt's channel.

Starts to do the videos.

So many people loved it.

They got to do that.

Oh, my God, they're actually like fair play.

He's actually pushing the car.

But it took a long time for Pete to get with me, that fair play.

I remember once I sat with Matt and he...

I went, oh, the comments weren't too bad on that video.

I think it was Jones or something.

It just opened up like the hidden ones that YouTube had censored.

And I went, oh, wow.

And they don't usually get to me,

but like that wasn't I open.

I can't...

Yeah, you found that then.

No, yeah, I found that.

So my camera guy, Jish,

he's got his own quite successful YouTube channel anyway.

So he knows everything inside out.

As I say to everybody,

I've been doing what I do for a very long time.

I've not changed none of them.

The only difference is I've got a really good camera man with me now.

And that's what's made everything explode.

Well, he knows his way in around all our stuff.

So he showed me on the first video that we put out,

he's like, oh, this has been said.

I'm like, Bob, your hair is gay there.

And I was like, I get a lot of that, you know?

I get a lot of that.

And I usually just like,

I know something that like is like really,

there was a son father saying that my hair,

I looked like a puff or something.

And then we went on to his channel after that comment.

And it's him talking about some deodorant.

Well, he's in a blonde wig there.

And I was like, oh, he's right.

I was just sitting there.

I was like, these people really sets your brain a bit, doesn't it?

I can't get into the headspace of some of the people

making these comments.

It's just fascinating to some point.

Even at times, read the comments.

So when I first started getting on the videos,

other people's videos,

I was going through all of the comments.

As soon as I see dits, I'll be like,

oh, quickly read it, it.

And then now I'm just like, yeah, I'll just leave it.

If I see it, I'll go through the comments.

If I see something where people are like, oh, yeah,

great to see dits back on.

I'll put a thank you or whatever.

But generally, I'll try not to.

When my Ferrari, the boot lid flew open

and we post that video,

my friend, he's the one that bought the car

back for me on the trailer.

And everyone thought he was a recovery driver.

So the video went up at five o'clock.

I was on the motorway.

My mates rang me and said, have you seen the comments section?

I'm like, no.

I ended up pulling into services.

And I sat there for 45 minutes deleting comments

because they were going in on him so hard.

Like, who's this guy?

He should pay for it.

This, that, this.

I'm like, it's not his fault.

Firstly, I'm the one that gave the bungee cord.

Secondly, my friend's helping me bring in the car back.

Do you know what I mean?

It's not, things happened.

Like, and people went in on him so bad.

And I felt bad for him because he's helped me out so much.

Like, he's done loads for me.

And I'm like, oh my God, I feel really bad about this.

And I sat there.

I deleted 500 comments.

I deleted 500 comments out of that video.

And honestly, the funniest one was someone put on the head

that you should tear the African recovery driver

should pay for the boot lid.

And firstly, he's not even African yet.

He's not even African.

He's from Barbados.

And secondly, he's not a recovery driver.

He's just my mate bringing the car back.

Do you know what I mean?

But some of the people are going on comments and he's like,

oh my God.

And at one point, I wanted to reply back to people.

And everybody said to me, just ignore it.

Do not reply back.

Because I wanted to tell people to, like,

do you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I was really wound up.

And it was like, just don't respond.

Because the minute you respond to one,

it will just come back at you again.

Have you ever had to ask for work, though,

to be cut out of a video for fear of the comments section?

Because you just made a mistake or got something wrong.

Yeah.

Not even for thinking very wrong.

They don't look to me, though.

Should we answer this?

I don't think.

I said no.

So it's usually on Matt's videos.

Yeah.

Well, do you know, just you're joking around and stuff like that?

Yeah.

I've said stuff.

Yeah.

And I'm like, Jonesy, just like, don't log that in.

A lot of stuff gets said behind the camera.

I'm like, listen, just please delete that.

And I'll say it so that when Matt's editing it,

he'll see it on the video of me saying,

listen, please don't put that in the video.

But yeah, it's just all like, you know what I mean?

It's just generally like fun stuff.

One of the things out of my head

was when I was doing the radios in Miami

and we were flying the radios back and forth.

That was such an eye-mare.

That entire thing was such an eye-mare.

I just went wrong for you.

I'm not sure.

Does anybody watch it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that.

So we had, everybody thought that I was just flying back

and forth for a week.

I said, yeah.

I did two trips.

I went over with the radios, knowing they wouldn't fit.

Because Matt brought me these crash radios to you.

Yeah, the bend.

There were all sorts of shapes, yeah.

And I was like, I'll do my best.

And we figured it out and kind of got them close.

Knowing they wouldn't fit.

We'll bring them back to America.

We'll mark where they won't fit.

And then we'll modify them back in the chain shop.

And it's easy because we're going back and forth anyway.

Yeah.

And then on one of the tricks, it got,

I don't know, launched out of the back of the plane

or something, whatever.

And the thing broke on the end.

Yeah, it just started leaking a bit.

So I was like, fine, it has to get record.

Next thing to come in.

So they didn't pressure test it.

They didn't do this.

They didn't do that.

I was like, oh my God.

And at this stage, I'd kind of grown a bit of a skin

to not really worry about too much.

I thought my way of dealing with them,

because I don't like deleting comments.

I think that's like, in your case, yes, absolutely.

There's just abuse of-

Especially when you're a taxpayer.

I think it's obvious when you start deleting comments.

Of course, you can't be on the comments for 24 hours a day.

You're going to miss some of them.

And then people will pick up on stuff

and then they don't see it the next day.

It's going to hit the noise.

So I'd rather explain to them.

So I just had a copy, pastes message saying,

hey, thanks for watching.

This is what's actually happened.

We did pressure test them when we did this,

where he did this.

And then he just got down and just like, yeah.

Hopefully that explains it.

And thanks for watching.

Hopefully we can do better for you next time

and all the rest of this stuff.

And then you got such a sweet reply after that

from a person who thought you were a lot of a cock before.

And they're like, oh yeah, no problem.

But we just didn't see it because it wasn't in the video.

And we love your work and all this stuff.

And it completely changes.

And I put a lot of time into that.

Now, as you're right, I do spend a lot of time in the comments

because I want the culture within the comments section

to be positively good.

And I have a good kind of culture within.

As I said, put culture within the comments.

And the only way of doing that is those people

who are being nasty, instead of hiding them

or deleting them or giving a bad response,

actually kind of try and bring them on site

and almost make a follower or subscriber from them.

And you got to hope for your supporter.

That's why I spent time in the comments.

Could everyone subscribe to P1AuteCue's channel

and the Machine Shot channel as well?

Could you all subscribe to the Road to Success podcast?

Yes, just go and follow her.

Really?

Dinger Lab.

Did you guys watch much YouTube prior to doing what you're doing?

You didn't watch any?

Nothing.

I used to watch car electronics stuff a little bit,

but didn't watch any of the automotive YouTubers.

Not one or none of them.

And then slowly, after Chris's,

I started watching all the others.

Then I just went through everybody's back catalog.

Yeah, just spent days just watching every video

that they've produced.

Matt's one ended up going right to the beginning.

I was like, right, let's just watch all of these.

Chris's went all the way down.

Mark McCann's went all the way down.

And I was like, these are brilliant.

These guys are.

Because you knew you were going to start doing more.

No, I just really enjoyed the videos after seeing

the odd one here and there.

And you're like, actually, these guys are really good.

I feel bad when I don't watch any of them.

Is that it?

No.

No, I've watched quite a lot of videos.

I don't really watch TV, though.

Mainly just like YouTube now.

Like literally don't watch TV.

Your escape's like heavy metal music, right?

And stuff like that.

What makes you think that?

Because there's cymbals, drums, and photos of you

with your eyes backwards.

I'm sorry, it's just everywhere.

And all the chains hanging off the buildings and everything.

Yeah, he's f*****g all about.

Yeah, pretty much.

It's more, I'd say, the majority of music I listen to,

it would be kind of metal-based.

But it's not like screaming heavy, angry dad kind of stuff.

It's very, very extremely varied.

Extremely varied.

I want to come to one of the gigs, wouldn't I?

Anyway, how do you meet one of their gigs?

Yeah, you send it.

See, you look happy right there.

We're in a great moment, but it's not always like that.

You said on one of the last podcasts,

I don't think there's any car that I can't fix slash repair.

Oh, no, I take that back.

There's loads of cars I can't fix.

Is that just the car?

No, I didn't say that there's a car I can't fix.

He's like, I think it's loading to a short.

I don't think there's any car I can't get into.

Okay, but up until I'd say that point,

and we're not having a go, it's like a couple of cars.

And you're doing stuff that's non-standard,

as you said, you're trying to figure out something

that's never been done before.

But is the problem for you hybrids?

Like, are they a completely different cat and a fetch?

Yes, yes, they are.

There's a lot of technology between all the different manufacturers,

which is very different.

And there's some bits that are very similar.

So it's like me having to learn everything again.

Do you know what I mean?

Like I've learned everything on the 12 volt system.

Now I'm having to learn everything on a hybrid system.

And it's it's a whole new ballgame.

And I didn't want to go into hybrids,

but some of those differences, just how everything works.

Like you've got, if you've got on a normal car,

like a 12 volt car and combustion engine car,

you've got 12 volt battery, you've got an engine,

and then you've got your electronics inside.

Yeah, everything's on 12 volts, five volts.

On new cars, you've got a hybrid system.

So now you've got an ECU for that hybrid system,

which is talking to the ECU for the combustion engine,

which is talking to the transmission control module,

which is talking to the body control module,

is talking to the instrument cluster,

is talking to the suspension,

is like everything's talking to each other.

And if there's one thing that doesn't like what it's seeing,

it just shuts the whole system down.

And then you've got to sit there,

trying to figure out what's been done to it

before you even got there.

Because someone's tried to play with it.

Do you know what I mean?

We used to have this thing that me and my old boss

used to say all the time,

the cars used to go to all the other garages in Leicester first,

and then they used to come to us.

And what we'd have to do is undo everybody's work,

put it back to how it was where it wasn't working,

and then try and fix that problem.

In the same way that you probably get it,

where someone's tried to fix something themselves,

but they've actually made it worse.

So what you've now got to do is take everything

that they've done off, and then start again,

and then put it back to how it should be.

But yeah, it's...

The further back you go almost,

the easier it is to face something sometimes.

I had someone put on the comments,

and I think it was on one of the Bugatti videos

or on something else on one of Matt's videos,

and they goes, oh, Dips, I've never seen Dips fix anything.

I was just...

Sorry about that.

That one...

That one, yeah, that one.

And I just replied back.

I was like, well, clearly you've not seen

all the videos that I've been on.

And that was me being polite.

I just felt...

I've really felt like telling him to f off.

Like, honestly, I'm like, mate, I wet my ass off here,

yeah, and you're telling me that I can't fix anything.

I mean, things do happen.

Yeah, maybe I can't fix everything, but...

I don't understand.

I remember when we were on the 2...

You worked on the 2...

296, yeah.

Black Ferrari thing with the big wings.

Yeah.

You're working around the...

That's not an act.

What?

The Ferrari thing with the big wings.

How do you been doing this?

Yeah, now.

Just don't know what they're called.

Out of all the supercars,

I have the least amount of interest in Ferraris.

Oh, my God.

Oh, you could have to repair one soon.

So, I am the...

Yeah, the...

That's a half electric thing?

Yeah.

Yeah, the wiring, and you're working on like the driver's side

front wheel.

Yeah, there's a lot of electric system hanging down there,

and you've all sorts of machines hanging off,

and it looked like you were going into operation,

you're pinning things out, and I was just like, stare at other.

I don't know.

I don't know. I'm going back to Weldon.

It's...

It's crazy.

I don't watch it.

It's crazy, but the thing is that...

That's what it does me more than anything,

is when you get these nasty ass comments here,

where people are just like,

oh, you don't know what you're doing,

they start you there, and that's one of the main reasons

why I don't really like reading the comments.

Was the 296 the worst for that?

I think that, yeah.

I think the 296 was the worst,

because obviously we tried to do the Revolta,

couldn't do it.

That's only because the software hadn't been developed

for us to even reverse engineer anything,

or even do anything.

Crazy.

Again, the same with the 296.

If we changed the wheel, we knew the wheel was like,

obviously needed replacing,

but we didn't know that a secondhand wheel wouldn't work,

or the secondhand wheel would also be damaged.

But if we did, then that would have been fixed,

and that car would have been running there,

without it going to Ferrari.

I mean, such problems ever mess with your mind,

and you think the manufacturers are then going to attempt

to make it even harder than it already is.

Manufacturers are always trying to make it harder.

They're always, they will do everything in their power

to make it harder.

I agree with that, because a lot of the conversations

that are happening at the moment are about the right to repair.

And in Europe, there is a right to repair.

You should be able to run in America, as I believe.

And you should be able to fix your own car.

And I think that we got to get around it by saying,

yeah, you can fix the car,

but we have to do it for safety reasons.

We'll sell you pallets, but you're not allowed to fit them.

That's what effectively they're saying,

which for me goes against the right to repair.

I think manufacturers have always been trying to make it hard

to repair your own car.

You've always done that in my experience.

I don't think that's a recent thing.

Like I remember when I first started messing around

cars with my dad years ago,

there was like a multi-spline bolt on the back of a caliper

and whatever car we're working on.

I'd never seen it because I just thought

used the normal six-sided hexes, but there's a multi-spline.

I said, what's that?

He goes, it's multi-spline.

They started putting on cars years ago.

So anybody who wanted to change their own brake pads couldn't.

You had to bring it back to the manufacturer.

And that was probably back in the 80s and stuff.

Like I am cars from the 80s.

And so they were at it then.

And then I remember we had a Citroen C5 around the year 2000.

And it was the first car we ever had with a common radio diesel.

And something happened.

It went into limit mode.

And my dad went looking for the cable, the accelerator caber,

because every car we ever had was an accelerator caber,

but now it had wires.

And it was a Citroen C5.

And of course, nobody could fix it.

Nobody in Ireland could fix it.

Or what should we do?

We had to bring it to a trailer like four hours to a specialist.

They were at it then.

They've always been doing it.

I don't think Anton's changed,

but it seems a bit more malicious now,

especially with the Revolta there.

And that was a nasty thing to try and fix,

especially because Lamborghini couldn't fix it either.

This is the thing because you spend a lot of your time, right?

Explain the rest of your time away from YouTube.

So you spend a lot of your time in main dealers, right?

Fixing problems they can't fix.

Yeah. So it's often things that the dealers probably could fix,

but it's going to cost them a lot more

because they can't go down the route of repairing.

They have to replace.

Do you see what I mean?

So dealerships will be like, okay, this module's faulty,

or there's a broken wire.

We're going to have to replace the whole wiring loom.

Whereas with me, they can call me in

and I can repair that wiring loom,

or we can repair the ECU or we can exchange...

I'll give you a perfect example is BMW,

if an ECU fails on it,

their solution is replace that ECU.

Whereas what we can do is go and get a second-hand ECU

and then clone all the data from one to another.

So one, it saves the customer money.

Two, it saves the dealership a lot of hassle.

So there's pros and cons to both.

Do you get snuck into dealerships?

Yeah.

Maybe two or...

Really?

Yeah.

In what way?

Even in some weekends where there's no one around.

Is it because you're a non-tech going in there?

Is that because the service advisor

doesn't want to admit defeat to someone else?

A lot of dealerships don't want their customers knowing

or don't want people knowing that they're getting outside help.

So people expect the dealer to be everything done in-house.

So if you've got a specific...

I don't know where this...

If you've got a manufacturer of supercars from Italy

and you have your car and it goes wrong or crashes or damages

and you bring it back to where it should be repaired,

the official repair center.

I've been brought to those official repair centers

out of hours before to do the work.

For whatever reason, I don't ask.

But yeah, it's three times, four times.

And two different manufacturers.

So it's so weird that because as a fellow supercar owner,

you know, meeting depths.

Think.

I've been in cars all throughout the years

and I've honestly got absolutely zero understanding

of how to even really take a wheel off a car properly

and be infested for me.

But my mindset has totally shifted.

Like if I had a car a few years ago,

I might have been like main dealer service history only,

not willing to go outside of that,

not willing to move through me and all of the people that I may

and from being a business owner

and watching how teams work and people work.

To me, main dealers don't have a clue

what they're doing these days.

I'd rather Ricky from RE Performance service,

my McLaren or my R8 or my Huracan have had.

Because I know it'll be done properly and it'll all be on.

And when I picture a main dealer,

all I picture is a 16-year-old apprentice

is working on my car for the first time.

Is that reality?

Do you think you're way better off with a specialist

these days than a main dealer?

Specialists tend to go in depth a bit more,

which is what I think.

And Joe, when I'm doing work on stuff,

I always imagine that Ricky's watching me.

Yeah.

I do always do.

Why don't you give it a 3 or 4th person to see it?

Yeah.

Because Ricky don't hold back.

He's got something to say, isn't he?

He's insane, right?

Yeah.

And I'm always thinking like,

is this going to be good enough?

Is Ricky going to be a judge for it?

Well, a lot of respect for Ricky.

He is.

He's brilliant.

Averton, he does.

He's brilliant.

That's so brilliant.

And when I'm working on stuff,

I sometimes I need to, like,

some of my methods.

Like, when I was doing the spaghetti on the floor,

that workshop where I was just beating with a piece of steel bar

that I could find.

Yeah.

I'm thinking, ah, Ricky's going to...

What was Ricky going to be doing about this?

It's true.

Like, I'm far more comfortable with that,

with Ricky dealing with my car.

I always have been abusing since 2018.

But then I've just got this complete thing that I don't...

Other to be fair than Lamborghini Leicester,

who to me, they actually really look after.

There's a guy there that's absolutely fabulous.

I don't know.

He's always been something.

He's like an exception to an otherwise weird role.

I remember I was in a Ferrari dealership once,

and I had a 458 Spider.

And there was like a little instrument cluster

on the roof just in the centre.

It's got two tiny lights in it.

And one of those lights was flickering.

And I went in and I said,

ah, let's do my heading,

because every time it goes dark,

and the interior cabin lights turn on,

it's flickering.

And I mean, if I had epilepsy,

I'd be in the trees and might be rebuilding it.

Like, I went, I said, how much...

Can you just replace that light?

You know, like you take the little bulb out and...

It's a new unit, sir.

Oh, okay, damn it.

You know, 100 quid, 200 quid, it's Ferrari.

795 pounds for a piece of plastic with two lights in it.

So I said, yeah, mate,

I'm going to stick a bit of gaffer tape over that

and just tape it up.

And he looked at me like he'd never heard anybody

say that before in his life.

And like, but I think due to everything that you guys do

and the people that you guys work with,

you know, the work that Chris does,

Matt does, also Alex does, everybody does,

I think the general consensus is that more people

are probably having to go out working on their own cars

and just go into specialists and things like that.

Yeah, definitely.

And it's, I'd like to know how conversations are changing

in the upper rooms of these manufacturers,

especially with the Bugatti thing,

because that has gone so bad for Bugatti.

Now, there's also the question of,

does Bugatti care?

Is it really affecting their sales?

Like just the way, like when the boys ring up,

I need this part, bolt and they won't sell them.

Like that's, you know, people like,

you know, normal people, of course, are watching that,

can be like, oh, I'd never buy a Bugatti.

We're never going to buy one anyway.

But, you know, their normal customer is being affected.

And is their reputation or their brand,

which is what, in fact, to me, what it is,

is their brand, is their brand being affected?

Are they, again, they're not just concerned about like,

not being able to sell cars to people

that are never going to buy the cars anyway,

but the people who buy those cars are buying it

to show off that they can buy it.

But if nobody respects that car anymore,

how can they show it off?

This is the other brand's damage that it's having.

I think, yeah, I think it's doing serious brand damage.

And all they say is that we're not going to sell you parts

to protect the brand.

I think it's flipped the other way.

And hopefully, other manufacturers are kind of like,

oh, we're not making that mistake.

We're just giving them a pass.

Who is the parts? heart?

I think Bugatti are actually lucky,

as much as the guys had some stick.

I don't know if you guys agree with this,

that Maté is at the hell,

because it kind of makes it more human

than just the big corporate entity knowing who it is.

It's like the CEO and the face to it.

And Maté is, you know, an extremely clever car.

I think it's blinded.

He's regarded as the European Elon Musk.

And I think that's a high praise.

And I've reached out to him several times.

God replied directly a few times from Maté.

And I said, come on, can I bring the van down?

Stun to talk about this.

Nearly, not yet.

So we're getting closer to asking him the questions.

And I do think it will happen.

I even replied to a story.

I didn't even know what a B58 was,

but my mate told me what it is, how bad's that?

I'm not a BMW guy.

And I was like, sit B58,

but Maté got a reply.

I was like, nearly got him on the podcast.

But I wonder what pressures he's under from other customers.

Have you had any other customers contact you, Bugatti?

Were problems with their cars?

Oh, sorry, people that own Bugatti.

Can't I mean no?

Okay, I'm wondering if that is going to start to happen,

like with these cars that go through,

because people have such similar problems,

you know, certain cars have certain things.

I'd imagine if Bugatti start releasing parts,

then everything would change immediately.

And then, you know, Bugatti's service

centres and stuff will start losing business

to more specialists or private garages.

You'd see Ricky starting to do Bugatti, that sort of stuff.

But at the moment, I can't imagine much is going to change.

I'd love to see, again, I'd love to be in those top rooms

and actually see who's watching the videos.

Yeah, I'd love to sit around like,

if you're flying the wall when Maté's sitting down

and you're watching some Irish fella in a shed in Hinkley,

like beating the crap out of a Veyron.

He probably has mad respect.

I hope so.

Yeah, I think he probably has mad respect.

And I think it is so challenging,

even when you're a pioneer like that, to force change.

I'd be more interested.

This sounds crazy.

I'd be more interested to ask, like,

Christian von Kohn in Zeke's take on that,

because he's not in that Bugatti room

of what it might be like for them.

Then I would maybe ask him it directly,

because I wonder if you get a more filled-up approach.

Decence is very different.

Can I, I really need to go toilet.

Go to the toilet?

I'll ask you to shout into Bob.

Bring the microphone.

Dying to go toilet, you know.

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Has it tempted you to put a part on your website for sale

for something if you get asked about it

or for one of these big expensive cars

that you know how to make that is vastly different to produce

than what it is to buy from the brand?

I can't be asked.

A lot of people have asked me if I was going to make

another set of radars for the Shiran,

which I could have done.

I've got all the measurements and info from them.

And the same with the front end of the Shiran as well.

I've got the measurements for them.

And I was like, yeah, I could make another one

and I'll just spend another week making one

and then nobody's going to buy it.

Who's buying parts for a Shiran?

It's still not quite there yet.

As much as people are realizing the specialists

and all the rest of it, it's not quite there yet.

A question for you.

Yeah. When I would look underneath a hybrid powered vehicle,

it's a massive, usually orange sticker like this roof light

with a big like hazards do not touch.

This is going to kill you.

Sort of thing you'd see on a pylon.

Have you ever had a big shock?

What's doing what you've done?

Not from a hybrid system because that will kill you.

Will it?

Yeah.

Do you say bar?

It will kill you.

There's no, maybe it will kill you.

You don't get a shock.

You only get a shock from a hybrid system once.

Now, the things that shock you when your house stops.

Yeah, for everyone.

Yeah, about 40 of them won't go.

Is it?

Yes.

Yeah, it wasn't just to annihilate you.

That bad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So you've had like little shocks

and stuff that work like us.

Yeah, one of them ones.

You know, you're wearing a plug of the house or something.

They'll say, yeah, everybody's got a lot of shocks.

Yeah, that's it.

Nine volt battery.

Well, could it be easy to get that wrong

if you didn't know what you were doing?

Yeah.

So do you think with maybe more people taking on

their own builds and stuff like that, that they're...

I think as long as...

So look, if you're just randomly pulling cables off,

like not doing it the proper way,

there's a big chance you're going to hurt yourself.

But anyone that's half sensible will make sure

that they do it the right way.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

If you're going to pull a plug off, you know it's live,

disconnect the batteries first.

That's what you see on...

Well, from my observation,

I don't really get involved in this side of things at all.

But when you've got...

When you're unplugging a light in your car,

it's got those block connectors,

the plastic connectors that go together.

And a lot of the EV stuff is like that as well.

So when you're unplugging a battery,

they've got shrouds and covers and stuff over them

so when you pull them off,

there's not really any exposed live wires that I've seen.

Big orange cables and stuff have big terminations on the end of them

that are kind of like plugs.

Yeah.

I think the main thing you've got to do is,

when you shut the system,

it's basically shutting the system down.

As long as you shut the system down the right way,

in the right order, you're okay.

You're not really going to have a problem.

But if you don't do it in the right order,

then yeah, there's a big chance you can have a problem.

So what we're getting at here with the hybrid stuff

is Auto Alex is far easier to do.

Within terms of cars, for some reason.

So this is the crazy thing.

Every time I go to Auto Alex's and TDC's,

it's obviously they're together in the same place.

TDC's work, every time I go there,

it's like a five-minute job.

It takes me two hours to get there yet.

And I'll go there and it'll be like,

yeah, there you go.

That's done.

I'd quickly solder that and it's done.

But every time I go to Matt's, Chris's or anyone else,

it's like, I've just got this crazy thing

I've got to try and figure out.

And it's like, I've never done it before.

And I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing with it,

but we'll give it a try.

But yeah, Auto Alex and TDC's are generally,

I'm going there tomorrow, actually,

to do some stuff as well.

But yeah, their stuff's all right.

Because there's a lot more old-school stuff as well,

isn't it?

So there's less things that are new technology on them.

Just like customers, how different

are the different YouTubers to deal with?

I have to name many names, but are they quite different?

Like, how some of them will message you,

like, I need this done yesterday

and, oh, we're doing this in a week.

Yeah.

Anyway, is there any projects that both of you

have done that's come from someone

coming through the roots of watching you on YouTube

that you think, oh my god, this project should be on YouTube?

Yeah, but a lot of people are quite media savvy now.

So a lot of it is in some way.

Yeah, but a lot of the stuff that I'm doing now

to kind of go back to one of the questions

that I asked earlier, could I be a full-time YouTuber?

I'm pretty much a full-time YouTuber now.

And then I kind of give the boys a hand as well.

Because Machine Shops, like, a team of six of us now.

And I'm kind of 90% YouTube now,

and then 10% is helping them.

Well, we had a Ferrari in a week ago, a blue one.

I don't know what else.

Full speeder, yeah.

A blue one.

And he was just building it because he enjoyed building it.

And he'd know media savvy-ness whatsoever.

I buy my YouTube video of it.

And it did really well.

It's like 300,000 views or something.

But people love watching Bob pick supercars.

And I have no interest.

I wouldn't make motorbikes.

So when I put motorbike stuff out,

it gets like 30,000 views or something.

So I was like...

But I think it's interesting.

I like watching it.

I like watching you from nothing

or something that's broken, make it,

and it looks factory at the end.

And I'm like, that is quality.

That's very much how we kind of filmed it.

Because there's a video of me fixing this little motorbike

part from the 40s.

And it's just like, it's the hardest part of what it is

on the bike.

And I fixed it with a bit of housing wire.

And it's just like kind of got together.

But it's a really kind of crafty cool video.

And it's like 120,000 views or something.

I was like, why did that do well?

But the motorbike didn't.

But it's up there.

I think it's a lot to do with also.

You know when you could go and...

If you're making a part that isn't available,

or if you're making something that is done in a rudimental way

or something.

And it's like, no one would have thought of...

People like to see your brain click.

So when you're like, oh, actually, I can do it like this

or I can do it like that.

And it's like flipping heck out.

I wouldn't have never have thought of that myself.

Do you know what I mean?

So I love watching that side of it.

But I don't think people necessarily appreciate with what you do.

I went and visited Conan's egg a few years ago.

I was really lucky to go.

And I remember the thing that stood out the most to me

was when I went into the electrics section of the shop.

And they were creating the loons and scratch.

And I think they said it was either 12 miles

or 18 miles of cables in one car.

And that could imagine that.

Absolutely blew my mind like,

how do you even find what the problem is when it's like that?

Just you do your obvious tests, fuses.

And then it's just a pinout from one to another,

making sure you've got communication.

As long as the wire is okay in between,

then the fault is going to be on either end of it.

And like I said, with new cars,

it talks to other things as well.

So it's not just, oh, are these two communicating?

Are these two communicating?

Is that communicating with that?

So now you've got to test the whole circuit.

And with Canvas now,

Canvas is like basically a loop that just goes around the car

and everything attaches to it.

And then it communicates through that line.

So if you have one open end on that,

it's an open circuit technically.

So you haven't got an end,

you haven't got a continuous,

it's stopping at a one point.

That's where your problem is.

So then you've got to fix that problem

and then like sort of fix that loop

for everything to communicate.

No, I know.

I'm a geeky.

You, you pinch people see the biggest,

I'd say the biggest difference between like you guys

from the way that you works perspective

is you're very open and regular to training people.

It's like when you just say,

I can train someone to do that.

I remember it's still stuck with me

that you explained to me Miguel and Tiguel

in the last video,

Miguel's larger and Tiguel's smaller.

And I remember it like even me,

who doesn't know how to do something.

But that's obviously been more of a challenge

for you to be able to do that.

But it's so technical what you do

and requires so much problem solving.

Is it just harder to teach someone to do what you do?

Yeah.

I think it's how interested that person is to learn.

And you'd probably find the same

that if you can teach someone welding,

but if they're not taking it in

or if they're not that interested in it,

they're not going to pick up on everything that you say.

You can teach a skill,

but you can't teach an attitude.

Yeah, that's it.

If you need a horse to walk, you can't.

And that's so true,

because when I started doing what I was doing

before P1 Auto Keys,

before any of that,

I was fitting stereos and doing alarms

and this that you're there.

And for, I'd probably say,

a good portion of it was for free

because I just wanted the opportunity

to work on people's cars.

I didn't have no professional experience.

So my dad led the garage.

So I just want to do anything.

I'd just be like, like, let me just try it.

And if it worked, you've had it for free

because I just wanted the opportunities.

And...

But if it didn't, I'll charge you.

Yeah.

If it didn't work, it wasn't me.

But yeah, it's just that.

It's just like you've got to want to learn.

And if you've got that attitude of like,

I want to learn and you'll succeed in anything.

But that opens this question.

You touched on it earlier,

which is you're starting to get that.

And it's probably very alien for you,

especially the way that you are.

Because I think the most common comment

on the last podcast with this is like,

Bob is so down to earth.

Bob is so humble.

Bob is like, oh, there was the most frequent comments.

And you know that actually probably sectioned them

into files of which government's one.

Come on.

There is a point that when you start surrounding yourself

with the guys that are seriously pushing,

which is why a lot of them have got to where they've got to.

I noticed I speak to people every single week

that are overachievers that push,

that have achieved something really special,

no difference to you guys.

When you start surrounding yourself

with more of those people, do you end up...

Even if you're like, oh, I'd never leave my current friends.

It's wrong.

As you said, do you end up with two groups developing?

Have you kind of found that to be the case?

And has that like enriched your brain?

Has it allowed your brain to breathe a little bit more?

For me massively.

So I've got like my friends that I work with

are like just the most brilliant people in the world.

They are absolutely amazing.

I love them to bits.

But my new friends...

And I'll never leave them.

And all I want to do is like,

there's some of you...

Most of the people here,

and I know it's a terrible business practice,

but most of the people that work here,

I know them socially first.

And then I'll approach them and say,

hey, do you want to do a few hours instead of saying,

oh, I'm going to give you a job.

Because then when you've hired your mate,

and it turns out that they're a bit shared or a bit lazy,

you find out something about them professionally,

and then you have to sack them who ruins everything.

Well, if you know your friend and you kind of believe in them,

you know their attitude towards work,

and then you can kind of offer them a few hours,

and then they're brilliant.

And you offer them more and more and more,

and just kind of bring them in that way.

That's how all these people got here.

So my friends that are here,

I'll never leave them behind.

I'll also behind.

I want them to bring them into the building

and into the business and grow together.

But I want them to next place and next place,

and just bigger and bigger and bigger.

With the YouTube side of things,

I've spent a lot of time...

Not a whole lot of time socially with any YouTubers.

When I go over and work with Matt in Miami,

it's like we'll go to where we were working on the car,

we work together and then we go out for dinner and stuff.

And it's not like we're sitting down playing FIFA or anything like

because there's nothing in common really.

But it's nice to hang around and see how they think,

and the numbers that are being thrown around the table

and their discipline,

and they get up in the morning and they go to the gym.

And they want something to change, they make a change.

And Matt Jones, we've spent a lot of nights to go,

oh yeah, working all nighters over Matt's place

because I need to get a job done

before I went to another job the next day.

But he's always asking questions

and he'll come up with some sort of an abstract thought

or a question.

And he's trying to see how your mind is working,

not as a test,

but just kind of see if he can learn something from you.

And he's got lots of unique ways of thinking

and good questions.

And I like spending time with Matt Jones.

He's a really interesting fellow

and he's just wired like a business.

He's a benchmark.

He's the benchmark in how to be that second role on the chat.

For everything.

He's the benchmark for every single person I've ever taken.

And he could be one of the most infuriating,

wind-up individuals I've ever met.

If I was a little lion like who is so good at getting to me,

well, I would love to have him sat on here.

And I'm sure he will one day.

He doesn't really like bigging himself up.

We're talking about himself.

But he's not.

But like, he is the benchmark.

I don't necessarily think,

and you must see this from being close to him.

I don't necessarily think that the audience appreciates

just how talented he is.

Like, he does so much, like, so much.

He's on the phone all the time.

Like, plenty of times I've seen him.

Matt's outside playing football.

Matt Armstrong's outside playing football with Toby.

And Jones is on the phone.

And he's doing deals.

And he's hardcore.

Like, he will not back up from anybody.

Like, he's savage.

So he's a savage businessman.

And the business side of his brain is something

that I'm very interested in.

And I want to sit down and talk to him more about it.

Because like, I can weld cars back together.

Like, when he started talking about the money side of business

and how to move things around,

and like taxes and fucking didn't move in here.

And all the fans, I don't know.

I don't know what questions to ask him.

Oh, no, you're doing his business.

Paying back HMRC.

I'm going to start.

Who would you agree with that, so?

Yeah.

Yeah, I've seen him like cool force.

Yeah.

Like, I've seen him do camera work.

Then he's sort of directing.

He's directing things that I haven't once said.

Like, doing the deals on the phones

with like sponsorships, deals and stuff like that.

And you're like, I don't think people see that.

That doesn't make the cap.

We're not even the Mato videos.

He's got some savage one.

He's doing it as well.

He doesn't like the deal.

He's just like, no, I'm just like almost like

just back went to a corner.

He's pretty good too.

What I'm trying to give value for the guy

listened to this in the workshop

or in his van on his way to the next job

or the rest of it is you guys have lived

so many different versions of your lives.

Do you think people just really out there

don't have that haven't had this opportunity

to work with people that open your mindset

and like so close mindset compared to where they could be?

Like, do you find yourself a people walking in your door

constantly being like, no, you need to open up your mind

that there's so much more to what you're doing here?

So I literally had this conversation

with one of my friends.

He's got ADHD.

And I said to him, I was like, oh, if you do this,

this will work for your business

of just set up a new business.

And he was like, I can't do that.

I goes, why do you keep saying I can't do that?

He goes, because I can't.

It was basically he's good at the physical,

but he's not good at doing the social side.

It's social media side.

And I'm like, yeah, I'll help you.

And between us, we can get your channel up as well.

Like get your Instagram page up and all the rest of it.

He's like, I don't know how to do it,

but he just gave up before he started.

And I'm like, open your mind to what I'm saying.

Like I'm not saying it's going to be easy.

I'm not saying it's going to be done in a day,

but open your mind to knowing that you can do it

if you put your mind to it.

And there's people here to help you achieve that goal.

Do you see what I mean?

And software as well.

I rely so much on software for various different things.

I've got like just even my tasks app there on my phone.

I wouldn't imagine you being very sort of software driven

because everything that we picture with you

is sort of banging and clanging.

And that's a good look.

5123 tasks a computer.

Everything goes in.

And then everything's on spreadsheets.

Everything's done by like,

I try and automate as much as I can.

My spreadsheet, I'm not great at spreadsheets,

but I have to lay any information out in a very simple way.

I can see that the way you track things on YouTube.

Yes.

I try and simplify all the information come in.

And when I'm having a conversation with somebody,

like some of the questions that you're asking,

if they go on a bit too long,

I'm kind of like, what do you say at the start of it?

I have that problem.

I've so done that.

And I'm like that with everybody.

So somebody kind of starts like speaking about ideas

and all the rest of the stuff there,

like trying to hash things out in their own words.

I'm just like, what do you want me to weld?

Just point out the thing you want me to weld.

I will just shut up and point out what I want.

Give me a minute video of what you want me to do and no more.

A minute video, yeah.

Don't watch the shit.

So I can, I've muted WhatsApp, my business WhatsApp,

and my Instagram from making notifications on my phone.

Because I'm doing that, my phone goes off.

I'm like, that might be important.

It's never important.

It's just like some, your uncle liked your picture or something.

Whatever it is.

So I deleted all that or not deleted, just muted it.

And order applies to funnel everybody to the one WhatsApp

number and then a short video of what you want.

Yeah.

And just keep over the streamline.

And it's easy to manage any information that comes into that.

I'm like, right, it's this job at this location.

And it's going to take me this length of time.

And that goes into a spreadsheet.

And we've got Pete here.

He's managing, he's going through all the WhatsApps now

because we are getting like a crazy amount of WhatsApps

in an unbelievable, it's all in one place now.

And he just puts it in that kind of info.

So he's the filter for me to look it up.

And then it's a picture of our video of the job.

And I kind of go, right, that'll take me three hours to do.

That's the price.

Yeah.

And it's just simple, simple, simple.

So once a day, I sit down with Pete or do it twice a day,

10 minutes each.

And we're through everything is real simplified.

And just keep it simple.

Because I'm not like, I can't handle a huge amount of information

coming to me all the time.

And it's something I learned from an old previous boss of mine.

I remember going into the office and he's like,

what do you need done in that workshop?

I was like, 20 welders.

How much is a welder?

And I'm like, did you want a MIG welder or a TIG welder?

And you don't want them like three 10s or two 40s.

And he's like, how much is a MIG welder?

I'm like, well, the trends on which kind of welder you want.

He's like, how much is a MIG welder?

How much is a welder?

He kept saying, how much is a welder?

So I just averaged the price of them.

They said a thousand pounds.

He goes, right, I understand that.

Yeah.

And that's how I want information presented to me now.

And that's the only way I can kind of deal with it.

So I don't really like ADHD.

It's a personality trait, not a disability.

You just get over it.

It's just a figure out ways to do it.

But maybe software, huge help.

ChatGPT, huge help.

Somebody sends me a long email.

I'm like, most of it's fluff.

Hi, how's your day?

That's bollocks.

So I said, okay, don't need that.

ChatGPT, what do I need to do with this?

And they'll say, they're talking about this.

That's what they want you to do.

And I'll say yes, I'm.

I think people, wider amount of people,

may have like a certain mindset about the guy that cracks

and bangs hammers together and is welding.

It is very blokey manly stuff.

And traditionally, the stereotypical viewer

that would be like, those kind of even normally go,

I'll ask bollocks, that's bollocks.

You've got a really, really open mindset to everything.

Like where we're taking on something new

or a new piece of tech or a new piece of this.

Have you always had that or has that come later in?

Don't know.

I don't know.

If you're a kid, you're kind of like,

my parents are very open-minded, extremely open-minded.

And my dad was always like, what's new?

What's next, but a bit of technology here.

And when you're around that, you do kind of pick up

bits and pieces of even done to music.

My dad's super open.

You listen to anything.

So I listen to any kind of music.

And you never really want to, I only started using spreadsheets

when I was, I think it was about 20, 60, 27.

And all it did was, because I had 22 lads in one workshop

and I was trying to manage them.

I did not manage this, I just got stuck with the job.

And I started making a calendar for the sick days

and were on holidays and stuff.

And it was just colors.

There was no numbers in it.

It was like, Rob is off on this date and that time.

And it was simple as that.

And I was like, oh, it does a bit more and it does a bit more.

I teach myself a bit more of the coding and stuff.

I can't really do much of it.

But now we do a lot on spreadsheets

because it's just a very simple way of looking at information

without any of the fluff in it.

And we're using those bits of technology.

I was like, oh, it makes my life a bit easier.

I used to walk around at a diary all the time

and I'd write down my jobs through the day.

And then until I'd cross them off,

and until I didn't get done, I'd write months on the next page.

I was like, there's a way of digitizing that.

We can carry out my phone.

It's just been, it's not so much open-minded.

Be silly not to do it.

Is that hard for you to do without knowing

how long something is going to take if you're a problem?

Yep, it's over.

Because in a day, I can book in four jobs, five jobs.

And if the first job doesn't go according to plan,

that's the rest of the day completely messed up.

And how often does that happen?

It happens.

Right.

It can happen.

So what I now normally do is if I normally do a job,

I normally allocate whatever time I think

it's going to take for that job.

Plus 10%.

Yeah.

And I literally, I'll leave like about half an hour,

45 minutes between that and the next job for travel time,

and if anything gets delayed.

If within that, say I'm doing one job

and I said it's going to take an hour,

if I come to like 45 minutes,

and I know that I'm going to need another 30 to 40 minutes,

I will ring every other customer and say to them that,

right, I've been delayed because I know it's going to knock on.

And by the time I get to that last customer,

it's not going to be 30 minutes late.

It's going to be two hours late.

So I just make sure I'll try and ring them.

So the worst thing is, is sometimes I'm so engrossed in the job

that I actually forget to ring the next person.

And I look at the time and I'm like,

I'm supposed to be at his job right now.

And I'm quickly ringing them.

I'm like, I'm so, so sorry.

But what do you do when you've got that much work

and that many people coming in and that many things to juggle?

And it's the type of work you're doing is problem solving.

Yeah.

It's like you're an athlete in your own industry.

That is not like a one of clouds fits all,

but it's doing for us.

But it isn't in the way that like every day is almost like you're up against it.

Yeah.

You've got to like get to the end of the day

and you don't necessarily know it's always going to go smoothly.

So many people wake up and go to a job

that most of the time they know is going to go smoothly.

But that really isn't the case with YouTube.

But that's why you live really unbelievably interesting,

fascinating and crazy lives, which enables me to talk to you

and ask lots of questions, even if some of them are a bit long.

So thanks.

Well, thank you for listening to my questions.

Thank you for talking to each other.

I'm sorry about the height difference dips.

On this couple of weeks, I know how bad it looks.

So hopefully most people are listening in regard.

Thank you for both coming in the back of my band.

That sounded around us, didn't it?

We'll see you again soon.

Thank you.

About this episode

Bob and Dips trade stories from the machine shop, including the chaos of working on locked-in keys, blown metal repairs, and the reality behind “impossible” jobs. They compare how their skill sets differ—Bob shaping/structural work while Dips handles electronics/diagnostics—then get into the people behind the scenes, including who’s hardest to work with. Dips shares rapid YouTube growth and his messy Ferrari chassis project, while Bob talks about shifting tastes, long work hours, and plans to expand into bigger facilities and even a mobile media-style setup.

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Bob from The Machine Shop and Dips from P1 AutoKeys join us for a proper behind-the-scenes look at the world of supercar repairs, YouTube builds, impossible fixes and the chaos that comes with working alongside some of the biggest names in the automotive space.From Mat Armstrong calling when a job becomes too complicated, to Chris Slix, Mark McCann, Ferrari, Bugatti, hybrid systems, dealership secrets and the reality of working under pressure with cameras rolling, Bob and Dips open up about what really happens when the builds go wrong.They talk about the pressure of being watched by millions, dealing with brutal YouTube comments, getting called into jobs no one else can fix, the awkward money side of working with creators, and why some manufacturers are making cars harder and harder to repair.This is a funny, honest and chaotic conversation with two of the most respected problem-solvers in the UK automotive world.

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