“3.1 engine” means the engine is about 3.1 liters in size. A bigger displacement often helps an engine pull harder, especially at lower speeds.
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diesel engine smell
They mention a “diesel engine smell,” meaning the car smelled like diesel. If the smell is stronger or unusual, it can be a clue something isn’t running right or there’s a leak.
“Drop power” means the car suddenly feels weak and won’t pull like it should. That can happen when the engine isn’t getting the right fuel/air or when something is overheating.
“Knocking” is a bad-sounding rattle from the engine. It usually means something isn’t right—either the fuel/combustion isn’t behaving properly or there’s a mechanical problem.
“Coolant fully in the red” means the car’s temperature warning is maxed out, which usually means the engine is overheating. That’s a serious problem because it can damage the engine if you keep driving.
The radiator cap is the lid on the engine’s coolant system. It’s pressurized, so you only open it when the engine is cool—otherwise it can spray hot coolant.
When people describe coolant or oil looking “creamy,” it often means the two fluids are mixing. That’s a red flag because the engine normally keeps oil and coolant separate.
The Volkswagen Tiguan is a small SUV, meaning it’s taller than a regular car and has more space. The podcast is basically saying they wouldn’t feel confident in a Tiguan. That usually points to concerns about how dependable it is or how it’s been looked after.
Rear-wheel drive means the power goes to the back wheels. Many drivers like it because it can feel more playful and easier to control when you’re pushing the car.
A turbo is a device that helps the engine make more power by pushing extra air into it. More air usually means more power, which is why people often want a turbo car.
The Toyota AE86 is an older Corolla model that became famous with car fans because it’s light and drives the rear wheels. People love it because it’s a solid car to modify and drive hard.
Term
Axel website
They mention using the Axel website to update their insurance when switching cars. It’s basically the online process for changing what vehicle your policy covers.
Term
change of vehicle
“Change of vehicle” means updating your insurance so it covers a different car. Your cost can change because the new car is treated differently by the insurer.
“Twin cam” means the engine uses two camshafts to control the valves. It’s a common term on older performance engines, and it often goes with the kinds of setups people build for cars like the AE86.
“Jap spec” just means the car was built/configured for Japan. Enthusiasts often prefer it because it’s closer to the original version people grew up seeing in Japan.
“UK spec” means the car is set up for the UK market. That can affect things like what equipment it has and whether it meets UK rules, which then changes what people are willing to pay.
“Marketplace” here refers to online listings used to gauge real-world pricing and availability. For enthusiasts, these platforms can quickly show how spec (like “Jap spec” vs “UK spec”) affects what people actually pay.
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booters
“Booters” is slang fans use for a specific AE86 body style—basically the hatchback version. People get attached to the look, so it can matter for resale.
They’re talking about how people get emotionally attached to certain cars. Even if the market says you could sell it, you might not want to because it feels hard to let go.
A “control module” is like a car’s computer box that controls certain systems. If someone says they were going to lift it, they likely meant taking it out to fix or check something.
“Low mileage” means the car hasn’t been driven much. But the discussion here is that mileage can sound scary until you consider how old the car is and how many miles were driven per year.
Instead of just looking at the total mileage, they’re thinking about how many kilometers the car likely did each year. That makes it easier to tell if the car was used heavily or just accumulated miles slowly over time.
“Motorway miles” means the car was driven mostly on fast, steady highway roads. The idea is that this kind of driving can be gentler than lots of traffic and frequent stops.
Concept
buying a reg of a car
In the UK, “reg” usually means the year the car was registered. The speaker is saying some people pay extra just because it’s newer on paper, even if a slightly older car might be in better shape and have better features for the same money.
The speaker says they had a white Audi A4. The Audi A4 is a compact luxury sedan known for its balanced ride/handling and typically strong European build quality.
Concept
failed the interest
This sounds like they meant the car failed an inspection test. They were confident it would pass, but it didn’t.
They’re talking about a yellow Honda Civic. The Civic is a very common compact car, and they’re using it as an example of a car that stands out to them.
An electric handbrake is a parking brake that’s controlled electronically instead of by a normal lever. You press a button or switch, and it applies the brakes for you.
The Mazda 6 MPS is a faster, sportier version of the Mazda 6 than the regular model. The podcast is describing a situation where the car had a big problem very soon after buying it. That kind of story is often used to warn about checking the car carefully before purchase.
A V6 engine is a type of engine with six cylinders arranged in a V shape. It usually provides smoother, stronger power than a smaller engine with fewer cylinders.
“Liners” are parts inside the engine cylinders that can wear out over time. The host is saying that if those liners have already been replaced, it can mean the engine has already had some of its biggest wear items taken care of.
Scania is a truck brand. The host is using it as an example to say that with enough miles, the usual wear-and-tear items often get replaced, so the truck can be in better shape than you’d assume.
Injectors are the parts that spray fuel into the engine. If injectors have already been replaced or repaired, it can mean the car has already dealt with a common problem.
Service history is the paper trail (or digital record) of maintenance the car has had. The idea here is that knowing what was serviced—and when—can tell you more than just how many miles the car has.
An oil change is when the old engine oil is drained and replaced with fresh oil. Fresh oil helps protect the engine from wear, so regular changes are a good sign.
DPFs are parts on many diesel cars that catch soot from the exhaust. If they get clogged or aren’t properly cleaned, the car can start running poorly and repairs can get expensive.
“Reg plates” are license plates. In some places, the plate format can tell you when the car was registered, so you can estimate the car’s age more easily.
“Personalized regs” are license plates you customize so they say something specific to you—like a name or a number. People sometimes pay a lot for them, but the hosts feel they don’t really matter.
A full electric car is powered only by electricity from a battery. Instead of a gas engine, it uses an electric motor, so the big question is how the battery holds up over time.
A hybrid uses more than one power source—typically an internal combustion engine plus an electric motor/battery. The ownership tradeoff is that you’re dealing with both systems, and the electric portion still depends on battery condition.
The BMW 530e is a BMW 5 Series that can run using electricity part of the time, but it’s still a hybrid. The worry here is what happens when the battery gets old and replacement costs are high.
“Battery goes” means the battery starts failing or getting much worse over time. Since batteries can be costly to fix or replace, it becomes a big part of the ownership cost.
A second hand EV is a used electric car. The big concern is the battery—if it’s worn out, repairs can be expensive, which affects what people are willing to pay.
Term
battery on it
They’re talking about paying a lot of money for battery repairs or replacement. If you spend that much, you’ll want to get it back when you sell the car, which can push used prices up.
Term
battery money
They mean the big cost of replacing the EV battery later on. When you buy a used EV, that future battery cost can make the car less valuable.
Resale value is what you can sell the car for later. With EVs, the battery’s condition and future replacement cost can make used cars drop in price more than people expect.
An alternator is a device that makes electricity for the car. They’re suggesting using generators at each wheel to make power instead of relying only on the battery and braking.
They’re talking about regenerative braking. When you slow down, the car recovers some energy and sends it back to the battery instead of wasting it as heat.
These are car seats made of leather that also have a heater inside them. They help you get warm faster on cold days, which matters a lot for daily driving.
“Golf” means the Volkswagen Golf. It’s a common used-car choice for daily driving, and the speaker is basically saying you should buy one with the comfort features you’ll actually use.
“Transit” is the Ford Transit van, which many people use for work. They’re saying that even small comfort items—like an armrest—make a difference when you drive all day.
An arm rest is the padded part between the seats where you put your arm. The hosts are basically saying some cars make them flimsy or poorly designed, so they don’t open right or they can even break off.
“E60s” means the BMW 5 Series from the E60 generation. They’re comparing armrest designs and how the lid/armrest opens, which changes how you use it day to day.
“Auto lights” are headlights that turn on and off by themselves when it gets dark or bright enough. It’s a convenience feature that reduces fiddling while driving.
“Auto wipers” are windshield wipers that can sense rain and adjust how fast they wipe. It’s meant to make wet-weather driving easier without manually changing settings.
A “manual” transmission means you choose the gears yourself, usually using a clutch pedal. Enthusiasts often prefer it because it feels more connected and engaging than an automatic.
An “automatic” transmission shifts gears for you. You don’t have to use a clutch or manually change gears, which can make daily driving easier—though some enthusiasts prefer manuals.
The Ford Ranger is a pickup truck, meaning it has a cargo bed for tools or hauling. The podcast is talking about a specific model range around 2017–2018 and whether the automatic version is a good choice. People discuss it because the transmission and maintenance can matter a lot for trucks.
Apple CarPlay is a way to connect your iPhone to your car. It shows certain phone features—like maps and calls—on the car’s screen so you can use them more easily while driving.
A digital dash is the screen-based gauge cluster behind the steering wheel instead of normal dials. Some cars can show navigation info there, but it may not be as useful as phone-based maps depending on the setup.
Android Auto lets you connect an Android phone to your car so you can use apps through the car’s screen. People compare it to Apple CarPlay to see which feels more capable or easier to use.
Auto dip is when your car automatically turns its headlights down from “high beam” to “low beam.” It’s supposed to stop you from blinding other drivers at night.
A hatchback is a car where the back door opens upward like a hatch. It usually makes it easier to load things in the back compared with a regular trunk car.
A four-door hatchback has two front doors and two rear doors, plus the hatch for the trunk area. It’s usually easier for passengers to get in and out than a three-door hatch.
Petrol means gasoline. People compare petrol and diesel because they can feel different to drive and can cost different amounts to run depending on how you use the car.
A “two litre diesel” means the engine is diesel and roughly 2.0 liters in size. That kind of engine is common, and it can affect things like cost/tax and how strong it feels for pulling and daily use.
Limiter Slip Differences sounds like a car-modification shop or brand. The hosts are saying they’ve been involved in modified cars for a while and may have something new coming.
“320” refers to a BMW 3 Series model variant (the 320i/320d family depending on market). The number indicates the engine family/position in BMW’s lineup, and it helps distinguish it from higher- or lower-output trims.
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eyebrows on the headlights
Those “eyebrows” are little decorative pieces on the top of the headlights. They’re mostly for looks—giving the car a more aggressive or custom front-end style.
A rating system is just the rules for how you score cars. They’re saying the rules need to be fair and consistent, not just “best car gets the top score.”
A welder is the person who can fuse metal parts together using heat. For car repairs—especially on older cars—getting the welding right is important so the fix lasts.
The Mazda MX-5 is a small two-seat roadster that’s famous for being light and fun to drive. “Mark 1” means the earliest version of the MX-5, and a lot of people like it because parts and support are widely available.
Term
death map
“Death map” is slang for a very aggressive tune that makes the car respond harder. It’s usually not the most gentle setup for everyday driving and can be tougher on the engine if pushed.
A “B5 Passat” is a specific older generation of the Volkswagen Passat. People often modify these cars, including changing the exhaust, because parts and platforms are widely available.
A “hood exit” means the exhaust comes out through the hood instead of the back of the car. It’s mostly for the loud sound and the wild, show-car style.
A “manifold” is a part that gathers exhaust gases from the engine and routes them to the next part of the exhaust system. Changing it can affect how the exhaust flows and how the turbo/exhaust setup fits.
“Micro” sounds like a shorthand for some kind of engine computer or tuning device. The speaker is talking about what you can do with the setup, but the exact meaning depends on the specific model they meant.
A light bar is an extra set of lights you add to the front of a car or truck. It usually needs proper wiring so you can turn it on and so it doesn’t overload the car’s electrical system.
Auto electronics means the car’s electrical systems—wires, sensors, and computers that control things. It’s more than just swapping a bulb; you have to wire and troubleshoot correctly.
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wire in that Telly
They’re talking about connecting a device to the car’s electrical system. “Wiring it in” usually means hooking up the right wires so it works safely and reliably.
The “back axle” is the part that connects the rear wheels to the car. If you change anything related to it, it can change how the car steers and grips.
“Springs” are what help the car absorb bumps and keep the wheels in contact with the road. Cutting or replacing them changes how high the car sits and how it feels when you drive.
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lower a van
“Lowering” a van means making it sit closer to the ground by changing its suspension. It often looks cooler, but it can make the van scrape more and can ride worse when you put people or cargo in it.
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Just a quick disclaimer before we start, any stories or opinions shared in this
podcast are for entertainment purposes only. Nothing discussed should be taken as
advice or encouragement to replicate anything we talk about. Right, let's get
into it. Hello and welcome to the very 25th episode of the Red Lion Republic
podcast. My name is Badger. I'm Dan. And we are in a very warm shed. It is very
warm in here. It is. It's very humid. I need to get a fan or something. There's
one thing actually that I haven't said to you that I need to say to you. Oh, I
have to get it off. Not my chest. It doesn't bother me, but we made a mishap
last week. Did we? I think we did. Because I think we called it too soon.
Because there is how many weeks in a year? 52. 52. What's half of 52?
Any five? 26 is half of 52. 26. Yeah, 26. And so fair enough, we did miss one
week. Yeah. So technically this is six months. I don't know how we worked it
out while she pulled it up. Of course, while she pulled it up. Bastard. Anyway,
we've we've we've officially hit six months. Oh, thank God. Yeah, deadly. There
we go. Pretend we didn't last week. No, we didn't next week. Next week. Yeah. Well,
technically because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So today cause 26 episode 26 should have been
the sixth month mark. But we missed a week. Yeah, let's pretend we didn't. Let's just
celebrate. Let's get three weeks of celebrating six months in podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll
do that one. Because when I say I think we missed is because you could have said this is the sixth
month, which is would that be right? Yeah, yeah, maybe. I don't know. Anyway,
yeah. There's a good reason why one of us is a mechanic and one of us is a windowed
hinder. Why? Because we can't. We're not very good at maths. Yeah. Well, we're not very good at
much. Just not much going on there to be fair. No. Yeah. Anyway, so Dan wants to let us know
about his week and I'm actually quite excited to hear about it because he wouldn't tell me he
said he'll save it for the pod. Yeah, I just wasn't saying it twice to be honest. Probably
just a break of a week was actually wasn't well, it was warm like but so
I done since the last recording done a few minutes to the Jeep to get ready for test.
It's another one thing to do to get it ready. Okay. I think the plan with that is tested
and up for sale. Man, Roy, as much as I love that Jeep, I'm so excited for you to sell it.
Yeah, it's just it's it's time to go and it's actually a pain in the hole a little bit because
Lee rang me there. So the next part of my what happened last week, last last Monday, Monday
just gone. Lee came down to the house. I was off work. And he goes, we go and get some
food. And then his father rang him to bring him to the pub. So we had to go pick his father up,
bring him to Navin. And then we're going to go get food. So come on back out and
back from his house towards Navin coming up the hill and he drives a I don't actually
don't know what year it is. 3.1 is easy trooper. It's actually really cool.
It is a proper job. I love them troopers. Yeah, it is really cool. And 3.1 engine as everybody
knows is the best engine you can get in them. Or so he thought.
Shut up coming up the hill. And actually when we were sitting in this house waiting for Zyla to
come out, it smelled a bit weird, but it was just kind of Joe that old diesel engine smell.
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought it was. So like neither was taught. Yeah, you kind of just
thought it was new normally. Yeah. What he did say after he was like he's never heard it's he's
you don't like you don't really think anything about the engine. I'm skipping forward here.
Did the engine go? We're not 100% sure just yet. So we're coming back out and we are heading
towards Kilbury coming up a hill and I was sitting in the back and I felt the drop power.
Okay, it's third. They're not a fast Jeep as it is. So for me to be able to feel it lose power
and then I could like it instantly started knocking. Oh, Lee actually looked in the rear
view mirror because I think he didn't think it was as bad as it was. And then when he seen my face,
he was like, Oh, shit. Whatever he's seen that. And I was like, he pulled it straight in and looked
at the coolant fully in the red. Oh, yeah, that's not a man I feel so bad for Lee. Yeah. And the
worst part of it is it's crazy low mileage. Yeah, what? That's fucked up. So hopefully the engine
is okay. Like hopefully it's fixable. We pulled it pulled it into the side of the road and he rang
someone and he left me I was a couple minutes from the house. So he lifted me to the house. I
grabbed the Jeep and a tow rope. And we just towed it back to my house and opened the radiator cap.
It cooled down at this point, obviously open the radiator cap. And I've actually never seen it
in a radiator before. It was do you know the color coolant goes when you've got a leak and it goes
all that rusty color. Yeah, it was that but it wasn't war. It was like this thick paste.
Jesus. Yeah, it's that. Yeah, but so right. Now I'm not a mechanic. But see when it goes creamy.
Yeah, that's oil, isn't it? Yeah, that's oil. Okay. But we dipped it and there was
very little oil in that actually, but it wasn't mixing with water. Yeah. But then that looks like
I've never seen it. It looks like it's probably mixing oil into the coolant rather than cool it
into the oil. We just pulled the rocker cover off over there. It was easy enough just pull the
intercooler off top of the engine pull the rock cover off. It doesn't look like there's any push rods bent.
But time was all I suppose. Yeah, so see that's the worst thing about if I didn't have the Jeep.
One I caught in a totem back to my house. Yeah. And two he just rang me there
to get the trailer and lift it from my house to the shed. So we can actually start working on it.
Yeah, so you're going to miss the Jeep. Yeah. But then again, the big plan is
to buy a surf or something like that. Maybe not a trooper. Yeah, maybe not. No, but right,
fucking we're not going to shit on troopers. No, I love a trooper. Yeah, they are really,
really cool. Yeah. And like the one thing that I always like with the Amarok is it's got the weight
and it's got the power like I've pulled that trooper on a trailer once before. And you know
it's behind you. Breaking is the hard thing. But like if you had a smaller Jeep, you won't have
to know for a fact that I'd be able to throw that Jeep up onto the trailer tomorrow and have no issues.
Touch wood. Yeah, pulling it. It's good. But if I had a surf, I don't think I'd have the
same confidence in it. You wouldn't trust it in a Tiguan though. Probably not.
Yeah, like it is. They are great Jeeps, but
I'd probably have one again. But just that the minute it's just time to ship it on. It's time
to move on. Yeah. And what I'm excited most for is not to surf, but what's coming? Whatever comes.
And God knows what I'd come back with. Yeah. I'm excited for it. I can't wait.
Because when I was thinking about it originally, so originally it was going to have to be
turbo and rear wheel drive. But then I see the occasion 86 for sale.
Oh. Well, see, I think one of them would suit you.
I think I would. Because you're into your Corolla's and stuff.
Yeah. I think I would like an 86. One of them would suit you.
It all came about from, as I said on this before, that I can ensure privately, not like
on the same policy that the Corolla is currently ensured on. That's what I'm
doing. I went down to the Axel website and just like join you do like change of vehicle.
Yeah.
Just one day it was really nice blue PS13 for sale. And I think the person that bought the car
actually listens to this in the end. But I just, I just seen it and I was like, that's a really
nice car. I wonder if I could ensure it and I could. Yeah. So yeah, I think see it's a tough
market out there or well from what I can see anyway, because there's not very much really
nice cars coming up for sale, is there? Like they are there. Yeah. Like say for argument's sake,
if you were looking for a 86 twin cam PS13 or something of the lines, yeah, the likes like
is there much out there for sale? Nearly at all times, there'd be at least one of each for sale.
Okay. Yeah, but you wouldn't have multiples like you wouldn't be able to
No, you don't.
If you were looking for an E60 there. Oh, yeah, loads of them. If you were looking for
fucking a Corolla. Yeah, loads of them. There's, I actually haven't looked in the last couple of
weeks, but there was at one time there was four or maybe five PS13's up at one point. Oh, yeah.
So there is a bit of a selection there. A86 is a harder to come by. Yeah.
But even at that, I suppose there has been times there's been two or three up for the same
at the same time. Yeah. And the one thing I've noticed is it seems to be way harder to sell
at a really, really nice Jap spec AE86 than it does to sell what I'm going to call an overpriced
UK spec one. Because what I've noticed like that's why AE86 has come into my head when I was
scrolling through marketplace one day and a white booter came up for 16 or 17 grand. Oh,
yeah. Like that's nothing. Yeah. But then if you're looking at a UK spec one, 26 to 30, 35.
Man, I am a huge fan of the booters as well though. I love booters. Yeah. I love a booter.
The only thing is though, and I'm only kind of just thinking of this now, right?
If you were to get either a PS 13 or an AE86, that's another car that you will never be able to
sell. I think not due to the market, but due to your own. I think I'd be more inclined to get rid
of something like that. You think I think the attachment with the Corolla comes from buying
that bog standard. Yeah. Not only buying a bog standard, but also what it is and the fact that
if I sold it tomorrow, I can't just quit and buy another one. If I was to sell a PS 13,
I would be able to buy another one. Yeah, fair. I don't know. I just think you're going to get
attached again and not be able to sell it. Yeah, it is a possibility. It's just started the collection
now. Yeah, it is getting fairly bad. I was looking at it the other day, like three cars and two of
them that currently aren't legal to be driven on the road. And he updated on the Leon? No update.
I was meant to go last week to lift the control module and I just didn't. Just thought to go.
It's still there though, is it? Still there. Do you know how to get your man to post it up now?
He won't post it. He's a bit like me. He's a bit skeptical of posts. Actually,
he's not even skeptical. He just wouldn't know how to post something.
Yeah. Get a box? You need to do the post office?
Yeah. No. I'm sure it's not that heavy. I can't blame him to be fair, but it has kind of kicked me
into gear again to want to get it going, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Because that's another
thing. If I don't get a surf coming into Christmas time or coming into the winter, that is a perfect
daily. Oh yeah. Definitely. You need to get it back on the road then.
Really, really nice daily. Yeah. Because I think, and I'd actually love if someone
listens to this, knows of any more. I think it's one of a handful left that aren't touched.
I think, I think, I'm fairly confident this person doesn't listen, but I think
Joe McKevitt from around Dundalk, I think he's got one. Standard though. It's bog standard.
Right. He's got a mark one neon. I'm nearly certain it's an F4. Bog standard.
Yeah. And they are, I suppose, but other than them two, I can't think of anyone else that hasn't.
It's rare an F4 comes up for sale, let alone a standard one. I don't think I've seen a standard
one for sale since I bought that car. Yeah. And when I bought that car, it was criminally under
price. Not going to say much about it, but in case I ever sell it, but basically you had a balaclav
on you when you were purchasing this car. Yeah, you'd think that for the price I paid. Yeah.
And off, like I think it's like a two owner car. Yeah. Low mileage too. No, the mileage is
barely high on it. Is it? Even still? Well, no, not technically actually. Yeah. Like there's
200 and something thousand miles on it. Yeah. Which sounds high. But then when you break that
down, like it's a 04 car. So when you break that down by year, it acts like. Man,
I'm not going to say what it is, right? But there's, I don't even really want to say it.
No, I'm going to leave it out. Anyway, even just leaving them hanging. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.
Yeah. 300,000 miles on a 2018 is bad, isn't it? Jesus. Was it a taxi?
I suppose you could call it that. That's bad, isn't it? That is insane. Yeah.
Miles, not miles. That's, that's over half. Wait, is it kilometers? It could be kilometers.
Kilometers is still not. It's still mental. Yeah. Not great. But it's, you know, it is kilometers.
I'm just after thinking there. Oh, not as bad. I actually wonder how much that is. How much is
miles? What would it be like 15,000? No, it'd be more than that, wouldn't it?
I think it is something 30,000 kilometers a year, would it? No, yeah.
Oh, yeah, we'll be more than that. So what do you say? 300,000 kilometers?
Tree slightly under 2,9 something. 196,000 miles. Yeah.
So it's not overly bad. It's bad, but it's not overly bad.
17, actually. So it's nine years old. So that's 300.
Getting the match out here now, lads. 33,000. Yeah.
I mean, would the car, I'm not going to say what car I'm speaking about, but the car I'm speaking
about. They're built for motorway miles, though. Yeah. They're built for motorway miles.
So it's understandable. What's I going to say now?
Can we jump to? No, we're not doing comments yet. No, we're going to leave the comments.
Yeah, we're going to leave the episode. Got a couple of stories coming off of a comment
that I want to get onto, that comment that we were speaking about.
All the way in. Yeah, so we'll jump into what I was thinking about during the week.
So it's something that I've been thinking about. It's something that I've always thought, actually.
It's people buying a new car, buying a reg of a car, basically.
Yeah. Oh, you don't understand why you'd go out and spend whatever, how much money on a car
because it's 2022. When you could have went out and bought a 2018 or 2019 car, possibly in better
condition with definitely higher spec for the same or less money. Yeah. Well, this is one thing
that absolutely baffles me. Now, I'm all about, like, to an extent, I can understand
why people want cars that are high up in the years. But like, as or buying a brand new car
out of a garage, driving it for two years, bring the back in and on. Yeah. I don't understand that
at all. Yeah, no, neither do I. That is more money than census what that is. Yeah. I think
the newest car that I have ever had was a 2012, right?
And to be honest, which I was going to say, I don't think I'll ever go newer than that. Obviously,
I will have to go newer than that. And my next car hopefully will be a few years newer than that.
But 2012, man, I much prefer all of the older cars, all the ones that are already broken in.
Yeah. Well, up until I bought the Jeep, the newest car I own was that 07 Saab that we both owned.
Oh, yeah? Yeah, that was the new one. So you jumped straight up then,
10 years, because what's that, a 17 Jeep? 17, yeah, so a 10-year jump. Well,
there was a few cars in between that, which that was the newest.
Wait, 07 was the newest? Yeah. What did I have? It was the white Audi that I had,
A4, the kid one. Yes, exactly. I remember that. Yeah, man, I only had that for
for a month or so. Yeah. When he bought it to sell it, like Ben actually owned that car too.
Oh, I bought that off Ben. Yeah, I can hardly remember that car.
What? I can hardly remember. You've had that many cars. It's actually impossible to remember.
I know. There's a few stand-out ones. Like, oh, yeah? I obviously always remember you own the Saab,
the 525, the 320 coupe. And the only reason I remember that one is because I drove it home for
you. That car that you've failed the interest in, that was a black... Man, that was a Corsa.
Corsa, that Corsa. The only reason I remember that one was because you failed the interest in it,
and I was there when it happened. I never forget you being, I've already talked about it before,
but being so proud, bringing it in, being like, this is the first car I'm going to NCT and it's
definitely going to pass and then it failed the interest. I was, yeah, because I was like,
and actually, as a matter of fact, I was so proud of that failed dangerous sticker as well.
You still have it, don't you? I took it home, I framed it. It's great because there's a story
behind it is out of all the cars I've ever owned, that was the only one that I ever thought was
good enough to pass the test and it failed dangerous. Because I mean, it says an awful lot.
What, the Yellow Civic doesn't stand out? Oh, the Yellow Civic. That's what actually,
even to this day, on my Google account, the profile picture on my Google account is...
Your Red Corolla. Red Corolla and the Yellow Civic. Packed above, do you know what the
car pack at Balapusa Church? I remember that. That was good. I've just never bought it updating it.
I'm sure there is probably more, I remember if you said them, but...
Yeah, man, I do forget as well. The mental thing is, the ones I've listed there is like the
average amount of cars that a normal person will own in their lifetime.
Man, I've had, well, I must have had over 100 cars easily, I'd say.
Oh, easy. I've had, I think it's 11 B5s, and it's either 7 or 9 B6 Audi A4s.
They were my, two of them cars, were my favourite cars. Yeah. Out of them all.
Oh yeah, like I would have remembered like the Boobie Boss, the Board of Busters as well.
Yeah. Man, and to this day, I'll stand behind this.
I just don't know what it is, I think it's the electric handbrake,
because they're comfortable. You can get them decent spec. Yeah.
You can get, like the last one that I had there was full black letters.
Yeah. Full black letters, it's cruise control, fucking full electrics.
I'm not really a fan of the shape of them. I don't know what it is, I just don't like them,
and I've had three of them, I think. Yeah, four.
Like I always think it's funny, when I have people that I've owned, I think I'm somewhere in and
around 15. Yeah. When I have people I've owned 15 cars, they're like, Jesus, that's a lot,
I've only owned two. Let me know in the comments, I'm sure there's people out there that have owned
way more cars. Yeah. Do you know I had a Mazda, do you remember the Mazda's I had?
No. No. Man, I bought a Mazda, I think it was a Mazda 6.
I literally, I didn't even make it home, I had it for a half an hour.
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember you talking about that. Yeah, like, because I can count the cars,
and the majority of them have been borrowers, which is not a proud thing to have to admit.
Yeah. What were we getting to there? Yeah, going back to the original bit was
like people buying, people buying reg over spec. Yes, there we are. I think that the Jeep is a
prime example of that. The 2017 is the oldest that you could get the V6 engine, that's 2017 was
the first year they made the V6. Yeah. And even at that, I think you can still get 171,
two liter ones. I think they went up to 2022. The reg on that Jeep doesn't bother me in this
slightest. No. Because the whole way from 2017 to 2022, I could be wrong, but as far as I know,
they never changed the specs. So that like whatever trim level you get is the same,
the whole way through. Now I know there's an argument for, oh, what a 2022 one would have
a mileage. Yeah, it will. But it's also over 10 grand more. Yeah. But you know, right? There's
there's another like, there's two things there that I genuinely couldn't give a bollocks about.
The year the car and the mileage, I don't think I have ever out of all of those cars that I've
ever owned, I don't think once I've ever looked at the mileage until I was going to sell the car.
Yeah. I don't know if I said it on this before, but a lecturer said to me when I was in college
in phase four, and it's always stuck with me. Right. Now it was about trucks that he said it,
but it can transfer to cars too. So the other way everybody is obsessed with my car is low
mileage. It's only got 100,000 kilometers. So he said with trucks, so like a million
clamors to a truck isn't unheard of. Yeah. 2000000 clamors for an old truck isn't unheard of
either. He said he'd rather buy a truck that has a million clamors on it than one of the same year
that's got 500,000. Yeah. Because the one with a million clamors on it, every common problem
that is going to go on that engine has been has been changed. Yeah. So like the liners in
Scania give bother. They will have gone at definitely before million clamors. So they've
been changed. Whatever else is going to go if you've got injectors going to go,
they're going to have been changed in that million clamors. And it's the same with cars. Yeah.
Like if a car gives bother, and you've got one that's got 60,000 kilometers on it,
or no, I'll go 100,000. So you've got 100,000 clamors on it, and you've won with 200,000
clamors on it. 200,000 clamors has all the common stuff is gone and has been changed. Yeah. And
the other thing is like most, well, I don't really know about new engines, but like older engines,
once they're serviced, a service history is way more important. Well, yeah. Well, but about one
time. Yeah, we see. Yeah, that one doesn't even count. Whatever happened back there. But even
not even like receipts for parts have been changed. Literally just a service history of when the car
had its oil changed. Yeah. That means way more than mileage. Yeah. Because if you could look back
and see that every 10,000 clamors, this had an oil change, there's not really that much is going
to go wrong on it. Like newer cars are a bit harder because you're going to have to change
DPFs and shit. But yeah. No, two things I've never cared about the year of car and the mileage
of it. Yeah. Like if I could have got the V6 engine in that Amarok in 2013, that's probably
what I'd be driving now. Yeah. genuinely doesn't bother me in the slightest what the year says.
Like I think it's a thing in Ireland. And I do think Ireland have the best reg plates in the
world. Yeah. Because you've got the year, you know exactly what the year of a car is by looking at
the reg. I know you can still kind of decipher it with like England and stuff like that. But
that's one thing I could never understand. Yeah. Is English regs and then Northern ones are different
too, isn't it? Yeah. I don't know. I think it's the first, it's two letters and then two numbers.
I think the two letters are the area and then the two numbers correspond to a year. Yeah. But in
England, I'm nearly certain the first letter decipher is the year because people would be like,
Oh, it's an N plate. It's or it's a fucking, it's an O plate or whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Like
yeah, I've no idea what way to work. But like it's so easy because you look at a car and you can
even you can usually especially with D reg cars, you can tell if it's an import or not to because
if it's got a mental high number on it, chances are it's an import. Right. It is a little bit
harder like the jeeps in English import and I'm the first owner. So it's a low number. Okay.
But that's because it's an mh reg but if I had with a Dublin reg because so many cars get registered
in Dublin. Yeah, I think that's just Dublin in general though. Yeah, I don't think that would
necessarily mean that it's an import. Not necessarily. The majority I would like to know
if anybody has ever had like a Dublin reg car with three or less digits. I don't think I've
ever seen one. Well, most of them would have four digits, wouldn't it? Yeah. My Corolla has
55 Yeah. It's the 68,000. Yeah. That's been registered in that. I suppose the first
hundred cars that were registered in Dublin will have. Yeah. No, no, no, I know. But like
very rarely you see them. Yeah. Did you know actually speaking about regs, do you know you
can actually get custom reg plates on Ireland? Oh, yeah? Yeah. How?
I think you have to reserve I think a cost of 1,000 euro. You don't really see people do it with
cars, but we used to see a lot with trucks. People would get a new truck and it'd be
201D770. But see, so you'd have to, you could buy one now for like an 02 fucking.
No, once it's registered, I think it always has to get back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when you're
buying a new one, you can reserve. So if you're getting a new car now in 2020, I would say the
second half of 2006. Yeah. So a 262, you can reserve 262D. So whatever. Yeah. I don't understand
why people would do that though. Maybe for trucks and stuff. Yeah. Whatever. But like,
I wouldn't look at a number plate there and be like,
your man paid for that number plate there. Yeah, neither would I. And like,
most people don't even know you can do it. Yeah. Like I used to see it a lot with and
like there's a couple of companies that did do it where it's whatever and then 770 if it's an S770.
But I think I've seen it on Facebook recently. I think there's like
an E36 325 or 328 or something knocking about that's like 97 D 328. Yeah. There's a
Luke Birch has OS 200 with whatever the reg is and then it's 200. Yeah. Like I think that's cool.
I probably wouldn't bother ever doing it myself, but it does add something I think. Yeah. I'd
know when you say it like that. Yeah, I do. I do agree. Yeah. Like, but I think personalized regs
they do it best in the UK. Yeah. But even then I still don't really like,
some of them are crazy money and they still don't mean anything. No, no, no, I know. But like,
yeah, they obviously have much better. Yeah. But would you have one? No, probably not. No.
What about it? I don't know. Dan. Big Mickey.
I don't know. Get something on it. Yeah. But I was, and I've always thought about that like
going back to the original thing again of like, why bother? Yeah, I don't know. think
I'd like to have one at some point. Brand new. What? Oh, you're talking about a personal
brand new idea? We were going back to do. Yeah. You won't go back further than that. Yeah. Yeah.
No. No, I don't think I'd ever like to have a brand new car. I really don't think so. I think
the newest that I'd ever have would be pre probably pre 2020 anyway, definitely. Yeah. Like,
I'd never say I'd never like to own a new car, but I'd have to be able to comfortably afford
to buy a new car and spec it exactly how I want. Yeah. But see, like, again,
to going down the route of all of these sensors and electric fucking hybrid and
all of this jazz, I will never own a full electric car. Never. Hands down. You will never see me in
one. Yeah, I don't think I'd like. Neither will you see me in a hybrid. I will never drive a hybrid
and that's straight up. If there's a motor running that car, I'm not like as in an electric motor.
Yeah. You're never going to see me on a plain and simple. I can definitely say I'd never like to
own an electric. I'm not. I'm not that against a hybrid. I might when you say that. What car
are you thinking of? Because I know you've got a car in mind BMW. I'd say if I was going to buy a
hybrid, it would be in BMW. Them 530Es are a pretty cool car. They are, but what are you
doing when the battery goes? That's the problem with it. I think if you're going to buy a new car,
maybe that's the time to do it because it's not going to go in your ownership. Yeah, fair.
Fair. Yeah. Like I think, I don't know, I suppose we'll see in the next five or 10 years what the
used car market is for hybrids and electrics. Zero. I can't see it or be. Well, there's going to be
one, but like you're never going to see. But see the problem, like there will be one, but it'll be,
it's going to get to a point where it's going to get so expensive to buy a second hand
hybrid or especially a second hand EV because if someone's after dumping 15 or 20 grand into a
battery on it, they're going to want to get that back out of it again. Oh yeah, but like
we'll say for argument's sake, if they're after buying that car brand new, 50 grand.
Yeah. And then they have to put 20 grand into a battery. Yeah. That's 70 grand. Yeah. They're not
going to like, you're, you get what I'm saying. You're, you're never going to get that money back
out of it. I think the battery money is dead money. Yeah. See the problem is so realistically,
chances are the first person that owns it isn't going to have to put a battery into it. It's
going to be the next person. But so say the next person, let's just say to make it simple.
It's a 50 grand car brand new. They keep it for four years and it's lost half its value.
Set it to someone's second hand for 25 grand. Then that person has to put a 25 grand battery
into it. It's not all of a sudden in another six years after that. It's not all of a sudden
worth brand new money again. No, no, no, I know. But also would they then like, so you're buying
second hand one of those 50 grand cars. You're buying the second hand for 25 grand.
Yeah. And having to put a 25 grand battery into it. So then that car is standing 50.
Would you not just go and buy a brand new one? Yeah.
So this is what I don't, I don't understand how the market's going to go.
Yeah. It's going to, it's going to be interesting to see how like, because the only way it's ever
going to properly work is, and I'm sure they will develop it. But if they can make batteries
last longer and cheaper to replace. Yeah. When we had this conversation before, right,
the amount of people that came up to me, like, since we had this conversation, I'm going to tell
you why, and they were wetting themselves, laughing at my theory. Alternators in the wheels,
boys, I'm telling you, to exterminate alternators on each wheel. That's it,
real electric, you'd be grand. Yeah. No, they do kind of use it, like they use that,
or like we're, we're, we're generative breaking to take the, the energy that's made from
breaking and put it back into the engine or back into the battery, but there's not enough to
actually charge it. You'd have to be standing on the brakes all the time. Yeah. Brilliant.
They don't think we have enough time to. No, we don't.
Inflate hats are not coming out. Anyway, Marlowe's story, you wouldn't, you might catch
Dan on a brand new car, you're never going to catch me in one. Yeah. Mainly because I can't
afford one. But yeah, like the only, the only time you'd catch me in a brand new car is if this
podcast overtakes Joe Rogan. Yeah. Which, which isn't happening, because you're not all of the
fucking listens that we're getting and only a minimal fraction of you are actually commenting,
liking and sharing. Another thing you need to do as well is, right? So if you're listening to us
on Spotify or actually if you listen to us on YouTube, go on to Spotify and tap the little
three dots, go into a rate podcast and give us five stars. Yes. There you go. And then you can
help us. You can help Dan get a brand new car. All right. And you can help me get a great
deal of enjoyment out of it when the battery goes. And I can tell him I told you so.
And the other thing you can do is see the next time you're in a shop and you're getting your
chicken fillet roll and you're talking to them behind the counter. Just tell her,
do you ever hear of the red end public podcast? Yeah. Give them a listen. On real. Would you say
there's any Delhi listeners? I think there's a lower chance of a Delhi listener listening to us
than there is listening to algae. Yeah. It's a possibility. It's a possibility, but I can't
see it being possible. No, maybe not. Yeah. Do you know actually on the topic of Delhi's now
that we're talking about them? Oh, yeah. Do you know what's an absolute sin? Well,
five euro. No, it's not. It's more. If you're about to say five euro for chicken fillet roll,
no. Give me 10 off them. No. Portion of sausage rolls now. You're paying about
four euro, 34 euro. What? Why do you say a portion? How many is in it?
Four usually. Yeah. It used to be 50 cent of sausage rolls. It used to be five sausage rolls
worth a euro. I remember that deal happening. I don't remember that. I do remember that.
I remember that in Kilberi. I would have thought five sausage rolls to euro was a fucking bargain.
Oh, even at that, you're still five sausage rolls for two euro. It's not great. It's not bad.
Yeah, it's not bad. But when it used to be out, there was definitely a time when there was
four. Man, Kilberi. Was there a cat's going missing around Kilberi around that time?
So there's, man, I don't, I've never, I don't think it definitely, definitely used to be four
for a euro anyway. Do you know what I remember? Well, three euro 50, get a chicken fillet roll,
and a can of coke. Yeah. 350. 350 special, man. Yeah. Back in school. Yeah. That's an
euro 50. That's probably the price of a can of coke nowadays. Yes, actually, it's not far off.
Price of inflation, lads. I'm telling you, it's a bad job. Speaking of inflation,
Trump's after doing it again. What are you doing now? Oh, here. His father was on the phone to me
during the day. You hope he's over talking to Trump, is he? Listen, if he could get his hands
on Trump's neck, man, being in trouble. And actually, that might explain why he was looking
for a p-show result. There could be another assassination attempt on, I don't know how
deep I can go into this now or what I can or can't say before we get. Well, don't say that your
father is going to demonetise. Yeah, no, because he's not going to do that. But anyway, Trump's
been at it again. What's he been doing this price of fuel is going to Scottish Rockets.
Do you know, actually, speaking of the price of fuel, so I was up in Belfast at the Dilling
Gosset last Sunday. And I always thought that people go to the North to get cheap diesel.
No, people go to the North to get red diesel. Oh, yeah. Or if you're in and around
South Aramaa. Yeah, it's going to be washed. It's going to be washed. That's why it's cheaper.
Yeah. But I thought it was all cheaper. I didn't think it was just the washed stuff.
Over two euro a litre on one of the motorway filling stations for diesel.
Two pound? No, it was one, whatever it was in pound. And I converted it. It was over,
it was 209 or something. But did you put it so right? Because I think this is a problem as well.
So see, if you're in an art and you're paying and I could be majorly wrong in this, but if the
price is 10 pound, right? And you pay by card in euro. Yeah. They rape you on exchange rates,
do they not know? I think it depends. It depends if you use your bank or some of it sometimes.
The other way sometimes in the card machine, it'll come up. Do you want to pay in pound or euro?
I think some of them can be ridiculous exchange rates. Right. Because I was actually thinking
about it. I was on the way up and I went into Calvary to get diesel in there. And I was after
that I was like, fuck, I should have just waited and got in the Lord. I definitely shouldn't know.
No. But anyway, so supposedly the old fellow was telling me,
you know that ceasefire that they had? Yeah. So like the time of the protests and the high fuel
and there was a ceasefire and the prices dropped. Supposedly Trump wasn't sticking by the ceasefire
and he was still fucking bombing things here in Ireland. Yeah. But apparently Iraq or whoever the
fuck Iran. Yeah, Iran. There we go. Iran fucking hit back. So they hit back. And now there's no
ceasefire. So now the price is going to fucking skyrocket. Yeah, I have been hearing that they
keep the ceasefire keeps coming on and off. Yeah. It's actually it's actually been doing it for
a couple of months now. Yeah. But yeah, like it's it's all, I don't know whatever Trump is at
over there. I don't know. Because it's basically Iran just went with us. So fuck yous or closing
the straight. Yeah, but I mean like right. So obviously, I don't agree with any of it because
what I don't give a bullet is I don't drive but I don't agree with it from my end simply because
like over here, you're going to have to be paying more for fuel and whatever else
about it. But like if Trump was hitting them with bombs. Yeah. So you're going to just have
to hit them back like yeah. Joe the funny thing about it is right and not to get into a political
podcast or anything like that. The funny thing is right. So we're going to get shut down and
cancel it for this just because I said this country give a bollocks go on it. So it's all
Israel's fault because Israel say that Iran are really close to creating a nuke, which obviously
isn't ideal. Israel has been saying that for like 40 years. Right. They keep saying, oh Iran, they
just don't like Iran. That's like, do you know when you don't like your neighbor and you keep
you ring the guards and you say that he's throwing rubbish into the ditch? Yeah. But you know he
hasn't. Yeah. It's the same thing. They just don't like them. So they just keep being like,
yeah, they're they're nearly got a nuclear bomb there. You know, I was literally, I literally
seen a clip earlier on today of a former COA agent that found out there was some fall seven or
some shit. I don't know what it was. Ball seven had they found out the contents of fall seven or
some shit. And it turns out that the COA had access to all you were able to hack into all
of these other so Iraq, Iran, fucking Australian, literally everywhere, we're able to hack into their
fucking whole their whole system will say and and hack back out. They could they could do it
without leaving any evidence. Right. But they used to just leave evidence in like, we'll say they'd
hack into Iraq's fucking system and they'd leave Australia not as Australians fucking speak English
but like, they'd leave some like German words at the end of the line. Oh, right. So then they'd be
like, the Germans are after us and then cause a war in between us. Absolutely. Do you know what
we're actually now speaking of overtaking Joe Rogan? We're not too far away from him here at the
minute. This is a Joe Rogan podcast now. Is it? It's completely irrelevant to what year you would
like your car. But we're gonna have to pause this for one sec. You're gonna shoot some pigeons.
It helps us out hugely. Also, like and comment. Thank you very much. Right. Sorry about that.
We had a small technical difficulty, aka a bastard pigeon on the roof of the shed.
Joe, you're a man of fallout head. Yeah, that's
Man, I'd be dangerous with a gun like yeah. I'd be dangerous with a gun like
down there. There'd be pigeons falling over the sky left right and center. Yeah, pigeons and yeah.
Yeah, just pigeons.
No bone 74 sevens coming down.
We were getting really technical there about fucking COA and everything.
What has that got to do with cars? God only knows. People don't listen to this podcast for
cars only. They listen to this to see what the fuck is going to come out of that mate.
God knows. We don't need to know. God knows. We went from
Why? I don't think you should buy a reg over spec to the fucking COA conspiracy.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't know. Right. So moving on from from the COA swiftly. Yeah, from buying the red before
they come for us buying a reg over spec. Right. Another thing that I think about
is see when people have like say a weekend care like I had the Corolla for a while where it was
it wasn't my main driver like the Leon was my daily. Yeah. So the people that just get a daily
care and they're like, oh yeah, I just want a cheap run around 1000 euro care. Yeah. I think
if you have a weekend care, whatever, a job, whatever that you're not you're not daily into
work or doing the normal run to the shops in. Yes. I think that you should get a nice daily.
Yes, because now I see two sides to this right because I was always the latter. Yeah. I was
always the one that like so for the people that don't get a nice daily like I was always of the
mindset that there's a 200 euro care. I wouldn't give a bollocks as long as it drove. I couldn't
give a fuck what it was. Yeah. They had to sirion. You didn't even know that I owned it.
But that car for think it was 250 euro. Yeah. 2002. I had to sirion and nearly sure it was.
I just love hardship. I love that. And sometimes you get a fucking gem of a car for that cheap.
But I do agree that if you're daily in a car and obviously you've got money because you've
got a weekend. Yeah. You're going to you're going to want certain things aren't you? Yeah.
Because I was I would have been the same as that as well. Not just as bad as that would like just
looking for the cheapest care any care that I could buy. But like I just get whatever if I was
looking for a Bora whatever the cheapest Bora that wasn't completely fucked and even if it was
completely fucked I'd probably still buy it. That's what I was getting. But now I'm in the mindset
of so you spend the majority of your driving time in your daily. Yeah. So why don't you want
something like it doesn't have to be something that's really nice on the outside. Yeah. But why
don't you go out and buy a car that's got heated leather seats air conditioning and nice radio
good speakers. I think right. I think if you've got a weekend car that's really nice. I think the
only thing that should matter about your daily car is the inside. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent
because you don't like you're not going to care about the outside of it like obviously you don't
want it to be written off outside. Yeah. But like if you're so if you think about it if you've got
even a half an hour commute a day so you're driving an hour a day you want something with a
comfort in it especially in the winter you want something you can flick heated seats on
in the summer you can throw your air conditioning on. Yeah. I don't understand. I do understand
where people come from but I do think if you've got enough money to buy a weekend car you've got
enough money to buy a nice daily. Yeah. Unless you don't have to go out and spend 20 grand on the
daily. No. The plenty in really nice cars for between five and 10 grand. Yeah. Man.
That F10 that I had. Yeah. Oh, uncomfortable. Yeah. And cheap. Really comfortable and cheap.
Very cheap. What do I pay for that 15 something like that. Yeah. 1500 or two grand or something like
that. Yeah. But like I always I've always no I didn't always think that but like so say the Leon
that's a really nice daily in my in my opinion but and said like the Amrocks technically my
daily now like I don't really have a daily now because like I've got a company van that I bring
home with me but if I was to ever get a job again where I was driving to work I'd be looking at the
highest spec car that I could get. Yeah. For reasonable money probably five grand or less.
Yeah. But even at that like as much as I don't like them you probably get a diesel
mark five diesel mark six with letter seats good radio goods good speaker golf. Yeah.
Would you get a golf for a daily? I can't see you on the Maxis golf. No. Like I probably want
there was just an example is like something in and around that kind of era of like mark five
mark six jet is even like more more more chance of buying a jet. Yeah. Like it's
2011 2012 jet. What are you going for now? Surely can't more than five or six grand.
No. You get one for five grand. So whichever one has letter seats in it air conditioning
and a good radio sorted. Yeah. Because like and I wouldn't even I wouldn't bother doing it up.
Yeah. You're just driving it. Would an arm rest be a deal breaker for you.
You'd want one. I'd want one on a daily.
Yeah. Probably would. It's actually one thing. You don't realize how much you use an arm rest
until you don't have one. Yeah. That's it. See when you're used to having an arm rest
and you jump into car without one you kind of just yeah. Because so I drive a transit for work
and they've got like full day and arm rest. Yeah. And it broke down.
I don't know when it was broke down a while ago anyway and I got a higher van out
and what I used to do when I was getting into the into the transit
the arm rest was always folded down. Yeah. One arm onto the arm rest and like pull myself in.
Yeah. Using the arm rest went up into I forget I have no idea what the van was that I the higher
van was hopped in nearly fell into the van because they went straight for the arm rest.
But then sitting there my arm has nowhere to go. Yeah. It's just you're awkward.
Yes. One thing and you really like see if someone was listening to this that's never had an arm
rest before. Oh man. You're deprived. You don't know what you're missing.
Like you'll never know what you're missing until you get a car with an arm rest. Yeah.
You were fucking technology. I'm telling you now man.
Yeah. Now that you say it a daily it would have to have a good answer. Do you know
one of the best arm rests I've ever had in a car isn't that cheap.
It's big like me and you can sit in the front of that. Yeah. But both arms on the arm rest and
there's another arms with so somebody could somebody from the back then could just lie
just for the sake of it. The three arms wouldn't be touching. No.
Right. Here's one for you. Have you ever had an arm rest right where it's not that big
and you will say a Bora arm rest. Yeah. Right. So you know they're skinny. If it one arm that's it.
Yeah. We've had somebody try to use it. Probably me.
It's probably me. That's probably that's so annoying I'd say. Yeah. But then actually right
thinking about arm rests the Corolla doesn't have one but I've never missed it out of it.
Yeah. But that's because I don't know. I can't find the words but I understand. I understand
why you don't miss it. It technically does have one like it's got the little center console
bin that all the 11's have. Yeah. But it's too low down to be used as an arm rest.
Or just don't miss it. Yeah. You never like you you've driven a lot of the 11 Corollas and
you've never got into one. I mean like oh fuck. I've got no arm rest. I actually used to have
my seat that low in one of the 11's that I had. Tell I would use the arm rest. Yeah.
But then if you hopped into a Mark IV Golf and I had no arm rest. Oh yeah. No you'd miss it.
Like you'd be over on the passenger seat. You'd be taking a stroke.
What do you mean? That is mad. It's one thing. It's one thing you over looked. You'd forget
to look out in it. Yeah. If you were going to look at a car you'd forget to check if I had an
arm rest. Until you go to drive it away and you're like bollocks. You go for the test drive and
you end up in your man's lap because you go to put your arm in the arm rest. Well yeah. For
different reasons. Yeah. Yeah. Arm rests definitely on arm rest. You know there's universal ones you
can get. Yeah bollocks. Their shape. Don't get them. I've never I've never used one and they're
they're the same design as the Mark IV and the Borough one aren't they? Yeah. Well
not necessarily. They're like I don't even know how they're fucked. Don't ever get them. Yeah.
They're just yeah. If you don't know what I'm talking about look them up. They're bad. Yeah I'd
never. And they're pure flimsy too. Yeah. In fairness most cars forever it is about like all
car makers. They don't know how to make a good arm rest because nearly all arm rests
will open. Yeah. Nearly all arm rests are also fucked. They either don't open or the hinges
are broken off them or they're real flimsy. Like even the one in the Amarok touch what at the minute
works fine. Yeah. But it's a common problem in them. Not right. So if you look at the likes of
Mercedes and BMW. Yeah. The arm rests in them are quite good. I've never. Yeah. It's like it's
like it's part of the center. Yeah. But that's there. So they open that way. They
Yeah. But then if if you think about it. And then also in the E60s they open up the way. Oh do
they. They do. Yeah. Like how many Mark IV Golfs and Boroughs have you had with arm rests? Oh and
you go to lift the top and it just comes off. Or if you lift a whole arm God forbid you have to
lift a whole arm rest. Whatever the fuck you have in that arm rest is gone. Yeah. It's all over the
back seat. Yeah. And it's the same. The Corolla's one is still attached. But if you open it up you
can like just about four inches of movement you decide on. All Corollas are like that though.
Yeah. Like I actually had a couple. I definitely had one Corolla that it would you could just
take it off. Yeah. It's just like a lunchbox lid. What is it with car manufacturers and not
being capable of me? So BMW have sorted it out. BMW and Mercedes I will say. All these.
All these are fucked. I'm trying to think of the all these A4 B8 ones aren't great. No they're not.
No they're not. They're nowhere near great. They're actually terrible as well. Yeah. I was
trying to think of them there. But the newer ones don't know. I haven't been in the newer one.
Yeah. Oh no I have. I can't think of them. My cousin is a 2016 F4 but I actually can't remember.
I think they're pop as well. I think they're after going down the route of the BMW kind of yeah.
Yeah. That's a strange one I didn't think about because there is a lot like. Yeah.
Because I think with Volkswagen in that era I'm pretty sure the one that's in the Leon
they just made one design and they were like every car is getting this. Yeah. Same the Leon.
Same Bora's Mark IV Golfs. Passats are the same as well I think. B4 Passats are the exact same.
They just was like fuck it it'll do. Yeah. Yeah. And it's yeah. Why is it all one. Not great.
But yeah see if you listen to this and you've never driven a car with an armrest. Just go find
a friend that has an armrest and drive the car. Yep. And you'll realise what you're missing.
And then just yeah you won't even give them back to you. Or you will but you'll take the armrest.
Joe would have always wanted in a van. Well some vans you can get two armrests.
Wait what? So like the van the transit that I have now. On boat sites. I've seen that yeah.
What would you not just use the door. Yeah but I just imagine having it like
you can use it over it's a little bit of a stretch. Is it? A little bit. Yeah. Fuck.
Yeah. I don't know. So then what do you when you're caked up like that then.
What are you doing like just steer in with your knees like yeah allegedly. Allegedly yeah.
Well so we're actually kind of forgetting into it there as well. So to lead on from that again.
If you are buying a daily what are you going to look out of. So let's say now if you are going
buying a daily where you are now. Like so your daily's before were like whatever the cheapest
you can get and it didn't matter. But say in the morning if you were like right fucking I'm going
to get a new daily. Right. What's your. Black letter. Yeah. Has to have a black letter. Has to
have an armrest. Yeah. Cruise control would be nice. No cruise control is a definite for me.
Yeah. Okay. Right. See I got fucking spoiled with that F10. It had it had auto lights. Yeah.
Auto wipers. I remember making a big deal over these things and supposedly everybody has them
now. Like that was what year was that. That was it was that 11 or 10. No it was 10. 10. Yeah.
It was a 10. I don't even think I had that in the Audi. Or maybe I did. I can't remember but I
only had the Audi for a short period of time but man auto lights auto wipers
cruise control what else like everything was fucking auto in it like it was brilliant.
I would also on the idea of auto I'd like the daily to be auto as well. So would I. Yeah.
And it's one of if you've listened to a guest episode with Declan.
Is that the only quick fire we've done? I think it is. That's released. Yeah.
So at the end of the at the end in a quick fire one of the questions and it is or manual
and I think if I was to be asked that I'd be torn because it depends for me. Yeah.
Now I don't even really drive but for me I'd be torn as well because I was always against
auto addicts. So was I. Until I had one. Yeah. And I think a lot of people would be the same.
I think if anyone listened to this that was like whatever both of us said
autos and if they turned their nose up at it. If they've never driven an auto before it would
change their mind. Now to be fair right the Rangers Ford Rangers the 1718 model ones
their auto I wouldn't like them in auto. Right. I prefer them in my boxes very clicky in it.
Yeah. Very very clicky but every other car automatic. Now I'm not saying that I don't like
manual. No. I fucking love a manual. Why I'd find it hard to answer that question is
for a daily to answer this question it would have to be an auto. But then I would probably
always have a manual alongside it. Yep. Like my Corolla if it was an auto disgusting. Yeah.
Foil. But then the Jeep if it was manual I think it ruined it a little. I think it would yeah.
I think it would. Like that Jeep is pure comfort. Like you'd need so
for me a daily you'd have to do as little as possible. Yeah. You want the car to do almost
everything. Yeah. You kind of just want to sit there and steer and that's it. Basically. Yeah.
Would Apple CarPlay be important to you? Yes. Yeah. Hands down fairly auto style. If you
haven't got one already contact us on Facebook or Instagram. There we go. There's the plug for
this episode. And that's the same as an auto and the same as an arm rest. You don't know what you're
missing until you've got it. That's it. Thanks for the sales time. No but I am honest to God.
It has to have CarPlay. Yeah. It has to. What are you going back to one of them little fucking
are you having your sat-nav on your phone and the dash and then somebody fucking rings you or
do you know what I mean? Yeah. And then you allegedly answer the phone while driving and
then before you know it you miss your fucking exit. Man get a CarPlay. They are 100% worth it.
Yep. Like so I have never had CarPlay in a car up until I got the Jeep.
I couldn't ever buy a daily without CarPlay again. No it'd have to have it.
Two things to spin off on this now right. I forget the first one so it's probably only
going to be one. Do you know them digital dashes on the fucking so one of the boys is one you just
off forgetting a GTO 2019 GTO golf. Yeah. Digital dash. You can have the maps on it.
Yeah same with the A4s. Yeah. I don't really like it though. You don't know because my cousin has
a 2016 A4 S-line black edition. Basically it's top spec. Yeah. That's actually got brown leather
in it which I really really like. I would be I know if never had a car with brown leather
I do like the look of it though. Yeah but you can put the maps onto his dash too
which you can't put like Google maps from CarPlay onto it. I know yeah but it's still cool looking
though. It does. It looks cool. Yeah but I noticed because he was away or something and it was when
I was in that loan and I drove it up and down to a loan a couple of times and I just found myself
never using it. The digital dash is cool. Yeah. What I just said myself like I never once actually
threw the maps into the middle. I think my brain is accustomed to looking to the left for maps.
Yeah. Because even before I had Apple CarPlay your phone's always mounted on it. Yeah.
There's the next thing. CarPlay right. Now you're an iPhone man. I'm Yeah. Have you
ever seen CarPlay like Android CarPlay? Yeah Android Auto. It's mental. Is it? It's man because
like I fit CarPlay so I don't want to be plugging again but like there's only ever been one person
that always set up the CarPlay for that had Android. Yeah. I've never actually seen it. Is it much
different Apple CarPlay? Man it's my it's right. It's night and day. Apple CarPlay is so basic.
Really? Oh lad. So basic in comparison to Android CarPlay.
Oh. What can the Android one do? I presume they do the same things but like
there's so much more on the and like that's mental and the whole layout of it as well. It's
wild looking. I dare the I reckon if I was to get a daily in the morning I'd nearly just buy
an Android phone just for the Android CarPlay. Yeah. The one thing with Android is like anyone
you talk to that owns an Android loves them. Yeah. And anything you hear about Android is usually
fairly good. Yeah. I could just I could never own one. No. Man I tried. remember one time.
What did I do? It was one of the Samsung Galaxy something or other I got it.
Or no I didn't. I didn't buy it. I used one of the boys phones just to see could I use it.
Yeah. And I went off and I bought a HTC. Oh. Yeah. Sold it the next week. Yeah. I couldn't.
Yeah. Neither could I. I just couldn't. They're HTC still I think. Don't think so.
Like because my mother and father they're both Android and they've always been Android. Yeah.
But I just I can't. It's whatever way the like the interface is laid out in them. I just find
it so inconvenient. Yeah. But yeah. It's probably not and it probably is better than Apple. Yeah.
But like I'm I've never owned an Android phone. So the first touchscreen phone I would have got
was was actually no it wasn't the first touchscreen phone I ever got was a Nokia.
Yeah. You're a Nokia touchscreen. Yeah. Back when I was in first year I think.
Man I didn't even know Nokia had done touchscreen. Yeah. The fuck. And it was now like
beyond basic touchscreen. Yeah. Like it was basically just a normal phone like
keypad phone but the touchscreen worked on it. Like you couldn't you couldn't watch like
YouTube or anything like that. And there was no like so to the way like on an iPhone like
you just tap the screen and you just scroll. Yeah. Like you had to like properly push your
finger into the screen to get to it. Yeah. But did you ever have blackberries. No I missed that.
Man. BBM. I'd say I was like a year too late. Yeah. BBM was the shit. I'm telling you.
Where did we start. Oh CarPlay. Yeah. So you said both your parents are Android. Yeah.
Connect their phone to your system. Yeah. I must actually have a look. Give it a look.
I'm telling you it's fucking it's crazy. It's mind blown. Yeah. I've seen it and actually
because your man was here with me and I was just running through with his thing and I was so baffled
and he just wanted to go like you know and there was me like look at this it does this.
Yeah. Mad. Is there any other like non-negotiable you'd need to buy if you're buying a daily
now in the morning. Again I don't want a car that I'm going to do as little as possible in.
Yeah. Do you get me. I'm definitely wanting auto wipers auto lights. I want a black letter
simply because do you get me like for me it's the best. Yeah. And here your black letter.
See the one thing on auto wipers. Yeah. Once you own something that has
bad auto sense on the wipers you won't like it anymore. So the Jeep has good auto sense and
wipers but the transit has terrible. Yeah. It's that bad that I've switched it off.
Yeah. Now I've had that there was one or two carriers that I had auto wipers in that
wasn't great. Like in the transit when you've got the auto wipers switched on and it starts like
trickling rain. It's grand. It'll work away normal. Yeah. And then if it gets a little bit
heavier wipers just go flat out. Yeah. Mental. Yeah. Yeah. They won't they won't slow back down
even if it stops raining. Yeah. It takes some ages to stop and then you look like a mental bastard.
Yeah. Cause it's drizzling and your wipers are coming. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I wouldn't
be that forced to. But what if you turn them off and then back on again at that point. No
they'll still they'll stay where they were at. Oh yeah. That's why you had to switch it off. It
was due in my head. Yeah. Yeah. No that had fucked me up. Was it Ford? Ford. Yeah. Fog Ford. Yeah.
Not great. Yeah. Yeah. What's your non-negotiables? I think they'd be pretty similar to them. I don't
interest anything that you said that I wouldn't have. Bar the auto wipers and probably auto
lights as well. I'm not that forced on auto lights. I'm that forced in as in I like lights
that when you can leave them in the on position and when you switch it off they also go off.
I like that. But a lot of carers have that now. Yeah. But like having a car that's got proper
auto lights doesn't really affect me that much. Yeah. But like dipping and putting your heads on.
Oh that's what I'm saying. What did you think I meant? Auto lights that come on themselves.
Oh. So the Jeep has that. Yeah. You can put them on auto. Yeah. It gets dark. They'll come on.
Right. But it doesn't have the it won't high beam itself. Yeah. It's auto dip.
Auto high beam on dip. That's that's what I presume not all lights were.
That was the phase when I watched either to be honest. It doesn't. No. No. I know it doesn't.
But like I'm just a lazy bastard like. Yeah. See they're not they don't work well enough.
I think they do. It depends on the car. Yeah. That's true.
It depends on the car. Because my cousins A4 that I was driving that had it.
And if you're driving on the motorway at night sometimes the motorway signs it'll dip for them.
Oh yeah. It dips for the signs. It'll dip for the sign but then it won't dip for the car.
It sounds like an issue and not an issue. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah. I think the main things that I would need in a car. Good speakers,
Apple CarPlay, cruise control, automatic, multifunction steering wheel. I love a multifunction
steering wheel. But like if you've got all of those extras. Yeah. You're gonna have the steering
wheel. Yeah. And a well laid out one as well. Yeah. Never driven a car with a badly laid out
multifunction steering wheel. I don't like the multifunction steering wheel on the Mark
Ford Golfs. I don't know. They're buttons. I don't know. They're too clicky.
Yeah. Like it's good in the Jeep and in fairness it's good in the Transit. Yeah. I have driven
bad ones. Like? It was a noble move. Sab had one.
It was a pretty good one. It was a decent one. Yeah. Yeah. I think once it has them
things and all of them things are interior things. It's not a single thing I'd give a
shit about the outside of it. Couldn't you be bollocks? Like, yeah. No, I really wouldn't care.
Would you mind what a body if it was a hatchback or saloon? Nope. Yeah. Wouldn't
phase. Probably if I was stuck I'd probably rather a saloon over a hatch. Would you? Yeah.
Because if it's a hatch, I'd like, I prefer three door hatches. Okay. But then a three door
hatch is also inconvenient as fuck if you're bringing anyone. Yeah. If you're bringing more
than one person they're penned the hole. So you prefer a three door hatch but you've got a four
door hatch? No. Yours isn't a hatch. It's a saloon. Yep. Roller. Very bad. Yeah. And thought it was a
sadback. She looks it's an elite. And the one. Yeah. The one hatch crawl I did have was a four
door one. Yeah. But yeah, I think after that I wouldn't really bother me. I don't even think that
the color of the leather cream leather would though. Yeah. No, it would cream leather with a
cream dash. Sick. But if you had white leather as well, you're using it for a daily chances.
How are you going to get them closed? Yeah, that's true. It's going to piss you off.
But then like, it was white leather that was in that sob.
Yeah, but they were fairly bad. Oh, yeah, they were manky. But the one thing with white leather is
like, the white leather gets dirty, but the black leather also gets dirty. You can just see it on
the white leather. Yeah. At least you know when to clean it or what. Yeah. But again, I don't,
it's my daily, I don't want to clean the fucking thing. Yeah, that's true. Do you know what I mean?
Do you know what I mean? Would it bother you if it's petrol diesel?
D has to be diesel. Yeah, has to be. Man, if you like, oh, would you
drive a petrol up and down the country?
For a daily, you want to diesel. Yeah, you do. You want to diesel.
That goes without saying. When it's going to be an auto as well. Yeah. Yeah, you want.
Definitely has to be diesel. Two litre diesel. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Or more.
Yeah, ideally more. Like if it was, if it were to tax them things for fucking less, it'd be more.
Yeah, I know. Let us know if you listen. Yeah, it's something that we missed out. That is a
complete non-negotiable. Let me know in the comments. Yeah, speaking of comments,
there we go. Do you want to read some of them? Yeah, man, I don't think I've ever, I tried once.
I'm not actually dyslexic. Oh yeah, I'm actually dyslexic. Are you for? Yeah. And it's you to
read the comments every week. Oh, lad. Yeah, give me the notes though. We got a couple of good ones
actually. Oh, before we read comments, we have to give a mention. Oh, shit, we do as right, yeah.
So I was actually, I was actually starting to work on the Amarok last week. I just got out
and was jacking it up. And I got a DM on Instagram from Limiter Slip Differences. I said, oh,
here we go. What's going on here? They're looking for a fight, maybe?
But no, so got a phone call from Michael from Limiter Differences who is 100% in
Facebook. Yeah, we're saying, man, we got chatting for a bit. And I've actually listened. So I listened
to podcasts religiously, like I listened to a stupid amount. Yeah, I say I don't have to, I definitely
have time. I need to get myself back into the routine of listening to podcasts. Yeah. Even
while she's one, like, man, that one that he dropped wasn't Sunday. I fucking,
I loved that one. I listened to the first 10 minutes of it and then Ashland picked me up.
And I couldn't listen to it anymore. I couldn't wait to listen to the rest of that. I still haven't
listened to it. Yeah. So I just don't listen. But Dan, Dan is a big fan. Yeah, like I've even
listened to podcasts since before podcasts were a cool thing to do. But I remember when
Limiter Differences started first, and they were the first, like, modified automotive. And then
they've got the angry side of things as well, which also interests me. But yeah, it was a bit
mad for me to get a message off them. Well, send me your number on there. So we've got chatting
anyway. And there's definitely something in the pipeline coming. Yeah. Because we've got a few
comments, and they've got a few comments of people looking for it. So we might as well give the
people what they want. Yeah. People want it. We'll give it to them. So imagine the shite talk
is going to go on in that episode. I need to go and listen to a few of the episodes. Yeah, they
are good. Because I do, I do recall when we were going to get the equipment for the pod. Yeah.
And we were like, we're doing a pod. We knew it was going to be a car related one.
Limiter Slip Differences were one of the names that was mentioned by you.
Yeah. To say that we would, like, it's going to be similar to what we want to do. You know what
I'm saying? Like, a lot of stuff we talk about is similar. So if you're listening to us, and
you've never heard of them, give them a listen. They're not like, they're a good shite to listen
to. And then vice versa, if you're one of their listeners coming here, let us know.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll get that collab going.
There's definitely something in the pipeline for that. And they're not that far away from us either.
Yeah, where they from?
Somewhere around Bali, Meena direction, I think it is.
Oh, yeah?
About an hour and a half.
Yeah, not too bad.
Handy enough.
Tell me.
We'll get something worked out here.
Yeah. And he cannot shite with me because he gave out to me for not shiting out last time.
Michael.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Somebody giving out here.
I felt bad then because they had shite with us out. And I completely forgot about it.
Right.
Sorry about that. We gave you a good long shite out this time.
But getting into our regular comments, Kevin Mann said, well, lads, listened to episode zero
when it came out, but podcasts aren't really my thing. So I never really talked to it.
Recently had a notion to listen to again. And I can say you're the only pod I've ever listened to.
Not to mind finished all episodes. So that's going to mean something.
That is mad.
Yeah, what the fuck?
Wait, what's his name?
Kevin Mann.
Kevin Mann.
I presume Mann is in the second name. Maybe it is.
Yeah, could be.
Man, that's mad.
Yeah.
How did he come across episode zero?
Don't know. Maybe he knows you.
Maybe.
What kind of thinking? Yeah, that's that's bad.
Fair Fox to him actually for listening after episode zero.
Any of you is listening.
Because I went back recently and listened to episode zero. The audio quality is shock.
Yeah, it's terrible. Even, right, I've mentioned Walsh a couple of times here now, right?
But he was saying to me, he was like, lads, I can honestly say the audio on your podcast is good.
It's decent, he says. When you were asking me to start about the audio on that, he was,
he was afraid to say that it was how bad it was. It was so bad.
Yeah, like I was listening to it and I was like, I should delete this, but I can't.
That's where we started. And then I wonder how many people we've lost
that have went to start an episode zero and they were like, fuck that.
Yeah, but like that, I wouldn't be too worried because there's Kevin who started on episode zero
would have never came back and then came back.
Yeah. But he also said, keep up the good work, boys. And I have an idea.
You should rate viewers' cars or give someone a car of the week so we can get involved too.
I have an E90 for my first car and he gave me his TikTok if you want to know.
That's something we've talked about from the start.
Like before we started the podcast, it was like a segment a day we had.
It's something we'd like to do.
It is definitely something I think we would like to do, yeah.
But I think for it to work, we'll have to be brutally honest.
Yeah.
So if you're going to send your car in and if you're going to be
bought or by us talking shit about it,
nothing we'd say about anyone's car is going to be meant in seriousness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like this is, we really wanted to do this.
How many of us remember, we really wanted this to be a segment of the podcast when we first started.
Yeah.
And the whole thing that drew us was we were afraid of alienating the listeners.
Yeah. So like we're quite opinionated on like based off of nothing because we know fuck all.
Yes, absolutely.
But we're strongly opinionated on fuck all basically.
Yeah.
So you could send us in a car and it could be in your eyes the nicest car in the world
and we could just fucking slay it.
Yeah.
But I think that's the most important thing about a car.
So if you, I think we will start.
If there's interest in it, we'll keep it going.
So if you're listening to this now and you've got a car and you want to send it in
and you want to rate it, just drop a photo of it.
Yeah, throw it in.
You can throw it into the Instagram DM.
So we'll have to get into the habit of starting checking them every week.
When you say we, you mean me.
Yeah.
I'll get checking them.
Actually, you know what, we'll fucking, you continue on there Dan.
Yeah.
So jump on here and see.
Either send them to the Instagram or the TikTok page.
I know you can, if we're, once you're not following, or once we're not following you back,
you can only send one message, but I always check the message request.
If you send us one message, I'd accept the message request, send it on.
But I also, just before you do that.
So that's because it's, because it was Kevin's idea.
Let's make his car the very first one.
Okay.
So it's actually not a bad car to start off on.
And he says it, it was,
uh, yeah.
So I have an E90 for my first car.
So this is his first car.
Blue, this one here.
Okay.
Oh, blue 320.
That's nice.
What's the lip on that?
See yourself.
I'm not actually sure.
That's really nice.
Yeah.
It's, it's not overly done.
But it's like, it's, it's subtle, but it's really nice, but it's clean.
Yeah.
Like that doesn't need anything else to look nice.
Like you, you probably didn't even notice there.
He's got the, the eyebrows on the headlights there.
Oh yeah.
It's an even nice touch.
And that's a, that's a dangerous touch to put on a car
because that can skew a car either way.
Yeah, it can do, but that's, yeah, I like that.
For the first car, that's.
And the wheels as well.
Yeah.
The wheels keeping an OEM.
I really like that car.
Yeah.
Do you know one thing, and this isn't to go plug in your business again
because I don't give a shit.
Yep.
Joe, I'd like him that.
Fultons.
Yep.
I think that it just.
Fultons would be nice.
And would you go for the Batman America or something?
No, no, you don't really like them.
But yeah, that's, that's not a bad start for a first one.
I just checked the, sorry to put in.
That's a really good car.
Yeah.
I liked that car.
Thank you for sending it in.
It is, it is, it is a good show for a segment.
It's something we've wanted to do.
If you're going to send your car in, and if we end up slating it,
it's not meant to, we don't actually hate you or your car.
No, it's not.
As long as you like your car, that's all that matters.
And that's, that's what's wrong with, we've, we went to this before
where that's what's wrong with the car scene.
Yeah.
Is people are afraid of what everybody else is going to think.
Yeah.
It's like, it's your car.
You build it to how you like and how you want it.
And if nobody else likes it, who gives a bollocks?
As long as you come out to your front door in the morning
and you look at it and you go, I like this.
Yeah.
That's all that matters.
Yeah.
But yeah, if it's interesting that, send your car in and we'll give it.
We do a rating out of 10.
We do that.
Should we though?
Because like, why do you, I don't think you should.
I think it's either a fucking, we'll do one of them ticks
on one of the X things.
Yeah.
We'll do something like that.
Something like that.
Because I feel like if you were to do a rating, or maybe we'll get a board
of our listeners' cars and people in the back.
We could do that.
Something like that.
Because I've got, we've got that board thing up there.
We do something with that.
Yeah.
We'll get, we'll get looking into it a bit further.
But with Dean now, I mean, I suppose, if, if there's not much interest in it, there's no point.
I think it's like, it's hard.
Like, how are you going to rate it?
Because I'd give that like, an eight or a nine.
But then if somebody sends in a fucking Bugatti or something,
she's like, that's going to be a 10.
No, I wouldn't put a Bugatti 10.
So you'd have that over a Bugatti.
But this is what I'm saying.
The rating system needs to be.
Yeah, that's true.
Do you know, I would have went, went for a seven.
A solid seven on that.
Yeah.
We're going to have to, we're going to come up with a system.
Because I feel like there should be a, like, not as such a pass or a fate,
but more so a fucking Red Line Republic certified or we don't,
we wouldn't ever drive that car.
Yeah.
Just something like that.
We'll come up with something and we'll have it ready for the next episode.
But are you fucking ready?
Probably not.
Are you ready to?
Probably not.
Man, you're going to cream yourself.
Yeah.
Look at them after seeing in the DMs.
Yeah.
I'm going to accept firstly, because they requested the tag.
You've got some photos of the cro, a video of the crawler.
Yeah.
No way.
Are we keep, hold on.
We're not going to get, see what the music on that here.
Yeah, I'll just turn it down there.
Shouldn't be.
And they are some of the best pictures I've ever seen taking a car.
That's your man.
Your man has sent a big long message.
I think that's your man that you were speaking to that day.
It is.
So Dan had a listener of the pod call in, not call in, spot him at Mandelo and went over
and spoke to him.
And yeah, I think that's something that we're going to,
would they spoke about possibly getting them on the pod?
And I think that's something that we should do as well.
Yes.
We're both in agreement that we would like to,
if you know, if you're listening and you know it to you, we'll be in touch.
Yeah.
So if you're listening, I'll probably have given you a ring before this.
So I was just coming out, he had texted the page before that.
And I kept meaning to go up.
I knew he had a trade stall at Driftmasters and I kept meaning to go up.
And every time I walked by, there was people around and I didn't want to go
brought into a conversation.
Yeah.
And then just as I was leaving, I said, spot him and I was like, oh,
fuck. And then he spotted me at the same time.
So I don't want to talk too much into it because I'm not that clued up on what it,
what it is exactly.
But it's basically promoting mechanical trade, I suppose.
Yes.
In Ireland, which is something that I, because I was an apprentice at one point.
And there's not enough apprentices, mechanics coming into the country.
So something I definitely like to talk about.
Yeah, I definitely, I've gotten up in and on that as well.
And I could be wrong about it, but I think whatever about heavy machinery mechanics,
because obviously you're a heavy machinery mechanic,
my cousin Jamie Kilkenny is a heavy machinery mechanic.
Car mechanics, I think there's an issue there.
Yeah.
Where by they don't get paid enough.
No mechanic really gets paid enough.
Yeah.
And so I feel like because I know quite a few qualified mechanics that just work a regular
nine to five, they don't work in mechanics at all.
I think that's an issue.
Yeah.
I think we'll park that one until it comes on, but stay tuned for that one.
Yeah.
Especially if you're a young person listening to this and you're interested in an apprenticeship.
Yep.
What I will say now is go and do it.
Yep.
Just get your apprenticeship.
It's tough.
It is tough for the first while, but it's well worth it at the end.
Yep.
So I must remember to text Kevin and throw a picture in there.
Yes.
I will 100% forget.
Jake Burnham Hand, he said, yes, lads, you made my day there.
Thank you.
And I just wanted to say, I totally agree.
It is hard to find a good welder.
I'm one by trade, but absolutely hate welding cars.
I'm currently in the process of somewhat restoring a Mark 1 MX-5.
And it took me weeks to find one.
Might have to make a whole exit for the MX-5 next.
Yes.
Actually, speaking of that, was it him?
I don't think it was him.
Do you remember last week, your man that was telling us about the B5 with the death map
that he had the hood exit on?
Yes.
And the guard saw him to take it out?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He sent videos into the...
It was him.
Yeah, it was him.
Is it?
Wait till you...
I fell in love with this guy.
Oh, yeah?
What's that, a B5 Passat?
Yeah.
Does he still have it?
No.
Oh, I think he does, but he's got the...
He took the hood exit off of it.
Nah.
It's...
Nah, that thing is sick, man.
So cool.
The fucking flames are good.
Nah, right.
I want the hood exit.
I don't give a bolly, so I want the hood exit.
Yeah.
Do you remember that toy when he lost my finger putting a fucking screamer pipe out of it?
I should have just went straight up through the bonnet.
Yeah.
I should have.
I think, because it's another micro,
she can flip the manifold on the micro,
but I think you weren't going to try it on that car,
but you couldn't flip the manifold.
Yeah, it was a Corsa.
Corsa, yeah, yeah.
Because you can flip the manifold on the micro, can't you?
Are you on a K11 micro?
Maybe not.
If I didn't love them enough as it was,
I love them a little bit more now.
Yeah.
Nah, I think a diesel would have hood exit though.
Yeah.
Oh, because that car, so we talked about,
or I said about the black smoke raisins,
they've got a diesel Mercedes with a hood exit on it.
Say Mercedes.
What, Mercedes?
Say it again.
Mercedes.
I always get shit, right?
How do you say, so do you know?
Mercedes.
That app there.
Facebook.
Yeah, I say Facebook.
Yeah, but that's people around here.
They say Booke.
Is it around here?
It's Booke.
Ashlyn says it as well, Booke.
Yeah.
She don't go for a look, a Luke.
Do you know what I'm saying, Luke?
Luke.
That's in look.
Look, yeah.
Book.
Facebook.
Facebook.
I always get shit for that.
That's the way I say it.
Somebody call Ember Lam.
And yeah, with Jake saying that it,
him or shit in his comment type made his day,
him sending me that video was genuinely made my day.
Yeah, man.
That is so cool.
That's sick.
I love that.
That's a really, really nice bizarre.
Yeah.
I love that.
I hope he still has it.
Very best of luck with the Mark 1.
What am I doing with me fucking?
Very best of luck with the Mazda.
Yeah.
I want to see that one as finished as well.
Yeah.
I can understand what he says, so he's a welder,
but he hates welding cars.
I am a truck mechanic and I hate working on cars.
So I know exactly how he feels.
Yeah.
Do you know what else is actually, so it's hard to,
we were saying that it's hard to find
decent welders for exhaust on cars.
Do you know what else is really hard to find?
Auto electronics.
Auto electricians.
Electricians.
There we go.
Very, very hard to find a good one.
Yeah.
What do you mean find a good?
I don't think I've ever found a good one at all.
Technically, all mechanics are capable of doing
auto electrician stuff.
Is it?
Yeah, you do part of that as your friendship.
Every mechanic should be able to chase a broken wire.
No, but right, so what was it?
Somebody ranked me the other day, right?
And now, because I do auto-styling,
it's not unheard of for people to ask me
to do some electrical work, right?
No, I'll fit a light bar, right?
I'm not on electricity.
What was that look?
Man, light bars are handy, right?
I'll fit a light bar.
This man had a motor, what's in a motor home?
Something along the lines, anyway.
And Telly wasn't working in it,
or they got a Telly for it,
and they wanted it wired up or something.
Yeah, that's auto electronics, isn't it?
Yeah, that's not something I'm going to do.
Boy, right, maybe car mechanics are different a little bit,
but boy, right, most mechanics should be well capable of being able to do that.
But I know for a fact, for me,
I hate anything to do with electrics.
Yeah, but so you're saying to me,
in that perspective, they could go to a mechanic.
Yeah.
Mechanics should be able to wire in that Telly for it.
Should be absolutely no hassle at all.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Well, there you go,
because I guaranteed the last person they were thinking of was a mechanic.
Probably, yeah.
Now, the other side of it is like,
there's plenty of bad mechanics that will take the job on
that shouldn't be taking the job.
Like, I'm a mechanic and I won't take the job on,
because I don't like wiring, so I'm not that good at it.
But then there was that I worked with when I was with Scania,
and he was just like a wizard with electronics.
So any broken wire, wiring lights, wiring,
no matter what it was, wiring it in,
he just was really good at it.
Yeah.
But I wasn't, I just hated it.
Yeah, yeah.
But, yeah, it's hard to find people that are good at that,
and then when you do find someone that's really good at it,
they're really expensive.
Yeah.
But that's because it's...
What did he say?
Supplying demand.
Yeah.
Is what it is.
Yeah.
But going on there, so Kevill and Ardo,
he, remember he crashed his father's...
Oh.
...in the future.
So the car he crashed was actually 10 years old,
wasn't brand new.
I just presumed it was brand new.
It's still only a 10 year old.
That's like somebody crashing the Jeep on me, like.
Yeah.
Yeah, you'd still be raging, like.
He said the car he crashed was 10 years old,
but he had only bought at the Saturday,
and I crashed at the Sunday night.
I got married in 2022,
and my mum produced the note I wrote and read it out
during her speech.
I have video of it somewhere, she kept the note 20 years.
No, that is brilliant.
If you could find the video, send that in.
Or even just the note, I'd just obviously see it the other day.
Man, I love that story.
That, yeah, no, that's brilliant.
Yeah.
That's deadly.
But like, I know it wasn't brand new, but as you said there...
It's only 10 years old.
Man.
Even if it was 20 years old,
and your young lad went out and crashed at that
after you only owned it at the day.
Yeah.
I'd be few.
Man.
I would let her as whole as well.
There'd be belt scores all over your man's back.
Oh, you swear to God.
Yeah.
Mark said, well, lads,
I'm just after buying a Pujo partner, 2003.
What should I put on it?
Thanks, lads.
We're after getting to a wild point where people think that
we have the answers.
No.
2003 partner, right?
And see how much I am against CB Arials.
Yeah.
That's the care for CB Arials.
I'm nearly sure you flipped the back axle in them.
Don't know.
I know you're doing the older caddies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm nearly sure you do that.
So you're going to want to take the springs out of the front.
Are you going that way?
Man, what do you mean by going that way?
This is who I am.
Yeah, that's true.
I didn't choose this life.
It chose me.
Take the springs out of the front or cut them.
Yeah.
You want to...
Yeah, you kind of want to cut them.
Or you could get lower springs for it.
I mean, I suppose you could do, couldn't you?
Just cut them.
Do you know what I think with a van?
Well, I don't think a van should be lowered.
What?
Yeah.
No.
Right.
If you don't lower a van,
or no, if you do lower a van
and then you put weight into the back of it,
you can't put weight into the back of it.
Yeah, but if you take the springs out, you can.
Yeah, because it can't get any fucking lower.
But if you flip the axle,
I presume there are probably leaves on the back of that.
So if you flip the axle,
like you still have some suspension on it.
Right.
So if you put weight into the back of it,
after lowering the back of it,
Yeah.
It's just going to sit on the floor
when people drive it anywhere.
Oh, you will.
Not very well or fast.
Yeah, sure, listen.
Like, do you know what I mean?
Yeah, right.
If he was pulling this van for work,
he wouldn't want to modify it, would he?
If he's going to be carrying heavy load.
Right.
If all he was to get at the 2003,
put a Pujo partner in the morning,
I'd get some of those.
Are they saturing or Pujo?
It's not in Foy Sport, Foy Sport.
I think they're in Fort Texas.
Oh, Fort Texas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'd get a set of them.
I'd lower it.
Doesn't matter.
We're not going to fall out over how you lower it.
But I'd lower it.
You have to have the bull bar in the front,
the A-frame bull bar on the front.
I'd like the chromes on the sides with LEDs in them.
What color?
White.
No.
What?
Amber.
Well, amber, whatever.
It makes no difference.
Amber, actually, now that you say it.
Amber's cool.
Amber would be good, yeah.
CB Aerial.
Yeah, a yellow one.
I don't know why it has to be yellow, but...
It does, doesn't it?
Yeah.
It has to be yellow.
And Tints.
Oh, yeah.
And a straight, you have to straight pipe it.
Are they 1.6 HD?
Don't give a bollocks man, you're straight piping it.
Yeah.
1.6 HD is what they are though, yeah.
Do you know what else I put on it?
Joe, the stainless light bar on the back of them.
Yeah.
But red lights and that.
And probably two spotlights facing back the way.
Yeah.
Probably a light bar on the grill then.
More than likely, yeah.
They're a cool looking van.
They're really nice, yeah.
They're actually, they are a nice van.
Yeah, I like them.
And as far as I know, they're reliable as fuck.
Well, they're hitting me.
I know my father had one right,
and the glow plugs were wired to a button on the inside
because it needed extra, like you had to hold the button
in for a couple of seconds and then start it.
But yeah, I think it never gave up on them.
Like, yeah, don't think it ever did.
Harry said, glad to say I'm a day one listener.
I always look forward to a Tuesday.
Any idea on the car meet you are going to host?
We actually haven't spoken about it.
No, I've seen that comment coming in.
Fuck, because I was like, oh yeah, yeah, we'll get at that.
And then I was like, the last time we spoke with that,
we said July or August.
Yeah, it's going to be August now, isn't it?
I've got too much on now.
What are we?
We're 10 to July already.
I've got one free weekend in July.
So I'm at Christmas next weekend in Kilkenny,
then I've got Luke Holmes Sunday.
And then I'm gone on holidays.
Yeah, I think if we look at the end of August.
Yeah, I'm thinking the end of August.
Well, we most actually, what I must do is...
Do you know what it is?
We're going to save just as little hassle as possible.
We're going to run with that location that you were saying.
I'll lift you someday or some evening
if we get going recording early.
And we're going to have a look at it.
But I think it's perfect.
Yeah.
But just so you can see it as well.
Yeah, we'll run with that location.
But yeah, we'll get looking at that in the next week or two.
So we've got plenty of notice.
I think I'm going to be blown back
by how many people are going to...
I don't know.
I'm kind of worried about it.
But you're worried?
Yeah, I don't know.
What if we have to make a big deal about that?
That doesn't sound like random people coming up to me
or not.
It gets really, really awkward.
No, I don't really like it.
No, you do.
See, I talk to people every day.
Yeah, yeah.
Like I would talk to the back of a donkey.
It's pictures.
Pictures is what I don't like.
Yeah.
So keep your phone in your pocket.
No, no, no.
Take loads of photos.
We love photos.
But yeah.
Yeah, stay tuned.
We'll probably try and get an announcement on that
maybe in the next week or two.
Yeah, end of August.
We have to do that.
Yeah.
And that location that we're thinking about
is handy for me because even if I don't test the Corolla,
allegedly I could like lift it across the field or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not drive it.
Yeah, no, you wouldn't drive it on a road.
No, but it's close enough to the house that I could pick it up.
Yeah.
Yeah, and Rihanna, on the topic of exhausts.
Oh, we've also got YouTube comments as well.
This is going to be our longest ever episode.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Time's flying.
On the topic of exhausts,
Shields Motorsport Tyrone actually do a very good job
when it comes to fabrication and the work check
and if you need an exhaust.
They're currently a hidden gem but the quality is 100% there.
If you're interested, give them a look on TikTok or on Facebook.
That feels like an ad.
I think we just gave someone a free ad.
You fell for it, but you know what?
Respect the hustle, Dan.
I keep going.
It also says if you're interested, give a look at them on TikTok
or on Facebook.
Their TikTok is at Shields Motorsport.
Yep.
There's your free ad.
Yep.
Do you know what?
Fair play.
You have to respect the hustle, though.
That only came in two hours ago,
so I hadn't actually read it yet.
Yeah, there you go.
You got it there well.
The next time you shed, you got to pay us.
You got fucking hustled.
Or we could just edit it out.
Nah, we'll give them a free one.
Yeah, yeah.
They'll go to Shields Motorsport in Tyrone for our year.
And so if anybody else is looking for a shout out
like that for your business.
Yeah, we gave one free one out and that went to Rihanna.
But you could be heard by thousands.
Yeah.
And you could benefit hugely from business.
Possibly.
By having your title of your business here.
Yep.
Or having us talk about it.
So if you're interested in having any ads
or sponsoring a video or a few,
give us a text.
Give us a text.
We want your money.
Just give us your...
Listen, you don't have to say the name of your business.
Send us money with F.
So onto the YouTube.
So Tomas Finnegan said...
Oh, here we go again.
He left two comments this time
and I can read both of them out.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
No way.
He said if any car could be brought back
fresh off the factory line,
you'd want it to be a T-22 Aventus,
which is a fucking great change.
It's a shout-and-a-half,
but you know what it is?
If you were to ask me what car he would suit.
No, hands down.
That man loves Aventus, isn't he?
T-22.
Great.
Brilliant shout.
Great shout.
Well done, Tomas.
You can't go far wrong from that.
And he also said,
stay to the shed when you think someone worked on it.
Yeah.
You'd nearly think it was somebody working on it.
Yeah, soon for that, Tomas.
And you know what?
Thank you for leaving comments that we can actually read.
Yeah.
That's two weekends or two Saturdays in a row.
Yeah.
That's not Saturday today.
No, it's not.
Anyway, that's two weeks in a row that we could read your comment.
Keep the good work up.
Yeah, yeah.
Well done.
Watching out next week,
he will just absolutely slay something or swear or I don't know.
He'd do something.
Dogman3421, who we deciphered.
Is English Ben?
Yes.
He said, Badger, remember the quad six-inch tips
and the quattro great exhaust done by pipe work pipe works best I come across.
And then he left another little bit in the comment that we're not going to read.
Yeah, we're not going to read because we're not a one for sliding businesses.
But for those of you that listened last week.
Oh, what the fuck was that?
No, this place is haunted, man.
What's that?
You're a.
Yeah.
So for the people who obviously don't know what just happened,
there's like a packet of toilet roll in the toilet.
That just fell off a countertop.
Man, that's been there for months.
That's never moved.
And that was a proper like.
Anyway, let's do dogman.
Anyway,
lad, what?
Yeah, so.
Yeah, we don't want to shit on businesses unless someone goes out of their way to do bad work
or someone does something.
Well, his business goes out of their way to do bad work.
But we're not going to mention it.
Oh, you've got no personal experience and I don't think you've ever got an exhaust on.
No, me personally.
No, so I'm not going to speak on it, but I've seen a lot of shoddy work that has been done.
If you listened the last week,
the story that I told about the your man wanted twin tips or twin exit,
got a single exit and that single exit fell off on the motorway home.
That was Ben's car.
Yes, it was Ben's car.
And you said you didn't even fucking listen.
Man, look at you.
I didn't know.
I didn't think you listened.
Fair foxy for listening, man.
You kept that one going.
I never knew you listened at all.
But yeah, so, but also that quattro, the Audi quattro that he owned,
which you remember the pipes on that thing.
Vaguely.
Oh, man, you'd fit your fist six inch quad tips like there was no need for it.
I did say I had a couple of stories to come from that.
I think I did.
I can't remember.
Probably.
Yeah.
We're nearly at two hours there, so.
Is it?
Yeah.
Man, two hours.
Not far off it.
Holy shit.
Right.
So that's all the comments, is it?
That's all our comments.
Right.
I'm going to get out of here before I'm fucking molested by a poltergeist or something.
We're just going to turn into a scary movie.
Yeah, yeah.
What power on rockivity.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, actually, you're going to start floating off the chair.
And it's 10 o'clock at night and that kind of just went.
Yeah.
Good thing you're not here on your own.
Or damn nice that you had a sleepover in here.
Joe, what else it's done?
And maybe it's just me.
Well, is it after getting really cold?
It has.
Matt, no, Dan, no, shut up because I actually have a chill.
Don't worry.
Thanks for listening.
Chill for now.
See you for the week.
Thanks for calling.
About this episode
A Jeep overheating scare kicks things off, with the hosts describing creamy oil/coolant mixing and what they checked after a tow. From there, the conversation swings into buying and owning: PS13s and AE86s, why “reg” can matter more than spec, and how service history beats mileage. They also debate EV/hybrid battery costs, then get practical about daily-driver comfort (CarPlay, cruise control, auto wipers) and even armrest ergonomics. The episode ends with listener car-rating plans and trade-skill talk.
This week, we’re talking about why buying the newest registration doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting the best car, and why condition, specification and service history matter far more than the number on the plate.
Dan gives an update on the Amarok and what could replace it, with everything from a PS13 to an AE86 entering the conversation. We also discuss the essentials of a genuinely good daily driver, including automatic gearboxes, leather seats, cruise control, Apple CarPlay and, most importantly, a proper armrest.
Elsewhere, a 3.1 Trooper has a very bad day, we introduce the idea of rating listeners’ cars, discuss a potential collaboration with Limited Slip Differences and share an update on the first Redline Republic car meet.
As always, plenty of questionable opinions, unnecessary tangents and allegedly useful automotive advice.
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