A Volkswagen Jetta is a common Volkswagen sedan. Here it’s being used as a “donor” car, meaning it’s stripped for parts to help another restoration project.
The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is the original Golf generation. It’s the older Golf they’re restoring, and parts from the donor car are being used to help finish the project.
Bushings are small parts that help connect metal parts while reducing shaking and noise. They’re often replaced when they wear out, especially in suspension components.
The Dacia Sandero is a small car (a hatchback) meant to be affordable. It’s built for everyday driving and practicality rather than luxury. The episode is mentioning it as a well-liked budget car.
Lane assist is a system that tries to help you stay in your lane by watching the road lines. If it misreads the lane markings, it can feel like the car is fighting you.
Blind-spot monitoring is a feature that warns you if there’s a car in your blind spot. It’s meant to help you notice danger sooner, but you still should look yourself.
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speed limit change alerts
Some cars have systems that notice when the speed limit changes and then beep or ding to warn you. It’s meant to help you stay within the new limit.
A CVT is a transmission that doesn’t shift gears in the usual way. It changes ratio smoothly, so the engine may rev more but the car still speeds up gradually.
The Autobahn is Germany’s highway system, famous for very high-speed driving. The speaker is basically saying they got on the fast road to see how the car handles.
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under restricted section
They’re saying they entered a part of the Autobahn where there are speed limits or rules. So it’s not the “no-limit” style driving.
360 cameras are cameras mounted around the car that combine into one view. It’s especially useful for parking because it shows where the car sits relative to curbs and walls.
Cameras at the front and back help you see where the car is going when visibility is limited. They’re useful for parking and tight maneuvers.
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multi-story car park
A multi-story car park is a parking building with tight spaces and curbs. Cameras and parking aids help you avoid scraping the car when turning into small spots.
“LED lit interior” refers to interior lighting that uses light-emitting diodes, often for ambient lighting and accent strips. LED lighting is popular because it’s efficient, can be color/brightness controlled, and typically lasts a long time.
USB-C is a modern USB connector standard used for charging and data connections. In cars, it’s commonly used to power phones and accessories and may support faster charging than older USB types.
DSC is a computer safety system that helps the car stay stable when the road is slippery or you’re turning hard. If the car starts to slide, it can automatically reduce power and brake individual wheels to help you keep control.
The Jaguar Mark I is an older Jaguar model from the classic era. The podcast is describing a moment where someone saw one in a particular color and noticed it. It’s being mentioned because it’s a recognizable and interesting vintage car.
The BMW 5 Series is a comfortable mid-size sedan made by BMW. The podcast is talking about a specific older version (the E39) in a distinctive green color. It’s mentioned because that particular car sounds especially nice.
The BMW M5 is a fast, sporty version of a BMW 5 Series sedan. People talk about it because it’s built to drive quickly while still being a normal car you can use day to day. The podcast is likely pointing out a particularly nice-looking one.
Air suspension is a suspension system that uses air bags to support the car. It can raise or lower the car’s ride height, and the speaker is building parts to make it fit in their custom project.
For air suspension, a compressor is the pump that makes pressurized air. The speaker is figuring out where to mount it so the system can work reliably.
A valve block is like the control center for the air suspension. It directs air to the suspension bags, and the speaker is mounting it so everything fits and stays stable.
A fiberglass mold is a custom form made with fiberglass so you can shape something to fit a tricky space. They’re using it to make the enclosure work around the wheel well.
The Nissan Skyline is a sports car model from Japan. The podcast mentions the R32, which is a well-known older version that many car fans like. It’s being brought up because that generation is especially memorable.
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prop shelf
A prop shelf is a mounting area that helps support the drivetrain components. They’re talking about removing parts around it to get to the drive shafts.
Drive shafts are the parts that send power from the drivetrain to the wheels. If one is stuck to the hub, it means it’s seized and may need special tools to get it apart.
The hub is the center part the wheel and axle components connect to. If something is stuck to the hub, it usually means it’s corroded or seized and won’t slide off easily.
A conical spacer is a tapered ring that helps parts fit in the right position. If it’s missing, the parts may not line up correctly or may be harder to remove and reinstall.
The Nürburgring 24-hour race is a long endurance event, and qualifying is how teams set up where they start. A big crash during qualifying can delay the event because safety comes first.
The Ford Mustang is a sports car made by Ford. It’s famous for being stylish and fun to drive, and there are many versions from different decades. The conversation sounds like it’s about collecting or showing older Mustangs.
The Nissan GT-R is a very fast sports car made by Nissan. The podcast is talking about limited numbers being sold, which makes it feel more like a collectible than a normal car. That’s why it’s mentioned—rarity and demand are part of the story.
An LSD (limited-slip differential) helps the car put power down when one wheel starts slipping. “Nizmo LSD” here means a tuned or upgraded version of that traction system.
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Forge Pestons
“Forge Pestons” appears to refer to forged pistons—pistons made from forged (high-strength) material rather than cast. Forged pistons are commonly used in turbo builds because they can better tolerate higher boost and cylinder pressures when properly engineered and tuned.
“Bigger turbos” means using larger turbochargers to push more air into the engine. That can make more power, but it usually needs the rest of the setup tuned to match.
V-spec 2 is a Nissan factory performance trim level for certain Skyline GT-R models. Here it’s used as part of a special name that signals extra performance-focused equipment.
RB26 is the name of Nissan’s turbo inline-six engine used in the Skyline GT-R. It’s popular because it’s strong and works well with performance upgrades.
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Broad Arrows Villa Dest
This is the name of the auction venue mentioned for these cars. Where they’re auctioned can affect how the sale works and who can bid.
“Front strut cars” means the front suspension uses struts (shock absorbers built into the suspension). They’re saying this design can trap moisture and lead to rust at the top mounting area where metal layers meet.
Double wishbone suspension is a suspension setup that uses two shaped arms to guide the wheel’s movement. They’re speculating that the suspension geometry—along with the shock angle—might influence where water and corrosion build up.
Here “shock” means the shock absorber that controls how the car moves over bumps. They’re saying the shock’s placement/angle might be related to why certain spots rust badly.
Biodiesel is a type of diesel fuel made from plant-based or waste oils (like used cooking oil). It’s meant to be a greener alternative, but it can be tricky for some modern diesel engines.
TDI is a kind of diesel engine design that uses a turbo and injects fuel directly into the engine. The point here is that these engines can be more sensitive to what fuel you use.
Synthetic rubber is rubber made in factories using chemicals, not collected from trees. The hosts are saying some companies are using cooking oil as a feedstock to help make it.
White wall tires are tires with a white band on the side. Long ago, that look wasn’t only style—people used materials and finishing methods that made the sidewall stay light-colored, so it could be practical as well as flashy.
Rolling resistance is how much energy it takes for a tire to keep rolling. If it’s lower, the car can use less fuel, but it can depend on the tire’s rubber and design.
They’re describing a toilet that’s hidden under the passenger seat and then moves out when you need it. The hosts are questioning whether there’s enough room for a person to use it.
The Rolls-Royce Wraith is a luxury car designed for comfortable, fast long-distance driving. In the podcast, they’re talking about a very old special Rolls-Royce version that included unusual built-in luxury features. It’s being mentioned because it shows how extravagant these cars can be.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is a very high-end luxury car made by Rolls-Royce. The podcast is talking about a special version from the 1950s that reportedly had unusual built-in features like a television. It’s being mentioned because it shows how extravagant some luxury cars could be.
The Silver Wraith is an older Rolls-Royce luxury car. The podcast is describing a special version from the 1950s that reportedly had a built-in television and other luxury features. It’s being mentioned because it’s an example of how extravagant some cars were back then.
Fuel protests are protests about fuel—usually things like prices or access. Here, the hosts say they happened around the same time as the car event and might have disrupted people.
BBS makes aftermarket wheels that are popular with car enthusiasts. “RFs” is a particular wheel design, and the white centers are part of what makes the car look special.
A half cage is a partial metal safety frame inside the car. It’s meant to make the cabin stronger and safer, without going all the way to a full race cage.
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Volkswagen scene
This just means the car community that focuses on Volkswagen cars. The host is saying they usually see VW stuff, so it was cool to see other brands at this event.
The Mini Classic is a small car that’s meant to look and feel like the original Mini. The podcast is joking that it’s very small and can feel a bit intense to drive. It’s being mentioned because it’s a classic-style Mini in a modern form.
The Opel Manta is a sporty-looking two-door car made by Opel. The podcast sounds like it’s about someone really liking these cars and remembering them fondly. It’s being mentioned because it’s a standout model to them.
“Dry carbon” refers to carbon-fiber body panels made with a specific manufacturing method. They’re talking about a carbon-fiber front end that’s meant to look impressive, not just be practical.
“Carbon bits” means carbon-fiber parts, usually used to make the car look more special. They’re arguing about whether it should look matte (“dry”) or shiny (“glossy”).
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rigger kit
A “body kit” is aftermarket bodywork that changes the look of a car—like bumpers and side skirts. They’re saying this Mercedes had one of those kits installed.
This is a Volkswagen Passat from the B5 generation, and “B5 and a half” means the facelifted version. They’re describing a heavily customized show car version of it.
Coilovers are suspension parts that let you adjust how high or low the car sits. They’re commonly used to improve handling and give a more aggressive stance.
An engine swap means putting a different engine into the car than it originally came with. It’s usually done for power, sound, or to match a specific build goal.
A “bagged” car uses air suspension. That means the car can be lowered a lot for looks and then raised again when needed.
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car scene camaraderie at big shows
They’re talking about how car enthusiasts help each other out at big car events. If a car breaks or has a problem, other people jump in to fix it so the show can still happen.
A drift event is a car event where people practice sliding the car around corners on purpose. Because the tires get worked hard, getting the tires mounted correctly is really important.
A limited-slip differential helps the car put power down when one wheel starts to spin. It’s basically a traction helper so you don’t lose grip as easily.
Torque specs are the exact tightness a bolt is supposed to be. Tighten it too little and parts can loosen; too much and you can damage threads.
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dealer level stuff
“Dealer level” refers to information typically found in manufacturer service documentation—procedures, specifications, and diagnostic guidance used by authorized dealerships. It’s a way of saying the manual is more detailed than a basic owner’s guide.
Service intervals are the planned schedule for when you should do certain checks or maintenance. The hosts are saying the guide lists exactly how often to inspect things.
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door straps
Door straps are support pieces that help keep the door positioned correctly. The hosts are saying the checklist includes checking them because they can affect whether the door sags.
Door hinges are the parts that let the door swing open and closed. If they wear out or loosen, the door can start to sag, so the guide tells you to check them.
“Car of the show” is the top award at a car event. The hosts explain that they narrowed down a shortlist and then inspected the cars carefully to find issues before choosing the winner.
A restomod is an old car that’s been rebuilt with modern upgrades. It keeps the classic vibe, but aims to drive and behave better than the original.
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decade mode
“Decade mode” sounds like a joke about being extra picky during inspection—like you’re thinking about what might go wrong over years of ownership. Their point is that no car is perfect, even very expensive ones.
Supercharged means there’s a device added to force extra air into the engine. More air usually means more power, but it has to be set up and tuned correctly.
Engine mounts are the parts that hold the engine to the car. They also help reduce vibration, and in this case the host is saying the mounting points may not match exactly, so the swap may need custom work.
The Rolls-Royce Ghost is a luxury car, specifically a high-end sedan. The podcast is mentioning it in connection with certified professionals who do specialized work on these vehicles. That usually means the car is being used for premium, custom services.
These are two modern theft methods. Key cloning copies the key’s signal, and relay theft uses devices to “extend” the key signal so the car unlocks as if the real key is close.
A ghost immobilizer is an anti-theft system that stops the car from starting unless the correct authorization is present. It’s meant to make stolen-key attempts fail.
The Range Rover is a luxury SUV, meaning it’s built to be comfortable while still being able to handle rough roads. People often talk about it because it’s a high-end vehicle that needs proper care. The episode seems focused on how to keep it in good shape.
When enthusiasts say “huge brakes,” they usually mean oversized brake components (often larger rotors and/or multi-piston calipers) installed for stronger stopping power and better heat handling. In show builds, it also highlights the visual “big brake” look behind the wheels.
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sheave bay
They’re talking about the engine bay area being customized for show. The car’s hood comes off so people can see the work.
“Fixed buckets” are racing-style seats that don’t adjust like normal seats. They’re bolted in more firmly for support and a track/show look.
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air install
“Air install” usually means using air suspension to change how low the car sits. They’re saying this car’s low stance isn’t done with that kind of setup.
They’re talking about carbon fiber parts. Carbon fiber is a lightweight material that’s often used to make a car look more high-end and sometimes improve weight.
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carbon skinned
“Carbon skinned” means adding a carbon-fiber cover to a part for the look. It’s usually more about style than changing the whole component.
“Retrim” means redoing the inside surfaces with new material, like leather or suede-like fabric. They’re saying the build is paying homage to that earlier trend.
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engine covered
They’re describing the engine area being “dressed up” with covers or panels. It’s usually done so the bay looks clean and intentional for shows.
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new intakes
“Intakes” are parts that let air into the engine. Changing them can affect how the car breathes and sometimes the sound and look of the engine bay.
A “battery gauge” is a little display that tells you what the battery is doing, like voltage or charging status. It’s both useful and can look cool in a custom dash.
Hydraulic suspension uses fluid-powered parts to move the car’s suspension. It can let the car change height quickly, which is popular for show builds.
“Period-correct” means the changes look like they belong to the car’s original time period. Instead of modern stuff, they use parts and styling that fit the era.
A project car is a car you’re working on and improving over time. It usually takes longer than people expect, so it often feels like it’s never truly “done.”
Concept
W7
W7 here sounds like the name of a show or series. It doesn’t seem to refer to a specific car or car part in this segment.
The Chevrolet Nova is an older American car model. In the podcast, it sounds like one specific Nova didn’t survive and ended up scrapped. That’s why it’s being brought up—older cars can be lost over time.
Term
VR
“VR” is shorthand for a Volkswagen engine type called the VR6. It’s a special engine layout that helps fit a V6-style design into a smaller engine bay.
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Hi, folks, and welcome back to another episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Connor McCann
and joining me is Lee Maxwell and we are worth out Nigel Lamont. Yes, sadly. So our schedules
post dub shed, as you can see, we are way behind on recording and all of our schedules have been
absolutely insane this last while. Yes. With a bit of burnout after dub shed, then I don't know what,
why everything just sort of fell apart. Work and life and just the usual stuff. Well, I've
been in Germany for a week. I'm back for a day. I'm going again tomorrow for another week.
You've been away Nigel had something else on. It was just absolutely mental. Yeah. So yeah,
it's been long overdue this one. Post dub shed will have a bit of chat and catch up and although
literally dub shed feels like a million years ago. It'll be nice to sort of round it out with a bit
of a recap. I did actually have quite a few messages about where the fuck is the podcast,
which was nice. We're sorry. No, we're not. I'm certainly not because I am obviously exhausted.
People can wait. Not very long, but they can wait. What are we? We basically missed one, did we?
Yeah, we're like a full episode behind this. So yeah, we'll just jump straight in and see what's
new easily. What have you got to crying? No, not much. Dub shed happened. Okay. And then
hibernation happened. That was it. Well correlated. I haven't really done very much
since probably the week of dub shed. So yeah, I sold the roof of my donor Jetta you did last
night. So that was cool. It's off to help a mark one golf having a full restoration. Yes, it is.
And I got a few new tools. What do you get? I got that you know that cup set that I bought for
taking bearings and stuff out. Oh, yeah. But from watching my new favorite man in the world,
humble mechanic. He recommends them for taking like bushings and stuff out of arms. So I'm going
to give that a try. See how that goes. It's kind of like all tools. They all have multiple purposes.
If you think about it hard enough, it's just unlocking the secrets that they hold.
We got a couple more hammers. I've seems to be a theme recently up and playing a load of hammers.
We've acquired two new rubber mallets now as well. So that's pretty cool.
Apart from that, oh, let's talk about my hard car that I had the other day.
What do you have?
Dacia Sandero, the top gear favorite, certainly not Lee Maxwell's favorite. Oh my goodness, it was
poor small cheap motoring. I get it. I was going to say it's not really it's not
promising you anything I have to say. No. One thing I will say for it,
the aircon was actually surprisingly good because it was quite warm when I was away.
But it was just, you know, cars have to have all these features now and especially not to be in
any way disparaging, but generally in the cheaper cars, those features do not work as well.
And but it's like buying a cheap phone. Yeah, you know, things don't work as well apps don't
work as well. Everything's a little bit slower. They're just not they're cut and
cost where they can and they'll meet the bare minimum requirements, but it doesn't mean that
when you hire one, it doesn't annoy you. Yeah. In particular, the Leon assist, I find very
a intrusive. I don't like it anyway. But even in cars where it works well, I don't like it.
But this one, you just felt like it was pulling you all over the road.
And at one point it got very confused. I was on a kind of dual carriageway that came down into one
lane. So the two lanes kind of merged on the left hand side of the lane. There was a kind of hatched
mark as the lane got narrower and then it went to one lane and that totally freaked it out.
And it started like pulling me all over the place and it turned off the radio and like
beeped at me and said, keep control. And I was like, I'm perfectly in control. It is you
little car who is out of control. Well, that's, uh, yeah, I can't say I'm surprised with stuff like
that. You know, to me, I'm not a big fan of Leon assist. No, what I do really like is actually
genuine modern cars because visibility is generally quite crap out of them that we
lights it light up on the mirrors that we amber light for somebody in your blind spots.
I agree. I quite like that. Yeah. Um, it's obviously no replacement for looking over your
shoulder, but it is nice. Yeah. And it just makes you aware that there is somebody there
even before you're looking. And the other thing that just annoyed me in general about it was
it just, it kept beeping. Every time it did anything, there was a beep involved. It kept
beeping at me. I think when I first got into it, I couldn't figure out what the beeps were. And you
went in your own car, you on, you know what the beeps mean, it beeps to tell you you're low on
fuel or it beeps to say the temperature is low or whatever. Um, but this thing just kept beeping,
but like nothing came up on the screen or nothing. So it was just beeping for as far as I could tell
no apparent reason. I think I figured out in the end that every time you went from a different
speed limit into another, so you'd say you went from a 30 into a 40, it would beep to kind of
let you know that the speed limit had changed. I don't mind that. No, well, just obviously in
the particular area where I was, the speed limit changed a lot. So it was just beeping
a lot and I didn't like it. When you say beeping, is it more like a soft ding? It's a bleep.
It's a ding. It's not a soft ding. Well, maybe it wasn't my car. It's an annoying beep. So I had
a slightly more positive hire car experience than you had. Um, I had a hire car that was named after
the 90s singer Seidel. Arf Arf. Arf Arf, built by Chinese Communist Party, BYD. So I got to
flew to Germany, lifted the hire car and could chat into the guy. I actually got held hostage by
the guy that gave us who seen my Volkswagen GTI generation T-shirt and proceeded to, at this
point, I've been traveling for seven hours on a Sunday and I just wanted to get to the hotel.
And I spent 25 minutes with this gentleman showing him my cars on Instagram, your cars on
Instagram, what we do. And I was like, this would be a great conversation if I wasn't absolutely
destroyed here. But he sort of made it with a free upgrade. And he says to me, you can have this
Renault blah, blah, blah, or a BYD Seidel. And I was like, is the Renault gas? And he says no,
or he says they both are. And he was like, right, because I assumed all the Seidel's were electric.
I automatically assumed all BYDs were full electric. I'd show so much. I know.
Same here. So I was like, you know what, give me the BYD. I want to try this out.
When am I going to get the opportunity, probably again, to try it. So it was like, right, fuck it.
And off I went. Typical, I'm not a great car reviewer in that most of my stuff I drive is 25
years old. And if you put me into a Mark sex golf, I think I'm in the future. But it had the
typical big screen in the center, which do you know what I don't like, but they're all there
now. So it's just what you deal with. It had the usual negatives of if you want to adjust the
arc on and things that got it's in the screen. So I mean, I'm driving in Germany for the first time,
maybe the first time ever in Germany. Now that I think about it, it was the first time in years,
but I don't think I drove and we all went to war Thursday. I don't know where I'm going, never
been here before. You know, left hand drive, I'm fine with because America. But
I need to know where I'm going. But I also want to adjust the air con. So I have to go
have to wait to a section where I'm on the sat nav telling me go straight for X miles. Yeah. So
if you've got like, you know, turning five kilometers, okay, I reckon I've got time to
turn my air con down here. Another negative was it's a CVT gearbox. So there's no gears
and it works like a great graduated. How do you describe a cone system?
So the car ends up revving quite a lot. And you never hear it change gear, but it gradually
picks up speed as the gearbox adjusts itself. The thing revved his head off all the time,
which I was like in a hybrid where the whole point of this of trying to see a fuel stuff
didn't really make sense. But I got out onto the Autobahn and got onto the under restricted
section. And I thought right time to do Autobahn things. And I was like, right, this thing's
going to get fucking emptied. And I just booted it in the outside lane. And again, from what
kilometers from 100 kilometers an hour, so I'm sorry, 100 kilometers an hour, which is about
60 miles per hour. It was screaming its head off. And I was like, okay, CVT things, it's
going to stay there for a while. I was picking up speed. I got 170 kilometers an hour, which is
only about 105 or 10 miles an hour. And I was like, this thing's gonna blow up. It didn't sound
nice. And I was like, you know what, I don't need this on my plate at the minute. This is a business
trip. I will behave myself. I'm backed off. It was a bit annoying. But other than those things,
like, if you get into that and drive that like my mother, that would be a good car. Yeah. It's
white goods. It takes you from place to place. But it had heated seats or condition seats,
heated steering wheel. It actually had a mode that I thought was quite good for a higher car.
Because do you know these modern cars now you select reverse and they've got 360 cameras.
And it shows you the whole image around the car. You can do that while you drive.
So you hit the button on your wheel. It doesn't have to be in reverse. You can hit the button on
the wheel on the screen. Then it'll swap to 360 of the car and then a front camera and a rear
camera beside it. But what I found it was, do you know when you go into a multi-story car park
or any car park and at the entrance, the tight turns, the big high curbs. Yes. And it's really
tight and I'm on a car. I'm sitting on the wrong side of the car in a much bigger car than I'm used
to. Can't get the visibility. I'm still trying to get the hang of it going into these three tight
spots. So what I was able to do was hit the button on the wheel and I could crawl around it like
two or three miles an hour. And the full 360 showed me where I was in relation to the curbs.
Because in a hard car, you touch a wheel, it's going to be expensive.
So that was quite good. That was a good point, yeah. I actually really, really liked that.
Now, somebody will do that when they're driving down the road. But again, try to be responsible.
Full leather with black with like tail stitch, which was actually really nice.
LED lit interior, lots of USB-C, charging points, two-in wireless chargers,
Android Auto, all the usual stuff you get in modern cars on a really nice like
pearl metallic white paint. And now you buy that car, what's it like reliability in 10 years time?
What's it like to get spurs? Who knows? Yeah. But to buy off the four-court and drive,
I can't really fault it. I think I did about a hundred miles in total or just over.
And I mean, most of that was well above our speed limits, say on the Autobahn,
and then around town every day. And then back up the Autobahn. And I think I put 12 liters in it,
which equated to about 46, 45, 46 miles per gallon, which in a hybrid, big car,
me hammering it, it's great. You know, like 46 miles per gallon in a petrol that size and
I thought was actually really good. So yeah, honestly, I was glad that I got it.
Would I want to own it? Probably not. What I wanted as my next hire car again? Yeah,
certainly. Yeah. Like I struggle to see what I'm going to get this week that will better,
to be honest. Here's another thing about the DSC that it didn't like loads of buttons on the steering
wheel. None of them were to control the volume of the stereo. Here's the thing, that should
that should be the only buttons on the steering wheel. I don't know if this the American listeners
can probably tell us. I don't know if this is a left hand drive versus right hand drive thing
or not, right? So you have a car with steering wheel controls. Yes. Which hand do you adjust the
radio with on the steering wheel? The left. Yeah. The SC was on the right. The BYD. Or sorry,
the BYD was on the right. And I don't know if that's the Americans or the same left hand drive.
I'm trying to think back to the hire cars I've had over there and I can't think. Yeah. But every
time I went to do it, I ended up flicking through a menu in the dash because it was like, oh,
shit, no, the wrong one. Wrong hand. Surprisingly, couldn't fault it again.
But then these negative things I'm saying about it and saying what's it going to be like in 10
years and getting parts and reliability and blah, blah, blah. That applies to Volkswagen,
it applies to Renault, it applies to Citroen. It's they're all the same. Like what? Well,
like going around like what what cars are good these days? What cars are built as well as the
old cars? Not. Yeah. And that's the sad reality of it. I'm in touch with my superb is quite superb.
Your superb is 10 year old do? Yeah. You know, it's a it's a different generation. But I consider
it to be a modern car still. What else have I been up to then? Oh yeah, when I was in Germany,
I was on my way back up and it was flying home on Friday, which was the first of May, which is
I think in Germany, they call it workers day. It's like May day, obviously in Labor Day. And
so they take the Friday off and there just seem to be cars everywhere. So I don't know if it was
like people taking like if it was random or if it was to do with the day off and then we're going
out in their fun cars. I seen what was probably a line of about 13 or 14 Porsches on the Autobahn
came in. I don't know if they were heading for the ring because one of them had like, you know,
drive experience up the side of it and so forth. It was just a random drive out. It was quite cool
to see. And then I don't know why I was looking at them. I happened to glance over at the Farley
and in the opposite direction. And I don't really know why I did, but just in time to see
a Mark I jet a coupe in an RA Silver and I was like, that's the fucking shit there in the homeland.
Um, yeah, I seen quite a lot of Porsches and older Germany is funny because you have so much
modern cars, like so so much modern stuff, but you also have a lot of the older stuff still on
the road. And it's obviously well looked after to pass the tooth and stuff like that. It was W124
Mercs and stuff that was like daily driven by what looked to be like old people that had them for
probably for years. It was a beautiful E39 five series and like a bottle green metallic
with it was probably like a poverty spec because it had like the orange top back lights and stuff
and I was like, that's that's so nice. That's cool. M5 and that color with the orange top indicators
would be nice would be sweet. And then back home, I was doing a little bit of work to the Mark II.
I've got months to get another video out edited when I was away, but I've started to work on
the air suspension for the centerpiece. Yeah. So somewhere for my compressor and valve block
to live. So I built a box out of MDF started with cardboard templates. The problem was the box
itself is not well, the spare wheel well is not central in the car, which created a lot of problems.
So I can hear the noise that's happening in your brand. What is the noise?
I mean, when you're trying to build something symmetrical, it's quite
so I to get around that end to make the box. Obviously if the box was in the center,
the wheel well side is going to cut into it. So to allow that I ended up making like a fiberglass
mold of it. I made the box around it, sealed it all up. Lots of fiberglass and lots of sand and
lots of filler all on what was the hottest week of the year here. Yeah, it was brutal. I was just
destroyed doing it. Got it in. Then I made like a floating mount for the valve block to sit on.
And then I had a clock with my compressor to let throw it on the side to make everything fit in.
So if you see the video, you'll understand, but it's coming together nicely. Yeah.
I was hoping to get at it this weekend, but no such luck because
short, short, short weekend for me. But yeah, it'll be nice to push on with that. I would say
another one or two videos will have that part sorted. Then I need to work on the other side,
which will be like the opposite of the sub box with a false door and stuff like that. So that'll
be nice. But that was fun. It was fun to work away on it. I have a few ideas for
lighting and storage and stuff that were nice to come together. Oh, shout out to Elliot as well,
aka the boss. PVW, he put a feature in the, it's like their new, your new product section
for the podcast as well. Oh, that's right. He did. Yeah. So that was nice to see for the episode
that he had done with us. So if you are new to us and somehow haven't heard that, you should really
check it out. That's me though for new with me as much as I've been up to that I can actually
remember. What about yourself? Is that you? Yeah, I think so. I can't remember where I got up to
talking about with the R32. Kind of the bit that I'm stalled at at the minute is
you're obviously working on your stuff. I need help to take some of the big stuff out of the
fuel tank and the prop shelf and stuff. I can't do that on my own. And even the some of the stuff
that I was hoping to be able to do on my own. One of the drive shafts is like welded in to the hub,
but it fucking won't come out. You need the air hammer almost. I need the air hammer. And
that's one of the rears. And then one of the front ones, and I haven't really tried smacking it
a lot with the hammer, but it's the one that's missing that kind of conical spacer that we were
talking about. So it might be the same. So I'm kind of stuck for a bit until I can get those
sorted and start taking the rest of the stuff out. So yeah, that's kind of where I am at.
I would say a good afternoon, your car would push you with those wee blocks, you know, and just
you get stepping or something with our hammer and just bang them out on them. There you go,
you're done sort of thing. And you can kind of break a lot of that back end stuff down into wee
tasks, which is nice at that point. Yeah, I want to get the and get the arms and stuff taken out
so I can get them sent off for blasting and recoding. Exactly. Nice. What about news then?
What have you got outside of yourself? Only a couple of bits. Did you hear there was a crash at the
24 hour Nurburgring qualifying? I think it was last week. I did not. So unfortunately,
one of the drivers died. It's like a seven car crash. So obviously the qualifying was postponed.
I think the 24 hour Nurburgring might be next week or the week after this was some of the one
of the qualifying sessions for it. So sorry, I didn't see this. That was a couple of weeks back.
It was an older fellow that died. Yeah, I yes, I did see it. He was driving a BMW if I remember
it. Potentially. So yeah, sad to see that. I hate to hear that. It's brutal. It sort of
calls into mind just how dangerous motorsport actually is as well. It's easy to sit there and
criticize and say this, that or the other, but when you're watching racing, but when you're there,
it's a very, very different thing. I have a little one from a good friend, Nijel. He is running his
cars and coffee. So 29th of May, Second Comber Presbyterian Church once again. Six or sorry,
630 to nine open to all cars. And there is a charity, which I'm sure Nijel will tell you
about in the next one because I can't pronounce how it's spelled. So thank you very much. But yes,
all proceeds go to charity. He has put on their suggested donation, minimum five pounds, which
is absolutely nothing. So stick your hand in your pocket. It's actually a great evening.
If you want your washing done, put it out that day because somehow Nijel manages to get the best
weather for that event every bloody time. Very true. It's one of those wee events as well that pulls
random cars out and the most weird and wonderful and you will have stuff from like
Concourse 60s Mustang through to My Stupid Mark II Golf and then
everything in between. Like it's class. It's the most random thing. It's so good.
Decent feed and stuff out of it as well. So the Presbyterian Tribute. So that's 29th of May,
Second Comber Presbyterian Church, 630 to nine. So I look forward to that now.
There is somebody doesn't actually I don't think it says in this article who this somebody is,
but they're selling a collection of five or 34 GTRs or 35. Okay, right.
Adding down to them standard special edition. Yes. I was wondering because they're not that old
of a car. I suppose they're nearly 20 year old, but like 34s or 30 34 or 34. Five of them. Ah,
Nizmo LSD, Forge Pestons, 27,000 miles. That thing is just in time for needing
the front start cars replaced. Skylines are absolutely wild for that.
Dino'd in May 23 confirmed at 690 horsepower. Nice. There's two 2001 cars at Bayside Blue
and a Silica Brass M spec. I can't think what Silica Brass looks like now.
I know the other two colors, Bayside and Midnight Purple are the sort of yellow colors
a lot of bit, and then obviously even Millennium G in two. One of the money has 6,700 miles
and one of only 14 cars ever fitted with Nizmo's S tune. That's the Bayside Blue.
Oh, Silica Brass is nice. Like a light bronze color. It's like Millennium G if you took the green
out of it. Like the greeny tinge. 2002 model was the final year of the R34s. So they
let's launch a V-spec 2 Nur. Oh, that's a big money car. The modified RB26, bigger turbos,
stiffer suspension and a gold plated engine cover. This one here is Millennium G.
That's a very expensive car. Just over 18,000 miles on the clock.
And the last one is a 2002 Clubman race spec. Started life as an M-spec, but modified or
rested and modded by Nizmo. And yeah, lots of goodies on it too. F-sport or engine,
500 horsepower, raise alloys, carbon bonnet.
Do you say these are being auctioned? Yes. Are they being auctioned as a group?
It seems to suggest that you can buy them separately, but...
I was going to say because like there's no way those, well, depending on where they are
being sold from, i.e. which country and where they're being sold to as in which country,
like you're going to be touching probably a hundred grand a car there.
Yeah. Well, the collection is currently in the UK. So someone in the UK has owned it.
It says that it's being, they've been auctioned at Broad Arrows Villa Dest.
I have no idea where that is. Sounds French, but who knows.
Potentially somewhere in England.
I'd be surprised if some of them don't go to the US.
Yeah. I'd be very surprised.
I would think some of them. The spec of those, the low miles, you know.
It'd be pretty cool if they went as a set though, wouldn't it?
Fucking need some money though. Those are five of them.
I have a million pounds for rusty skylines.
I don't know. Does anybody put the pictures? They don't look rusty.
They probably, to be honest with you, the miles have probably done nothing anyway.
But skylines are really, really bad for rotten front stock cars.
Like Mark IIIs?
No, 10 times worse. And it seems to be R34s.
I don't know a whole lot about R34 skylines, but I know that they're really bad for that.
And I don't know if they're overly bad anywhere else in particular,
but the front strut cars look good. There's a crowd I follow.
Are they kind of like tilted in? Is that am I thinking of this right?
Do you mean as in if you were looking from the front of the car, the strut cars
point towards the middle?
I kind of, yeah. It's a very job car thing.
I think it's to do with the double westbound suspension and the angle of the shock.
But there seems to be like two or three layers at the top where the
sheet metal is and they rot sort of in between and you'd like unpack them.
I've seen a few people doing like restoration work on them
and it looks rough. Like it looks when you get in there, it's like,
do you ever see when you take a little looks like a fresh panel off and you take it off
and behind it is just brown shit. Yeah.
So at least it was probably aren't like that if that's the case.
No, hopefully not. To be honest, I don't know that much about R34s either other than
I just know I like them.
Ah, they're your Skyline, I think, aren't they?
Yeah. Another one then I have here is, so a good few years back,
there was a big trend with biodiesel basically taking used cooking oil,
making them to diesel for road vehicles and sent the manufacturers into meltdown because
they weren't developing their cars to run on this. No.
And with the how fickle modern TDIs are, it wasn't great.
So never ending struggle to find a use for waste oil.
The manufacturers have come up with the way to use it entire.
So continental are using it to make synthetic rubber.
Use cooking oil. Okay.
So it probably in place of using royal or whatever their stage of oil they're getting
to do it. So yeah, it's probably a way of using that. They look good in their points, you know.
So what is synthetic rubber made from now? I wonder.
Not cooking oil.
Because natural rubber obviously comes from a tree.
Aye. But then tires haven't been natural rubber for a long, long time.
So your natural rubber is actually white.
Long, long time.
A long, long time.
Not a long time, aye.
Natural rubber is white.
Yeah.
So that's actually why you had white wall tires back in the day.
Was that Michelin man's white?
Correct. They died the tread black so it didn't leave white marks on the road,
which is so the wall was the natural parking.
Yeah.
People think white wall tires are just a fancy thing.
Fancy thing, but yeah, there was an actual practical side of it.
So it says many raw materials, including steel, textiles, carbon, black and silica go into the
making of tires. Rubber, of course, forms a large proportion of that in continental cases,
much as 40% by weight. Probably if you're buying cheap Chinese dirt, it's more plastic than rubber.
A hundred or so raw materials are used in the making of 20 different types of rubber and other
things. And the type of rubber used in any specific tire depends on the kind of use that it's going
to get. So this leads me to wonder if you burn out with these tires, does it smell like chips?
Because do you remember you used to get that with?
If you smelled a van or something going past, you could smell the...
Diode diesel.
Aye. It does a bloody rod and like, but yeah, it'd be interesting.
Do what. It's good to see if they can get rid of shite like that.
Go for it, you know, as long as it doesn't affect performance of tires
and they can get their bit out of it. Why would you not?
Yeah.
You might as well do something for the environment.
You any more?
No, I am out.
Well, I have a last one.
What do you got?
That ironically might come in handy for me or others. Maybe staff it.
I know where this is going.
Chinese car manufacturer series, series, S-E-R-E-S, let's call it,
have been granted a patent for an in-vehicle toilet.
You're talking shite, which is voice activated and slides out from under the passenger seat.
I'm struggling to get my head around how this works.
Like, so what I'm picturing is you hit the button. Sorry.
You say, go, go guys, it's shite and the toilet seat comes out from under the passenger seat,
presumably into the foot well, because that's the only space there is.
Yeah.
How do you get your arse into the foot well to use the toilet? Is there a picture to this?
Yeah.
So what do you do with your legs?
What are you going to do with these legs?
Charlie Murphy. So as predicted, yes, it slides out from under the seat into the foot well.
I don't know if you focus, but there's not a whole lot of vertical space between the
heads of the front of the passenger seat and the dash. My arse would not fit there.
And even if it did, where do your legs go? Where do your body go?
It wouldn't be the most dignified of shites, I'll have to say.
No.
This. And when not in use, the toilet is concealed beneath the seat, which won't smell at all.
No.
Making full use of the space inside a car without requiring more room.
As a man who's tried to put amplifiers and everything under seats over the years,
especially modern stuff that has motors in them,
I don't have much faith in that being a particularly large or comfortable toilet.
No. Waste is collected in a tank that has to be emptied manually.
Nice.
It also features a rotating heating element that evaporates urine and dries other waste.
So there's a lot of percent of reference over a hedge.
Apparently it comes with a fan and exhaust to channel odours out of the car.
It would need to. Don't get me wrong. Look, these people are building cars,
they're smarter than I am. They're going to have solutions for something, but it don't.
My heart isn't in it.
No. They haven't announced any cars that have toilets in them,
and it's uncertain if they will actually make them, but they have a patent.
So.
Think of public toilets and think of people, how do people leave them?
Yeah.
I've been in some houses.
People are gross.
People leave their own toilets in a state. What's that going to be like in the car?
Anyone who works in a communal workspace with other people will know.
How people are.
Yeah.
I've worked on built-in sites and I've worked in offices, and I would say office people are
generally worse than them. What people would presume builders would be.
Apparently, this is not new. In the 1950s, a special edition of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith
included an in-built television and a toilet underneath the passenger seat, according to
Sotheby's.
Jeeves, pull over. One needs a shed. I've seen them with the clip-on,
they're like two bars and stuff like that, like a toilet seat and a bag below it or whatever,
which is a little bit, it's basically a bit more dignified than squatting behind the hedge.
You know, which you gotta go, you gotta go. It's not my thing, but like camper vans and caravans
and stuff basically have a little toilet where you're just pooping in a cupboard.
Yes, those people are disgusting as well, but
take a camper van, for example. You go for a crap. It's way back there.
It's in a sealed room. This is a toilet
two foot from your leg as you drive, sloshing around that you just
crapped in and tried not to shite all over the floor or dash or any other soft material in the
vehicle. Yes. No, it doesn't sit well with me. I mean, it's still better than a plastic bag,
you gotta say. No, I would go outside. I'm not a man for going outside, but I would go outside
before I do that. That's that's all I'll say on that. Okay. They can ironically stick that up
or ours. Yeah. Okay. A bit of a double shed recap then. Yes. Okay. So we'll start off
because I know there's a lot of people listening that didn't make it to double shed. A lot of
people did, obviously, and it was great to see everybody. One big thing that we're supposed
to happen really get talking about because we haven't been on there is the fuel protests that
happened mostly in the south of Northern Ireland and fucked about out of the bit and
did the usual thing of monkey see monkey do and didn't really do anything. Like there was no
structure to it or whatever. But like fuel protests happened quite literally double shed weekend. We
have we're in the north. We have a lot of customers and people who attend both traders and show cars
from the south. And it seemed to be hit and miss whether it affected people, but it definitely
affected people. Yeah. So yes, genuinely, anybody who made their way up, I appreciate it because
that's not easy and really was not easy. I had an absolute cracker weekend. I had to save myself.
It was long and tiring, but it was good fun. What are we trophies would be a nice talking point to
start with? So this year was 50th anniversary of the Gulf GTI. And the trophies were based around
that theme. So we'll post a few photos these but the best way to describe them was a flat base
with a gear knob coming up out of it. Yeah. And a symbol on the tops of the flat base
was made up like a honeycomb structure which sort of knotted towards the
mark seven market era GTIs within the honeycomb. If you look down the ways was laser engraved
the GTI logo and it was laid out in stripes like the original mark one fabric. Yeah. Then there was
a plaque which had double shed 2026, you know, top 40, whatever numbered out one to 40. And that was
a nod towards like the mark five, mark six, sorry, mark four, mark five anniversary style
plaques you get in the anniversary cars. The gear knob itself then was the mark three anniversary
gear knob and then the little detail on the top of it. So there's loads of like we nods towards
there was even within the pattern, the laser engraved pattern. There was little various
different logos and like the little rabbit logo and stuff which was quite cool. I thought because
we had talked to Brian about that when he was designing and I'd showed him the one on my leg
and then he dropped them down was like, Oh, did you see that we Easter egg? And I was like,
I did. Yeah, just to be nod to it. So it's quite cool. Yeah, I really liked those trophies and
Brian did an absolute great job was always like,
what else do we have then? Someone we could talk about some of the cars we had. Yeah. Again,
WJ had all makeshow draws in a lot of weird and wonderful stuff.
I had a few weird. So I always everybody knows I'm very German and especially Volkswagen focused.
And if I start with them, some of my favorites, we had Martin Gibbons white window coupe.
Which look absolutely stunning. The orange centered RSs, it had real like
15 to 20 years ago vibes about it. I just really liked seeing that. And sitting beside obviously
his wife, Denise's Mark two coupe is quite cool. That and another one, which this car's been around
for a long, long time. That's one of those cars I've always liked, but I always thought it got
a little bit overlooked simply because of the color of it being black. Black cars lose a lot
of detail and things like that. And it was Paddy's green Mark four. Yeah. Now how you could overlook
that car with the massive spoiler and the cream engine bay and the stance and the sheave bay.
But yes, I know, I still know what you mean. Black cars sometimes are
it's difficult to see the detail in them. Yeah. And it was wrapped like, I don't know how you
describe it, like a dark metallic green. Kind of not quite bottle green, emerald-y type green.
But like the metallic was nearly green through. It's like when it, it looked really dark until
the light hit it and it was genuinely stunning. And I think there was so many people, I think he
had people had said to him, and then I heard people send to me or when I mentioned to people
said how much I'm not a rap guy. Usually I drive a rap car. I don't normally like them,
but it was well done. And it's what that car needed. It just, it just took a turn on their level.
So Paddy, I know you're listening, paint that car green. Like, it's so cool. But yeah, it's funny
how it's like jeans to a car that has been around for years and a high end car can do such a world
of difference to it. But it looked absolutely fantastic. And of course, back double prize.
Jumping over into the other, what we effectively know is the other hall.
The other hall. The, the Logan hall.
It's our hall. Weird and wonderful. Ford popular.
Yep. Tiny, I want to say 60s car, Ford. Very small, beautiful car, super lights on it.
What was obviously a custom interior, but it looked old school.
Yes. But I mean, it was custom top to bottom. Absolutely beautiful. Like square weave carpet,
leather retrim. And one of those cars that I don't know a whole lot about, but I looked at it
and went, that is so nice. Like that's a proper car. And then the next day, the bonnet was up,
and I happened to walk past and there was a Sierra Cosworth engine in it. And I was like,
oh, shit. That is like the ultimate sleeper. This thing's like half the length of a Cosworth.
And it didn't. It was like a, what I would call a semi-shaved bay. Yeah. You know,
everything was tidied. I'm probably tidied because you need to move things out of the way of
the engine and turbo that's going in, but it also didn't look shoehorned in. It looked
proportional. That car was absolutely stunning. It was one that kept standing out to me.
Another one was a Scottish car that came over. Was it we read Corsa? I think it's a Corsa D
with white centered BBS RFs with tartan trimmed interior and a half cage. That car was so cool.
And it was just, and then I got chatting to the guy when we were parking him up and he was saying
that that was his first car from 11 years ago. And he had just kept it and modified it. And
that was his now a short car. I was like, that's really cool. And then two other cars that I didn't
know a whole lot about didn't never met the owners, parked them up and just away again. But it
kept catching my eye and the right beside each other was a white FCRX7 and a white
3000 GT. That's a bushy. Yeah, both. They looked like I'm going to show my ignorance with job
wheels, but like the workmeisters, the five spokes, they look kind of like that and both cars were
quite low. The 3000 GT, I would have said, would have described it more astanced, you know, and it
sat so good. And I was like, fuck, there's two cars I wouldn't have expected to see this weekend.
Yeah. And I'm like, those are really, really nice.
That's because we're so heavily in the Volkswagen scene.
You don't get to see a lot of that stuff. Yeah. Until dub shed. And then that's why I like when
we park that hall, we're like, you to see all the weird and wonderful stuff. And it's like,
that's cool. And I like talking to people with cars that I know nothing about because I'm like,
tell me about it. I want to know, you know, go into the nerdy details like, so it's pretty cool.
What about yourself? You any particular favorites? The many, many,
anyone who saw that? What a fun little car that was like incredibly well built.
A lot of it was like shorty minis and we cars, I got our novelty builds and they tend to be like,
oh, that's cool. Then you look at them, they're a little bit of rough. Yeah. That car was
no far from it. Like the underside was done, the bay was done, the interior was done.
And it was like, I don't know how you would describe it, like somebody just basically cut
a mini in half and shortened it by what three or four foot. Yeah. It's like,
if you thought a classic mini wasn't dangerous enough or small enough, this is the guy for you.
And it was quite funny because there was a modern mini, like a R 53 shaped mini,
then a standard ish classic mini, and then this all together. Yeah, quite close together.
So you could look around at them. Yeah, that was really cool.
There were two opal mantas, which I absolutely loved. They're weren't quite different. 400.
One was a 400, like pretty well original, like concourse type car, gorgeous.
And then the other one, which the guy had spent years restoring a red one,
which I just thought was absolutely class. And a few more, like very slight modifications,
not quite totally original standard. But yeah, I loved those. Yeah, it was more like a period
correct wrestle mod as it is on it. And it was, it was pretty cool. Yeah. There's generally,
I could probably walk around and name half that hall or both halls, you know, like the
couple other personal favorites for me were red R 34, as I mentioned earlier, I don't like R 34s.
It has workmeisters on them, pretty sure. Or else whatever the other wheel is that looks like
workmeisters. Yes, big shiny fous books. Tracer Turbos, possibly. Yeah.
It's on air. Yeah. That thing's gorgeous. I wasn't that fussed on the base side blue.
I know it was kind of a special car. Was that with the dry carbon front? Yeah,
I think that's the bit about it I didn't particularly like. It's not my taste. I think
it's going to be one of those things that you have to appreciate it for what it is. It's showing
off as a full dry carbon front end 1000 horsepower. Yeah. You know, it's, it's one of those cars.
It's not there to look pretty. It's like there to be like the showpiece of what I what I have kind
of thing. Yeah. But I do understand that you see cars with like all the carbon body panels.
And they look a bit unfinished at times. Yeah. I really like,
I think it was, camera water was, I think it was Tufty's car years ago. He was talking about
doing all the carbon bits on the Orange Mark II Golf. And I was saying if it was me, I would paint
them, but I would mask out like, do you know where your rub strip would be or original graphic?
Like if you do a carbon tailgate, the GTIs had the black sticker around the back window. Yeah. I
would mask that. I'd leave that as the carbon and paint the rest. And you're still saying that
it's carbon underneath. Yeah. But it's a little hints of like OEM kind of thing. I don't know.
For me, again, this is totally personal taste. I don't like dry carbon. Carbon should be glossy
in my humble opinion. Tell F1 though. Cause it looks way nicer. I don't know that weird.
And what else? That purple Mercedes 190, I want to say. The 190 was cool.
Was like a rigger kit. Some sort of, I think it's a rigger kit. And the car was all done.
And that fellow had driven over from the UK. And I think he had a hell of a time getting here. His
first boat was cancelled. I had to drive down to Holyhead and then wait for like five hours or
something. Yeah. So far, proud of him too. What else? What else?
It was some really fucking TSC stuff. In the vertical.
Aaron Phillips. Two passats. Yeah. Why are we forgetting this?
So what, two or three years ago, Aaron built a B5 and a half Passat Saloon.
He's been building that kind of for years and every year he did a little bit more,
a little bit more, a little bit more. And he took car of the show. Yeah.
So the car sat as stepped up RS's.
Riccardo CS interior. I mean, trim from top to bottom and Alcantara and leather.
Like nothing was untouched. Boot built in the back, all done too.
Semi sheave bay, big turbo TDI. It sat so well. Like the car presented really, really well.
And he did take car of the show, didn't he?
Yes. Two years ago, I think. And then he bought himself a B5 and a half Passat is one of those
cars. It's a bit like B3 passats. They're a car that people like, but B3 people like them,
B5 and a half people like them. They're not a golf, if you know what I mean.
Yes. They're niche. It's like Polish. Most people like golf.
Don't tend to modify them very much because they're just a family car or they do.
Like Richie's example, his daily driver, the estate fat fives, coilovers. It looks cool,
but nobody really goes mental on them anymore. Maybe when they were like pretty fresh.
And so he bought himself another one as a daily driver, but it was in a state.
And then a while back, he started sending me a few e-things and I was like,
what's this man up to? And then we've seen the dub shed, what he was up to when he had them part
together and he built a twin car. So obviously this one is, well, I suppose there are more
sisters and twins, but one's in the state. Now the new one's the estate.
And it's blue and the other one's black. Like an navy blue, but pretty much almost identical
interiors, boat bills, LMS, like the car is insane Lamborghini steering wheel, again,
trim top to bottom. He has built almost two identical show cars to an incredible standard.
And I'd be honest, I actually prefer the estate. I love the estate.
I always loved the black car, the saloon, but the estate.
And I loved it when he put the LMS on the black car. I thought it looked brilliant.
The LMS are the wheels for me, like on both cars. Yeah, that was fucking incredible.
Yeah, there was some absolute class stuff. Paul Glennon's black mark three on the Pegasus.
Oh, that's just the dream for me. I just absolutely love them.
Also, not that the majority of people don't struggle to get the dub shed,
but one who's been documenting a lot race from limitless with the purple
right now, yeah, done a EP three swap and then did the Bay that we car looks incredible.
I was rooting for him, seeing him building a portion towards it when it got there. And
for him, he looked destroyed like he looked absolutely done. I remember winding them up
when we were parking the car and you could tell he was just like, but he wasn't there.
Possibly his Saturday night antics might have contributed to that also.
He had a nice blue out inside of the ear and that I have to say.
What else did I like? That all road, the bagged one, Scottish car, the white all road here.
So cool. Very, very nice. I'll tell you what I liked.
Comradery. Comradery. So something that people talk shit about, the car scene is dead and I
hit the car scene, blah, blah, blah, because I'm not part of it. Fuck you. And you get big shows
like dub shed. Now, dub shed is a huge show, but we at the heart of it still like to think that we
act and behave like true enthusiasts that we are. There's certain things about a big run,
a big show, meaning that you have to do certain things a certain way. Yes.
But and you'll never please everybody, but it's nice to see when something goes wrong,
people pull together. So the VHVG, Vooge, we'll give them all the names. All the last one, Cork,
Vijay come up. Well, it's not even fair because a lot of them are from Dublin too,
but they all come up in the south. They bailed their way through the fuel, fucking protesting.
I had a hard enough time getting here to begin with. Yes. And Per Danny in the
twenty valve turbo mark one, slapped the sump and came in, was leaking oil, got them sorted. So
Fogle, Michael from Arc Cartel, drove to Nury this night on the Friday night, I want to say,
Saturday night, got a replacement sump off a guy who knew that he kept them in stock,
brought it back up and Stefan provided them with any tools and the guys all pulled together and
got it swapped in the show hall. It was quite nice. And then another one we had was, there's a guy
from the south brings up an orange Fiesta show car every year, like stance cracker week. Oh,
I love that week car. Yeah. And he was driving up. He actually arrived on the back of Craig
Coleman's transporter. Yeah. And I was like, oh, very good. But it turned out he had been driving
up and he has an absolute what I call death stretch. Like it's a, it's like a one, six, five on a
nine or something. Absolutely stupid. Something I would have done years ago and still have a soft
spot for. But like the sort of thing if you see the slightest pebble in the road, you're like, oh,
God. And the tire debuted shockingly. And Craig stopped and picked him up,
yeah, on this transporter, bottom up the road. Problem was, he still has no tire in the car.
Yeah. And it's not exactly a normal one to fit. So he was ringing around and he came to us because
we were obviously we're local and he wasn't and we were doing the park in the hall that he was
coming into and he was like, do you know anywhere you go? And I'd said about large entire center,
Simon, as always, my go to friend of ours. Absolutely. 20 minutes away. You know,
you go in the morning. I says, I promise you, Simon will sort you out. Like this,
he is the guy. If he can't, if Simon can't do it, no, we can do it. Yeah. Simon will not fuck you
around large entire center folks and not a sponsor, but we love them. No, but it's and he'll hear why
and he was like, Oh, Berlin. And then I think it was you said to me, you're like, fuck it, give
him a ring because I didn't want to phone him because it was like Friday night at eight o'clock.
Yeah. The man's entitled to his time off, even though he's a friend. And I said,
fuck it, I'll phone him and right away straight into business mode. And he was like, don't you
worry. He says, one of my guys, Stefan is going down to do the tires at the drift event with you
guys text me in the morning. I'll throw the B Blaster in. Stefan will do it down there. We'll
get it done. And it happened. They got it on, got it on the car. It popped back off again.
And he went back and Stefan, Julie put the thing back on. And then Simon actually went
out of his way to spyp in down there to put tires on the drift boys to come over to me
and make sure that your bike is sorted out. So that's the sort of shit I enjoy actually as well.
The guy with the 190, he nicked his wheel on a bottle and where I had him parked was like,
of course, the fucking wheels read the very top and I said, Oh my God. And I was like,
the probabilities is where to do this is rolling, driving around the hall 10 times to try and get
it to where you need to be. And he had in the jack and there was nobody around. And I said to
race with the civic and I think he brought on the jack the next day as well. So it's class to
see and there's decent people still out there because really see everybody's in the same boat.
We're all doing the same shit on this class to see. We recorded with limited slip differences.
Oh, we did. We did indeed. The guys are tired. I forgot about that. I know. I actually forgot
about it until I seen them sharing it and I went, Oh, yeah, we did that. So that has been a long
time in the making. We still need to actually sit down with those guys properly. But I actually
don't even really remember what I said. It's all my list of podcasts to listen to. But with travel
and edit and stuff, I just haven't got on to it yet. But I will. I think their episode has been
out at least a week now. Not like ours. But when we talked about a thing on their podcast,
I suppose I might as well talk about it on ours. I was looking for Bentley manual for the R32.
Correct. I don't believe that one exists, or maybe it did at one time, but doesn't anymore.
For people not familiar with Bentley manuals, i.e. most people in the UK, what other?
They're like a hands manual. That's the closest thing that we could say to it, except like
what a hands manual should be. Yeah. If you imagine the hands manual and the old yellow pages
had a baby, that's how big they are. Yeah. And most younger listeners won't remember the yellow
pages, but yeah, it's massive. That's what they are. And it gives you everything. And I mean,
a lot of the hand stuff won't cover certain engines. It won't cover specific body work,
or it won't give you a lot of torque specs and things like that. It gives you everything,
like it's dealer level stuff. Yeah. It's a proper like tax guide.
But how much are they compared? What's the hands? Maybe 30 or 40 quid?
Yeah. And there's no hands for the R32 either.
Correct. Like $250 if you can get one. So I was looking, looking, and then I came across
so there's two ones for the Mark IV, one's the kind of smaller engines, I guess, and one's the
GTI slash. Well, it's just the GTIs and the four motions. Possibly. But I got a bit confused,
because one of them referred to VR6, which I assumed was the R32, but it turns out in the
US there's a VR6 non-R32 front wheel drive car. Like R4 motion, except not 4-motion. Yeah.
So anyway, I went on a few forums and stuff and I was looking and somebody had posted a PDF link
to a supplement, which presumably was meant to go with your existing Mark IV Bentley,
but just an extra 40 odd pages specific to the R32. So I got that printed out. And
even though it's only 40 odd pages, there's a lot of stuff in it that's like super helpful.
Oh yeah. I like very specific R32 stuff.
But there's also a few weird bits in it, like the, you know, kind of tech guides for
service intervals and things like this. And I was talking about on this because we were talking
about sagging doors on Mark IV. And it's actually listed as one of the checks you should do. Like,
it's something like every 30,000 miles that advice text, check the door hinges and the door
straps. And grease them, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It's very specific and that's how specific they are.
And then the main event, what it came down to, car of the show.
For the first time ever. Yes. A non-German winner.
Yes. In the form of a Mark II escort. Yeah. So absolutely incredible, like rally car inspired
build. One of those ones that there was other, there was a RestoMod Porsche 993 that was built
like a 994 or 964, like backdated kind of thing. Car was incredible, big money car,
beautiful car. And that was the initial one where everybody went, oh, well, that's obviously going
to be car of the show. And when it came down to the judging, it turned out it wasn't. And
even as judges, we didn't expect to be the Mark II escort until we went around them and went,
oh, so I think not to give too much away, but there was about six cars that were shortlisted for
in the running for car of the show slash runner up car of the show. And we went out
and a small team of us went out and went into what I call decade mood. And it's basically
trying to find flaws. You will find flaws in every car. Yeah. No matter what the car is,
you will have a car with quite literally a quarter of a million pounds spent on it.
There will be flaws on it because everything has it. Yeah. And when it came down to it,
the rally car was like, I remember going around it and going around with Robin,
we kind of worked our way down each side and we were like in the boot and we hadn't spoken at all.
And this was like on still on the show day. And it was like the music something you can
run them like, I can't find anything in this. And I knew Robin was giving me the same vibes.
And we kind of met in the boot, looked at each other and he went,
I got something to say. And I was like, I know what you're going to say. And it was like,
that's all this is going to be it. And then we were like, okay, well, is it, you know,
start, you start going back through and you couldn't fault it. It was a proper build.
Absolutely beautiful car. I swear took car of the show and then a mark one,
what I assume is probably the GTI or look like a GTI golf with a VR six swap,
which I usually don't like a mark, a VR and a mark one. That's another one like you said
about the popular earlier. It didn't look shoehorned in, which I think a VR and a mark one
often does. Yes. That's why I don't like for yours and mark one's a perfectly in the driving
aspect. They look trumped into it. And there's a handful of cars I can think of that it works
in the Kevin Brennan's yellow mark one over in the States. The supercharged one really,
really works. But there's so many that don't work. And I don't know what it was about that car.
And it had our 16 and so ours is like everything just worked really well on that car. And it's
not how I would have built a mark one. But when I seen it, I was like, that's really, really nice.
For me, the one behind it, the black one with the supercharged R32, that was the pick for me.
That would be an absolute animal road text charge.
There was also, did you notice up the far end of the hall? There's a polo,
like a newer kind of polo nine in three. No, near again, six or after. Yeah.
Which has been a few of our shows, Euro traffic and stuff. I think it's quite a young guy that
owns it. He's from Larn. From Larn. And modified cool little car, not the best car in the world,
but a fun, cool, nice, nice way. Kind of modified car, maxed and kept lowered.
There's an R32 on it. There is indeed. As of not very long ago.
He said, how did you see that? And I was like, yeah, I had. And I went back and had another
look at it again. More on the side of like, how does this fit? Because I assume the newer polos
would be like, based on a mark five chassis and more room. Yeah. And even like the engine mounts
has like these are bound to have bolted up and it wasn't everything was custom.
Yeah. All the mounts are different as like for a place. That's a very cool week or
work into this is class on a complete sleeper because it's not a car you would expect it in
whatsoever. So yes, absolutely incredible weekend. Yeah, I had a lot of fun despite
being how busy we all were. But yeah, I really did. It's good to see everybody. It's the seasons,
the UK season opener. As we keep saying, we keep saying that that's because it's true.
Yeah. So I genuinely look forward to next year. Yeah. See what it brings. It gets better and
better every year, thankfully. And it's only made possible by the people who come. So thank you
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was a dub shed. And if you want to see what some of his work is like,
check out some of the photos. If you were at dub shed, you'll have seen it.
March 6th edition 35.
Fucking huge brakes, huge wheels, absolutely static slammed, sheave bay,
the interior is done leather, like fixed buckets is the install done.
Like not air install. No, like that car is absolutely incredible. And it's a testament
to somebody we're saying is part of the car community. He is building cars. He has done
the things that you will want to do. He has the experience and knows what he's talking about
because he has actually done it. He's not sitting in his bedroom selling new parts and
hasn't fucking done anything. So this is the guy down to like all the custom carbon stuff that
front grill is like custom custom front grill, then carbon skinned. He had the he said he wanted
like a nod back to like 10, 15 years ago where people were like used to retrim random parts
and leather and Alcantara and he had the engine covered on it. And it was carbon as well.
A new intakes done, swoops on the custom dipstick for him. Again, this thing is a sheave bay and
puts in a March 6th is no main thing. Nearly unheard of. It's a cracking car, he's a good guy.
And he takes the bonnet off for shows obviously to show the bay. But where the bonnet hinges then
are left behind, you normally have and there's sometimes like a wee bit rustier or a faded paint
or no paint because sometimes there isn't even paint under there. So it made these little covers
to like like magnetic covers to just like snap onto the hinges while the bonnet was off. And I
was like, that's a level that you feel like most people don't even think of. The intense and the
detail in that car is incredible. Like everything like little custom pockets to pop the dash open
and there's like this little readouts to the battery gauge down to one that he told me about
I really really liked. So we got the boot build done with the sound system. And the amp has a
bass control knob. And I don't know if you know this or not, right? So modern cars still have a 12
volt socket, but they don't necessarily have a cigarette lighter. So they have what looks like
the cigarette part, like a wee blanket plug. Yes, he has mounted the bass controller knob underneath
it. And now the knob that you turn for the bass controller is the 12 volt plug that looks like
a cigarette lighter. So it looks it's it's hidden in plain sight. And sweet things to
God I love on a car. It was pretty nice. And I think that's why I really enjoyed the Volkswagen
scene, especially is like that's a car you could look at. And if you don't know, you go, well,
it's nice and you walk on. Yeah. And there's a thousand things you're missing. Golf on air.
Golf on air, even though it's not on air. It's not even on air. So yes, there we go.
Quick YouTube, while we're on the topic.
There was a few YouTube videos after Dubstep. Our own Brown Jack Luke, if you check out Jack
Luke's Dubstep 2026, it'll come up. He made quite a good one, captured the vibe of the place.
Spotlight Media was another one.
I have this down as Petro P 98, Dubstep after movie, but I think he might have changed his
Instagram name or his YouTube name. But and then the other one was the very well known Northern
Island for photography, Renus B photography. Renus done a movie rather than as usual photography,
which was really good. I would say if you just type in Dubstep 2026, you will find most of these.
These are what I found a while back when we were going to record and they were really good
to watch. It's nice to sort of recap that. I've drifted games done on a thing, do you know?
I don't think so. They did one at the week that weekend where they filmed the reveal of the NSX,
which was actually very good. I watched it. It showed a bit of the build up of them getting
ready for Dubstep and it was no clickbait shit. It was like, we are busy and you could tell the
guys were down to it and then getting up the road doing the reveal. It was quite good, but I don't
know if they did a specific Dubstep after movie as such, but you will find that as well. It's
probably a bit further back considering they do a lot of videos a week or whatever. And then the
two recent ones I watched lately, then not Dubstep related, was John Payton's latest video.
Yes. Payton Concepts. He has built number cities 190 with an OM606 in it, as we talked about before,
Cosworth Evo II body kit, hydraulic suspension, and this is going to, was it the
Yeti gearbox from the BMW? The BMWs. And this is going to be his daily driver,
the engineer in his class. And John is not afraid to show you and explain what he's doing, which
I really, really enjoy. And show you when he fucks up. Yep, exactly. And the other one then was
James Pumphrey's speed channel. He, speed jumps around and does different things. Yeah. And a
lot of the time he comes back to his mark three and he's done a few like period correct mods to
the mark three paint and interior and bits of that. It was cool to see the car getting round
the right, which was quite nice. It's just to sort of hold some everybody pulling together and
beating through with it. And the title was like finishing your project car. And I was like,
that's a lie. That's a lie. They're never finished. That never happens. Never. That has never happened.
Especially at our end.
You on YouTube still? No. Nothing beyond the normal.
Shout out Charles. There you go. He'll appreciate that.
Okay. So I've quite literally a handful of questions here. I will jump in and get through
them and round this out. So first one, Jake Luke says, is anybody else so very terribly
sad that W7 is over? Roll on the next show. Kind of, but kind of relieved. Yeah, it's nice to
get it out of the way, but it's also nice to have done it. Yeah. I couldn't do W7 every week or every
month. Keith5D says, do you ever look up your old cars to see if they're still on the road
all the time? Yeah, I have done before. Quite a lot. I was tracking my course up until about 10
years ago and it was doing, it was appearing weird and wonderful things like and then everything
else after that I own. My swift, which I would love to buy back. I think change red and I've
lost track of it. I don't know where it is. What is that? I've only ever sold two cars
and I know where one is. I know where one's sitting. I tried to buy a back and can't put
one on top of that. And the other one ends the course so that I lost track off down the line
then. God, it's probably crushed at this point. Yeah, I'm pretty sure most cars, apart from probably
the Sirocco, pretty much all the cars that I've got rid of went to scrap. Fire gone, gone, gone,
beyond the swift, which I don't know where it is, but the Nova went to scrap, B3.
I'm assuming that Polo went to scrap long ago after I sold it. We don't tend to
sell cars. We tend to use cars to the end of their life. Yeah. And then use the parts of them in
some of the gaps. They live on. Yeah. Fucking my heart will go on by seeing the on place. Yeah.
Gathen underscore G10. I says, has anyone seen my good snap on snips from two years ago?
Who? No. Doug Shed is wild for eating totals and stuff going missing. Also,
snap on snips, I keep an eye out for them. He says also, has anyone? How bad I know who has them?
That's Stefan one. Jacuz. Has anyone seen Collins extension lead? I seen a million
extension leads with our new shop. I don't know if it's one of them. Is it a very specific
extension lead or just any? God knows. We had Aiden McGuire in 85, the great photographer that is
Projectide says, great show. Once again, lads and lasses, PS, willing to sell a kidney for that
red mark one GTI, which is the one we're talking about with the VR. Yes, it was a favorite of many.
He is an extensive selection of dub shed photos up at the minute. So you can check them out as
well. And there's Projectide page. And lastly, we have Michael under Michael sculling underscore.
And he says, anything added to the ban hammer, the ban hammer list from this year? I don't think so.
We'd relatively good behavior that I'm aware of like, and
we had no real issues in our hall or no, like, I don't think we really have any bother.
So thankfully not. While the ban hammer is one or two people who are on my shit list,
for being dicks, but most people were pleasant and happy to be there and had a good time.
Yep. I'm never one to swear the ban hammer, but it's also like, I don't want to use it,
but I'm not afraid. No, I think everybody was generally quite well behaved and did their bit
and was probably just excited to be out after the winter, which was nice.
You'll always get ourselves everywhere. But thankfully, as we talked about earlier in
the camaraderie and people pulling together to help toll strangers out, it's good to see.
Yeah, most people in the car community are actually quite nice. Yeah, believe it or not.
Well, folks, that is us once again, we will tear home because I'm for Germany.
We're already at home. When you listen to this, I will be in Germany. So yep, there we go.
I'm not sure when our next recording will be tomorrow is a DB and the key, which will be
four days ago if you're listening to this one that goes out and podcast time hop thing.
Unfortunately, we can't go because I'm away. So yeah, I'm with no cars.
So generally hope it went well for the guys. Next thing is MLVW, which is
two weekends, I think after this comes out, my brain won't work. But again,
we'll be in Helen. So that won't work. So I think the next thing we'll probably
make it to is Vaggie. I'm hoping Vaggie 14th of June. I hope I want to get something.
Maybe get something that would be nice or old school new schools, the 12th of July or 12th
weekend. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, there's a lot going on. The Oh, the end of May as well. It's actually
the cars and coffee we talked about earlier on the water for parking chill parking chill guys as
well. So that's actually one, I think we can get to that. I remember I'm rambling now, but
there was something on the calendar because they messaged in about it, but check them out on their
Instagram page as well. There is a lot coming up. Unfortunately, my work life schedule isn't
aligned for it at the moment, but lo and behold, some of you guys might be going to Helen, the
American guys are listening. We will see you fuckers there. Paul and the guys at MLVW. I
absolutely hate you. Move your show so we can go to it. That would be lovely. Thank you and good
night. If you want to catch us online, we are at Reload podcast. I am at Connor McCann. I'm at
Maxwell House 46. Nigel is that beat up boy and he will hopefully be back next time. Hopefully so,
but good to see him back. I will see you again folks. Cheers. Cheers. Bye. Bye.
About this episode
The hosts catch up after Dub Shed with a mix of road-trip impressions, show recap, and a few deep-dive tangents. They compare a frustrating Dacia Sandero hire car with a feature-packed BYD Seal, then move into standout cars from the show, including rare GT-R auction examples, a Mark II Escort that took car of the show, and several impressive VW builds. There’s also talk of community help on the show floor, upcoming events, and a bizarre in-car toilet patent.
On EP155 we're recapping Dubshed 2026 where we chatting about our favourite cars, a surprise Car of the Show and comradary in the car community!
Enjoy!
