The Toyota RAV4 is a popular SUV model from Toyota. The host thought it was some unfamiliar electric Chinese car, but the small badge on the car shows it’s actually a RAV4.
They’re talking about how more cars are becoming electric. And they feel that electric cars can look similar to each other compared with older gas cars.
For electric cars, “range” is how many miles you can drive before the battery runs out. People care about it because it determines whether the car fits their routine.
The Honda Civic Type R is a sporty version of the regular Civic. It’s a “hot hatch,” meaning it’s a practical small car that’s tuned to drive fast and handle well.
The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car that Volkswagen makes in many different versions. Some versions are designed to be sportier, like the GTI. The podcast mentions it when talking about how sport models were introduced.
The Ford Focus is a smaller car model Ford used to sell a lot. The hosts are talking about Ford moving away from cars like the Focus and focusing more on SUVs and trucks.
A “model line” is just the set of different car models a brand sells. If a company streamlines it, they cut down the number of models so it’s easier to build and sell.
A company lease is when a business rents cars for employees or operations instead of buying them. Because leased cars are usually newer, you may see more of them on the road.
“After sales” refers to the support ecosystem after purchase—things like service, parts availability, and warranty/repair handling. The host is arguing that even if a car is fine for a short time, weak after-sales support can become a bigger problem over the long term.
A lease deal is when you pay to drive a car for a period of time instead of buying it outright. The host is saying those offers can make certain cars show up everywhere.
The thermostat housing is part of the engine’s cooling system. It helps control coolant flow, and if it leaks or fails you can lose coolant and the engine can run too hot.
This is about the parts that help the engine warm up correctly and keep running at the right temperature. If they’re failing, coolant can leak or the engine may not cool/heat properly.
Aftermarket parts are made by other companies, not the car’s original manufacturer. They’re often cheaper, and here the speaker says it worked out okay.
DSG is Volkswagen’s type of automatic transmission that uses two clutches to shift quickly. When people book service for it, they’re usually getting the transmission fluid checked or changed.
Haldex oil is the special fluid used in some all-wheel-drive systems. It helps the car decide how much power goes to the wheels with traction, and it needs to be serviced with the right type.
Term
Macatronics
Macatronics is probably the transmission’s control unit. It’s the part that helps the gearbox change gears smoothly by coordinating electronics and fluid/hydraulics.
Goodyear is a well-known tire maker. Tires make a big difference for traction and stopping, and the host is saying these are almost new, which makes the deal better.
The Audi SQ5 is a sportier version of the Q5 SUV. It’s meant for people who want an SUV but with stronger performance. The podcast mentions it because someone is selling SQ5 wheels and tires.
“20 inch” means the wheel is 20 inches across. Bigger wheels usually look sportier and can feel more responsive, but they can also make the ride firmer and replacement tires cost more.
A “bald” tire is one where the tread is worn off. With no tread left, the tire can’t grip as well—especially when it’s raining—and it can be dangerous.
The Audi A4 is a popular German car in the mid-size “nice daily driver” category. They mention it because they’ve seen the same kind of alignment-related tire wear on it.
Wheel alignment is about aiming the front wheels correctly. If it’s wrong, your tires can wear unevenly—like the inside edge getting worn down much faster than the outside.
The “inside edge” is the part of the tire that’s nearer to the middle of the car. If that edge wears down faster, it often means the wheels aren’t aligned correctly.
“Down to the canvas” means the tire is worn past the normal tread and you can see the internal fabric. That tire is no longer safe and needs replacing right away.
Term
tire sand
“Tire sand” is basically the gritty rubber dust and bits that come off a tire as it wears. If you notice a lot of it, it can be a clue that the tire is wearing faster than it should.
An air valve is a control valve that regulates the flow of compressed air to a pneumatic system. In custom builds, it’s often used to route air to actuators (like suspension or other pneumatic components) and to manage pressure and timing.
A compressor is the component that pressurizes air for a pneumatic system. The compressor’s output pressure determines how strongly the system can actuate whatever the air is feeding.
Aluminum is a lightweight metal often used for tubing in custom pneumatic plumbing because it’s relatively easy to form and corrosion-resistant. Here it’s mentioned as the material choice for the hard lines.
Copper tubing is commonly used in small custom fluid/air lines because it bends relatively easily and seals well with the right fittings. The host contrasts it with aluminum, suggesting they changed material and tube sizing for better results.
A tube bender is a tool used to bend rigid tubing to a specific radius without damaging the tube. Poor bending tools can cause kinks or collapse the tube, restricting airflow in pneumatic systems.
“45 degrees” here describes the angle of the hard lines as they exit the box. That angle affects how the lines can be routed, what fittings will physically fit, and how you need to support the tubing to avoid stress or leaks.
A bulkhead fitting is a sealed connector that lets a hose or pipe go through a wall or panel. It helps prevent leaks and keeps the line held in place where it enters the box.
3D printing is a way to make a custom plastic part by building it up layer by layer. Here it’s used to print a bracket to hold the tubing in the right position.
A valve block is a part that routes and controls flow through multiple connection points. If you’re connecting tubing to it, the port spacing has to line up so everything seals and fits.
“Mil” is a small measurement unit used for precise spacing. Saying the ports are “28 mil apart” means there’s a specific, repeatable gap you have to match when drilling or designing the bracket.
Fusion 360 is a computer program for designing parts. You can draw the bracket and hole locations digitally so the printed piece fits the tubing correctly.
CAD software helps you design parts on a computer with accurate measurements. It’s how you plan where holes and shapes should go before you print or build anything.
“Heavily modified” just means the car was changed a lot from how it comes from the factory. For movies, that’s usually so it can handle stunts and look right on camera.
The “Supra” is a Toyota sports car. Here, they’re talking about a specific one used in the movie—an orange one—with extra safety/track-style parts like a roll cage.
A roll cage is a strong metal safety frame inside the car. It helps protect you in a crash and can also make the car feel more solid when driving hard.
The Eclipse is a Mitsubishi car that many people modified. In this discussion, they’re talking about how the movie’s car started as a different color and was used as a modified build.
Term
straight race scene
A “straight race scene” is when the cars are mostly racing on a straight stretch. It’s meant to make the cars look fast mainly by showing acceleration and speed.
Term
weird camos
“Camos” here refers to camouflage patterns applied to cars—either for visual effect in a film or to obscure the vehicle’s true shape. In automotive contexts, camouflage is commonly used during testing to hide styling details from the public.
Leclerc is a Formula 1 race driver. Here, he’s being mentioned because he crashed at the same spot as someone else, which the speakers think points to a track problem.
A red flag means the race is stopped right away because something dangerous happened. Everyone has to slow down and wait for officials to make the track safe again.
They’re talking about the car’s braking system. If the brakes “lock up,” the wheels can stop spinning, which can make the car harder to control and sometimes stop less effectively depending on the road surface.
F1 stands for Formula 1, the highest level of open-wheel racing. Teams race specialized cars around the world and score points toward a season championship.
Brand
Austin Martin
They’re talking about Aston Martin, a car brand that also competes in Formula 1. The point here is that the team hasn’t been doing as well as people expected.
The Dodge Ram is a large pickup truck designed to tow and carry heavy loads. It’s the kind of truck people think of when they picture big American trucks. The podcast brings it up as an example of that style and reputation.
The Toyota Tacoma is a pickup truck with a smaller size than full-size trucks. It’s made to carry things in the back and handle tough everyday use. The podcast uses it as a comparison because it’s easy to picture what that shape looks like.
The DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car with a very unusual look, including doors that open upward. It’s well known and easy to recognize. The podcast talks about seeing several of them together, showing how people still seek them out.
The Volkswagen Bora is a regular sedan model made by Volkswagen. It’s the kind of car people may modify for more performance. The podcast mentions it in the context of a past story involving performance cars and what someone saw.
The Nürburgring is a well-known race track in Germany. It’s famous because car companies and drivers use it to test how fast and capable a car is, especially in long, hard races.
A 24-hour race is endurance racing where the goal is to keep the car running at speed for an entire day. It emphasizes durability, cooling, brakes, tires, and consistent driver performance over outright one-lap pace.
They mention a company called “module” as a sponsor. That means the company is helping support the creator’s trip or content around the race.
Company
Mutl
They also mention “Mutl,” which they call an oil company. That usually means they provide engine oil for the cars being driven, especially for hard events like endurance races.
The Audi RS4 is a fast, performance-focused Audi based on the A4. It’s made to feel more powerful and sporty than a regular model. The podcast brings it up because it was a car someone was thinking about owning.
The “bottom end” is the part of the engine with the crankshaft and bearings. If it fails, the engine can be ruined, and repairs are often very expensive.
An oil change is when you replace the engine oil (and usually the filter). It keeps the engine lubricated and helps it run better, especially when you’re driving hard.
Hagerty is a car enthusiast company that makes videos and also offers insurance for collector cars. They’re known for covering classic and interesting builds.
HWA is a German performance/engineering company that’s worked with Mercedes in racing. Here they’re mentioned as doing a modern restomod build based on a classic Mercedes 190.
A restomod is an old car that’s restored, but with modern upgrades. People do it so the car looks classic while driving and performing more like a newer car.
“Drivetrain” refers to the components that deliver power from the engine to the wheels, such as the transmission, driveshaft(s), differential, and related hardware. Saying “modern drivetrain” implies the restomod swaps in newer versions of those parts to improve performance, efficiency, and integration with modern electronics.
Pillars are the metal posts that hold up the roof. The A-, B-, and C-pillars are the posts around the windshield and doors, and they’re important for crash safety and body strength.
Term
chassis legs
These are strong structural parts that run along the sides of the car’s front. They’re designed to take crash energy, so cutting them is a big deal that has to be engineered back correctly.
A “crash zone” is the engineered front or rear area designed to deform in a controlled way during a collision. The goal is to absorb energy and manage how loads travel through the chassis to protect occupants.
These are metal parts made by casting—melting aluminum and pouring it into a mold. They can be strong and lightweight, but they have to be designed to behave safely in a crash.
Giga castings are very large metal parts made in one piece using casting. The idea is to use fewer pieces in the car’s structure, which can help manufacturing and sometimes strength.
A full rebuild means the car is basically taken apart and rebuilt, not just lightly restored. It usually involves major work on the structure and key systems.
A concept car is a one-off or prototype vehicle that automakers show to demonstrate ideas. It might not be sold to the public, but it can hint at what future cars will look like or how they’ll be built.
They’re talking about the first generation of the Audi TT. They’re comparing a show car’s shape and details to how the real TT looked when it was sold.
They mention the Audi A2 as a style reference. The point is that the concept’s shape reminded them of an A2, but with an off-road, lifted look.
Term
T-Rock
They likely mean the Volkswagen T-Roc (a small crossover SUV). They’re saying these kinds of crossovers are popular now, similar to the concept’s off-road-ish styling.
They’re referencing the Volkswagen T-Cross, a small SUV/crossover. The idea is that today’s crossover trend looks similar to what that older concept was hinting at.
They’re using “hybrid SUV” to describe a crossover style—part SUV, part off-road look. It doesn’t necessarily mean the car has a hybrid engine; it’s more about the design vibe.
The T-Cross is a small SUV made for everyday driving, especially in cities. It’s popular because it’s easier to handle and park than larger SUVs. The podcast groups it with similar compact SUVs people are selling now.
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Hi folks, welcome back to another episode of Reeloo Podcast, my name is Connor McCann
and joining me I would say as always but it's been quite a while, but hadn't missed what
happened these days.
It is indeed, who have I got with us?
Lee Maxwell, Nigel Lamont.
Excellent, so it's good to be back.
It's been approximately a month and our schedules just have not aligned.
I think I've been out of the country a lot.
We've ended up splitting our ways and going to different shows which we'll talk about.
It's just been absolutely hectic this last while.
We were actually chatting last night about, I personally just feel absolutely burnt out
of the minute and it's just life is life in.
It's like first of all problems because you're like, oh no, I have to do work at my job.
Oh no, I have to go hang out with my friends at car shows.
Tell you what though, it does get to you.
You can see how it just-
I remember 20 years ago, you went to something every weekend, maybe two events a week and
no baller, baller.
We're also old now.
20 years ago you weren't working a high stress job either.
I was just going to say my job was a bit more liberal back then.
A year ago mine was as well.
We're back anyway folks with a lot of catching up to do.
So we'll start off as always with what's new in me, what's new you guys?
I was going to discuss a car that I saw on the road a couple of weeks ago when I was
driving to Cork.
Being car people, now we're not particularly new car people, but as a general rule as a
car enthusiast, you recognise cars on the road.
You can tell what they are, even if they're not cars that you're particularly interested
in.
But either by the design language or you just know what a car is.
But I was behind this new, as I assumed, electric Chinese car.
I had not a clue what it was, what the brand was.
Driving along behind it and I could see the name on the back.
I thought it was like Raya or Rava, something that was along the back under the windscreen.
And the thing is, is that many new cars on the road now with the Chinese market coming
this way?
You don't know what you're looking at.
JQ and whatever else.
So I was just like, oh, this must be one of these.
But I don't know what it is.
But eventually I got right up behind it and there was a tiny, tiny, tiny little black
badge, manufacturer badge on the black strip under the windscreen so you couldn't see it.
It was a Toyota RAV4.
Oh, I guess.
Not a Raya or a Rava.
It was a RAV4.
It was a RAV4.
But there was like, as I thought, initially, new manufacturer badge on it.
Turns out there was a very, very small one.
But even as a person who knows what other Toyota's look like, this did not say Toyota to me.
I just thought it was really strange.
It's funny, the older I get, when I was young, I could have told you, like, if I seen headlights
in the dark, I could have told you what the car was.
And now I couldn't tell you what the car is.
That's multiplied by the fact that why would you look at auto express or auto car to see
what's coming?
Because what's coming?
More electric, fish.
Shit.
Yeah.
And they all look the same.
Turns out.
I do love car reviewers.
Like, what have I got there of you?
Hi, how do you get excited about this?
Many apps is in this battery.
Could you imagine range?
The traditional top gear format?
Yeah.
Like, because back in the day, you got a lot of it was like supercars and hypercars, but
you did get like the new Civic Type R and, you know, more normal stuff as well.
Big thing like when the, you know, the GTI, the VTS was launched.
Yeah.
What does it look like?
What does it look like?
No, you're just, what are you excited about?
It looks like a super glove.
Even the latest GTI.
No, the club sport look well and all the rest of it.
They are.
You're not getting excited like you used to with new model launches.
No.
Like, and then cause of financials, obviously, manufacturers now don't have massive range
options or not range options.
Just options and a range, you know, you could have got eight or nine different variants
of a focus.
Yeah.
Whereas now it's busy.
You have the Lux model or the less Lux model.
Aye.
Well, should look at the way the manufacturers are cutting down even the range of cars they
sell where it was like, is a Ford in America don't sell cars anymore?
Everything's either an SUV or a truck.
So they get rid of the focus, you know, they've been so much their model line to try and streamline
it.
Well, manufacturers have to be ruthless now because the Chinese army is coming.
As I seen in England last week, there was Jake who's everywhere.
Oh yeah.
And a lot of them are company leases and hierarchs, which is why when I was doing the
hierarch stuff in Germany, it was all BYDs I was getting.
I was talking about this in the car and he says, it's just makes so much sense that
somebody just wants a mode of transportation.
Jake who are offered.
I think it's two 80 down to 80 a month.
Mm hmm.
Well, that's like I was saying about those BYDs that I was hard.
I don't know what it would be like to maintain or live with for 10 years, but for a car that
I just lifted and drove it did everything well.
It had nice infotainment system.
Like everything worked well.
You know, I was like, if I was just an average person, I would get into this and go, this
is a nice car.
This does what it's supposed to do.
It's reliable for two years.
So I was like, I'm not going to get into this car again, but that then multiplies a problem
down the stream where the after sales is in the toilet because it's a minimum.
It's like when they offered the lease deals on mark seven golf hours, that was diesel
get followed.
Yeah, full truck and the money and the the least.
They were just everywhere.
But to the point where when I see a mark seven GTI, I go, oh, there's a mark seven GTI.
If I see a golf or I don't mention it because you're like, well, they're everywhere, you
know, with it.
There's one I said right now.
Yeah.
They're great cars.
As you know, living with one, you can fault the things, but also you don't.
Well, I personally don't get excited about them.
And I say it's not a modern car thing because I do look at the GTI model and go, oh, there's
a GTI, even though it's a lesser model.
But they are still in the just even subtle.
It is just understated a certain extent.
You look at versus the mark four or 32, for example, but you know, the bumpers were very
different.
I know, obviously they're different to normal mark seven base model versus a golf R, but
it doesn't stand out to me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think we unisell.
Well, I don't think I was talking since the last time I had a problem with the golf
R, the car we're talking about.
Yes.
Those great cars.
There's a bit of a, I was losing a bit of count and I was talking to a neighbor and he says
it's probably the thermostat housing common enough, you know, the water pump thermostat
is sort of tough.
And I had booked in with him to get it changed, but it was going to work a few weeks ago.
And yeah, just basically emptied all the water.
I haven't had to get it recovered.
You got it sorted then.
Yeah.
And was it the water pump?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So a genuine water pump is 440 quid from Volkswagen or a genuine housing.
I would ask how was that to purchase, but I'm going to say you didn't purchase it.
No, I didn't.
What do you get?
The aftermark one's fine.
Yeah.
It's 170.
Well, I mean, if the genuine one gives bother, wipe out genuine for the dude.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Just a bad design on the sound.
I'm pretty sure it's common on those things as well.
So got that sorted.
That's fine.
I did what it was booked in to get Haldex and DSG.
Volkswagen or TPS are withholding Haldex oil at the moment.
What's that?
I think there's a supply issue.
Oh, okay.
The talent when they're on war started with General Oil for a few days.
Yes, I heard that.
Yeah.
Until they had a big board meeting and just went, are we screwed here?
And they realized they weren't and started selling again.
They were holding it for their dealerships basically.
But you currently can't buy Haldex oil?
Well, that was as of last week.
So only got the DSG service.
That's good.
So anybody that has it's going to put it through the roof then.
Well, you can buy Miller's oil, but as Andy says to me, Miller's oil to a generic Haldex
oil, one generic Haldex oil.
TPS have eight or nine.
Aye.
So there is a difference.
There is a difference.
So yeah, buy Miller oil if you want.
It'll probably be fine.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'd rather.
Is there a massive price difference?
I don't really know the balance between Miller or Miller would be cheaper.
For all your band of it, it's probably not really doesn't really matter.
Yeah.
So I wait my Haldex oil and then you set a tires for it and then you set a tires for
Q5 Q5 is in for a service.
Diagnosing the gearbox things.
That'll be another thing and I need to fix the Haldex or the Macatronics needs pulled
out of that.
The tires is fucking shocking.
Well, the price, there's a fellow selling a set of refurbished SQ5 alloys with nearly
new Goodyear tires on it.
And that's why I bought SQ5 wheels last time.
I could put, went and bought brand new tires and put them in the standard wheels I had
on it.
And I don't put crap tires on.
So it cost me 600 pound.
I got the SQ5 wheels for 300 pound with the tires.
So I'm thinking I'll maybe just buy these new SQ5 ones, buy, sell me old SQ5 ones.
And that means I have a set of 20 inch fully refurbished wheels with good year tires in
the last two years.
And away you go then.
Yeah.
So the bank of house getting an absolute torturous abuse at the moment.
Start selling some cars.
Absolutely not.
I will.
Absolutely.
If somebody I could mark one, I'll put a head on it for you.
I'll maybe get around that.
I forgot I had to get tires in this superb last week as well.
That's right.
I had a little incident where I was leaving my house and Conor came out to, I was handing
you something out of the car through the window and you went, your front tire is totally bald.
I'm going to use people just like, looks at tires randomly.
You're like, do you have like pulled in somewhere and you've left the lock on and you jump out
to like move open a gate or something.
I would just like randomly look at the tires, just a quick check kind of thing.
But was there not an issue?
I remember my B at A4 was the same.
Like alignment issues in the front.
Yep.
I've had the superb aligned.
Yeah.
I don't know how many times and let's just choose the inside edge.
Because I do look at my tires quite regularly because I'm on the road so much.
But I look at the outside of the tire, what I can see in the arch and the outside of the
tire was fine.
If you wouldn't have known there was anything wrong with it.
And the inside was down to the canvas.
I got my A4 alignment done because then I was eating off it and it reduced it very little,
but it's kept doing it.
Gavin, black line, took your car multiple times.
Gavin has done mine two or three times.
Lurkin, tire sand.
Lurkin, tire sand, I've done it a couple of times.
Paul's done it for me.
Yeah.
And it's still.
And it's just, it just.
And everybody you talk to with the superb says the exact same thing.
They just do that.
Yeah.
That's a nice touch.
So thanks, Skoda.
Yeah.
That's nothing really new.
Just yeah.
Life, life and bend a few events, but we'll talk to that shortly.
Mine then, as I say, we've just been absolutely insanely busy at the minute.
So I've been getting time here and there with the mark to you.
So I think when I left off before recording this, I had made the box and trimmed it for
the centerpiece for the air valve, like the valve block and the compressor.
So I then started the, I got it mounted and the valve block kind of floats above the compressor
and then it's the hard lines coming out of it.
So I made all the hard lines in aluminum.
Previously I'd done them in quarter inch copper and this time I went half inch aluminum or
half inch, sorry, three eighth and the bender that I had was shite.
It was a kink in them and stuff.
So Earl from Earl's auto works, he recommended one to me, but it was in America and I was
like, I'll fuck.
I'll get it when I'm over kind of thing.
But then I found one on Amazon and I got it and there was like a little cast and mark
inside the ridge.
So it was a mark in the pipe when you did it.
So it took it, filed it down and it's perfect now.
So did the hard lines and because they're kind of coming through the side of the box
at 45 degrees, you can't really put a bulkhead fitting in there and I wanted them supported.
So I was just going to drill a hole and I was like, I'm never going to drill that hole
accurately enough to have it that it works, you know, or it's supported.
So ended up then straight E printing like a little bracket to hold them at 45 degrees
and put the bulkhead fitting through which worked quite well.
And what else?
How do you go about measure?
You just measure that up and so program or what?
I, so the valve block, I measured the center ports with the four lines come out and they
were 28 mil apart.
So I actually ended up, I don't think I have them in here.
I think they're in the garage.
I printed up a little like piece of plastic with three eighth holes under slightly oversized
28 mil apart and then about two, I printed the same one with two holes in it, 28 mil apart.
So on your laptop, you have a program to design?
Yes.
So I just like fusion 360, which is a CAD package.
So I drew that up and then I mocked up the, so the hard lines, the four come out straight
and then they branch off at 45 degrees to go one way to go on the other way.
I mocked it up on the bench by slipping these, like guides over the hard lines, had it all
sitting.
That was perfect.
And then when I put it into the, into the box and I seen that I needed to make up these
brackets to hold the bulkhead fittings.
I had to start taking measurements in and I actually mocked it up in cardboard at the
start and I made roughly what I wanted.
I went, okay.
And then I took it into the house.
I was able to measure off the cardboard and draw it up and CAD.
The problem was then the bulkhead fittings are really bulky.
They're very, very wide, but I only have 28 mil from center to center on the lines.
So then when I printed up, the bulkhead fitting was really tight to one side of the wall of
what I was, the wee bracket I was making.
So I couldn't get the nut to go down over because the threads were touching the edge.
So it took me a while to think about it.
And then when I come up with it was a 3D printed a nut and basically split it in half, but
like I removed just less than half of it so that it was starting, if you imagine like
a C shape starting to come back over again.
And that was enough.
Like a push it over the threads and it would widen out and then snap down over the threads.
And then when I tightened the actual nut on the other side of the bulkhead fitting, it
had enough grip to like sandwich it and it holds perfectly.
So it's really simple when you look at it, but it took me so long to get there.
It looks really good.
It looks really tidy.
The latest YouTube video, which the one I put out last week has it in it and it's starting
to come together.
If you see the thumbnail for it, you'll see the idea of what I'm talking about.
And then I started making on sort of the sub box on one side that sits under the partial
shelf or under the partial support.
I'm making another one on the other side was like a hidden compartment for storage more
so just to balance it out.
And they've ordered up a whole lot of other parts for other things that I want to do that
I haven't got yet, but I'm more trying to like because of so little time, I'm trying
to stockpile all the parts that I need.
So when I do get to it, I can just go and do the thing rather than having another few
days wait here and there.
What else have I been up to?
I don't think I've any news with the TT because I barely drive it.
We're working at home.
Yeah, I think that's me actually with that.
Yeah, just fiberglass hell.
I did that fiberglass work for the sub box and when was that back in like January or something
and I forgot how much I hated six months later and I did this side and I was like, this is
fucking horrible.
And I mixed up all the stuff.
It was like a cool enough day.
It was maybe like 15 degrees.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, this is fine.
So after working when I mixed it up on the second that I mixed it, the temperature jumped
like a sunny and it jumped like 22 degrees.
Yeah.
And the stuff started to go off as I was using it.
It was like starting to gel up in the cup and I was like, oh, this is like the worst
case scenario.
And then the next day again, cold again, I was like, you fucker.
So if that's new with us, anybody got any news?
The big news for me this week was basically came out that Jeremy Clarkson has prostate
cancer.
I've seen that.
Yeah.
The motoring legend that he is.
It was it was actually part of the fifth season of Clarkson's farm.
He made the announcement to Caleb and what do you call a crop advisor guy?
Oh, Charlie, Charlie.
That he had prostate cancer.
So I think they're recorded six to nine months ago.
Yeah.
So there are, I think by the time they edit them stuff.
So I don't know.
There hasn't been any more details on it, but it's pretty aggressive one like so.
Sad to hear.
That's what they said.
I think they said it's aggressive, but they caught it early, which is good.
We've been watching the latest Clarkson farm.
We haven't got that far.
I know he does announce it in that, but I've seen it all over social media.
He has a morbid sense of humor and dark.
So the last episode he basically says, so we started season five with me in the hospital bed.
And here we are at the end of season five and I'm back in the hospital bed.
Some of the treatments gone are a bit ory, let's say.
So I'm going, I'm going to be here for a while.
If this is successful, I'll see you for season six.
And if it isn't, I won't take care of everyone.
It's one of those things that's easy to say, but sometimes you just have to be like that.
And they just go, well,
so wish him a speedy recovery and hopefully there is a scene six.
Um, it's such a great show.
Like I really enjoy it for pure entertainment.
I would listen to good few podcasts and the producer, what do you call him Andy?
Something like that.
He was part of the top gear production team.
He was the producer and he was commenting about how the farm came about and all.
Clarkson was spending more time out at the farm.
He admitted he bought the farm for tax relief.
Yeah.
And he was just, he got sick of London and just spent more time out at the farm.
And he just started to spend time in the farm, got to know the people that are working the farm for him, Keelabinol,
the community and all the rest of it.
And then he just approached two Amazon producers, right?
This is my next idea.
And they basically, they were dead against it.
I don't know, look at it.
Yeah.
It's one of the biggest Amazon seasons like our series.
And then look at the other businesses.
He's built off the back of it, the pub and you know, it all feeds itself like it's.
Well, we were coming back from players classic last week, I think, again, before we thought on the Sunday,
we'll pull in the farmers don't get dinner.
Good luck.
We booked it July.
I did July.
Yeah.
But I think you can still go to the wee snack killer at the back or whatever, but the actual place itself.
That is nuts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's obviously going well for him.
It's funny on the on the series.
He talks about Charlie comes in at one point and says, Jim, this is how much money you're losing basically with the pub.
You're losing all this money.
And he's losing money every year on the farm with the crops and the weather being shitting all this year.
And he was like, that's good.
Two loss making businesses.
I think I'll open a cinema next.
It's a sag.
I love the cinema.
Me too.
He's the best thing that's happened to farming like a lot of farming friends like and best thing that raise awareness for position.
A lot of farmers are in.
Well, that's what it's going to say.
Especially talent farmers in England, Scotland.
Yeah.
It's bound to put a spot if I don't need just put the spotlight on what's happening for the general public, like how the hell can you buy that?
Yeah.
Okay.
My first story then is going to make us feel even older than we are.
No.
So the original Fast and Furious has returned to the cinemas this year for its 25th anniversary.
25 years since Vin Diesel decided to steal in DVD players was a good move.
Just off topic a bit.
I was in work yesterday and there's a girl in my age in the office.
She has another team.
And I don't know why I came up with my algorithm or whatever.
Instagram.
She came off shores 30 years old this year.
30.
3-0.
That's disgusting.
It's absolutely brutal, but it's amazing.
Like I still love the original film.
Too fast, too serious.
It's all right.
The Tukio Drifts is also my to be honest with you.
They're all popcorn.
And then I see fourth onwards.
Go fuck themselves.
Yeah.
Let's go to space.
End of the woodchip.
Let's go to space.
Let's go to summer.
I don't think I've watched past five.
So I went to the cinema as a group with all of us and whatever one that a submarine come
up through the ice chasing a Lamborghini at the end of it.
I remember thinking to myself, I'll never watch another one of these again.
And I've never went back to the cinema.
Everybody walked out and was like, Oh, what do you think of that?
I was like, I won't go back.
What was the one where they're on a Jill carriage when there's a Mark II escort?
Yes.
That's five.
That's a five.
I think.
That's the last one.
I'll just write the tanks on the mark.
T.S.
Gord.
I remember in that scene Vin Diesel jumps from a car across so that the motorway, I think
if I remember right, it's that long.
I've seen it.
The motorway is like on two bridges.
So you have the two lanes going one way, two lanes and then a big drop in the middle and
he like crashes the car.
And as he crashes, he jumps from the car using the momentum to crash to then catch Larry in
the air as she's falling to her death.
And then like slams into another car where it's just like something like, you know, how
did you know you catch me?
I didn't family.
I was like, fuck me.
But the minute that happened, the whole cinema burst out laughing.
I was like, this is how ridiculous.
It's commonly now, but now that like the Avengers, you know, you just like, let's
let's gather again.
So we'll make 50 million each.
Let's go.
I was saying last night though, I watched a random YouTube video the other day.
I was on the background when I was working and it was like 10 facts.
You didn't know about Tokyo Drift or something.
And you know the cameo at the end where Vin Diesel appears in the underground car park.
He refused to do too fast.
He furious because he was like, you guys are going to ruin this franchise.
He doesn't need to be just leave it as it is.
Which is ironic now when he's all family because he's bought into it, but he came back to do
that cameo for free at the end of Tokyo Drift.
So he could get the rights to the Chronicles of Riddick because he wanted to make it.
So that's the only reason he came back at the end of the third one was to get the rights
for that, which probably was a good move.
Well, he got that, but also it brought him back into the franchise, which he's now a
producer in and has big money in.
So it's just lots were his.
You ever heard him in some interviews?
He was a bit creepy or women.
Oh, really? No, I haven't.
I know he's a mega nerd.
There's one interview that somebody showed years ago.
There's a Brazilian journalist and he was just like cringe the way he was talking to her.
That's a bit weird.
So yeah, the film that probably well definitely changed the car scene and probably changed
the first time the cars in the car park was like a scene from Fast and Furious.
And then I was like, I'm going to be late.
Everybody just remember there's an RMS organized your gate one.
That's a long time ago.
Yeah.
Hi.
That's so I never seen the first one on the cinema.
And then when I was quite young and then the second one came out and I still wasn't
driving.
So it's getting like my mom and dad run me to the cinema and it was the weekends.
And there was that and there was another film called biker boys.
And I was like, I'll go see biker boys this week and I'll save the Fast and Furious for
the next week.
It was out of the cinema.
I was like, oh great.
And then the nuts corner and got a DVD.
So the third one then that I seen was or the third one to a good drift was the first one
I ever seen in the cinema.
The first one I ever seen though my introduction to it one night was when I used to rally.
I was staying at my friend's house because he rallied as well.
And we were going together the next day and he knew when you're young, we were like fucking
12 or 13 or whatever.
And he was like, oh, I've got a film you might really enjoy.
I was like, what is it?
It was the Fast and Furious.
I never heard of it.
I remember him sticking it on probably on like cassette tape or whatever.
I'm watching it and just being like, this is mind blowing.
That moment you're just like, holy shit.
I remember somebody timed the quarter mile race and the time the Fast and Furious was
the runway.
The runway one.
Yeah.
I think the runway actually worked.
15 miles long or something.
Yeah.
It stretches like halfway across Europe by the time you would actually land the plane.
I think the quarter mile turned out to be like five miles or something.
Yes.
They're not known for their...
13.
So your boy, there's a boy, Craig Lieberman as well, was a, he was like a high up advisor
on it and he has his own YouTube and stuff.
He's a very polarizing character, but he owned the Orange Supra.
So he, it's kind of weird.
Universal went looking for those cars for the film, but then when they got the cars,
they modified them.
So they went to these guys who built heavily modified cars and were like, we want this
to be in the thing, you sign the rights to us, blah, blah, blah.
You'll still own the car, but we can do what we want to.
And then they towed them apart and rebuilt them.
I was like, would you not?
They just went and bought another Supra and done just under one.
So his car, the Orange Supra, and Craig Lieberman owned it was still, was yellow at the time.
That's why if you look, it's an orange car, but I think there's a yellow roll cage on
it.
There's a lot of yellow accents, which would contrast or wouldn't sit well with an orange
car, but that's because of that.
But he talks about like, there's a lot of like the lines in the film that he's like, no,
that doesn't work.
And then some of the producers are like, no, but it sounds better.
And he's like, not that somebody would know what the fuck they're talking about.
But you get overruled on a lot of stuff because he worked for Kony at the time.
I think he was like high up executive level and like Kony and these other performance
brands, which is how they found him.
There's a lot of backstory in the Fast and Furious out there.
If you dig into it, it's quite interesting.
Some of the people, because I think the orange, the green eclipse was silver originally.
And again, it was brought in as a modified car and then they went on.
Then the straight race scene.
That's a lot of straight razors nailed it.
It lined up along.
And there's loads of weird camos like I think RJ De Vera's in it, or maybe it's Tokyo Drifty's
in, but there's loads of like random ones.
The director's the pizza boy.
Go home pizza boy.
Yep.
Hi, Rob Cohen.
It's a it's one honestly, I just never get sick of watching where the rest of them.
I would just if it was on, I might not even watch it.
Anyone else any other news?
Pretty not.
Lee.
The only other thing of note that happened, I think recently, Bernie Collins got married.
Seen that.
Congratulations, Bernie.
Same place as Paul.
Cabra Castle.
That's it flash that big money.
Yeah, I was looking at the pictures of the wedding.
I was like, I recognize that place.
Yeah.
And I was like, ah, it's Cabra.
Yeah.
Well, potholes, something that unites the country.
Doesn't matter if you're on the left, the right Catholic, Protestant, gay, straight.
Everyone fucking hates potholes.
So you got in the military chief general.
And I'm going to butcher this.
M-m-mahoozie, and then a surname I'm definitely not even going to try, has met
headlines after outlining his plans for road maintenance.
He says the entire budget for the roads in Kampala, I think it is, will be under
my control for enough, you would think yourself.
Then followed up.
If I see a pothole after we've paid a construction, after we've
paid for construction of the roads, the contractor will pay with his head.
I like this guy.
Which.
Yep.
Is firm, but for, I think.
So we're, there's a lot of anti-immigration sentiment at the minute.
And honestly, I think he should give a buy ball on it, get him in.
Put him in the government because there's no fucking about there.
I hate potholes.
I hate.
Marshall Law for roads.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's what it should be.
And for somebody, as I've said before, you used to work in civil engineering
and did a small bit of road repair and stuff.
It's a fucking scam.
Like what they get away with and what they do and what they're supposed
to do and don't do.
And like if you see a track on a road, it's gonna sink.
You know, it's never, I'm a firm believer in that if you cut a road,
you should be made to reinstate that lane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
100%.
Even if it's only so much of length wise of the lane, you know, if you, if
you're doing like a spot repair, it can be two meters either side of it or whatever.
But it should be the full width of the lane, especially if you're on a motorbike.
Like that's shit.
It's dangerous.
You're bound to see it on bicycles.
I used to be on the bike.
I use the greenway now, but I was doing that 10k run thing all night on
Mill Street and Cumber.
It's bad in the car seeing a fit on the actual road.
It's disappeared.
It's near Brookmanville.
That's a good point actually as well.
Yeah.
Did you watch any of the Monaco Grand Prix?
No.
Well, funnily enough, they had an issue with potholes, not quite potholes, but
the surface of the track.
Breaking up.
Was breaking up at one, at one of the corners.
They reckon it caused two crashes.
Stroll crashed and everybody went.
Oh, that's standard.
That's normal.
And then the next lap, Leclerc crashed at the same place.
Behind the safety car, wasn't it?
That was the just breaking down the tarmac.
The whole top layer.
It had been resurfaced.
But not well.
Obviously not well.
And they were shown then stills from the start of the race where the road was fine.
And then halfway through the race where the road was no longer fine because cars
are going over 200 miles an hour and the red flag, the racenal to bring them in.
How I look at it.
So it was bad.
I always find it funny when the Ferrari guys, if anything happens, the
nourish guy when I look at the route, have a good look at it.
So for any time, Ferrari having issues with the car and the driver blows up in
the radio and they're like, I fucking told you this and whatever.
Then they come out into the press conference and like, that was my fault.
That was not Ferrari's fault.
You know, they're mad as soon as the clear putter in the wall, he went, I'm not
fucking taking the blame for this.
It's like, okay.
Crystal clear.
Yep.
Cause he'd been complaining about his brakes and he thought maybe they'd locked up.
But no, when he hit that surface, that was it.
Just nightmare.
Speaking of F1, Lewis Hamilton took his first win with Ferrari.
I'd seen that.
Thank fuck.
Good to see it.
Yeah.
It's a, it was actually a half decent race.
It was.
It was good to see.
He's been a long time coming for the per month.
Is he now 41, 42, isn't he?
Yeah.
He's the oldest Formula One driver.
Alonso still, but it's not by much.
Yeah.
And you sort of forget Alonso's there because Austin Martin are basically.
Yeah.
Austin Martin have not had the great time that they thought it was.
The new effect has not affected.
No, no, definitely not.
Overhyped much.
Mm hmm.
Then another one that I have here is so a woman in Florida was.
She's finally had a driving ticket dismissed after being accused of driving
while using her mobile phone in her right hand, specifically in her right hand.
Right.
So the cop senior pulled her over and on the body cam for as he tells her, I seen
you seen this, I seen you've seen this like with her right hand
to which they then hold her arm up and said, you couldn't have because I don't
have a right hand.
And then he met her, swore to God that she wasn't using the phone
and then still give her the ticket, which went to court and get threw out for
what I deem as lack of evidence.
Now, I think that's generous, considering the woman doesn't have a fucking hand.
Lack of evidence doesn't really commend it.
Surely that should be a this guy was telling lies.
Yeah.
Brought into it, but never is.
So yeah, I don't think there's really.
That's probably the one time you were like, this is my ultimate get out
clause or this is the ultimate proof.
I go, sorry, sorry, I don't have a hand here, but no, you still get a ticket.
Yeah.
And then I was a bit of a week ago.
I had one.
It was.
Yeah, I see that.
And I was like, this is absolutely ridiculous.
Let's see some of the clips of the cops.
Stopping school.
How did they pass?
Traylon?
I had to get to this stage.
Like, yeah.
But then some of it, you have a combination of those people are dealing
with assholes all day, so they don't want to deal.
They don't want to reason with anybody gets to that point.
But then there's also people who are on a power trip and just so many
different human factors into it.
We were just like, you know, you can't say they're all bad, but you can't say
they're all good, you know, it's just not everybody has bad days, but that's
a particularly bad day when you still decided that this woman was deaf using
the phone and her right stump.
Another one I seen then was AI has cost the Toronto BMW dealership a lot of money.
Oh, dear.
So you kind of think, well, how does it do that?
Or what way does this work?
And because like everybody gets AI and what's happening and all the art
that it's dealing with and all this shit.
So this guy basically, he had an X3 and he was struggling with the payments
and he wanted out of it.
So he messes like a chat page that they had and he messes them and they were
like, oh, we're very sorry to hear this.
We can offer you $20,000 to buy your vehicle back, which he was
delighted, but this was great.
So he went to the dealership, said, I'm here, trade this in.
I was speaking to you guys, $20,000.
And they went, oh, no, you weren't talking to us.
That was a chat bot.
We'll only give you $20,000 for this vehicle.
So he wasn't happy, obviously.
Um, and then he went to the local news and they basically got pressured
and they give him $20,000 for this fucking thing.
But I would say if that went to court, if someone chatted with that, if they
have set that up as part of their business model and someone has chatted to
that, you know, innocently thinking I'm actually speaking to a person here,
then how does that work?
You know, cause obviously with, well, different countries, but like you've
like, well, you know more about it, Lee, with like, how contract works verbally
and you on offers and things like that.
But like, there's bound to be some kind of format of that has been set up by
that business to operate like that.
Well, then does that mean that they have to stand over it legally?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Obviously, heversel AI hasn't set parameters.
Yeah.
And obviously with being AI and time is changing stuff and the laws probably
can't keep up with all this stuff as well.
It probably comes down to some judge just making a call on it.
But the BMW garage just went like, well, cut our losses, stop this going legal
and we'll just pay out.
Yep.
I a grand of them will get it.
They'll flee some other customer and guard X or something for seats.
Life shine.
Yep.
Uh, and then lastly, I have a Ram in America famous for their big
patriotic trucks released a new T-shirt.
So as you can imagine, full America, Dodge Ram on the front of it, big American
flag, Eagles, all the rest of it.
But when people actually looked at it, it wasn't a Dodge Ram on the front of it.
It was an AI image.
They'd obviously used to make this thing, but it looked more like a Toyota Tacoma.
So it's like the equivalent of Guinness, but now an advert that has a pint of
harp on it.
You know, you're like, well, this is interesting to hear.
And then when you actually counted the stars and the flag, there wasn't 50 stars.
I'm not, it's like any of the Americans like their stars and their flags, except
Texas, they're just like the one, but it done the rounds on the internet and Ram
got hauled with the coals for like, what the fuck is this?
And again, a mixture of everybody hitting AI and the fact that they were
destroying patriotism.
So they had to pull all the T-shirts.
Do you look at the stuff that's being advertised now for advances, 90% or AI posters?
It makes me sick.
And you can spot it straight away.
It's so obvious.
Yeah.
I can understand why people do it because it's obviously a lot cheaper than
paying someone to do it, but then you don't also need to pay someone to do
Go to Comba.
Yeah.
There's so much you can do yourself.
Spend an hour, do it yourself.
But yeah.
And what makes it worse is when it gets like, not in proportions of things wrong,
but there was one I seen recently, it was like some event, a Camemorra was,
but it was out of building and it was like a mini and a Land Rover outside and all
this here, but like the mini was bigger than the Land Rover, you know, and you're
like, this is like a child's drawing.
So fuck that.
But that is me.
I was news folks.
Cool.
So you mentioned, have you got anything?
No, go ahead.
You mentioned you were away on a little trip.
Where were you?
Yes.
Um, myself, Robin from studio 10 and Andy from Forge Garage, where I went
to players classic, right?
Primarily because I'm away over rule hard this year.
So, um, went away the 30 before got the Liverpool ferry and took ourselves down.
Robin drove in his Jeep and drove down to Chippin Norton direction and
stayed coughing machine for the night.
Was that the first time you've stayed in that?
No, I've stayed or you've stayed there three times.
And it was very quiet.
The show was?
No, no.
Caffeine machine.
See, this is the thing I was trying to say to you guys at your, your cars and
coffee event.
Caffeine machine has something on all the time, but not necessarily big events.
It could be a handful of cars in or it could be like a show.
Well, the Friday evening was meant to be camera van.
Uh-huh.
I think there was six camera vans turned up.
That's a blessing.
To two Gary McCarles.
I couldn't believe, I couldn't believe how, yeah, he must have been there just
before we landed.
So Gary works with transporters dealing with the British museum a couple hours
before we went down.
So I think I seen him in the ferry loading up, but I didn't see him on the ferry
when I got on, uh, because he was taken over the car transporter.
Yep.
But, um, I think he must have just stopped in for an hour or something before we
actually got down as far as that.
Cause Stefan was telling me to wind him up because he works with transporters a lot
and he doesn't really like them.
And then he went to caffeine machine for the first time ever.
And it was a transporter.
Yeah.
I was quiet now.
Um, stay there a couple of times.
The rooms are starting to get very tired.
Oh, well, the just crappy pillows and mattresses and that's annoying.
Cause anytime we stayed there, it was nice, you know, the, the, the air condition.
Well, we went away from the place going, would you stay here again?
I have lots of knowing the advantages.
If it's busy, you get priority parking.
You can stay, you know.
It's not expensive.
We're sitting on the benches outside just a few cars are coming in and out.
And like the weather was fine.
Like there's no excuse of why there isn't anybody there.
But then there's three other caffeine machine venues.
Now has that diluted the original caffeine machine?
It's supposed to be far away.
They are.
I'm not sure.
Well, I probably, I didn't realize it was three.
I thought it was only two now.
I know there's the hell, which is the first one.
Yeah.
There's the hell.
There's the bowl and the other one.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But so there must be three then you just said, is there?
There was one northeast of London.
There's one south of London.
And then there's the tip of Northern.
That's three then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're just sitting thinking, has it been diluted?
You know, I know after rule hard, you couldn't move them.
It's like it's been in rule hard.
I see that.
We're leaving early the following day and we're sort of humming and
humming and we're leaving up because it was a 9-11 event.
Ah, yes.
Um, we're actually talking about guy.
A really nice one to stay over that night.
Real nice guy from England, but went on down to players classic.
And the weather was awful.
Red out was bad.
Like the whole show.
We were, we were walking through the door.
Time was it?
Half 10.
And there's just we shards.
And by the time.
Launch time came, it was just turn out to rain.
And the cup to the point where you just went, not standing out in this anymore.
And a lot of that's on grass, isn't it?
No, the pit areas fairly tarmac.
There's a green in the pit area where all the big players is such park cars.
There's a grass area and the perimeter outside the track area as you come in.
Um, but, uh, haven't been the players classic in 23 years
because like roll hard that much, you know, and, uh, it was fine.
Some real nice cars at it.
Normally, I don't know if it's, you know, certain glasses I'm looking through or
what, but I remember even the cars used to be parked in the perimeter of the event.
Uh-huh.
We're very good.
Some dodgy cars there.
Now you go get your own once you get into the actual sure area.
There's some really cool cars there.
Um, yeah, I don't think I'll go every year now.
And then I wonder is the weather effect that with people all
into the right cars?
You can't crop them.
Cause it's, it's shite for as an organizer, as you know, yourself.
Like it's when the weather hits, you do get people who can turn on.
I think that's part of the problem.
It was just so bad the weather just took the shine off the event.
Like, you know,
We did a good weekend all the way to the Olympics.
Well, it was all going really well.
We stayed, we got, we got this really nice hotels and Chichester.
I got an interesting snapshot from you.
Yeah.
So when you book through Stanley, you get a wee text to say the
ferries on time at seven PM.
We were sitting in our hotel getting a lovely steak dinner.
Next thing, oh, this is your booking, blah, blah, your ferries on the line.
I went, that's a day early.
It's very early.
And then I realized, oh, the ferries for the sixth and eight.
So I booked through a travel company in Northern Ireland.
I was going, have I done an ornital here?
Have I screwed up a book in here or something?
Normally I'm pretty good at booking stuff.
And because I do make mistakes the odd time with different things,
like a double check and double check.
You started out yourself.
Let me read that again.
Let me read that again.
Sort of thing.
I was going, I definitely didn't book that wrong because I remember
sort of going over at my head.
So it was meant to be Liverpool sailing on the Sunday night.
And it was the Saturday, the sixth.
So I started going through the emails back and forth with the travel company.
And the very first thing I said was the seventh evening sailing.
And then they had sent back for the Saturday and I hadn't twigged that
they changed it.
I just skimmed it and went, yeah, that's fine.
Yep.
And we just went flip.
So our plan was to leave, go back to players on Sunday.
Leave just after lunchtime and it's about a four or five hour drive up to Liverpool.
Yeah.
So we went, I will just book the rebook it for Sunday night.
We'll sort it out, you know, sort it out with the travel company around.
Yeah.
There's no room.
Oh, no room this Saturday night boat.
Then we just went.
When we'll make a day of it, we'll go to Clarkson's farm.
Yeah.
We've seen around the show.
There'll not be that much different tomorrow.
Yeah, especially with Ben and Wett.
Yeah.
We'll take a nice wee run up through England.
We'll stop at, there's a Porsche dealership just in Chester, real big Porsche dealership,
some nice cars.
We ever come home by Liverpool from shows.
We always stop in there and the way home before the ferry just to look what they've got in stock.
Rob, I'm just looking at his next car, you know.
That's it.
But it's good in around there.
There's good restaurants and shops and stuff you could sort of kill an RT.
I thought we'll do that there.
Couldn't get the Liverpool book, the boat for a book.
And then we just went, let's just drive to Cairn Renn.
Well, that's what I was going to say, that you just drive to Scotland.
So we just booked the Cairn Renn boat for.
It was a half seven Sunday night.
So how long of a drive is it from?
Eight hours.
Yes.
But I tell you what, it flew by.
No, you're in the car.
You weren't driving, were you?
I wasn't driving.
So, no, we just stopped every so often.
The crack was good.
Like me, Andy and Robin, we don't get together that often.
I was good to catch up and that's the way we looked at it.
And the other bonus was we're back in our own beds on Sunday night.
Rather than your grand and that grim cabin sleep thing.
You know, Lee loves the Liverpool boat.
Yeah.
The Liverpool boat can fuck off.
Yeah.
Hi.
It's it's always wrong with a Liverpool boat.
It's too short to sleep on and it's too long
to just sit there, if you know what I mean.
But the time you get on, you're never going to go straight to bed.
She's set for an hour.
So what is it, eight hours?
Seven or eight hours?
Well, they were a little loading.
They didn't load us to ten-ish on the Liverpool boat.
Liverpool outbound, yeah.
And how long did it take you to get there?
We're docking on Liverpool half six.
OK, yeah.
Seven o'clock was it.
It didn't depart the 11.
So say eight hour boat.
You get on, you don't go straight to bed.
You'll sit for an hour.
I would have a couple of pounds.
Yeah.
You sit for an hour, maybe two hours.
And they wake you up an hour before you get off.
So that's like five hour window of sleeping on a rattly boat
in a room with three other people that some is a thousand degrees.
Yeah. No, no.
I have to say the air con was excellent this time.
The new boat is way better.
It was very good.
Normally you just sit in your own sweat.
I can't. I can't hack that.
That's my problem.
I needed to score this.
I need to get into a fridge and go to sleep.
But I think Robin had a problem with
chance all one and chance all two.
You snoring all night was the problem.
Some bastards are snoring with it.
No.
Speaking of the boat, I was on the boat this week
back and forward to Scotland.
So on the way out, I think the
storm and show had been on last weekend.
Yes. And there was like 10 Deloreans in the queue for the boat.
Obviously going back.
There was a big record for most Deloreans.
They don't in the slipways of the Titanic.
So that's all they did.
Two field both fast businesses coming together.
It's fine.
One left here.
And now on the way back, there was all these,
you know, without being disparaging.
Let's call them.
Feltie yokes,
feltie yokes, modified cars in the queue for the boat.
And I was like, this is a bit strange because the Royal Highland Show was on.
And I sort of thought it must be that.
But this was going back from Scotland to here.
And I was like, what is happening?
And then it twigged.
Donegal.
The hills of Donegal.
The hills of Donegal.
There's a massive catchment for Scottish ones coming across for it
and the Portna as well.
Easter Sunday as well.
Yeah. Oh, the absolute doses.
Some of them on the boat.
But Lee pointed something out and it's very true.
One of them had a TransLink sticker.
But they're Scottish.
What's TransLink?
Don't have TransLink.
It's the Northern Irish.
Cut bus.
Yeah. ScotRail and.
But like, TransLink doesn't exist in Scotland.
But they bought that from a website here to transfer it in.
Probably James, a prestige.
I think he does a lot of the stickers over there, you see.
But it just goes to show you.
They all just copy each other.
It's the same thing I've said for years when back 20 years ago,
when somebody had RS6s on their Bora and they got up one morning,
walked out and looked and went, oh, sorry, that boy over there's good.
Oh, well, I love them too.
And they just, as soon as somebody gets like a different set of wheels,
it just spreads.
Yeah.
And it was always the same sort of thing.
So in conclusion, players was a bit of a nightmare for you.
A bit of a nightmare.
I enjoyed walking around the show.
Just took a bit of a shine off at the baller and everything.
And hobbling.
That's shitty.
Well, we.
Was that two weeks ago you were away?
You.
When was that?
I should know that.
Sixth of June, six and seventh.
So a week ago then we bailed into the superb with Stefan and Richie
and headed for Cork for the Vade show.
We went down on the Saturday.
We met Fogel and Naomi in Bambridge and they convoyed down with us.
And we stayed in Clum Mill and had an absolute feed of pints
and cocktails and whiskey.
Oh, yes.
Essential pre-show.
Starters, mains, desserts.
Steaks.
No.
You'd stick.
No, I had a chicken burger.
What'd you stay in Clum Mill?
Talbot Hotel.
Talbot.
Which is spot on.
And.
So we got there for sex of us.
The entire bill came to 70 euros or 60 pound.
Age.
Yeah.
Eh?
Yeah.
And we had starters, mains, desserts, cocktails, whiskeys, pints.
I couldn't believe it.
And I said a few ones at the show.
I was like, fuck it, stop in the way home.
And I checked the bill to see was like, you know, I was like,
it's left stuff off this.
I couldn't say anything left off it.
We had a great night.
There.
Take those wins.
Yep.
So we jumped into the car the next day and we headed for Watergrass.
No.
Watergrass.
Hi, Watergrass.
I'll try.
Carton circuit via the deli counter.
Of course.
So where I got a chicken curry with a roast potato in it.
Because your woman says to me, I wanted a small portion of chicken curry and rice
and I got a tray of chicken curry and rice.
And then she was like, do you want a potato in it?
And as I went, she went, oh, you do?
Yep.
And I was like, no bother.
So that was my late breakfast.
And then we headed over to the show and I would have great day of the weather.
So the last time you remember the year.
I tried to record storm.
Oh, couldn't have been any different.
Like it was scorching, thankfully for the guys.
So we dandered in and we're chatting a few of them.
And thankfully everything seemed to be going well for them, which was good.
And we caught up.
Who do we catch up with first?
Because we've seen all the MLVW ones parked up at the top end of the track.
This is right.
If we go to them, we'll talk forever.
We'll work our way around the track and we'll finish with those guys and spend the day with them.
And we ended up talking that much.
We've already got to them and they'll be got to them at the towards the end then.
And Conor old was down in the.
What is it?
The blacky 20 yet on with the rebuild wheels and stuff on it.
I think it looks so good.
But no, absolutely great day.
It was just one of those ones you're saying there about.
Like a way of your mates and all in the one car, just talking,
shite, abusing each other on the way down.
It was good weather.
Good times and just enjoying yourself.
And that's that's the appeal of shows as well.
Yeah, you know, it doesn't have to be about the actual show.
It was just the excuse to get everybody together.
That's what you were saying on the road down like
between Ron Dobbs said you're traveling Titanic at the show.
You're busy, so you don't get really.
You don't get the car.
Yeah, you know, yeah.
Oh, it's 100 percent.
Like I might see Robin at Dubbs, but it don't get high.
I don't you catch up.
But now it was it was good.
I cracked now.
Yeah, they're holding the cars and coffee in October again.
I assume so.
I haven't seen it.
Is it 24th October?
Oh, there we go.
That must be them.
Yeah, that's always good.
Yeah, I couldn't make it down because of my wife's birthday.
And I like I couldn't afford a door horse, basically.
You like her being right.
Um, what was I going to say?
Two weeks to your traveling.
Two weeks, yes, indeed.
So opened all European models.
Always a good day out with the drive on stage, live interviews.
I saw in this because I did will be 10 days.
Basically, you're traveling.
Oh, nearly forgot.
I don't my cars and coffee.
You didn't need.
So what date was that?
That was last Friday in May.
May I think.
What date is it now?
Is the 20th?
Japers.
OK, so I don't the cars and coffee.
That's the fourth year of the cars and coffee.
Do we fundraising event in Cumber, my hometown?
And it's just gone from strength to strength.
And from what I can gather, we're roughly at 250 cars.
Yeah.
And there's well over 500 spectators.
And it's the range of stuff that turns up just takes me to the fair.
Like vintage, modern.
It's everything.
80s, you know, it's just.
There was an Austin 7.
I want to say it was over 100 years old.
Yeah.
Did you see a trio of triumphs that landed in there in the second pitch?
I did.
So it's got that busy now.
So we'll have the tarmac car park that holds 80 cars.
It was filled.
And then there's two football pitches and normally the second pitch.
Excuse me.
Normally, the second pitch is really thick with grass.
And I just thought we nearly ran out of space last year.
So I asked Rodney, does the grass there?
I just could you get the grass down there to be dry weather?
And luckily you got the cut.
The second pitch is definitely weather dependent.
Oh, I was getting down that slope.
Yeah.
If it was muddy would be a nightmare.
But no, it went really well.
Everybody loved it.
And we're really just, I think it was just over 2700.
Oh, happy to see you.
That's right.
Thank you for coming.
There's a few people who know travel long distance.
Marty, I'm.
Yes.
And I really appreciate all the efforts and common and support in it.
I had partaking in Presbyterian traybacks.
Excellent.
I was going to say it.
Excellent cup of tea, which is surprising.
No, normally like mass catering tea is not great.
This was nice tea and my wife was in charge of that.
Some presbyterian traybacks and the highlight of the evening,
a buttered pancake.
Oh, sure.
What else could you want?
You know what I like?
Nice.
See, you go to presbyterian things or whatever.
And it's like buttered pancakes, buttered pancakes with jam,
wheat and bread, buttered with cheese, yeah.
Peak Irishness.
I don't know.
Buttered pancakes, me screams, rations during World War Two.
Like I tell you what, it was very rich.
Oh, is that?
Oh, pancakes is full of sugar and salt.
And the butter was thick on it like it was good.
I don't know why I like German biscuits.
I'd have survived well on the other side of the war.
Yes, man, you're right.
So you know what a German biscuit is?
Yeah, I love them.
Do you know that they're not outside of,
I don't know if it's another Irish thing or an Irish thing,
outside of this island.
They're not called German biscuits.
Prey tell.
They're called Empire biscuits.
Empire biscuits.
Oh, so it's an Irish thing going.
Fuck all the cold.
That's what I'm wondering, yeah.
So I don't know, but I love them.
You like your black and towns biscuits, is that?
Yes, it may as well be.
Well, could get worse, but will not.
So you mentioned Marty Memmner.
I actually have a phone call with him.
So he's cracking the web, making sure we're getting the sponsor
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OK.
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I'm sure that's what it was about and not a social chat.
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I'll have to mess some CZ land the debts or anything.
And CZ actually OK.
So yes, your event went well.
Tell us your sentence for charity.
Roughly, what is that?
Because I couldn't even pronounce the thing
that was for when I mentioned it the last time.
So the church that I go to and the wife's
heavily involved with us is the do
started a mission and work out there to help,
especially the slums of a city in Brazil called Recife.
Mm hmm.
They have like.
Do you know why you'd have like a drop in center
in a town in Northern Ireland?
Yeah. This place they built out there is like that.
OK. And they're basically refurbishing it.
So go out there and do and build and work when they do
Bible clubs and different activities and sports events
and all when they're out there for two weeks.
So Recife is the town itself.
So they OK. That makes sense.
I wasn't sure if that was like the mission group or whatever.
Yeah, yeah. Very good.
And then when when's that all happening?
2020 yet they're going to get it.
I because I think it was Rachel I was talking to you
and she was telling me it's like a massive effort.
Like there's a lot of money involved to make it happen.
Yeah. So that's why obviously you're doing
like your fundraisers year on year.
Yeah. And no, it's a bit of an eye opener.
You go out there because it's just object poverty
and some of the stuff that's happened to some of the kids
is just insane. And so worthwhile cause then.
Yeah. So no, it's good.
You always like you hear you go to cars and coffees
and charity run events and things like that.
And you go, oh, it's for cancer or whatever.
But you never really get to hear a bit of a story
about what you're actually donating to. So it's good.
Well, if you go on Instagram or Facebook,
there's the page team Recife basically.
That's a lot of effort though.
This I can just tell you it right now.
So you know what it is.
But you can keep up the data on it.
You might have actually see me.
Oh, but never. You see.
Oh, you want to too?
Might be.
I'll put the effort in for that.
Yeah.
I've been to YouTube's.
Very quickly. I'll just get off what I watched for a planet.
Hope I'm what you watched.
Oh, sorry. I said that wrongly. Sorry.
I've seen a just box video.
I hadn't seen or watched them in a while.
And it was basically about the.
They went out to Japan last year.
Prior to ribbon reading of his Laurel.
Yes. And he was ban on another Laurel.
And the time he didn't know he's banned
their places.
Current drift Laurel.
So that's quite an interesting one.
Auto Alex, I've started to watch some of their stuff.
There's some that are hit and miss like,
but what I'm really enjoyed was the second channel.
And it was basically Taylor of the team.
He drove his B7 RS6 state out to
Nurburgr, Nurburgr 24 hour.
They're sponsored by module.
Mutl, the oil company.
Mutl. So I think it was a sort of corporate,
you know, took on special access and all that there.
But he drove all the way out there and went out and spent
and it looked absolutely unreal, the 24 hour event.
On the back of that, he has his own channel,
Taylor cars, and it was a bit going to buy the said RS4.
So that was quite interesting.
It was busy right in central London.
This guy have it.
It was a real good one.
So he was due to take his BM,
but there's something happening with the BM.
That's right. The bottom end went down.
Oh, nice. Yeah. So that's, that's quite a thing to have.
I think he had bought the RS6, RS4 two days before he was
meant to go and then he'd done a quick oil change just to
make sure to go to the Nurburgr and then found all these
wee bits of shiny stuff in the oil and just went, no.
So he just went, right, I'm going to get this RS4 right
right here and he took it instead.
That's nice of options.
Yeah, it is, isn't it?
But no, I haven't really been watching a lot of YouTube
really.
I'm the same. I've got a very little first one I want to talk
about is one from home is our listener Gary Heasley.
You started channel now for Zivo.
Mr. Bishi.
You go to, yeah.
Yeah. So we want to check that out.
And it'd be interesting to see where that goes,
but it's off to a good start.
The other one then is Hagerty.
They do some great videos.
They done one on, we talked about it maybe a year or two ago.
It was a company called HWA or built in the HPA.
No, HWA are doing the EVO Resto modded.
Mercedes 190 EVOs with all like modern drivetrain and that kind
of thing in it, but they're built.
They looked like an EVO 2 190, but the full modern drivetrain.
But basically it's called it's driven.
HWA EVO, if you type that and you'll find it, but it shows them
they're buying 190s and cutting them all down.
But they basically leave like the roof, the ABC pillars, the
sills and they cut the floors out.
They cut the front half the chassis legs off.
Singer from Mercedes.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
And they like the front.
Basically your, your crash zone, your front crumples
zone, like your chassis legs forward is all like cast aluminium
housings, you know what like Tesla do with like the giga castings
and things like that.
The working on it is absolutely mental.
And it's one of those ones you see all these like Resto mod things
you see, it'll be like what you do, you stick a engine into it.
No, it's fine.
It's a full rebuild and they go like full in depth.
And it's very, very interesting.
And the other one was one that cropped up for me randomly.
It's not even something I usually would have clicked on, but it was
like the, the channels called classic driver uncovering the
secrets of Audi's rarest concept cars.
And this is like, I think he's German guy going around like in the
depths of like Audi's basement where they keep all the concept cars.
And the first one they've talked about was it, I think it was a D2A8,
but it was a two door model that they were trying to push into like the
luxury coupe market, which I assume would probably would have been a go at
the EIT series BMW, you know, that kind of thing.
The concept TT, which when you look at it compared to the actual
Mark 1 TT is very, very close.
It didn't have, if you look at the side profile of a TT, if the driver's
window was up and down, if the window at the back was just tiny, it didn't have
that, it was just paneled in and the bumper grills are slightly narrower,
but like all of that, there's very little differences.
And they were talking about how they were actually really proud that
the concept was so close to the actual road going car.
They had like an Audi new Villare, which is like the full polished one.
What else did they have?
But yeah, it was very, I'm not a big Audi guy, but it was interesting to see
what's tucked away down there.
And it's like maybe 40 minutes long.
And you guys are getting into them.
They had like a, which is probably way ahead of its time.
And it looked, this was in 2001, they built this concept car, which basically
was like a lifted off-road TT, but it was a four door.
So it looked also almost like a cross between a TT and an Audi A2, but
lifted and slightly wider, like an off-road kind of thing.
And I would put you in mind of like, anyway, everyone's selling now, like
the T-Cross and the T-Rock and those kind of things.
Like a hybrid SUV sort of thing.
Audi were just 25 years too early with it kind of thing.
And that's what they said.
They were trying to make this vehicle that ticked all the boxes and put
no one was interested.
So that's what it got been.
And then it's funny 25 years later.
Oh, bring this back.
The whole bloody world is building these things now.
So yeah, that's, that's what I have at the minute, but they were interesting videos.
I've noticed my YouTube, you don't notice until you go,
hold on a minute, I used to follow that channel.
It unsubscribes a lot.
It unsubscribes or just hides them.
Yep.
It's weird that.
I need to go through and like filter out stuff.
It's a lot of speed videos there.
James Poverty.
I had the YouTube mist.
I had mist.
I could have unsubscribed to it.
Didn't unsubscribe, but just never showed it.
Showed it.
Oh, this is a new video.
That's weird.
And even when you go to your subscriptions, not necessarily show them all.
The whole algorithm thing's weird too, because like with my channel,
I was consistently doing every two weeks.
And then with being aware for work, I basically had a month between a video.
Yeah.
And see from I had that month, it doesn't push it as hard as it did before
because I could look at the analytics, not that I really pour over them.
It's more like I found it interesting and I was like down through it.
And my my views have dropped off from this one month gap.
But it's it actually tells you how many people it pushed that video to show.
And it's a lot lower as well.
So it's it's not pushing the video in the background
because YouTube likes consistency.
Like, yeah.
It's weird because like the humble mechanic, he's massive, but he posts randomly.
Like he could post two in a month or he could post one in a month
or he could post one every two months depending on what's happening.
Yeah.
But it doesn't seem to affect him.
It's a strange setup.
Like and then I think the algorithm changes all the time as well.
So yeah, people learn it and how to make money off it.
And YouTube go, OK, we're changing this because you're making too much money.
I have to adopt.
Fortunately, I haven't got to that point yet.
I think I'm a long time.
But yes, that is us.
I think we're with no questions because we're just doing a massive catch up.
So I think that's us, folks, is it?
Yeah, that would be your traffic.
Yep. Ten days from this comes out.
Basically a gap recording again then.
The Saturday is the fourth of July.
The July.
Yeah. No, it's OK.
Marty Mem's going to record first from the accent.
It's all good.
Roaming reporter Marty Mem.
Yep.
So as always, folks, thank you very much for listening.
It was great to see everybody at VH.
I would say it was great to see everybody at Players Classic for Nigel,
but you probably didn't see anybody.
Did you know you did?
Did I?
No. No, no, you go.
And we'll talk to you either in two weeks or three weeks,
depending on how that goes with your traffic.
And we'll see you there if you're listening to this
and you have a nice car or an interesting car
and you want to come on to the stage.
Let me know. We'll get that pre-organized.
But otherwise, I'm just going to start trying.
People will play cornhole and tell bad jokes as usual.
That's good.
There'll be praises for a cornhole as well.
Jack Bolavetti, it's the all of the place.
Yep.
Excellent. Lovely. Perfect.
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About this episode
After catching up, the hosts get into modern car life: EVs that “all look the same,” automakers streamlining lineups, and how leasing makes certain models feel everywhere. A Golf R cooling issue turns into a parts-and-servicing deep dive—OEM pricing, Haldex oil supply, and DSG servicing—plus a real-world example of severe uneven tire wear tied to alignment. The conversation then swings to DIY fabrication for pneumatic plumbing, and later to broader pop-culture and road/track maintenance talk.
On EP157 we're catching up and recapping our trips to VAGE show and Players Classic, solving the pothole crisis and feeling old due to a movie re-release!
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