RELOAD PODCAST Apr 7, 2026

EP154 - The Volume of Crisps

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Company

Revolut

Revolut is a money app. They’re saying they had funds sitting there, so buying the plate ended up costing less than expected.

Term

boot

“Boot” means the trunk area of the car. They’re trying to keep their build from taking over too much of that space.

Term

MDF

MDF is a type of board made from wood fibers. People use it in car projects because it’s easy to cut and helps you build a solid base for custom parts.

Car

The Nissan Skyline is a performance car, and the R32 is a specific older version people often modify. The episode mentions working on an R32 and removing parts, which is usually done to make the car quicker or lighter. That’s why it’s being talked about in a build or track-prep context.

Concept

wheel arch

The wheel arch is the curved body area around the tire, and it’s a common place for debris to collect and for corrosion to start. The speaker is describing reaching into the wheel-arch cavity and finding heavy cobwebs/debris, which supports the idea of trapped moisture leading to rust.

Car

Volkswagen Eos

The Volkswagen Eos is a Volkswagen model that has a roof that can open like a convertible. The podcast mentions it with a particular front styling look, meaning the car had a specific appearance. It’s brought up because it’s a recognizable, different kind of Volkswagen.

Car

A4 two liter TDI

This is an Audi A4 described with a “two liter TDI” diesel engine. The speaker uses it to show that even within the same general model family, the TDI engine choice can lead to a large insurance increase. It highlights how insurers may rate engine type and output differently.

Car

Volkswagen Gti

The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car that comes in different versions. In the episode, they talk about a “16 valve” Carado and how the car’s labels (like GTI or not) can change insurance or how it’s identified. So it’s about the specific Golf variant, not just the model name.

Car

Audi TT

The Audi TT is a sporty Audi model. The speaker is talking about the hassle/cost of insuring it, which connects to the earlier discussion about insurance rules.

Term

insurance

Insurance is the coverage you buy so you’re not paying everything out of pocket if something happens with your car. The speaker is saying they won’t drive unless they have it.

Concept

slalom

A slalom is a course with cones where you weave left and right. It’s used to see how well a car turns and how stable it feels when you change direction quickly.

Concept

missiles mounted

This is talking about someone attaching missile-type weapons to their vehicle. It’s not a normal car modification and would be extremely dangerous and likely illegal.

Term

bitumen

Bitumen is the tar-like glue in asphalt that holds the road together. If you change how it’s made, you can sometimes make the road last longer.

Concept

potholes

Potholes are holes or broken spots in the road. They can make the ride bumpy and can even hurt your tires or suspension if you hit them.

Concept

F1

“F1” is short for Formula 1, a famous kind of racing. The hosts are talking about KitKat bars that were branded with the F1 name.

Term

lorry

A lorry is basically a big delivery truck. It’s the kind of vehicle that would carry a lot of goods—like those KitKat bars.

Term

camouflage paint

Camouflage paint is paint with a pattern meant to make a car harder to recognize at a glance. People use it for fun styling, and sometimes car makers use it to disguise a prototype while it’s being tested.

Concept

Tokyo Auto Salon

Tokyo Auto Salon is a big car show in Japan where people bring modified and customized cars. It’s especially known for tuning parts and creative build projects.

Term

kit

A “kit” here means aftermarket parts that change how the car looks—like bumpers, skirts, and panels. The builder used a kit to make a small car resemble an R32.

Concept

F1 race

“F1” is the highest level of open-wheel racing. If there’s a big crash, officials may delay the start so the track can be made safe.

Concept

halo

The “halo” is a protective frame on an F1 car that sits in front of the driver’s head area. It’s meant to help keep the driver safer if something hits the car.

Brand

BMW

BMW is a car company from Germany. In this part of the conversation, they’re talking about how BMW still helps owners of older cars by making parts available.

Term

remap

A remap is when a specialist updates your car’s computer settings. It can make the engine feel a bit stronger by changing how it responds to throttle and fuel.

Term

diesel

Diesel is a different type of fuel than petrol. Diesel cars are often better for long-distance driving, but they can be more expensive to maintain if something goes wrong.

Term

wiper arms

Wiper arms are the parts that hold and move the windshield wipers. Without them, the wipers can’t work, so you end up driving with poor visibility in rain.

Term

airbag

An airbag is a safety cushion that pops out during a crash. If it’s built into the steering wheel, you can’t just yank the wheel off—people have to disconnect and handle it correctly.

Concept

Autobahn

The Autobahn is Germany’s highway system, known for very fast driving. They’re saying that if anything goes wrong at those speeds, it can become really dangerous fast.

Term

brake lights

Brake lights are the red lights that come on when you slow down. If they don’t work, people behind you won’t know you’re braking until it’s too late.

Part

coilovers

Coilovers are suspension parts that let you adjust how stiff the car rides. They can make the car feel more controlled in corners.

Concept

first car

A first car is the one you learn on. The best ones are usually easy to drive and not too powerful, so you can build confidence and skills.

Term

30,000 mile engine

They’re saying the engine had only about 30,000 miles on it. Lower mileage usually means it’s less worn out, so it’s more likely to run well.

Brand

Vauxhall

Vauxhall is a car brand from the UK. When they say “old Vauxhall stuff,” they mean older Vauxhall cars or parts they found or were looking at.

LIVE

Hi folks, welcome back to the episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Connor McCann and joining

me as always are Lee Maxwell and Nigel Lamont and we are back. It is dub shed week. Dub shed

week. It's Easter Sunday. We're all very relaxed. It's just after April Fools. It's

a whole lock and on. We're not at the port though. We're not at the port. Don't want me to get

April Fools. Ironically, it launched a rocket to the moon on April Fools day. Do you know what?

That was something I thought wasn't very well publicized. I never really seen much about it.

It's like the day before. I was going to go to the moon here, see Lee. I thought that

it'd been a whole big build up to, I mean, how else are you going to distract from the Epstein

files? Like what is perfect? This is it. This is it. Maybe they've brought them with them. They're

I Trump doesn't realize you can have a hard drive. Take the physical copies to the moon.

Like Toto, I have a print it out. Have a print it out. Yes. So we're back. It's the run up,

the dub shed. Half the country is going mad. The amount of people under pressure at the minute

is insane. I didn't see, I don't know if you've seen it, Ram McElmiel is painting the Audi.

And a marquee. Yes. Well, it's not anymore because I'm David decided to turn it inside out.

No way. Yep. Honestly, if you look at his Instagram story this morning,

so yes, I thought quite bad. I'll try my best. I laughed to him. It's okay.

So yes, on this episode, we're going to do some news. We have some project updates.

Nigel, you have kitchen updates. Yeah, very good. And I actually done something. I have done a first

in my, I was driving 20 years last, 20 years last Sunday, with a skirt, I think, and 30 for

myself, 30 for yourself. And that's why it's 10 years between us. So in my 20 year driving career,

I've bought my first number plate. I've never bought a three digit read, personal plate,

nothing at all. So I finally bought one and it came up on RMS. And I'm, you always live on the RMS

classifieds, you're always through. It's probably the one section I'm never really on.

And I don't know what was going on. I was in work one day and I was just left with my phone

to scroll through and I seen the plate listed and I was like five minutes and I was like,

I might just buy that time to strike. Yeah. And like, I wasn't in the market for one.

You'll just need to take an ocean for something and you go, oh, why not? That'll do.

Because I have a three digit read on the Mark II, the SXI plate, and it's actually

belongs to Matt. So it needs to go back at some point, but Matt being super chill, doesn't care.

Takes a long time to transfer plates. Not instantly. But he doesn't care. He's like,

I whatever. Or I have a rage in the old white car. That's right.

Liw7979. And it must be gone 10 years. Easy 10 years. But the deal was when I saw that I was

keeping the rage, but the problem is he took it apart for restoration 10 years ago. And has to

problem sorted for two years now. Aye, because the rest of the car is built, isn't it? It just needs

put on the road. Something to do with the brain or something like that there. And then once it's

emotated, then I can take it back. Yeah. So I'll have a nice week. I loved that plate when it was

on the car. So I messaged the guy and I was like, look, I've never bought a plate before.

Obviously, if you buy them online from a business, there's a guide on how to do instructions.

This was a private sale. And I was kind of like, how did I do this? And he was like,

I've never sold a plate before. So we'll do it together. And I was like, oh, fair enough.

So he just sends you the retention. Yes. He sent me the he has the certificates on

where everybody sent me the number and stuff for it. So I can do it instantly.

But when you when he pulls the car off their edge, he's charged 80 pounds, isn't it? Yes.

And then it's just free to put on yours. So and then I had actually

I had money lying in my Revolut account. So it made it even cheaper again. I was like,

excellent. That's right. You told me if I had a Revolut account, I went, oh, there's money in this.

Yeah. I didn't even go out. So it seemed better than the one where you pick up a coat you had

more in six months and you find a 10 on it. That's unreal. That's a good feeling. That is a good

feeling. So yeah, I did that. What else have I been up to? I, oh, I continued on with my sub box

in the mark two. So it actually finished up really, really nice. So on the last video I'd

put out, I'd finished the shell was made kind of thing. So I had to make a front face for it.

And I try not to put everything into the videos because to be an hour long. But

when I made the MDF face for it, I realized the partial shelf in the mark two is actually like,

if you look at it, it doesn't run parallel with front to back in the car. There's a curve halfway

along it. So I had to split the face and do that. And then to join the MDF, I ended up

bonding together with like fiberglass paste. So it's like, right, I'll mix this

hold together and I'll have to hold it for five minutes. This sets up.

Put two little hardener in. Oh dear. Fuck, I was half an hour and my back was broke because it was

like bent and over. One point is on my knees, lean in the back. Yeah. And I was like, is this really

worth it? Like I just threw a saw in the bin, got it done. And then I made the mountain rings and

stuff and put it all together. And at this point, it was still like, I don't really know if the

internal volume of this is correct or not. I knew it was on the small side because I wanted to get

it tucked in, but I was prepared to suffer that because I wanted it to look neat. I didn't want

it all shitty and like basically overpowering the boot. So to measure the volume, really,

what you would do is fill it with water. But because my front face was MDF was like, well,

I can't really do that. The next thing would have been do is like packing peanuts, you get

like the wee polystyrene things as like, well, they would go in and fill all the shape, they're

dry, take them out, measure them or pour them into a box and measure the dimension of the box,

not get your internal volume. Didn't have any. And usually the first thing you open a package

and you're like, oh, fuck sake, these things. So couldn't think of what else to use and put it

in the group chat. And the decision was made to basically read the cupboards for packets of crisps.

I've seen the title of the video. Yep. So we're packed. We suggested all sorts of things. I suggested

lentils, rice. I worked out it would have been 30 pound of rice to fill the box. That's not ideal.

I was like, no, surely what you also could have done was

line the inside of the box with plastic and then filled it with water.

No, because the, the, the hole you had been filling it through, that's MDF. So you had

been filling it up to the MDF. So you couldn't have lined the upper part of you know what I mean?

Plus it's a really weird shape. So basically rate of the cupboards. I got the multi packs of crisps

and you open them and there's like three crisps in them. They were great for stuffing into all the

tiny corners. And basically the requirement was they need something that is a sealed bag that

will change shape, but not volume overall. So I got it all packed in and then I threw it into

like a normal box, leveled it all off, measured it up, worked out what the liters was. And I think

my target, absolute bare minimum was 15 liters and I got 17.6 I think it was. Then you knocked

like two liters off of the soap itself. So I'm still, plus I know those crisps and stuff didn't

fill every inch of it. So I'm well within it. And then I wasn't going to bother trimming it

because it was like, I still need to build the rest of this and this is going to get ruined.

And I had some old carpet land and some shitty glue and I was like, I'll do it in this. If anything,

it'll allow for the margins for the depth of the carpet. And then I can just trim it all

at the end, the end. And when I trimmed it, I was like, I love this. Like it's come out so good.

Did you see any finished photos of it? Yeah, the end of the thing. Yeah. So it came out really,

really nice. Smart looking. I, so might be better working up, but should be good.

I've always hated the big build in that car because it was out of the mark too. And it was like

built about 10 years ago, shitty looking, you know, it just added age badly and it was never

ready for that car. So that was nice. Cool. What else have I been up to? We're down taping out the

edge. Yeah. It's amazing how big the halls look when there's nothing in them. And then you

start to fill the full cars and craters. You're like, I, yeah. Like you're really walking, you go,

this is massive. And then it's really not. Yeah, it's not that big.

But I think, yeah, that's everything I've been up to. Cool. Arts and crafts, parts and crafts.

Arts and crafts. Just cracking on with the R32. So just like taking more parts off.

While I'm there dot com, while I'm there. Yeah.

Breaking things, boats and whatnot, you know. What about your wheel heart slainers?

The old mark four problem. Do you know what? The driver's side one came out like an absolute

suite. Not a bother. All the screws came out fine. No problem. And then there was the usual mark

four thing of, I mean, you could have grown potatoes inside the, the front door. It was,

there was so much dirt and leaves and dead bugs, thankfully dead. Cause if a spider had run out,

I would have run away. It's no wonder the wings rot from the inside. This is a common thing.

Mark three had it, Mark four had it, Mark five had it, Mark six had it,

Mark sevens or Mark five like three. And then the passenger side one,

three of the screws wouldn't even come out because the clips that obviously moved or

shifted and then it was just spinning the screw and they wouldn't come out.

They eventually got them out. I say, I corner manfully volunteered to help me because it was

real spidery in there. I got my hands up into the wheel arch and I could feel all the cobwebs

in the back of my hands. And I was like, yeah, she wouldn't like this. Not for you.

The passenger side was not quite as bad for dirt, but there was still quite a lot of dirt in there.

And yeah, other than that, just on a paper bag. Yeah. Well, it looks like a piece of

like fish and chip shop paper, like scrunched up and stuffed in.

Oh nice. So I don't know if it has been purposely put in.

It has to have been, there's no way I could have gotten somebody to be smart with their mate or

something because the dirt gets in because it's dirty water gets in, the water runs out,

the dirt stays behind and builds up and builds up. I don't see that works with fish and chip

papers. No, so that was, I can't find a bin. I know where I'll put my rubbish.

And thankfully the bottom of your wing is rotten, but in the inner arch,

everything is meant. It doesn't seem to go in the way as it comes out, which is probably no

bad thing because that's the replaceable panel at least. Yeah. So yeah, that's about it. Just

crying at rusty bolts and stuff to do. Just general old car stuff.

That sounds weird saying old car stuff when I think of a Mark 4 or 32.

But then I realized it's 20 year old. 23.

That's Owen Rafferty was up last weekend. He left at the grill that you'd sold him.

And he was telling us that obviously he was trying to get his Mark 6 ready for dub set

with the Mark 5, but he'd said he'd brawler with the Mark 5 or the Mark 6. He'd snapped

the subframe bolts and stuff like that. But he was saying, like he was looking around

these R32 and he was like, my Mark 6 is worse than this. And he said, and it seems to be a

the more modern stuff is worse even than. There's cost cutting. Yeah. I remember

brought out the Mark 6 and it was a cost cutting exercise compared to the Mark 5 in production.

Oh, it definitely was. I think it was made comparably cheaper than the Mark 5 at the time.

So he's doing like that. Saying that I prefer the Mark 6 dash and interior. I said that's

the lead all day. I think the Mark 5 looks really dated, whereas the Mark 6 is more like a wrap

round. It is the doors and stuff. You know, I prefer it. The Mark 6 is more like the Soraco

interiors. Yeah. Yeah, they're very modern. I think it's brilliant. Mm hmm. When are they

interchangeable the way people put Karado interiors in the Mark 2s? Did your man? No, no. Remember

your boy Alex, you used to go to the shows, had a purple one. Yes. He had a funky dash

in his. That's a long time ago. I remember he don't quote me, but I think there's something

he painted his Soraco purple. And then the following year Volkswagen released

the Soraco in purple and it was like almost the same. It was like a Cadbury's purple. Yeah.

I was like, oh, that's stinking. Brittle. Mm hmm. Custom respray and then Volkswagen

go, oh, that looks good. Gotcha. Gotcha, bitch. Um, myself. Remember the EOS with the Soraco front?

I always liked it. Aye. Oh, yeah. Which means they should have built Soraco convertible.

Yes. Great. I would have one of those. So what do you guys all leave up to?

Well, life's been busy, dub shed, et cetera. And then factor in putting a new kitchen into the house.

Yeah. That has rather restricted me with time, moving stuff about and different things here and

there. But yes, dub shed's full steam ahead. A lot of computer work, phone calls, traders,

suppliers, transceased down packages coming from all around the world that are held up

due to what's going on in the world amount, import, duty, fees, just general per career service.

But I don't use clothes today. Yeah. So all the entries are closed now. Um,

just comes down to the show. 11th, 12th, 11th, 12th April. Bring it on.

What's the weather given? Meddling. Fair to meddling. Is it? I haven't even looked at it

because even this weekend it has been torrential rain and then nice and sunny.

I think it's to be a bit warmer. That's good. Um, maybe a few showers, but I can live with that.

Yeah. You know, um, where does the funny place demand? So it is. What's going on?

Is it actually, is that probably affecting like deliveries of things?

Yeah. I got in the career accounts amusement. Like there's all these updates and updates and

updates, you know. So something changes there and you get an alert to say it sort of thing.

Yeah. Like something might get held in another country because

a plane wasn't able to take off or something like that there. That's wild.

But, uh, it's all looking good for the weekend and look forward to seeing us all there and

let's do it. Yes. No stress. Don't talk to Nigel. No, don't talk to Nigel.

I greet you with a lovely smile. When? On the Sunday evening.

On the Sunday evening.

Um, no, apart from that, basically, yeah, a lot of stuff going on at home.

Dub shed. Um, Jack's driving the Q5 them in because I think I met it the last time.

He did. I, yeah.

The work sucks.

Been retired. So I haven't had time to try and find a car for him. So that'll probably

something I'll try and do next week, but it needs to get something sorted rather quick.

What's he looking at? Um, is he adding a mind?

It's sort of a 13, 14 plate A3 Leon 16 TDI because that's the low insurance and tax.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You know, so he's too young to insuring sporty, is it?

It would surprise you what is a shareable and what's not.

Like for him to put my R under his policy now is 240 quid extra, which is ridiculous

because this time last year was two ground extra.

Yeah.

That's some drop.

So work that out.

I'm trying to think like I would have thought like the likes of ours and stuff would have

been hard to get insurance quite young, but then you think of like the Leon cupras with

the petrol same engine, front wheel drive, maybe something like that could get them into

like something sporty and fast.

Yeah. The insurance companies don't seem to like this two liter TDI engine.

Oh, really?

Yeah. And some specs.

That's weird.

There's a A4 two liter TDI I was looking at and it was an extra 380 quid.

The whole insurance thing makes no sense.

Just nonsense.

I remember years ago now this is going back fucking 15 years ago or more.

Our friend Ryan, he wanted a 16 valve mark two.

This would have been oh wait, it's near 20 years.

He wanted a 16 valve mark two and he couldn't insure one, but he could insure a 16 valve

carado because it didn't say GTI on it.

It was a coupe.

It wasn't a GTI hatchback.

So he bought the carado and then a friend of ours had a 16 valve Atlas gray.

And then eventually after a year or two, I think he blew the engine in it

and then ran bought it and put the 16 valve into the Atlas gray car from his carado

and put the full carado leather interior, including the rear bench and the dash to bring

into it and made a real nice car of it.

But it's so stupid like the carado and the Golf are the same car, same engine,

everything, same horsepower, but you can't insure because it says GTI on it.

For young drivers there, you have to come up with years to get cheaper insurance because

Oh really?

It's a combination of there's more safety features and then parts for older cars can

ride a car off sometimes, the attainability of parts versus say you crash your car and you

had to fix it, higher car cost, stuff like that.

Or for more modern cars, easier, fixable, it's more safe.

That's the way they look at it.

That's what I'm told from people who work on insurance anyway.

I'm trying to insure the TT at the moment and have you seen this custodian?

So I keep getting these targeted ads you've seen lately, haven't you?

For custodian insurance, but I tried to deal with them and they've been an absolute disaster.

So you can only, you can't phone them.

It has to be an online for me, fill in.

So I'm like, right, whatever.

Did that.

Then they email you to tell you basically this is in the works.

It'll take two or three days to get you a quote and is there anything you're looking for in

particular out of the insurance?

You know, like tailor it for your needs kind of thing.

Then the phone you and then you go, uh, no, I need this on it or I need that on it.

After having responded in the email and they didn't actually do anything about it.

Now, okay, right.

We'll come back to you.

Then the email you about it and then the phone you.

And the, but the guy emailing in the guy phone is two different people.

Since it goes, this is an absolute disaster.

Like for somebody that should be quite good because they're targeting towards

and then the, the killer for me was, it was there.

It was fully comprehensive, but they wouldn't do third party extension for other vehicles.

And I was like, no, as I said, no, I don't want this.

And they're like, because I said, like, you know, do you use offer and other policies?

And it goes, yeah, yeah, we do.

And I was like, okay, can you sort me that?

And he goes, no.

I was like, all right, I'll walk away.

Very confusing.

Very careful that when you're are changing companies that it does continue that extension

because I got caught out last year with it.

Oh, really?

See, I'm really, not caught, but I realized that wasn't extensional.

I'm really, really particular about insurance.

Like I chance many things, but I don't drive without insurance.

And I wouldn't even take a car down the road, basically.

I grill them.

I read the policies.

I grill them about what it covers.

And that's when I was, because I rang them.

I'd read the policy cover to cover.

And I kept stating third party extension.

And then afterwards, like we're applicable.

So when I asked him, I was like, yeah, I was like, does this cover it?

And he's like, oh no.

And I was like, why have I wasted three days of talking back and forth here?

So I just was like, nah.

Three jack there.

Just I've started just using price comparison websites,

basically doing insurance, not doing baller, ringing around.

I've been trying to avoid using flux because the fuck made about big time last year.

But the problem is I can't seem to avoid them

because they're offering what I want.

And their price is absolutely unbeatable.

That's the annoying thing.

I used to be hurt CHIC.

They're there called Sterling.

Sterling was the other one.

And they were very competitive this year for the club sport.

Like they dropped 130 quid or something.

So it's not up for another week or two.

So I'll give them a phone round and see.

Sterling was the other one.

That's full modes declared.

Aye.

I declare everything nice.

Yeah.

This is.

They don't make Rado for years.

Like I was on the policy.

It stated turbo conversion, airlift, wheels.

Aye.

Everything's on us.

You know, just gives you a bit of reassurance.

If you don't get, if you get, sometimes you get pulled over by.

Someone who knows what they're on about.

Or the police.

Oh, this is modified.

Are you covered?

Yep.

I had, here you go.

I know I, I like to keep it all legit like which is good.

But I remember going to buy a Polo GTI or Lifetime ago.

It was a 6N2 GTI that I wanted the bottom end out of.

And rather than like going home and getting the trailer,

going back with the trailer and it was going to be like what,

three or four hours by the time you drive, you drove probably more actually.

I just rang my insurance and was like, can I insure this car?

And it was a Polo GTI and I was coming from a golf GTI.

And they're like, oh, is there any mods on it?

I was like, no, there's not.

And they were like, oh no, we can't cover that.

There's some modified policy.

And I was like, how things have changed.

Used to be you couldn't get insurance on a modified car.

And then I was like, well, what if I lower it and fit a radio

before I drive it home here?

And she was like, oh, that would work.

And I was like, yes, that would work.

Well, I'm just about to lower it here.

We'll go with that.

We'll go with that and just drove it home then.

But perfect.

That was a great week car.

It wasn't, it wasn't.

It was great for what I needed it for.

Do you remember maybe Black 6N I had the 1612?

I vaguely remember you having it, but I don't think I really knew you.

White one, one leader.

And then I got a Black 1416 love.

6N, not a 6N2.

I would love another 6N.

I found them a wee bit skipy at the rear.

Oh yeah.

Sort of compared the way CRX used to drive.

Yes, because they're so short.

And then I remember coming, I was working in Nuri one time

and I was coming back and that road between Nuri

points past Guilford, that back road.

And I went to the school, that road.

I used to ride it in the bike all the time.

Like I knew it like the back of my hand.

And as part of it, we come under the railway bridge

and there's a few like wee fast bends.

Then my polo was like a 148 valve.

So it was like 60 horsepower.

But I had coilovers 3, 14 by 8 wheels.

And it handled like a go-kart.

And there was this Leon behind me.

And he was basically like pushing me up the road.

But see, when I come to that wee section there,

I could leave him through the corners

because he just kept staring at it.

And I was like, this is unreal.

That's the best feeling.

It's the slow car fast.

The James May theory.

I remember coming through there

and about the third basic slalom,

the back end just snapped.

And I remember just going sideways and going, oh.

Because there's like a 10, 15 foot drop on one side

and then a bank into the other side.

And it just snapped back in again.

And I was like, I hope that looked impressive

because my trunks are filled.

So I hope that's shepherd's pie of my knickers quote

from The Simpsons.

But either it's a great fun wee car.

The car keeps saying, I love another sex hand.

When there's one in our garage.

Yeah, it's funny how that is.

That he keeps threatening to scrap.

Yeah.

And I'm like, dude.

But there's so much work needed than that.

Yeah.

I just get another sex hand to slam it

and set it on our arms.

No.

I just leave it at that.

You know me, I'm very good at that.

Hi, yeah.

There you go.

So yeah, I think that's new with me.

He's all done.

Yeah.

Anybody in news?

It's been a bad week for news.

I don't have any news I was just going to give.

Do you know why it's a bad week for news?

Because it's April Fool's week.

Oh, this is true.

All of it is lies.

It's either lies or depress us, Fox.

So I open up with just a list of uncommon car show.

Ah, yeah.

That day.

Yes.

So obviously, Dub Sheds, 11th, 12th, April.

Followed by that is DB on the Key.

Third of May, it's in Wexford.

You're a project by MLVW.

It's May the 17th.

It is.

It's the American Car Club.

Opposite Kilbeg and Reyes, of course.

Vague Schoenschein, 14th of June.

It's down at Cartworld.

Yeah, Watergrass Hell.

Watergrass Hell, yeah.

Eurotraffin is the first Saturday in July, which is the two seconds.

It's 5th and a gas.

Fourth.

Fourth, close.

Fourth of July.

I'm really well prepared for this.

So we'll have barbecue and fireworks for the fourth of July.

I'll flip it, right?

American theme, Eurotraffin.

Eurotraffin then, or sorry, Old School, New School, is the 12th of July.

Is it?

That could be a political statement.

Oh, there you go.

It's down in Longford, Males College, isn't it?

Something like that.

And just the other thing I have there, Vag,

we're on a couple of other events the rest of the year.

They have a Mark II meet to be confirmed in August,

and they have one there on Halloween then.

There's the Waterford Park and Chill, the Castle one as well,

which I have a signal here to see,

but if you look at the Waterford Park and Chill Instagram, they'll...

I think it's normally end of May.

May.

May time as well.

And then your boy will have his usual cars and coffee at Second Cumber Church,

and it's probably going to be the end of May start of June.

I'll have to just double check.

So that's when the good weather's going to be?

Yep.

I don't know how you do it every time.

Goats will be used, goats will be used.

Now that I've said that, it'll probably lash, but thanks, Connor.

You have a good weather flat that early every year, haven't you?

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

There was one year where it was lashing all day,

and then there was a break in the weather from five o'clock

at night, and then it continued raining.

That's it?

Yeah.

Is he gone?

You were fundraising for him, you see?

And yeah, that's it.

That's it?

That's it.

Give that man a break.

They're quite literally.

Got his back.

That's it.

And it's a good way of having to do that.

Well, seeing as it's April Fool's week, we'll have a wee run

through of a few news headlines, and you can tell me whether they're real

or whether they're fake.

Oh, there's like a game show, I guess.

So the first one is Scodev just announced a car with a built-in dog

washer in the rear door, so you can clean your dog before he gets into the car.

That sounds like something they would do for the Kodiak or Yari sort of type.

Family type thing.

What are you going for, Lee?

True or false?

Doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.

False.

What do you reckon?

True.

It's actually false.

But you know what?

I think it's a great idea.

I'm pretty sure the Honda CR-V had something like this that you could option,

like when they were first out.

They had like a built-in table for like a picnic table, and also I'm pretty sure

they had a shower that you could hook onto the back.

Now, would you want to be shorn?

It did come with a curtain, who knows.

But if it was to rinse off your mucky sandy wellies or your dog's paws, yeah.

April Flo's backfire.

They've actually came up with something that sounds absolutely spot on.

Yeah, let's have that, please.

Do you think they're testing the waters with that one?

I think so.

How many people actually laughed with that?

All right, comment, that's a great idea.

So this is Florida, so this could go either way.

A guy in Florida got pulled over because he had missiles mounted in his pickup truck.

True or false?

That's gotta be true.

Florida Man is undefeated.

Re-recony.

A missile could be anything.

Yeah, it's Florida Man.

And we talk, yeah, that's kind of missiles.

See, missile is a projectile with propulsion, isn't it?

True.

It's kind of true.

So he was pulled over and there were fake props from a movie,

but once again, Florida Rain Supreme.

An 18-year-old in Kent got kicked out of a pub and came back

and rammed the pub with his car.

True.

That was a false.

That's happened many a time.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

True.

Yeah.

Yeah, Parney got fucking kicked out, went home, got the car, drove back

and drove it into the front of the pub.

I've heard that happening here.

That is absolutely insane.

I'd get those bouncers and just ram the establishment.

You just need to be fucked up in the head, like, don't you?

Oh, I should have planned it myself.

There's people on the Hench people everywhere corner, like, you know.

And then the last one, I always think I'm deranged,

but I'm not that deranged.

I've never been that deranged.

You're deranged.

Yeah.

You're not full fat.

I'm just definitely nagging him, but I don't always.

He dabble.

A little sprinkled.

I've never decided to drive a car in that building.

Salt bay of derangement.

Have a drive a car in the building?

Not intentionally.

Usually I would cry.

I've had plenty of pillars over the years.

And then the last one we have is, this one's topical.

UK DOE engineers are road testing self-healing roads

with combining bitumen and gravy.

Lost every false.

False.

Unfortunate, it's false.

But you know what?

It'd be better if one of the fuck they're filling them with

with them and up.

Yeah.

It just seems like amateur or?

See the road to here is absolutely.

It's awful.

It's insane.

Do you come to Hillsborough?

Yeah.

Oh, it's just, it's so bad.

It's just, that used to be one of the best driving roads.

I love driving on this burn from Cumber.

And now it's just ruined.

When we started this podcast, you always said that

you loved that road.

And now it's like, it's so bad.

Is this right?

They've just fixed the road.

They were fixing it in the wake there

because there was temporary traffic lights

through the village in Guilford.

We were fixing all the potholes and stuff

from basically our house down into the village.

And I drove along yesterday down,

I was going out to get the eggs.

And one of them that they fixed is it's all out again.

It's just lying on the.

They're just patching.

The volume of traffic, that's just ripped apart in weeks.

And the rain and floods yesterday.

It's just getting worse and worse.

It's just washed it all back out again.

But it's all right because Stormont just released this week.

After a consultation that they've discovered that

patching of work, the road works,

sorry, patching by utility companies

is causing the potholes.

No way.

And other news, there's some roads on set.

As a man who worked for utilities companies

and patch roads for two years,

yes, that is exactly the fucking reason.

It's, I've always said it should be.

One side of the road.

Yeah, yeah.

So they done that when we were doing,

what was that 2016?

Remember they were digging up the Newton Arch road.

And the med, the med also basically

caught and fell one lane.

And that was, and if you touch the other lane,

you do the other lane.

Not so it should be.

And that's been legislated, you know, some of that.

It's like millions have been paid out in claims

and all the rest of it.

Once you do that, and a part of the road that

continually needs fixed, that investment will.

Yeah, it's bad enough.

Well, you probably know from the bicycles,

but this one says bad enough in a car,

but on a motorbike, it's like it's lethal.

I've been in a bike in a year or two,

but now you're on the road and going,

obviously kill yourself.

Where would you cycle?

Like an obstacle course.

And then to remember,

was it the last episode Lee,

you talked about the F1 KitKat bars?

Yes.

So what did you tell us about them?

That they were delicious and there was the life size one.

Are you going to say that 12 tons of KitKat got stolen?

Yes.

And it was the F1 branded?

Did you hear about this, Needle?

Somebody sent me memes about this.

So they have, Lee has hyped them up too much.

It's alright.

And somebody decided it was one of our listeners.

Where are they?

Bring us some, please.

Apparently they were going from Italy to Poland

and the hijacked the lorry with 12 tons of these F1 KitKat bars.

I honestly thought of the Fast and Furious 1 movie

with the Hondas around in that lorry.

Except we weren't stealing TV, VCR, combos.

It was 12 tons of KitKat.

So I know the price of cogo's went up,

but guys, calm down.

But they've just disappeared.

Yeah.

So they still haven't found them.

There's a very fat happy man somewhere eaten.

I would love those.

So apparently they've actually launched a stolen KitKat tracker online

that you can scan the bar codes.

Because they'll be batch numbered and stuff.

And it'll tell you if it's out of the stolen one.

That's like Northern Bank robbery stuff.

It is, yeah.

So I'm like, well, hang on a minute.

So it equates to 413,000 chocolate bars.

So I suppose if they're a pound each,

there's half a million lost in revenue.

But where does that go?

In Mabelle.

It's a lot of eating to get rid of it.

But the other thing I thought was of this tracker,

if you scan it and it comes up as one of the stolen ones,

you go, ha, ha, ha, stolen chocolate bar.

Nom, nom, nom.

Yeah.

Does that alert them that you have just scanned a stolen one as well?

Swat kicks your door in.

Where's the KitKat?

Get down on the floor.

So yes, you've ruined it for everybody.

Good luck getting any of them.

On your basis or your topic of April Fools,

I sent you the one of the tartan paint.

Yes, you did.

So the body shop I use, I play football with this fella.

It's a family-owned body shop down in Belfast in the Castlery Road.

And they done a thing with GB News.

And it was basically an April Fools thing in April Fools morning.

And they basically talked about this new tartan paint.

Did you see it, Lee?

No, but I think I've seen similar ones before.

It was very well done, wasn't it?

Yeah.

It was like a proper news segment.

So shout out, Stevie.

He kept a straight face.

He did, actually.

I think it was one wee bit at the end where you sort of like broken half a laugh.

It was shown a bit of video.

You can almost hear him laughing as he says it.

Yeah.

You know, but yeah.

It was like, didn't you have somebody in Hallford's corner

wanted to know about the camouflage paint?

My boss, no joke, when I worked in Hallford's,

she walked up to me when I was in the paint aisle

and she lifted one of the cans and she went,

how did they get at the spray like that?

And I went, spray like what?

Because I was like, nobody's stupid enough to ask her a question.

And she was like, the camouflage pattern.

And like, she and I didn't get along at all.

Like I hated her and she hated me.

And I was just like, the don't.

And just turned and walked away.

I was like, I'm not even going to fucking answer that because

I'm going to come off worse than this because I can't not answer you in an asshole kind of way.

I'm just like, it doesn't.

Yeah.

Work it out.

Yep.

Yeah.

But yes, there's a shop manager.

She's the manager in the world.

I have one more.

It's not in April Fools.

I actually had this for the last episode and I forgot to talk about it.

So it's not really new news anymore.

But anyway, have you heard of the pocket bunnies?

Now, what road are we going down here?

I know where Nigel's brain's going.

Yeah, well, not there.

There was one came out in, I think it was January for the Tokyo Auto Salon and it was a

little mini R32 that somebody built on like a Suzuki twin platform or like a K-Car platform,

but put the kit and all on it.

So it's like a little mini R32.

Oh, cool.

And then like the Subaru and Pretz that sort of.

Yeah.

It's like that kind of thing.

But then they've done another one for Rebel Drift were in Japan and he's the same fella has made

another one, which is an R34.

And look at it.

Oh my goodness.

It's so cute.

They actually work so well.

That's cool.

Hi.

So if you want to find these, look up, is it pocket bunny R32 and R34?

But the full kit and all on them.

And this, this one has an SR20 to eat it like it's a proper.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

Oh, that's cool.

So that would have been a shoe horn on mats, I'm sure.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

A sex beat box.

And it's funny.

I looked into a bit of it.

I saw the girl who was driving that at the Rebel Drift and stuff.

And but looked into how they were built.

And there's a few screenshots.

I think Larry Chan had been and like visited the workshop and stuff.

That was cool.

But when you see the car that they're based on, it's not like a little,

like you'd think that's like a cappuccino or a bait or something.

But it's not.

It's like a tall K car.

It looks like a Suzuki Vitara, but lowered.

You know, it's the same sort of body style as that.

They're quite bulky.

They must cut quite a lot on my way.

I like, but it was really, really cool.

But yeah, they're fast.

The R32 one looks amazing.

It does.

It's really cool.

But yeah, they think they're called the pocket bunnies.

And I just think that's very cute.

The work and something like that is mental though.

Cool.

What else have I got?

The last one I had was just a wee bit sort of looking at motorsport was

two big crashes.

Ollie Berman and the F1 last weekend, but even bigger than that.

In the Indy car.

Did you see it?

No, I've seen a few crashes in Ireland.

Oh, was there?

Do you see a mark two?

Absolutely.

Bin in the tree.

No, no.

Not good.

Bad, like anybody hurt or?

I think they're all right, like, but hit the tree with some slap.

This was Scott McLaughlin.

He races for Penske.

And he, I can't remember what the closing speed was,

but he ended up hitting hard enough that he knew the wire catch fences.

The car got airborne and punched through the catch fence,

but it still retained it, but he got through it.

And they were interviewing him afterwards and it looks horrendous.

And he was like, yeah, it didn't feel like that in the car.

He says like in the car, he says it was just like a normal crash.

But outside of it, he was like, oh, shit.

It was real bad crash.

Not Ollie Berman before that at, uh, at Suzuka.

One of the kind of support races or whatever.

I think it was like Porsche Carrera Cup or something.

It was really bad crash at it.

When you see the videos of it, the car is like flying

and again into the, like the catch fence.

Some of them crashed in the catch fence are just horrific looking.

But that's the fellow turned out he was okay, thankfully,

but the start of the race was delayed and everything

because of the start of the F1 race was delayed.

One of the worst ones I ever seen, it was a girl driving,

I can't remember what the race series was,

whether it was Indy or it was like one of the lower forming levels.

Remember the one or throttle stuck on?

Yeah, it comes to a corner and just goes straight.

That's a straight circuit.

And there's a tight right hand, like a 90 ride.

And then there's a runoff area that's probably only about a road width.

Yeah.

But she comes down that hard.

She hits the fence, launches and then goes up into the media tower

and hits the media tower and takes it down.

Holy smokes.

Which is like a first, you know, a story up.

Nobody was killed.

Like she was miracle.

I was just like, how do you survive that?

But then you look at like F1 crashes from 20 years ago,

stuff like that probably wasn't survivable.

And you know, the halo obviously is a lot to do with that.

And then the other crash standards, but it's amazing to see that.

I remember watching different F1 things from back in the year.

And after the center crash, the safety things had to ramp up.

Just how it improves so much.

That's it.

Like people always say, and to be honest, we are 99% of the people saying this

are the people who don't race.

It's like, you know, race is dangerous.

You see the drivers and they just stare out there to push the limits,

but they also don't want to die.

Like they're not going out there to die.

Is that everyone out in Houston?

Yep.

Yeah.

YouTube's anyone?

Just a quick one about Harry's garage.

So he done a very good video on the EV reversal.

It's a, I think it's a half an hour video,

basically about how the industry is basically reversing back out of the cul-de-sac EV.

And writing off projects, I think in the last three months,

major manufacturers have rid off 65 billion in production costs of different models

and the rest of it goes in.

And he talks about how Porsche have had to reverse their strategy

and how Toyota and BMW have basically targeted better,

or set themselves up better, not to be as vulnerable.

Talks about BUID and Denza and how they're so dominant.

Yeah, it's a really, he's very thorough when he talks to this stuff.

And he'll explain it all and the direction of the motor industry

is now going to be faced in and basically who's going to survive

at the end of this shit show, basically.

Yeah.

And like a lot of that was all pushed towards like,

you know, the government saying,

we're going to be doing this by this date and this by this date.

And they had to sort of go,

well, right when he didn't make a decision on this.

But it's a life law or it's an age old tale of bureaucracy,

thinking it knows what it's doing

when it doesn't have any practical knowledge of the industry.

Yeah.

So it was the same thing for years.

Maybe the Porsche diesels, clean diesel, clean diesel.

Now they're screaming the diesel's terrible

and now they're pushing it back towards turbo petrol.

Yeah.

Like the efficiency they've made in petrol combustion engines

now is unreal compared to what was 20 years ago.

Yeah, that Mazda Skyactiv engine,

we've seen it with like the variable compression stuff on it.

Yeah, it's, it's mostly ridiculous,

but it's, I think it's now too late.

That's the problem.

And everything's so complicated.

That's what I was going to say.

They're also ludicrously complicated

that when something goes wrong with them.

It's so expensive.

It's just telephone numbers.

And that's bound to have a bearing on insurance costs too.

Well, she look at now the mandate

that you have reversing cameras and like a lot of them

have like the LiDAR for the, what do you call it,

like adaptive cruise control.

That all affects your insurance

because if you hit that, that needs to be replaced

or at the very least it needs to be recalibrated.

So there's extra costs.

There's another one.

So you're watching different YouTube challenge,

saving salvage, boys that are fixing up cars

and mad arm struggle.

A lot of the batteries and modern cars are on the floor.

You could drive over a speed ramp.

Yeah, and rack your floor.

There's one car that was in salvage.

And it looked absolutely perfect.

They'd lifted it wrongly and punctured the battery.

Oh, and you don't know until you get it.

It's a 20 grand battery.

And you don't know until you've bought it and get it home.

Even if you were, if you were driving along

and hit something on the road,

could that puncture the battery?

Underneath?

Yeah.

That's what they were basically saying.

It's so vulnerable.

A sump, as you could say, is the same.

True.

But a padlock combustion engine there's going to be 20 grand.

Most of them aren't 20 grand, yeah.

But yeah.

Lee, any YouTube's?

Nothing new YouTube-wise.

But I have gone down quite the rabbit hole of watching

mainly humble mechanic.

Just stripping down R32s because that's what I'm doing at the moment.

He has a fountain of knowledge, I think.

He really is.

And he explains things really, really well and shows everything that he's doing

and shows you when he fucks up and stuff.

And he's like, I've just done this, so I'm telling you.

So you don't do this.

That's the best.

Have a talent you want to learn from them because they're not hiding anything else.

He's still a full time mechanic.

No.

No, he's full YouTube.

He, people's car had him on back in, oh God.

Florida 22.

And he said that the idea behind his channel was he worked in a dealership.

They asked him to do a couple of videos and he was like, yeah, no problem.

And he did them for a week or two, he could really into it.

And then the dealership went, no, we don't want to do this anymore.

And he liked it.

So he just kept going.

Oh, okay.

And then built his way up.

And he got to the point where his income from the videos was almost matching his

dealership income.

And he was like, plus the brand deals and stuff.

He was like, I have to make a decision here.

But then it was like, well, the dealership pays for your medical insurance stuff.

So you need to make that bit extra to cover that.

And you know, it's like going self-employed versus making 50 grand a year.

Self-employed isn't the same as making 50 grand a year.

All right.

It's the point where you go right to time to kick along with his makeup.

I push on with it, but he seems to be doing well because he's like a guy video and

form and edit and stuff to you, which is not cheap.

No, definitely not.

But yeah, he's definitely one of those YouTubers.

And he's just likable, you know, which is good.

He's very good on camera.

You know, he's positive.

He's knowledgeable.

He's homer.

Volkswagen is the one of two.

Look at a brown dude with amps in it.

A lot of the videos he's doing, he's like...

No parts support.

You know, thanks Volkswagen.

Like, yeah, it's like, I could buy this if Volkswagen would support their older cars,

but they don't.

Thanks Volkswagen.

Yeah.

And like he's talking about Mark IVs, like they're not ancient.

You know, it's a 20 year old car.

It's not.

But BMW is seeing this support in the older cars.

Connor Olds.

And I'm sure he's listening.

He'll back this up.

He said the same.

He built BMWs and still does, obviously.

And he would walk into BMW.

Porsche D2, good heritage by them.

All your bumper trims for his E34 off the shelf, no problem.

Now you'll pay for them.

But you can buy them.

When he started to build his Mark II, he was like, I can't buy them for this.

He says even like...

And anything you can buy is like replica knockoff shell.

Hi, her heritage.

Yeah, it's a terrible quality.

I think I remember about 10 years ago or maybe more would have been.

I think it was...

Matt used to work on TPS, which is the trade parts of Volkswagen.

He was basically saying Volkswagen.

I think it's a 15 year.

Basically, that's right.

Don't make it anymore.

We'll just sort of phase it out.

Sort of phase it out.

They're going to be starting to phase out Mark VI parts again, which is nuts.

That's weird.

That's wild.

Crazy.

I probably left in a different world than a lot of people,

but like that's not an old car to me.

No.

I remember Simon was building his Mark II and he was buying a front bumper.

Where's that grille?

I can't remember.

I think it might have been a grille.

And grilles from Volkswagen at the time were 110 quid, genuine.

Wasn't given that name.

I remember going, oh, not bad, not.

You can sure you can pick one up on the scrap yard.

But at the time, they didn't have them on it.

If you'd have bought Fay them, just talk them back.

But hindsight is a wonderful thing.

And it is, aye.

Another YouTube is actually sent in on one of the questions, Gary Heasley.

He is starting his own YouTube.

He just sent in this morning there.

He's been telling me.

I didn't see it this morning, but he's been telling me.

Yeah.

So if you follow Mr. What's this YouTube?

Nope.

You have to say it this time because I said it every time in the questions.

Mr. Bishy Evil 2.

There you go.

On Instagram, he's been doing a very, very full restoration on his Mr. Bishy Evil 2.

So he says he's been inspired by Connor McCann, check out his YouTube.

He's going to start his own YouTube and he'll update it when it launches.

So very good.

We'll update you when that happens.

Otherwise, that's me for YouTube.

I haven't really been watching anything outside of the normal,

usual Jimmy Oaks surround tuned.

I haven't much time at the moment to watch, standing beyond my normal.

Plus, I've been taking up the TV with watching Trials.

True.

I've been watching the last one laugh on the Amazon.

Apparently, it's very funny.

Oh my gosh.

Comedy series.

The best you put 10 comedians in a room and you're not allowed to laugh.

So they have to try and make each other laugh.

And so we're actually trying not to laugh.

It sounds like a stupid concept.

But cunts, tech talks or an algorithm or Instagram gives you clips and you go,

that actually looks quite funny.

I mean, Laura sat down about the other night and we were roaring, laughing.

Excellent.

I must check that out actually.

Yeah, it's good.

The first season is better than the second, but the second still is very good.

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I want better fuel economy.

Actually will help your fuel economy.

First thing I don't want.

I got my price of diesel is absolutely mental.

Yeah.

Petrol's not too bad, actually.

I'm quite enjoying it.

It's only went up a bit tempy.

As much as I'm not driving at the minute,

I am loving the fact that petrol is a lot cheaper.

Before Trump went full war, man.

I think it was one super on later.

I was behind the 97 was 130 something.

No, it was 142.

I think it's 153.

I know it's it's birdie climbed at all.

Diesel's getting hammered.

Yeah.

It's 180 on camera today.

That's brutal.

And you know who that'll be.

It'll take, if it ever does come down folly what it was,

it'll take forever to do it.

Of course, because that's just the way the world is.

Yep.

It's unfair.

There are questions in folks.

Let's see what we have tucked away in the question box.

The first one then comes from Patrick Fitz 96 says,

with dub shade and awake,

what's the most stressful lead up to a show?

What's your most stressful lead up to a show

to finish a building time?

I can think of one right away.

Me too.

Yeah.

I think Lee's going to match mine here.

My vento.

Oh, no.

And we literally painted it three nights before, I think.

And the paint reacted and ran off the car.

And basically it was supposed to be green.

And it looked like a watermelon.

It did.

Like the stripe pattern.

That's what the whole car looked like.

So panic stations sanded it off.

Didn't even think we've sanded it all off.

We just kind of keyed it off.

And that's why it ended up the satin gray.

That was like two nights before we were due to leave

for all the muc dubs.

And then we'd rebuild the whole car,

put it all back together.

We drove two ultimate dubs with steel wheels on,

with the wheels in the boot,

with all the interior trims hanging off,

like the B-pillar seatbelt trim.

I drove the whole way to Telford with it

sitting in my lap with the seatbelt threaded through it.

And when we got to Nuri,

we realized we hadn't put the wiper arms back on,

so I had to wiper the whole trip.

We had to buy wipers at the Elder Jumble at the show.

And they were off like a Mark I or something.

I was just like, went up to your man and was like,

give me any wiper arm,

because it'll be better than zero wiper arm.

Do you remember the good old days of auto jumble at car shows?

And he gave me a free when I told him

I accidentally drove here with no wiper arm,

and he just left it on.

He was like, here you go.

Take it.

Good man.

I was actually going to say your Jetta

for a dubshed three years ago.

The boot lid incident, yeah.

I, so we hammered to get that thing ready for months.

And then what four days before it,

I lifted the car on the ramp and crossed the boot lid

into the ceiling.

So that was fun.

What do you know?

Well, mine wasn't my car, it was TJ's.

Oh God, I wasn't involved in that,

but I heard about it.

The week before, well,

it was all sort of coming in the final two weeks

before TJ's wedding.

And there was a lot of,

straight up after our work,

up to Gatham's workshop,

one, two, a little clock in the morning.

Yeah.

Blah, blah, blah.

And it made it.

It made it.

It's some going like we need.

Yeah.

But Joe, do you need everybody pushing that thing?

That's it, yeah.

And you don't need anybody sitting.

If they're not going to be doing something,

don't be there because then there are distractions.

You just need to be at it.

That's right.

Friendships are forged in this crucible of last push for a show

in the workshop.

Oh, off the back of that.

Do you remember going to Addition 38?

Oh, years ago,

absolutely years ago.

And we're in the workshop

and Dan had just bought one of the first turbo minis.

And the Cooper S's with the turbo one.

And they were changing the steering wheel

and they couldn't get the steering wheel off.

But whatever they'd done,

did they end up cutting it off?

I can't remember.

There was something to do with the airbag.

And then when they tried to take the airbag off,

they couldn't.

And then they damaged it.

So they had to cut the wheel off the car,

the steering wheel.

Holy smokes.

And this was going on like four o'clock.

I'm pretty sure it was that car.

It was like four o'clock in the morning

before we were getting the build.

Mm hmm.

Hi.

I was in hope at that point.

It was my workshop,

but it was like...

I'm going to bed, boys.

See you in the morning.

I haven't really pushed a deadline.

I've just went,

no, it's not making it.

I want it right.

I haven't really went,

oh, we're going to,

you know, I haven't really cut it down to the wire lick.

Have you not been pushing with a Mark II?

16 years later.

All right, Polo boy.

Mark III, boy.

Fucking everything.

Jack Lokes can confirm Uber does a fantastic job.

He's highly recommended.

Excellent.

He went and got audio worked on by him for the weekend.

It's cute.

He's talking about getting them up.

Did he get them up? No.

No, he didn't map it in the end.

He done with the audio.

Okay.

Went with this,

I always don't say visual,

but no audibles.

Edibles?

Not edibles.

Don't think I said style.

Original Euro says,

how are you guys dealing with the oil

slash gas issues over there?

It sucks.

I'm working from home,

so try not to think about it.

The prices are bad,

but I'm not doing big enough mileage.

Don't worry.

I think things could get difficult here

in the next month or so supply-wise.

Yeah.

There's been a lot of talk of supply chains

like run and out,

but even petrol pumps run and out.

And I think it's actually driven by people panicking.

Correct.

See last weekend,

there was a pair of stations out everywhere,

and I think it was just basically going,

oh, we better fill up.

So instead of putting 20 quid in,

people were just filling up.

And it was like,

my example I used when I was talking to people

about it was during COVID,

people just bought as much toilet roll

and rice as they could buy in pasta.

Two years ago,

about fucking carrots and tomatoes or something,

and everybody,

Tesco was running out of carrots

and everybody was freaking out

and local grocers were all going,

here's a load of carrots here,

like what are you talking about?

That's the thing too.

Like everybody was during COVID lockdowns

or whatever they're going,

oh, Tesco's have run out of headache tablets.

Local farmers are going,

we have loads of them.

Yeah.

Some people realize or think,

oh, the only place you can buy this is Tesco's.

COVID was the same.

People were wiping their arse

for children.

Like they had nothing.

You couldn't get toilet roll,

couldn't begot.

I was working all through COVID.

So I was out and about

and he called into any petrol station

and there was like any amount of toilet roll

you could have bought.

And I was like,

why is that woman wiping her arse while sock?

You know, like,

why is he getting into the shower

every time she has a shite?

Like go buy toilet rolls.

That's a lovely example you're using there.

I mean, you're never stuck.

It's the media frenzy and panic

that's not slow to shite.

No, I will tell him though,

because I know he's in America.

I worked this out when I was talking to Jeremy the other day

because he was complaining about the price of diesel there.

Our diesel is working out at the equivalent

because obviously our...

Do you remember their gallon?

Yes.

3.6 liters.

3.6 liters compared to 4.5.

Yes.

Even when you convert for that

and then convert to dollars,

it works out at over $9 a gallon.

And they're complaining about five or five-ish at the minute.

Yeah.

So obviously you kill your life to what...

Yeah, obviously the prices are and stuff,

but it's phenomenal, the difference.

Else we've got VW Hooptie Earl says,

is the build...

I think we're going to differ on this one.

Is the build more enjoyable than the drive?

I prefer the build.

The Corado, the build was more enjoyable.

Just because of how the Corado drove.

I enjoyed, like it was usually me, Robin and Andy working on it,

and we had some great fun Saturdays.

Hi.

And especially the last six months of it.

You'd meet up once a month, go through a list,

make a new list, come back, a bit of crack.

You used to work on that at your farm,

which is...

I remember, actually, I remember that time.

I had a really nice workshop up there once, to anything.

But there is guys that just build cars,

and once they've built, they want to move on to the next build.

And I can completely get it.

Yeah, because sometimes the car you build,

I don't know.

I honestly, that's...

Isn't what you expected?

Oh, that's quite common, isn't it?

Like you go too far with a car?

Yeah.

Honestly, I prefer building cars.

I like driving cars and liking it with my friends,

but when it comes down to it, I love being tucked away

and just working on something and figuring something out.

Yeah, I'm a fitter.

I'm a fitter.

I like both.

But there is...

It's extremely satisfying to drive a car that you have built,

and just be driving along going,

yep.

I done this.

I did this.

Yeah.

No, yes, I totally agree with that.

I love that feeling.

And there's times we are...

I think when I put the Mk2 together,

going to Scotland that time,

that wee moment of driving across,

going six months ago,

this thing was literally a bar shell.

Yeah.

And I've done all the bolts,

and you think to yourself,

like every Titan bolt has been tightened by me,

you know, you just go through that thing in your head,

it's weird.

And when you get to driving a convoy on a road trip

with a load of friends,

and go to a show or do whatever,

that's a pretty cool feeling.

That's nice.

Jack also says,

I've heard there's loads of sweets and crisps in Connor's house.

They're in the garage, last night's box.

How many litres of crisps?

17 litres.

I'm sitting watching TV starving.

A lot of crisps to find.

Oh, look at them McCoys.

I had them all out too,

because I had to get them in everywhere.

Ollieolz underscore 710 says,

what's the craziest experience,

near death,

or just pure fun you've ever had while driving?

I go back to talking with that time,

me and Stefan nearly got killed.

Me and Ron crashed in the Mark 3,

when he come up behind a car,

quite quick whipped out,

and then didn't realise there was a car coming.

Hadn't time to get back in,

hadn't time to pull in front of the car we're passing,

and just lucky enough,

there was a hard shoulder on the other side,

and just ended up over there,

and the two of us just in fits of laughing afterwards.

But honestly,

one of the most fun ones for me,

I think was driving Callahan's Firetruck in Helen.

Oh, you missed a bit of it.

Because it was one of those things,

it was like, I'm with my friends,

in the mountains in America,

driving a vehicle I would never get to drive again.

You know, it's just so different.

Cool.

I have two, sort of,

not really my old R, I suppose.

I was driving a private road with my RS6,

going to a certain car show on a private road,

and I came across another couple of car enthusiasts,

Mr. King and Paul RS.

Yes.

And we decided to race up this private road.

Nice.

And there was speeds in the speedometer

that read 160-170.

But that wasn't calibrated.

And I went under a bridge in this private road,

hoping there was no private road police.

But it was, that speed it wasn't calibrated either,

wasn't it?

That's true, yeah.

So there's no way it would have been that.

That would have been 60, 65, maybe.

You were just caught up in the moment going,

I might die here.

Gee, when you are doing those kind of speeds,

so it's, things come up in your real fast.

When something goes wrong, you're fucked.

I remember being on the,

I used to have a Vauxhall cart in DSI,

and I remember going back from the night shift one night,

down a single carriage I rode in,

triple figures.

And the road gets very small, very small.

It's like people talk about the Autobahn,

you know, they say about like,

our speed limits should be higher and stuff.

The German driving standards are much higher anyway.

I tend to find, but, and the roads are better kept.

But when you say something goes wrong in the Autobahn,

it really goes wrong.

There's no such thing as a, do you remember?

You crossed another 100 mile an hour at the mess.

We were going to weather sea, and there was a,

do you remember the traffic tailback for miles?

And you're like, it's just chaos.

Yeah.

Well, seeing that question,

all I could think of was,

do you remember my Caddy VR6?

Yes, the van.

So I bought that in the foresighted in Donald,

and drove it back to Monterey,

and there was no lights in it.

So I drove it back roads with my friend in front in a car.

Just hoping no places stopped me.

The loudest VR6 van in the world.

And it was my plan.

I would do it at 11 o'clock at night.

Like, I don't know if doing it at 11 o'clock at night

with a dream or a tension.

I hear if you went during the day,

you need your lights.

But I remember that being very ruby,

because I was driving along,

and I was following his tail lights.

I couldn't see anything.

So, you know, I couldn't see the front of the van

because there was no lights.

And the worst thing is, had you somebody behind you?

Nobody.

No, I was going to say it's worse for them,

because you've no brake lights, you've nothing.

And like, because I've tail cars home behind,

like, driving behind them,

coming home that don't have brake lights,

or something's went wrong.

And even when you know there's no brake lights,

you still don't react.

Your brain's pretty wired to go lights,

you know, and touch the brake.

Yeah, that car, what does it need?

Was the front brakes not working?

Or the rear handbrake?

Was there something?

There was, it was just so sketchy,

it was unbelievable.

Well, you know what to say?

Which is not right.

Move her at night.

Correct.

That's a great fear.

It isn't great.

Mine was, I think,

race Meda in two Novas through the mountains,

around the moorns, just.

What a memory to have.

Meda has heat of 14 injection Nova red five door,

and I was in my 1.2 carb, the black one.

My car had coilovers, so it handled a bit better.

The 14 should have been faster,

but I always thought the carb was that,

actually, that way a bit quicker.

But my dad was a far better driver than me,

and he knew the roads.

But so we were pretty well evenly matched,

and the two of us just absolutely raking

around those mountain roads, like.

Good fun.

Oh, the best.

Also, your dad drove Land Rovers.

Yeah.

The Nova probably felt like it was on coilovers.

The standard fucked suspension,

but like, just the thing's tight.

All Land Rovers are a bit wallowy, to say the least.

Ah, Jesus.

Sean Barry 650 says,

if you were to buy a first car in the morning,

what would you buy?

Well, I have to say,

Rachel just got a VW up there with her daughter,

and we're cracking weak car.

PSX, no electric windows, and like that.

Just you've got a gear sticking engine.

It's good.

Someone is at 70 brake horsepower.

And it's light.

It's a good way to get a feel for driving.

Mm-hmm.

You're actually driving that car.

We're the bigger, more modern stuff.

You have a lot more driver aids and stuff.

I take what he means about first car,

just when you pass your test.

I assume so, yeah.

I recommend it up, yeah, definitely.

Good, fun, weak car to drive.

I don't know how.

I see kids now, like on our plates,

driving like Mark Sevens and stuff,

and I'm like, I don't drive a Mark Seven,

and I'm 37.

You know, like...

Mark Sevens are 13-year-old.

Yeah, but like, are they not still four or five grand?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Aye.

Scrappers, three and a half grand.

I have a shitty one.

Yeah.

Ugh.

I'll need sills in that.

It'll have 160k, just ragged out.

No windscreen.

Right.

Here's the thing that I think about sometimes,

and so you're saying Mark Sevens are 13-years-old, right?

When I was at school, I passed my test in 2005,

and all the ones in my year's school were all had cars,

and were coming to school with our hard plates on and all this.

And I used to get me in front of, because I drove a Nova,

and everybody else had like, more modern fixtures.

Of course, the 106.

You know, this kind of stuff,

and the Nova was the kind of outlier of that group.

When I passed my test in 2005, my Nova was 92.

So it was 13-year-old?

13-years-old.

So that's like kids.

That's like me driving a Mark Seven now,

and the kids making fun of me for driving an old car.

Aye, so if you'd have bought Rachel a Mark Seven,

kids in school would be making fun of her for driving an old car,

in that scenario.

Yeah.

That's weird, I think.

Isn't that weird?

I wonder, is it because your Nova was the very last of them?

Yeah.

So it looked older and felt older.

It was the end of the line of them.

So it was really 10 years older again, you know.

Believe it or not, that's equivalent of saying

a Mark Seven, they're making fun of them for driving a Mark Six.

Yeah.

Which is still weird.

I nearly bought a Mark Six the other day,

and thought it was on top of the world.

I thought you were going to be a successful international businessman.

That's me, yeah.

I've met it.

What else have I got?

Cezely Patrick says,

you guys ever consider a video in the podcast,

even as a one-off, like at EuroTraffin?

EuroTraffin's probably the worst time you could ever...

Yeah, the show events, there's no chance we could...

I actually think the show events would be quite good to video,

as in like, because you would have people walking past,

and you'd probably have a bit of a crack,

where us sitting here or at our house, it's a bit different,

you know, it's the same thing over.

A blog, maybe.

Blogs and stuff, but it's hard.

It's like, editing this alone is a lot of time,

never mind factoring in video.

And there has been times where I've recorded in my pajamas,

so we don't want to see that either.

So that's also something to factor in,

although the Christmas one probably should be recorded,

because that's just bloody chaos.

Yeah, let me look at that, actually.

No poke, no love, says,

is a Mark III, even a Volkswagen?

I think he's appealing to you here, Nigel.

Hey, he says, sorry, I'm new to this.

He's built himself a...

He's built a black VR, Mark III.

It's a very like, what I would call, like a 2008 car.

It has nine-inch smith modern lines all around.

It's on our suspension.

It's like a proper period.

Yeah, I think it's gonna look really, really nice.

And I think this is the last one we have then,

is PD Glennon says,

350 miles done today for a 1960s couch.

What's your stupid marketplace, finds, or trip?

Well, I think I just discussed my Cali adventure.

That was a marketplace find.

Marketplace, or, I don't know, I bought some weird stuff.

We went to Johnny Gull one night to my new doors,

remember, that was good crack?

We did.

Aye.

I talked to Paul Glennon, he gave me the tip.

Remember, I bought the Mark VI GTI with the engine blown?

Yes.

I had to drive to the mountains up past Buncran.

I had to pick up an engine, and it was a top engine too.

Is that where that come from, right?

Because it's really hard to get them in this,

because they have issues.

Did you?

Time issues, yeah.

What was that?

Did that engine come out of a crashed car?

Yeah.

So, his son took out or something?

He went away on holiday, and his son drove it down the road

and rolled it.

But it wasn't his son's car, it was his car?

And I don't know why he didn't put the insurance,

or what happened, or, to put down it was stolen,

I don't know.

But he ripped the engine gearbox out

and put it in the rack and opened it on the shelves.

It was a 30,000 mile engine, and we put it in it,

and it was a 30,000 mile engine, because it was perfect.

You would imagine, it was probably a lot of car to replace

as well, money-wise, but he probably didn't want to destroy

the young fellas.

Well, the other thing is-

He's a really nice guy.

If he took it out, the young fella maybe didn't even have

insurance on it.

So, what are you doing?

Either report it stolen, get your son in trouble for that way,

or you have to eat shit and deal with it.

I don't know what happened, I just found it a bit odd.

But, here.

And what was that engine, would you give?

1,500.

That's actually all right now, yeah.

I got the gearbox, I got the whole front end of the car.

Underpins?

I had the whole lot of weather destroyed.

Just dropped out, sub-frame.

Happy days.

Hi, we drove the Domino.

Maybe we'll need our steering rack for Mark VI.

We ended up in that guy's attic, didn't we?

Yeah.

Up a sketchy ladder in the dark.

He brought us into the attic, the show was-

Come follow me.

It wasn't the attic, it was like a mezzanine in a barn.

Is that what it was?

Yeah.

I thought it was an attic.

I needed to follow-

And there's no lights, and it was in a barn.

Sketchy.

Oh, it was like full of fucking full of stuff and-

Aye, Vauxhall, old Vauxhall stuff.

I don't know why we went to Dunningall for four doors,

because he worked in Lisburne.

Yeah.

Which was also weird.

Back when, you know, diesel was cheap and red diesel was even cheaper,

we just used to be like, let's go on an adventure.

Also, I seen that couch on the back of Paul's pick-up yesterday,

I had no idea what it was for,

and then I twigged when I seen this message for their stand for Dubshed.

Oh, okay.

So that's what they're at.

And then the last one we have-

I once went to buy a thing of Facebook marketplace,

do you remember?

We were doing the kids' zone at Dubshed,

and we were looking for wee, like, ride-on cars and-

The pedal tractors and stuff.

So I had looked and found this little pedal tractor,

little toy tractor, for like 12 quid or something on Facebook Marketplace,

and that was Grand Arrange to go and buy it.

Okay.

And then only after I had already made the arrangement to go and get it,

did I realise that it was our friend Richie's sister who sold it.

It was just a weird small world coincidence.

The car we're in now.

That is all, folks.

We will see you.

No, I have one more.

I'm not very good at this, it turns out.

I have one more.

It's actually a quite a good one.

It's limited to the differences I have sent this in.

He says,

I know last week you talked about the death of AC Snitcher and other brands,

because people aren't buying base spec cars anymore and doing them up like we did.

But are there any brands or trends that are doing better nowadays?

For instance, and my initial thought, he has just named up.

For instance, Maxson is a brand we hear everywhere.

Okay, maybe not the same category as AC or BBS, but are there any other brands?

Rumour has it that Ober is planning on taking over.

I would like to ask Marty, but he doesn't seem to know where Mr. Ober lives.

Maxson just exploded like?

Yeah.

Just the lip kits.

Initially, that's where I thought on that.

We'll see that Blade now does new Blade performs.

Aye.

They do all these splitters and sides, skirts and all the rest of it.

That's interesting.

That stuff seems popular.

It seems to be like that or a TikTok shop where we can buy it in China.

Yeah.

Yeah, things are a bit different than what they were,

but I think it's good to see companies like Racing Line doing good quality OEM plus stuff.

Lot of respect for Rivo and Racing Line, their sort of stuff.

I've never owned anything new enough to have any of that Racing Line stuff.

A few new things off them and used parts and the quality's very good.

Lots of stuff to say to anybody who raves about them and said it fits like factory.

You know, like you take the factory air box out, you put the carbon box in,

and it bolts up, uses the same fasteners.

I've bought two ECS strut braces.

Fantastic quality.

That's good.

No, it's a tricky question then.

It is. Maxson's the big one I thought off though.

Yeah. Guaranteed.

It's port Sunday today, obviously.

Thankfully we're not there because I shudder.

Did you see that YouTuber Adam C's over for it?

Who's Adam's?

Oh, he's a boy that stands outside car meets and videos I'm taking off.

He's part of the problem.

Basically, oh, look what happens at these meets,

but he gets content and money out of whatever.

Yeah.

That'll be tidy.

But I was going to say, I guarantee, like,

stickers and graphics companies are doing well at all that.

This is James's Christmas.

It's bonus week.

That's it.

Sorry to prestige.

I'll have to have a look and see if we can find any start out slogans for the next one.

Funtanatman's RS probably.

For me, one of the Strykin brands after going to AVF is Alterman wheels.

Alterman, yeah.

Alterman wheels.

That's Jason.

Top notch.

One half of road reform, yeah.

Some of the wheels he put on.

I think it's a bit exclusive wheel, but it's just a high quality.

Yeah.

Yeah, he hasn't really pushed in huge volumes,

but all the, what I would say, like the big players over there in the,

with their show cars are all swapping to his wheels.

Yeah.

And they're a nice kind of mix of like a motorsport style,

with a more modern trends thrown in.

And I just knew how to design and build a nice set of wheels like.

Go check them out.

If you're looking, you're stuck for ideas for wheels.

I would say if you had a set of those over here,

they'd be very exclusive because yeah, there's not very common.

If Northern Ireland is anything to go by,

Vaman wheels, aren't they very popular?

Anna Speery as well.

Storm.

Sorry, the Storm.

Ah, Storm's another one.

Yeah.

Big, big.

But I'd say that's, for me, and Ashley Maxson was the big one, like.

But as you said, they just exploded.

Because of the motor.

Because of BC coilovers.

BC coilovers in the last 10 years,

they've just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Whereas before, what options had you?

TA Technics, Bilstein, KW.

I think BC have dominated the coilover market.

Yeah, they've been around for most sex, I think it was.

But they're really pushing now.

Like they're really marketing on key, you know.

I checked them out at Dubjet.

Ah, they'll be over.

I feel like a lot of them now, but like, you know, Maxson, for example.

Not so much BC, but even Wales,

it's more about aesthetics than performance.

I, where SE did all.

Tuning and, you know.

Wales and kits.

Then they were sort of derived out of motorsport history, sort of thing.

Same as like AMG were brought in sort of thing.

True.

Good question, Michael.

Well, that's us, folks.

Once again.

That's all folks.

We're actually also.

Yes.

So as I say, we'll see.

Some is at Dubjet.

If not, we'll see you on the next recording.

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EP154 - The Volume of Crisps

Revolut

boot

MDF

Nissan R32

wheel arch

Volkswagen Eos

A4 two liter TDI

Volkswagen Gti

Audi TT

insurance

slalom

missiles mounted

bitumen

potholes

F1

lorry

camouflage paint

Tokyo Auto Salon

kit

F1 race

halo

BMW

remap

diesel

wiper arms

airbag

Autobahn

brake lights

coilovers

first car

30,000 mile engine

Vauxhall

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