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Kids, they grow up so fast. One day they're taking their first steps and the next they

don't fit into the tiny sneakers they took them in. You blink your eyes and their princess dress

is two sizes too small and their dinosaur backpack isn't cool anymore. But don't cry

because they're growing up. Smile because you can profit off of it. For real, there are a bunch

of parents on Depop looking for the stuff your kid just grew out of. Download Depop to start selling.

Little romcom on and a hot chucky walkie. Working on cars is pretty difficult.

And my second ruin is that someone tried to steal my Lamborghini Gallardo.

Hello and welcome back to the cream podcast. The cars rule everything around me podcast

with myself, Will Edwin to the right of me and Benjamin behind the camera. Hello.

Nice. Nice. Very, very good. At the beginning of every single one of these podcasts, we ask

ourselves, do cars rule or ruin everything around us? Edwin, it's ruin. It's a ruin for

myriad of reasons. Okay. Mainly because on the weekend, I decided, right, it's finally time to

finish up my EVO one so I can put it up for sale. Because as you all know, I'm selling cars

for the first time in my life and was everything was going swimmingly brackets. It wasn't. It's

a 90s JDM car, but I went to go and tighten the tensioner for the timing belt. So with the timing

belt, you will see a video on this and something rather unfortunate happened, i.e. a bolt snapped

inside of the block. So it's not all, you know, it's not terrible, but you'll see in the video.

I've managed to sort something out, but that was not great. That really was not great.

Yeah. You showed me that. I was really the previous owner, the previous. Sorry. I think

you worked in a circus. I forget what you call those people. Yeah. One of those. He used not

the correct hardware on the engine. So when I talked it to the correct spec, it snapped.

So I was not happy about that. Always nice. And then there's also, there's just been lots of

little annoying things this week with cars. Ben, you'll get to yours in a moment.

But yeah, I'm, I'm, I also want a car and bought a car recently.

Ed has been itching for a car because Will's bought a car, which is behind him and another car,

which is soon to be revealed. I bought a car and I've just seen everyone constantly and he

doesn't know what he wants. I don't know what I want. I'm in a holding pattern I explained earlier.

I'm waiting to move into a new flat. So I don't know what storage with cars and stuff is going

to be. I need to sell cars. I'm waiting for Jeremy to get back to me.

Jeremy, please. And there's just many things that mean I can't buy a car yet.

It's so it's I'm, I hate it. You're in limbo. I hate it. You're in the, you can't,

can't do this, can't do that. Yeah. Benjamin. I am in, do you know what?

Overall, it's a big rule because I have, I have feeling about coming. I have, I have the S2000,

which we mentioned last week and I'm just still as happy. I keep, I just keep, I keep

forgetting I have one. I keep seeing them. I'm like, I have one of those.

For reference, you haven't been driving it because it's been here.

Yeah. I drove it for a very gently and then we did like one bit for the main channel video

where I drove it hard for the first time. That was great.

Will people have seen this video by now?

No, no. It'll be coming out on Monday. Yeah. Yeah. I've that car. I've just been thinking about

constantly and I didn't tell you this after podcast seven night, I was importing all the footage.

And I just sat there and looked it. I literally sat on the sofa and just looked it.

Yeah. If you could, if you don't stare back at your car after you finish a podcast,

it's not the right car. No, I know it's hashtag relatable. I know it's like,

to me, it's cool. It's just, it's an S2000. It's not like, it's not, it's not an

Lamborghini to be fair. No, it's very cool. And it's a car you've wanted for a very long time.

But I sat down on the sofa and I was just here quite, I just looked at it for five minutes.

And, you know, we, if you have eyes on this podcast, you can see that we won't reveal much.

If you have eyes, it's a benefit for you. If you don't, I'm very sorry to hear about your condition.

But there are some cool wheels for your car right here. Very Ramro shiny.

The most basic S2000 wheel. I don't care that cool, but they look very good.

With test fit one, and it is, it was stupid. Simply Ben, Ben might have, if we,

if, if my calculations are correct, Ben's going to have some of the best fitment going.

It's going to be really lovely. And then so it is overall rule, but it's a little bit of

room because I'm dealing with selling a car. I, the Cleo, and

now would you like to put in what you wrote on the, obviously this is getting into before

will, but what's the tagline for the thing you wrote about people selling cars?

And I can't remember. I think it was selling cars is bullshit.

Yes, it is. I don't, I, I've said this before. I hate buying cars. I hate selling cars.

I particularly, I don't hate buying cars. That's the best.

No, I hate buying cars. I like it when I have a car, but buying a car, I hate the process,

but at least then you get a car. Selling a car is, you get, you get, in my case,

you lose some money. No, well, I was going to say though, there is the flip side of buying a car,

which is that you get money. That's the nice part of selling a car. But I, if a Ben normally is,

it's a catastrophic loss. But I hate it. So there's that. So, but, but overall,

S1000 is, it's a big rule. It's a big rule. It's going to be good when that car's done.

I'm looking forward to seeing that on its, on all of its mods, because that's going to be a

really, I said it earlier to you. That is going to be a nicely salted car.

It's a really nice car. It's a ruin. It's a ruin. It's a ruin for me for a couple of quite,

possibly the biggest ruins yet, but you've bought a car. Yeah. Last week, I found out that said car

behind, if you have eyes, Lamborghini Glado needs work. It had a couple of small issues with it

when it, when it turned up, like nothing too terrible, but stuff wasn't really expecting,

which I wanted to get sorted. And I went to a specialist just to get the car looked at for,

you know, to make sure it's audio listeners. What car is this? This is a Lamborghini Glado

manual five liter that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I gave the government name.

2004 VTab GD. Vin number. And I've been sort of working through, making it more OEM,

more standard, putting exhaust on it, blah, blah, blah. But it took it to a specialist to have

an issue that's been there since day one, which is where it wouldn't quite go into

gear properly. And sometimes when driving, it wouldn't go into gear properly. I was hoping

it would either be due to the fact that it hasn't had a gearbox service in a while,

or you can also adjust gear cables in them. And I went to a specialist and they looked at it

at five minutes and went, yeah, and he's cutch. Now that's upsetting for most people. That is a

annoying thing to do. But why is it especially annoying on the Glado?

Well, I mean, I was aware of the cost, but I wasn't expecting it.

A Lamborghini Glado clutch, clutch, if you were to buy it from Lamborghini,

which essentially most of the time you do need to do, is £5,000 for just the part.

Just the part. That's with a flywheel and all that stuff. They check in an engine as well.

What if you need a release bearing? Oh, that's an extra £3,000 if you need that.

And they're quite common to leak. So it's like, do you leave it? Do you not leave it?

And if you bought Lamborghini, if you did it with Lamborghini labor,

I don't know about Lamborghini labor, but it is roughly a labor wise. You're going to pay another

£1,500 to £2,000. And then also at the same time, because of access, you're taking out the

dry sump system. So you're doing an oil change while you're in there as well.

You're also doing gearbox oil, blah, blah, blah. So you're looking at eight to ten grand.

That's tough. That's straight up tough.

Yeah. Now, had this happened in six months to a year, I would have been

not stuffed because I would wanting to pay that. But I thought this may pop up in my ownership,

but it bought it from a dealer and you have consumer rights, at least in the UK, that a car

needs to be sold in fit. It needs to be fit for purpose. It needs to be as described, if you like.

And fortunately, they have actually agreed to pay for it.

Yeah. Which is a good mark for them.

Yeah. I was worried that you can... Some of you listening would have

experienced similar stuff where you go back to a dealer and of course, they're not going to want

to pay for stuff. And sometimes I'm assuming dealers have been stiffed on stuff that maybe

they didn't know about, but that comes with the... It is the law. It comes with the trade. It's just

unfortunately with stuff like that, the cost of way higher.

Well, the other thing you said is that on these cars, you can work it out from a percentage

level. And this car had about 10% left on the clutch.

You can't work it out on a manual.

Oh, you can't do that.

Only on e-gear cars because it's all electronic. They can work out where the clutch

where started and where it is now. And they give you a rough percentage on a manual.

Only way to do is to... There is a... You can see in there, but you can't actually figure out if

it's worn. You have to take it out. But they said they think it's pretty worn.

They said, yeah, it's like it could fail.

So, yeah. So, what I'm getting at is that it didn't happen in your ownership of 300 miles.

It's been difficult to put in gear. It's literally in the first video where you tried to...

I want a bit of credit here as well.

I got rinsed for that. I said on the first day, we were going to move the car back and Will said,

do you want to put it back? I was like, all right. That's... I can then self-driven a Lamborghini

Glada. I couldn't get it into reverse. And kind of in the video, embarrassing, I got out of the

But fortunately, it's not really going to be too much. It's just now a long process.

And my second ruin is that someone tried to steal my Lamborghini Glado.

Which was really quite deeply upsetting. I was resigned to the fact that that car might be lost.

Sunday night, I got a phone call from my girlfriend and she was panicking and said,

check the camera. Check the camera. I've got like cameras that look down.

I have a camera that looks down onto the driveway. And there were two hooded men around my car.

I looked at it and I was about 20, 25 minutes away from home and I was like, car's gone.

That car is gone. And I called the police and found this day where they're very quickly,

they're in there in about 10 minutes and somehow they didn't find my car keys.

Which is just ridiculous because they'd basically gone around the side of the house,

smashed a window, gone upstairs, towed my bedroom upside down.

Australian burglars.

Yeah, they towed it. Yeah, it was difficult to put it the right way up.

Houses upside down. Oh, good day. That looks great.

But yeah, made an absolute mess. And but the only thing they stole, well, I say the only thing,

it was a purse of my girlfriends. But yeah, I mean, I mean, if you are a creamer,

which I'm going to doubt, because I think the creamers are honest to be able to do folk,

you are a f***ing c***.

You need to be bleating those quite big.

Yeah, that will need quite the bleep because yeah, you are the absolute scum of the earth

because the damage that causes even in the long run is quite annoying.

But not even physical, like emotional.

Yeah, exactly. My girlfriend now is now, you know, quite upset by it. Obviously,

even me, it's like two people have been in my room without me being there, without my permission.

My back doors been smashed in.

You had your back doors smashed in.

Yeah, I actually had. And now it's been boarded up.

Someone's boarded up your back door and that's, you don't want that.

And I can't even get out my own back door now.

Crazy. Sorry.

I think once your back doors have been smashed in, that you can't,

emotionally, you can't really turn back psychologically.

You know, you can't unsmash your back doors.

Yeah, it's true.

I need it repaired. And after that, you'll never be the same back door again.

But part of me was like, oh, it's stupid. I've left a bright yellow Lamborghini on a driveway

that most people have in storage or in a garage, blah, blah, blah.

You would like to think, in a civilized country, you would be able to leave nice things

in your own home or near your own home, but obviously not.

But on a better note, you have got a new car.

I do have a new car. I think we briefly mentioned it last, I think that won the bid.

Anyway, car wow, we often go on there to search for things and stuff,

which we shouldn't be really, but we do.

And there was a CL500.

We talked about this before, actually, where we think of a car.

Oh, yeah, because this is the car we want.

And then the internet goes, here is that one.

And I've never even thought of CL's.

I've thought, you know, they're nice, but I've never actually searched.

Searched, couldn't find any of the, I like the AMG ones, basically.

I was in the AMG patted one.

And there was cheapest ones, eight, nine grand.

I said, I don't want to pay that auction comes up.

£5,000 for a CL500.

And can you describe the man?

Have we talked about, sorry, have we talked about this?

We did it. We did talk about how nice he was.

Sorry, I have no memory.

He was an exceptionally nice man.

And I've actually since, even though I haven't even been to see the car yet,

so it could actually be a heap.

I did offer his private number plate back because he said I've left the number plate on

because it's got an amplifier issue.

And I figured the number plate would cover the cost of that.

But also the car was so dirt cheap.

Again, the condition of it, I'll wait and see.

But I said, look, if it makes it back, I'm happy to give you a plate.

And he just went, nah, don't want it.

Fine.

He said he had it illegally spaced and he kept getting fines.

So he doesn't want it.

Really?

Well, that's the first person I've actually heard he's getting fine for

illegal spacing.

Is it a good plate?

It's X8 ODR.

It's a doctor plate, Ben.

It's times eight ODA.

Now times eight, doctor.

Where's he located?

Well, I mean, he's behind you.

Now, perhaps would you like to buy the plate for your X8 space ODR.

But he's had it X80 doctor.

I don't want that.

Oh, I don't want that.

I've got a plate.

I don't know if you just, I don't know.

Doctor might be something interesting for you.

I don't know if that's nice for you.

I don't know.

Is it sort of like your initials?

Yeah.

It's fun to joke, isn't it?

Dr. Rogers.

Yeah, it's fun to joke.

We haven't actually mentioned it in a while.

No, you've brought that up.

You asked about the plate.

Okay.

Sweaky of plates, Ben.

What do you get now?

Here's now.

I don't want to say it.

Oh, that's interesting because, well, that's interesting because I'm going to say it.

But then someone's going to buy it and I'm not.

Well, that's why you have to buy it.

You're going to force my hand.

I'm going to force your hand.

I don't want to do this.

So Ben, all week has been saying,

what is SD1000?

He's looking for a private plate.

Now we tend to like funny plates, weird plates.

And he found and showed us S200, which he can get with SD1000,

S200, BNN, S200, Ben.

Which is not how you spell your name.

It's not your name.

But it's kind of funny and it's kind of your name.

I actually wouldn't want my name because I think it's a little bit.

I don't like it.

If it's just your name spell, I don't really like that.

But the numbers that you used to want was...

On the 8EN, I would have, apart from that.

I don't like numbers.

No, I'm saying that.

I don't want it to say my name, but if I can have Ben, that would be great.

No, that's cool because that's just eight.

Okay, whatever, fine.

But I'm saying that it's annoying because there will be someone out there who will buy it.

No, it's going to be you that buys it

because all of today, you've said, I'm going to buy that plate.

And then we go this morning.

We said, go on, Ben.

Let's sit down and let's buy it.

He goes, no, no, no, no, I'll do it at lunch, do it at lunch.

Well, this came because we have an upcoming second channel video

with a plate sponsor who make physical plates.

And they said, we want to show off all our different designs.

So therefore, can you please give us a list of cars you want plates for?

And everyone was like, cool, I'm going to get S200, BNN.

I'll get S200, BNN.

So now the plate is coming.

Ben needs it.

And then all of today, and then at lunch, he was like,

oh, yeah, I really want that plate.

I'm going to buy that plate.

Okay, Ben, buy the plate.

I know, but plates are just so hard to justify.

It's fair.

That is fair.

It's less than a car.

Like the plate on my X5, I actually really do like it now.

But when I first did it, I remember putting it on and feeling nothing.

I was like, I looked at it and I was like...

Did you instantly have my regret?

It wasn't even remorse.

It was more I looked at it and I thought,

I thought I'd find satisfaction here.

And I'm looking at it, just going, I don't care.

But now when I see it, I like it.

Okay.

So would S200, BNN do that?

I think possibly more so.

Well, you have a ticking time bomb.

If you must have it done.

It almost, in some cases, it makes it your car.

It's a modification.

You look at it.

Then there's this plate.

When I put that on, obviously the wheels and whatever else are most of what make that up.

Have we just put that?

I don't think I have actually.

Also, a more number plate talk.

I bought V10TDU and also shout out to everyone.

I didn't think many people would get it, the reference.

A lot of comments that said that's not TDC.

I know.

Use a little bit like a C, upside down.

Not upside down.

But TDU is for Test Drive Unlimited, which this car was on the cover of, although it was a

Spyder or ASC.

But it was yellow.

It was a yellow Galardo though.

And it was a preface.

Yeah.

So V10TDU, I didn't want to get a private plate for it because I didn't want to be that guy.

But that one, it was 400 quid, I think, from the DVLA.

Private plate on the Lambo.

Yeah.

It's a V10.

Yeah.

And the Test Drive, it's unlimited.

Shout, shout, shout.

I think it's all wrapped up.

What are you buying it right now?

I was just looking at it again.

Do you think if it's still there?

It is still there.

Ben, you have got until Thursday.

What if one of us buy it?

And then you just hold it.

Yeah.

Hold it round.

I might put it on my S200.

Jop, I dare you.

Okay.

You're going to spend that.

No, I'm not.

How much is it?

250.

Is it 250?

It's just a pot.

Yeah.

Is that the cheapest they go?

No, I know what it is.

I know what it is.

Ben's looking for some way for us to subsidize it.

He's trying to wait for us to go.

You know what?

I'll give you 20 quid.

I'll give you 50 quid to do.

I don't want that.

I'm not that manipulative.

I'm just like...

I don't know.

Do you want to know my thing?

I'm offering.

I like the plate on my X5 because that is the plate

I'll put on every one of my dailies from now on forever.

Okay.

So I like that plate.

Is it stupid?

You know, do you know why you like that plate?

Because it strikes fear into every doctor in England.

They know that plate already.

You don't want it swapping to all the cars.

They want to know.

They go, that's a 25 BLR.

Stay away.

If they sit on an S2000, they go, I'm gonna pull away from that.

You pronounce it properly, please.

S200?

No, X5.

F25?

Boar.

That one, yeah.

But that one, I have it on every cast.

It's worth it.

Whereas when it's an S200, which is not correct...

You can have it on every S200, but...

That's what I mean.

I mean, well now I'm buying it for one specific car,

which feels a little bit less of a good investment.

But which I understand that I agree,

but this is one of your dream cars.

Like, this is the car you want to keep for a while.

Right?

Until, but such day as you can get to like an Aston Martin,

which is probably gonna be a while.

Why is...

Well, your words not mine.

No, it's true.

You might as well make it yours.

Do you know what?

I'll say this.

I don't think that car is anywhere near complete

unless I've done that to it.

Well, there you go.

That might sound stupid,

but I think it's just the perhaps the cherry on the cake.

You know, now Ben's becoming like me,

where he has an image of the car on his mind,

and if it leaves before that image is done,

you can't have it.

Yeah, well, in your case, it won't leave.

It will never leave.

They will always stay.

So what have we got?

Newses?

Do we have any newses?

Now, newses, I looked.

There is a couple here from Ben.

So once again, we are going to...

Into Twine.

To BBC Quarter.

Did I put links in?

No.

Oh, that's not a single link.

Also, we'll have a quick before we carry on.

If you're listening,

you might hear more of an echo than usual.

If you're watching,

you might see a space you're unfamiliar with.

This is the middle unit...

Oh, hold on, Ben.

Can we get a Mr. President?

Mr. President, there has been a second TDC unit.

Thank you very much for that, Tia.

The middle unit that's next to TDCs

is AutoAlex's podcast slash storage unit.

We have kicked them out.

We have said...

Evicted.

We need this because we have a big red wagon

that's going to take months to fix.

So we need a long-term work day

to have cars that sit for a while.

And there's a car in there,

blocking...

We blew a car in there, blocking our progress.

Blocking the progress.

Oh, that's also why we can't film in there.

Oh, yeah.

We can't.

$20,000 is...

Well, the usual set is exactly what we're talking about.

So we will return to the unit.

This isn't a new thing.

Just the temporary...

It's just because Ben's car.

It bends cars there,

and then my EVO stuck on the lift because of the timing belt.

But what we will say,

this is going to be the somewhat nice unit.

It is.

Our unit is a workshop slash eating lunch area

slash kitchen slash toilet, everything.

This will be the nice unit.

I've seen more and more comments recently.

The first person who said it to me was my girlfriend.

She refuses to watch videos

because she said our unit gives her anxiety.

It's fair.

She goes,

that's the bit of the top of our little office bit

is she's like, what?

What?

It's fair.

That's completely understandable.

And then there's the stuff around it.

We got either an email or a DM from a guy.

I think it was actually a woman actually who said,

her partner is offering to come and tidy the unit for free.

We may, I don't know if that's legal,

but we may take you up on that.

But here it won't, that won't happen.

We need to do a clear out.

We'll do a clear out.

And the same with cream.

We'd like to get a permanent set at some point.

So one day you will have a permanent creamage.

It's also great for us because the current setup

does take us a lot of time set up,

which would be nice to take a half an hour set up.

Right now, what is the time?

Well, it is 20 plus seven.

It's because we do it on the left.

It's actually, I actually love our set.

I think it is generally, but it is,

it means that we have to move everything.

It's mainly because it is also a working garage unit.

So it has to double up.

The set is in the middle of right where the car's driving.

But it got, it got the office area we have in the corner.

The other day we just spent like an hour just cleaning it properly.

That was so nice of them.

It hasn't been properly cleaned for months.

Ever.

It's so, it got to the point where I was like trying to

charge camera gear and I just couldn't,

I was picking up gloves and, and, and wrenches.

Hornets.

There are a lot of hornets as well.

Yeah.

O.J. Simpson, by the way, for no reason.

The, yeah.

So this unit will become a long-term project unit.

So you'll see some more of that soon.

Once everything's cleared out here,

the ramps are out.

We put two posts in and then the, the RS6 comes in here to die.

Our big brother has gone to uni and we've got his room.

Yeah, we're upgrading in the world.

So first on anecdotes is a few bits from you, Edwin,

starting off with Speedway 56.

I don't, I don't know what that means.

You do know what this means because now we don't have a TV behind us.

So we will do overlays this week.

Will and I, if we remember, left.

Will and I were in traffic in Bracknell

and we happened to look over to the right

and I saw a delectable bullshit high brand

and it was the Speedway 56.

Oh, nice.

But not only were they a bullshit high brand,

it was on an X5, an E53X5 and they were, oh, NASCAR bold.

Like they were smooth.

The whole, the whole, it was, it almost looked like the E55

when it, when it blew its tread off.

It was just a bulbous round tire on an X5.

Brother, your, what's the, what's the, what's the, the meme?

I, I sanded my tires down so they're smooth.

Yeah, smooth way to see heaven.

You're dumb.

They were.

That was, I looked to my right, because I don't normally

notice people's tires.

Most people are roadworthy.

And I was like, what in heavens?

How do you not notice that?

From memory, it was Speedway 56, a little bit of tire cord

coming through and then smooth rubber over the top.

Like just, just inches of bolt.

Which wheels?

Rears.

It was rears.

But what, what, what, what your wheels should be.

Standard.

The five-spoke, the sport 19th.

No, no, because that'll be crazy.

That dry.

More understandable though, because they're expensive.

Yeah.

These are just normal tires.

But so yeah, the Speedway 56 is, I mean, they're built to go on a Speedway.

They are built for NASCAR.

A misting of rain.

And it would have gone straight up.

They've been there, dab of oppo on the A404.

Ben trying to do it, but this steering angle sensor keeps playing up.

Brackets.

It's true.

Yeah.

That was tough.

Please people, let's, let's keep it safe.

Check it out.

Decaps.

Fine.

Yeah.

Bold tires.

Not so much.

Let's not do that.

TD5's accelerating.

Stereotype.

I had a thought the other day.

Now, perhaps if you're an American creamer, this might mean less to you.

But in the UK, we have TD5's, which is Land Rover's inline five diesel,

turbo diesel engine that you find in discoveries, discovery twos, and defenders.

And we've talked about transporters.

We've talked about which other groups of people have we talked about.

I think most.

We've talked about most kind of people.

TD5 people, why are they like this?

Why is it that your, your, your discount American truck people?

I was going to say they're like Cummins, you know, it's the diesel.

You know them that well.

But there, everywhere they go, they are trying to be the biggest smoke cloud.

But I had a realization.

I've driven a TD5 before and I'm going to say it now.

They're shit.

They're a terrible, they sound kind of cool,

but they're not good.

Class rail diesel.

Jesus Christ.

But I had a realization.

It's, they're not trying to do it to be clowns.

It's just they're trying to get from A to B.

Your normal TD5 owner, he's, he's just trying to reach the speed limit.

And the, the, the side effect of that is plumes of black smoke.

The noise is their fault.

Yeah.

They don't have to make it that loud.

No, it is always the loudest thing.

And there is a one life livid sticker on the side of it.

They're going to Rob Copper out of people's gutters.

And they're going to sell that off.

They're going to use it to buy some diesel and then go green-laning.

Sort of fly tippers.

Yeah.

Classic.

Yeah.

A little bit of fly tipping, knobbly wheels for like the A4.

Yeah.

That kind of thing.

General grabbers, but the only thing you're grabbing is other people's stuff.

We were in Swindon recently.

Oh, man, I'm so sorry to hear that.

You okay?

Tough to hear.

Yeah, we were in Swindon though.

And we saw a TD5.

We did.

And he's possibly a creamer because they recognized us and gave us away.

Yeah, they did.

They were just saying, you know, where's your house?

Yeah, it was too nice.

Stuff, yeah.

And again, they sort of pulled alongside and you get your people that say,

oh, see the car.

And they just drive off normally.

TD5, no, did a pole.

Did a pole, just came alongside and went and then did half-ing smoke.

Went nowhere.

You know, the person in the Suzuki Solario just keeping up completely fine with it.

But meanwhile, all I'm hearing is that horrible things.

You know, this is actually completely different.

I'm moving on to another topic without ending it.

The Venom man I talked about.

The Venom, yeah, he messaged me.

Oh, and he said, yeah, he understood.

Do you know, this is nice.

He took the criticism and he said, that's fair.

But is he still happy with it?

He's still happy with it.

And he said in fairness, none of it's Team U, it's all custom stuff.

See that, that is our point.

He didn't come and say, yeah.

Well, he did a little bit of, yeah, but.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

Okay, yeah, like it is all custom.

A little bit then.

Yeah.

And it is because I have met this man here.

Well, I'm catching straight right now.

I had a lovely sip of Red Bull and I looked down.

I was then going, fuck 50.

Why are you so bad?

But yeah, I was like, you know what, that's the way.

He took a little bit of criticism, which wasn't that bad.

And I went, you know what, but I like it.

Yeah.

And he said, I'll take you on it.

I don't want that at all.

In fact, in fact, you put the video out of the glado the other day,

when we made jokes about the original wheels, like, hey, I want it.

A worrying amount of people in the comments saying, I love the black wheels.

Yeah.

It's proof.

But, you know, in time, you'll learn.

You will learn taste.

And that's fine.

Do you know what was most worrying?

It's my dad said it.

He didn't say he liked them actually.

He said, I don't think they're that bad.

Now can I say this something?

My dad said the exact same thing.

See, maybe it's an age thing.

Yeah, maybe.

You know, it's the shit wheels you grew up with.

What generation is your dad?

We're like a first year.

You know, he's like a facelift.

71.

That's not his age.

That's the birth.

Again, bro gave the government.

So similar to my dad.

My name is Rod.

So maybe it is an age thing.

That's similar to similar age.

David, can you please ask your dad when you get home what the...

Yeah.

Do you reckon he'd like those wheels?

No.

I think, I hope not.

But this is the thing.

So my dad is rebuilding a Julia UV that he bought off Copart crashed.

And he keeps sending me...

He keeps sending me...

What's the place that wheel mania that Mount Onford goes?

He keeps sending me those.

Riviera.

Oh, tough.

And he's like, these might look good.

No clown.

You paint the original wheel silver and you drive it.

That's it.

Unsurprisingly, I've had little interest in the wheels of the Riviera.

But I did have a thought on the riverside.

Sorry.

The riverside, sorry.

Which is they would have been an exceptionally expensive wheel.

Yeah.

They're a proper three piece wheel back in the 2000s.

That would have cost 5 to 10 grand, those wheels.

But I did have a thought.

I was like, what bolt pattern are they?

And I'll see the CL.

I was like, what bolt pattern?

There's a CL 500.

5x112, exactly the same.

And the center bore on the CL 500 is smaller.

So all I need is a sort of a...

Spigot ring.

A spigot ring.

Ben, you learned about those today?

I had no idea what that was.

Yeah.

I didn't even know...

I, sorry, quick side.

You weren't here.

I was ordering them with Ben.

I said, you need spigot rings.

You went, okay.

And maybe a minute or two later he came out to me and said,

I can't find them.

I said, show me what you're searching.

He turned his phone around and it said the word spog it ring.

And it was just bringing up bike things.

I think it was spogot.

Yeah, spogot.

Spogot rings.

I was like, that's it, Ben.

That's the one.

Spigot.

I feel, I've...

You actually...

So we're doing a main channel video on this 1000 build.

And I feel there's been moments where I've got really frustrated.

And it's because it's...

I want to be able to do one thing.

Just one thing.

On that entire, but we're doing coilovers.

We're doing brakes.

And every time I've done something, it's got to the point where these two have not taken over,

but they've had to do like key bits.

Right, Ben, let me do this.

Today we're doing the air box.

I can take an air box out, an OEM air box.

And it was just difficult for me.

There was one...

Not difficult, but it needed to...

You need to apply yourself more.

You talk, you chat too much.

Talk to the back of class a bit too much.

But yeah, that was a little bit difficult.

But I just want to be able to just one thing.

But you'll get there.

You will get there.

I'm going to put a coilover in.

I'm doing...

You know what?

I'm going to admit something here.

I remember working on my MX-5 once.

And it's the classic meme.

If you're laying under the car and you're trying to do something and it's not working,

you just lay there for a few minutes.

And I remember crying at one point.

I actually did because I needed to drive the car the next day to work or to something.

And it wouldn't work.

And I knew that if I didn't get it working, I couldn't drive the car.

And I had no other way of getting it.

And I was like, not a fool.

I wasn't having a tantrum.

But I had a little crying.

So I was like, this is...

You know what?

I hate this.

Why have I chosen this thing as my favorite thing to do?

What is worse?

So you're like...

The worst scenario is you have something to do the next day

or you want to use the car the next day.

And you last minute decide, I'm going to fit this thing, fix this thing.

Because you're an idiot.

Because you're a fool and you think...

And it's normally a scenario where it would have worked before.

It would be fine.

But you're fitting something that...

Easy.

Risks your entire weekend being destroyed.

Is it worse?

You're messing it up on, say, the Friday night.

Yeah.

And you know that your weekend is ruined.

Or you fit it and go, that's great.

And then you go out on the weekend and it dies or it bled or whatever goes wrong.

I prefer that it breaks on the weekend.

So you just get it in early.

Yeah.

No, I prefer that I still got to do the thing a little bit.

Oh, sorry.

You want it to...

No, you want the issue to happen.

Even if I'm on the way, I still...

Then it's fine.

I don't want to fall before the first hurdle.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't want to have to do the thing where I call my mates and go,

no, I can't come.

No, no, it's because I broke the car.

Yeah, I broke the car.

Yeah.

You want a story?

Yeah, exactly.

I got on that.

I was doing 700 miles an hour and a wheel bearing failed.

Oh, car law.

Yeah, exactly.

That's all for cars.

It's also because working on cars is pretty difficult.

I want to say that.

It's so much harder than it looks.

It is harder than it looks.

And the thing that's been annoying me this week about this, right,

is that I've done outside of work some car stuff, not that much stuff,

granted, but I've done brakes and stuff before.

And when I did it, it was fine.

I just did it.

But I mean, I wasn't being heckled or constantly.

I got in this week and I just found it all difficult.

And I was like, I was getting annoyed.

So I was like, no, I can do this, but I just can't.

Do you know what?

I had a discussion with a friend about this,

that it's why we call ourselves idiots a lot with car stuff.

And we are, truly we are.

But a lot of smarter people than we will watch our videos

and have an interest in cars, but are smart enough to know

that if they do it, it will break.

The only difference, we have no more skill than anyone watching.

It's just that we're stupid enough to believe that we won't break it.

We will still break it.

It will happen.

I know it will.

But I'll go in my head, I could do that.

I'll be fine.

I could do that.

Yeah, that's easy.

And I break it.

I'll do it this evening at eight o'clock.

What I do believe though, is that you guys have,

you naturally have more mechanical skill than I do.

But that's just by doing it.

Yeah, but if you look at like, you've watched me do it,

I'm not naturally gifted at working on things like that.

Looking at you do that, it feels exactly the same

as what I would have done doing it.

Even with Google and whatever else, you still,

you got to get through the shit.

That's why I told that story about,

like I remember feeling that same feeling of,

I literally can't do anything right when it comes to cars.

And then you just keep doing it enough that you go,

actually, I kind of have an idea of how I do this

without messing this up now.

Of course, you have to remember, you're not,

again, we have a lot of mechanics that listen

and also watch the channel.

And I guess some of them must be frustrated seeing happen.

But if you're a mechanic and let's say you work at a job

where you work on similar stuff every single day.

But also we're not necessarily working on it every single day

and we're not working on it in a commercial sense.

If you're like, we're just like, okay,

this is to get this job done,

when it's filming and whatever else.

And even if you're just an amateur,

you're not doing it day in, day out.

You might be doing it every weekend,

but it's much harder when it's still your profession.

The thing I've explained to a few different people,

it's the tricky thing with YouTube is,

even Matt Armstrong will probably tell you,

you, if you're a general mechanic,

you probably, you learn a specialized,

sorry, not specialized, a broad amount of the similar sort of cars.

If you're a specialist, you work on the same few cars day in, day out.

We're working on a 1980s car today.

Tomorrow, it's a 2010 Jaguar.

You need to read the online manuals.

The next day it's something old.

You're fitting a custom turbo to a TVR.

You make the mistakes.

Whenever you buy a new car, you make mistakes on it.

You don't know that car yet.

We make that mistake the first time every week.

And then just when you learn it, you move on to the next car.

As I say, that's the thing is to learn how to do it.

You have to do it.

And then once you've done it, we can't do it.

You then know, like TVR, you could do most of that now.

I could do another turbo kit.

But it's the fact then, you know, again.

We will never do that.

But it's the, and also just remember that we are also,

after all of it, we are making entertainment, if you know what I mean.

So for it to all go well, we get this all the time.

We've had this quite a few times where people go,

they go, why don't you just buy good cars?

Okay.

But then the video is then, I have a car.

I would love to do that.

That would be nice.

No, no, but I'm going to fit this.

I fit it.

Okay. Goodbye.

You wouldn't watch it, would you?

Whereas us messing up or it being difficult, that's what makes it.

The jet remix interesting.

It is like TV.

I promise you, anyone listening at home, you can, like with the,

with the information and the tools on your drive,

you do not need the lift that we do.

Like we, I will still go home on weekend and work on my car on the drive

with a jack stand and a Halfords jack that I've had since I was 18.

You can do most 90% of the work that we do.

I promise you, you're not inept because we're just as inept.

But wow, this turned into an inspirational speech.

Should we do anything you put your mind to, right?

I wish I knew about things like workshop manuals earlier.

Oh, I know.

The access to them is not as easy and a lot of time you have to buy or just know someone.

But having access to that stuff must save hours and days of work.

And again, I know there's lots of specialists who will take that work and go,

actually, that's a very long process.

If you do the process properly first and go,

actually I can not cut this corner, but I can do this a different way or whatever.

There is enough information out there to fix every single car.

Genuinely.

That it shouldn't normally ever be that hard unless you have an RSS.

There's information online about your Glado.

Yeah, there's a bunch of manuals.

All sorts of stuff.

But not even that, like forums of people being like,

oh yeah.

This is how you take a bumper off one.

That's great.

I watched a lot of YouTube videos.

I just followed a guy's YouTube video to do that.

Kind of crazy.

Yeah, ridiculous.

That was quite scary, actually.

I thought, yeah.

And what, let's have a next.

There's something you've, Anna is from you.

Batshit Kiyoreo.

This was just a small anecdote.

The other day, I was taking my MX-5.

So I've now taken my eight series and dropped it off at Chris Imagination

Creations to get a little bit of paintwork done before I take that car back to stock.

Why not back to stock?

Do up the last bit and sell it, which I'm not happy about.

I'm quite unhappy.

But on the way, I decided I'm going to take my MX-5 storage and get the eight series out of storage

and so swap them.

And for some reason there, the motorway was closed.

I decided to go through the actual out of nowhere back streets, like countryside.

And the distance, there were lots of cars going the same way.

Everyone was closed.

So we were all on a farm track in the very distance.

I saw, you know, when you see a ratic brake lights, like the brake lights come on,

you see the car tip forward because someone's, something's,

something's run out on the road or something like that.

And I kept seeing it in the distance over and over.

What's going on?

What's going the other way?

Ten seconds later, I'm towing a, I'm in the Land Cruiser towing a very large trailer

on a very small country road.

A curio comes herring around the corner.

So this is a 60 road, but there's people, there's traffic on this.

Yeah.

It's doing 60.

It comes around the road.

There's a car 100 meters ahead and it mounts the verge to, it doesn't drop any speed.

Just mounts the verge and flies through like plume of plume of dust up behind it.

Person in front of me slams the brakes.

It's mental.

It's crazy.

Gonna have to take a bit more of a slow approach with me though.

Couldn't care less.

Where's the pass?

Sit, probably slow it down to a 40 or 50.

When I say mount of the car, mount of the verge,

you could probably pull a gearbox underneath the space that was between the road.

The verge was tall, the high one.

Look around through the sunroof.

It was, I'd say at least 30 degree angle on the car.

What did I see in the driver's seat, driving past?

I had assumptions.

I thought young guy.

Hat backwards, perhaps.

No, woman in her fifties.

Oh, maybe it was broken.

Completely not like she looked like she didn't care.

What that is, is a farmer's wife.

She's been on those latens for years.

She knows those roads.

I know the width of this car and the width of this road.

I'll make it.

Whatever's coming the other way won't surprise me.

No, but yeah, I was flabbergasted.

I literally just, I think I slowed down and I kept watching my wing mirror to wait for

the inevitable fireball in the distance of her going head on into a fuel tanker.

But in a curio of all things, the most inane car on earth.

She probably nicked her like a wing mirror here and there, but it's like, I suppose the cows have done worse.

Now we've got, I've got a long list of things from here and one message,

but I'm going to read them off one by one from you.

Well, no, so I will explain.

Eight series trailer.

So this was on the way back.

So I've now dropped the MX-5.

I've got the eight series on the trailer.

I joined the motorway, the A34 and the moment I joined the A34,

what is coming the other way?

But a purple paradise TVR Camara.

Oh, same spec my mum used to have.

Now I know there's only five or 10 of them in the world in that spec.

That's, that's cool.

It makes you feel something.

You're like, oh my, my mum's car.

10, I don't know, 10, 20 seconds later, phase two V6 Clio.

Mars, what's the blue?

The blue is Mars red and something blue.

Lilad blue is the one that comes the other way.

Okay, that's weird.

Anyway, come off, get onto the M4, 550 Marinello.

Right.

Then the next thing, a C5 RS6 comes the other way and then,

I don't know, a minute or two later, a C6 RS6 comes the other way and white,

like Japan.

And then I think there was a 355,

I wrote the other, some of the other cars there.

We've got listed here.

You've put P11, PLE, that's phase two, 550, RS6, Tuscan, 964.

Tuscan and then 964.

The 964 I know is local to Newbury, just dailies or white 964 around.

And then the Tuscan was, was lovely.

It was a swordfish blue, but no, the purple version of swordfish blue.

What day was this?

This is what I mean.

So I thought for a moment, have I been transported to Falls of Horizon?

Am I just in a game?

Because this is, this is like, this shouldn't be happening.

Was it last Sunday?

No, no.

This was in the week.

I was in the week.

This was mum.

So you can't even say what's whatever day that was.

There's an event, whatever day it was.

9th of October, which was?

It was last Thursday.

It was last Thursday and that was at maybe 9.30.

Where were they?

They just got randomly spawned in.

Just randomly spawned in, but everyone's on their way to work in there,

in their ridiculous cars that morning.

I mean, while someone, yeah, that's, I mean, yeah, Jesus.

But what a list of cars.

Like, I, I, I assuming everyone listening, you play the game.

You're, you're, you're concentrating on driving.

But you see, you're aware of your surroundings.

You're just watching that other letting go.

What's that?

Oh, hello.

Oh, and then being frustrated when you don't know what it was.

Exactly.

But today, that day was after I, for a minute, I was like, am I dead?

Is what happens when you die?

You just get to see all the cool stuff.

Brackets in heaven.

I'm trailering a car.

Yeah, on the motorway.

I'm commuting to my place of work in heaven.

Now the next piece is a piece of news.

Here we go.

And you put it in here.

Oh, great.

Do you know what it is?

Give me the title and I'll work it out.

Volvo V90 done.

Last one.

Last one to be made.

They're done with it.

So the V90 is dead.

Is the one that you like.

I love it.

I absolutely love it.

The big boy, modern estate V9.

What am I saying?

Volvo.

Yes.

V9 is the V9.

It's the V90, by the way, which is V90.

Which if you lower and put on some wheels is a great thing.

I'll preface this because the reason I say everyone likes it

is because there's not many modern cars that come out new

that everyone goes, I like that.

True.

That's good.

Do you like it?

I think that is one of the smartest modern cars.

It is modern, but old-ish.

Well, it's probably about 10 years old now.

I also love the saloon, which is an S80.

Whereas there's an S90.

Is it an S9?

Yeah, the same car, but I like the S60,

which is the smaller version of that.

I also love that.

I think it's just a really nice design.

It's clean interior.

It's so nice.

Also, anything that could potentially be an undercover police car is cool.

But yeah, so the V90, as far as I'm aware, and what I've read,

granted, please don't get your news from us,

is the last one was made.

It's going to the Volvo Museum, that last one.

Oh, sad.

Yeah, so.

What's going on?

Why is everyone stopping?

It's a bit boring in a museum, though.

Yeah.

For example, I like it.

But also, nothing should be in a museum that's like,

yeah, this is the 2.2 diesel.

It needs to be an R, if they did an R.

Would be the perfect.

I don't think they ever did an R.

I'm assuming they're the fast-ish ones, like hybrid.

There's a V60.

That's way too big of an engine.

There was a T8.

Is usually the biggest.

Yeah, but there was one they made of the V6,

the smaller one, which was like 400 horsepower or something.

It was quite.

T8, because that doesn't, because T5.

Yeah, you used to mean.

Yeah, you got the T5.

I think it was called a T5.

But then they changed the T5 and said,

yeah, no, T5 is now just, it's not.

It's like trim levels.

A T3, it does not mean a three-cylinder.

Yeah.

Sort your trim levels out.

Yeah.

Can we have a reset, please?

Like a worldwide reset.

Start from scratch.

Even change all the names.

Just make them simple.

But like, let's just forget it all.

BMW, you go back to three, five, seven.

Reset it all.

Just start being so complicated.

Very, very confusing.

And we don't want to have to keep talking about it.

It's very frustrating.

So that's all.

Yeah, I just thought because we all like that car.

Shout out Volvo.

Volvo, lovely.

Lovely car.

Shout out the V90.

All my homies love the V90.

Pour one out.

Yeah, pour one out.

Pour some meatball sauce out.

Yeah.

Moving on to Swedish meatballs.

To the next thing.

Now we will hope that there will be overlays for this,

because some of them are quite funny.

Since we found the, what was the initial one?

The initial one was eggs.

It was eggs on steak and egg.

Steak and egg.

Which was quite funny.

Then we had the curry.

Tyrone curry.

The newspaper and also the biscuits as well.

Are you going to say these are cart ads?

These are.

All you said is the first thing we had was eggs.

First time people listen to Pocos.

What are you talking about?

Basically, there was an auto trader advert for a Saab.

It was a Saab.

A Saab and then when you looked at the photos, it was just eggs.

Just one photo of a steak with an egg on it.

And then later on we got sent another one, which was a curry.

Now in fairness, that was in a series of 17 or 18 photos.

There were three rogue photos in there.

One was what we believed to be a Tyrone curry.

And no one, I didn't see any comments saying

that it wasn't a Tyrone curry.

So I think we're all in agreement.

And then a sort of tin of biscuits or like a jar of biscuits.

A bowl of biscuits in this.

And then a newspaper cutting.

But the creamers have gone out there.

They've done their investigative work

and they've come back with some pretty good ones.

There's some good ones.

This is a smart four to one liter, blah, blah, blah.

57,000 miles, 4,395 pounds.

So there is one photo.

We haven't seen this generally.

I think, because I've seen it in,

there's some I've seen in the thing,

but I don't know what this one is.

One photo.

I'm not going to laugh.

No, you know, there's no interior photo.

It's just an exterior photo.

Okay, I'm going to look.

Ben, describe what that is if you can, please.

I'll zoom into it.

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That's a squirrel.

Yeah, a squirrel.

What does it do?

Is it eating nuts?

It's on its hind legs.

It's just standing up.

He's just standing, mate.

He's just there.

So that's the smart car for sale.

$4395.

Now, did I...

Also, another one that is a trade seller selling that.

Now, did I see in the top left on the eBay thing,

does it say one's watching recently?

Eight viewed in the last 24 hours.

Oh, so the squirrel's hot.

Squirrel is hot.

You know, like it's one of those ones where you want to make an offer.

Now, I want to know this.

I don't want to know this, right?

Steak and eggs.

Fine.

Okay, maybe you're taking it off for your lunch.

But a squirrel is quite left field.

I don't think any less than it is.

No, because you know, it's just anything from your camera roll.

You know, why would you have an accident?

But okay, how many photos of squirrels do you have in your camera roll?

Oh, well, wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?

And do you have any photos of your food on your camera roll?

No, definitely not.

You haven't got a single photo of food in your camera roll.

I don't think I do.

Unless it's you eating a burger or something, I probably do.

I probably have that.

Okay, but yes, I do have a lot of it in main stupid photos.

But of a squirrel, I feel like it's a weird one.

I'm going to, Ben, I'm going to scroll on my photos

and I'm going to, you're going to tell me to stop.

And when you say stop, I'm just going to find-

And we will put it on the screen.

And say go for it, whatever you want.

Maybe.

No.

I've gone the whole way.

Go again.

It's a photo of Ethan zoomed in eating a banana.

I promise that's the first one.

That can go on the screen?

That can go on the screen.

Absolutely, you can.

What we got next?

Any more?

Another one.

We have had many more, which we might do in another.

We might put together a grand band of all the best ones

and do that maybe next week or in coming weeks.

But the next one I saw of note was we've got for here, 2006 Ford Fusion.

Now the owner of a 2006 Ford Fusion, the old, normally an old person.

He's selling this here.

It was a list of 20 minutes ago.

I also have to say, you guys have sent this in

and I haven't noted down any of your names.

Apologies.

But some of them have been sent in by multiple of you.

So by proxy, it's sent in by cremers.

Consider it.

Consider it a communistic approach.

This doesn't belong to you.

This is the people's information.

So shout out to, you know what?

If you sent us one of these and we've talked about it,

your cremer of the week.

And we're a big family.

Exactly.

So we creamed together.

If the boot fits, it's you.

£1,000 goes to 20 minutes ago in Walsall.

12 months MOT.

20 minutes ago.

Someone got a notification for this.

12 months MOT.

Time has been changed.

Water pump changed.

Lovely.

Oil filter changed.

Brake pads on front.

Wheels changed.

So it's all looking pretty healthy.

It's looking good on me.

One photo.

Okay. We've got a photo.

Can I see what car?

What am I looking at?

Oh, no.

Now we may need to blur it because we don't want to dox anyone.

But yeah, that's just an old man.

See that?

That's what I mean.

That's one that I could understand.

Right?

You're taking a selfie.

You're looking good.

Where are you?

Where are you sending that?

I have to keep blurring.

Maybe it's for like, I don't know.

Maybe it's for like your ID.

Sending it to Brenda or something.

But how hard is it?

How hard is it?

Did you slide it?

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah.

Okay. We'll leave it at that.

How hard is it to do that?

If you're looking through your camera,

I need to take pictures of the car and then go,

you go, that's a good one.

Actually, just saying.

He goes, it's a profile picture.

Yeah, but do you know when it goes like, okay.

You forget halfway through, you go,

why am I putting a picture?

It says, all right.

Here's your camera.

You've got to tap all the photos you want

and then whatever order you tap them in is one, two, three, four.

You might actually tap one in your face.

But why is it there's only one photo?

Bro accidentally clicked it when,

well, that's it.

I'll have to go with that then.

See, that's all I got.

Placeholder.

Well, yeah, that makes sense.

But the one from last week where it was, what was it?

Dr. Mr. Terry Gibson.

Mr. Terry Gibson is my favorite one still.

That was just a...

Mr. Peter Ian Gibson, I want to say.

It could easily be that.

Mr. What?

I know. I'm thinking of Peter Ian Staker.

Peter Ian Staker or something.

Or Ian H.

Peter Staker. Come on.

Do we have one more?

There are no more in there.

Okay.

There was something you've put in here, Ben.

We'll get to that afterwards.

There was another car I discovered for sale.

And a lot of you have actually sent this,

but this was found organically by myself.

So no credit to anyone.

So you're the creator of the movie?

This is a funeral car for sale.

Now, we've been interested in funeral cars,

but only the interesting ones.

There is a Ford Barra.

I can't remember the actual model name.

It's a Falcon.

It's based on a Falcon.

But it's got a very tunable engine.

We've considered those.

There's Vectra ones with V6s.

Early ones have Ecotex.

The later ones have Barra's here.

Anything that's a real will drive funeral car

is really quite.

Want to do a skidding?

A Jag, whatever.

But normally a hearse is a little bit different.

It's normally a Jag or XF or an XJ.

You don't see many different cars.

What we've got here is...

And it's a car that we talked about last podcast.

What did you say, Ben?

I have no idea.

So what is the multiple version of it?

A Lefis.

A Nissan Leaf.

It is a Nissan Leaf.

Hurs.

Crazy.

With one massive glass panel,

that has replaced both the front and the rear doors,

but only on one side.

I want to know who built that

because just the sheer craftsmanship

ignore the fact that it's a hearse.

That's cool.

Yeah.

But did you see what I mean?

Like what if you could do that

to a car that was deserving of it?

Like something cool.

It's just I find that that short upset to me.

Of the...

Yeah.

It's the seat basically folded down.

And it's...

Because you just parked next to your grand going...

Yeah.

That one actually, that was...

Yeah, that's stuff on there.

That's the back.

There's one back seat and you're just...

It's Top Gear Africa special.

Exactly.

Yeah.

For those of those that can't see,

the Leaf has a glass side and then

the seats have been removed.

So it's a bit like the Ninky-Nunk

where it's a driver

and then just directly behind is your passenger.

But why would you bring just one...

But then to the left of you is...

Is Koffin.

Dead.

Is Nan.

Now I know.

We're going to get a comment now that says,

actually, that was my Nan.

And she actually invented the Leaf.

She was the biggest Leaf enjoyer.

And I'm very upset by that.

And look, I'm not saying...

It's just old.

More like, what a way to leaf this world.

I'd be really quiet if I die.

Which I'm planning not to.

Money.

Where would that go?

Money in the grape.

Put in the grape.

And I found out that I was transported to my final burial

place in a Nissan Leaf.

Just half way through, you just lay there and you say,

okay, let a range 11 miles.

A funeral 12 miles away.

Now, what would you want to be transported in?

What's your ideal car?

E-55.

I'd like to be crisped up.

E-55.

Doing a burnout.

But I'm loose in the back of it.

Like, I'm just...

But it's doing workouts.

But I'm just washing around.

You're not even in a coffin.

I'm not held down.

I'm not bolted to anything.

But you're in a coffin.

No, no.

I'm just loose in the back of it.

So you've just been kidnapped?

No, no.

I'm dead.

So you've been killed?

And no, no.

But I'm on the way to wherever it is.

But they haven't put me in a coffin.

I just want to be loose in the back of it.

And someone's doing donuts.

So my body's just flailing around.

Or in the back of it.

I like like an Amazon Prime van.

Ministries buy Amazon Prime van.

It's unsuspecting.

The guys drive.

Oh, that's the body.

Or you know that the James Bond 750i

and they had the driver in the back seat.

Yeah.

But I want to be in the front seat.

I want to look like I'm driving.

So everyone at the funeral goes,

we can just get in.

It's alive.

As it comes sliding.

You would.

That would be horrifying to see.

It would be.

But I would have been spruced out.

But then how do they,

do they, someone just fire them and lift you out

and into the ground?

No, I get a Jecto Cito.

Too fast, too furious.

A Jecto Cito would be great.

I just, they just put me in the whole mangled.

I mean, I'm dead.

Can't hurt me.

But do you not want some respect?

No.

On your name?

Straight up, no.

That's a C.

Yeah.

You're all like back.

I know you mean that as well.

Yeah.

Back of a pickup.

Pick up.

Cool.

Pick up.

Be cool.

Be funny.

Tipper.

A tipper.

Just in the back of a tipper.

And they just back it up.

But I just slide off.

But it turns out I'm being fly tipped

into a local.

On a trailer.

Yeah.

Anything.

Just something a little bit different.

A little bit left field.

Okay.

Whatever it is, it can't be a hearse.

Something that my family come away for it going,

God, that was weird.

I don't like that.

When I teed that up, I really thought they'd be like,

Oh, I love the, the, the, the, the bean eight.

I don't know what color that is.

I love that car.

I want, I want that.

That's how I want to go out.

Oh, I love that car.

I've always been amazed to go out in that.

Me and all you guys, I just dump me in the local tipper.

Remember this.

Remember, it's the green fucker.

Then what would you like to, what would you like to go?

I might go standard.

Just normal hearse.

Yeah.

But what hearse?

You can't watch.

So you're happy with me.

Do you want a Volvo V90?

It could be quite comfy.

Yeah.

Or like.

Undercover.

But it's the last one.

It goes to the six, the museum.

Then what do you do with it?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Maybe something like a Range Rover.

That's kind of interesting.

Or.

Could do, could do that.

Or.

But you'd still need to have someone next to you.

No, that's not, no.

Because a Range Rover is not very long.

Well, let's try a little bit.

Do you get what I'm saying?

It's longer than this.

Yeah, I don't know.

But what?

So you're saying no back seats at all?

Yeah, I don't think there's a lot of room there.

It would have to go long ways.

I think you're a squeeze.

Yeah.

I want to be like.

Look at how long a hearse is.

They're very long.

I know what I'm saying.

The long, world-based Range Rover would be quite good.

Oh, I've got a new one.

I would like to go in a Tully roof box.

That's actually fair.

That's how, that's how Norwegian people go.

When I first, when I first discovered what a roof box was,

we were going down like Cornwall or something on my family holiday.

I was very young.

I remember being baffled by it.

Like my dad was like putting stuff in it on the roof.

And I remember sitting in the car looking up,

they just because it had like a sunroof,

you can see the roof box.

I'm looking at things like all of our spades are in there

and stuff like for the beach.

That's, I remember just being just full of spades.

Yeah.

Like nothing else.

It turns out it was, it was to go dig a hole.

Like it's just, I couldn't understand it.

I was like, but that's, that's on the roof.

How, how's that?

Yeah.

Generally, I'm, and to this day, I still find it interesting.

I've got a lot of issues.

I want to go in one of those latitude tents.

Oh, so it's on the top of something,

but it's a folded out one.

So then they just unzip it and I'm just.

So wait, you want to be, because they fold in quite flat.

So you want to be basically squished in there and then,

or do you want to open while driving?

So there's a good chance that it just, you know, tears apart.

Now they are, now this isn't sponsored,

but we have used them before.

They're very comfortable.

I, at some point I need to speak to Charlie again

because I put it on my eight series.

That's one of the coolest things I ever did.

I want more than a 550.

That'd be cool.

He said, if you ever doing something dumb, let me know.

Let's say, oh, cool.

It's the only tent I've ever been in that didn't smell like tent.

I mean, now when you say it's comfortable.

It has a mattress.

Oh, so the tent has a mattress.

It's a tent made of a, made of a material that is so nice.

It's called canvas.

It's called make tents out of it.

You know tents when you get a tent and it smells like tents?

I hate that smell, but it's like a.

All the gear podcast.

Anyway, it folds open.

It's this different material.

I don't know why I'm like, so fix it on this.

And then it has a memory foam mattress built into it.

So the entire floor of the tent is a mattress.

And genuinely, I'm not just saying that because,

because they lent us one really very comfortable.

Oh, ironically, I was, I was, I, I'm not,

I'm not a man of camping.

I hate camping, but I do that.

And it has fairy lights in it.

Also you feel, because you're high up.

You feel, yeah, but yeah.

I like a fairy light.

I said, I said originally that we should,

this is a completely off topic.

We should put fairy lights in the office.

So I can sit in there in the dark with them on.

And you said you want to wear a dressing gown or you do it.

You'd have your hair like, you know, in a towel.

No, I just, it looked comfy.

Not comfy, cozy.

You are, you are the coziest.

You're a cozy boy.

You really are.

Little rom-com on and a hot chocky-wocky.

Two hands on the hot chocolate.

Sort of hunched over it.

Live, laugh, laugh, post us somehow in a tent.

So yeah, that was, I don't know what we're talking about.

Horses.

Do you think parkour is off the road?

So you're going off in a Range Rover.

Which is quite posh.

I like it.

Whereas our funerals are going to be wild.

An L4.

This is the chance at tip us in.

I'd like to evil, conneval style.

I'm going to like jump through a burning ring of fire on a quad bike.

So you guys are going to be just dumped like, like you.

Do you know what?

I'd like to pitch my funeral to Red Bull.

A great idea.

If it can't be pitched to Red Bull, don't even think about the idea.

It's Felix, Felix Baumgartner, but you never pull the shoot.

What a mess.

And he's all over the place.

So what's your final answer?

Tip or truck?

No, I still want to be loose at the back of the E55 doing burnout.

I do quite like the Tully one, but I'm not really a big fan of roof boxes.

So it feels disingenuous.

Something like an Lamborghini related would be nice,

but it's a bit, you know, it's probably been done.

So tip or truck?

I would like to be towed, but I have got skates on.

And they just catapult me off.

I've just thought of another one.

You know the motorbikes that you see with a trike on the side?

Okay.

I want to be in the trike on the side, but it's on like a super bike.

A sidecar, that's the word.

But halfway through, they can just, they can just pull like a release cord.

So I just kind of see you again style.

Who rides the bike?

Whoever would like to.

As fast as you can.

And then just pull that cord.

So that, yeah, it's, it's fast.

And if you're a see you again style, I just careen off somewhere.

But you, Edwin Klinkenberg of cars.

No, really not.

No, but like a sidecar on a car.

Oh yeah, sure.

Just some, just something where you can just, just click a button and then off I go.

I won't click that.

I think it won't work.

I'm going with the James Bond one.

It looks like I'm driving.

Yeah.

Everyone at the funeral goes, Oh my God.

This was all elaborate practice.

But do you remember the Top Gear episode where he jumps the,

jumps the Rolls Royce into the pool?

It's that the, the hole is pretty dark.

It's huge.

It's car size.

Yeah.

I was like, what's going on?

Why is the hole so big?

And then they see you pull around the corner and they're like, well, he's still alive.

Well, how does the stunt driver get out?

He's not in there.

He's remote control.

It's a remote control.

And you just, and you just careen around the corner and just

bonk straight into the hole.

Everyone claps, diggers start putting the, start putting the dirt on.

So I'll have to select my car.

And then all you hear it just in muffled under the dirt is a BMW.

What if, what if, what if, what if.

Larm going up.

Rather than a coffin, you got buried in your car.

That's what I just, that's what I was saying.

I'm saying that like they just let, let lower you down normally.

I reckon people must have done that, but it's, it's a big old grade.

It is a thing.

It's a thing.

A lot of African countries will do it.

Yeah.

There's a lot of 190s I've seen, a lot of E classes.

Really?

And that's a great video.

We can, no we can't.

We're going to try and start one back up.

Excuse me, I actually need to get past.

I mean, we will.

Yeah, but that's a bit selfish.

If there's a roadworthy car, you're just going to put it underground.

But it's your car.

You're worse than a collector.

Some of them, right?

Hey, at least give it to someone.

That's mental.

I don't do that.

What's the death cover?

It's taken a very interesting turn.

You've probably got our perspectives on death there.

There we go.

Ben, you put in here wheels.

What are wheels?

Okay.

I've learned this, right?

So, granted, I have an in-house consultant for wheels.

I, Edwin, who is very thankfully taken the project on for my S2000.

And as you can see, if you're watching...

The architect is making plans.

The wheels are right there and they should fit.

And Edwin has done the workings out of what we need to roll and cut and to make them fit.

I don't like the colour.

They are a chrome.

These are inky RPF ones.

Oh, we should.

Well, we were not going to say it, but I'll say now.

RPF ones in S2000 fitment.

But they're the chrome ones.

I didn't like them.

I still don't like them that much.

You like them.

I really like that.

I think that's nice.

I didn't like them and then I saw them in person.

And I do like them more, but I think I'm still going to get them.

They need a reefer, anyway, up close.

I think I will get them still done in, like, matte silver.

It's because they're shadow chrome.

So, they look in...

They're not.

They're chrome chrome.

They're actually like a bright chrome.

In low light, they almost look...

They can look a bit dark.

I'd like...

Yeah, they are darker than...

But yeah, shadow chrome looks like a normal silver, but the shadows are much darker.

Yeah.

So, this is...

Either way, we now have wheels, right?

Yes.

But I decided that, you know, I'm going to have a little look for myself.

And all I can say is, what?

What?

You did a sense on wheels.

So, I understand why there's so many cars about fitment.

You're fair.

Because it's so complicated.

But is it not a case of?

Now, yeah, you understand that.

But is it not a case of?

If you don't know, don't do it.

No, that's fair.

But if you want to learn about wheels, you can only learn.

Oh, yeah.

I worked out you can only learn by getting it wrong.

You've got to make some mistakes.

And some people have made mistakes for far too long.

My golf and my MX-5 horrible fitment, that it was wrong.

I agree.

But at the same time, I just...

It's so daunting and difficult.

Like, I couldn't...

I tried and I just...

I couldn't do it.

What was it that was confusing you?

It's the starting off of numbers.

And then it's working out how they offset.

I mean, you can do it really easily.

You're like, yeah, those will fit, but you need a bit of arch rolling.

You need this and that, no space or whatever.

I'm like, I don't understand.

But 90% of the stuff is that I don't know it

just off the top of my head.

I can't work out from numbers.

I can on like a car that I know very well,

but it's only through knowing what other people have done trying before.

But it's...

And then even stuff like tires, tire sizes,

and how they're going to sit on the car,

where they're going to be square.

So I was a little bit of, you know, a little bit of stretch.

And I'll be honest with you, yeah.

There was an incredible...

I think we've talked about it before, fitment industries,

and there's some other sites that do it,

where you can go on there, you can put a car maker model,

and then you can put a size of wheel in and see how it fits on their car.

You can put the offset in, you can even put tire brands,

so you can see what exact...

You know, if you have a Peugeot 205 electric,

they're probably not going to have the most amount of photos.

If you have a Volkswagen Golf Mark V,

you may sort by until the cows come home.

S2000 I looked, and lots and many, many.

But it's the...

And the other thing is, they're so expensive.

Again, this is going from a complete corner of complete ignorance to it.

Not ignorance, what is it?

Well, you don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know anything about wheels at all.

And I'm not trying to claim I do,

but by looking at...

These wheels were a good deal, as you told me.

But to me, I looked and went,

that's a good deal for wheels?

Yeah.

It's mental.

I sent Edwin a reel of S2000.

For perspective, if you know wheels.

These are RPF ones.

Full set in...

These are not the staggered fitment.

These are plus 45 all around for a grand with tires.

That's a very good deal for RPF tires.

You probably pay double that.

More than double that for brand new wheels, brand new tires.

And I looked at...

This is again...

People will laugh.

This is my lack of knowledge.

I sent Edwin a reel of S2000.

Looking great.

It is sitting fantastic.

I said to him, I know nothing, but what are these wheels?

I would...

They look cool.

And he responded.

What did you respond to?

I said, Ben, those are T37s.

They are in a very aggressive fitment.

Those are 45 grand.

Yeah.

Which to me, I was like, why?

But that, you've just distilled the reason why people get it wrong.

They see a reel of a T37 in correct fitment,

in aggressive offset, looking really good.

They either find the T37 and go, oh, that's too much.

Or they happen to stumble upon a rotor grid that now looks...

In my head, that looks pretty much the same.

You can never get it to look the same.

The fitment will never be identical,

because the face of the wheel is different.

But people will settle for it.

Which is fine.

Again, there's nothing wrong with that.

But the good wheels cost money for good reason,

because everyone wants them, because they're the best.

To be fair, I'll be honest with you,

if it wasn't for you guys being here,

I would just never do wheels.

I would have bought...

What I would have done is I would have got facelifted bigger wheels,

like standard S1000 ones, which are fine.

And I would have probably spaced it and lowered it,

and it would have looked okay.

But it wouldn't have...

It's not going to look as good as it will look, please.

It's going to look great.

It's going to look really good.

I still find wheels daunting.

If I look up wheels that I like,

and it says you have to roll arches and do this,

I normally won't bother.

Yeah.

Because it's too much hassle.

It is, yeah.

And then money also spent for...

Then you start doing it,

and it doesn't actually fit or whatever.

But that's why I've already...

Two, one set of aftermarket wheels ever?

Yeah.

But I genuinely, for the most part, prefer an OEM wheel.

But you did, when you did buy those aftermarket wheels,

do the correct thing,

which is look at what other people have done.

Yeah, exactly.

There was the McGann wheels that were...

Again, you're just copying what other people have done.

And there'll be some people that don't like that.

They go, you need to make more original

and get custom made 8,000 million pound wheels that are...

If you want to do that, that's fine.

But there was information out there that said these won't rub...

These fit on these, whatever.

The brackets, they rub the hell.

And yeah, but when it starts to go,

oh, actually, yeah, you need to run this.

And even like running like extra...

Like, it's like, oh, you need to run this camera.

I want to run the camera that makes it drive well.

Yeah, exactly.

Not run the camera.

Which is...

It's like a...

Yeah, there's a line you cross into going stance.

Yeah.

Where you're going, okay, I'm going purely for looks.

But I think there is a middle ground, most of the time,

where it's usable and it looks good.

Yeah, this is what I'm scared of.

Because we have to run camera on these two minutes.

But nothing that screened.

It's nothing too mental.

The sort of camber you'd want for a fast road track sort of thing.

Will it drive nicely?

Yes, it will drive pretty well.

I mean, it's too late now.

They are wide as hell.

So it's going to tram line.

What does that mean?

So because the front wheels are so wide,

and you're going to have to run a little bit of camber,

well, the camber that you'd want for it to be good on road,

you know, when you feel the wheel kind of pull into dips,

when you go over a dip?

Not from P1 or Tiki's.

No, I hope not.

We like dips a lot.

Dips is our favorite man.

So not that.

They're very wide.

So they will pull naturally to different ways.

Exactly.

But fine.

But it's still going to drive really well.

But when I get out of it, I look back.

You're going to go, you know what?

That was worth it for being pulled into a ditch and dying.

Exactly.

But S2000s, you get that with some cars.

S2000s, if you want to run any form of goodwill,

you're going to tend to have to do a tab relocation

and some camber and an arch roll.

Other cars you can get away with all sorts of mental fitment

on standard arches.

So it's fair, though.

It's a very...

Also use willitfit.com.

Find what I do.

Find a wheel that you know fits.

It doesn't have to be the wheel you want.

Find the specs.

Go to willitfit.com or just type will it fit wheel calculator.

Put that car's spec in.

Put the wheels you're looking at spec in.

And it will just tell you what the one you want

is in relation to that original.

Is it further in?

Is it further out?

Is it smaller, bigger?

All that sort of stuff.

That's the cheat to it.

Just find someone that works

and then see if yours works off of that.

That's why you wreck.

Clear now?

No.

But they're still daunting.

But Ben, fortunately for you.

I love it.

So I'll do it forever.

I know what would put most people off

and what puts me off is that it's expensive.

It's not one of those things where you go,

I'll try it and I'll make mistakes to do.

If you need to get the nice wheels

or get the right wheels or whatever,

it's an expensive thing to then...

To get it wrong.

Oh, I don't actually like this or it's not right.

Especially like...

The only other thing is a lot of those wheels,

a lot of the expensive wheels can hold value,

especially if you're buying them used.

But yeah, it's...

These will always be worth a thousand pounds.

I will give you a thousand

because I like RPF...

What are you using?

You want them for your...

Get them for the mechanic.

Like T37s, I've owned...

It's not that many, it's four or five sets of them,

but I've held them for one week

or held them for a year

and I've never sold them for less than I bought them.

Not because I'm trying to make money on them,

just because people always want them.

So their wheels are cool.

I like wheels.

I love them.

I love wheels.

My favorite thing about cars...

I am OEM wheels man.

Heard.

In most cases...

Do you know what possibly better way to be

because you're going to save money and stress?

Normally, normally cheaper.

Normally.

Yeah, OEM wheels swaps as well.

If they come from the same manufacturer,

it's pretty common for them to just fit,

as in the offset's not going to go from really like,

well in the arch to 70 feet out the arch.

Although OEM wheels swaps, they can go equally as wrong.

Oh yeah.

It's the putting more modern wheels.

Sometimes, sometimes it works,

but it's...

Again, sometimes when you see like a modern C63 wheel

on an old one and it just sticks out like a sore thumb.

Yeah, a lot of the time it just doesn't match up.

Or like newer diamond cut wheels on an older BMW

or something.

It doesn't work.

There's some levels to the game, I think.

You've got to make your mistakes,

but don't make lots of them.

Which is a threat, by the way.

Final bit on the anecdotes is from you, Ben.

Hi.

Which I think we've briefly covered,

but we'll go into it more.

Selling cars is bullshit.

Yeah.

Yes.

Please expand the point.

Selling cars is the most stupid thing.

Where has our respect gone as a society?

Just...

Come back to Ben, low-balling people on Facebook.

No, I know.

There is nothing wrong at all with negotiating a price.

Sure.

Absolutely nothing.

But to message me, no high, no niceties to it,

and just ask me a number, is the most frustrating thing.

Best price.

What's the best price?

Or car has been up for nine minutes for, say, two and a half grand.

I'll give you a grand.

Why would I say yes?

Because.

But it might work.

But it won't work.

Why would I say yes?

You need to give me a...

If you think, right, I want this...

Come a look at the car,

and if there's something wrong with it you didn't know about,

or there's a reason,

give me a reason why it should be less.

And that's fair.

If you offer me two grand less,

and you say I'm going to be 500 quid,

and you give me a good enough reason,

I'm not being disrespected.

But you can't use the excuses,

I don't want to pay as much money for this car.

Therefore, I'm going to offer you a thousand pounds less

without seeing it.

That's ridiculous.

If it's been around for not long, fair.

But if your car was listed two months ago for two and a half grand,

that means your car's not worth two and a half grand.

Of course.

And if you're being ridiculous,

but the reason I say this is clear,

I've listed for what genuinely is actually,

I know it has issues,

but I've been very upfront about the issues,

and the price of it is,

I think okay for what it is.

It's not ridiculous,

and I know it's not ridiculous

because there have been people commenting saying,

this is a good deal,

that sort of thing.

I know that, right?

But to come in there and be like,

I'm going to give you a grand less,

just without even seeing the car,

I find so just frustrating.

That I agree with.

Anyone that negotiates over text or phone,

I'm not going to sell you the car,

because I know you're a chance.

And that's what I've done.

They're never going to come and see the car.

That's what I've decided,

even if I've had a couple of people

that were actually interested,

that they tried to negotiate over the text,

I literally make some going,

I said, unfortunately,

I'm not going to go share a message,

come look at it,

and we can talk in person.

Exactly the correct response.

And at that time as well,

they'd respond with,

all right, fair enough.

But the people who open with just best price,

or I can come today,

I don't care if you come today or tomorrow,

or comes day, but bring the money that it's up for.

Talk about the cars.

Yeah, but anyway,

I would quite like to try a video.

We talked about this before,

and it would be painful,

and we'd have to become bad people for a day.

But just to go on the internet and lobel people,

just do exactly that thing,

and see if it works theory and go,

best price, I'll give you a grand.

I'll give you a grand.

I'll be there today.

Test, I don't know, 200, 300 cars,

and see what sort of percentage you at,

what your success rate is,

because you're essentially a scammer at that point.

You're just seeing what you can get off.

It turns out that's what everyone's doing.

They're all doing that video.

That's why everyone's asking best price.

Also, what is this whole up bring you cash today?

Now, if you're a business,

I understand there's that.

Why is that?

Why do you understand that?

Because I'm not saying I understand it personally.

I'm just saying that people prefer cash in services.

Often some people don't actually mean cash.

What they're saying is,

I can pay you and I'm going to pay you today.

Well, yeah, obviously.

I'm not going to leave with a car about paying for it.

But what they're saying is,

is that if they're going to turn up,

they're not going to turn up,

and because you get people,

and I've had this in the past,

where they come and see it,

and they go, yeah, we like it.

But I'm just going to,

I need to sell my car.

I need to sell my car, or I need to do this.

Yeah, or next week I get paid.

Why did you come and look at the car if you don't have cash?

I've strictly wasted my time.

But okay, fine.

But maybe that is what it is.

But if you're saying to me, I'll bring cash.

I don't want cash.

Yeah, I didn't ever step to my day.

I had to go to the bank and put it in the bank.

But for some people, it's an incentive.

It's, okay, I know I will have the cash in my hand.

It's a classic tried and tested trick.

Well, guess what?

I don't like it.

And selling cars is so long.

And it's just a lot of idiots out there.

And it gets worse with cheaper cars.

Yeah, 100%, it gets worse with cheaper cars.

I've heard a, I can't remember where it was.

It was either Instagram or Facebook.

It was a guy who was a classic car dealer.

And he said he has stopped selling anything below 10 grand,

which in my head, I think I've, I don't think I've actually sold the car up near that price.

But in my head, I would have thought it would have stopped at like three or four grand.

But he said, I'm not, I refuse to sell anything under that because people wasted my time.

If I sell from 10 to 20, someone will respond, go,

hi, I want to come look at this.

They'll look at it, either it's right for them and they buy it or they don't and they leave.

I especially think it's worse in what we deal with,

which is normally the more interesting car.

They say like performance or something.

It's an, yeah, enthusiast stuff at cheap prices.

I don't know. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, if you've got more experience in this.

If you're just selling regular cars, maybe there is, it's slightly less, but I don't know.

My experience selling a cheaper performance or enthusiast car, you get so many credence.

It is unreal.

Also, the other thing that I know it's got bad is because if I go away from something thinking,

actively thinking, God, that guy was nice and easy and respectful.

That's weird. It feels almost uncomfortable and then normal.

Then I'm like, you know what, there's an issue with this because I shouldn't be having that thought.

I'm just trying to interact with a person to come by my car.

I've been honest about it. You've been honest to me about it. It feels weird.

So yeah, cars, not fun.

We had the, well, I had, it's not the same thing, but the VX220 we tried to tell.

And to be fair, it's actually not entirely the fault of the guy, but it's, again,

it's one of those annoying things you get trying to sell a car.

Is a guy planned to come down because he wanted to buy it.

He did actually offer money over, this is VX220, very, very cheap.

He offered money over message, but he seemed serious.

So you get a vibe sometimes with someone.

And I said, okay, cool. He was going to come down and see it and potentially drive it away.

So I came in to the unit, which is about an hour from me and I'll be there at 10 at train station.

On a Saturday, on a Saturday, I was going to pick him up.

And then I got a message saying, oh, trends delayed. It's going to get in at 11.

It's another hour. Fine.

And then I got a message about like half 10, quarter 11 and said,

oh, the trains we messed up, it's got to go to here.

And it's going to take me X amount of time to get in here.

I'll, I'm just going to go home and I'll rearrange.

You just get, you get lots of that where it's like, okay, I think I'm selling it today,

but in actual fact, I'm delaying until, again, I'm not blaming that guy for that.

It's just that is the, that's what happens.

I was going to say, some people might not understand your frustration, Ben,

but tell, explain the example of what happened.

I was, so the clear was currently for sale. I actually have a man coming tomorrow.

Oh, that's Christ. Congratulations to him.

Do not click that.

I'm a guy coming down tomorrow to hopefully come by who seems very nice and normal.

So hopefully that goes well. I may not, but it's us.

I had, so the clear went up for sale and I had actually quite a lot of interest

straight away. And I had, I had one guy that within 10 minutes of me putting up was offering

to just buy it out right off me. I was like, okay, we'll come look at it.

He was too far away or whatever. I didn't have one guy, normal person, very nice,

asking normal questions about it. I said, mate, I want to come, I come down.

This was Saturday. He said, I want to come down tomorrow and look at it.

I was like, cool. I can, I can sort of fax that into my weekend.

So I plan with him the morning comes around.

And you, you weren't with the car. You went home.

So I was, so my car was at my house. I was at my girlfriend's house or for the most of the

weekend. So I was like, okay, well, what I'll do is I'll, I'll drive half an hour to the car.

And it had some of my stuff in it still, but where, basically where it was, I had,

it basically meant I had to go down there, go to the car, make sure the car was right,

take all the stuff out of it, walk back to my house, put it away.

I was getting everything ready for him to possibly dry away a pound of the paperwork.

I got everything out and then I sat there and I confirmed with him three o'clock

at the time he'd get there. Three o'clock comes around, no sign of him.

Great. I messaged him going, are you still good for three o'clock? No response.

Great. And this is, this is someone who has confirmed they're coming. This isn't like a,

this isn't a, I might be there today. Yeah.

And then half three gets, I mess him going, okay, where are you? I said,

you have till four, I have to go out. I'm going to leave because I'm the one who just sat in

my house. I have stuff to do. Then he messaged me at four o'clock going, oh, mate,

I actually ended up going out for lunch with my friends. So I just, I think I'm not going to come

today. I was, I was not very happy with him. I'll be honest with you.

That's, that's, but you're a dickhead. You are, you, I hope, I hope you buy a 182 and it blows

up on the way home. You clown. Do you know what? I said, I said, I said, um, well, I got with my

girlfriends and she was like, why don't you sell it? I said to her, I was like, even if he comes

moved to me tomorrow and offers to pay more than it's up for, I'm not selling it to you on principle.

Do you want to have a hit? Yeah. It's a joke.

That sort of person is never, they just, yeah. It's a waste of, if you went, listen,

I'm really sorry. Like my car broke down. I mean, maybe he wanted it then, but like,

I don't know. My, my, my, my mums had to go to hospital or there's an actual reason.

Only those two things. Yeah. My car broke down. Yeah.

My dad's at hospital. Don't care. Where are you?

You know what I mean? If something comes up, that's fine. I'm not going to, I'm a nice person.

I'm not going to. But to brazenly say, I forgot, I'm just at lunch.

I said, you know what, couldn't even lie. Yeah.

Do me the respect of lying to me. Yeah.

Lies me and tell me something's wrong. Like, why would you just tell me also like,

to be fair to him, I will give him this. He did actually afterwards. I apologize to me about it.

But because I responded only after you abused him.

I didn't abuse him. I gave him a little bit of a sarcastic message. Of course.

But I'm not, I'm not. I wasn't that bad, but it was

put this way. It's already been said. Yeah. I was not happy.

But you shouldn't be happy. I mean, genuinely, like he should be hung drawn and courted.

He should be named and shamed. He needs to sit in the 50 car cinema that we talked about.

Yeah. He needs to get the C4. I was not happy about it because, you know, it is a piss take.

And one, one final thing. Again, 99% of you are great.

If you see one of us selling something, please do not jump into the DMs with a ha ha is a meme

because there are a hundred other people doing the same thing and it gets quite annoying.

Again, I know you're doing it innocently, but I have trying to sell a part have put a part up.

I had three people asking me serious questions and about 50 messages saying ha ha eggs, beans,

creamers, please. I was just Ben saying that. Yeah.

Then you have the same thing again. And again, it's nice. It's nice that you're it's a love hate

thing because it's like these are viewers that support us, but at the same time and you've seen

us in the wild. This is my, this is my personal thing. I'm trying to sell my car. If you want to

buy the car, come buy it. Absolutely fine. But to make an inside joke from the podcast to me,

also your audience is me. I'm not going to laugh. You know, I mean, it's, it's not, it's, it's a bit

weird. Tough crowd. Am I right? Yeah, but just, just movie star. Ben, just let's go through my agent.

No, let's just serious inquiries only, please. I mean, I'm already dealing with people off selling

eight pounds, 15 miles, but one guy offered me a one litre fiesta as a trade plus some money.

And I said, I didn't even respond. You said, when can I pick up because I was like, well, okay,

but why would I do that when I'm trying to get rid of my car? I don't want another car. You said

when you want money on top of that, is it? But what I mean is, is that I'm

already dealing with that sort of offer and that sort of thing. Have you had any scams?

But I will say that maybe it's because I haven't sold that many cars like recently via

the usual methods, but I feel like there were less scams out there. I tried. I had it the

a few weeks ago trying to buy parts for the 300 deluxe. I put a post up saying,

does anybody have a tensioner bracket before I snapped it? And a guy responded and said,

in the thing, yeah, I've got one DM you. I clicked on his profile, immediately read

immediate red flag. He had an American spec Subaru and an Eagle Talon on his driveway.

Also, you picked the wrong guy full. You think I know? I don't know that Eagle style is only

an American thing. L for you. He said, DM me. So I responded and said, hi, where are you based?

Already smelling a rat. He said, UK mate and you? I said, yeah, I'm all good man. UK too,

funnily enough. Come on. Whereabouts? I can come collect it from close. He said, okay,

where are you now exactly? So I said, no brother. I asked where you were. He said, Glasgow. So I

said, perfect. Funnily enough, I have a friend in Glasgow who's driving down in the week. He can

come and collect it. Are you able to send a photo of which idler pulleys you have a little thumbs

up emoji? Which I quite liked. And then I'm not reserving without payment. It's still available

when he shows up. Good. I said, I don't need them reserved. He'll come and collect them. Won't he

chopper? I said, which brand are the idlers? And do you have one or both? Never got a response.

Profile now gone disappeared. Yeah. Part scams. That's rife. Yeah. The amount of times I've seen

for sale ad and the comments, you can just see there is a sea of scammers. But the classic one

was I'm an oil rig. Yeah. I work at sea. But my father wants this car because they'll give some

reason and he's going to pay you via a bank account. Full price. Full price. The car's amazing.

And normally they're going for like higher value stuff in this case, but it's just a

bullshit scam. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, come on. But the past ones, normally I have seen

some accounts. Most of the time they are very, very... It's not as obvious. I've seen some. I'm

like, okay, I could possibly see why you are, how you've scammed people. The rest of them. No idea.

But it's also when they say DM me. DM me. Why am I going to message you?

But then at some, sometimes I do do that. And I've asked for an eight series exhaust and some

guy said, DM me. I've got one. I DMed him just mainly because I find it funny. If I find a

scammer, I like messing with them. I've got some great, we've got some great texts from Bella,

the very real woman. We'll read that at some point. My wife died. She was a bean magnate.

But so I mentioned to go for an eight series exhaust and the guy was like, yeah, it's like

a hundred quid. You come get it. Send me a photo. Send me a video. Perfect. Yeah. So it was weird.

But yeah, stay safe out there. Always, always be, always be creaming.

Just on a side note. I think that's all. I think that's it. We did have a forum,

but we're running long in the tooth. We'll be back next week. As always,

thank you very much for listening. The cars are loading around me podcast.

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